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Posted 2 months agoShould've announced this on here a few weeks ago. But I've officially returned to DA this month and have moved on form the old GreatEasternJ69 account to a new one that you can all follow here: https://www.deviantart.com/greateasternart
Art update and Reflection
Posted 2 months agoHello everyone just here to give a quick update on what's going on with my art and as well as give a reflection on my stance of no longer sharing my Sentient Machine stuff and my LM Universe 29A as the last two months have given me a lot of time to reflect on it.
So, in regards to my art especially that involving my new Silkerious universe involving my snake OC Prince Gollius and his mate Princess Serapearlia. I do have something involving the both of them in the works as of right now. It's just that I've been taking a hiatus from art over the past month especially after everything I wrote about in my last journal back in July to focus my Trainz project Kanton Railverse. The last piece I did was with my human character Grace that can be found on my art BlueSky. But I'm getting back into the art mood now and I hope to have the latest Silkerious picture out later this month or around the start of October, and then I'll also be moving on to develop other lore and things involving Gollius's world and introducing more characters to it and also an alternate versions of Gollius and Serapearlia as anthro snakes in an alternate version of their world. So, I'll be looking forward to getting those done and sharing their world with you all.
And not only Gollius's world that will be getting some love, I also have further plans for the universe that my human OC's Patrick and Grace inhabit as well, with me planning on doing further art involving them that will only be exclusive to DA (When I get my new account set up there this month) and BlueSky, as well as develop the species that Patrick and Grace are a part of and the introduction of some new characters and expanded lore to go along with their world.
Now on what I said last month on me no longer wanting to share my living machine stuff with the world with you all. Well the past two months have given me time to reflect on the whole thing. While my stance on the fact that I've been finding the living machinery scene on here being less interesting that it was in the past for me hasn't changed, when it comes to other living machine artists and creators stuff. Taking time off from them since my announcement two months ago has lead me to realise that while completely giving up on them as my main art focus, while naturally a good thing for me since I can focus on non-LM related stuff. My stance on no longer sharing them with the world and just leaving what I've done with Tarmingham so far abandoned on here wasn't right and I now feel was too far for me to do as I was removing something that has been a main stay of my art for so long, and that what I really needed was very good long hiatus from sharing them as it was the only thing that I have been uploading art wise and worlding wise till now. So, I can focus on other interests and not just ones involving living machines and 29A that will allow me to improve as an artist, video creator and worldbuilder in the long-term.
I've also decided to use this long hiatus from LM as a chance to improve Universe 29A, and do some rewriting on the first book of the Tarmingham Overhead. As I've decided to take 29A in for another complete rework along with all of my LM characters including many of my past ones that I haven't been using for a long while. Because when I do decide to bring 29A and my living machine characters back and get back into sharing LM related stuff. I want Universe 29A and Tarmingham to be the best it can be in terms of lore and quality, and I've realise that over the past couple of years I've not been able to bring out the best in it while trying to get something new about it out for you all to see without feeling the pressure to get something involving Sentient Machines out asap as I shouldn't feel obligated to always be pumping out LM stuff 24/7. After all I do 29A for myself and myself first as I do art, writing, video making and worlding as a hobby for myself at the end of the day and I can decide what I want to create at the end of the day and not feel the need to do only draw and focus on one thing for a specific audience and be free to branch out and explore other interests in my art. So, when I do bring 29A and my living machine characters back, I promise I will have a much better developed world they inhabit by then and a much better Tarmingham Overhead book 1 too with new chapters to share with you all.
That's all I pretty much have say. Thanks for taking the time to read.
So, in regards to my art especially that involving my new Silkerious universe involving my snake OC Prince Gollius and his mate Princess Serapearlia. I do have something involving the both of them in the works as of right now. It's just that I've been taking a hiatus from art over the past month especially after everything I wrote about in my last journal back in July to focus my Trainz project Kanton Railverse. The last piece I did was with my human character Grace that can be found on my art BlueSky. But I'm getting back into the art mood now and I hope to have the latest Silkerious picture out later this month or around the start of October, and then I'll also be moving on to develop other lore and things involving Gollius's world and introducing more characters to it and also an alternate versions of Gollius and Serapearlia as anthro snakes in an alternate version of their world. So, I'll be looking forward to getting those done and sharing their world with you all.
And not only Gollius's world that will be getting some love, I also have further plans for the universe that my human OC's Patrick and Grace inhabit as well, with me planning on doing further art involving them that will only be exclusive to DA (When I get my new account set up there this month) and BlueSky, as well as develop the species that Patrick and Grace are a part of and the introduction of some new characters and expanded lore to go along with their world.
Now on what I said last month on me no longer wanting to share my living machine stuff with the world with you all. Well the past two months have given me time to reflect on the whole thing. While my stance on the fact that I've been finding the living machinery scene on here being less interesting that it was in the past for me hasn't changed, when it comes to other living machine artists and creators stuff. Taking time off from them since my announcement two months ago has lead me to realise that while completely giving up on them as my main art focus, while naturally a good thing for me since I can focus on non-LM related stuff. My stance on no longer sharing them with the world and just leaving what I've done with Tarmingham so far abandoned on here wasn't right and I now feel was too far for me to do as I was removing something that has been a main stay of my art for so long, and that what I really needed was very good long hiatus from sharing them as it was the only thing that I have been uploading art wise and worlding wise till now. So, I can focus on other interests and not just ones involving living machines and 29A that will allow me to improve as an artist, video creator and worldbuilder in the long-term.
I've also decided to use this long hiatus from LM as a chance to improve Universe 29A, and do some rewriting on the first book of the Tarmingham Overhead. As I've decided to take 29A in for another complete rework along with all of my LM characters including many of my past ones that I haven't been using for a long while. Because when I do decide to bring 29A and my living machine characters back and get back into sharing LM related stuff. I want Universe 29A and Tarmingham to be the best it can be in terms of lore and quality, and I've realise that over the past couple of years I've not been able to bring out the best in it while trying to get something new about it out for you all to see without feeling the pressure to get something involving Sentient Machines out asap as I shouldn't feel obligated to always be pumping out LM stuff 24/7. After all I do 29A for myself and myself first as I do art, writing, video making and worlding as a hobby for myself at the end of the day and I can decide what I want to create at the end of the day and not feel the need to do only draw and focus on one thing for a specific audience and be free to branch out and explore other interests in my art. So, when I do bring 29A and my living machine characters back, I promise I will have a much better developed world they inhabit by then and a much better Tarmingham Overhead book 1 too with new chapters to share with you all.
That's all I pretty much have say. Thanks for taking the time to read.
Changing focus and no longer sharing LM stuff
Posted 4 months agoContrary to what I said in my pervious journal about me still wanting to share my LM stuff along with Universe 29A regardless of the LM scene in it's current state. I've recently been thinking about my position in the whole living machinery scene, and after much consideration and thinking about everything that has happened over the last six months that I've seen. I have come to one final decision.
It is with regret for me to inform you all that after fourteen years of sharing 29A and my LM characters with you all, I'm no longer to going to be sharing any of my living machine/sentient vehicle art and stuff on here or any of my other socials anymore, as I've decided that I'm done with the online living machinery scene.
Don't get me wrong I still like anthropomorphic trains and other vehicles, and I will still hold them close to my heart and appreciate every living machinery piece of media out there from Thomas, Cars, etc and appreciate what the creators of those things made along with the few LM artists that I still respect, and all the support my followers have given my LM stuff over the years. But I've now come to conclusion that even outside of the drama coming from the LMC and other similar communities involving LM, my happiness for the online side of things is simply no longer existent and that it's time for me to have a change of creative focus on what I want to share with the world and at the same time will make me happy, one which still involves trains, and another for my more art and worldbuilding related desires.
