(large in BBS)

I wish I could more often get real food to people who are hungrier than me.

draft

The project is a small collection of merdudes who don't get enough representation within this theme.

There's a seahorseman, blobfishman, eelman, and this classic style of fish.

I'm angling to finish them by June 1st.

Edit: Done early. So I guess I can focus on how bad the political situation with civil rights, humanitarian aid, environmental conversation and recovery, food safety, drug (medicine) availability, public health in general,....

When I published my work in progress in my gallery (because computer glitches were making me nervous), I said the page could have been in a blog post. Here's that post with my drafts. This time, I added two photo I'd referenced for the setting.

Timeline: The pictures above are from last week, Sunday the 18th, and Tuesday the 20th. When I uploaded that last one here, my goal was still to finish the background, clean up the water, then animate the whole drawing.

That last goal has been dropped indefinitely. Animating is too much for what else I need to focus on for the last week of May. No surprise.

My references included photos from an old beach trip. Yeah, the real beach was prettier. I didn't want to distract from Lady. (The finished version is in my gallery.)

Some Newgrounders weren't alive yet when I took the photographs. Back then, I used actual film that was developed at camera shops. (Do you remember one-hour labs?) I took a quick photo of them with my phone, and because I didn't feel like taking them out of the plastic of their photo album, they look even older than they are.

Aaand there's another artist who has decided to self-censor art uploaded to Newgrounds after noticing the homophobia here.

I appreciate the artists who continue to post any affectionately gay or queer characters and comics on this site. We don't have many places online, especially for adult-/restricted-rated pieces, and it's sad that most everyone else is either full of AI-generated images (aka CRAP) or plagiarized writing (SHIT).

Despite what I've quietly said before, I'm planning on staying for several more months, so it's sad watching the trend of "Everything by everbody {within the rules} means me and mine!" to trying to fit in to the culture here.

For now, I'm going on a voting spree to recognize the good stuff that was downvoted with blam ratings for shitty reasons.

A thread by @SourCherryJack inspired this sketch. Because it's not supposed to go there, it's going here.

Sorry the scene doesn't make sense as it is in this depiction. The characters are flirting while practicing a trick of transferring spiritual energy.

The painting app is very simple. It doesn't have layers, has only type of paint / paintbrush, and has only a few tools. With no fill option that works, I should have gone larger to make room for better definition or used no more than two colors.

I might start over from an empty canvas to correct the problems eventually.

That last portrait-style pixel art I uploaded unexpectedly became my big project for MerMay.

This is Lady.

The plan from here is to redraw the right arm, maybe increase the contrast in the skin tones, add water and a background, then animate the scene.

I could have used my time better than I did snapping at a teen for acting like a thoughtless troll. I apologized, but a BBS moderator deleted my post. The kid blocked me, so he wouldn't see a new post from me, anyhow. :shrug:

This is a story publishing-focused list. Some items are high priorities that are already in progress. Some are low priority and may be dropped if circumstances change. The links are both for me and you, if you're interested.

• Sign up to itch.io and set up creator page — DONE
• Request remove of (outdated) Twitter and Pinterest icons from Smashwords book pages
• Figure out why previous author profile wasn't used by D2D (owners) on Smashwords
• Prepare new epub for "Operation Park Closer" — DONE {see below}
• Publish "Operation Park Closer" on itch.io — DONE (https://falsfiction.itch.io/operation-park-closer)
• Remove "Operation Park Closer" from Smashwords
• Remove "Operation Park Closer" from Ream
• Publish "Little Red's Hoodie" — DONE (https://falsfiction.itch.io/little-reds-hoodie)
• Convert short story to script with simplified dialogue

Notes about these stories and others:

• "Little Red's" and "Park Closer" are opposites in some ways. Someone might enjoy one story and dislike the other.
• "Park Closer" is not representative of what I think of Fals Fiction because establishing a brand is soul-crushing. It's more a technical test of the publishing platforms.
• I'm participating in this year's FediZineFest with a short story ebook-style "zine" alrrady submitted. It's supposed to go out to buyers next month. Honestly, it's another story that wasn't meant for the Fals byline, but I guess that doesn't matter anymore.
• I might be stronger at writing bizarre love stories than standardized Romance stories. 😅
• All my novels (RotO, HUSSS, the forest fairy lords, and the older ones) are on hold again out of necessity.

Update, May the 4th: On the 30th, family news brought on another dramatic shift of my household's long-term goals again, away from what's easiest for me, which of course messes with the time and energy I've got for fiction writing. What I make is never a priority for long without being shoved down, because I dont make money off it. Sucks.

Anyhow, I persist.

Update, May the 8th: I welcome feedback. Everything is transient. It can be changed.

Trees are cool.

48 x 48 (scaled up)

5 colors matched to real life

Weird Science Fiction

A mediocre driving student at an interstellar academy for transportation, is on a(n unexpectedly dangerous) mission to befriend the nice guy on campus.

This 3k-word story is free to read from my new account on Ream. No signup required.

Update: If you'd care to trade money for an epub version, which has been further cleaned up, then take a look at my first ebook on Smashwords.