Rat's Saucy Nest

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Asker Anonymous Asks:
Keeping myself anonymous... but I saw that you've been giving people some inspirational words and I myself was wondering if I can get in on that. my world feels black and white and I don't ever feel happy anymore. I feel like I'm bad at everything I do and that I'm going nowhere in life. Honestly... I just feel useless. (I know you're not a therapist or anything, just hoping I can get some inspirational talk from my fav artist. I would talk to friends but I lack those. Which is mostly my fault.)
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.

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Asker Anonymous Asks:
Why did you choose to draw clop with your ability. I don't mind because I'm a pretty big clopper myself just wondering.
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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!

Asker rarispy Asks:
I too am a left-fapper but what about using knife and fork? You're expected to switch your fork to the left hand when using both which I find very weird. I always keep the fork on the right, what about you?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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.

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Hey, Rat! Are you entirely self-taught, or do you have any formal art training? And do you have any tips for someone hoping to become a purveyor of smut like you?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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.

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Do you seriously masturbate with your left hand? Why not right?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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!

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Left hand vs. right hand?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

Left for masturbating, right for virtually everything else like drawing, writing, etc!

Ah, sorry for all the spam, I hate uploading .gifs on tumblr :( I hope it’ll finally work, sorry for the crappy quality!
Anyways, if that’s not the cutest thing ever, then I don’t know! The newest episode (Made in Manehattan) was nice, AJ had so many...

Ah, sorry for all the spam, I hate uploading .gifs on tumblr :( I hope it’ll finally work, sorry for the crappy quality!

Anyways, if that’s not the cutest thing ever, then I don’t know! The newest episode (Made in Manehattan) was nice, AJ had so many cute moments. It was great seeing her as a main character in an episode again. And I always love seeing her and Rarity interacting. <3

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Different anon. What should someone do if the only thing that makes them want to live (In my case, My Little Pony) is also the thing that usually makes them want to die (or at least, the fandom)?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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!

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.

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Before I kill myself I would like to say thank you for your amazing art.
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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.

Asker Anonymous Asks:
How old are you?
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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.

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Different anon, and I'd have to disagree. I've found that toys (at least, quality ones) fell far superior to an actual vagina.
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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!

Asker Anonymous Asks:
Since I'm anon here fuck it: I've never gotten laid before, out of all of the sex toys you own, whats the name of the one that comes the absolute closest to condomless pussy? And, how close does it come? Remember that even if its only 20% as good its still the closest if the others are 15% or 10 %.
ratofponi ratofponi Said:

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!

This time with cutiemark!

I’m like a week and a half late with this picture, sorry for that. But yeh, I really liked her in the Canterlot Boutique episode, she’s such a cutie. I just had to draw her. Apparently her name is Sunshine Smiles. Even the name is adorable!

You will buy those cute panties for her, right Anon?

High res here.