It's a real shame, as I've always enjoyed sharing my living machine characters form my trains OCs and all, and it's sad that it has to come to this, as it wasn't a decision that I wasn't willing to take at first. But even though I'm no longer a part of the LMC, even as an independent living machine artist/creator/worldbuilder while it was good for me at first, due to the fact that I no longer had to deal with any of the dramas from any of those communities. Over time I began to see that the entire LM scene online has been becoming less and less interesting over the years, while there are still some good LM creators and artists out there and some I hold high-respect for and inspire me. I've seen many leave the LM scene in the past ten years, and most of what is made in the LM scene and communities these days is either not very good, generic, or simply very repetitive, and therefore I feel there isn't that much from the LM scene on here for me to be inspired by LM wise anymore. At least not something that is truly amazing.
Also to be very honest, as a living machine creator and artist while I still want to draw and make stuff involving living machines, I now just want draw and do stuff with my living machine OC's and Universe for myself. As to put it bluntly, I've been feeling very restrained from posting my art involving them for you all to see for so long. Plus I haven't been able to get any new living machinery related art and things out as lack of motivation has meant that I hardly have anything to post, not even a new chapter of my novel Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead.
The reason being that my train related art and all is very time consuming to make as it can take me days or months for me to come up with an idea for a piece that features whoever train character that I have whether they'd be Danwood, Sanworth, Kyle, Silver Lady, Golden Anglia, etc and then to draw up and bring that piece to life, this means that I cannot get that much art and other lore related stuff out in a timely manner, and unless I simplified my characters designs, writing and art style like a TON! There is no way I can get much out in terms of living machine stuff. Though whenever I draw a car OC, it is a bit faster, but can still take me a long time to complete and get out there for you all to see.
Whereas other living machine artists, especially those in sentient machine related fandoms can get stuff out regularly as there either doing stuff related to Thomas or Cars, or just have characters designs that are easier to do, Whereas my art is very detailed and therefore requires a lot of time to do with my train characters needing the most attention to detail. Thus leaving me in constant art droughts with nothing to post monthly, and honestly it's starting to become tiring for me. So, therefore I now want to keep my living machine characters and their Universe 29A as a personal thing for myself, so I no longer have to feel pressured to constantly get something LM related out and allowing me to take more time with my living machine related art for my own personal enjoyment. Also sadly, I realise now that there are many ideas I have that I can't translate into a train or any other mode of transport.
So, where does this leave Universe 29A and Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead, now that I'm no longer going to be posting or sharing any living machine related content anymore? Well, the good news is for myself at least, is that Universe 29A and all of my characters that inhabit it will still live on in my personal endeavours, and I will be continuing to develop their universe and it's lore as something for my own personal enjoyment and I will be continuing to work on Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead as a series of personal stories for myself and to share with other people IRL around me. As I find that I've developed it to a point that it's too good for me to throwaway completely.
However, since I'll no longer be posting any new chapters of Tarmingham to FA or DA, and while it hasn't been officially cancelled. I'm afraid that they'll be no more chapter updates on book 1 for the foreseeable future, and the novel will be placed into a state of limbo and indefinite hiatus. Despite this, what I've already uploaded of the novel so far will remain in their current states as I've last updated them in the form their currently in, so at least you all can still read what I have written of that story so far, and feel free to come up with your own take on how it continues. But as far as I'm concerned in my own development of 29A, your interpretation won't be considered canon to my vision or any 29A lore going forward (though not online).
Also the 29 multiverse thing that was mentioned in the prologue of Tarmingham book 1, well because of me no longer posting anything relating to 29A and since that multiverse was dependant on it. I've chosen to scrap the idea, and this also goes for any future worldbuilding projects and their universes that I'll be doing, as I now would rather treat them as taking places in their own separate little universes and not part of some shared multiverse where their all connected via one main universe, and I've always found doing things that way to be much easier to keep track of them and their characters too.
All living machine art I've have done over the years and have shared publicly online will remain for those of you out there who still enjoy them, but if I ever do post another LM piece. It'll mainly be reuploads of old art I've done in the past for archival purposes. Just don't expect any new LM stuff to appear anytime soon, because as stated before I'm done sharing my living machine universe and train OCs publicly.
With all this now out of the way. What will be my new creative focus online now that I'm no longer sharing my living machines OCs and my LM universe publicly on any of my socials. Well I'll still be doing something involving trains and railways as those things will always be part of me and my interests, and so I've decided to on the thing that will help me continue with that hobby.
Sometime ago, I started work on another railway related worldbuilding project that I began sharing on BlueSky back in November of 2024 of my progress of a Trainz route for it as this one is an entirely Trainz related project. This project is known as Kanton Railverse and it involves a fiction country called the UK of Kanton that is set on a fictional mega Earth planet and focuses the lore and history of it's railway system that is based on the UK railway network along with railway systems in other countries within that universe.
The first route currently being worked on and is progressing nicely for it in Trainz is known as the Dadale Network that focus on the railways of the county of Dadaleshire with other routes focusing on other parts of the network that I will be creating in the future, and what I plan to do with these routes is do a series of Trainz videos that showcase and focus on various aspects of this fictional countries railway system and it's history.
This one will mainly be a BlueSky and Tumblr based project, so as part of this I'm going to be renaming and rebranding my main BlueSky profile and Tumblr page to focus entirely on the entire Kanton Railverse as a whole. So if your into trains, worldbuilding and Trainz related videos. Then all of you who follow me for my train related stuff head on over to my BlueSky and Tumblr when I eventually get around to rebranding them, and I'll be including a link to them in a separate journal. Note this worldbuilding project will mainly be featuring normal trains, so if you want ones with faces, please go somewhere else.
Also, I'm no longer going to be solely focusing on train related stuff, and this pretty much goes for what I'll be doing with my artwork. As I'll still be uploading stuff featuring trains, but it'll be stuff featuring normal trains not anthropomorphic ones. But I'll also be doing another non-train related worldbuilding project, two in fact. So, you know Patrick and Grace, my persona and his wife respectively who were part of 29A. Well you had read their bio in their original reference sheet uploads and go right to the end, their is a little detail in there that was originally going to be an idea I had for 29A, well I've decided to recycle that idea and with that idea I'm going to be separating Patrick and Grace from 29A and developing their own universe which involves around a group of time traveling immortal alien creatures from the far future who live in the human world of the past. So, you'll still be seeing a lot of Patrick and Grace, mainly on BlueSky and Tumblr.
The other project I had in mind is one involving around a snake character of a snake species who live in a fantasy epic world and is a prince of royal bloodline of snakes who's ends up falling in love with a human woman from another world and gives her a better life, after her original one was destroyed. This one evolved out of something I was originally doing with Grace, but I've decided to make this snake his own character, and this going to be a furry type of worldbuilding project (that's right I'm going furry!) as I've been wanting to do something with anthropomorphic animal characters for a long time now and this snake character will be perfect for getting me started doing just that, and who will be filling the gap left behind by my living machine characters here on FA and my now planned return to DA.
How, I want to keep my art separate from my Trainz stuff on my main BlueSky and Tumblr accounts, so on those places I'll be make separate pages for my artwork, while my FA profile will be getting a complete revamp to show my new focus on my upcoming snake character, and I'll be relaunching my presence on DA with a new account under a new name. So, to those on FA if your into anthro animal characters and want to see snakes in a fantasy epic style world, then this will be the right place for you, and by doing this I will be able to offer new things I haven't been able to do in sentient train/vehicle only work.
