This project came to me the weekend I was bouncing back from the emotional time I dealt with towards the end of last month, and felt on the verge of burnout. I felt strongly enough about the idea to have gotten most of the art done even while I was in power-saving mode to try staving off the worst of my burnout, and after some very conspicuous planning, I finally got the third and final part of this imageset done during my last stream.
The concept was quite simple. I realize that my three girls have their own kind of vibe, and while there's a fair bit of overlap between them, they all definitely fulfill unique roles, each of their very own. Following some lovely experiences I shared with very dear friends lately, the ideas I needed to put together as a showcase of these roles with the (surely surprising) theme of "diapers" in mind pretty much wrote themselves.
I just needed to get around to drawing them.
First up is another scene featuring my sweet little friend Faefae, one that she inspired herself. It seems she's since acquired a special surrogate for Miss Chocolate to keep an eye on her charge, even in her absence...
There's definitely nothing at all amiss with Fae's soft, cuddly friend, and her emphatic display of why she needs her diapers so much is most certainly entirely her own doing. 💖
Next is... An admittedly extremely personal piece, featuring a littler me in the middle of a well-needed change under my Mommy Garnet's care.
The friend clutched in my paws and helpfully hiding my embarrassment is called Almond. She's a horse plushie that Garnet and her husband Piter gave me as a gift when I was visiting over the holidays, and is very special to me. She brings me great comfort, especially on those nights when I'm feeling lonely and vulnerable, so it only made sense to include her in this piece.
Allowing myself the space to get more personal with this, Garnet's line about me being "made of fluff and sparkles" was something she said to me the same day that I later made this, and I had to bite my tongue pretty hard at the time to avoid replying with an obvious joke, and ruining the surprise. I borrowed the line to elevate the intimacy of the piece, which I think it does to great effect.
But even more personal still... Getting changed out of a diaper I absolutely destroyed by someone I feel so safe with is such a huge fantasy of mine. 🥺
Thirdly, Ruby "rounds out" the set with my friend Katie, both of us looking quite sheepish - and extremely mushy too.
As I've mentioned in the past, I've had a bit of a history of influencing her fursona, and it's something I cherish; but more often than not those changes have a tendency of bouncing back onto me. This latest rebound was a long time coming. Seeing the two of us side by side (or hind to hind, more like) should make the similarities of our woolly forms a lot more pronounced - and that's mainly because in our little shared continuity, we both got turned into pamper-destroying lambs in a similar way.
A special, magical nursery which we conjured up - and rather creatively call "Nursery" by name - is normally tasked with taking care of her, but it sometimes has its way with me too. As the story goes, it caught wind of one of my rather pronounced flights of fancy and decided it'd be better if it forced my form into something more appropriate for the meek, submissive, suggestible urges I was indulging in. Conveniently, Katie was still stuck in a similar shape, so I found myself in good company once I got done ruining my first magically manifested pamper.
Both Ruby and Katie lambies are especially heavy messers, something they absolutely revel in, so it makes sense that they'd indulge each other together like this. Honestly, I think it might easily be a nightly occurrence given how often it happens, and how much they both enjoy it. 💝
Gosh tho, intimate teasing in the middle of a change is a major button pusher~💕
Usually the saying is that March goes out like lamb, but here we are mid march with lambs going <3