I asked for ideas on Bsky from folks cause I was wanting to see what other people might come up with, and Kaycee came up with this fantastic concept that added another clever spin on Soul's meta, fourth-wall-breaking fuckery.

Given my experience with art software it made perfect sense to me that Soul would use similar looking methods of doing exactly that, and I figured Kaycee deserved to be the one subjected to the treatment given that they suggested it to me.

I had a ton of fun with this.

I had this idea after a fun interaction with my friend Moka, who also enjoys the idea of toying around inside someone's headspace, in a more literal sense, through their characters.

Soul is acting as a bit of a substitute here because I consider it to be more of a muse than a headmate; but I've sensed the presence of a kinder voice inside which I've not yet figured out whether it's my own or that of one of the last aspects I'm aware of.

Either way, I like the idea that it's willing to play my mind games by my own convoluted rules, effectively running with my own internal dialogue. Chili, on the other hand, is just fucking done with me and my bullshit.

I'm rather pleased with the posing and expression work in this quick little comic I threw together in about an hour and a half, by my measure. As much as it pains me to look at, I really quite like how absolutely bedraggled and exhausted I look. XD

I hope everyone had a wonderful day, and if not, that it was calm and peaceful at least.

I figured I'd treat myself to something for myself, given I'd spent most of the day mostly by myself.

Thank you for your continued generosity and support. Love you all.

During a particularly emotional vent/distraction stream, I decided to tackle an idea I had lingering in mind as part of my process of self-care and healing.

As I discussed in an earlier post, I've come to the realization that my realsona, Chocolate (who I refer to Chocolate "Pupbun" for clarity), has acted as my fursona that's true to life, to the extent of offering little in the way of aspirational goals. Put simply, she's so close to how I really am that she doesn't provide me with much to strive for.

This came about from noticing that I'd lost sight of what my other fursonas - Chocolate, Ruby, and Soul - stood for and represented to me. I wanted to remind myself that they're still there for me, waiting for when I'm ready to follow their lead again. It may look rather melancholy, but the intent is actually quite hopeful. Acknowledging that I've not been well, but that I've not lost those aspects of myself despite missing them for a while, was quite cathartic.

I intend to follow it up with more positive scenes once I'm in a better place, mentally and emotionally, and I've already made great strides towards that.

Feeling adventurous, are we? Don't worry, the s̶̒͜ḯ̴̦ď̶ͅe̶͖͆ ̷̩͋e̷̙͂f̶̬͝f̴͕͝e̷̥̕č̸̪t̷̹̂s̷̫̉ are mostly temporary.

I made this to participate in Artconomy's ongoing art contest, and I've been planning intensely for it for a while. It genuinely took a bit of a life of its own from the concept to the execution phase, and grew well beyond what I'd initially intended to make.

And wow, I'm so very happy with how this turned out. It all started with the simple idea that if it was a drink, Soul Chocolate would absolutely be a spirit, and the more I researched the idea the more it grew and grew.

Since Soul is a bonded pair with Chocolate, it makes sense that they'd be a pair of drinks too, with the main drink acting as the warmup, and the chaser being what gets you there. When I then found a perfectly fitting drink called "Cocoa à Trois" I absolutely had to involve all three of my chocolate bunnies as part of the whole piece.

I wanted to base them off of real cocktail recipes to make them feel a little more genuine, but I then renamed them to make them a little more "mine," and to better fit the theme of the piece and of the contest this is for.

Also, pay no mind to the strange ingredient in Soul's drink. It's perfectly h̸̟̋a̸͖̕r̴̮̐m̴͔͝l̴͎̕è̶̗s̵̼̅s̷̮̓ - after all, isn't that just the most trustworthy face? - but also serves a little narrative purpose given Soul's whole thing.

Make sure to let me know if you try these two drinks together, and how they taste!

I am so fucking thrilled about this piece, I couldn't overstate just how much if I tried. This'll make for an excellent candidate for my art appraisals, possibly sometime soon.

(Bar shelf background is edited from Jorge Franganillo's 'Berlin: AM to PM' - CC BY 2.0)

Immanent, adjective

1. Existing or remaining within; inherent.
2. Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts.
3. Naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling.
4. Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it.

I'm extremely torn on whether I prefer the version with or without the text and Soul being present, given its title.

So I do this thing where I keep one big file for my quick and simple, cheap and cheery doodles and sketches that might not warrant their own entire project file. Every now and again I refresh the file with a new copy, and post all the pictures at once for your enjoyment.

I took my time with this latest one, but since the file reached 450MB and was literally slowing down Clip Studio I figured it was high time I made the batch post and start afresh. Here they are in no particular order, just grouped in a way that made the most sense to me.

Here's a handful of one-off drawings I made for Plush, Feef, and James. The first two were warmups, while the other was inspired by James being his usual self - as depicted - during one of my Discord hangouts. What started out as a bit of a silly joke actually led to me digging up some preg art I'd done that I honestly still really like and am genuinely proud of.

Can you name those tummies?

Last weekend I stumbled upon this adorable tweet while I was having an especially bad day, and decided I'd make some silly vent art to get it out of my system. It turned out cute enough, but as a point of advice in future; don't make self deprecating jokes when you're already feeling bad. People might just agree with you.

Fortunately the art didn't go to waste, as I was later inspired by a silly TikTok that my friend Melody shared with me. I reprised the little doodle in a different context, and I think I like it a lot better that way.

