It has been a bit since I posted anything. Don't expect that to change much.
Having said that, I have allocated some money from last year towards art projects that'll be released throughout this one.
They'll be familiar, variations, and other stuff, basically a bit experimental when it comes to images.

I've been wholly unmotivated to write anything as of late, so don't expect much on that front.
I have been looking into a spin on it which I haven't seen much. I'm still thinking on how best to do it.
In truth what I want to make is, something along the lines of a repeated short form TF series, featuring various styles of TF, species, gender, method/cause, but in a setting that makes sense, and one that doesn't lose steam as far interest.

Anyway I hope you're all doing well

Hey hey,

I've got two new characters in the works.
And potentially a third.

- The first one: an anthro black/white dragoness with spikey spine hair.
- The second one: a female green snake/python with a long tail, duh!
- The third one: a female wolf anthro (colouration unsure yet) with crazy (SS3 style) hair.

The purpose for them ultimately is a trio of characters that I'll allow others to use in artwork as long as there's adherence to their 'kinks'.
I'll also end up writing multiple stories about them, maybe even if characters from viewers.
I want some characters that it'll be fun to get co-commissions with again.
Most of my current characters are bound to my mainline Ephalon story, and although they've shown to be highly appealing. They're too much bound to my story for me to do random stuff with.

I've been mucking around creating reference material and origin stories so that once an artist I want to draw them is free, I'll get official art of them.

I've been practising with a few ai art generators in my off time to get an idea of what this technology can do.

Here are some bullet points which I think artists and commissioners should keep in mind.
For context: I'm coming at this topic from a realistic practical angle. I'm not interested in the morality or the ethics of these things.

1) It's very obvious that the tech mixes and matches similar/desired art pieces together to create the prompted image. To that end, it functionally can't create something original; here's what I mean.

To truly compare, you need to analyse the method in which a human mind creates art and this computer software.
- A human mind abstracts ideas from real world into concepts and then melds them together to draw something new. You need some visual input of course, but sometimes people can create something from nothing as well.
- The ai art generator needs raw input data with knowledge of the pixel patterns its seeing and how with certain elements it should interact in the realm of 2d artwork.

If you read both of those things you should realise they are not the same. And I realised that exceptionally complex poses, or ones that are not possible in reality, but are possible to draw, are not possible through ai artwork, it will ALWAYS need data input to base it on.

So, artists who are good at rare/complex posing, you're good. Ai generators can't do this (well/consistently), and likely will never be able to, simply due to a lack of data.


2) AI generators, aren't really AI. That's a buzz term. What it actually is is a complex algorithm that mixes and matches things based on input patterns and associated key words.

3) I believe that down the line, AI art generators are likely(highly probable) to consume so much data(artwork) produced by themselves, which will inevitably lead to quality dilution and/or degradation over time.

4) So far I've not seen any ai art generators that adhere to real world concepts such a physics and biology in real-time. That's not to say this might not one day become a thing, but there's an issue there. A normal artist of high quality knows intrinsically how something 'should' look in an image purely based on biology and physics. This machine pattern recognition algorithm, so far I've seen throughout my experiments, only knows preferred patterns.

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Practical consequences as I see them for artists:
- I expect that low end buyers will be less likely in procuring artwork for role play purposes.
- Good (skilled) artists, will not be affected.
- Artists who do rare or complex poses, will not be affected.
- Unique, though not highly popular styles should be fairly unaffected as well.

- Commissioners who approach an artist and then then use the excuse it's too expensive I can get it AI generated anyway or for less through that method, weren't interested in buying a picture from you to begin with. It's rude and just ignore these people.
- The adopt market I think will suffer greatly.
- Ownership will be an issue. If you commission something that image is effectively yours. If you Ai generate something, it's a mixture of the work of those who came before you. It's murky territory and I believe there are ongoing legal battles about this, which may have industry wide ramifications. I look forward to the conclusions.

- There are new opportunities for artists to draw basic stuff to be used for ai generators. I've not seen this being sold as a product yet; what do I mean with this? Rare poses to use as base images. You could create a pose pack, with colour sliders, clothing etc. This could be huge if done right. If you as an artists take the time to learn this tech, you can see how there's a new market for different kinds of artwork to be made. A mixture of commission work for the purpose of ai artwork.