This a heavy journal for me to write, but I hope you all can understand by decision to no longer share my living machine stuff with you all, and wanting keep that and my sentient machine characters to myself from now on. As it's time for me to bring that chapter to an end and keep those characters and their world for myself and myself only! If however, I do ever decided to return to posting living machines in the future, then I'll be sure that by then I will have a much better living machine universe that is fully flushed out and is better developed. So, to all of those who have enjoyed my LM stuff over the years, I will like say thank you for fourteen years support for them and the 29A Universe from my early DA days to where I' am now with them. Never stop being you and remember...
Cordia and the Sentients will be with you, always... ❤️❤️❤️
And always a living machine creator, forever a living machine creator. Cheers folks! 😉
It is with regret for me to inform you all that after fourteen years of sharing 29A and my LM characters with you all, I'm no longer to going to be sharing any of my living machine/sentient vehicle art and stuff on here or any of my other socials anymore, as I've decided that I'm done with the online living machinery scene.
Don't get me wrong I still like anthropomorphic trains and other vehicles, and I will still hold them close to my heart and appreciate every living machinery piece of media out there from Thomas, Cars, etc and appreciate what the creators of those things made along with the few LM artists that I still respect, and all the support my followers have given my LM stuff over the years. But I've now come to conclusion that even outside of the drama coming from the LMC and other similar communities involving LM, my happiness for the online side of things is simply no longer existent and that it's time for me to have a change of creative focus on what I want to share with the world and at the same time will make me happy, one which still involves trains, and another for my more art and worldbuilding related desires.
It's a real shame, as I've always enjoyed sharing my living machine characters form my trains OCs and all, and it's sad that it has to come to this, as it wasn't a decision that I wasn't willing to take at first. But even though I'm no longer a part of the LMC, even as an independent living machine artist/creator/worldbuilder while it was good for me at first, due to the fact that I no longer had to deal with any of the dramas from any of those communities. Over time I began to see that the entire LM scene online has been becoming less and less interesting over the years, while there are still some good LM creators and artists out there and some I hold high-respect for and inspire me. I've seen many leave the LM scene in the past ten years, and most of what is made in the LM scene and communities these days is either not very good, generic, or simply very repetitive, and therefore I feel there isn't that much from the LM scene on here for me to be inspired by LM wise anymore. At least not something that is truly amazing.
Also to be very honest, as a living machine creator and artist while I still want to draw and make stuff involving living machines, I now just want draw and do stuff with my living machine OC's and Universe for myself. As to put it bluntly, I've been feeling very restrained from posting my art involving them for you all to see for so long. Plus I haven't been able to get any new living machinery related art and things out as lack of motivation has meant that I hardly have anything to post, not even a new chapter of my novel Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead.
The reason being that my train related art and all is very time consuming to make as it can take me days or months for me to come up with an idea for a piece that features whoever train character that I have whether they'd be Danwood, Sanworth, Kyle, Silver Lady, Golden Anglia, etc and then to draw up and bring that piece to life, this means that I cannot get that much art and other lore related stuff out in a timely manner, and unless I simplified my characters designs, writing and art style like a TON! There is no way I can get much out in terms of living machine stuff. Though whenever I draw a car OC, it is a bit faster, but can still take me a long time to complete and get out there for you all to see.
Whereas other living machine artists, especially those in sentient machine related fandoms can get stuff out regularly as there either doing stuff related to Thomas or Cars, or just have characters designs that are easier to do, Whereas my art is very detailed and therefore requires a lot of time to do with my train characters needing the most attention to detail. Thus leaving me in constant art droughts with nothing to post monthly, and honestly it's starting to become tiring for me. So, therefore I now want to keep my living machine characters and their Universe 29A as a personal thing for myself, so I no longer have to feel pressured to constantly get something LM related out and allowing me to take more time with my living machine related art for my own personal enjoyment. Also sadly, I realise now that there are many ideas I have that I can't translate into a train or any other mode of transport.
So, where does this leave Universe 29A and Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead, now that I'm no longer going to be posting or sharing any living machine related content anymore? Well, the good news is for myself at least, is that Universe 29A and all of my characters that inhabit it will still live on in my personal endeavours, and I will be continuing to develop their universe and it's lore as something for my own personal enjoyment and I will be continuing to work on Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead as a series of personal stories for myself and to share with other people IRL around me. As I find that I've developed it to a point that it's too good for me to throwaway completely.
However, since I'll no longer be posting any new chapters of Tarmingham to FA or DA, and while it hasn't been officially cancelled. I'm afraid that they'll be no more chapter updates on book 1 for the foreseeable future, and the novel will be placed into a state of limbo and indefinite hiatus. Despite this, what I've already uploaded of the novel so far will remain in their current states as I've last updated them in the form their currently in, so at least you all can still read what I have written of that story so far, and feel free to come up with your own take on how it continues. But as far as I'm concerned in my own development of 29A, your interpretation won't be considered canon to my vision or any 29A lore going forward (though not online).
Also the 29 multiverse thing that was mentioned in the prologue of Tarmingham book 1, well because of me no longer posting anything relating to 29A and since that multiverse was dependant on it. I've chosen to scrap the idea, and this also goes for any future worldbuilding projects and their universes that I'll be doing, as I now would rather treat them as taking places in their own separate little universes and not part of some shared multiverse where their all connected via one main universe, and I've always found doing things that way to be much easier to keep track of them and their characters too.
All living machine art I've have done over the years and have shared publicly online will remain for those of you out there who still enjoy them, but if I ever do post another LM piece. It'll mainly be reuploads of old art I've done in the past for archival purposes. Just don't expect any new LM stuff to appear anytime soon, because as stated before I'm done sharing my living machine universe and train OCs publicly.
With all this now out of the way. What will be my new creative focus online now that I'm no longer sharing my living machines OCs and my LM universe publicly on any of my socials. Well I'll still be doing something involving trains and railways as those things will always be part of me and my interests, and so I've decided to on the thing that will help me continue with that hobby.
Sometime ago, I started work on another railway related worldbuilding project that I began sharing on BlueSky back in November of 2024 of my progress of a Trainz route for it as this one is an entirely Trainz related project. This project is known as Kanton Railverse and it involves a fiction country called the UK of Kanton that is set on a fictional mega Earth planet and focuses the lore and history of it's railway system that is based on the UK railway network along with railway systems in other countries within that universe.
The first route currently being worked on and is progressing nicely for it in Trainz is known as the Dadale Network that focus on the railways of the county of Dadaleshire with other routes focusing on other parts of the network that I will be creating in the future, and what I plan to do with these routes is do a series of Trainz videos that showcase and focus on various aspects of this fictional countries railway system and it's history.
This one will mainly be a BlueSky and Tumblr based project, so as part of this I'm going to be renaming and rebranding my main BlueSky profile and Tumblr page to focus entirely on the entire Kanton Railverse as a whole. So if your into trains, worldbuilding and Trainz related videos. Then all of you who follow me for my train related stuff head on over to my BlueSky and Tumblr when I eventually get around to rebranding them, and I'll be including a link to them in a separate journal. Note this worldbuilding project will mainly be featuring normal trains, so if you want ones with faces, please go somewhere else.
Also, I'm no longer going to be solely focusing on train related stuff, and this pretty much goes for what I'll be doing with my artwork. As I'll still be uploading stuff featuring trains, but it'll be stuff featuring normal trains not anthropomorphic ones. But I'll also be doing another non-train related worldbuilding project, two in fact. So, you know Patrick and Grace, my persona and his wife respectively who were part of 29A. Well you had read their bio in their original reference sheet uploads and go right to the end, their is a little detail in there that was originally going to be an idea I had for 29A, well I've decided to recycle that idea and with that idea I'm going to be separating Patrick and Grace from 29A and developing their own universe which involves around a group of time traveling immortal alien creatures from the far future who live in the human world of the past. So, you'll still be seeing a lot of Patrick and Grace, mainly on BlueSky and Tumblr.