I still think that I'm a little bit stupid, though.

Next we have some assorted silliness and/or one-offs I made for myself or in the context of other conversations.

First we have a transparent template of myself being shown something worrying, taken from my Easter comic;

A redo of an old display pic I'd been using for nigh on 20 years, as part of my broader transition process;

An illustration for my friend Shivers' silly tweet asking how C++ would wear pants if it could;

And a cutesy, perfectly innocent little Soul Choco and the post that it was inspired by.

Games! I like them. I made some fanart and self-insert designs based on the adorable game Vividlope, and a little drawover using the demo of the upcoming castle building toy Tiny Glade. I'm especially pleased with how cutesy Ruby turned out in Vividlope's style.

I'd been meaning to do some drawover art using one of these building toys, but I was always reluctant cause it feels like my default style doesn't fit well within the rendered spaces. I think it looks alright, but it could've been better somehow.

Next, lots of Melody bunnies.

The first is based on a conversation between her and Robin, where she threatened to drink the Coconut Nair soap and Monster she'd shown off to us. It's genuinely one of the most unassumingly conflicting thing I've drawn, cause every time I look at it I love how adorable they both look... But that little bunny is soon bound for the emergency ward.

We also have some cutesy doodles of the bun in less compromising positions.

Here's a couple of sketches I made for my friend Cashmere, who I got to know recently.

A hug to comfort them after a moment of worry, and some fanart of the little tinsel plushie red panda they've been taking on a trip with them, named after the nickname that I coined for them.

And as a treat for looking through this whole post, a bonus Ruby pleasuring herself.

Blaze snagged a commission with the single prompt of "Hypnosis," and given I've been craving more vanilla themes with mindplay lately, I knew what I was gonna subject his adorable fursona, Jake, to.

I first went at Jake's female form, which I previously conjured up as part of Kinktober, but later figured it'd be fun to have a matching piece with his normal, male form too.

Although that's the order I made them in, I like the idea of them happening in reverse; Soul starts out treating Jake to a fantasy dream orgy and throwing him into the middle of it, but then doubles down for more fun in his (imagined) female form later in the night.

Starlight, AKA Vlue, and I organized an art trade a while back, and we both got it done last week. We asked for very similar themes from each other, which makes sense given how much our tastes and subjects in art overlap. However, as you might expect if you're at all familiar with their work, we both took rather different approaches to the crinkly hijinks we were going to subject each other to.

You can see their absolutely adorable half of the trade on Twitter and FurAffinity!

As I'd mentioned while working on this in stream, I was really excited to do this since I'd been looking forward to getting my hands on them again. Back when I still made direct art rewards for my crowdfunding patrons, Vlue was one of those who I drew a lot of, and very fondly remember enjoying experimenting on over the years! (NB: You'll need to be logged in and set the search range to "All Time" to see them)

And yes, I do mean "experimenting," as you'll see in that collection.

I genuinely had a blast making this, and I think it's some of my best work in quite a while. Although the planning that went into it to make all the layering work with zero redundancy (or as little of it as possible, anyway) was a bit of a headache, it was a fun challenge that I enjoy giving myself, and it worked out especially well in the end. I'd love to do more trades in future, it's always a good time.

I'm especially fond of the outfits I dressed up 73 in, as well as how menacing Soul Chocolate looks. Since Soul is very much "artist surrogate" in pieces like this, I figured it'd go all out on 73, much like I did when making this. It knows what a good mark they are, so might as well dial up the shenanigans to 11.

For my participation in the first two sets of Little Troubles, I got to join a self insert regression piece for the third set, Roll for Regression.

Several other artists contributed art of their own characters as part of a before-and-after adventuring scene, and for mine it made perfect sense to include Chocolate as an Illusionist Sorcerer. As part of the design process, I based the adult armor and staff off of actual items from Guild Wars to start with; then infantilised the kit for the second part, which was a lot of fun. The way the illusion special effects turned out inspired what her class would be after being regressed, which I just made up.

From Femme Fatale Mesmer; to Padded Little Bubblemancer.

They might look fairly harmless next to the mind magic, but even so I wouldn't let those bubbles get too close.

You know, just in case.

Ace commissioned this lovely four-part regression/mindplay sequence with their fursona.

This was for the most part their own request, but given that they asked for Soul Chocolate to be involved and they asked for more physical interactions, like diaper changes, I figured it was high time I brought in Chocolate to double-team a victim subject of theirs at long last. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first commission I've made where both Soul and Chocolate are involved in hecking someone up.

I was flipping through the sequence trying to pick out something I particularly liked within the whole project, but honestly I just love it as a whole. I'm proud of how cozy and caring it feels despite (or even in light of?) the fact that Ace is being mentally changed and regressed without his knowledge.

Ace commissioned this lovely four-part regression/mindplay sequence with their fursona.

This was for the most part their own request, but given that they asked for Soul Chocolate to be involved and they asked for more physical interactions, like diaper changes, I figured it was high time I brought in Chocolate to double-team a victim subject of theirs at long last. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first commission I've made where both Soul and Chocolate are involved in hecking someone up.

I was flipping through the sequence trying to pick out something I particularly liked within the whole project, but honestly I just love it as a whole. I'm proud of how cozy and caring it feels despite (or even in light of?) the fact that Ace is being mentally changed and regressed without his knowledge.