April is just a cursed month for me, isn't it?

For those of you who don't already know, just before 9:00 AM PST on April 16th, 2025, my second Deviant Art account, TheOneHungryLurker was, just like its predecessor, black-bagged and sent to the work camp/shallow grave of indefinitely suspended by the NKVDA, with no prior warning or lesser penalty, even in spite of my increased mindfulness of their stodgy, inconsistent, capricious, and frequently hypocritically enforced content policies.

My the-size-of-the-former-twin-towers-of-the-World-Trade-Center-quotation-marks "crime?"

"Attempting to evade a ban."

Apparently, also previously unbeknownst to me, the NKVDA will purge any new account you make if a previous account of yours was banned, even if it was over litigious, bad-faith enforcement of policies that proved to be so unpopular that they were revised to no longer be a ban-hammer-catching "offense." Despite citing them in the notice sent to me, this "no re-entry" policy even insinuated, let alone mentioned nowhere in their Terms of Service or Etiquette Policy.

I didn't write this sooner due to being very busy are work (Friday and Saturday were back-to-back 12+ hour shifts) and waiting on the results of my appeal, but after a curt response from either the AI or NPC "Nick," straight up asked me to snitch on anyone else who may have made a rebound account, AFTER upholding my second BS ban (nice negotiation tactics there, you feckless fuckwit; maybe read The Art of The Deal sometime, assuming it doesn't burn you eyes like a vampire staring into the sun), I've been stone-walled by silence.

I don't know if I myself was snitched out by any of the lifeless, loser spurgs I've antagonized over the years as an Eobard Thawne levels of petty slight (though I have my suspicions...), or if I fell afoul of the soulless AI that the NKVDA left in charge of content moderation, but in either case, I'm fucking done with Deviant Art. They've been persecuting blueberry inflation artists for twenty fucking years; Ive been around long enough to remember when they first started deleting Johnny Swell's posted pages of The Bizarre Adventures of Berrygirl.

You have made me your enemy, Deviant Art. I won't even help you get a single click more. I was only ever on your dog-shit, increasingly degenerating site for the (mostly) very fine people, anyway, and I will now do my part to lead away as many of them as I can, free like like the poor sods in Plato's cave, that you may be reduced to as an inglorious, ignominious, pathetic state as Tumblr, assuming you don't go the way of Sheezy Art.

Like Pontius Pilate practicing hygiene before the pharisees, I wash my hands of thee. "Deviant" Art has only ever been "deviant" like Hazbin Hotel is only safe edgy (and headed by honorless curs).

So, my denizenship on Deviant Art is done, but my time in hopefully greener pastures has only just begun. Last Christmas, I opened up accounts on both Twitter and Archive Of Our Own, but due to cramming to try and finish Christmas Eve with Genevieve and restarting the ultimately futile relaunch on DA, followed by precessions of one thing leading to another, I never got around to posting anything there. However, I have now begun to upload all applicable works to those websites as well, and they will become new mainstays along with Fur Affinity, Pixiv, New Grounds, and Itaku that will receive new uploads whenever I have them to post.

So, if you'd like to help me rebuild my following again (and reduce Deviant Shart to Deviant Fart in The Wind), you can follow me there, too.

https://x.com/TheHungryLurker

https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheHungryLurker

And finally, speaking of murder at the hands of ideological zealots and resurrections, I wish you all (had) a Happy Easter.

Hello, my faithful followers. I really appreciate your enthusiastic support for my art, although I do feel bad that I have to make you wait for, on average, a month or more in between uploads, and that's without mentioning on how taxing this is on the saint-like patience of my commissioners. I often wonder if this is one of the main reasons why traffic to my galleries is so relatively small... but then I look at extremely talented artists like Jinxed-Juice, who has been around for less time and up until the beginning of this month had and even more sparse unload schedule than I do, but has amassed a bigger following that I ever have, and I can't help but wonder WTF I'm doing wrong.

