Fold Me Tender

Fold me sweet
Never let me gooooo... 🎤🥱

Is that what Yasha's coach sees when she's training him? 😛

Or is that him trying to outsweet Andrzej's "Beautiful Cinnamon Roll" 😋

Beautiful Cinnamon Roll

Nice topping by the way!

Anyhoo, it's been a while I did this half-Chinese half-Siberian and he was my first 3D character, so apparently quite dated, so I actually remade his whole model from scratch today to see if I can make him cutier :3

What do you think? 😄
Angelic face! I want to kiss every one of his freckles! 😙
Aww, thank you! 😊
Yuni, you can't make him cuter. It's just... impossible! <3

So relevant, realistic and a little sad that Yasha eventually stopped identifying himself as Russian and became Siberian/Chinese. But his decision is easy to understand... Especially since he is married to a Polish guy. ^^
In some stories Yasha is also from Snowberia, in others he's from Mount Hardy, and in a recent story he's a priestboy in Armbury. In fact, I remember him even visiting Melonie in a certain story! XD

I also have storyless (yet) pics where he looks like a Persian prince (still waiting on an idea for that one), and another showing him as a futuristic JRPG boy from Cyberia XD

Years ago, I made a story about Yasha from Russia since one of my friends designed a character called Sasha from Russia:
yuni.us/from-russia-with-love

So we thought that maybe the two knew each other and we even made up a fictional city called Moscowburg, which housed their organization, Kremlin's Gymnast Boys (KGB for short XD). So you're probably talking about the pics from that period of time. Sadly I haven't been in touch with that friend much these days, so my own ideas may differ, though I still enjoy the idea of Yasha coming from Siberia.

...I recall I even have a story about cloned Yashas, parodying the fact he has so many alternate realities ;D
Thank you very much for the explanation, Yuni!

You mean you have unpublished images of Yasha? Please share them with us! Yasha is probably my favorite character you created. And I'm not alone, as I understand from other people's comments.
At the moment I have almost a hundred unpublished posts, almost a dozen of them about Yasha. Unfortunately, I can't publish them any faster - usually I prefer waiting for comments on my latest post before uploading another one, and this often takes days, if not an entire week... So I'm just growing heaps of unpublished content these days D:

But on a brighter note, I'm very happy to learn that Yasha is your favorite character! Recently, a friend told me my website lacks any memorable characters and engaging stories, which probably causes visitors to lose interest quickly since I don't have any major ongoing story that could catch their attention for a long time. So I'm glad these accusations are not entirely valid :3
Yuni, I'm not sure what your friend meant. I can only speak for myself... Yasha, Martin, Nathaniel, Leslie, Wolfie, Helmut, Helen&Kyle. I never miss images and stories when I see these names in the tags.
I'm looking forward to more art and stories about Vincent, the monster-cocked femboy. And Sarah... I wonder what will happen when the gravity of her boobs exceeds that of the sun. ^^
I still think that images of anal and oral sex with Raphael can be hot as hell...

Maybe you should even more clearly separate and define the roles of the different characters in your world. Their personalities, passions and appearance details. Make a card for each character on your site, where there would be their basic characteristics and a short biography, as many erotic artists do. And then try to stick to these characteristics in the stories and images. People seem to like this approach. But I'm not sure.

And I'm not sure it will affect the number of comments. People are much more willing to comment on erotic art (including femboys and transsexuals) on Twitter. But even there, popular erotic artists usually only get a dozen comments per thousand likes.
I must admit, I don't have a clear plan for all the characters and their development, since I mostly create them spontaneously based on ideas that come up while drawing or writing. But I think they still have certain recognizable patterns, even if they're not bound to just one specific story like Aladdin or Peter Pan.

For example, I don't believe that Martin would perform rock songs on stage, though can totally see him grooving like a dancing queen with a huge hardon in the middle of the audience; while Wolfy would likely never spend a whole evening in a photo studio unless he was the subject and needed a stack of hot nude shots for the deluxe edition of his latest EP.

