Due to life circumstances, I've been unable to take up drawing for quite some time now, and I figured it'd be a waste to just have my drawing tablet sit on my desk collecting dust. Which is why I am now offering to sell it to the Newgrounds community - or at least those who live in England :)

This Wacom I have is a Wacom Intuos Small Black, complete with a tablet, stylus and lead. It is in brand new condition with no damage or wear on it whatsoever. I've lost the original packaging but that won't be a problem, since I can always find another box to put it in for shipping.

Because of its new brand new condition I'm thinking of pricing this thing between £50-60, though I'm more than willing to negotiate another price. I currently live in the South of England, though any aspiring artist from around the country is more than free to hit me up.

I'm gonna have to sadly decline any international shipping since I'm not very familiar with the process myself, but anyone living in mainland England is free to hit me up if they want to buy this from me.

This is not an urgent plea for money or anything like that - I'm perfectly financially secure - I just think this tablet is better off in the hands of someone who is actually aspiring to be an artist, instead of someone like me who doesn't even have time to use it.

If you live in England and wish to buy this from me, just hit me up and we can discuss further details. Using PayPal would be preferable :)

Have a good day space robots

tl;dr - This is a post about why I gave up ownership of the Underground Artist Bunker and have subsequently ended all my endeavors on Newgrounds.

I've told a few people about this and I've talked about it a few times on the BBS, but I never made an "official statement" regarding why I gave up ownership of the Underground Artist Bunker server.

For those who have no idea what this is, you can leave. If you're still here, basically I made a Discord server where all the small artists of NG could congregate and share their art/advice/whatever else with each other, in a fun safe environment, if you will. It was based off this thread, which I made way back in January last year:

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1463308/1

It was also in January that I created the server, and for about nine months or so I oversaw it. Then in October I gave ownership over to @DesertSage, and then I left the place without any real explanation. So now I will give it.

I just got really fed up with my time spent on Newgrounds and with the NG community in general. I'm not laying the blame on anyone, I'm not victimizing myself. Truth be told, I came to realise that I was truly wasting my time on this website, trying to be someone I wasn't, trying to fit in and make a sort of """career""" by riding off the success of others, whether through my fanzine or my podcast or anything else. I had no real personality or creative vision of my own to offer anyone; at least nothing that would get any attention here on NG.

Newgrounds nowadays just feels like a hallow shell of something I can't describe. It's not very active - even with the new influx of people - and in general it just doesn't feel like a place where you can grow much of a following. You won't ever "get noticed" by any larger groups or people on Newgrounds; you get some miniscule recognition by whatever community there is here and that's about it. You can't grow much of anything on here at all. Once upon a time you could, but now there's a website for everything Newgrounds is trying to be, and those are the places people have flocked to. And in a way, that's what I was trying to do too; be something people would want when everyone else was already doing it better than I was.

I've also grown to resent a lot of aspects of "artist culture", and the mentality a lot of people have when it comes to their art or creations and trying to grow a following. I can't really describe it, but there's just so much about it that rubs me the wrong way. I don't want to be like all these people or try to represent them. I wish I could describe it better but I can't. So much about all of this just feels so off.

I just feel like I've spent way too much time trying to build my own community, just for the sake of having one. It hasn't just been NG-related stuff; this is a problem I've had for many years. It's not healthy at all and I want to rise above it. If I end up becoming successful for the stuff I make, at the cost of not having much of an online presence, that's fine by me. I'd rather my work affect actual real people than only be known online.

I've certainly been working on projects outside of NG, and I feel secure in saying that you won't ever see them on here. As I said, it's pointless trying to grow a following on here, because none of it will ever matter. If I ever do grow a real, substantial following online, it'll be elsewhere on more viable platforms; not on here.

I'm not mad at anyone who was in the server. I'm mad at myself for thinking any of you could ever be my friends. Now it's up to me to put these past 2.5 years behind me and focus on something more productive with my time. A good challenge for sure, and one that ought to be rewarding in the long run.