But, back to the question at hand, my recolor of Busrtoid's Beached Blueberry Arezu did surprisingly well, especially here on Deviant Art. So, I was wondering if you'd like to see more content like that; more recolors of inflation art color corrected to blueberry inflation (or maybe even other fruits if the inspiration so strikes me), that I can make in an hour or two (yes, it takes me that long; I suck at doing everything punctually) ever week or two during the month or more it takes me to finish a single drawing.

I will, of course, ask the original artist's permission first before recoloring and reuploading their modified work, with full credit and links to their profiles, obviously.

I'm conflicted myself. To me, the argument for yes is. first and foremost, more content. hopefully generating more traffic to my galleries, pay respects to artists whose art I admire but can't always must up enough time to write an entire essay to tell them how much their art is significant to me, and, of course, more illustrations of women turned into giant blueberries.

But on the other hand, the "no" argument is every second I spend changing someone else's work is time I'm not spending creating my own, and I piss away demonstrable protractions of time as is. And while there are some exceptional recolor artists out there (shout-out to DaBigSauce), he is just that: an exception. Recolors are cheap, easy, and can devalue the work around them in over-abundance. There is a negative stigma around recolors for that reason, which could mute the appeal of my galleries in the first place.

However, since it is you who will or won't be looking at them, I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not that is more content that you'd like to see. If you want more recolors, or want me to focus solely on original work, let me know in the poll below:

https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4RPxkga

I'll leave this poll open probably until I upload my next picture, and I really hope to hear your feedback up until then.

Who knows: there might even be more polls in the near future...

For all of you who enjoyed and favorites VA-11 Hall-A BA-11 00-NS: Alma & Jill, first of all, thank you but furthermore, if you enjoy the additional stories I sometimes include with my pictures, Valhalla Balloons now has an included story!

It wasn't originally posted with the picture because the drawing was actually completed on the 5th of February, and the story just took THAT long to write/figure out how to write. I tried stepping outside the style in which I usually write, which came with a lot of growing pains. I was trying to write something more like a noir, where everything is short, punchy, dark, and psychological... only for it to end up being the single longest picture-adjacent story I've ever written; far, FAR too long to be posted here on New Grounds, unfortunately, but it can be found in full on Fur Affinity and Deviant Art.

I hope it is to your enjoyment!

Speaking of which, In other news I had meant to announce this all the way back after I posted Christmas Eve with Genevieve, only to get swept up in work and working on the Alma and Jill picture (I started work on it all the way back on January 3rd), but I got a new Deviant Art account.

Unfortunately, given how finicky, sporadic, contradictory, and even hypocritical the NKVDA are when it comes to enforcing its own content policies, so much pictures that involve nudity with juice leaking from the blueberries nipples exist merely in a thumbnail, preview only state, and pictures featured aged-up characters have only a perfectly normal, safe-for-work placeholder sketch. For the sake of not jeopardizing my new account, they are only available on sites like this. However, I am testing the waters a little; pictures like Warden Blueberrezu and Valhalla Balloons I have posted in their full, uncensored glory, so if those remain unmolested after enough time, I may consider resorting others to their full state, too. The one exception will be for aged up characters, though, especially (unfortunately) Hilda; the NKVDA have an absolute, frothing, leaking, undeflatable hate-boner for content of Hilda.

If you'd like to help me rebuild my presence on Deviant Art, you can find me here:

TheOneHungryLurker

To my fellow countrymen and women of the United States of America, but to all my associates abroad as well, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving!

Today is a day of celebration, to express gratitude for that which you have earned, through either diligence, thrift, or benevolence, and more so the things you are blessed to have.

Of course, this doesn't have to be delegated to just one day, nor should it. It is impossible to live a life with true, meaningful happiness without gratitude. No matter how little you think you have, only by being thankful for it can you truly appreciate it, and then it won't seem so small. If you're reading this right now, it means you have access to electrical power, a computer device, and the internet; that's an extraordinary amount to be grateful for. Yet you could have all the world, but it would be but a hollow trinket unless you cherished it for such the wonderful thing it is.

