Two fetishes that aren't exactly known for being kind to the little one. Let's see if we can make it work.

AJ's Mouth (working title)

A human small enough to wrestle ants is stranded in the pony world and the Mane 6 are taking turns looking after him. But Applejack has a theory about him. And desires of her own. Weird ones that include her mouth and tongue. NO! She does NOT want to eat him. She just wants to nom him a bit. Hopefully her suspicions that he is interested in ponies extends to a willingness to play in her mouth.

Featuring Applejack, micro human, gentle, and LOTS of mouthplay.

"Even the air you breathe is just my leftovers." ~AJ



Pinkie Hires a Butt Toy (working title)

Humans are no larger than a pony's fingernail and the moment Pinkie heard about them she was consumed by a dark fantasy: to bury one between her ass cheeks and drown them in her farts. But how can she satisfy such a vile brand of lust without hurting them? For a mare who's dedicated her life to making others smile it is a frustrating clash of desires. So she resorts to unconventional measures.

Featuring anthro Pinkie, micro human, gentle, butt, and farts

"The question is if you're willing to endure it." ~Pinkie



Then we'll get back to regularly scheduled programming.

Also, Pinkie Hires a Butt Toy is going to be released first and is going to be pretty long. Can't give more than a guesstimate at this time, but 8000 words at least. I entertained breaking it up, but I've been terrible at estimating lately and I don't want the chapters to end up weird lengths relative to each other. So... it's going to be one big block of story. Sorry.

To be fair, we all sort of knew this was coming. My brother started dialysis about 2 years ago because he has kidney failure and, for reasons I won't go into here, he is simply not eligible for a transplant. Once you start dialysis you're expected to live about 10 to 15 years. If you're lucky. So we all thought he had around another 10.

The news dropped about 2 weeks ago that he isn't one of the lucky ones. A number of his test scores have suddenly plummeted. Doctors are saying he'll be dead by next June. Less than a year. And the worst part? It won't be in a hospital bed. He has the great privilege of a sudden death. When a blood clot forms in his brain. There is no way to know exactly when it will happen. He could go at any time.

Granted, him and me hadn't talked in about 10 years. We were basically enemies. Then the news reached me through our mom. Then he called me. It was a strangely normal conversation. I knew he was going to die soon. He knew that I knew and that there was nothing we could do. So... we talked about cooking. Shared recipes and tricks. It was weird. I don't know how to feel. Two weeks into the news and my thoughts are still a twisted mess. For 10 years I've hated him. He still hasn't apologized for the insults and threats he made all those years ago. I'm confused. I don't know what to do. If anything.



I apologize. I had just gotten Flutterbutt Crush out and was ready to finish the Cheerilee story for a release around now, but then I got this news and it's killed my focus. I haven't been able to do much of anything lately. I was debating with myself if I should even share this. After all, it's family business. My problem to deal with. But whatever. Now you know what's going on.

Real life is a bitch. Just when you think everything is under control, the next avalanche starts.

Thank you for your patience, understanding, and your views. I appreciate every like and favorite I get. I'm not sure I say that enough. I write stories I want others to enjoy. Please take a look at all my work and if there are a few you've never read consider giving them a try. It means a lot to me.

I almost doubled the word count so it is no longer just a bloated flash fic. It is now a proper short story with a much better flow! I added a lot of detail to the city, had Green tease them much more (including a short booty dance), and in general slowed the pace of the action way down. This time it is a FAR more exciting story and definitely worth reading if you haven't already or were a bit disappointed. Beware the first 5 or 6 paragraphs, and the last 2 or 3, are MOSTLY unchanged beyond simple grammar updates. The real meat is in the middle.

Hopefully this makes up for my shameful rush to toss this story to the public. Honestly, it really wasn't ready and should have gotten this much love from the beginning. I apologize for that.

In other news, I found myself a decent text-to-speech program that is absolutely wonderful for editing my stories. I really put it through its paces when rewriting "The City in Her Chair". Man that was a lot of work. I must have spent a week straight editing four hours a day! It was so tedious. Getting it right was a nightmare and I couldn't stop second-guessing my choice of words for every single sentence. If this isn't the most perfectly written thing I've ever produced I'd be shocked.

Compulsive perfectionism really is a curse. But all I did was follow a simple personal rule: "If I can't read it one time all the way through without finding one thing I should correct, I don't publish." Is that a good policy? It sounds fair to me. Oh well. Thank you for reading my stories and I hope you enjoy them!



Random factoid:

As a flash fic ~700 words
First Release ~1500 words
Rewrite ~2500 words

The TLDR:

I've spent the last 2+ weeks editing and making new covers for some of my older works. Will be returning to current projects now. For the most part.



The long gist:

So I recently got some advice, or criticism, depending on how you look at. I was told that a smart creator spreads out. Puts his work on a number of websites. See, content consumers have a tendency to find and pick a site and stay there. Branching out is the job of the creators. I myself know I don't really want to use a bunch of different sites, but I also know the frustration of trying to find a certain kind of work and simply not being able to.

So I decided to spread out a little. For my followers on furaffinity and fimfiction this shouldn't mean much, but I decided to take my Sofurry account seriously and get it up-to-date and I've finally made an Inkbunny account where I'll also be posting my stuff from now on. I'm not so sure about Twitter though. All I can see myself doing there is tweeting "I have posted X story!!" Like, anyone following me on any of these sites (fimfiction, furaffinity, sofurry, and inkbunny) is already going to know that. Seems pointless to me. I've always hated Twitter though so maybe I'm just biased against seeing the benefits of using it.

Yeah I know. Who cares, right?

While I was going about uploading my old content though, I decided to do a little bit of editing too. Nothing major, just grammar fixes and maybe some sentence restructures. If you haven't read "The Victorious, the Gentle, and the Tiny" before I would highly recommended it now. That fic got some pretty big fixes. Not like story changing fixes, but there was a good amount errors that needed to be cleaned up.

Also discovered that I've lost a couple of my old covers. Like VGT and Rarity's Secret Playground. It's not like those original covers were important or anything, but I put work into those things. Where did they go? Oh well. So I made some new and arguably better covers for them. Check those out if you care I guess.

Also made a very symbolic cover for "Big Mares Don't Need You" which I am super proud of. Not that it's a complicated piece of art, but... for someone like me who sucks at making art, I think I made something actually thought provoking.



Oh, and my upstairs apartment neighbor died last week. I so did not need that dark cloud hanging over my head. It's not like I knew her that well or anything, but she was friendly the few times we crossed paths. Death can strike you at any time ladies and gentlemen. Stay healthy out there!

Not sure what inspired it, but I decided to do a little math about my writing history.

I started writing in 2013, output peaking around 2015-2016. Nothing was published in 2019 or 2020. Then returned towards the end of 2021.

From 2013 to 2021 I published a little more than 150,000 words of content.

