Given the, let's say, cultural interests me and my followers on here share, I thought many of you would be interested in a great little independent animated short I found on youtube, featuring a clueless cat and a magical burlesque show. It's very well done with good humor, smooth animation, and great character design. Definitely one for fans of curves and callipygian connoisseurs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPBtWBSLPhs&ab_channel=WindingSnakeProductions

Things have settled down since my bit of a crisis in November. Damage was done, especially to my wallet, but things have mostly recovered.

I still cannot access my Facebook accounts, and doubt i ever will now. It's not a great loss, but it's still very annoying that the accounts and the money were stolen from me, and both Facebook/Meta and Paypal didn't do jack shit about it because they're unregulated and their customer 'service' is a bunch of self-recursive algorithms and chatbots. When I was actually able to talk to a person, like at my bank, progress was made and I got some money back, but good luck trying to do that with Meta or Paypal.

Speaking of Paypal, I can use it again. However, if you hire me for writing or art commissions, and you have an alternative means of payment like Western Union or Amazon Pay or Zelle or things like that, let me know and if I don't already have it I'll make arrangements. ANY viable alternative to Paypal, who screwed me over, is preferable. However, if Paypal (and its mobile subsidiary Venmo) is all you have, that's fine too. I'll grit my teeth and use it.

COMMISSIONS

I am raising prices a bit on my commissions. This is not me being greedy or trying to bilk anyone, its just the price of everything else keeps going up and I have to raise my own prices to keep making a living. It won't be a huge leap, but I'm not sure exactly how much yet. There are several of you who've negotiated for commissions right before New Years, so for you I'll keep the prices for those particular commission at the old levels.

BOOK WRITING

I am now openly offering my services as a professional ghost writer for full-length novels and such. I have 58 novels under my belt so far ( a quick listing: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Lucas/author/B007Q0NO7S? ) with more on the way. I have been doing writing and book commissions privately for a while. I am very confident that I know what I'm doing as far as prose, plot, character, and so on. Fees will be negotiated on a per job basis, but be aware this is not cheap--full-length novels take months to do at the very least. We're talking low four figures for even a relatively short book of about 25K words. But if you do have those kinds of resources, and you always had an idea you'd like to see fully come to life, let me know. I'll put together a professional and compelling book-length story for you. Most subject matter, including erotic and adult material, is welcome.

ADOPTABLES

I'm going to try my hand at adoptables. Not that I expect to make tons of money but I have a hankering to do creative character designs, and I figure that's a good way to indulge in it with some monetary gain to help motivate me. I used to do something similar when I did physical media erotic art for auction way back when.  I'll probably sell a few, not sell a bunch of others, and scratch that creative itch. I'll start off by selling a few on Deviant Art, a few on FurAffinity, maybe a few on toyhouse, just to see what might work best for me. If anyone had afvice for this sort of thing let me know. Thanks!

Just noticed I've been 'unscouted' again. This is the second time this has happened in the 5 years I've been uploading art onto Newgrounds. I think this latest might have happened during the last site update a month or two ago.

I understand the system is designed as a type of quality control for newcomers, but come on, I've been a member for 18 years, and active contributor for 5+, and have about 650 artworks on display here. there should be a way for artists like myself could safeguard against such a thing happening,

Anyway, if anyone has any idea how to restore my scouty-ness, let me know. Thanks!

So friday i discovered that someone had hacked into my new-ish business facebook page, Paul Lucas Writing And Art, and accessed the ad account there. They set up a fradulent ad campaign to the tune of a $299/day limit over the past week and drained all the money I had in the attached paypal account. I since blocked facebook's access to my paypal and I contacted Meta customer service and they said they would look into it.

Unfortunately, I logged into the account this morning, saw that a new credit card was attached to it. I was immediately kicked out of my account and was locked out despite everything I tried. Worse yet, my email attached to it was apparently hacked too, because every communication I had with Meta was missing and unrecoverable. I spent most of the afternoon changing passwords everywhere. I can't get to their customer help without logging on, and trying both phone and email have turned up nothing so far.