Pinging those for whom this post concerns:

@DesertSage, @SaucySaucepan, @WokioWolfy, @GenericAnime, @JustRigo, @Rxxou, @MellonSnow, @MatthewLemons, @OlTrout, @StickmanMarkinson, @heartcandii, @Kerriska, @NeoBlueRose, @OniDraws, @FedericoBorrelli, @HELLFIREOWO, @RikoriStorm, @EpiphetSoup, @The-Great-One

Hello all. Surely many of you have that one thing you just have to "confess". Whether you need to vent or rant about something going on in your life, or you have an embarrassing or weird story to tell, there's gotta be something deep down inside you need to get off your chest.

I want you guys to send me these confessions of yours. I will gather up a decent number of them and I will read them out in the form of a podcast episode, while giving my thoughts on each and every one of them. I feel this can be entertaining and also a way of validating all your experiences.

The "confession" you send me can be about absolutely anything, as long as it's at least a little personal.

You can send me your confessions to me at havythecucker@gmail.com

You can use this service to send them anonymously: https://anonymousemail.me/

Or you can just DM me your confessions if you're feeling brazen enough, though I won't reveal your identity.

Stay safe fellas

Welcome simps and thots to the first installment of NSFW Artist Interviews! This'll be me, Havrylo, interviewing hentai artists and speaking to them about their origins as an artist, their craft and style of work, advice for other NSFW artists, etc. and so forth!

Today's pilot interview is with my good friend @Edeshye, a Brazilian artist, animator and game developer best known for his text adventure/interactive sex game 'Cute Neighbour', made in Flash right before the program's end-of-life in 2020. Today he speaks to me about his plans for quitting his regular job to pursue a career as NSFW game dev, his reasons for sticking to Flash, his upcoming projects, his advice for other aspiring NSFW artists, and his efforts to create his own style and identity for the 'Edeshye' brand!

So I guess my first question is pretty simple. How would you describe yourself and the work that you do?

I'm a dude in my late 20's who realised that a regular job sucks and it's better to be our own boss. Therefore I started Edeshye, in the hope that I can live 100% out of it one day. My work is essentially human hentai games, where interactivity in the sex scenes is key. I try to make it as interactive as possible, with the player being able to choose the speed, to grab the girl's ass and things like that. Quite unfortunately, the "dying of Flash" thing limited my exposure on that matter, because Flash is the only thing I know basically, so I got stuck to uploading videos (for now). But I keep working with Flash, the difference now is that the sex scenes are only interactive for patrons, because they can download the content and play on their computers.

I can imagine it must be difficult knowing you'll basically have to learn an entirely new program if you want to get a lot bigger. Do you feel comfortable sticking to this "sex scenes only interactive for patrons" setup or do you think you might try tackling new game dev software in the near future, like Unity or anything else?

Yes, that was a bummer. It's really simple to code on Flash, and that's why I can make games on my own - I'm not a programmer, you know - and having the possibility to animate and code on the same software is just awesome. This first semester I uploaded only videos, and even saying there were interactive versions on Patreon, I didn't get anything close to the exposure I had when I launched Cute Neighbour last year. In my opinion, my animations got better, but games get way more attention, so it didn't matter. So I decided to change strategy again. I'm currently making a game for Halloween and I'm learning simple things on Unity. I'm still using Flash to animate, but the game will be on Unity. I'll use the animations made on flash, so it will have its limits. The full interactive versions will still be on flash, but I can only hope I get a nice exposure with this game.

That sounds like the perfect opportunity to talk about your games! Obviously you make interactive sex games, and you're a bit of a self-admitted amateur. Your breakout project was undoubtedly Cute Neighbour in 2020. What would you say makes your games stylistically unique compared to others? What really makes your games part of the 'Edeshye' brand? What about them makes them you?

I think I'm still learning what's my style. I've launched very few things, and the last of them wasn't even a game (it was interactive, but it was just the sex scenes). But now like I said before I'm back making games, and what I aim for with them is for people to really have fun while playing them - even if they don't want to fap. I really want the non-fap part of my games to be entertaining, funny and challenging. And as a reward for their hard work, I really want the player to have a good time with the sex scenes, of course.

About the sex scenes, I think what makes my games different is all the interactive things, grabbing the girl's butt, boobs, hair, controlling the camera closer of further away, this kind of stuff. That and the vector style of the art, as opposed to hand drawing or painting.