In 2022 alone I published a little more than 120,000 words of content.

So I almost doubled my total published word count in one year. Though "word count" shouldn't be the priority for a good writer, believe me it is easy to add "fluff", I am proud of myself.

I'd like to publish at least one thing each week, though I think I should be striving for more than that. I've got so many stories I want to tell, but motivation and time are a real jerk. Which is weird. How can you really want to tell a story yet have no drive to actually write it? I don't know. Maybe its more of a case of procrastination. Keep yelling at me to get work done everyone. Believe it or not, I think that actually helps me.

Here is to a new even more productive year!



I know I don't say it enough, but thank you for reading my stories and I hope I have or will write something you enjoy.

As to those who want to request or commission, I will not be doing either until I've finished the works I have already promised. Also, I will not be doing a survey again. While a fun idea, it takes too long to do a bunch of stories like that and it just gets everyone's hopes up while making them wait. It's very rude. So that is a lesson learned.



Stories that have been promised:

Under "Her" Skirt (~2 chapters remain)
Big Hot Teacher (possibly multiple chapters)
Celestia Likes to Watch (possibly multiple chapters)
Biggest Grinch
Population Control
Macro Mare Modeling Agency (major project)

Cute or sexy, here's a question: style. And I don't mean frills or pleated.

1) Does the skirt slip under the tail with some kind of buckle to secure it around the dock? Or does the skirt simply slip over the tail, letting a pony raise their tail and the skirt with it?

2) What about coverage? Does the skirt lie down over the hindquarters, hiding the mare's private areas? Or is it just a big funnel that does nothing to cover what is under the mare's tail?

3) Heck, there is even a third variable to consider! What about extent? Does the skirt wrap under the flanks or is it open underneath, simply draping over the ponies rear like a cape?

I suppose the truest answer is: it depends.



So why do I ask? Well, I was writing the next chapter of "Stallion Panty Prisoner" and I got to the part where Chad gets dressed. Personally, I like to get a really solid mental image before I try to describe something, as I hope most authors would do, and I found myself kind of drawing a blank. What would a REALISTIC skirt made for ponies look like? I tried looking up some screenshots from the show (because I don't want to comb through EVERY episode looking for dresses and skirts) and was surprised that I found CANNONICAL examples of every design variable combination. Which made my mind spin. Though generally (as in NOT always) dresses and skirts tend to go OVER the tail.

Like, wouldn't you want the tail to be free to sway and move? Isn't the tail meant to help a pony keep their balance? And especially with a short skirt, the tail would easily lift the bit of fabric and leave the mare exposed, which kind of defeats the purpose of wearing clothes. Logically speaking, the tail should always remain free. Then again, ponies don't wear clothes normally so "being exposed" is probably not a concept ponies even have. There is no such thing as "nudity", clothes are just body decoration. So why wouldn't you cover the tail? You're trying to look different and the tail is a rather large image so if you want to change your appearance you either style your tail or cover it.

Though I'm writing a piece of erotica, is anyone other than me going to care about details this specific? Who cares?! Well... I kind of do. I like my stories to make sense from as many angles as possible. So I found myself chewing on the question: pony skirts.

My personal conclusion would be that the skirt/dress should ALWAYS go under the tail and that the skirt should cover the privates. But we've SEEN skirts that defy both those qualities in the series. It is a canonical fact that ponies would wear a skirt over the tail and fully exposing their backsides in public! That is so bizarre. I wonder if the showrunners ever agonized over that at all?

Just venting some thoughts I'm sure every artist who has ever tried to draw ponies with clothes has already considered. Did I blow your mind today? I hope I at least gave you something to think about.

Quick question: does anyone actually want regular updates? Or do you not care and just want the new stories/chapters?



Anyway, here is what's up. This blog is MOSTLY for my Furaffinity (FA) readers, but I don't want to write a separate blog just for my Fimfiction (Fim) readers. Waste of time and I'm lazy. Should still be a bit relevant to you Fim, but not as much.

I've spent the last few days fixing thumbnails and updating the source files for a number of my old stories on FA. Long story short: for years the site had a problem that you could not update written submissions. So if you wanted to update your stories (correct embarrassing grammar mistakes) you had to make an entirely new submission. Obviously annoying for your audience. So my FA readers have been stuck with the first or second editions of a lot of my work for years. However, not long ago I discovered that FA finally made it possible to update written submissions.

So that's what I dedicated this week to doing.

I went through and edited much of my old work and submitted the latest editions! Now you don't have to download and read pdf files. Now you can read the convenient txt files that display right in your browser and you get the versions of my work with the least stupid mistakes! Yay!!

That goes for you Fim readers too! You've also got some updated versions. Though maybe I should clarify that the updates are nothing more significant than a grammar fix here and rewording an awkward sentence there. Maybe this doesn't sound like a big deal to anyone else, but I have a thing about this stuff. Now is the best time to check out some of my old work if you've never read it before.

Especially "Micro Anon x a Mare" and "Horny Nightmare". Damn, I forgot how long and good those were. Also, I could have sworn "Micro Dreams Do Come True" was... better than it really is. I did not allow myself to rework any of these old stories, but I was really tempted after rereading that one. Maybe some day I'll try a micro human and Celestia story again and not completely fail at the erotica. You know, the whole point of the story.



But now for the bad news. There are two stories left and one of them is going to be a bit of a problem.

1. The Victorious, the Gentle, and the Tiny

A little over 8,000 words of pure erotica, it will probably take me a day or two to do it. Not a big deal. Just decided to table that job for now. There are other things that need doing more.

2. The Erotic Life of the Smallest Changeling

For new watchers on FA, you probably have no idea how significant this one is. It's more than 50,000 words long and the first story I ever published publicly. I took it down from FA back when the inability to update written submissions destroyed the originals (part of the bug meant that if you tried to update the submission, the file would simply become undownloadable) and I never resubmitted them. I was waiting for FA to fix the bug. Now I don't want to repost this story until I've at least had a chance to go over the story again and correct any formatting issues, but that will take forever and I've got other new stories to write. And personally, I look back on ELotSC with mixed feelings. It was my first work and... I just think it sucks. It's a badly written story. I've sometimes entertained the idea of trying to rewrite it, but of course never have. So it's honestly a very low priority for me to fix it and republish it on FA. Unless someone really liked that story and desperately wants me to clean up the original or do a major rewrite, for now I'm not even going to bother reposting it to FA.

For my FA readers, if I've stoked your curiosity and you really want to read the story that started my writing career, you can read it on fimfiction.net.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/89.....est-changeling



Next, there are still two stories who need their thumbnails fixed on FA, though that will be real quick. I plan to do that when I upload the next chapter for each.