It's been a wild year so far. I have lost many things, but gained many, too, and held onto things I hold dear. I am thankful for the friends I still have and hold so close. I'm thankful Reee Tardy Oswald missed. And I am thankful for you, yes you, reading this, and that you've stayed with me through it all, or found me again after my greatest loss this year... though, if one social media account on a crumbling art (and AI slop) hosting site was the worst thing to happen to me this year, seems like a pretty good year.

To use the topic of social media as a segue, that begs the question for something that I've been pondering for a while:

Should I get a Twitter account?

With Deviant Art slowly going the way of Tumblr, and being the largest social media website on the planet (and very notably lax terms of service for art that's posted there), Twitter by default seems to be slowly overtaking Deviant Art as the world's largest art hosting site, if it hasn't already. And though I have seen growth on both my Fur Affinity and Pixiv sites, my audience on all my current galleries combined is still barely more than half of the audience I had on DA.

However, even putting aside the kind of discourse and chaos cultists that abound on the site has likened me to compare Twitter to taking a stroll through The Warp without any Gellar Fields active (watch the movie Event Horizon if you want to know what that's like), I have also personally disparaged how Twitter is, bar none, the absolute worst layout for assembling portfolio of your artistic work. It's endless, single-file feed system means your invalidating and burying your own work. Yet, unfortunately, Twitter's user base is still astronomical, and is also the main if not sole site that many artists post their work, even those whose work I highly admire, like Raikovjaba.

So, below is a poll that I'll be linking to on all my accounts: should I also set up a shop in the greenest pastures of all, or close myself off to it like a Custodian closing his mind to prevent Slaanesh from entering? (No more than he/she/it has already gained a foothold, at least.)

Should The Hungry Lurker get a Twitter account?

IMPORTANT NOTE: I cannot stress this enough, even if the overwhelming super majority vote "Yes," Twitter is not the site I want to become my primary gallery, due to how truncated conversations on posts are by strict character limits, and my aforementioned disdain for the site's browsing layout. Therefore, I would only ever upload teaser thumbnails of pictures, current and new, with links in each post to my current galleries, where I actually want my audience to engage with me and my art.

Again, on this day of thanks, thank you.

As some of you are probably already aware, my main account on Deviant Art was deactivated on Thursday, April 18th, 2024. This was not by my choice. It was terminated by Deviant Art Staff.

Here's what happened.

UPDATE: Italicized text is just speculation of the possibility of one event playing into another, and given the second update bracket, is likely inconsequential. While the timing is certainly suspicious, "suspect" is not a synonym for "guilty."

On April 11th, I got into an argument with another user named iamtheladyoflight, a fundamentally untalented "artist" whose work all screams "mid-to-late thirties spinster with baby rabies" and whose existence I only mildly tolerated, over, of all things, her pro abortion beliefs. (Stew on that divine comedy irony for a minute.) I didn't have the foresight to save the whole argument before she hid it, which lasted only a total of six comments, but I was keen enough to screenshot the first half, linked:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56334959/?upload-successful

Afterwords, we blocked each other and went our separate ways... or so I thought.

On April 16th, I had four of my pictures -- Massive Maternal May, Persona Permaberry - Ann Takamaki, Carmine, the Indigo Blueberry, and Happy Birthday from Hilda -- removed by Deviant Art on the claims that they contained "sexualization of underage characters," despite the fact that I made an effort to both show and explain that all the characters within them were meant to be depicted as eighteen years old or older. But others were targeted as well, such as Not To See, But To Feel: Part 3 (I'll be honest, that one doesn't surprise me), but so was "Nice Blue Balls, Bro." deleted for "violation of sexual policy," despite the fact that there isn't even any nudity in that one.

I was only on the site as TheHungryLurker since Christmas of 2021, but I've been lurking Deviant Art since some of my watchers were still in diapers, so I know that the NKVDeviant Art staff don't typically remove something unless somebody reports it, and Lady herself once said to me "never underestimate what I can do with enough spite." I'll admit this is speculation on my part, but there is at least a suspect and motive.

Either way, after those first four pictures were deleted, I attempted to reupload them in a heavily edited state, where almost everything but their heads were obscured. This just resulted in more take downs, and a permanent ban.