That's interesting. What inspired you do to go for vector art specifically?

That wasn't exactly a choice. Flash is the software I know, and it's vector-based, so there you go, heh.

Good point. Do you think you'll ever branch off and try incorporating things like hand drawing into other projects?

Not actually. I get along fine with vector, so I don't see why I should try to fix what's not broken, you know? Heh.

Fair enough. What actually inspired you to get into the hentai biz anyway? At some point your mind must have gone, "Hey, I wanna make sex games now!" How did that come about?

So, I was a kid in the 00's and I ended up playing some hentai flash games like Frank's Adventure or Galaxy Angel Sim Date, and I really had fun playing them. I wasn't just horny, those games really had me having fun and laughing. I played a lot of other stuff on Newgrounds and watched all the animations, and that got me wanting to learn flash. I started learning it but I never really made something serious. I recall making some hentai stuff just for fun, but never uploaded them and never got to finish them too. This was pre-Patreon.

Life went on and in the late 2010's I started seeing all these Patreon accounts of hentai artists and games, making tons of money. I was already going on with my life, but there was this thought like, "Maybe someday I'll search for someone to make games with me." After a few years I thought, "You know what? I can do this shit on my own." And here I am now. Surely I'm just beginning, but I do not intend to stop!

Right on! And on that note, would you say there are any particular artists that inspire you or influence your style?

In relation to the game style, those I mentioned are definitely a direct inspiration. In relation to the art and animations themselves, I surely follow a lot of hentai creators, but I don't recall any of them being vector-based.

If you were to give advice to any other aspiring hentai artists, what would it be?

For games specifically, make teasers, post your stuff on erotic games subreddits, make sure to have a link to your page hardcoded in your game (people WILL pirate - and weirdly enough, this will help you grow).

But I guess the most important - yet most obvious - is: produce! If you don't produce, don't expect to get patrons out of nowhere.

Apart from that, I could surely use some advice myself! Heh.

That's a good point! Regardless of how well we get, there's always room to improve and take advice from others.

I think that's about everything I wanted to ask. This was actually really cool! I'm glad you were onboard with it.

My pleasure! Any time!

You can follow Edeshye on:

Patreon

Gumroad

Twitter

Today, May 31, was the day I first hatched from my egg in the pigeon nest into this world. This horrible, corrupted, anti-furry world.

If you're wondering how old I am, I am old enough to be your grandmother!

Let me know what you're getting me!

Let's talk priorities, and what that means for a disgusting little pigeon like me!

So my biggest meaningful impact here on NG has by far been my podcast, or multiple podcasts. First there's The Hav Show, which I've kind of put to the side right now for a number of reasons. The biggest reason is that it's mostly NG-centric; lately I've been more busy with IRL priorities and therefore have not had as much time to be an NG sleuth. But also I've been caught up with other projects, the most relevant one here being my second podcast, Nol's Therapy Mansion. Make no mistake, I'm still continuing that one, but as of late I've been coming to a bit of realisation of things.

I'm realising that if I actually want to make someone of a career for myself in the arts and entertainment and all that (which is essentially my goal) then, well, I have to go beyond this Newgrounds stuff. I originally kind of just thought that I had to have an extensive digital footprint in order for anyone to even give me a glance, which I still think is true. But it's become pretty clear that Newgrounds isn't actually my ticket to that solution. If I really want to show that I'm serious about doing something out there in the world, I need to build a legitimate resume outside of that.

Which is part of why I've started to return to writing again, which I'm pretty happy about! I'm currently writing a "novel" of sorts that I also plan to make a screenplay version of at some point down the line, which will look great for me and on my resume. I'm still learning to draw and podcast and all that, but they aren't my main priorities at the moment. I think it's safe to say I'm not going to be some amazing popular hentai artist anytime soon, just realistically speaking. And also, as much as my podcast(s) is still a show that I've done something, it's not, like, that huge of a thing, right? It really ain't.

I get it, I could flesh them out over the next year or so to make it so that they're real, concrete things I could actually present to people more successful than me. And that's probably what I'll end up doing! But these just aren't the things I'm going to be riding all of my potential future on, that would just be irresponsible of me.