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These are some thoughts I've collected since using the generator.
I've seen all kinds of discussion about the ethics.
I've seen all kinds of artists become nihilistic about art.
Yet, I've rarely seen people jump on this to find new art markets, or opportunities.

You may not agree with it, or maybe you love it. But Pandora's box has been opened, and the world has changed forever. It's better to accept and adapt.

But rest assured normal artists will still be needed, since as I mentioned above, true originality cannot be created by an algorithm.

On side note, if anyone is experiencing a downturn in commission interest, please be aware the world is effectively in a recession with endlessly rising costs. Sadly, artwork which isn't food, heating etc. Isn't a priority at that point. I believe that's the most likely cause.

Hey everyone,

In general just been busy, learning new stuff, plus some personal things. Nothing bad honestly, just needed to invest time.

What's more relevent to you lot is:
- I'm working on a new character. I don't know the background story angle exactly yet. Currently I'm on the fence about her being a summoned entity, or a transformed human through science. Both are appealing. Though I could combine them into a summoned entity inhabiting a human. But this is not like my usual transformations. It would be a literal sacrifice to have this happen, the host dies and becomes a vessel for this new entity.
- I suspect she'll be very popular (appearance wise) given that her she'll combine various elements from all of my most loved characters.

More soon, and it'll definitely have a story to go along with it as well.

Direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te7xh9BWzXI

O_O So many!
I'll have to make sure the 1000th is something special!

Hello dear watchers,

I had a moment to sit down and think for a bit, and I wanted to share some news about what I'm up to, as well as some thoughts on specific topics. Nothing controversial so no need to worry :P

Let's start with writing projects:
- Violet Darkstar, my latest alien character will probably get a few more stories down the line, and definitely more images. I really want a TF sequence of her, but I need to find an artist that's a good fit and willing to do the skin rip TF to my specification. That's an entire project in itself.
- I've been starting to get musings for ideas for the final 3 books in the Ephalon series. These would be set thousands of years after the events of Devourer (part 9, current final part) The books would be heavy, heavy sci-fi, where I will explore concepts like the origin of the universe, the cyclical nature of everything, the Creator, the idea of Fate, and how a cruel streak of events endlessly follows the protagonist. I have the general outline for the triology already on paper, I'm mostly in the process of coming up with the meat of the story everything in between the beginning and the end.

Art projects:
Outstanding ones:
- Wolf Rose (with swimsuit and without)
- Two TF sequences featuring Selene Arramore
- A bunch of artwork from Tiera has yet to be uploaded, so I'll be sharing that once I have them. (This includes a lot of Zelda fanart!) (I'll be upgrading the quality to line art and perhaps colouring the stuff in myself, we'll see)
- The werewolf comic I posted up near the end of last year (so about a month ago) is getting coloured. Half has been ordered up, so expect to see them soon. I'll place the uncoloured versions in scraps and copy over the story when the coloured variants come up.
- I also have a TF/TG comic featuring Renamon. Half of it is TF/TG the rest is, the usual human x anthro sex scene I love so much.
- There's another of Violet wearing a labcoat and swimsuit/bodysuit.

Future:
- Orythorn, the female Ancient God of Creation, from the Ephalon lore will be getting a full design sometime this year. Erafar as well, that's the male one. Expect some really awesome character designs. The goal is for them to be super appealing with God Tier designs, but not overblown sparkly shit all over the place.
- As mentioned above, Violet TF scene, from human to alien.
- I'd probably be interested in doing a collab commission with someone's char and Violet
- Beyond that I don't have any direct ideas.

Youtube videos:
- Honestly, these have been a major focus since I started uploading. Doing them helps me focus whilst I also try and improve the process constantly. As I'm doing them, I'm thinking of ways to perhaps make the videos more enjoyable, putting more consideration into not recording boring shit if I can avoid it.
- Zelda: Totk is still going strong, that videos series will continue to release new episodes for a good while.
- Pokémon Violet: is almost done, 10th of Feb is the final post for that. The boss fight against Turo is in a few days I think, that's my favourite episode out of the LP, also because the song is awesome.
- After Pokémon Violet, Monster Hunter World is next. That's already got a solid 100 episodes of mostly 20 minute+ Some even up to 50 minutes. There's still more to record on that, but I stopped as the difficulty near the end-end game gets very frustrating, and the recording time to actual video time ratio is getting abysmal. I'm not a fan of doing 4 hours of prep work to record just 20 minutes of game footage. It's annoying.
- I'm also stuck into Monster Hunter Rise. I'm much more proficient at that game, extremely much more than World. And I'm blasting through it, I played it for 300 hours before recording anything on it, so that's probably why.
- After that I think I might do SOMA, and once Zelda is almost done I'll likely record Baldursgate 3 (150-200 hour game). I already have two videos regarding the first 2 episodes done as I have something special planned and it needed some tinkering at the start.