The other project I had in mind is one involving around a snake character of a snake species who live in a fantasy epic world and is a prince of royal bloodline of snakes who's ends up falling in love with a human woman from another world and gives her a better life, after her original one was destroyed. This one evolved out of something I was originally doing with Grace, but I've decided to make this snake his own character, and this going to be a furry type of worldbuilding project (that's right I'm going furry!) as I've been wanting to do something with anthropomorphic animal characters for a long time now and this snake character will be perfect for getting me started doing just that, and who will be filling the gap left behind by my living machine characters here on FA and my now planned return to DA.
How, I want to keep my art separate from my Trainz stuff on my main BlueSky and Tumblr accounts, so on those places I'll be make separate pages for my artwork, while my FA profile will be getting a complete revamp to show my new focus on my upcoming snake character, and I'll be relaunching my presence on DA with a new account under a new name. So, to those on FA if your into anthro animal characters and want to see snakes in a fantasy epic style world, then this will be the right place for you, and by doing this I will be able to offer new things I haven't been able to do in sentient train/vehicle only work.
This a heavy journal for me to write, but I hope you all can understand by decision to no longer share my living machine stuff with you all, and wanting keep that and my sentient machine characters to myself from now on. As it's time for me to bring that chapter to an end and keep those characters and their world for myself and myself only! If however, I do ever decided to return to posting living machines in the future, then I'll be sure that by then I will have a much better living machine universe that is fully flushed out and is better developed. So, to all of those who have enjoyed my LM stuff over the years, I will like say thank you for fourteen years support for them and the 29A Universe from my early DA days to where I' am now with them. Never stop being you and remember...
Cordia and the Sentients will be with you, always... ❤️❤️❤️
And always a living machine creator, forever a living machine creator. Cheers folks! 😉
My current thoughts on the state of living machines
Posted 5 months agoHello there…
I haven’t been uploading anything relating to my living machine Universe 29A as of late. Doesn’t mean to say that I haven’t got anything in the works involving it at the moment, but I’m not in a rush to finish them right now. As recently due to some recent drama from a certain living machine community that I had long since left and has caused someone who I knew who once part of that community to leave with all of their LM art being lost to LM history and never to be seen again and another load of drama that occurred more than five months ago that caused in idol of mine to quit LM as well. I’ve decided to vent out my current thoughts and disdain towards the current state of living machines on the internet and the communities that involve them.
I was originally going to do a bit of a rant going through each of the toxic aspects that are caused by some of the more problematic individuals in the living machine community and how it has been leading to living machines potentially going down the pan. But I decided that the arguments I would be presenting wouldn’t add anything new aside from what some former members of the community have already said in regards to how the living machinery scene on the internet can have that bad minority of people who are the most hateful, childish, toxic, immature, argumentative and drama driven kings and queens who just have to ruin the fun for true living machine creators like me who are trying to spread positivity with them online through our art and stories. But these dramas that arise from the toxic minority of living machine circles I feel are making us goody goodies look bad in the public eye.
Last month I had to comfort an old friend of mine (who’s name will not be mentioned for their own safety) who was from my days in the living machine community suffered from a terrifying case of trauma when someone within the LMC stalked them on their personal social medias and did some awful things that ruined their personal relationships and their life and caused them to leave the living machine scene completely, and when they told me about it that I could see through their words that they were very upset and angry about what this person had done. With me having to comfort them to help them overcome the suffering this person, whoever they were had put them through, and seeing them describe what this individual did… Oh it made me sick and angry… Not only angry, but fucking pissed that someone had hurt a friend from the community I used to be a part of who’s life has now been affected because of this one persons actions towards them (and if your that individual who stalked them and you happen to be reading this, I hope one day you come to regret what you did as what you have done is fucking illegal and if you ever did the samething in real life. I swear the police would be after you in an instant and you’d be arrested and thrown in prison).
Not to mention the departure of an idol of mine from the living machine scene who was a very good LM artist that happened over five months ago because of all the drama in the LMC, and who is now likely never to return again because of it, and honestly it still hurts me inside even now when I’m writing about it here as they were among one of the good artists of the living machine scene to have left who did amazing Cars related art and at one time did living ocean liners and ships during their early days in the LMC, and yet the toxic minority drove them away like they had done before to other former members.
Now I know that not all living machine fans are terrible people as there are still some good living machine artists and creators in the community who do amazing and inspiring art of living machines of their favourite machines, whether they be trains, planes, cars, ships, boats, spacecraft, etc, with some even doing worldbuilding projects based around their own living machine creations with lore all that, my 29A Universe also being one of them with my first story for it TFTTOH currently being three chapters in with the fourth currently in the planning stage as of me writing this and honestly it makes he feel glad that there are still others out there, other than me who are still doing living machine content to this day and it just warms my heart to see their creations whenever they do post.
However, whenever the toxic minority of the living machine scene and the communities their form cause dramas such as these and it causes living machine creators, including those from the LMC to quit. It only makes one thing clear to me that reflects the current state of the living machine scene on the internet in general.
It is very clear to me that things in the LM scene are not the same as they were more than ten years ago when the living machine scene on the internet was at its peak and when I used to be a member of an LM community. While these days I rely less on taking inspiration from other living machine artists and worldbuilders to create my LM universe (tho I still do take inspiration from them whenever I see something from them at inspires me) years ago I used to be able to rely more heavily on other LM artist who did very good LM art and worldbuilding creations for inspiration, and help come up with ideas for 29A and for the stories involving my OCs who live in it, as back then their used to way more LM creators to take inspiration from and who’s creations helped me come up with ideas to develop my 29A Universe.
However, in recent years I have been having to take inspiration more from real life, books on various railway related subjects, movies and other fandoms and artistic scenes outside of living machines, as the amount of good living machine creators that I could take inspiration from while still decent have been becoming fewer and fewer as time goes on. Showing that these dramas by the toxic minority of the living machinery scene are not only having an affect on those who have left, but also having an effect on those living machine creators like me and others who stay out of those dramas too, as they are making it harder for new interesting LM creators who are not the generic aeromorph and NSFW artist (most of what they do is uninteresting to me (not all of them just the ones I find generic and boring)) to get invested in the LM scene due to their toxic behaviour discouraging them. Thus making good creators rare in the process and making it difficult for others such as myself to find any inspiration that is LM related at all, as it means less interesting art and LM worlds are being posted and shared on the internet, turning the scene into a wasteland. And to be honest because of this issue, I rather take inspiration from elsewhere rather than depend solely on the living machinery scene for inspiration all the time at this point.
Fortunately I’ve done my best to stay out of most of these dramas coming from this toxic minority of the living machinery scene as there’s no point in reasoning with them and just focus on what I do best and that is bringing great living machine art and 29A and all it’s characters to all of you, and I’m grateful for the following I’ve been able to build up over the years since leaving the LMC back in 2017, and if there’s anyone out there who loves living machines as much as I do, just keep doing what you love creating, even if you don’t want to share your living machine creations with the world, and never let any form of negativity from others including toxic members of a community involving the thing you love take that away from you.
No one including yourself should have to put up with and endure such toxicity at all. However, it does make me wonder that if this toxicity from the LMC is just going to continue and it keeps driving more LM creators away, then I really don’t know if the concept of LM or the LM scene online is going to be around in the next ten years, and at some point I too might one day decide I’m tired of doing LM and move on and do some of my other hobbies and interests in life, with my love of trains still always being there and it always will. So, who knows what will happen to LM in the next ten to twenty years. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
I haven’t been uploading anything relating to my living machine Universe 29A as of late. Doesn’t mean to say that I haven’t got anything in the works involving it at the moment, but I’m not in a rush to finish them right now. As recently due to some recent drama from a certain living machine community that I had long since left and has caused someone who I knew who once part of that community to leave with all of their LM art being lost to LM history and never to be seen again and another load of drama that occurred more than five months ago that caused in idol of mine to quit LM as well. I’ve decided to vent out my current thoughts and disdain towards the current state of living machines on the internet and the communities that involve them.