But I feel that limiting them to a very specific profile would be kind of boring, because sometimes I enjoy imagining Martin as an infantile prince who cannot sleep without feeling the soft fur of his teddy bear against his massive erection, while Wolfy can easily appear as a young barbarian boasting about taking a giant minotaur dick while those silly villagers can't even do half of a horse cock. Still, I am uncertain about how to incorporate these ass-pects into a coherent profile... XD

About Twitter, I really can't stand the sort of mindset that many people have on that platform - each comment reeks of new ethics and desperate attempts to fit into some sort of mold of a perfect person that society has recently created in its head, while in reality just doing what makes them feel 1 inch above others by constantly putting others down or acting like they are more superior than everyone else around them.
Well, I didn't mean to limit your imagination. I'm here because I really love your artistic imagination... I just don't know how to explain my thoughts using my poor English.

For example, I think you once mentioned that Martin wasn't originally designed for contortion, but in the story of how he met Erica, they met because of their shared passion for contortion.

But at the same time, we know from many of your images that they are both crazy about teddy bears. From this comes the idea that they met because of this shared passion, quite naturally and elegantly. For example, when they went to the store to buy a new teddy bear for their collection and in the store they both grabbed the same teddy bear at the same time.

Once they are well acquainted, Erica tells Martin about her forest people - horny teddy bears, and Martin in return lets Erica see how much he loves his own teddy bear. She is delighted with the show and wants to take photos. The photos turn out to be very bad, because she doesn't know how to take photos at all. She's upset. And then Martin becomes her photography teacher...

Thus, it's not the new story that gives birth to new traits and interests in old characters, but the traits and interests of the characters collide with each other and give birth to a new story.

If we want to give a character a new, unusual trait, this is a big topic for a big story and will require a lot of imagination.

Something like that.

I mentioned Twitter because it's easier to comment there and you can customize who can comment on your posts. Also, from my observations, the popularity of femboys on Twitter is only growing, and not all feminine young men are changing their identity to a female one and getting fake boobs. Because in recent years they are increasingly finding love and understanding being who they are.
Of course, Twitter can't replace your website.
It's a good idea for the Martin/Erika story but the part about adding traits was somewhat unclear. It seems you suggested changing the way I write future stories instead of just including character profiles? I believe it may not be the best course - if, for example, Andrzej had a profile saying he's a young Polish contortionist, an orphan who loves black cats, works at a circus and excels at back-bending - then each and every story would revolve around this same young Polish contortionist who's an orphan, loves black cats, works in a circus and is a great backbender. "Here's your box, put yourself into it" XD

Either way, this is a dilemma I think we should leave up to commercial writers striving to maximize profits. In my case, my main priority is that my art and stories don't include everything I can't stand about other creators:

1) the constant inclination to sadden or demean the reader;
2) using shock factors like violence to make their work "more realistic";
3) making characters go through unnecessary hardships because the author couldn't think of anything better;
4) adding flaws to their protagonists just for the sake of them being "relatable";
5) focusing too much on character development with the idea that the character is supposed to change ("grow") throughout the story;
6) always putting people with different opinions against each other to initiate conflict;
7) depicting well-being as superficial and easily breakable;
8) promoting cynical and pessimistic viewpoints as a sign of "wisdom";
9) preaching about how the life is meaningless and the world is dark and cruel, while sitting in a comfy chair;
10) thinking that writing unpredictable plots with lots of twists and turns makes the work more engaging and deep;
11) believing that characters must suffer before they reach happiness or success;
12) portraying villains as cowards, selfish, vengeful, narrow-minded, power-hungry, "evil", "crazy", etc;
13) thinking that characters need to be flawed, emotionally scarred, constantly troubled, insecure and excessively dramatic to make them "interesting";
14) believing that their story has an important message or moral, while having the IQ level of a 2nd grader;
15) being proud of having done research on real historical events and actual cultures/ethnicities and using it as an excuse for boring, tedious and blatantly biased narratives...