Under "Her" Skirt
Macro Mare Modeling Agency



So the plan going forward:
1. Get Under "Her" Skirt done. And I mean DONE. There is about 2 or 3 chapters left and I just want to bunker down and finish it.
2. The Cheerilee story which is already about 1/3 written anyway.
3. Edit The Victorious, the Gentle, and the Tiny
4. Profit



I appreciate every upvote/favorite, comment, and watch. It goes a long way to making this author feel like his work is good and appreciated. Thank you very much.

The conversation comes up every now and then: how expensive it is to commission an artist or an author.

I have never taken payment for a work nor have I paid for a piece. I don't think I've ever even made a request either. Maybe that's just part of my social anxieties (fear of talking to people). So I've never really taken the time to think about it myself. But the conversation kicked up again recently in one place I frequent and at the same time I have three different people asking me if I do commissions (the most I've ever had honestly). So here I am seriously trying to answer the two big questions.

1) Should I do commissions?
2) How much should I charge?



From a customer perspective I understand why the conversation is usually so hostile. We customers are selfish little bastards. We don't want to pay for things. Artists and writers should just make stuff for us for fun! But "Fun" doesn't pay the rent. It doesn't put gas in the car. It doesn't put food on the table. It takes time and time is money. Why shouldn't a creative person get paid for their efforts, skill, and knowledge? Because their work is just a "hobby"? How often do hobbies become small businesses or full-time jobs? If someone is willing to pay, why not take their money? Because there are others who don't want to pay or cannot? Does "hobby" mean you are a "charity" just trying to make others happy? If you do commissions and not requests (because it really has to be one or the other) do you only care about making the wealthier happy? Those are other tough questions to answer.

The first problem "should I do commissions" is not simple. It creates a definitive divide between hobby and work. Once money is involved there is no screwing around. No excuses. It is serious.



The second question leads to no less hostile of a conversation. How often do you see forums of angry people complaining how "outrageous" some artist's prices are? But are they? Before I do some math for you, I would like to explain the logic behind it. Something my dad, being a man of logic and math, taught me that has been so useful when making big financial decisions.

Time = Money. This rule is so important to everything you will do in your life, whether you like it or not. Let's apply it to the work of an artist.

A job at McDonalds. What is the starting pay these days to flip burgers? Depends on where you live I suppose. Around where I live I know one that's offering $12/hour to start. Good enough for our purposes. So if I took that job, my time is effectively worth $12/hour. Am I wrong? Anything that takes an hour of my time is effectively taking me away from work and earning that $12/hour. Of course a man cannot always be working and needs to sleep and time to actually spend that money, but the premise is enough to make a point.

Now I'm also an artist. I take commissions. How long does it take me to make a work of art? If it takes four hours, is that piece not worth $48? Each hour of my time is worth $12 and it took me four hours to make it. It wasn't simply part of my hobby that I chose to make of my own will. Someone asked me to go out of my way to make it. So should I get paid my hourly wage for that time spent working for someone else? We can get into arguments about speed of work and efficiency, but we're just splitting hairs at that point. Is $48 an unreasonable price for a "good" piece of art? To me it doesn't sound too ridiculous, but there is one problem with this example: the hourly pay is low.

What should be the hourly rate for an artist? That's the real question. It's not something any idiot can do. It takes years of practice and study to learn. Unless you just want a pencil outline or a fancy stick figure I guess. So a skill that isn't so easy to come by tends to demand a higher wage. Let's do another example.

$20/hour. Sounds pretty good. Assuming you worked 40 hours a week you'd be making more than $40,000 a year. Is that the kind of income an artist should be entitled to demand? To me it sounds pretty reasonable. However, if that artist takes four hours to make a piece for you, that comes out at $80. That... I know that would hurt my wallet. That seems a bit high to me honestly. But if it's quality work, and you want it, why not pay it?

The real problem, I think, is the mindset consumers have. They see commissions as "buying a piece of art". That isn't what you are doing. In reality you are "hiring an artist for a short period of time". And any employer will tell you that wages is the biggest cost of doing business. I remember hearing somewhere that for the average business 80% of their operating costs are just employee wages. Ouch, that is crazy. Suddenly consumers see why companies try so hard to pay their workers so little. Funny how that works. We hate companies for trying to cheat us, then get mad when artists ask for payment.



But there is a big difference between artists and writers. For an artist, it is really tough to measure how much work they really did. Oh sure... we can bust out a piece and speculate ALL DAY how many layers there were, how long it would have taken to color, how many times they had to redo this curve or that line, or how well they captured the perspective and angles, etc etc. But with a written piece there is a much easier, if still a bit misguided, means of measuring effort: word count. The logic is deceptively simple: more words = more work. Let's explore that idea for a moment.

How fast can you type? Depends on the writer. A slow typing speed would be like 20 words per minute (wpm). Fast is anything above 50 wpm. Let's just assume something in the middle like 35 wpm for the following examples.

Imagine a decent length short story of 4,000 words. How long did it take to write? Easy math. It'd be 115 minutes or two hours. Good? No. You're ignoring three things.

1) who says ANY writer's typing speed is constant? I can tell you from experience it goes way up and way down. I've had times where I just got in a zone and was blasting away. Other times I have no idea what I'm writing and slow to an absolute crawl, maybe reaching 10 wpm for a while.
2) a writer has to think sometimes. I have never written an entire story, not even my flash fics, without stopping at some point to think about the next paragraph. You need time to plan the story, to organize, and to write. You don't just type and go.
3) editing is a bitch. You have to reread multiple times and you have to make tiny corrections. And big corrections. Sometimes you have to rewrite just a word, other times multiple paragraphs have to be scrapped. And heaven help you if you really bumbled the story and have to... start over...

Trying to estimate a price purely based on the word count is so wrong. It completely misunderstands how long it takes to actually write something. I'll be honest, I've never timed myself. How long does it take me to write a story? I have no idea. So I don't even know how to estimate it. The closest I can say is maybe a 1,000 words takes about an hour. Which would get me a typing speed close to 15 wpm, but I've already explained why that's not a fair measurement.



This brings me to what I suddenly realized only AFTER my last conversation with someone asking me if I do commissions. Something I find very amusing in hindsight.

It's not universal, but it is common, that writers charge $10 per 1,000 words. In my case that would straight translate to an hourly wage of about $10/hour. That is absolutely ridiculous. What idiot would take such low pay for a job that is both in demand and requires a degree of skill? That is bullshit! Assuming you worked 40 hours a week that's barely more than $20,000 a year. For a writer? Yet many authors in the community do just that. Though they could simply be faster typers than me and so the pay is a bit better. Just double the speed and you double the pay after all. If you can crank out 1,000 words of quality writing in 30 minutes, you'd be making $20/hour. Reminder, that's over $40,000 a year assuming you worked 40 hours a week.



