"You have to see this!" Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:54 am
Hi!
Yes, another idea to increase positive community activity :)
This thread here is intended as a shout box for you to recommend items (drawings, stories, games, ...) which are located here on the Portal. You can use this thread to tell people "Hey, there is this awesome picture you really need to see!" drawing attention to your favorite images, stories, whatever.
However, it is not quite as cheap as providing simply a link without an explanation (now, where would be the fun with that?). Instead, if you want people to spend their time looking at what you want them to look at, you have to spend some time telling them why - that is write a small review or comment.
Of course, in order to get this working out, there are a few rules people should abide by.
RULES
1. Only items that are located somewhere on Eka's Portal can be promoted. To keep things simple, let's just stick to what is here. However, any part of the Portal can be referred to, including the forums as well as galleries.
2. No promotion of your own creations. For one thing, this rule should help avoid bickering and any bad blood that may occur because of such things. In addition, rule 4 (see below) is also not really compatible with promoting your own creation.
3. Each promotion article must refer to a specific item. So, no general promotion of an artist. If you want to praise an artist, pick one piece of work by them, and promote it and mention that it is representative of the high quality of that artist. However, the item may be a multi-part item, for instance single series of images forming a single story.
4. Each promotion article should be at least a comment, if not a mini review. It is assumed that if you are actually promoting a piece of art, it must be something special to you or must have impressed you in some way. Please do share that information with us and with the artist. Why should we take a look? "GJ!" is NOT a good explanation, so you should invest a little more thought and be a bit more thorough.
5. Tag the item as thoroughly as possible. Granted, you will always miss some possible tags, but at least ensure that you include tags about sex of the characters, as well as underage and gore tags where they are applicable. Also explain what type of vore/UB/endo people can expect!
6. Link to the item's location. That would be the item's entry in a gallery or the post where the item was posted on the forums. Note that the subject line of individual posts is a link to that specific post. Please do not link directly to the item data itself, as you make it harder for people to get in touch with the artist or see if there is any related art nearby.
7. All other rules of the site also apply. Just to avoid confusion. You are expected to have read the rules in the FAQ and abide by them.
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Poolside Vore
by Virt5021
This is a poser series of images describing a simple, single F/m Soft Vore incident. It is a macro series of human on human type, scale about 1:25, I think. Bathing suits and no explicit gore/fatality.
Virt5021 does a lot of poser art, and doing such sequences that describe individual vore incidents is kind of his trademark. Personally, I do not like poser that much. It tries far too desperately to be realistic. Usually, Virt5021 is no exception to that, and some of the girls in his images seem just outright ugly in my eyes. This series is quite different, though, as the girl is shown with a very smooth and appealing skin and also has a much lighter air to her than the over-detailed characters you see in poser very often. There is a very elegant smoothness to her skin and her form that really impresses me.
As for the content, the series describes a guy seemingly wanting to impress a giantess by jumping from a very high diving tower into a swimming pool. The giantess has other plans for him, though, and catches him with her mouth. While there are no internal shots, it is clear that she swallows him, after spitting out his trousers (^_^;; . It is a little mischievious and naughty bit of art I highly recommend for those interested in silly situations.
Recess
by Thor66
This is a 5 page color comic. It contains F/m Soft Vore, one of the incidents being Unaware. It is a macro comic of human on human type, scale about 1:10. While no fatality is shown, the predator talks about the prey getting digested. Also has a strong revenge theme. Underage
This is probably my favorite comic by Thor66. On the technical side, it is his colored drawing style we know from many of his other works, and it does not really move out of his common quality there: Good craftsmanship on manual drawing on a computer, but probably not what you would call a perfect CG. There are sometimes uneven lines, odd ends and so on, marking it as such a manual work of love. Thor66's English is not really perfect, so some of the text bubbles read a little awkward, but the meaning is comprehensible.
What really makes it memorable for me and something I want to recommend is the situation on the final page. After having been deceived into swallowing an innocent fellow pupil, the giantess gets back at the bullies by swallowing them as well. (I never really understood why she wouldn't throw up the innocent guy beforehand, though). This results in the two bullies and their victim being re-united in her stomach, where a fist fight ensues. That idea of that fist fight which is noticeable even for the host is something that I find very interesting and innovative. And her comment about "Boys" adds a lot of silliness to the situation, allowing me to overlook the fatal implications. So, I think this there is a really great idea presented in a good form.