I was originally going to do a bit of a rant going through each of the toxic aspects that are caused by some of the more problematic individuals in the living machine community and how it has been leading to living machines potentially going down the pan. But I decided that the arguments I would be presenting wouldn’t add anything new aside from what some former members of the community have already said in regards to how the living machinery scene on the internet can have that bad minority of people who are the most hateful, childish, toxic, immature, argumentative and drama driven kings and queens who just have to ruin the fun for true living machine creators like me who are trying to spread positivity with them online through our art and stories. But these dramas that arise from the toxic minority of living machine circles I feel are making us goody goodies look bad in the public eye.
Last month I had to comfort an old friend of mine (who’s name will not be mentioned for their own safety) who was from my days in the living machine community suffered from a terrifying case of trauma when someone within the LMC stalked them on their personal social medias and did some awful things that ruined their personal relationships and their life and caused them to leave the living machine scene completely, and when they told me about it that I could see through their words that they were very upset and angry about what this person had done. With me having to comfort them to help them overcome the suffering this person, whoever they were had put them through, and seeing them describe what this individual did… Oh it made me sick and angry… Not only angry, but fucking pissed that someone had hurt a friend from the community I used to be a part of who’s life has now been affected because of this one persons actions towards them (and if your that individual who stalked them and you happen to be reading this, I hope one day you come to regret what you did as what you have done is fucking illegal and if you ever did the samething in real life. I swear the police would be after you in an instant and you’d be arrested and thrown in prison).
Not to mention the departure of an idol of mine from the living machine scene who was a very good LM artist that happened over five months ago because of all the drama in the LMC, and who is now likely never to return again because of it, and honestly it still hurts me inside even now when I’m writing about it here as they were among one of the good artists of the living machine scene to have left who did amazing Cars related art and at one time did living ocean liners and ships during their early days in the LMC, and yet the toxic minority drove them away like they had done before to other former members.
Now I know that not all living machine fans are terrible people as there are still some good living machine artists and creators in the community who do amazing and inspiring art of living machines of their favourite machines, whether they be trains, planes, cars, ships, boats, spacecraft, etc, with some even doing worldbuilding projects based around their own living machine creations with lore all that, my 29A Universe also being one of them with my first story for it TFTTOH currently being three chapters in with the fourth currently in the planning stage as of me writing this and honestly it makes he feel glad that there are still others out there, other than me who are still doing living machine content to this day and it just warms my heart to see their creations whenever they do post.
However, whenever the toxic minority of the living machine scene and the communities their form cause dramas such as these and it causes living machine creators, including those from the LMC to quit. It only makes one thing clear to me that reflects the current state of the living machine scene on the internet in general.
It is very clear to me that things in the LM scene are not the same as they were more than ten years ago when the living machine scene on the internet was at its peak and when I used to be a member of an LM community. While these days I rely less on taking inspiration from other living machine artists and worldbuilders to create my LM universe (tho I still do take inspiration from them whenever I see something from them at inspires me) years ago I used to be able to rely more heavily on other LM artist who did very good LM art and worldbuilding creations for inspiration, and help come up with ideas for 29A and for the stories involving my OCs who live in it, as back then their used to way more LM creators to take inspiration from and who’s creations helped me come up with ideas to develop my 29A Universe.
However, in recent years I have been having to take inspiration more from real life, books on various railway related subjects, movies and other fandoms and artistic scenes outside of living machines, as the amount of good living machine creators that I could take inspiration from while still decent have been becoming fewer and fewer as time goes on. Showing that these dramas by the toxic minority of the living machinery scene are not only having an affect on those who have left, but also having an effect on those living machine creators like me and others who stay out of those dramas too, as they are making it harder for new interesting LM creators who are not the generic aeromorph and NSFW artist (most of what they do is uninteresting to me (not all of them just the ones I find generic and boring)) to get invested in the LM scene due to their toxic behaviour discouraging them. Thus making good creators rare in the process and making it difficult for others such as myself to find any inspiration that is LM related at all, as it means less interesting art and LM worlds are being posted and shared on the internet, turning the scene into a wasteland. And to be honest because of this issue, I rather take inspiration from elsewhere rather than depend solely on the living machinery scene for inspiration all the time at this point.
Fortunately I’ve done my best to stay out of most of these dramas coming from this toxic minority of the living machinery scene as there’s no point in reasoning with them and just focus on what I do best and that is bringing great living machine art and 29A and all it’s characters to all of you, and I’m grateful for the following I’ve been able to build up over the years since leaving the LMC back in 2017, and if there’s anyone out there who loves living machines as much as I do, just keep doing what you love creating, even if you don’t want to share your living machine creations with the world, and never let any form of negativity from others including toxic members of a community involving the thing you love take that away from you.
No one including yourself should have to put up with and endure such toxicity at all. However, it does make me wonder that if this toxicity from the LMC is just going to continue and it keeps driving more LM creators away, then I really don’t know if the concept of LM or the LM scene online is going to be around in the next ten years, and at some point I too might one day decide I’m tired of doing LM and move on and do some of my other hobbies and interests in life, with my love of trains still always being there and it always will. So, who knows what will happen to LM in the next ten to twenty years. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
Taking some time away from the BlueSky.
Posted 7 months agoYes, as the title suggests, I'm stepping back from BlueSky mainly with post interaction, as I feel there is too much drama and things going on there right now, especially with the discourse surrounding things like AI and such, with me only going there to post my own art and stuff on and will avoid looking at it on my phone for a while too and only like posts that I want to interact and engage with, mainly train photos, LM and other art related stuff.
To be honest, BlueSky much like X/Twitter before it can also at times bring out the absolute worst in people and the world, and I hate it when relevant topics gets shaved right in my face when I'm just trying to look at art and things online and having to be constantly reminded of some of these things that are going on in the real world those discourses just want to keep people arguing about it. Honestly if I wanted to hear about any of that stuff and any opinions on them, then I would rather hear it from someone in the real world like my parents, friends and sister.
I'm going to be spending more of my online interactions on here and on Tumblr for a while, until things on BlueSky either settle down a bit, or when I'm ready to go back it.
To be honest, BlueSky much like X/Twitter before it can also at times bring out the absolute worst in people and the world, and I hate it when relevant topics gets shaved right in my face when I'm just trying to look at art and things online and having to be constantly reminded of some of these things that are going on in the real world those discourses just want to keep people arguing about it. Honestly if I wanted to hear about any of that stuff and any opinions on them, then I would rather hear it from someone in the real world like my parents, friends and sister.
I'm going to be spending more of my online interactions on here and on Tumblr for a while, until things on BlueSky either settle down a bit, or when I'm ready to go back it.
TFTTOH Chapter 3 and break time!
Posted 11 months agoChapter 3 of Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead Book 1 dropped yesterday evening as my Christmas gift to you all so go and check it out here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59239880/
The latest chapter has surely been a long time coming and it's really left me worn out after working on it over the past few months. Original I did plan to release it back in November, but for reasons I've mentioned in the description of the third chapter which you can find in the authors note. It was delayed quite a bit, but I can say the wait for it to be done was worth it.
