My personal letter to you, about my belief and goal as an artist. (Pixiv Fanbox)

[Luci's Letter to all, about belief and the direction Luci is taking...]

As you all know, I have been in this community and been drawing tickle lewds for a long time, ever since it was rather minor, niche fetish that not much were out there in the past.

Along those time, I have faced many controversies and questions surrounding the kink. Types of characters (Furries, unique characters, ocs, smols etc - which were not the "oridnary" by norms back then. Some people even argued that lewding over fictional character was considered "weird" by some.), types of situations, drawing methods etc etc...

People were yelling and screaming, calling each other disgusting... lots of attacks and defences about what's "right" or "wrong"... and lots of SHAMING among each other.

I have seen many people who were affected by the shame, stereotypes and mean look the public gave - I usually call it "social pressures" - that created more stress and depression of those people than they should be facing. It forced people to feel shameful about part of them, and also forced them to repress the side of themselves.

I, too, in the past (when I wasn't too sure about what I was doing, and not experienced the community long enough) was too scared and affected by it a lot back then.

I even deleted my own DA gallery because of it and poofed for some years out of blank fear.

All in all, I understand why people give these social pressures on each other.

It's in our instinct to fear what isn't familiar nor in our circle, and we need to know enough to control and manage something before it creates chaos.

When we see something we do not know well enough, we fear, alert, and even antagonize something we aren't too sure about in order to survive from it.

Who would know, this random unseen mushroom could harm you, right?

When we are not part of something, it's our instinct to fear, and be cautious, and stressed.

The easiest solution to that is not being near them and shoving it under the bed, hoping it just disappears and hoping it was a BAD thing I am avoiding.

However, that mushroom will never be analyzed by doing so. We gotta spend time, observe, and see it from all sides in order to see what it truly is and how much of our fears were true and to be careful for.

THAT I DID...

by being in this tickle community for about 10 years.

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With all the experiences, time, and people I have met in this community for years have taught me one thing.

We are all very different from what society tells who you should be, and that's where the beauty, and happiness lies.

I have thought I was wrong, weird and perverted (in a bad way) by enjoying what I like, and I thought I was in danger by being in a community where a lot of sexual art passes by.

But nope. I have never harmed nor intended to harm anyone ever, and feel quite happy with the current lifestyle and people I meet here.

I have met so many wholesome people here, just being regular same ol' people I see out there. ***(of course, some places and some people are legit dangerous. Internet is literally no different than RL with bunch of random people after all so make sure you learn about each person carefully)

I never expected to make so many interactions with cool people in a lewd community, but this lil' community we have become my everything to work hard and have passion for.

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This part is basically my thesis statement, and what my job is all about.

My beliefs about my job and this community:

I have spent years and days pondering, thinking, organizing my thought about what it is to be a lewd artist, and how the lewd art community should be. It has been a controversial topic for many, and I too, have spent so many hours analyzing about it, and here is my conclusion so far.

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1. Fantasy has no victim.

Whatever you draw, and whatever you desire from the fantasy characters - it's all in our heads and imagination. It doesn't directly harm anyone.

Despite that fact, the reason why we make it adult-only and being careful about where we share and how we share is because it requires the viewer to be mature and old enough to know how to distinguish fantasy vs. reality.

What you see doesn't change you as an adult. You already learned the reality enough to know how to not let it change who you are.

Fantasy and art exist to let our imagination flow and entertain you, to give you a boost through the harsh, heavy reality. I personally consider it as a can of beer after hard day at work.

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2. I do believe that everyone deserves respect especially with sexual things

Because it's one of the most sensitive parts of ourselves and denial (and disrespect) can lead to major mental / physical damage that can break people.

Not just by sexual assaults and unwanted flirts - but also by disrespecting your taste and shaming you. It really hurts when someone gives you an eye for what you like - it gives you that feeling that you are "wrong" and "bad" for liking what you like.

THERE IS NO WRONG TASTE.

Taste and desire is not your choice. It's what you are born with.

What SHOULD BE judged upon is HOW you use them - THAT's your decision.

As long as you aren't harming anyone for your taste and controlling it to not affect your RL directly, no matter how "weird" it is doesn't make you any worse nor better than anyone.

At the end of the day, the true happiness and control comes from acceptance and embrace. Never from repression and denial.

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3. Art is vent.

We all have sexual desires. It's just like hunger. There is no shame in that.

The true shame is when you take away what's others, in order to feed your needs.

In that, I believe the healthy way of sexual desire is with fantasy rather than repression.

Many cultures in the past have tried to repress sexual desires for political, personal, and sometimes religious reasons but repression has never succeeded in controlling the sexual desire or at least it always leaved the scar in people's minds.

I have seen so many people messing up by forcefully just containing the desire by repressing it, denying it, and even self-beating it -> which inevitably bursts out in a wrong manner IRL and explode in a wrong way AND in the end make themselves depressed by constant denial of themselves.

How would we ever take care of our hunger by just repressing it and demonizing the desire?

Restricting it will only make the hunger stronger, and will eventually make people violent for not being able to fill the basic instinct. Better to find the substitute and healthier way to negotiate with your hunger rather than straight up repressing it.

Back to fantasy lewd... It can let people fill their needs enough to help people not look for false abrupt RL way.

DO THING IN FANTASY HAPPILY, CONTROL IN REAL LIFE is the main message here.

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Ultimately...

My goal is to help people feel more eased up about what they are into, and able to respect each other as an adult who just has funky taste - AND to enjoy yourselves as who you are and what you like.

Life is too short to fight against yourself and let others shame you for your healthy needs.

Use that happiness and energy to do better at your job, and be a happier person that spreads positivity to others.

I will do my best on my part to figure out what is the healthiest, and happiest way to embrace ourselves without shame nor danger.

Let's work this out together!

- Luci