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I did a short Cadance / Shining Armor comic for the Playpony 3, sadly it’s exclusive content for the Playpony and I’m not allowed to post it. I’m sorry :( I’m not a huge fan of paywalls or exclusive content, because people are left out. That’s why my own solo content is always Pay What You Want and available for free if someone wants it for free. But if I’m part of a group project, I make compromises and follow what the group as a whole wants.
I hope you’ll understand.
Ah, today’s episode was absolutely amazing. Such a great end to this particular storyline, so many emotions and everything. I’m really happy with the outcome and everything. Also both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were absolutely cute and great. Definitely one of my favorite episodes of all seasons, it was beautiful.
I really like the designs, I wish I could say more, but I don’t wanna spoil too much stuff (even tho it’s all over the internet anyways.) Go watch the episode everyone!
And the fact that this episode aired exactly on the day five years after the first Friendship Is Magic episode aired is great. Such a nice anniversary present!
Good point! If someone’s interested, here’s the link. I’m not sure if you need to have the mature filter deactivated or not.
Go read some sweet Appledash clop! If you scroll all the way down to about comment #97, you’ll even see how I met my wife!
Sex really is great. Once you had it like a few hundret times it becomes a thing that still is great, but you start to understand that it certainly isn’t everything. There are things that can be better than sex. Like ice cream or a nice vacation.
Yes, so much! I’m amazed how you’re able to put what I tried to say in a huge wall of text into four sentences, haha.
To the Anon who asked if sex really is the greatest thing in the world (Sorry, since your question was multiple asks I can’t really publish them together. Also if you want me to answer in more detail and private, you’ll have to send me an ask non-anonymously):
Sex is pretty great, especially with a person you’re very attracted to it’s very amazing and satisfying! But it’s definitely not the greatest thing in the world like it’s made out to be, at least for me. It ranks up there and is amongst my favorite things in life (but definitely not THE most favorite), but I think overall sex is overrated.
Like you said, the media, advertisement, games, everything is bombarding us with the idea of sex and how mind-blowingly amazing it is. And that often it’s the most important thing ever (or at least the driving force behind a storyline or something). Or like if someone doesn’t have had sex yet, that they’re missing out on something huge or that they’re somehow a loser. Or how the first time is always this super amazing magical thing, where both know what they’re doing and both have orgasms (even simultaneously!) and know exactly what their partner wants and likes. Please.
That’s definitely not true, and sex is kinda overhyped in mainstream media (and often misplaced, l dislike pointless and unnecessary side storylines about romance or sex in an action movie or a drama series, for example. It’s different if they are relevant to the whole story or a character arc, but a lot of times it’s just there because sex and love-triangle stuff sells. And it shows.) Which is funny, coming from someone who draws porn. Obviously sexuality is a very big thing in my life and it’s something very important to me and I’m very sex-positive. And I absolutely love sexy stuff. I have drawn porn hanging on my walls and everything. But the actual act of sex itself isn’t the ultimate answer to all questions and the one thing every human should aspire to achieve. Don’t be stressed out if you haven’t had sex yet, it’s not a measurement on how much you’re worth.
I hope that helped! Ah so many people asking for advice or my thoughts on something, I feel like I should open a separate blog for that. Ratvice or something! I hope I’m not annoying you guys who’re just here for the colorful smut. I like sharing my thoughts and trying to be helpful!
Shout out to the guy who works at Little Cesar and enables my wife’s pizza addiction! I’m amazed that someone local follows my tumblr. (And actually recognized my wife and her pony shirt.) You’re awesome!
Sure! It’s really just a quick edit tho, I haven’t had time for more. I hope you like it, tho!
Oh, oops! I’m sorry. I edited the post, here’s the WS link.
Thanks for letting me know!
Yeh, the irony wasn’t lost on me!
Thoughts after the readmore
It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.
It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.
Because I enjoy it! Simple as that, haha. I draw what I like and I started drawing clop because I wanted to create things that don’t exist yet but that I’d like seeing. I remember that I wanted more AJ porn, but there wasn’t enough out there, so I just slowly started to draw my own!
And I think it’s the other way around, I didn’t start to draw clop with my ability, I gained my ability by starting to draw clop!
Oh yeh! I’m the same! And I’m so excited I found someone who agrees with me, haha. I always used the fork right-handed, even as a small kid, for exactly that reason. And my parents would always make fun of me for it while I was a kid. Switching the fork from left to right is the first thing I do if I sit down at a set table.
I’m pretty much self-taught. I, especially when I started out, watched a lot of art streams and read and watched a lot of tutorials. I tried to copy things other artists do and slowly adapted those methods into my own work flow. I used brush settings I saw online, but found out they don’t work that well for me, so I played around and switched things around until I was happy. I still change my brush settings and methods today on a regular basis. It’s always about adapting and finding new things that work better and that are more comfortable.
