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Happy new year to all, and to all, a bountiful and prosperous one!
Just a heads up that I shall be beginning the new year with a veritable fusillade of dinguses. (Well, one dingus in particular.) I was doing some tests with Lux/Reality 4, and a particular outfit, and nekkidness worked better for that, because doesn't it always? And then something else happened, and well ... There's been a surprising amount of dingus rendered over the past week is what I'm saying. And it's all going up more or less at once because why not start everyone's year with dingus dingus everywhere? (Also, that word ceases to have any meaning when you type it enough in a short time.)
Besides, I traditionally either end the old year or start the new with dinguses-a-go-go. Not the way I usually do it this time, but still. Tradition!
But first, there will be a blast from the past -- not only dingus-free, but specifically structured to hide the dingus! And not naked anyway! The reasons for posting that will become obvious shortly.
Oh, and also, all of these upcoming images are of Thomas, from Thomas the Shadowcaster in the Mage Tower. After I posted that, I just felt like tinkering with him for a while, and then one thing led to another and another and another and ... well. You'll see.
Just a heads up that I shall be beginning the new year with a veritable fusillade of dinguses. (Well, one dingus in particular.) I was doing some tests with Lux/Reality 4, and a particular outfit, and nekkidness worked better for that, because doesn't it always? And then something else happened, and well ... There's been a surprising amount of dingus rendered over the past week is what I'm saying. And it's all going up more or less at once because why not start everyone's year with dingus dingus everywhere? (Also, that word ceases to have any meaning when you type it enough in a short time.)
Besides, I traditionally either end the old year or start the new with dinguses-a-go-go. Not the way I usually do it this time, but still. Tradition!
But first, there will be a blast from the past -- not only dingus-free, but specifically structured to hide the dingus! And not naked anyway! The reasons for posting that will become obvious shortly.
Oh, and also, all of these upcoming images are of Thomas, from Thomas the Shadowcaster in the Mage Tower. After I posted that, I just felt like tinkering with him for a while, and then one thing led to another and another and another and ... well. You'll see.
Alas, poor Preludes
After many years of trying to make it work, I've figured out that the skating story I wanted to do is just beyond my skills right now. I like the images I've done, but they are undeniably somewhat static, and the story depends on being able to depict motion in a way that just doesn't work in this medium. It would work in animation ... but the idea of doing thousands of images to depict a one minute segment with fluid motion does not thrill me. I could do it as an image series ... but I've done that once and promised myself to never do it again (see the long image in "The Vault"). So I've decided to finally just push out the images I've done, periodically do others -- I really do like doing them, even though they can't work the way I want -- and maybe someday I'll just write the story, since it will work with words much better than when using images alone. The first two images that were being held for the very end of that story are out now.
DA vs its users ... again: Are YOU Unsafe?
(EDIT 26 Nov 2022: see below) So. An ... INteresting thing happened this past week. Yes, let's go with "INteresting". DA rolled out a new policy/approach/attack on its users this week -- posted, reportedly, the day before Thanksgiving. To quote the actual post: DeviantArt is currently exploring options to add advertisements to the site. To do so, we need to ensure that advertisers have a brand-safe experience, and we're in the process of developing solutions to ensure that is the case. As a result, your deviation may have been automatically flagged as "not safe for brands" to anonymous viewers. Please know that no administrative actions are being taken against your account. Basically, they're having some AI scour the site and marking everything it can find as "not safe for brands" whether it is or not. Possibly the same AI behind DreamUp, since they have to find SOMETHING to justify its existence now that the entire site has been locked off from their own art-pirate ... er
An update to the previous update
The next few Gaggles (and the last few, really) are mostly just clearing the plates. While I'm sure that G9 Male shapes and morphs will be along -- eventually ... someday ... in theory ... anyway, for most of what I'll be doing for at least the next few months, I should think, I'll be using G8. Not because I'm particularly opposed to G9 or anything like that, just because there won't be much of them around for a while, and no clothing, neither. With a few exceptions, the guys in the next few images, I've used as contributors here and there, but never used them in their entirety. So they get one last bow (... all 20+ of them!) before their generation shuffles off the stage. And before that will be a Victoria/Vittorio image that I hadn't planned on doing just yet, but ... eh, why not. Separately ... good lord, Daz has thoroughly screwed up this launch. So far we have - products that became visible before they should have - products that didn't actually become available for
The last gaggles, and also, Catherine redux?
Just a heads up to let everyone know that this week, there will probably be two more big lumps of character reviews, and then that should be it for G8. Unless some completely irresistible characters come out in the next two months, which is always possible. (And no, I don't have any inside information about scheduling; I'm just going by the last time there was a major generation shift. Victoria 9 is, allegedly, due out this month. As I recall, and as confirmed by readme release dates, the sequence of G8 releases was: Victoria in July, Olympia in August, Michael in September. The 8.1 release timing, with Victoria one week and Michael the next, was strikingly anomalous.) For the most part these guys were either Daz+ or "free with purchase" or grab bag or ... well, in a couple cases, I just forgot I bought them. In two cases, they've been hanging around long enough that they're no longer available for sale (and one of those I don't even know where I got it, because he's not showing up
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Happy New Dingus! Er... I mean, New Year. 