Cheers and Goodbye (TG_89)

Yo,

First of all, here’s a collection of shit over the past year that I’ve started and never finished and never will finish.











skip to the bottom for the tl;dr

It’s been around a year and a half since I created my account, and a little over a year since I made my first post. For a good while, this was my go-to place, something I looked forward to checking after work to see what new stories and pictures people had created. I almost never comment on anything, but I read and viewed just about everything that got posted here.

More importantly for me though, this has been where I’ve learned to draw. I’m incredibly grateful that I found this community - I’m grateful that people were willing to look at my art, leave comments and give me feedback; I still remember how I couldn’t stop smiling after I posted Hook-A-Foal, the first bit of art I’d ever posted online, and everyone was incredibly nice and supportive of it, even though I had no confidence in it at the time. Those kind words and comments are what inspired me to keep going, to keep trying to improve so I could make work that you would enjoy, like I’d enjoyed so much other work on this site. Whether or not I’ve succeeded is up to you individually, but I hope that there’s at least something you’ve enjoyed out of my catalogue. If nothing else, I think I’ve improved handily in my time here.

One year and two months ago:

vs about a month ago:

Now, if the title of the post hasn’t already given it away, you can probably tell where this is going by now; about a month and a half ago, shortly after I posted pages 1-3 of Not Your Bestest, I realised that I just didn’t care anymore. My itch for consuming fluffy content was gone, and so was the itch for creating it. Over the course of about a month I was able to force myself to make page 4, but when I say forced, I mean it; I really didn’t want to work on it. I wanted to work on pretty much anything else.

I’ve been juggling quite a lot from an artistic standpoint recently, and it’s been causing me severe burnout. I’ve been losing the will to do anything, and having so many things on my plate hasn’t been helping, so I’m making the executive decision to cut the thing I least enjoy doing. I don’t feel great about doing it - I’m generally of the belief that when you start a project, you enter into a contract with the people who view it; They gave you their time to look at it, so you owe it to them to finish it. In this case, however, even if I don’t say ‘hey I’m cancelling it’ I’m just not going to ever finish it. At least this way, it’s off my mental stack so I don’t have to worry about it. Either way, the correct thing to do is apologise, so hey, I’m sorry I’m not going to finish this, and I hope you understand my reasoning.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to thank all the creators here, artists and storytellers, both of whom I’ve taken a great deal of inspiration from. Keep on with the good work, as long as you’re enjoying making it.

Sorry if this has been disjointed and rambling, I’ve just been typing as I go. Thanks again, and this is only a soft goodbye. There’s every chance I’ll get the itch again, and come back and finish Not Your Bestest, just not right now.

td;dr: wah wah I’m a burned out widdle baby wah wah i don’t wanna make fluffy stuff anymore wah wah

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The itch comes and goes, you may find yourself back here at some point with a hundred more stories to tell. You might just pop back to lurk a little bit. You might not come back at all. All are just the way of things.

Either way, good luck to you going forward.

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cheers bud, and I’ll take the opportunity now to say I enjoyed your work and hope you keep going as long as you’re enjoying it

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:pleading_face: I’ll miss you being around. Hopefully the fluffy itch becomes a maddening one again some day

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Cheers, my friend.
I’ll miss your posts.

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Good luck on other ventures, your art is too good to not use

And curious, how would Not your bestest played out had it continued?

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Good luck and Goodbye TG_89. May you find success wherever you go!

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Do take care of yourself and drip by time to time here when your free.

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The itch is a fickle bitch, comes and goes. Source: 10 fucking years of this shit.

If this is it, farewell and good luck!

If you come back, YOU ATTENTION-SEEKING CUCK lmao. Jk, see ya later bossman.

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Thanks fellas, appreciate it

@FluffnStuff this’ll be a bit disjointed but hopefully it gets the point across

Lilac would have raised them all, but neglected the poopie, with the owner not intervening because technically she was taking care of all of them.

Socks, the purple and yellow baby, would have continued to try to be friends with the poopie and play with him, under the logic that if fluffies are for huggies and wub, then as the bestest baby she had to give him all the huggies and wub that Lilac wouldn’t. Lilac would have tried to dissuade this, and physically punished the poopie for playing with Socks.

Eventually, it would have come to a head where Lilac tried to kill the poopie, only for Socks to get in the way and beg for her not to, then decide that she didn’t want to be Lilac’s bestest baby anymore, at which point Lilac would have attacked Socks instead and tried to kill her. Owner intervenes, saves Socks, who would have probably lost the use of her back legs or something similar, then raises the babies separately from Lilac until they’re too grown for her to hurt them. He’d have kept them all around so that Lilac would spend every day surrounded by her babies, knowing they all despise her and that she’ll never get the chance to have babies ever again.

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I haven’t been around here long, but your posts were always a joy to see. You have genuine talent with your art and It’ll be a shame to not see your stuff. I’m sure everyone here wishes you the best, and I hope that you’ll at the very least get the itch to stop by now and again to say hello.

The door opens both ways and I think I speak for the lot of us when I say that we hope that we haven’t seen the last of you.

Until then, auf wiedersehen, which is not goodbye, but simply “until we meet again”.

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ay cheers fam, and hey, if i didn’t actively have a comic in progress I’d have just come and gone like a thief in the night

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It’s been nice watching you start your art journey here, even I probably won’t see it through. Keep up the good work bud.

I imagine I’ll swing by every now and then to silently read some posts though

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Thanks, it’s been a ride so far and I’ll keep you in mind should you ever want to sneak into the DMs and make a cheeky story suggestion, on the house.

Godspeed.

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Aaah it did, no worries. Happy to see it had a good ending though

Cheers and once more hoping the best of what comes next

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Yeah that itch is a B for me as well… like when working on my doc of comic or story layout docs and then my attention span also fluctuates…sometimes it annoys me especially when i try to buckle down and get that mojo back.

You’ll be greatly missed. It’s been a blast having you here.

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Take care! I really loved that short comic you did about mobile phone fluffy adoption, do you mind if I turn that into a story?

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Thanks, and go for it!

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I’ll be incredibly sad to see you go! That said, if you’re burnt out and not enjoying things it is perfectly fine, rational, reasonable and acceptable to take a break. Even if it’s a long break and when you return from it, newbies are “Who’s that?” and those who were here before feel a sudden joy at your return.

And if you don’t come back and Fluffies were a thing for only a relative short time for you? You still did absolutely amazing work and you will certainly be missed.

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