So, therefore I deserve a well earned break after all that, so I'm going to be taking a break from creating which includes art and writing over the Christmas period and into January of the New Year, and I'll get back into drawing at the start of February just so my creativity is recharged. As I still have several art projects in the works including bit's relating to TFTTOH and the lore of Universe 29A.
I'll be taking a break from Social media over the period too, as I really a need a good long break from it to get away from any drama that might go on anywhere like BlueSky and Tumblr even if their the most nicest places I've been on, and so much better than the cesspool that is Twitter/X that I've long since left behind. I'll only be here to check feedback and reply to comments.
I hope to see you all in the New Year, hope you spend a lot of good time with friends and family over the holiday's and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
The latest chapter has surely been a long time coming and it's really left me worn out after working on it over the past few months. Original I did plan to release it back in November, but for reasons I've mentioned in the description of the third chapter which you can find in the authors note. It was delayed quite a bit, but I can say the wait for it to be done was worth it.
So, therefore I deserve a well earned break after all that, so I'm going to be taking a break from creating which includes art and writing over the Christmas period and into January of the New Year, and I'll get back into drawing at the start of February just so my creativity is recharged. As I still have several art projects in the works including bit's relating to TFTTOH and the lore of Universe 29A.
I'll be taking a break from Social media over the period too, as I really a need a good long break from it to get away from any drama that might go on anywhere like BlueSky and Tumblr even if their the most nicest places I've been on, and so much better than the cesspool that is Twitter/X that I've long since left behind. I'll only be here to check feedback and reply to comments.
I hope to see you all in the New Year, hope you spend a lot of good time with friends and family over the holiday's and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Small update in regards to my 29A human OC's
Posted a year agoI'm going to be moving any future art featuring my human OC's of my 29A universe only including my human persona off of FA, and making BlueSky and Tumblr exclusive only content. I just feel they don't really work that well on FA tbh as anything featuring them without the Sentient Machines always seems to flop on here, and besides most of the audience I have on FA mainly come here for my LM content and not my human characters.
Sure my human OC's of 29A will still make appearances on here, but only if they are alongside one or two of my sentient/living machine OC's such as Danwood and Sanworth, etc in which case I can just tag the art with the sentient machine/living machine tag and no one will mind the humans being alongside them. True the Sentient Machines of 29A are indeed the main focus of their universe. But I have other species including humans who play just as big of roles in their world as much as the machines themselves do (and yes I do have plans to introduce other species into 29A for specific parts of the timeline and lore), and I don't always want to focus my art solely on Sentient Machines all the time.
But I feel that if I'm going to do any art solely featuring my human characters then I'm better off uploading those elsewhere, where their likely to get any form of attention.
Sure my human OC's of 29A will still make appearances on here, but only if they are alongside one or two of my sentient/living machine OC's such as Danwood and Sanworth, etc in which case I can just tag the art with the sentient machine/living machine tag and no one will mind the humans being alongside them. True the Sentient Machines of 29A are indeed the main focus of their universe. But I have other species including humans who play just as big of roles in their world as much as the machines themselves do (and yes I do have plans to introduce other species into 29A for specific parts of the timeline and lore), and I don't always want to focus my art solely on Sentient Machines all the time.
But I feel that if I'm going to do any art solely featuring my human characters then I'm better off uploading those elsewhere, where their likely to get any form of attention.
BlueSky Again!
Posted a year agoLooks like more people have been migrating to BlueSky from Twitter, seeing as that platforms imploded as it's been ruined by Musk. And with that I'm going to go and become more active on there, so follow me there if you are on BlueSky.Link: https://bsky.app/profile/greateaste.....69.bsky.socialBlueSky!
Posted 2 years agoBlueSky is now open to the public, if you want to give me a follow there, feel free to do so, and it's okay if you don't.
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/greateaste.....69.bsky.socialReturn to FA and change of direction
Posted 2 years agoHi all, been a long while since I was last here on FA.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9463786/
Remember in this journal that I said that I was converting my FA account into an NSFW only place. Well the NSFW art that I said I would do didn't really take off. I'm just not in the mood to draw that stuff right now, and that's the reason for my absence on here. However, I've decided to make a come back to FA and convert this profile back to being an all out general art account rather than being a separate NSFW Art account. The reason I'm doing this is because I want to use this profile as a secondary place to post my art. DA will always remain my main place to post art despite some of the bad stuff they've done in recent years, and I have been uploading my art Tumblr since having left Twitter due all the crap and drama that's been going down on that site which was having an impact on my own mental health that I couldn't stand for it anymore, moving to Tumblr as one of my main socials. So, having a secondary art site for my art I thought would be nice to have, and since this profile has been dormant for three years, I've decided that FA is a good place for me to upload my art.
Also I would like to mention that the first chapter of Book 1 of my sentient vehicle series Tales From the Tarmingham Overhead was released on DA during the summer, with a second chapter coming soon which you all can read here: https://www.deviantart.com/greateas.....er-1-967248279
However unfortunately, I've decided that I will not be uploading any of the TFTOH to here unfortunately, as doing so would require me to compress the PDF file it's written down to size to fit FA's file size limit, which will lead to the illustrations I have in those files to become blurry and pixeled in the process. So, these will remain exclusive to DA with links to them posted here and my other socials.
I also now have a BlueSky account as well, as a mutual of mine on Tumblr was so kind enough to give me a code to get onto that platform as part of my move away from Twitter which you can find here: https://bsky.app/profile/greateaste.....69.bsky.social I haven't gotten any codes yet, but once I start getting some coming in, and if any of you on here want to join Bluesky then please DM me and I'll happily give you a code (note I will only give codes to people I know and trust, so if your not on my list and your a shitty person then it's no code for U).Update: You know I'll be moving all my art from here to DeviantArt as I've now decided to leave that site, due to theirs's and WIX's stance last month on Palestine.Update: I haven't left DA yet, as I'm still deciding on wither or not I still want to leave the site, or not upload anything on there for the time being.Looking beyond 2020
Posted 5 years agoI usually would do my New Years journal on New Years eve, but I've decided to do it one day early this year, as I want to say one thing about 2020.
Wow... what a disastrous year this has been with Covid-19. When this year started I thought this going to be a great start to the new decade just like 2010 was when that year started. I was going to do some great stuff with my friends at my model railway club, as we were going to take a rail tour on the Settle and Carlisle line this year. I would've been visiting new places like going to Brighton sometime in this year, and been going to a heritage railway on holiday this years.
Then Covid came along, and did we get the great start to the new decade me and everyone else wanted with the plan we had. No... as lockdowns and restrictions throw away those plans entirely, and then some bad stuff like America being thrown into protests happened and we had to have a year of drama and negativity instead.
This year has been the worst year ever!
As for me however, while it wasn't so bad for me. As the lockdowns allowed me to work on a major project that I was doing in my own time, and I should be able to complete some other smaller projects within the next year. As that's pretty much all I can do under the current circumstances.
I don't really have any high expectations for next year. As people seem to think all of 2020's problems would go away at the strike of twelve. Well I'm sorry to inform those people, but Covid-19 will still be with us into next year. Fortunately however, vaccines have arrived and are being rolled out, and as we become immune to the virus as we become injected with them. Then we should start seeing things getting back to normal. As I'm hoping that the rest of the decade post-Covid will make up for the disaster that's been 2020. But for now, I'll be treating 2021 like any other year of my life, and I will see you all in the new year when we recover from this years events.
Wow... what a disastrous year this has been with Covid-19. When this year started I thought this going to be a great start to the new decade just like 2010 was when that year started. I was going to do some great stuff with my friends at my model railway club, as we were going to take a rail tour on the Settle and Carlisle line this year. I would've been visiting new places like going to Brighton sometime in this year, and been going to a heritage railway on holiday this years.