In conclusion:

What is a fair rate for an artist? Or a writer? $10/hour? $15/hour? $20/hour? And remember that when you commission your favorite creator you're not buying their work, you're buying their time. Commissions are "expensive" because you're paying for skill and knowledge you obviously don't have. Otherwise you'd be making the work yourself. You don't hire a plumber if you could simply fix the pipes yourself after all. I don't know what to tell those who simply can't afford their favorite creator's prices. Maybe ask a different artist? Maybe try harder to save some money? If you want the most extreme suggestion, try becoming an artist/writer yourself. Though that's easy to say yet hard to do, right?

Fun thing in that last bit of advice though... because that's what I did. There was a kind of story I wanted to read, but no one was writing it. I couldn't stand waiting for it, I didn't have the courage to request it, and I didn't have the money to commission it. So I started writing for myself. Somehow that got me where I am today. So I tell you to try becoming creative yourself because... that's what I did. Now I don't need to ask someone else to write a story for me. If I want it, I can make it for myself if I really want it. Though if I want a good piece of art...



So take what you want from these rambles. Hope you learned something or gained a new perspective on things. That's my goal in life after all.

Monday is my last day of work.

Wow, every day going back there feels like absolute torture. I am so looking forward to a vacation. I need it bad.

Hopefully nothing crazy happens while I'm trying to relax. Though I do have some plans. Things I would like to get done during that time. Like visiting my dad for the first time in 3 years and stuff.

So I have officially turned in my 2 week notice at work. I'm quitting my job and going to take August off. I'll start job hunting in September, maybe the last week of August, whatever.

Is it a tad risky? Yeah. Do I care? No. I'm tired and I need the break.

To review, the last 3 months I have been working about 60 hours a week. My day job is at a casino and we are SUPER short handed. Me, being a Supervisor, am paid salary. That means I
have a higher base pay then most, but do not get extra for holidays or overtime. With how much extra time they're making me work and with no end in sight to that demand, I have simply
decided to throw in the towel. I am working WAY too much and my bosses don't seem to care at all. Or the casino is on the verge of shutting down simply because we can't find anyone willing to work there. It's one or the other.

Not sure I care either way. I don't think anyone is "proud" to work at a casino, though I did enjoy my work for a few months. Kind of a scummy business in general I admit. Can't tell you how many times I heard and had to be a part of conversations like:

"I lost all my money and won nothing. This is rigged!"
"This is a casino, not a charity. Now, if you don't have anymore money then get the fuck out."

Cigarette smoke, the endless music of slot machines, the frustrating entitled customers (particularly the high rollers whose butts we're required to kiss). It is not that great a place to work.


I handed in my 2 week notice and just felt so... free. I've got almost no plan and I don't care. I've got a comfortable pile of savings so I'm not worried about homelessness or anything. I don't think I'll be asking for donations or charity anytime soon. Just can't help trying to describe this feeling.

It's like this enormous weight has finally come off my shoulders. I finally took that step to get out of the casino and try something else. It's a good feeling. Though I still have another two weeks I have to give them, I'm still feeling really good about this.

Everybody, take care of yourselves and have a good day.

Well I just realized that a lot of porn content is coming up. Could have planned this better, but oh well.

Dominant Rainbow Ch 3: porn
Under Her Skirt Ch 3: lewd/cute
Big Hot Teacher: porn
MMMA Ch 2: lewd
Celestia Likes to Watch: porn
Ponies Vs Kaiju: action
Biggest Grinch: rampage

Remind me not to plan so many stories in advance. Also got a requested story (porn) I should try to fit in there and the final chapter of Under Her Skirt which is also going to be porn. Going to strive for a record here and see if I can't get two things published this week. Got to make up for this month sucking so much. Even though the work situation hasn't changed at all. Commitment is a bitch.

Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy something I write in the next month or two.

Short Version:

My day job is BS to the point there may even be a strike next month. Not kidding, it's that bad right now. I had planned to publish one story or chapter every week, but it's kind of hard to find the energy to come home from a long day of work then do... more work. I'm sorry. Stories will get done, just slower than one per week.

Long Version:

I work in a casino. My job is to empty and fill the slot machines, sort and count the poker chips, and count the casinos incoming cash. It's a small casino so the full Soft Count team is 6 people. Or it's supposed to be. Back in February the previous Supervisor quit after a long 25 years of service and left the job to me. Nice pay raise and everything. Cool. Team = 5/6. We hire a new person the following month, March, no problems. Team = 6/6 again.

Then someone quits. Team = 5/6. Unfortunate, but we can still do our job well enough.

April. The newest person quits after only 2 months on the job. Team = 4/6. That's not good. It's tight, but we can finish the job working an extra hour a day. In other words, everyone is working 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. We need more people. Talking to my boss I'm pretty much told no help is available. We in Soft Count have 3 places we can pull people to help out in a shortage. Accounting, but they're shorthanded. The Cashiers, but they're too shorthanded too. Our other properties, because we're part of a larger company, are also too shorthanded. We're screwed.

May. I get a call from one of my remaining employees... there has been an accident. She's probably... just done. Team = 3/6. That's. Too. Few. I go to my boss to beg for some kind of help. Basically get told to go fuck myself. Or, as he literally put it, "I guess you'll be working overtime then." Not kidding, that was his response. Me and my team are each now working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. And it's still not enough. One of us has to work a 7th day each week just to keep the casino's money moving. My employees are pissed and complaining. I'm complaining! There is simply too much for the 3 of us to do in a day. If we don't get some applicants soon... there might just be a strike. I'm actually considering taking what employees I have aside and just telling them to stay home, but I want to be patient. I'm trying to be understanding. The casino is in a tough spot right now. Maybe there really isn't anything they can do. Yeah, I don't really believe that myself. But whatever. I don't want to be the brand new Supervisor that can't handle one month of extra work. My employees do begrudgingly admit they like the extra fat paychecks. Working 60+ hours a week may be brutal, but there is a benefit to your savings account.



America sure is in a weird place right now. I keep hearing about the unemployment numbers, then look at the casino's job openings and just end up scratching my head. We've got openings in literally every single department. Want to work security? We need you. Want to cook in our restaurants? We've got an opening. Always dreamed of being a card dealer? We'll take you.

Where are all these unemployed people begging for money? We're hiring. We're desperate for people right now. I don't get it. I know everyone hates casinos. Me too. In fact, just about everyone who works in the casino thinks gambling is stupid. Is working in a casino that unappealing? Would you rather take unemployment checks over being a simple cashier in a casino? Come on, you get to collect so many funny stories while working in a casino. Like that time we had a drunk guy lose his phone, but then refuse to go look for it himself because that was "our job". Or the one guy who couldn't find the bathroom so he thought he'd just pee in a trashcan and no one would notice. Or the crazy lady that wanted to fight the dealers and had to be escorted out of the building where she then dared the cops to put cuffs on her, so they did. Or the time we had a lady who forgot to take her medications and had a episode that sent her running around the building screaming about "snipers on the roof".

Though that last one must have been really annoying for the other customers. Like, you're just sitting at your machine or at one of the card tables when this crazy lady runs past screaming about the "snipers on the roof". How do you even respond to that?