After reading only a few books by other writers, I could go on forever. All I can hope for is that my stories never resemble any of those books I've read.
Dear Yuni, the cat thing is a funny example, of course. But look... If Andrzej is a cat lover, and suddenly in a new story he is cuddling his beloved dog, the reader is slightly puzzled. "What happened, Andrzej? Why are you doing this? How did this happen? What did I miss? I've known you for years. Leslie loves dogs, not you. Maybe you are Leslie, not Andrzej?.."

If cat lover Andrzej suddenly fell in love with dogs, and received a new characteristic "dog lover", then there was a reason for it. The reason can be realistic, fantastic, magical, mystical or even just humorous. But it is definitely a reason for a story. Or there can be no story, so that the reader tries to guess for himself what happened. But it must be a conscious decision of the writer for some reason.

The same goes for Martin. If we create a character who is not into contortion, but loves photographing naked girls and contortionists, works part-time as a nude model, and collects plush toys, then he is unlikely to meet a mistress of horny teddy bears when he practices contortion.

It's... like chemistry. We have many different chemicals whose properties we know, but when they interact with each other in different combinations and under different conditions, they react in the most unexpected and interesting ways. And stories are born. In my opinion, this is fun, not boring.

Something like that.

I agree and disagree with the list you provided, or rather with your interpretation.

I understand that you are talking about the commercial exploitation of literature, about the use of proven techniques and templates in order to maximize profit. However, I believe that any of the items on your list are quite acceptable and the author has the right to use them in creating a story when he uses them for some of his own creative reasons.

But in any case, I was not talking about literary cliches. I was talking about character development. Well, for example, there is one point linear perspective. The fact that one point linear perspective will be used by an artist who thinks only about his own benefit cannot cancel or devalue one point linear perspective...

At the same time, the artist has the right to partially or completely abandon the use of one point linear perspective if it does not suit his creative goals.

My thoughts were prompted by your words about people becoming less active in commenting and by what your friend said.

I just thought that maybe my idea might seem interesting to you. Or, even if the idea turns out to be bad, then maybe it will help to give birth to some good idea.

Personally, I love your art and your stories as they are.

And I'm sorry I haven't commented on your art in years. I know the huge size of my posts won't make up for the many years I've enjoyed your art without giving you anything in return.

Thank you!
Sasha M
That makes more sense now! Your suggestion was actually about writing stories with characters whose traits have been established beforehand. In this scenario, each new story revolves around these predetermined characteristics which could potentially lead to conflicts/challenges for the characters and create interesting plots. It would require much more effort from me as the writer because each new story would need to focus on how the character overcomes these obstacles using their established traits. This is quite similar to what goes on in most commercial fiction.

It's true that this approach can sometimes generate interesting and unpredictable interactions between the character(s) and the story setting/world, but at the same time it often leads to situations where the author needs to forcefully stretch the character's traits beyond reasonable limits in order to make them fit into a certain situation or conflict (this is called "lazy writing" in fandom). Also, such stories may come across as predictable since there's no room left for the character's personal growth or any significant change in their traits/preferences. The character's personality becomes static, stale and dull after only a few stories like these.

That said, it could be an interesting challenge for me if I were to experiment with this kind of writing style one day. Maybe I should give it a shot? XD

Regarding your opinion about my list - yes, there are exceptions to every rule, especially when it comes to creative expression. But let's face it, the vast majority of mainstream literature follows these patterns either consciously or unconsciously. As you said yourself, they are considered standard techniques and templates for creating stories that sell well. However, I believe these techniques are detrimental to genuine artistic creativity and originality, which is why I prefer not to use them in my own works.

And finally, thank you very much for your kind words about my art and stories! It means a lot to hear that someone appreciates what I do, especially considering how much effort goes into each piece. Don't worry too much about not commenting on my stuff before - sometimes life just gets in the way, and we all have different priorities and responsibilities. What matters most is that you still find enjoyment in my work even after all these years! <3

Take care and keep those comments coming! :3
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