And, after 8 years, it appears I am still very much a Grammer Jerk.

Exhibit A: Vorny.

A Portmanteau (Look it up) of the adjective Horny and the jargon noun Vore meant to reflect that someone feels arousal and excitement at the prospect of participating in a carnivorous thought exercise or roleplay (since we don't actually eat people here obviously. We just draw art of it, write fictions about it and roleplay out in text-based scenes material related to the fantasy.). This faux-word does not exist out of insignificantly sized roleplay and art communities, generally dedicated to "Vore Art" and has no presence in any sort of serious lingua franca shared by people in general on the internet, much less the totality of the English-speaking world.

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God, just reading that title makes me cringe a little, because at the end of the day we're talking about Twitter, that place where all thought goes to die a miserable death on the ever-shortening attention span of the global populace. But, there was a recent conversation that I encountered on it that stoked up one of the topics that is more prone to causing me to get a little 'reactive' at times, normalization, representation of fetish and presence in media.

The person in question had been surprised that footage from the Cell Saga, where Cell absorbs Androids 17 & 18 via his prehensile tail, was included in a mobile app for a game based on the DBZ franchise and Cell Saga. They were expressing surprise that the footage was contained, and I confess that I was initially...
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So. As many of you have already noticed, Pastebin has finally updated policies to include NSFW Filtation and policy updates that specify that they don't want any smut on their site. Off hand, I do not know when the policies themselves updated (as I never had an actual account and posted as Guest), but they have finally started to implement measures to enforce, which is their right.

This means, however, that RP logs I stored on Pastebin will no longer be available through Pastebin, so I'm cleaning them as prose and reposting them here. Keep in mind that this means that there will be two writing styles (so Tense is likely to shift between paragraphs. I write almost universally in 3rd person historical narrative tenses, and a lot of people write in present tense in RP), and...
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Right, so there's some confusion here. I understand why (It's because at one point several years ago I said Abrienda would only retire if I did.), however I'll clear this up so there's no further confusion.

I am not retiring from Eka's. My character Abrienda, who is not myself, is being retired on Eka's (although if you are on F-List or Second Life, I still use her on occasion there.). My primary alt, though not my most visible alt for many people and several years is Samantha Grey, not Abrienda. When, in the past, I said Abrienda would not retire unless I did, it had a lot to do with a backlash over the mere hint that I might retire the character. Several years later, I have increasingly divorced my personal identity from the character and am comfortable with her passing...
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Yeah, I'm reasonably certain there was a little confusion. This took about 48 hours to settle.

Alright, here is what has occurred here:
1) I have separated all NSFW content from SFW content among art accounts, and changed my name on this account to reflect this change. My former account name is inextricably linked to my SFW content, and so is being retained, unchanged. My new account name is Doku. Anyone familiar with my art will probably recognize the most popular commission piece I ever ordered (jointly with another user), which has been up for years now. So, you kiddies are clever. You know who this is.
2) I won't be referring to my old art account name at all, and would prefer any reference to it be removed. I may do so in private messages if there's...
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Pre-Rant Caveat: Eka would clearly state this and has brought this up in the past, but if you have told someone "do not contact me" and they refuse to follow through with this, once you have issued the 'do not contact' notification, you are within your rights to report someone who does not honor your wishes to moderation. And, in fact, I suggest strongly that you do so. Do not allow other players to try to force themselves on you conversationally if it makes you uncomfortable. The mods are there to help.

The following rant pre-supposes that I am fully capable of informing the mods when necessary and have done so in the past.

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So, here I thought that I had reached what was effectively the end of my...
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Hey, what do you know? We managed to find something that ticked me off, yet again. Well, that's not particularly surprising. I'm an irascible creature by nature, and prone to slathering my overblown opinions all over the web when the mood strikes me. A recent conversation over the value of commissions that are fictional as opposed to "Artistic" (Digitally or traditionally drawn images) led to a comment which spawned a very old argument.

If you don't want to read this schpiel, here's the cliff notes: No, Written art is no less art than Drawn art or music. Get over it. If you believe otherwise, you are an idiot, and your art teacher would weep.

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Let's start this with a simple reality: I am a tepid to tame...
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And, it seems I have found myself something "New" to rant about. Now, admittedly there's nothing new about this topic. It's been brought up almost constantly for years now. Long before I ever came to Eka's, this was an issue. It's been an issue almost as long as Endosomaphilia has been a 'thing' for some people in the first place. The issue centers around one simple, single-syllable word:

Vore.

Vore, technically, isn't even a full word in common parlance. It is an abbreviation of the noun Carnivore, which is a technical term for a creature that requires more than 30% of its diet to be meat or animal byproduct, with secondary subsets of Hypocarnivore, Mesocarnivore and Hypercarnivore (with some creatures in Hypo categories being referred to at times...
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This will be a less ... aggressive reflection than most of mine have been, and though some of you that have read my previous discussions may manage to figure out 'why' this came into being I would prefer that it not be addressed here.

In my observation of the last three years, I have noticed a slight incompatibility that exists between three generally disparate and different attitudes in terms of the preferred ways in which characters interact, specifically within the Chat format. These relate to the topic of world, setting, backstory, relationships and ongoing story. The perspectives are easily pinned down to three general attitudes with a few singular exceptions, and while some people are willing to shift between them to suit individual scenes, the disparity between...
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*ahem* I recognize that this may be an unpopular opinion, and I appreciate several people have put some effort into quite a bit of lovely art today. I'm also aware that I'm being petty and dickish in feeling this way. However, I confess that I am the "Ebeneezer Scrooge" of Vore Day, though this is a far broader issue than simply "Vore Day." I am not a fan of silly holidays period. If you check the web, today is all of these things (amongst others I'm sure):

International Vore Day (Eka's)
Happiness Happens
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors' Porch Night
Tisha B'Av (Jewish - begins at sundown)
Farmers Day (Tanzania)

Of the above, here are the "Real" holidays to me:
-Tisha B'av if you're Jewish. ...
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