There's probably more I could say and this might not be the most well-structured post, but this pretty much sums it all up relatively well. I'm still going to be putting projects up on Newgrounds - whatever they may be - though other important projects outside of NG are going to (hopefully) be taking a front seat.

Nol's Therapy Mansion Episode Three will be out hopefully relatively soon. I won't give any deadlines because that'll just make it a whole lot worse. So yeah, stay tuned for that if you're one of the three people who follow me closely enough to be bothered!

Cya,

-cringe pigeon fursona

There once was a pigeon. He was born in a communal nest along with dozens of other eggs, because the right of pigeon couples to build their own private, monogamous nests had been revoked from them when the exotic birds took over. He was raised without parents to speak of, relying only on his fellow nest-dwellers for support throughout his early years, never having any parental figures to guide him.

But he soon realised something: he was really different from the other pigeons he grew up with. While the others were rowdy and developmentally challenged due to a lack parental guidance, but he found that he needed only himself to stay sane, growing and smart. He never did have much desire to play the degenerate games of his fellow pigeonry, and he dedicated himself fully to his education. As a young teenager, he demonstrated outstanding performances in a series of entry exams for the prestigious local preparatory school, and he eagerly accepted when they offered him a spot. The school was dominated by robins, vultures, eagles and other exotic birds, and he felt blessed to be among them. He was going to become an elite, an intellectual; nothing like the mongrels he was cursed to call his species-mates.

At the prep school though, he realised that being a "good" pigeon was not enough to save him from endless discrimination, harassment and general mockery from his peers. His teachers never called on him; he was ridiculed way harder than anyone else when he made a mistake; he was constantly bullied and called a flying rat; and he could swear his teachers were giving him lower marks for no discernable reason. But he pressed on, convinced that this was all mostly justified because, after all, he was indeed of a lower species. He was the one who needed to prove himself.

Eventually though, through endless hard work and many sleepless nights, he emerged with outstanding grades and got accepted into an Ivy League university. He couldn't be happier; his efforts had finally paid off and here he was. But at the university, he rather inadvertently got acquainted with some... unconventional characters. He met a group of other pigeons at the university who had gotten in based on pure merit, skill and triumph much like he had, but they had far different outlooks on their situation in the world than him.

He learned from these pigeons that, in reality, the conditions for those like him and how they grew up were rooted in deep historical roots of systemic speciesism. When exotic birds arrived on the land that originally belonged to the pigeons, they signed a series of treaties promising the pigeons would keep their own designated land in exchange for the exotics getting their own land too. But the exotics quickly went back on these treaties and invaded pigeon land as they pleased, stealing everything from the "flying rats" as they were dubbed and forcing them to live in segregated communes cut off from the rest of society. Pigeon parents were then forbidden from raising their young and forced into separate communes once they were able to lay eggs.

Why were all these horrible laws enforced? Well, the exotics saw the pigeons as primitive and beneath them intellectually, due to their comparatively modest Mesolithic-era way of life, compared to the highly advanced civilisations the exotics had built for themselves. In reality, the pigeons lived in much different conditions than the exotics; the barren landscapes they were native to were nothing like the rich areas the exotics evolved in. But the exotics perpetuated the idea that pigeons were inherently at the bottom of the "bird hierarchy" and thus most accepted their systemic oppression.

Our young uni-bound pigeon soon came to the most formative conclusion of his life: not only had he been wrong all along about his place as the species he was, but the system he had lived under had him be consumed by internalised speciesism and self-hatred, rather than embracive of his individual strengths as a particularly intelligent animal. He realised this horrid system he and his fellow pigeonry lived under needed to be dismantled, and only with violence would success be possible.

This pigeon's name was Havrilicious Cucker, and together with the other pigeons he met in university, they formed the Revolutionary Pigeon Nationalist Collective (RPNC), a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary organisation dedicated to bringing down the institutional exotic supremacy all around them. They purchased hundreds of guns, swords, armour and other military gear from black market merchants, and it was from here that they quickly garnered a following and soon had dozens of other pigeons wanting to join their ranks. Within just a couple months, they had garnered exactly 50 highly fanatical members, all purebred pigeons with extensive training in military combat and revolutionary political theory.

