Making things awkward (Inspiration Blog) (Patreon)

I wanted to issue a partial apology for my post regarding the O'hare Madam fusion from a week ago.

I know shouldn't let it get to me, but I tried my best to take as even of a tone as I good regarding the issue as I could in that post, but some patrons... former patrons took such offense to what I said and dropped their pledge directly afterwards, saying that I "Wasn't engaging with them in the way they had expected" and "I wasn't acting professionally."

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So I'm of two minds of this. On the one hand, I certainly don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. But on the other, I would like to say if the tone I took in that post was enough for you to think less of me, then maybe I'm not an artist you should be supporting.

I'm not a "customer is always right person." I'm just an artist that hopefully is doing enough to keep your interest.  

And me typing out things like this, and addressing you, YOU, is me attempting to be as professional as possible by letting you know what rules are with the expectation that if you take issue, you can always tell me what you think.

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But I do also realize that I made a mistake by not elaborating on why I don't want to draw that request. So if you were at all confused by that post, please read the following.

Madam and O'hare are for all intents and purposes, exact opposites from my roster. They represent two adversarial sets of morals, beliefs, and actions. And while this may not mean much from the outside viewer who only see's them in porn, as the creator of these two characters I feel deeply protective over maintaining that consistency.

Madam was one of the first characters I ever conceived upon becoming a furry, and have served as a litmus test for my outlook on things, starting from when she was nothing but fodder for scat porn up to even now where I have ambitions to make a web comic centered around her. I understand how cringe-worthy it be for an artist to oversell their OC's and get "ooh my precious" about them. But I'd rather keep Seymour Skinner as Seymour Skinner, and not an Armin Tamzarian. (And if you get the Simpson's reference, give yourself 5 points.)

O'hare despite what has yet to be written was created at a time where I considered leaving the fandom altogether. And in a bellwether leap of faith I threw out something that ran counter to so much I had done before when I couldn't have known if it was going to work or not. It was a paradigm shift from how I used to make characters (Monkey See, Monkey Do) towards how I make characters today, (Invent for yourself first), and had this not happened then there would be no Frogs, no V3 Zoey, no Vouge, no boxing Gill, and none of the other characters I've created this year.

But when it comes to drawing them together, its not a case of Chocolate and Peanut butter for me. No. It's like Toothpaste and Orange Juice.

With the fusions, the fun I've been having has all come from me contemplating what does this imply for the characters involved.

Most of the time this goes off fine because the characters aren't super dimensional. Fusing Gill with Leguna for example was funny because the outcome was goofy and neither of their characters were immediately harmed by the mixture. But Madam and O'hare? Two characters with whom I've thought the most about? You might as well be trying mix matter with anti-matter. The two can't touch without annihilating each other.

So sure, I could probably whip up a superficial mixing and matching of features, but I'd be miserable drawing it. And that is why I was so adamant in saying no.

Now are there any other No's you all should know about?

In terms of fusion? None. Those two are the only two and as far as I can tell will always be only two.

 I don't know if I'm just making the idea more enticing by talking at such great length about it, but I believe that if you're generous enough to be a patron then you deserve the full explanation my actions even if doing so means making things awkward.