Oh well. Take care of yourselves everyone. There is a lot of talk about shortages and a big recession coming up. I've also heard that recessions tend to last between 2-5 years. So, what might you need in that time besides food and water? The thing that came to my mind was clothing. So I bought me 2 extra pairs of shoes, some shirts, pants, etc. The kind of stuff that, even if there is no recession and it was just a bunch of paranoia, I'm still going to use anyway at some point. Some day I'm going to need those shoes, as long as my feet don't start growing again. Think ahead and prepare everybody. Good night.

So, in addition to the new chapter, I inserted about 3 paragraphs or roughly 300 words into the first chapter of Dominant Rainbow.

Not a HUGE addition, I just felt like the first chapter didn't have enough playfulness. Like, Rainbow just puts Logan on the floor, walks over him, then comes back and races him. That seemed a bit too abrupt to me. So I inserted another short game that she plays with him which I think fixes the pacing issue. I also fixed a few sentences that were worded funny and other little things that only a dedicated scholar could hope to notice.

Is it worth rereading the first chapter to see it? Eh, I don't know. The addition isn't a major game changer. I'd hope my work is good enough to be enjoyed multiple times though. Up to you. You can tell me if it was worth it.

The new bit comes right after Rainbow leaves Logan on the floor. Enjoy the addition and the next chapter!

I'm not going to tell you why I have them. I'm not going to tell you everything here is necessary. But these are my tools and they are pretty darn useful.

Hardware

Large Computer Screen
Comfy Keyboard
External Hard Drive

Software

Open Office and Notepad++
Gimp and Inkscape

Comfort

Comfy Chair
Mood Lighting
Mood Music
Fan
Heater
Water Bottle

References

Book of Names
Dictionary
Color Charts
Horse Anatomy Guide
Military Ranks across Branches
Royal Titles and inheritance chart
List of Animal Species
Geology Textbook
"Pocket Reference" by Thomas J. Glover
The International Pokedex
the entire internet

Other and not really useful

Phone
Kindle
Stress Relief Desktop Buddy

Okay, I'm going to call it. The votes are in and it's time to set a schedule.

The plan for the next month or two is this:


1) Dominant Rainbow (macro, Rainbow Dash, dominatrix, hoof crush, etc)
2) Under "Her" Skirt Ch 2
3) Big Hot Teacher (macro Cheerilee, human, gentle, upskirt, buttcrush)
4) The Lottery (horror, macro pony, cruel, death)
5) Macro Mare Modeling Agency Ch 2
6) Celestia Likes to Watch (micro human, unwilling, gay)
7) Ponies Versus Kaiju (action, kaiju)
8) The Biggest Grinch (macro rampage)


Note that additional chapters of Under "Her" Skirt may slip into the schedule at any time. Also be aware that Flash Fics and other short stories may come up too.

This schedule is not unchangeable, but it is what I intend to strive for. I want to be a more consistent writer, but I can't make any serious promises. I would like to publish at least one piece a week, though I hope there are a few weeks where I can get two things out. There are a lot of stories I'd like to tell and only so much time to do it. Most of these stories have already been started too, though none of them are even half done as of this writing.

Thank you for your understanding. I apologize if you think I'm blogging too much lately. I just want to keep everyone informed about what's going on. Things should settle into a routine for a while now.

Please enjoy the coming stories. That's my goal after all.

I had a lot to explain, so I figured it might be easier to listen than to read. But I don't know how recording and audio works. I didn't FEEL like I was speaking so monotone. Maybe listening to yourself puts anyone to sleep. Oh well. It's an experiment anyway. Consider the video PG-13 rated.

Short version: vote for what stories you want to be written next. I intend to write all of them so don't worry if the one you really want to see isn't getting votes. It'll be written anyway, just later.

https://youtu.be/El0ff3n9XdM

Here is the Poll. No pressure.

"Because sometimes you just need a proper introduction... or reintroduction."

I call myself Blobskin. Where the name came from I don't even remember. I've had it for a long time. The reason I started writing was due to a lack of anything I wanted to read. No one was writing the type of stories I wanted so I decided to just do it myself. I am a macrophile, a lover of giants. Gentle giants preferably. I am a porn author, I'm not going to pretend otherwise, but I do regularly write cutesy or action based stories too. The majority of my work is set in the MLP universe, in a variant of it, or otherwise uses ponies and humans as the primary species. Though I have really wanted to branch out and write more generic furry fiction.

I love the macro/micro community. I love gentle. I like cruel. I love most of the fetishes. I like crushes and cuddles. I like boobs and butts. I like kisses and farts. I know there are others in the community who were/are like me, that feel like no one is writing the kinds of stories they want to read. So with my love of so many themes I have decided I want to fill the void. To write the stories no one else seems interested in writing. A bold declaration and I know I am only one author. I could never totally fill the demand. Yet I still choose to try.

The plan is pretty simple. To write and publish different genres in a sequence or a cycle. Then every niche will get a bite of what they want. However, as I mentioned earlier, I've got a few too many ideas. I struggle to decide what to write next. Indecision and procrastination are my biggest flaws. So I offer my readers and followers some sway. Here is a small selection of the stories I'm interested in writing right now. You are free to vote for two that seem interesting to you. Please cast a vote and direct me what to write first. What does the majority want? Be aware that some of these stories may have already been written, so don't waste the vote because I don't intend to publish a new poll after each story is published. Also relax if your favorite isn't getting votes. I intend to write all of them.

https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJO7mP5y3

I publish my work to furaffinity.net and to fimfiction.net and go by Blobskin on both. I don't RP and I don't really do requests. My history with both over the years has not been enjoyable so I've lost interest in them. Though I still wish to write stories that myself and others can enjoy. I shall work hard and write much. Stick around and let's have some fun.

Warning: Most of my work is of an adult nature and I have little interest in non macro/micro content. Don't follow me expecting content outside those two qualifications. You'll just be disappointed. Sorry and thank you for understanding.

The year is 2014. Highschool. A young Blobskin is about to embark on a new adventure out in the real world. Blobskin had told his favorite English teacher he dreamed of being a writer someday but wasn't sure how to pursue it. The teacher suggested he read more. To help him do that, he also suggested Blobskin keep a reading journal. Make a record of what and how much he was reading. The key to being creative was to expose himself to as many ideas as he could after all. Blobskin thought the suggestion was pretty cool. For the next 8 years he would write down the title and length of every book and short story he read as well as strive to read more than he had ever in the past.

8 years. That's a long time to dedicate to something. Now it's time to put the journal away. The practice, while fun for a while, I realize now was only ever meant to help create a habit. I wasn't reading nearly enough as a kid, but now I read constantly. Sure, continuing to keep track of how much I read could end with a really interesting little fact... when I'm on my death bed. Can you imagine the news story? "Old man releases reading journal listing everything he ever read in his life!" Cool idea, but... who would fucking care?!

