Rat's Saucy Nest

“Online.” lol. At least when strangers ask!

All of my close friends do know about my art in some way or another, tho. So it wasn’t an issue telling them. For friends who are less close or for family we just tell them we met because we were both in the same fandom, most of the time we also say it’s because of ponies, just no details, haha. Our wedding also had some subtle pony references (Appledash cake topper, our friend who was the officiant made some references in his speech, each table was the colors of one of the mane six, etc).

So yeh, in general people know we met because we’re both into art or ponies and that’s how we started talking on Skype and then met up in real life for the first time at a convention in New York! (Bronycon ‘12)

Oh and that reminds me of something! One of my wife’s friends apparently was aware of my blog, so after we started dating and it turned serious and she told her friend about me, the friend was all like “wait a second, are you talking about Rat?” The world is small.

I showed her your ask and she started smiling like crazy!

Thank you so much! I know I’m incredibly lucky to have her. 

Also, I think she feels the same about me liking her work, haha.

We started talking 5 years ago because I drew fanart for one of her clopfics about Appledash. And now we’re married. So, she approves! :D

Thank you so much! I love working with all kinds of different artists, too. Because I always discover someone new whose art I can admire.

Also that reminds me that I should be drawing more Applejack! One of the pictures I’m working on right now is a Rarijack piece, I hope I can post it soon!

Aw, thank you so much! I’m really glad to hear that you liked it.

Y'know, you said the exact same thing about the Plotbook 2 back in the day. And I was very patient with you then, telling you it’s not a scam, sending you photos and providing preview images. I will tell you the same thing about the Plotbook 3 now.

If you did end up checking out the Plotbook 2, 3 is the same deal, just new pictures and slightly different artists than last time. All pictures are 100% female and feral. Each of the six artists has a few exclusive, completely new pictures in it for a total of 10 new and exclusive pictures. Plus 30 pictures that are already part of the artists’ portfolios, but weren’t part of the Plotbook 1 or 2.

The Clopbook is only tangentially related to the Plotbook series and is a completely different project with a wholly different premise.

There’s a lot of info about the new and past Plotbooks out there. They are not “100% confirmed scam” and we never falsely advertised anything, as far as I know.

If you think those books/digital folios are scam, don’t buy them. I remember you take issue with virtually every existing folio or book project out there as well as with artists who run patreons. So I really don’t know what to tell you. Because I’m sure I’ll get the same message from you again the next time I’m part of a project. As will everyone else involved.

It’s totally fine if you don’t want to spend money on these things. I understand. There are a lot of very valid reasons why someone doesn’t want to support these kind of projects. That’s why I try to provide most of my content for free. Even the exclusive pictures of certain projects I’m part of, at least as soon as I’m allowed to. But just because you don’t like them, doesn’t mean they’re automatically a scam. Plus I’m sure you can find the exclusive content out there anyways if you’re interested in checking out the quality.

Thanks for listening.

Hopefully next week! Still tweaking the background and then as soon as I get approval from the commissioner!

Haha, exactly! <3

When I wrote the title of the last post it reminded me of the same thing and I almost rephrased it. Glad I didn’t, and I’m glad my brain isn’t the only one that works that way!