Yeah I am done, I'm out.
I have been looking through DA for the past few weeks, reminiscing on why I left the platform to begin with. After a few days, I notice and issue and well with today "announcement" it is clear now that DA is a sinking greedy shadow of it old self.
So yeah the chances I post anything at anytime on this hellscape of a website is null. If you do have a good website to post stories feel free to point me to one and I shall port every single of my stories there.
If you also want to keep in contact with me feel free to reach out with the chat feature or the good old note system, I have other socials like discord and well... not like twitter is not burning and crashing on it own... but yeah.
Honestly I am just sitting here on the side watching as the two pillar of social life from my childhood are burning and crashing mostly caused by their own corporate greed... the next few months sure will be interesting.
This small vampire wish you all a good continuity and again don't be a stranger if you ever want to chat or talk. On my end... I dunno where I will go, the internet is a big place and I am working on my own projects.
PS: here my twitter handle I guess https://mobile.twitter.com/Foxpower93
Here, now and then...
Alright, well where to start... I guess I will start by this.
Hello everyone that... are still here after the mess that was this website upgrade. I was barely able to find the journal option when coming back here to be honest but now that I am here I might as well send a message.
It is me Foxpower93 it have been honestly too long since I updated anything on this website and I might as well do it now if I ever am going to.
First off for anyone that read this, you have the patience of a saint, or you are using this website as much as I do lately. I have gone completely off the radar for about 2 years now. No I am not dead, no I haven't get abducted by aliens (sadly) or fight my inner demons. I, like many young adult (...am I even a young adult anymore?) before me, had issues finding a job in those unstable time. Not helping that 2020 was and still currently is a mess of a year. Having professional issues I had to put aside my artistic endeavors for a time mostly due to several issues I might have highlighted before. I remain active in writing but in a slightly different way as of a few weeks ago I have started dm'ing (dungeon mastering) for a group of friends of mine, it help keep me into writing.
Anyway, I should get to the meat of the thing now. I have been in Hiatus for a long... long time now and the main reason why is that I am facing as a writer a particular problem that I will call "artistic lag". I wish to finish the stories that I have started so long ago as most of you merit to know the endings to them. Sadly, there is a huge issue concerning this plan and it is mostly due that I have grown up. No I do not mean this in the "I am now boring and writing is a waste of time" type of way but more of a... me coming to term with a lot of issues I had back when I started writing those stories. It is a good thing for me as I fought away my self righteousness and became someone able to see the different shade of morality that build our lives and societies... but it kind of sucks for art as most of my writing had a very black and white point of view (also some borderline anarchist tendencies).
So here I am facing this problem, should I try to finish my stories as they meant to be even if I lost my passion for this way or should I revamp the whole thing up... this is where I currently stand.
I end up (thanks to my travel time) with a lot of free time in my hand again, so I think I might have the occasion to go back to writing very soon. I am not sure if I want to remain here though... and I am unsure where to go next either.
I guess that cover up a lot of the things I wanted to talk about. So for anyone that actually took the time to listen to my rambling thank you for still being here and for reading my rambling.
Foxpower, that one guy that didn,t post anything for over 2 years.
Here a little update on me
I'm probably going to be hated for that
Disclaimer: this do not touch every single one tg writer, just a big chunk of them, so if you are a tg writer and read this don't assume I am speaking about you.
First off, tg stories. What are tg stories? "Well it is a story about someone changing from one gender to another" you will say and you are not wrong (for people that believe TG stand for "Transform into a girl" YOU ARE WRONG it mean "Gender transformation"... and for some reasons it is spelled backward) but I have to ask you is it all? Are you satisfied with stories just being their descriptions? It is like saying you only desire a mystery out of a mystery novel or a fight into an action story. Why would the transformation be the only point in the story? Stories are made out of several parts being: exposition (that is where you show the characters and world), the turning point (where something happen to trigger the story), the plot points + climax (what happen after and well the most important event), the falling action (how everything come to place) and the conclusion (self explanatory). So why do MOST of tg stories I see on DA only have the exposition and the turning point?! Sure they show their characters they explain why they do that or happen to be in. Then they transform and... the end! Are you tg fans out there really like those? I mean those are not stories, those are embryo of stories. There is no substance, no actual plot, it is just a guy turning into a girl and sexual innuendos. Is it what fans really want just easy to write 2 pages (if it is not 1) stories that involve guys turning into overly busty and dumb nympho women? This is wrong so damn wrong. I do not want to point out anyone out that way, but this kind of thinking is lazy for both the writers and the readers. Stories should make you like or even dislike their characters it should make you feel things other than carnal desire and simple lust. A story should make people feel genuine emotions about the characters, the world even the culture of it, but sadly so much stories miss the mark.