The original goal was just to develop a habit of reading more. That goal has been accomplished. Does the journal have any more value than that? No, it really doesn't. It's just a distraction. How much time am I wasting writing down titles and trying to figure out how many "pages" long a story was? Probably not much, but it's not needed anymore anyway. It's time to stop and put the toy away. It was cool and fun for a while, but I'm an adult now. I've got more important things to do.

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Begin Date: The 1st of January 2014
End Date: The 25th of April 2022
Number of Days: 3,036

Final Page Count: 258,687
Average Pages per Day: 85

Original Goal: 100 pages per day

So... I never did upload the full resolution/size editions of my various covers. I always figured they looked terrible and there was no reason, who'd want to look at my crappy vector art? Then I had the thought that there may be some one-off individuals here and there who were simply curious. Thumbnails really shrink art down after all.

So... there you go. Also decided to throw up a few pieces I made for stories I never wrote and published. Maybe some day those pieces will have stories to go with them.

Enjoy!!

Also, for fans of my flash fic collection, know that I upload those stories pretty regularly one at a time as they are written on fimfiction.net. Because it is rated Mature I think you'll need an account to see them there. Or you probably just have to click through a stupid "are you sure you're over 18" prompt. Anyway, if you don't like waiting for those flash fic story dumps you can read them as they're actually written here: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/51.....llection-vol-2

Thank you for your time.

I'm just a little pissed right now is all. So I'm venting.


Some Background

Several years ago an artist I really liked randomly decided to nuke his entire gallery. Everything he'd ever made... just gone. After that incident I decided I would never again lose something I loved. So I grabbed an old 16 GB thumb drive and made a rule for myself to download and save EVERYTHING I "Liked" or "Favorited". Later I upgraded to a whopping 32 GB drive. Now, about a week ago, I've upgraded again. To a massive 1 TB solid state external hard drive. Not bad if I say so myself. Should be a long time till that fills up.

However, the biggest mistake I ever made was never trying to organize that archive. It was just a mass of files. No folders except the few that held comic pages together. It was a mess. So instead of just dumping the whole thing into the new drive, like I'd done last time I upgraded, I thought I'd try to give the darn thing at least a little order.

6,000+ videos, pictures, and text files. I admit its all porn. Furry and Pony mostly, with some human and... other things. Robots and slime monsters, etc. Do aliens (greys) and dragons count as furries?

Anyway. Sorting it all was a complete BITCH! It sucked massive donkey dong, as the great Lord Markiplier might say. Both my days off this week were entirely consumed just sorting then checking to make sure the images and videos weren't corrupted in the move.

Then... I fucked up... badly...


The Mistake

Just under 1,500 files remained. And I accidently highlighted the old archive folder itself... and hit "Delete".

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!

Gone. The last of the files were gone. Ctrl Z didn't work. I couldn't undo. This was a thumb drive, no recycle bin to check. Over 10 GB of data lost. I don't mean to joke, but I almost wanted to kill myself. Well, it was time to look up some data recovery software.


Data Recovery Bullshit

Okay, sooooo I've never had to recover lost data before. To the internet I go! I wasn't desperate enough (yet) to pay for software, so I aimed for something free. Glad that did EVENTUALLY work out too. But here is my story of nonsense I had to work through.


Attempt 1: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

The paid stuff seemed expensive at $70, but there was a "Free Trial" version. No specifics of what the limits of that trial were. Was there a recover size limit or a max number of files? Maybe a time limit like 2 days or something? Whatever. Download. Seems to work. Deep scan finds... the entire old archive. And I mean... everything. Now I realize even if I do recover the lost files, I'll have to sort it... all over again. Damn it.

Oh well. Recover them for me please. At least I didn't lose any--what do you mean I have to pa--you son of a bitch! The "Free Trial" can only scan and tell you it found your lost files. It can't recover. A. Single. Byte.

What the hell kind of elephant sized shit is that!? A "Free Trial" that can't do anything but taunt you and throw a hefty $70 price tag in your face? That is the most horrendous marketing tactic I have ever seen. Worse than the AAA gaming market these days.

Close, uninstall, negative review only because they asked why I was deleting their spamware.


Attempt 2: iObit Undelete

I've used their antivirus and driverbooster before. Good stuff actually. I'd recommend them if your back in the market. A google search brought them up. Seemed like a good idea. I trust them. Download. Now, scan my thumb--what do you mean you can't find... anything. What? I'm confused now. It scanned the drive, but said there was literally nothing on it. Empty. Not even deleted files. Scanning my hard drive found everything. EaseUS was basically a scam but it saw the lost files no problem. What was wrong? Oh well. Uninstall.


Attempt 3: ???

I don't remember, but the software couldn't even detect my thumb drive to scan it. Deleted.


Attempt 4: iCare Data Recovery Free

Thank the porn gods above!! The "deep scan" took 10 minutes, much longer than EaseUS, but it found and salvaged the entire old archive!! Yes!!

Checking a few random files and they didn't seem corrupted either. Restarting my computer and running a virus scan found nothing malicious had been left on my machine by iCare or the other data recovery tools. So I declare success. Partial success. Now I just have 6,000 files to sort... again...



But can I go back to EaseUS for a moment. What a disgusting thing to do. A "Free Trial" version that fails to mention that it's completely worthless. Who wants to just know his lost files are there, unreachable? Pointless evil. That is the scum of companies right there. I refuse to do business with them or use any product they ever make. Fuck those bastards. Also, thank you iCare. You saved the archive I've been building for 7 years. There are images and videos in that mess that don't exist on the internet anymore. You are my hero. Not the fastest program I've ever used, but for free... complaining would be highly inappropriate. Thank you. Now, I've got sorting to do... I am going to melt in this chair...

Claire by Hubert L. Mullins
Girl becomes giant, wipes out all human life.

Attack of the 50 foot Woman (1958)
Woman becomes giant, kills husband, is killed.

Enormity by W.G. Marshall
Two people become giants, destroy American west coast, are killed.

Anyone else starting to notice a pattern? Double patterns really.

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Not to repeat those old lectures we all got enough of back in English class, but I've been thinking about what these three stories (1 novelette, 1 movie, and 1 novel) have in common when it comes to their "meaning". A very important aspect of serious story telling.

*This is not meant to be a series of reviews, but I will have to summarize these stories to make my point.

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Claire follows a girl named... Claire as she discovers her power to grow, which she struggles to control. She agonizes over accidental murders at first but, in the end, decides she shouldn't really care and grows as big as she can before unleashing the apocalypse.

The first half of the story was pretty good. It handled Claire's fear and guilt in a very realistic way. Also, Claire is not stupid. She is able to think ahead and anticipate. But at the halfway point she discovers the secret society of evil size shifters... yeah that was stupid. And the story spiraled downhill from there.