Games:
- Palworld am I right? I'm very fond of this game, it still has a lot of basic nuisance bugs, but all in all the gameplay is so good that I can forgive it, though the developers are very much still updating it given that it's early access.
- I get the pokémon comparison, but it's really not pokémon. Capturing creatures is not a pokémon only thing, Monster Rancher was a thing before even pokémon. Plus there's a lot of other aspects about Palworld that doesn't have jack to do with Pokémon. I highly doubt given the absolute straightforwardness of the game that Gamefreak will draw any inspiration from it. Hopefully, it will be a stick up their ass to actually do better in future.
- I'm considering doing an LP of Palworld as well, but I want to do it once I know almost everything about the game, then I can think up funny angle to it. I think it might need voice over as well, given how quiet it otherwise would be. We'll see.
- Total warhammer 3 is a game I've played a lot over the years. There's some updates coming up and a mod called the old world that has me playing it every so often.
- Other than that, I'm most looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds, and GTA6, granted I think that's only on console first, so I'm skipping that until it releases on PC.

General news:
- I got a new oven, haha. Such an normal adult thing to be excited about. It had some bad reviews, but my experience with it so far is great. Plus its much larger than my old one. I actually didn't realise how much until I had it in my hands.
- Work is going well, hopefully later this year I'll be more involved with the backend programming of the software my company makes/uses.
- I've got a bunch of side projects going on as well, gotta earn some extra cash and broaden my skillset.

- A few years back I found out I had a gluten allergy, which was a godsend, since I could finally address why I had constant issues with diarrhoea. I mean it was bad like twice every week or so. However, because it's such a nuisance to keep track of everything and constantly check all food with regards to it having gluten (70% of all food produce here has it) I've stopped eating out altogether, even take out is a pain in the ass. I just hate asking every time, and having the same retarded discussion about it. It's boring AF, so I just cook for myself. I suppose it's healthier.
- Also about Gluten free alternates in shops, all of them are garbage. They taste like nothing, have no consistency. And weirdly upset my stomach and gut to the point it causes diarrhoea because it's so disgusting. Honestly I think of it the same as veggy meat alternatives. No thanks, just give me regular veggies and not some fake shit. All highly processed food tends to have way too much of a thing you're not supposed to eat in high concentration. Just natural food please, thank you!
- I'm working out regularly now, nothing special, not going to discuss my routine, as with the food discussion, not interesting to talk about. Just a thing I do now and it's good for burning calories and building muscle. My weight hovers between 85 / 90 kg. (187 / 200 pounds) And with my height 186 cm (6'2 foot) that's actually a healthy weight especially with the growing muscle.

- I normally never talk about this next part, but I guess it's alright to do so every once in a blue moon. I'm single, have been for a good 15 years now. It's very much a habit at this point. I don't blame society, nor am I unhappy being single. Also, I don't mind the idea of eventually dying alone or something to that extent. I've already made my peace with that potential, it truly doesn't bother me.
- In truth, I've not been looking nor have I put myself out there. Heck, I've even turned women down who approached me. It's not that I'm not interested, it's that I'm picky, extremely picky.
- I'm at the point, where I'd turn down sex with a woman if she offered on the first few dates, probably even longer than that. Because I'd like to first get to know her and see if she is worth putting up with on the regular before any kind of serious commitment like that. I do consider it extremely important to have regular sex with a partner, given that there's a lot of biological benefits for both, plus it bonds the two closer. But it's less than 1% of your time together when it comes down to it. So, there's is that.
- Other than that, I feel good, confident, I try not to let things phase me, I'm making it a point to be as stoic and calm as possible in my day to day life. Doesn't mean I won't show emotion, but it doesn't affect me for very long after. I've got a very grounded / down to earth mindset.
- As living creatures on this planet, we live in a shared reality together, and it's best to adhere to the rules and logic of that reality than to attempt to live outside of it. You'll only find misery if you try to do so.