Second, characters and celebrity transformation, how can I put it... NO! Not only it is incredibly creepy to wish to be a clone of someone else, but it is so uncreative. Everyone that commission others or request stories about themselves being turn into a character feel so wrong to me, especially when it involve people losing themselves gaining the character mind and memories, it is like killing the original person! I do not mind going by species like turning into a similar species as this character (that is I don't know... an alien), that is interesting. I like a few transformation like that myself and that is fine it permit artist and writers to make a representation of a character as something else. That is great! But whenever I see someone asking to be turned into another character I just feel like this request is not thought through. I don't see the appeal for it, but it is mostly not the problem. Those kind of tg stories involve preview pictures being pictures or image rip off the person personal work, life or artistic recreation and without the explicit permission of the artist or person this is wrong. It is a offense to the intellectual propriety (IP) rights and can harm someone. People work hard on most of their work and taking them to use them without even giving credit is wrong and I may sound hypocritical to say that as I used others work on my stories for countless time, but it is wrong. Myself I am trying to hone my drawing skills to be able to draw my own preview images just to stop ripping off others work. Going "if the artist tell me to pull it off I will" is not good enough. I can understand thought that most people are not interested by stories without images. If you doubt this fact I have actual numbers proving that all my stories with a preview images have way more traffics than any others and I found that sad. Why should we play dress up with stories when you can make the words talk for themselves. Also using preview messages bring a whole load of other kind of people using literal porn material to attract an horny public in search of some easy smut to turn them on. Tg have the potential to be so much more than a fetish and yet no one seem to help it pass this barrier of "easy smut views".
Finally, like I said in the previous paragraph TG have such a potential to be something astonishing. All transformation in fact bring a whole lot to the storytelling scene. TG is a great turning point it take the characters and throw them away from their comfort zone in lot of level. Their own bodies are not their own, their minds might even fight against them and this is just a gold mine for stories. Characters go through important changes and this can and will affect their reasoning, reactions and motivation through out the story. Most tg story fear or simply do not touch this subject having a super fast mind change that literally kill the character that was once there. The story do not make you root for the character success or wish for it demise it just do whatever as fast it can putting lot of details into the physical change and be done with it. I personally found that it is a shame that people exploit this interesting point as a mere fetish story medium. It is sad and kind pitiful that most tg writers are only able to go that deep into the concept.
Anyway, rant is done. If you don't feel concerned by the things I say above good for you, that mean you do and believe you do (or like tg) for the right reasons. If you want to talk to me there is always the comment section where I usually answer most of the time.
If you feel offended, attacked or have other opinion than mine well there is the comment section, I doubt you actually need this sentence to write your comment there. Know that I will not care for comments being simple baseless insults and will only answer to those I feel like they worth answering from. Please have the decency to have the smallest piece of respect or else be prepare to see your comments erased without warning or explanation (because it is here).
On this I wish to everyone a good day and Foxpower93 is out.
Leadership, teammates and tribulation
Now that it is out of my system... Hello everyone Foxpower93 here and I am alive, isn't that nice? If you wonder why I start this journal that way let me just explain to you that right now I am pretty much stuck as the leader of a team to do a project... and let just say that this said project started really well now turn sour because one of my teammate that assure everyone his part was almost done... was way off. Picture a hill with a tree on it, the project is that tree and as I am there pointing everyone how to take care of the small apple tree... well this guy is looking at a damn lemon tree and is hitting it with a hammer.
It would be fine if it was only him, but I can't say I am proud of all the other members either. Some are lazy as hell not doing much else if I am not on their backs and tell them to stop talking about soccer (or football whatever!) and some are so closed mind they are a pain to deal with.
Like it was not enough even someone in my online friends sicken me to the point of just cutting bridges. To be fair I feel like I can't trust lot of people right now and it make me anxious. My appreciation of people is at a new time low, but I hang it there. With my working and college schedule though I feel stuck without much time to enjoy myself. When I am not working or running after my teammates I end up venting most of my frustration on games... and this is not what I like to do. I want to play games to have fun, not to lower my stress or lower my anger.
Just this weekend I end up being: food poisoned, being stuck to babysit, having one day of rest and run around to pay for my license and healthcare insurance before heading to work. I can't wait to be done with college, but even there I know people at work are not more mature... maturity isn't something common and even adults show none of it... I'm just sick of this forever high schooler mentality...