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I rearranged my galleries a bit, including some new folders. Here's a brief rundown, in case you're having trouble finding something you liked:
Krista LeRoc - Contains both DiD novellas, The Abduction of Krista Leroc and The Trial of Driver. They are arranged in chronological order. Now prospective new readers will know exactly where to start, and where to continue. I also tried to remove some of my comments bitching for attention. When I have time, I need to go through and more properly format these stories with italics, paragraphing, etc. I tend to think of these tales as the heart of my work, so it might be a good idea to display them as such.
Old Stuff, 2004 - 2009 - Four pieces of lineart from long, long ago, before I joined deviantArt.
Old Stuff, 2011 - 2014 - Contains most of the art I've created since joining deviantArt. Nothing has been deleted, this stuff just doesn't represent the level of quality I'm currently working at.
Tributes and Collaborations - All pieces for, about, or created with the aid of fellow kinksters. Includes stories written primarily about other deviants' OCs. These all passed the quality check as well; any pieces that didn't are in the Old Stuff folders.
From the above folder, I also managed to pull a nifty new avatar from an image I created for subshopautumn.
I also removed one or two things entirely:
Non-fetish work - Just contained two old Spider-Man fan art pieces. These were of substandard quality, didn't receive any attention and didn't belong on this page anyway. Got the axe.
"Payback and Property" - Essentially a story about a rape. I acknowledge that DiD fiction occupies a weird moral gray area with fetishizing kidnapping and restraint, but I feel that I need to draw a hard line when it comes to rape. Some people have a kink for it, and I don't intend to tell them they're wrong, but I can't personally justify continuing to have that up on my page.
The result of all this is that my main gallery will present a much more organized and compact entry point for people new to my work. All that remains therein are several of my strongest standalone works of fiction and a cute sketch of reasonably high quality. If a new reader likes those, they can dive into deeper waters - which they can easily navigate using the new folders.
That leaves the stuff that's been untouched.
Cliffhangers - Nothing new happening here.
The Mayan Moon Road & Dr. Sabina Bowen - I would have combined these, but it would probably cause more confusion right now than it would alleviate. I'd like to make them a clearly chronological set of stories, as I have a rough idea of the order they come in, but currently there are pieces missing in between many of them. They were never intended to build into a unified whole, which I think might have been a mistake. But, eh; just a good reason to keep on writing them, right?
As an earlier status mentioned, I have been chugging away on a DiD project quite efficiently for a few weeks now. Nothing is going to be posted here for a while, so don't hold your breath, but my excitement about this prompted all of the re-arranging I did today.
I hope everyone out there in DiD-land is doing well, and not sneezing your heads off like I always do around springtime.
-Ed
Krista LeRoc - Contains both DiD novellas, The Abduction of Krista Leroc and The Trial of Driver. They are arranged in chronological order. Now prospective new readers will know exactly where to start, and where to continue. I also tried to remove some of my comments bitching for attention. When I have time, I need to go through and more properly format these stories with italics, paragraphing, etc. I tend to think of these tales as the heart of my work, so it might be a good idea to display them as such.
Old Stuff, 2004 - 2009 - Four pieces of lineart from long, long ago, before I joined deviantArt.
Old Stuff, 2011 - 2014 - Contains most of the art I've created since joining deviantArt. Nothing has been deleted, this stuff just doesn't represent the level of quality I'm currently working at.
Tributes and Collaborations - All pieces for, about, or created with the aid of fellow kinksters. Includes stories written primarily about other deviants' OCs. These all passed the quality check as well; any pieces that didn't are in the Old Stuff folders.
From the above folder, I also managed to pull a nifty new avatar from an image I created for subshopautumn.
I also removed one or two things entirely:
Non-fetish work - Just contained two old Spider-Man fan art pieces. These were of substandard quality, didn't receive any attention and didn't belong on this page anyway. Got the axe.
"Payback and Property" - Essentially a story about a rape. I acknowledge that DiD fiction occupies a weird moral gray area with fetishizing kidnapping and restraint, but I feel that I need to draw a hard line when it comes to rape. Some people have a kink for it, and I don't intend to tell them they're wrong, but I can't personally justify continuing to have that up on my page.
The result of all this is that my main gallery will present a much more organized and compact entry point for people new to my work. All that remains therein are several of my strongest standalone works of fiction and a cute sketch of reasonably high quality. If a new reader likes those, they can dive into deeper waters - which they can easily navigate using the new folders.
That leaves the stuff that's been untouched.
Cliffhangers - Nothing new happening here.
The Mayan Moon Road & Dr. Sabina Bowen - I would have combined these, but it would probably cause more confusion right now than it would alleviate. I'd like to make them a clearly chronological set of stories, as I have a rough idea of the order they come in, but currently there are pieces missing in between many of them. They were never intended to build into a unified whole, which I think might have been a mistake. But, eh; just a good reason to keep on writing them, right?
As an earlier status mentioned, I have been chugging away on a DiD project quite efficiently for a few weeks now. Nothing is going to be posted here for a while, so don't hold your breath, but my excitement about this prompted all of the re-arranging I did today.
I hope everyone out there in DiD-land is doing well, and not sneezing your heads off like I always do around springtime.