That's about it, I'm not going to talk about politics or other similar hot topics, I'm fairly certain that's against TOS anyway since it inflames a lot of people, especially on this website. I'm a mature adult and I'll talk about any topic with fellow mature adults, if done so in good faith.

That's all for now! if you're still reading this bravo, your eyes are ruined now!

This time for Violet, I'll see if I can write it up before X-mas still.
I'll dot down the basic premise tonight, and try and write it up over the weekend.
This will be about how she's adapted to her life after becoming a xeno. x-amount of months in.

Hey everyone,

I still have a 10/11 page werewolf comic that was linearted. I've been meaning to get it coloured as well, but well priorities change. I will probably still get it coloured just next year.

Should I post it up anyway? Are my watchers interested hmm?

EDIT:
I guess you guys have spoken. And so shall it be. I'll post one page a day and a a little story in de description to go along with it. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY YOUR PERVERTS!!!

For those interested, I've recorded a Pokémon Violet LP. It's 64 parts.
The first one is up today, and the rest will be released daily hereafter until finished. Somewhere early Feb. Each part is between is rough 25 ish minutes I think, it varies a bit.

There's some breeding bullshit near the start which costs some time, but I've not recorded the vast majority the aimless walking about. It's mostly the story and some basic exploration. I actually think the music in this game is very good. The story is alright, some fights throughout the LP are REALLY close, those are the best to watch as well.

I was struck by inspiration, and I got some art (hopefully) coming soon and a new story with it.

The tale delves into darker territory. Featuring monstrous TF, blackmail, and other themes that mesh well. I don't know if it's everyone's cup of tea. I'm a horror fan at heart, and this is where it's at!

I'm aiming before the end of the coming week to have the story written, edited, and hopefully the art finished as well. Because I want to post it as a package.

Need I say more? I'll definitely be recording a youtube series of this one.



Also:
From what I've heard, and can tell. Here's some info.
A recent Capcom investor call mentioned a yet unannounced big game for end of fiscal 2023. Which in Japanland means April 1st 2024.
Looking back at previous releases. It's safe to say this game will release somewhere around mid/end Feb 2024 or early March.

The major thing this time, it's no longer timed exclusive to any console / pc. It's coming to the PC, on steam right away!
Gotta love it.

Instead of doggo, we now get Raptor buddy. If you're gonna switch out the dog, a flying raptor buddy is not a bad choice!

Also also:
I maybe already am recording some stuff around Monster Hunter World. Depending on when this next game releases I might also do Monster Hunter Rise.

HARD EDIT:
- In my excitement, I forgot to notice the glaringly obvious 2025 at the end. WHOEPS! So, it's another year yet, booooo. Oh well!

I've finished Zelda totk and am just doing the remainder of uploading, thumbnails texts etc etc. The back-end stuff mostly.

It was an enjoyable ride, and I hope those interested have fun with it! Till it's conclusion. If you like watching larger chunks in one go I'd advise checking out the playlist once a week and let it play out from where you were last. I might bump the hole thing a bit sooner, not sure yet.

With Zelda more or less finished, I was thinking of doing another game. There's a few on my short list.

- Monster Hunter World (with expansion)
This would involve mostly main story missions, some random battles. Some event battles. And maybe a few grinding out gear videos.
I'm definitely not doing 100% on this nor doing every monster there is.
I must confess I've already recorded 10 episodes of this. This is a game I'm actually good at. Greatsword and hammer all the way.

- Pokémon Violet
This is one I'm interested in doing as well, I'd follow the advised leveling sequence, and work towards a particular team.
The goal would be to do the main story then beat the champion after. And that's it.

- Okami (HD)
This has always been a game I enjoyed growing up. It wouldn't be too difficult to do the whole game and 100% the beads for it.
I believe there's some super secret thing if you get like a bajillion zenny or something, that I might skip on.

Are these interesting to you guys?