Deathworks
Yes, another idea to increase positive community activity :)
This thread here is intended as a shout box for you to recommend items (drawings, stories, games, ...) which are located here on the Portal. You can use this thread to tell people "Hey, there is this awesome picture you really need to see!" drawing attention to your favorite images, stories, whatever.
However, it is not quite as cheap as providing simply a link without an explanation (now, where would be the fun with that?). Instead, if you want people to spend their time looking at what you want them to look at, you have to spend some time telling them why - that is write a small review or comment.
Of course, in order to get this working out, there are a few rules people should abide by.
RULES
1. Only items that are located somewhere on Eka's Portal can be promoted. To keep things simple, let's just stick to what is here. However, any part of the Portal can be referred to, including the forums as well as galleries.
2. No promotion of your own creations. For one thing, this rule should help avoid bickering and any bad blood that may occur because of such things. In addition, rule 4 (see below) is also not really compatible with promoting your own creation.
3. Each promotion article must refer to a specific item. So, no general promotion of an artist. If you want to praise an artist, pick one piece of work by them, and promote it and mention that it is representative of the high quality of that artist. However, the item may be a multi-part item, for instance single series of images forming a single story.
4. Each promotion article should be at least a comment, if not a mini review. It is assumed that if you are actually promoting a piece of art, it must be something special to you or must have impressed you in some way. Please do share that information with us and with the artist. Why should we take a look? "GJ!" is NOT a good explanation, so you should invest a little more thought and be a bit more thorough.
5. Tag the item as thoroughly as possible. Granted, you will always miss some possible tags, but at least ensure that you include tags about sex of the characters, as well as underage and gore tags where they are applicable. Also explain what type of vore/UB/endo people can expect!
6. Link to the item's location. That would be the item's entry in a gallery or the post where the item was posted on the forums. Note that the subject line of individual posts is a link to that specific post. Please do not link directly to the item data itself, as you make it harder for people to get in touch with the artist or see if there is any related art nearby.
7. All other rules of the site also apply. Just to avoid confusion. You are expected to have read the rules in the FAQ and abide by them.
================================
Poolside Vore
by Virt5021
This is a poser series of images describing a simple, single F/m Soft Vore incident. It is a macro series of human on human type, scale about 1:25, I think. Bathing suits and no explicit gore/fatality.
Virt5021 does a lot of poser art, and doing such sequences that describe individual vore incidents is kind of his trademark. Personally, I do not like poser that much. It tries far too desperately to be realistic. Usually, Virt5021 is no exception to that, and some of the girls in his images seem just outright ugly in my eyes. This series is quite different, though, as the girl is shown with a very smooth and appealing skin and also has a much lighter air to her than the over-detailed characters you see in poser very often. There is a very elegant smoothness to her skin and her form that really impresses me.
As for the content, the series describes a guy seemingly wanting to impress a giantess by jumping from a very high diving tower into a swimming pool. The giantess has other plans for him, though, and catches him with her mouth. While there are no internal shots, it is clear that she swallows him, after spitting out his trousers (^_^;; . It is a little mischievious and naughty bit of art I highly recommend for those interested in silly situations.
Recess
by Thor66
This is a 5 page color comic. It contains F/m Soft Vore, one of the incidents being Unaware. It is a macro comic of human on human type, scale about 1:10. While no fatality is shown, the predator talks about the prey getting digested. Also has a strong revenge theme. Underage
This is probably my favorite comic by Thor66. On the technical side, it is his colored drawing style we know from many of his other works, and it does not really move out of his common quality there: Good craftsmanship on manual drawing on a computer, but probably not what you would call a perfect CG. There are sometimes uneven lines, odd ends and so on, marking it as such a manual work of love. Thor66's English is not really perfect, so some of the text bubbles read a little awkward, but the meaning is comprehensible.
What really makes it memorable for me and something I want to recommend is the situation on the final page. After having been deceived into swallowing an innocent fellow pupil, the giantess gets back at the bullies by swallowing them as well. (I never really understood why she wouldn't throw up the innocent guy beforehand, though). This results in the two bullies and their victim being re-united in her stomach, where a fist fight ensues. That idea of that fist fight which is noticeable even for the host is something that I find very interesting and innovative. And her comment about "Boys" adds a lot of silliness to the situation, allowing me to overlook the fatal implications. So, I think this there is a really great idea presented in a good form.
Deathworks