Then Covid came along, and did we get the great start to the new decade me and everyone else wanted with the plan we had. No... as lockdowns and restrictions throw away those plans entirely, and then some bad stuff like America being thrown into protests happened and we had to have a year of drama and negativity instead.
This year has been the worst year ever!
As for me however, while it wasn't so bad for me. As the lockdowns allowed me to work on a major project that I was doing in my own time, and I should be able to complete some other smaller projects within the next year. As that's pretty much all I can do under the current circumstances.
I don't really have any high expectations for next year. As people seem to think all of 2020's problems would go away at the strike of twelve. Well I'm sorry to inform those people, but Covid-19 will still be with us into next year. Fortunately however, vaccines have arrived and are being rolled out, and as we become immune to the virus as we become injected with them. Then we should start seeing things getting back to normal. As I'm hoping that the rest of the decade post-Covid will make up for the disaster that's been 2020. But for now, I'll be treating 2021 like any other year of my life, and I will see you all in the new year when we recover from this years events.
Moving to new YouTube Channel for video content
Posted 5 years agoLV Universe Facts
Posted 5 years agoHey everyone, sorry for not being so active on here, as I've been spending more time on DA and Twitter. I currently don't have anything NSFW to post here at the moment, but I'll do some if I feel like it.
Over on DA I've been posting facts about my Living Machine/Living Vehicle universe and I felt like post them here for my FA followers to see. So here they are, there's only two right now, but I'll update this journal with more as time goes on.
LV Universe fact 1: When it comes to vehicles ageing in my universe. While their bodies age over time, they mostly still act like adults in the their twenties. As their minds don't go through an aging process like those of humans. Though they do have the naivety of a child at the start of their lives, by a few months their minds would've matured into those of adults, and would continue acting like adults in their twenties many years after.
LV Universe Fact 2: The vehicles of my universe have their own official language, known as Vehiclenese. Which is used by every vehicle of every type across the whole universe. The language is very universal, as vehicles from each country can understand what any vehicle their specking to is saying, bypassing language barriers of most of the known human languages. The language is very complex in nature, as although the words were developed from known human languages, the most common being Latin. They also have some complicated terms that are not known to humans, and it's difficult for a human to learn the language due to the speech patterns of each word. Vehicles normally use this language during conversation to themselves when they don't want humans listening in to what their talking about. Despite the use of Vehiclenese by vehicles, they do understand and use most human languages to speck to their human companions.
LV Universe Fact 3: (This fact will be a bit political, so please don't get into heated political arguments in the comments please.) When it comes to vehicles political views on key issues within their own species and those of humans. Most humans usually find that vehicles don't lean to either the left, or right wing ideologies. Choosing to accept and support a balance between the two opposing ideologies on certain few points, and to resolve these issues in a way that doesn't push society towards either side. This is because they support the ideology of Centrism, as they believe their should be a middle ground on issues to achieve a well balanced social equality, equal opportunity and values for all vehicles and humans alike regardless of one side opposing the other on their viewpoints of how society should work. Vehicles also support the ideas of unity, the protection of others from oppression, globalism, a mix of socialism and capitalism (which includes free market ideas), Individualism and Progressivism. In one word, their completely Centrists.
Over on DA I've been posting facts about my Living Machine/Living Vehicle universe and I felt like post them here for my FA followers to see. So here they are, there's only two right now, but I'll update this journal with more as time goes on.
LV Universe fact 1: When it comes to vehicles ageing in my universe. While their bodies age over time, they mostly still act like adults in the their twenties. As their minds don't go through an aging process like those of humans. Though they do have the naivety of a child at the start of their lives, by a few months their minds would've matured into those of adults, and would continue acting like adults in their twenties many years after.
LV Universe Fact 2: The vehicles of my universe have their own official language, known as Vehiclenese. Which is used by every vehicle of every type across the whole universe. The language is very universal, as vehicles from each country can understand what any vehicle their specking to is saying, bypassing language barriers of most of the known human languages. The language is very complex in nature, as although the words were developed from known human languages, the most common being Latin. They also have some complicated terms that are not known to humans, and it's difficult for a human to learn the language due to the speech patterns of each word. Vehicles normally use this language during conversation to themselves when they don't want humans listening in to what their talking about. Despite the use of Vehiclenese by vehicles, they do understand and use most human languages to speck to their human companions.
LV Universe Fact 3: (This fact will be a bit political, so please don't get into heated political arguments in the comments please.) When it comes to vehicles political views on key issues within their own species and those of humans. Most humans usually find that vehicles don't lean to either the left, or right wing ideologies. Choosing to accept and support a balance between the two opposing ideologies on certain few points, and to resolve these issues in a way that doesn't push society towards either side. This is because they support the ideology of Centrism, as they believe their should be a middle ground on issues to achieve a well balanced social equality, equal opportunity and values for all vehicles and humans alike regardless of one side opposing the other on their viewpoints of how society should work. Vehicles also support the ideas of unity, the protection of others from oppression, globalism, a mix of socialism and capitalism (which includes free market ideas), Individualism and Progressivism. In one word, their completely Centrists.
The future of my FA account
Posted 5 years agoHello FA, Patrick here giving an update on the future of this account.
I realised I haven't uploaded any art here for several months now, and that is because I've mostly been uploading to DA and Twitter like I usually do with most of my art (not the NSFW stuff), and working on a project for YouTube with other minor projects. So, I haven't been too active on here, and is likely to mostly be that way for the foreseeable future, which is in regards to the future of my time on FA.
Now I've been considering to doing art like the recent uploaded one back in October of last year https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33283277/ and after much consideration. I'm glad to announce that I will now be doing NSFW stuff occasionally. However, I release that this type of content would be very controversial on DA in regards to issues that people on there have with this subject matter, Twitter will also be in the same area, and since I'm mostly know as a mostly SFW artist on those sites. Me uploading NSFW on those sites will tarnish my reputation.
So in order for me to maintain the status on those sites as a mostly SFW artist. Art that is considered too extreme for DA or Twitter will be uploaded here to FA and will stay prominently on here, and to make that the case. I've decided to turn my FA account into a NSFW space that will be fully centred around this type of content. So that means all SFW stuff that I've uploaded here previously will be removed, and the account will go through a few changes. This is so the SFW and NSFW content is separate for each other on here and DA. I don't how often I will be uploading NSFW content on here, as I won't do it all the time.
So, if you originally came here for SFW stuff. Sorry you won't find it here anymore, but feel free to look at my DA and Twitter where you'll still be able to find future SFW content being uploaded on a consistent basis, and especially if you can't stand anything that is NSFW.
I realised I haven't uploaded any art here for several months now, and that is because I've mostly been uploading to DA and Twitter like I usually do with most of my art (not the NSFW stuff), and working on a project for YouTube with other minor projects. So, I haven't been too active on here, and is likely to mostly be that way for the foreseeable future, which is in regards to the future of my time on FA.
Now I've been considering to doing art like the recent uploaded one back in October of last year https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33283277/ and after much consideration. I'm glad to announce that I will now be doing NSFW stuff occasionally. However, I release that this type of content would be very controversial on DA in regards to issues that people on there have with this subject matter, Twitter will also be in the same area, and since I'm mostly know as a mostly SFW artist on those sites. Me uploading NSFW on those sites will tarnish my reputation.
So in order for me to maintain the status on those sites as a mostly SFW artist. Art that is considered too extreme for DA or Twitter will be uploaded here to FA and will stay prominently on here, and to make that the case. I've decided to turn my FA account into a NSFW space that will be fully centred around this type of content. So that means all SFW stuff that I've uploaded here previously will be removed, and the account will go through a few changes. This is so the SFW and NSFW content is separate for each other on here and DA. I don't how often I will be uploading NSFW content on here, as I won't do it all the time.