I'd just accept the loss, but those facebook pages are still up and being used by the hackers, and I don't know what's going on with them. I've exhausted everything I cna think of to do at this point. If anyone has any suggesions, I'll listen

I've been trying to organize things for myself the past few weeks and found out I still have accounts on all three of these websites. I stopped using them for various reasons (Inkbunny because it became too synonymous with cub art for a while; Inkblot because the submission process was too clunky; and Hentai Foundry because... I can't remember why. It was over 10 years ago >_<)

Obviously, people are still using the sites if they're still active. Question is, would they be worth reactivating the accounts and submitting to again? Is anyone here still active on them and have the issues I mentioned with them have gotten better? I'm thinking of posting at least a page or two of submissions to each so I maintain a minimal presence and get redirects to my more active sites if they stumble across me there. If anyone has any thoughts or insights, let me know. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for all your suggestion! I got substantially more than I was expecting. I'm not sure if I can do all or even most of these, and those I do will probably take time to get to between my other work, but it will give me something to work toward. If a suggestion wasn't listed, its likely because the character was underage, which I don't do.

Additional suggestions and comments are welcome. Check out my subscriptions on DeviantArt is you want to see these in development and their naughtier variants when finished. And Thanks again! = )

-- Freya from FF9

-- Goldie Pheasant from Rockadoodle

-- Lily Bovine from Moo Mesa

-- Florence Ambrose of webcomic fame (+ maybe with one of her and M'ress comparing bosoms)

-- Ako from Onimusha 3

-- Sabrina from Sabrina Online

-- Mipha from Breath of the Wild

-- Krakatoa Katie from Mighty Mouse

-- Maytel from Galaxy Express 999

-- Jana of the Jungle (star of a cheesy 70's cartoon)

-- Angel from Rock 'N Rule

-- Mrs. Puppy from TUFF Puppy

-- M'Ress from 70s cartoon Star Trek

-- Nani Pelaki from Lilo and Stitch

-- Vulpa from Marian0

-- Queen Haven from MLP G5

-- Non-MLP Unicorn women in general

-- Lop from SW Visions

-- Big Tiddy Kennel Club Lady from Mickey Mouse short 'Dog Show'

-- Freckles from Looney Tunes short 'Book Revue'

-- Leah Stein-Torres from The Ghost and Molly McGee

-- Videl from DBZ and DBS

-- Lilith and Gwendolyn Clawthorne from The Owl House (Already did one of Lilith--but a mother/daughter piece might be nice!)

-- Toriel from Undertale

-- Pearl Pureheart from the Mighty Mouse Cartoons

-- Angela from Gargoyles

-- Gloria from Madagascar

-- The other Gloria, the buxom alien-abducted secretary from the Heavy Metal movie

-- Rita Skopt from the "Cross Country Detours" Looney Tunes short

-- Mary Magdalene from the infamous animated "Judas & Jesus" short film

-- Titania, the bartender from the Simpsons episode "Pygmoelian"

-- Carmen and Carmen's Mom from the TerryToons cartoon, "Carmen's Veranda"

-- More Camila Noceda, this time captured and bound by abomination slime

-- Carmensita, another mousegirl from the Mighty Mouse cartoon "Throwing The Bull"

Got a hankering to do more Rule 34 pics, aka dirty fan art of cartoon characters, so I'm taking suggestions. Let me know what you'd like to see and if you have any specific requests for them!

Two Caveats though:

1. I'm just looking for ideas, so I'm under no obligation to actually do any suggestion.

2. The character(s) must be full adults (18+) in their official source material.

Thanks!

I just started using DeviantArt Subscriptions, which I will start using in place of Patreon.

https://www.deviantart.com/paul-lucas/subscriptions 

I am going to be phasing out using Patreon, though I may keep the account there as a kind of tipping jar if my patrons there want to keep using it for convenience's sake. But I'll also be removing most of my work there (essentially any adult material, which is like 95% of my content there.)