I've filed an appeal, but for all I know that's just going to amount to piss in the wind. Even if my original account is reinstated, I'm going to direct people more towards and increasing my standing on my accounts outside of Deviant Art, such as this one. And if I do make a new DA account several months from now when the heat has died down, I'm going to do the same thing. For now, none of my current plans involve Deviant Art. Time will tell if my future plans don't involve it, either.

[sighs] Rimou was right.

UPDATE: A user claiming to be iamtheladyoflight has contacted me and stated that she had nothing to do with my pictures being reported, only that she blocked me after our argument and moved on and offered their condolences for the situation. I personally cannot independently confirm or disprove if this user is Lady, or if she is, that she is indeed telling the truth on the matter. Then again, I have also stated from the start that my speculation of her involvement is exactly that: speculation, and that I also cannot confirm or disprove her involvement. So don't go doing anything rash like mass report her profile without irrefutable evidence of her involvement. We must abide by the precept that people are innocent unless they can be immutably and objectively proven guilty.

I did something rash, and my Deviant Art account got deleted for it.

I forgot to announce this on Christmas Day, due to working until six in the morning to finish Carmine, the Indigo Blueberry, then having to write the entire accompanying story the same day, posting it and Taoblockaka to all my accounts, having to contact a few friends, and getting less than three hours of sleep that day, but I decided to announce a special offer for everyone else who entered a candidate for the Christmas Drawing poll.

If you entered a suggestion that didn't win, if you would like to submit your request as a commission, I'll give you a 25% discount on the commission price!

Standard prices are as follows:

Line art: $15

Flat color: $40

Cell shading/coloring: $60

Full dynamic coloring and lighting: $80

Add a background:

Simple: $20

Detailed: $40

Complex: $70

If you'd like to reserve a commission slot, you will be added to my list, and your commission will be completed in the order in which it was reserved. This does mean it will take longer to get to than it took me to finish the drawing of Carmine, as I do have other commissions in front of it, but I don't ask my commissioners for payment until after I have gotten their approval to color the final line art.

I look forward to doing business with you.

Thank you again to everyone who submitted a candidate, and thank you for all the love for the picture of Carmine. I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and that we'll all go on to have a new year as filled with happiness as blueberry girls are filled with juice!

.... and a Happy New Year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqiKWZuaKds

(And a happy anniversary to me.)

With almost a full quarter of the 82 votes cast and over twice as many votes as the second place candidate, the clear winner of the Christmas Drawing Poll is...

Acrosianfan1's suggestion for:

Carmine of Blueberry Academy from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC as a gigantic, flirty blueberry!

The matter is now out of your hands, and into mine, as I will be doing everything that I can to have this picture completed and posted on Christmas Day, 2023!

Thank you everyone who participated in the process! If your suggestion didn't win, don't feel too bad; you're still getting a free, giant blueberry girl for Christmas, and maybe even some other surprises as well!

Now I just have to finish a drawing that could take me up to 50 hours in a week... help me, baby Jesus...

I'll see you then, and Merry Christmas!

What a time it's been already! There have been some surprise standouts, multiple leads lost and taken, and some shocking upsets! There's still time left, but it's running out!

Cast your ballot, and share this poll with your friend, and you can get your favorite PokéWaifu inflated for Christmas!

VOTE HERE!

https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBEPABQgJ/

That's it; the primaries are over and closed. Thank you everyone who submitted a suggestion!

Now it's time for the real competition to begin! Below is a link to a poll hosted on Straw Poll, where all eighteen of the nominees have been listed with a name, picture, and a succinct description of their expansion/transformation.

The candidates were organized at random, so be sure to look over the entire ballot before casting your vote!

Everyone, of course, can only vote once, but don't let that stop you from sharing the poll with your friends or on your social media sites!

The poll will remain open until Sunday, December 17th, 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time, then the winner will be drawn and posted (God willing) on Christmas Day, 2023.

It's time to vote for the Christmas Drawing!

VOTE HERE!