I also look at a lot of pictures in an active way, meaning when I see a picture (or even a photograph) I always identify what exactly I like about it, I look at shadows and shapes and try to recreate certain things in my mind. “How would I do this shading? How would I do this pose? How would I create this feeling? What colors do I like and what colors work here?” are things that go through my head. And if I really like something specific, like the way the head is done or the way they did the shading or something, I’ll try to incorporate that into my drawings and kinda put my own spin on it? A lot in art is about inspiration and finding your own style, find what you like and get inspiration from that, try to incorporate things you like into your art, sooner or later you’ll figure out what works for you and what doesn’t.
And most importantly: Draw. Draw a shit ton of stuff. It’s easy to read tutorials, watch some livestream and research things. But those things alone don’t make you a better artist. A lot of drawing will make you a better artist. I think it was Lauren Faust who said that everybody has 1,000 bad drawings in them, and they need to get them out before the good stuff starts to slowly emerge. Doodle whenever you can, draw whenever you have free time. And if you have some artist friends, ask them to redline and critique some of your drawings. That’s what helped me most out of all the things. Friends being honest and critiquing my stuff when I asked them and good artist friends redlining my sketches so I had a visual aid to what I could do better.
I want to take some art classes sooner or later, and I’m sure having some educational background about art is helpful, but no matter if you’re self-taught or not, you’ll always have to do your own research and figure some things out yourself, I think. But there definitely have been times where I wished that I was taught stuff like color theory or proper technique by someone without having to figure out things slowly by myself.
I’m not sure if I always used the left hand. But I know for sure, that when I was younger, I masturbated to a lot of stuff on the computer. And I was unable to handle the mouse with my left hand, so I remember that I thought it was pretty convenient that I masturbate with left. It leaves my right hand to browse the computer and stuff. So I suspect I just kinda taught myself to masturbate left-handed? To a point where I literally can’t masturbate with my right, because it just feels so off. The time I broke my left hand 3 years ago was a very frustrating time because of that.
How do you right-handed masturbators read porn or click through a gallery? All with hotkey use of the left hand? Left handed mouse use? What if you’re on a cellphone? I couldn’t use a cellphone with my left hand. I just don’t understand!
Sorry for tmi, but I got a lot of curios asks about the topic! I assumed it’s more common than it appears to be!
Left for masturbating, right for virtually everything else like drawing, writing, etc!
The way I see it, you found something you love so much that you want to live for it, in this case MLP. Now try to imagine how many things are out there, how many things that you will never, ever know even exist. There are countless pieces of art, books, movies, tv shows, songs, landscapes, animals, plants, activities and interests out there. For example, you could literally spend the rest of your life reading books and do nothing else and you still wouldn’t have read every book in existence. How many of those books that you’re gonna read do you think will touch you? With how many of those books will you fall in love? I’m pretty sure the odds are huge that there are hundreds, if not thousands of things out there that you want to live for. You just have to go find them.
If a certain aspect of a thing make you depressed, I’d try to ignore that part (in this case the fandom) as much as possible. I stopped reading certain forums or comments, because I just started to hate the community, for example. I’d try to fill the void that this leaves with something positive and new. Try out a whole bunch of new things, go read a book or start a new tv show, or go take up some classes at a community college or find a crazy hobby you might like. Chances are it won’t be long until you’ve found something else that makes you want to live. So you’ll have MLP plus this new thing, and can start to ignore the toxic and negative parts of MLP, since you’ll have something else that catches your attention.
I’m not sure if that made too much sense, I hope it did!
doggart replied to your post:Before I kill myself I would like to say thank you…
Suicide cant end life getting worse, it can only stop it from getting better. Reach out to family and friends, even Rat here-great guy! Or call the hotline at (800) 273-8255. Wishing you well!
Oh yeah, that’s a really good argument, too! I agree! You won’t stop life from getting worse, you’ll just stop. Period. Once you’re dead it literally can’t get better anymore.
I feel honored that you decided to reach out to me and I’m really happy that you like my art. I love drawing for you guys, and I’m looking forward to draw a lot of art for a long time to come.
Could you do me a favor and check out the following resources and talk to someone, please? https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/counseling_prevention_resources
Also if you want to talk to me directly via chat, my Skype is RatofDeath.
The world is your oyster right now! Go do something awesome, have fun and enjoy life. If you think life is not worth living anymore, that means there’s nothing holding you back anymore, do something you always wanted to do or just something crazy. Move across the country, go skydiving, drive to Vegas and bet everything you have on black, take out a loan and travel to the first country you see on a map, do some crazy shit and explore the world.
The world is beautiful, it’s hard to see sometimes, I know, I’ve been there. But keep in mind, that no matter how dark it is right now, if you keep going one day you will look back at today and be thankful that you kept going. In ten years, today will just be a distant memory and you’ll be in a better place.