Some notable members of the 50-strong RPNC included: Justyce Rigo-Jamal, who produced propaganda music for the organisation on their indie-run radio station; Kerriska Hampton, an elegant erotic artist who distributed softcore pornographic magazines for the RPNC as entertainment; Matthew Lemoassiter, who produced propaganda cartoons featuring RPNC members; and Heart Candilliard, the token female of the organisation who co-wrote the RPNC newsletter alongside Havrilicious.

And then, on the day of April 20, 1969, at 13:37 in the afternoon, the RPNC gained worldwide notoriety. The day prior, Havrilicious delivered another one of his powerful speeches, in which he announced that the group would be leading an attack on the very university he had attended. They would sack the building and kidnap as many exotic birds as they could, holding them hostage until the government agreed to give them equal rights.

Everything went to plan. The RPNC laid total and utter siege to the university, destroying books and other supplies left from right, burning down large sections of the building and capturing dozens of exotic students and staff, holding them hostage at their headquarters out in the countryside. Vulture-dominated police surrounded the complex and demanded they surrender. Havrilicious came outside and announced that all hostages would be freed if pigeons like them were to be no longer treated like dirt by the system. The cops hastily agreed, and with that, Havrilicious and his followers all exited the building.

But this was all part of the plan. With the cops still surrounding them, Havrilicious took out a remote and pressed a big red button, setting up a series of explosives all across the property, killing all the cops instantly. With that, the crew got in the police cars and drove off to city hall, where they burst through the doors and shot every exotic politician they saw. Within a matter of hours, the coup was completed; pigeons now ruled the city of Wingborough!

Today, Wingborough - now named Columbidaeborough - is over 95% pigeon-populated, after the vast majority of the exotic population was chased out after the 1969 coup.

Havrilicious the Great was my grandfather, and there is no one in this world I have more respect for. And now that I've finally gained 50 fans here on Newgrounds, part of me feels just like him, and his little group of 50 revolutionary followers who destroyed anti-pigeon racism completely for the first time in modern history. It makes me feel that one day, we can truly achieve a world where pigeons are not only equal, but have ALL of their land back!

So, thank you all for 50 fans. I hope my antics here on NG continue to attract even more of you. Perhaps one day, we will have DOUBLE the size of the Revolutionary Pigeon Nationalist Collective! Only time will tell.

@Ozone started a thread about projects us NG users are working on and he went out of his way to make fanart of all us in response to our posts, including of me. This is my Discord pfp now! :D

Thank you Ozone, this was pretty cool to wake up to! Hopefully this will lower my chances of a pending HBO lawsuit in the future.

I've been making these underrated artist checkout posts on a fairly regular basis since November, and I've been pleased enough with how things have been going. My posts are always received warmly and I even got a shoutout on the Tank Tribune, which was pretty awesome. Things have also been going decently enough with the Underdog Artist Bunker Discord server, if it a bit slow, but still doing well. We have around 40 members and growing, so things are pretty cash money in that regard.

But, what else do you guys want from me? I suppose it's a tad bold to even assume I'm important enough to ask such a question, but seeing as I have 35 followers already I feel I'm qualified enough for this stage in my Newgrounds career. What else do you guys want to see me do to help the artist community here on NG, or just anything really? I know some of you thought my shitty zine last year was a cool idea, and honestly I wouldn't hate to try and revisit something with it.

I have in fact been trying to expand my base outside NG. I have a FurAffinity account that I plan to do similar things on (shouting out underrated artists and the like) though it's pretty bare right now so I'll wait until I've actually done something to link it.

I'm planning on going to an art college in the next year or so, so obviously having a digital footprint that I shows I care about art communities is important both personally and career-wise. So anything the communities I reach out to want to see, I want to be there to make it happen.

So yeah, I think I've rambled on long enough lol. Thoughts?

btw here's the link to the server for anyone interested: https://discord.gg/zaGfwHaQJ8

Will this year be better or worse? Well if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that truly anything is possible. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.