The good news for me and creators like myself is that DA changed the rules of its subscription service, allowing much more adult material as long as it's behind a tiered pay wall. This made the difference for me as it allows my fans to get access to things that will hopefully be worth the few bucks they want to throw my way.

The first Tier is a TIPPING JAR, with a minimum of $1 a month. If you simply want to help out and don't want to spend much, this will hopefully be good for you. 

The second Tier for $3 a month is the PREVIEW TIER, where I'll be posting many of my Works In Progress. This will include not only art sketches, inks, and flat colors, but also first drafts of stories in the works and things like that. If you want to see how the creative sausage is made, this is for you. There will be some adult content, but some mainstream stuff too.

The $5 a month tier is the ADULT CONTENT TIER.  This will include everything in the previous tier as well as stuff exclusive to it. Most of the stuff I posted to Patreon will go here, and will include a lot of XXX-rated material. If enough people start contributing here, I will definitely do more of this kind of work. Stuff here will eventually be posted elsewhere to more adult-friendly sites like Fur Affinity and Newgrounds, but will be exclusive to DA subscribers first anywhere from a month to more than a year, depending on circumstances.

To start with I'm going to be posting art that I wasn't able to post to DA before because of their content restrictions, but will move on to newer original stuff after that.

There will eventually be other tiers. I am planning on a $10 tier that will feature exclusive content that will only ever be available to paying fans, either here or on other pay sites like OnlyFans, which I am planning on looking into. But I don't actually want to start that yet until I get my account there (or wherever I end up) running too so I can post to them simultaneously to avoid some hassle.

Beyond that I'll have to see. if there's more beyond that it will depend on how this endeavor goes. Plus I am still planning on posting to regular old DeviantArt like I always have been.

So check it out if you want. Plus I'm more than happy to hear suggestions for things you might want to see in the paid tiers. Thanks! = )

Joined the social media network Mastodon. You can find me here:

https://mastodon.social/home

@plucas1@mastodon.social

I'll follow back any follows, and it will give you a a social media alternative to following my stuff and updates that doesn't depend on how much of a fascist dbag Musk Melon is feeling on a particular day. Plus I've been seeing some great creatives on there I'll boost and link to when I can! = )

Mastodon is decentralized, and is spread out over dozens (hundreds?) of servers worldwide. Mastodon.social is the one that I believe has the most interconnection with other servers, but even if you are on a server not directly connected to it, supposedly I can still follow you and vice versa as long as we exchange direct follow links.

Anyway, I am liking things on Mastodon so far, much mellower and friendlier than Twitter nowadays. Even if you don't follow me you should still give it a shot if you'd like.

So I'm thinking of dumping Patreon for a better service. Patreon is starting to get pissy about invasive ID verification that I'm very ambivalent about.

For those unaware, Mastercard has imposed BS restrictions where creators of adult material on services that use Mastercard has to submit photos of BOTH government-issued ID and a selfie for facial recognition software. This is complete unnecessary. Sites like Patreon already have my tax info and my bank info, both of which I have to be 18+ to even possess, so what is the point of this extra step? If that info is good enough for the IRS and banking institutions to verify my age and ID, it should be good enough for them.  I have the feeling this is a lot less about "protecting minors" and a lot more about dipshit company executives buying into Fox News' moral panic du jour, and/or a scam to harvest more invasive personal data for company profit.

So I'm looking into similar services that will allow adult material without the invasive ID requirements (like DeviantArt subscriptions) or, if I do have to undergo a similar process, at least it would be with a service that will allow a lot more creative freedom, like Fanvue or OnlyFans. Not that I'm planning on drawing wall to wall orgies or anything (though that would probably get me a lot more subscribers, lol) but having the option to dip into more X-rated material once in a while would be nice.

If anyone has any opinions on this or what service alternatives I can use, please let me know. Thanks!