Zelda playlist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....6tmnq3sPLzQZBz

Alright,

Recording wise I'm now nearing 100% (644 parts have been recorded - around 90 hours I think)
Progress:
- All shrines completed
- All lightroots
- All sage wills
- All sages
- All energy cell upgrades
- Master sword unlocked
- Ancient armour unlocked AND fully upgraded to 84 defense (what a grind to get the components wow)

What's left?
- There are some quests left, which I'll be rounding up.
- Various armour sets I've yet to discover.
- A bunch of lesser quests which I'll be doing also
- I also found out there's around 50~60 caves still left to explore for the bubbel gems. (might be less I've collected a lot since I found out there were so many left)
- I've also been busy trying to unlock perfect royal sword weapons in the depths. That'll help a lot in killing enemies super fast.
- I'm doing as many Korok seeds as I come across, but I'm not going to 100% these, way way too much searching around. I suspect that by the time I've done everything else above here, I'll have enough to have all the inventory upgrades, I'm already quite close to completing that as is.

I'm also going to commission a bunch of fan art after this.
Mineru / Lightdragon / Zonai link.

You'll notice as more and more videos get releases that I become more proficient at the combat. I was killing King Gleeok and Silver lionels in no time at all near the end.

Quick thing.

I'm adding thumbnails, ones which show which episode you're on!
The first 100 are already made.
Another 500 or so to go yikes!

here's the current playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....6tmnq3sPLzQZBz

So, I've been recording a lot.

Here's the current overview:
- 439 recorded parts varying from a few minutes (short shrines) to 20 minute segments.

Progress so far:
- 4 sages awakened
- 104 Shrines completed
- I've unveiled around 1/3 of the depths so far.
- Missing one skyview tower still
- Got all great fairies
- Completed a bunch of side quests, many still left over or to get even.
- Need to complete all the stable reporter stuff
- 1 final battle with Master Kogha still
- Collected a bunch of armours.
- Collected all the dragon tears.

What's left?
- 1 more sage and all associated subquests
- Returning to lookout landing and confronting you-know-who in hyrule castle
- Getting all the lightblooms
- Getting the Master sword.
- I need 7 more Sage wills
- 48 Shrines
- Buy a house and decorate it
- Collecting all armours, which is kind of a natural effect of doing the rest.
- Getting the Ancient hero armour and fully upgrading it before fighting Ganon

So, my question to those interested / already watching. What's the most entertaining/suiting sequence in your mind to round everything up?
The TODO list is easily another 20/30 hours of gameplay.

So during my Zelda Totk LP today during recording I found a King Gleeok. OMG this guy is a tough bastard. I got it all in recording, including the deaths, the learning of a viable strategy. I ended up with a lucky break near the end. Granted my armour is all lvl 2 not lvl 4.

Just wanted to share, as it's a multi part fight first one so far.

Hey everyone,

General status update.

Upcoming artwork:
- 12 page Werewolf comic, waiting on it to get fully lined, then I'll likely upgrade it to colour
- Orythorn, female progenitor of the Ancients, getting designs drawn up, hopefully soon I'll have them all to commission a full image of her. (Think like tribal ancient werewolf type character)
- Selene Arramore is making a comeback! 2 TF sequences, from human to dragon, and dragon to Celestial dragon.
- Rose werewolf sexy swimsuit image.
- I'm forgetting a few images off the top of my head, but there's more. Alexandra is getting one as well.

Writing works:
- I'm not inspired at present to write much, so don't expect anything beyond short titbits attached to images.

Youtube videos:
- I'm recording and uploading a lot for a Zelda: tears of the kingdom playthrough.
- So far I've recorded 266 parts (I'm estimating myself at around 50-60% of the game). I've uploaded around 180 parts so far: Starting around November 10th I believe, I've scheduled 10 to 20 minutes of video content everyday for a good solid few months. I expect this to continue well into next year.
- I'm thinking about other possible games to play that I also enjoy. So far, I'm thinking Okami HD and SOMA.
- Other games I'm thinking about perhaps recording would be: Total war: Warhammer 3, Satisfactory, Monster Hunter (whatever the new one will be), MAYBE Baldur's Gate 3 (I doubt it though, since this is a bit overwhelming to record)
- I'm thinking about maybe some games on the Switch, but we'll have to see. For now I'm busy with Tears of the Kingdom.
- My current process is fairly quick with minimal fuss, which is how I'd like to keep it.
- I will have to look at a process for mass producing thumbnails fast as well. Just overlays on what youtube already suggests. This is something I might do as an afterthought, right now I don't want to invest more time than I currently am.