I turned 30 in July. So old :(
Regarding that discussion, I also personally think that masturbation is something completely detached and different than sex. I don’t think masturbation is there to replace or imitate sex, it’s its own thing with its own desires and satisfactions. Masturbation is part of your sex life and in my opinion pretty important. I don’t think it can (and should) be replaced by sex (or the other way around). But again, different tastes and opinions. I know some people who quit masturbating when they’re in a sexual relationship. (Or even demand of their partner that they quit masturbating because of insecurities or jealousy, like wtf?!) I’m different than that, because I think masturbation is an important part of sexual health, as long as you don’t completely overdo it, but that goes for everything.
So when I said “it’s not comparable” I’m not grading it or saying anything about quality or if it’s better/worse than actual sex, I’m saying it’s on a completely different playing field. It’s like comparing Football to Soccer. Both are played on a grassy surface, but they have completely different stadiums, rulesets, players, play time and goals.
I think for me nothing comes even close to the warmth of an actual vagina. Not even considering all the other things that are going on in real sex. But everybody has different tastes and opinions, as long as you find something that you enjoy!
They don’t come close. I don’t see them as being a replacement or imitation of the real thing, but rather an addition to masturbation. They’re there to change up masturbation and make masturbating more interesting and diverse. They’re not there to replace real vaginas. A real vagina is very warm, contracts and tightens (you can kinda imitate that effect by squeezing down on the toys, but it’s not really comparable) is very slippery and just in general feels very different. Sorry, I’m sure that’s not what you wanted to hear but the toys are all pretty fun to masturbate with, but I can’t even start to compare them to the real deal. So it doesn’t matter too much which one you get, just get one that you think you’ll enjoy!
Damn, I forgot! Lemme change it, I’ll take the post down till it’s fixed.
Don’t worry, that’s a good question! I’m not really capable of drawing people yet. I tried a few times in the past, but in general I prefer feral things, because those are inside my comfort zone. But I do wanna expand to human/anthro slowly in the future!
Here’s an anthro OC of mine
Here’s Snow, from The Wolf Among Us
Here’s Elsa
And I think those are all the humans I’ve drawn in the last year and a half. I really should try more.
I stream pretty much ever Friday at noon PST on picarto! I also try to stream at random times during the week. This is my picarto channel: https://picarto.tv/RatofPoni
If you follow me on there, you’ll automatically get email notifications whenever I go online!
Today’s new episode was fun! I really enjoyed it, I felt like I could relate to Rarity’s struggle a lot. Seeing her all happy at the end was great. And there were a couple of super interesting ponies in this episode that I definitely have to draw soon! I’m glad we’re out of the hiatus.
Also did you guys see the trailer for the next few episodes? AJ’s halloween costume is seriously the most adorable thing I’ve seen all year long. I can’t wait to see that episode!
I’d assume pretty much the same as I feel about her owning toys of her own? She seemed intrigued when I showed her the Sugar Star. Plus I mean it’s nothing new for her, I’ve owned the Mary for years. And it’s not like you have to use sex toys all alone… :p
Afaik we’ll have multiple options available!
I’m so sorry for being quiet these past few days. My wife and I are going to change our living situation next month (and I’m gonna get my own office for art, yay! We were checking it out today and it’s great, I’m so excited!). Anyways, it’s pretty hectic right now because of all that, we’re kinda running back and forth a lot and everything and it’s only going to get worse once we actually start moving stuff. I’m still working on commissions and everything, of course, and I’ll stream again tomorrow (and every Friday after that plus hopefully a few more times per week every week) as planned! But everything might take a bit longer than usual right now until we’ll have settled in in about a month. It also might take longer to get some replies from me until then. Please bear with me. If you’re waiting for some communication or something from me, please don’t hesitate to contact me per email or Skype! I’m trying to stay on top of things, but things are hectic and might fall through the cracks.
I’m going to post a trello with my current schedule and projects soon for you guys’ convenience! There are so many fun things coming up super soon, too. New comic, a lingerie folio, a new pony Plotbook from the crew, an AJ Daki and a friend of mine got a test print of the already existing Twi Daki, which looks pretty nice, so there will be some news regarding that soon too! And that’s not even including commissions and personal pieces!
Also, if you’re one of my patreons, I’ll post this month’s poll later today! There are some very exciting options on it this month, I’m looking forward to see how y'all will vote!
But yeh, I’m super excited about going to have my own small space to work on art, I’ll be able to be quite a lot more productive that way, which is awesome and which means way more frequent art for you guys!
And to top it all off, this Saturday we’ll finally get a new pony episode! It’s a very exciting time for me right now, haha.
Sorry for all the rambling, but I wanted to keep you guys up to date. Thanks for listening!
I’m out of town till Monday evening, so probably on Tuesday!
As promised, here are the other watersports edits (with teats and with the mottling): Dropbox folder
Enjoy!