What gets me though is this little post-story blurb by the author rambling about the "meaning" of Claire. Two lines stuck out to me specifically:

...what would happen if a person just kept growing? What would be the social, economic, and geographical impact?

...our gender roles seem set in our minds. "Claire" is a story about a woman breaking that mold. She is no longer submissive and it is no longer a ‘man’s world’ in which she lives.

I found these lines to be particularly strange. The author seems to think his story is a commentary on "gender roles", using size as a symbol for social power. Considering how the story ends (with extinction) is the author implying that if women get more power there will be a disaster?

That doesn't seem right. Maybe it's just the analogy breaking down. I assure you that it is easy to create interesting story concepts which vaguely hint to deeper ideas. However, once the story gets going, an author may quickly find himself in a corner where the story concept inevitably has to go (or he just really wants it to go) a certain direction, but the vague philosophy he has been toying with doesn't work that way. The author is left in the ugly spot of having to choose which to betray, his story concept or the "meaning" that is supposed to be the foundation of his work.

That is what I suspect is going wrong with Claire. The story concept and story philosophy are not working together at the end. What would be "the social, economic, and geographical impact" of a girl becoming as big as a continent? Extinction, duh. What would be "the social, economic, and geographical impact" of woman seizing more power in society? Complicated. Anyone else seeing the connection problem there?

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I've heard it several times before, "Attack of the 50 foot Woman (1958) is a commentary on the increasing role and power of women in society during the civil rights movement."

This is also a strange conclusion to me. How was this movie a commentary on rising female power? Maybe the critics analyzing this movie just didn't know what they were talking about? Because, if they're right, this film seems to imply the world is going to stomp on woman's head and, if she tries to do something about it, she'll be put down like a sick dog.

That doesn't seem right. Yes, it was definitely a feminist movie, but it wasn't about female power. It was much more clearly an appeal to the world that women were not being treated fairly. The movie asserted, not that women were or should be powerful, but that gender roles and society were crushing women. Putting it simply, no one bothered to really help Nancy when she needed it.

No one believed her about the ufo she saw. Her husband was cheating on her and even plotting to kill her. The doctor convinced her to forgive the bastard and stay married to him. The sheriff knew the husband was a scheming monster and said nothing. It's even implied she was ostracized by the townsfolk for being crazy before her ufo encounter. Everything was against her EXCEPT the giant in the ufo who finally gave her the power to get revenge in the last 10 minutes of the film... which ended in her death.

I kind of liked this movie, even though there wasn't a lot of giant attacking woman in it. A tragic underdog story.

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Enormity gives me a LOT of complicated feelings. I can't remember a time my mind was so consumed by one book. For better or worse. Anyway, summarizing:

A lot happens in this story. It is an action flick, a tragedy, and it gets in some solid jabs at Hollywood, culture, and all the stupid games politicians play. Manny Lopes, a small American man working a contractor job on a Korean military base, is accidentally hit with an experimental quantum weapon, turning himself and a crazy North Korean spy into mile tall giants. A nonstop disaster ensues.

It wasn't the interviews with the author that caught my attention, but a reviewer. The author really seemed to grasp what he had written, but this reviewer spouted some nonsense about how "becoming giant eventually disconnects you from humanity" or something like that. His point was: gaining power destroyed the ability of Manny and Dorothy to care about other human beings.

My response to that? "What book were you reading!?"

The author himself points out that both characters were already "disconnected from their fellow man."

Manny is just starting a divorce and the girlfriend he got to fill the gap is already engaged to another man. He has no friends, his weird taste in fashion and art is outdated, and his short stature and dark skin make him a spectacle in Korea. Once he becomes giant it also quickly becomes obvious to him that he is going to slowly starve to death. The only reason he even goes after Dorothy (who is busy invading America by that point) is because, in his own words, "I've got nothing better to do." He's not a hero on a mission to save America. He just does it to pass some time before the hunger pains begin. He's a deadman walking with nothing left to live for even if he could become small again.

Dorothy is another mess altogether. A pot of mixed up desires. 1) She's a dreamer. As a child her grandmother pumped her full of Hollywood movies and fantasies, hence her nickname (I can't even remember her real name honestly). As a giant she's desperately moving forward, trying to catch that "rainbow" that will make her happy again like she was as a child. 2) She's also a brainwashed assassin. She was trained in the North Korean military and believes she must fight her country's sworn enemy America. 3) Lastly, she's a skeptic. As she rose through the ranks she saw the corruption and endless failures of her country to meet the basic needs of its own people. She questions why America is the enemy when her own government is the one killing its citizens.

As Dorothy rampages, and Manny chases her, the two slip further into melancholy for similar though distinct reasons. Manny because he's given up on life and his last purpose is stopping Dorothy. And Dorothy because, as she destroys more, the rainbow of happiness never appears. The destruction she's bringing obviously isn't going to feed her people or end the corruption back home. So everything she does is pointless. By the end she's an empty shell of a woman just following orders because she has nothing else. She can't even be bothered to really fight Manny when they meet...

Enormity isn't a power fantasy. It isn't a story of people "getting power and losing their connection with humanity." It is the story of two people with nothing to fight for given all the destructive might of a nuclear arsenal. But it only magnifies the emptiness of their lives.

*I did not mean for this to turn into a full character analysis, but I couldn't find it in myself to delete this rant. So there you go.

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My point is all these professional works approach the "macro rampage" as tragedies. The final lashing out of characters whose lives have fallen apart. All end in death. And strangely, they all have authors who mumble something about "how the world would change" if a character became giant, but don't ever seem to really explore that question.

I never really liked rampage stories. Probably why it took me so long to read Claire and Enormity. But once I did, they got me thinking about how the online community handles macro rampages.

Online, the community seems to view them as power fantasies. A character who has been wronged gets power in the form of size then goes out and kicks some ass. Heck, almost as often, the main character isn't even wronged. Just make some rando giant and they suddenly become genocidal lunatics.

Though I am probably not a good judge as I tend to avoid rampage stories in general. Take my observations with a grain of salt. So:

1) Why do rampages have to be Tragedy or Power Fantasy?
2) And why does getting power (size) break your ability to empathize with others?

Why are these common ideas? I don't get it.

I'm not just saying this because I prefer gentle macros. I even encountered a great example recently in the book The Girl Colossus by Praedatorius. Rainbow as a giant was hilarious.

Rainbow is a girl obsessed with making offensive political statements. She's really just played for laughs, but when she becomes a 200 foot monster, you might think, "oh shit! She's really going to break something now!"

Instead you get one of the funniest moments ever. It doesn't even cross Rainbow's mind to try and really attack anybody. All she does is use her large size to carve dicks in the lawn of a state park. Then flip off the Statue of Liberty. It was great.

Why would becoming big so fundamentally change who you are as a person? The Girl Colossus got it right. Big or small, Rainbow was the same offensive, but mostly harmless, brat. And most people wouldn't start a massacre just because they could get away with it. Or maybe I have a little too much faith in humanity.