-Ed
Tension
Sorry everyone for my long absence this... well, this whole ass year. It's mostly the usual story, vanilla art career gaining some momentum and dominating my time... but with one major exception: My next art show is a group show in a gallery... and it's all fetish art. I will be showing off my fetish art, in person, with my real name and face, to people right here in my community. This isn't totally a first, as I've managed to sneak it in here and there amongst my vanilla stuff over the years. As I do a lot of shows in communities with considerable kink overlap - goth, punk, underground art - or with very progressive, sex-positive values, it hasn't been to difficult to justify. The difference is that this time, the kink will be ALL I show. It will be center stage, and an entirely new body of work created specifically for this event. You might expect that I've been extremely anxious and terrified (can't wait for my parents to walk in lol), but the truth is that I really haven't even thought about how it, or I, will be received. I haven't had time. I've been working myself to the bone for one show after another all year, and this is just the latest and last in that series of grinds. I don't have time to worry or dwell on judgments. I am too busy just making the best artwork I can. An additional complication is that, unlike with my usual stuff, I can't work on this at my day job due to the nature of it. So, it's an even bigger time squeeze than normal. Every free moment has to be spent painting. You can imagine the results - the one thing that I AM feeling as I go into this is STRESS. I called in to work on Tuesday because I was just exhausted. But I didn't stop painting. I sat there in front of my PC working on a smaller piece, watching some terrible 80s horror movies, with the autumn light coming in through the window, and I felt... right. Like I was where I needed to be. It reminded me of the days right after I lost my job at the end of 2020, and my S.O. told me to "get in there and paint." For a while, it's what I did. And I loved it. It was peaceful, and I was productive, and I answered to no one. Ultimately, it was untenable for a few different reasons, but it reminded me of what's possible. That I have developed a skill that, despite our society's insistence to the contrary, can provide an honest living, and a way to exist outside of the traditional job economy that so many of us chafe under, but so few of us can ever escape. And if you can do it, it is worth taking the chance. All this is to say, I'm still around, and I still want to be here, but I'm taking a chance in something new and exciting right now that has the potential to lead to bigger things, for both myself and, I hope, the fetish community. Over the years I've talked a big game about needing to be open with this stuff if we ever want to gain more acceptance, and less judgment. Well, this is me attempting to put that talk into action, and do my part. I don't want to hide anymore, and I don't want you all to feel like you have to, either. Normally I clean these longer posts up into nice, concise, focused updates, but I figured I'd just dump all my feelings and thoughts here for anyone who's interested in my authentic state of mind as I go on this mad crusade, and who might like to know what exactly has been going on with me lately. Unlike my normal "I haven't been here" update, it's not because I haven't been able to think about fetish art; it's because I am acutely thinking about it, all day every day, but in a new and exciting way. I'm still thinking about all of you as well; that's one big reason I'm doing this. I am not going anywhere. Hope you all are well, I'll keep you posted!
A Lesson in Irreverence
When I was a team lead at my old office job, it fell to me to put together a team-building exercise for a meeting with my fellow leads. I had attended several of these already and they were pretty boring, so I resolved to liven mine up with some dry jokes and puns and memes and whatever else I could fit into a PowerPoint while still ostensibly conveying a message. I thought it would at least make sitting through yet another such meeting a little more bearable. I expected some chuckles, nothing more. The picture attached was the first slide that came up in my presentation, and, y'all... it KILLED. It killed in the way that anyone going up onstage for amateur night at the Apollo dreams of killing. My fellow leads were hyperventilating in their seats. One or two had tears rolling down their cheeks. Meanwhile, I'm standing up here in 2015 with this low-tier mid-'00s demotivator meme behind me, just fucking flabbergasted at how funny everyone thought it was. I was looking at the clock
I don't expect this to go anywhere, but...
As part of this recent round of commissions, a user who I will not be naming (unless they decide to make a stink of things) sent me a stash folder containing pictures of a third party, evidently a private person whom they know in real life, whom they wanted me to draw. Now, this is morally iffy to me already, but what absolutely tipped the scales for me was a subfolder containing pictures of this person's body that were clearly taken without the subject's knowledge - e.g., when their back was turned. I spent the last few days just waffling on the best way to handle this, and I finally just let them know that I won't be accepting this or any other commission from them due to violation of consent. I let them know they would be blocked but not named, unless they try to contact me via another profile or stir things up themselves. This should go without saying, but if you do not understand or respect consent, the BDSM community (of which D.i.D., despite its non-consensual overtones, is
Update!
Hey all! Quick life update from me! I've got a pretty heavy issue in my personal life that I've got to figure out, so starting Saturday I'll be taking a few days to just be alone in cabin in the woods and collect myself. During that time I plan on accessing the internet only for necessities like checking the weather (It's tornado season in the Midwest!), so please don't be upset if you send a message and I don't respond right away. In other news, my first round of commissions is aaaalmost done, and I want to open back up almost right away. Not quite there yet, though, so in the meantime I, uh... "hired" another cutie to remind you of my commission status. See you all next week!
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I'm not sneezing, sorry to hear you are! Glad to hear you're writing something new!