So, if you originally came here for SFW stuff. Sorry you won't find it here anymore, but feel free to look at my DA and Twitter where you'll still be able to find future SFW content being uploaded on a consistent basis, and especially if you can't stand anything that is NSFW.
What happened to living ocean liners?
Posted 6 years agoJust out of interest for the lack of living ocean liner stuff lately. What happened to most of the living Boat and Ship part of the former Living Machine Community? Mean I know they were popular back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but now they seem to be few and far between?
The reason why I'm asking about this is because for the last 2 years now, there's been a serious lack of living boat material in the LMC to the point where there's nothing featuring ocean liners or any other type of ship or boat that has faces anymore.
The reason why I'm asking about this is because for the last 2 years now, there's been a serious lack of living boat material in the LMC to the point where there's nothing featuring ocean liners or any other type of ship or boat that has faces anymore.
Halloween 2019
Posted 6 years agoHappy Halloween to all my friends and supporters on FA. I know I haven't been able to do anything special this year. But hey it doesn't matter.
Over hauling my LV universe
Posted 6 years agoHello everyone, been awhile since my last journal. I have an important update on the future of my living vehicle universe. I've come to conclusion that unfortunately, I'm not happy with the current state of it.
The reason being, is that ever since I rebooted the train timeline of my universe a few years back. All I've been doing is legging behind in the character development of my engine OC's with reference sheets not being finished in time as promised those three years ago, due to recent events causing me to have a lack of motivation to even think about completing them, and me worrying to much about living trains and boats dying out. As they have been in decline in the community I was apart of for the last two years now, since the huge drama event that took place back in 2017. And of course life getting in the way.
Because of this, the reference sheets weren't being as done as quickly as they should've leaving my already existing OC's and new ones without anything to work off with either no proper backstory or development added to the new ones. Meaning that they were not flashed out and not as appealing like my older characters.
Also, I realised that I've been overwhelming myself with too many multiple projects I've been working on (including TFTTOH) at the same time, which just drove my motivation down even more. Meaning that I had to multi task on which project I was doing and where my universe's timeline was going to beheading with each one released into the universes canon. This meant that I couldn't keep track of everything that needed completing the most.
So, this means that I now have a LV universe that doesn't know where it is going as a result of these problems.
I've also realised that focusing on the same characters all time, isn't really that good for me creative wise. Don't get me wrong, I love Silver Lady and the rest of my older characters as they are my children within me. But to be honest, I'm just broad with focusing on them and the NOR all the time.
In order for me resolve all these issues I've been having with my LV universe in it's current state. I have decided that I need to give my LV universe a complete overhaul (or in this case a revamp).
For this new revamped LV universe I've decided to make the Tarmingham Overhead Railway the mine focus of the universe. As I like the concept I came up with for that railway a lot better than the NOR, is part of a series that is currently in development, and I believe that it has a lot more parental and possibilities going for it. Don't worry however, the NOR isn't going away anytime soon it'll just be placed seconded down the line in terms of the railways I've created. However, and unfortunately American locomotives are no longer going to be a thing on the NOR, as I now find the concept a bit unrealistic and makes no sense nowadays. Sure the concept would've been alright years ago, but now it just looks weird and unnatural for actual American locomotives to apart of a British heritage railway set in East Anglia. Which means Silver Lady's relationship with Blueeagle will be affected by this, as I will have to brake the two up. However, despite the brake up, Silver Lady will still have an American for a mate. But it will most likely be a US locomotive designed for the British Loading Gauge, which will make a lot more sense. This will not be the end of my American OC's however, as I'll develop a few American Railway's just for them to call home.
In order to get this revamped timeline rolling however. I'm going to have to put other projects on hold and finish one project at a time. With this new strategy in mind I can take small steps to make sure the revamp works and that my LV universe gets back on track. I just need to do it in a way an adult in his/her 20s would do it, rather than a teenager.
So, that raps up this journal. Thanks for reading, and thanks for showing support for my work over the past seven years. I hope you all enjoy this new revamped LV universe, as much as I'll enjoy developing it.
The reason being, is that ever since I rebooted the train timeline of my universe a few years back. All I've been doing is legging behind in the character development of my engine OC's with reference sheets not being finished in time as promised those three years ago, due to recent events causing me to have a lack of motivation to even think about completing them, and me worrying to much about living trains and boats dying out. As they have been in decline in the community I was apart of for the last two years now, since the huge drama event that took place back in 2017. And of course life getting in the way.
Because of this, the reference sheets weren't being as done as quickly as they should've leaving my already existing OC's and new ones without anything to work off with either no proper backstory or development added to the new ones. Meaning that they were not flashed out and not as appealing like my older characters.
Also, I realised that I've been overwhelming myself with too many multiple projects I've been working on (including TFTTOH) at the same time, which just drove my motivation down even more. Meaning that I had to multi task on which project I was doing and where my universe's timeline was going to beheading with each one released into the universes canon. This meant that I couldn't keep track of everything that needed completing the most.
So, this means that I now have a LV universe that doesn't know where it is going as a result of these problems.
I've also realised that focusing on the same characters all time, isn't really that good for me creative wise. Don't get me wrong, I love Silver Lady and the rest of my older characters as they are my children within me. But to be honest, I'm just broad with focusing on them and the NOR all the time.
In order for me resolve all these issues I've been having with my LV universe in it's current state. I have decided that I need to give my LV universe a complete overhaul (or in this case a revamp).
For this new revamped LV universe I've decided to make the Tarmingham Overhead Railway the mine focus of the universe. As I like the concept I came up with for that railway a lot better than the NOR, is part of a series that is currently in development, and I believe that it has a lot more parental and possibilities going for it. Don't worry however, the NOR isn't going away anytime soon it'll just be placed seconded down the line in terms of the railways I've created. However, and unfortunately American locomotives are no longer going to be a thing on the NOR, as I now find the concept a bit unrealistic and makes no sense nowadays. Sure the concept would've been alright years ago, but now it just looks weird and unnatural for actual American locomotives to apart of a British heritage railway set in East Anglia. Which means Silver Lady's relationship with Blueeagle will be affected by this, as I will have to brake the two up. However, despite the brake up, Silver Lady will still have an American for a mate. But it will most likely be a US locomotive designed for the British Loading Gauge, which will make a lot more sense. This will not be the end of my American OC's however, as I'll develop a few American Railway's just for them to call home.
In order to get this revamped timeline rolling however. I'm going to have to put other projects on hold and finish one project at a time. With this new strategy in mind I can take small steps to make sure the revamp works and that my LV universe gets back on track. I just need to do it in a way an adult in his/her 20s would do it, rather than a teenager.
So, that raps up this journal. Thanks for reading, and thanks for showing support for my work over the past seven years. I hope you all enjoy this new revamped LV universe, as much as I'll enjoy developing it.
Living Vehicle stuff in the works
Posted 6 years agoSorry for the lack of new Living Vehicle work lately, as I've been taking a hiatus from content creation and working on other projects.
But I do have some art in the works right now, and I'll upload them when their finished.
But I do have some art in the works right now, and I'll upload them when their finished.
On Holiday
Posted 6 years agoHey everyone, I just want to inform you all that I'll be on holiday over the week, so I won't be back until next Saturday. So see you all then, if you don't hear from me when I get there.
First time here on FA.
Posted 6 years agoHello Furaffinity this is PatOakGo from DeviantArt and YouTube here, and I'm just going to say, I'm glad to be here on FA.
I hope that I'll regain contact with some former DA users on here, as DA has never been the same without them.
I hope that I'll regain contact with some former DA users on here, as DA has never been the same without them.