I guess you could say I have been inspired. My mind is churning like crazy. I can't get Enormity out of my head or those burning questions. But how can I tell a "rampage" story that isn't power fantasy or a tragedy? An adventure where the giant doesn't die, but neither do the micros face extinction? A mega macro who cares about the harm their doing? And what about all the "how the world would change" that no stories ever seem to ACTUALLY explore?

I'm not sure I want to say I'm back, but my mind is definitely more active for this community then it has been in a long time.

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All the books I mentioned can be found on Amazon. I'd recommend Enormity by W.G. Marshall for sure. The Girl Colossus by Praedatorius is alright but it was never really finished and the cliffhanger ending is a bit frustrating. Claire by Hubert L. Mullins? Eh, the first half is good, but after that the novelette of 40 pages breaks down and gets stupid.

I have a question.

Why do some people have a gallery, full of art, but none of it they've made themselves? Not the art thieves. I get why they do it. I'm talking those users who request and commission to fill their walls. Why?

I always find it awkward when someone posts a commissioned piece to their wall. Like, isn't your account meant to post stuff YOU made? Posting someone else's, paid for or not, seems so... wrong. Someone spent hours, days even on more complicated pieces, to make that and then you throw it in your gallery with the rest of the work you didn't make?

I get you want to keep it. You paid for it. You like it. But isn't that what the "Favorites" section of your account is for? Or how about a hard drive? Furaffinity does have a "Download" button too.

I don't know, just some thoughts.

When I was younger I hated the lack of comments I received. And just about every creator I know has posted a journal complaining that they never get any feedback and how lonely/frustrated that makes them. So they beg for comments.

I'm sorry if you feel lonely, but over the years I've started to realize something. Sorry all you creative types, but not only are there always less comments then you dream, regardless of the site or kind of content you post, but at least 90% of comments are garbage anyway and you won't care what they have to say.

Allow me to explain. There are a grand total of 6 kinds of comments.

Redundant
Repetitive
Spam
Jokes
Addition
Criticism

One more thing before I start defining these, a very important fact that may shatter your world. MOST people who use the internet are either stupid or don't have a reason to invest the time necessary to give you the comments you crave. You won't get them. Period.


Redundant. On sites with likes, favorites, or dislike options, why leave a comment that just says "I loved that" or "you should die for creating something so terrible"? Doesn't favoring/liking a piece already communicate that you appreciated the work? And leaving a comment just to say "I hated it" doesn't help the creator, it demoralizes you. Which is doubly worse because you don't even know what the problem was. Try to ask and 9/10 you won't get a response or a meaningful answer. Usually, the asshole doesn't even like the genre he's complaining about. See the losers who prowl twitter looking for things to hate.

The majority of comments you'll see will be this type. Redundant. A comment version of a like or dislike. Why should you care about these?


Repetitive. People who just want to note a thing in your art, video, or writing. These are 50/50. Sometimes they'll be useful to other viewers who might have missed a detail and help them appreciate your work more. Other times they're made by those "trying to help" with the comment desert and can only find the most obvious thing ever about your work to point out. "Anyone else laugh when Markiplier said blah blah blah!?" Thanks for trying at least, but everyone saw that part dude. These will likely just make you shrug.


Spam. Bizarre, random, completely off topic. Do I really need to explain? Your work is about football and someone posts a long rant about a time he lost his prosthetic lips before school. You'll just be left confused every time.


Jokes. You don't see them anymore. Most internet jokers suck at text based jokes, because the easy stuff is in memes or sarcasm which don't translate well to pure text. Or the jokers are nice enough to fear their humor could be taken as an insult. IDK. Either way, you'll probably never get them.


Addition. The kind of comment I dream about. Someone who watched your video or read your story who knows something you didn't or merely forgot to mention. So they inform. Maybe I only like these because I'm a nerd who wants to know everything about everything. Whatever. Nothing is cooler to me than watching a speed run of a great game only to notice a comment explaining an alternative trick or how hard a seemingly simple move really is to pull off. But most of the internet is dumb so these don't come around very often.


Criticism. The holy grail everyone pretends to want, then cries when they get. The stuff that is supposed to help you make better... stuff. The problem with getting these is 3-fold.
1) Most people on the internet are stupid. They DO NOT understand the meaningful and complex nature of creative works and will usually just spout "sounds right" nonsense that can really screw you up. That is if they even try.
2) Time. It takes a while to explain a problem and its solution. Even those who grasp the concept might not feel like dedicating the time needed to address an issue. Who wants to spend 20 minutes typing out (or reading) a single comment? A criticism that is far too likely going to be rejected as "mean" or "harassment" anyway?
3) It hurts. Criticism really hurts. It's like getting slapped in the face and told you're a failure. Most creators struggle with acknowledging criticism and ACTUALLY learning from it. Too often creators get real feedback, but go crazy ranting at their beneficiary. Let me summarize the situation that has developed because of this: Smart person sees a problem, leaves criticism, creator rages, critic tries to explain himself, creator doesn't care, scenario repeats several times, critic realizes criticism never leads to improvement, critic decides fights aren't worth it, critic stops bothering with criticism, idiot creators prance around unchallenged.

And one more thing about criticism. Not only can the critic be wrong, but what if you already know the mistakes or shortcuts you're making? You must sort the real issues from the not-issues. More work that requires a healthy mind and an ability to self-evaluate. Creators have it a lot harder than you content stalkers think.


It's been about 5 years since I last left a comment... anywhere. Because I realized anything I said was going to be buried in a sea of 10,000 other stupid comments on youtube. Or that anything I had to say was a waste of time to say.

"I loved that story/video!" Didn't I already say that when I added it to my favorites?
"Anyone notice the little smiling dude in the corner?" Yes, everyone else probably did see that.
"That reminds me of a time--" Shut up! No one cares about you! We're here to enjoy BlahBlah's work.
"I feel the main character's personality--" You big dumb meanie head!? Stop attacking me!

There is just nothing worth saying. Most comments are a waste of time to write or read. Heck, when browsing youtube, I don't even bother looking at the comment section anymore. It's too much work to sort through the garbage to find the few comments I might actually care about.

My point is: creators are always begging for comments that have real VALUE to them. But I know from my short time as a creator and from browsing so much content that the majority of comments don't matter. You're not going to get many comments that inspire you to greatness, change your perspective of the world, or create a rift in time and space. You can't let this be the thing that demoralizes you. For example, my own desire for comments has dulled to where I just don't care. I'm not going to leave a note on every submission, or journal every week, asking for them. Not that I DON'T want them, I just don't rub my hands in anticipation for them.

It doesn't bother me when I fail to get a single comment on something. As long as it got a few favorites, and I had fun making it, I consider it success. Maybe you should adopt the same attitude.