Here's an intermediate update on the playthrough I'm recording. I've recorded up to part 086.
Granted part lengths vary from a few minutes to close to 30 minutes.

I've uploaded 46 parts enough to last till the end of November. Daily uploads at 7 pm GMT +1. I believe that's 12 noon EST.
Story wise I've defeated the first big boss so far, and I've done a healthy amount of shrines as well.

I hope to have the full recording finished by end of November. I need to take breaks to upload the videos and of course well work :P

Hey everyone,

As a little side project I'm recording a playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom.
At present I'm limited to 10 videos a day upload.
I'm recording in 2,5 hour sessions and breaking them up into bits as I go.
Right now I'm at 7,5 hours of recording and 40 parts.
10 of which are uploaded and some will be releasing gradually over the next few days.
I'm aiming for 10 to 30 minutes of footage per day starting tomorrow.

I will try experimental solutions to certain puzzles if the inspiration arises so messing up will be part of certain sections!

After doing some recording/audio/general quality checks today. I did my first Tears of the Kingdom recording session of about 2.5 hours ~ give or take.
It's 20 gigabytes of data so it'll take a good while to upload. The videos comprise 11 episodes of varying length. Which I'll start releasing to the public once most are uploaded and processed etc.

I just played the game to the best of my ability so I hope it's not frustrating to watch. I did scrounge around quite a bit collecting stuff.

I aim to do some more recording sessions this coming weekend / maybe tomorrow. However, since they're so huge it'll take a while to upload. I'm at the max speed of my current area right now. I did some basic math, which if I did it right means around 8 hours of upload time. Which honestly, isn't that bad. I could leave it on all night and/or morning and I should be golden.

I hope people enjoy it. I have no goals beyond this game as a kind of hobby side project. Plus it's a good experience for broad technical knowledge. It'll help me get proficient at the process.

I love Tears of the Kingdom to bits. It revitalised my hope that games can still surprise me and have original unique ideas. 10/10 for me. If they made the framerate perfect then it would be a technical 10/10.

Hey everyone,

I'm planning on uploading a Tears of the Kingdom playthrough.
Just full screen with no commentary. I'm going to break it up into as logical parts as possible.

I'd like for anyone interested to watch this test video (2 or so minutes) and tell me if the quality is decent enough. As I'm still calibrating my recording quality.

TEST 1


TEST 2

Hey everyone,

I'm looking around for an artist to work with, for designing some characters. So, sketch level initially. I am looking for someone who's good and delivers quality, no amateur level stuff sorry. So either artists or suggestions for artists are what I'm seeking.

From my Ephalon series there are 6 characters known as the Six Gods of Creation.

Two of them are Ancients (Tall bipedal wolf anthros) (male and female) - Erafar and Orythorn
Two of them are dragons (female and male) - Enterra and Arack
Two of them are Cenebrians (Dark elf/tiefling like) (male and female) - Numen-Nier and Aodia

I want them to have a divine, primal, eloquent design.
And also all 6 will be wielding their divine weapons.
Preference goes to someone who's very good in communication. Has the ability to stream, and communicate through microphone over text, though that's not needed persé, strong preference though.

That's all I'll say for now, hopefully someone will be interested/have time.
There's no direct rush on this project. Or even 1 artist for all 6. I will want a single artist for the male/female variant of each species. For style consistency.

The goal is to get some basic reference sketches. If I'm super happy I'll be more than willing to upgrade to colour as well.

EDIT:
I'm keeping a list of progress and chosen artists below. This is a half year long search as far as time goes, I'm not in a rush to get this completed.

Erafar - male Ancient: (searching for artist)
Orythorn - female Ancient: (searching for artist)
Enterra - female dragon: (searching for artist)
Arack - male dragon: (searching for artist)
Numen-Nier - male Cenebrian: (searching for artist)
Aodia - female Cenebrian: (searching for artist)

Had a bunch of family things to take care of.
And well, Baldurs gate 3 came out :P

Hey everyone,

Oh my look at this!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53102657/

For those who read my latest story from last week, might recognise it!