Hey! I commissioned a story from the terrific RoscoTF! You can read it here. They're open for commissions too!

Hello all! It's been a minute - both since I posted a journal and since I wrote a story.

In the meantime - surprising exactly zero of my friends - I've changed fursonas a couple of times, and I decided that if I wanted to keep posting here it'd behoove me to create a new account on which to post writing going forward.

If you'd like to follow (no pressure!) the new account is at  Gilmartin_Fitzpatrick. I've also posted my first story in about four and a half years (oh wow, I'm sorry haha) there - a quick little silly flash-fiction dog TF exercise.

I think I'll keep this account going forward simply for art favs and interaction, since I've already got a good following list and collection of favorites built up here - don't be surprised if you still get notifications from me here.

Thanks!

Hey! After some thinking I've decided to reupload my old stories from my old DogWriter account, since I know quite a few people liked those and I've been getting some interest from others.

So - be on the lookout for those!

hey everyone

it's been 5ever since i posted anything and i apologize. my mental health is...inconsistent at best, and i've been in a creative slump for a long-ass time.

i do spend plenty of time on FA tho, and i love seeing other peoples' excellent work. hopefully soonish i can add something of my own to it

only tangentially related:

i think a lot about my personal relationship with TF. scrolling thru my faves, or looking at my stories on this and older, abandoned accounts, makes it obvious that TF (specifically animal TF) is my Big Thing, and like, it has been for as long as i can remember. basically i started to realize that people turning into animals made me feel funny twenty years ago and i haven't had a moment of peace since lmao

seriously, though. i wonder sometimes if i should be concerned about that? like, i've spent the last two decades or so with a basically ceaseless stream of TF thoughts and fantasies going through my head. when i'm trying to get to sleep, when i'm at work, when i'm aimlessly driving, when i'm shopping, when i'm just chilling at home. it doesn't stop.

not 100% sure where i'm going with this, but like, that does concern me a bit because it's definitely not "normal". i have to imagine that something that omnipresent has had some sort of lasting impact on my general mental state and/or well-being. not sure if that's positive or negative lol.

i've also thought before that maybe my deeply personal relationship with TF is exactly WHY i have so much difficulty consistently producing the related content? like, my theory on that is that it's too close to my thoughts, and so if i try to write something i probably won't be happy with it if it doesn't perfectly line up with some nebulous "feeling" of mine. i know i've scrapped stories in the past for that very reason, and i'm really harsh on myself re: ideation.

idk. i'm just spilling assorted thoughts. thank you for reading down this far if you did (and i also apologize for not making much sense lol). i'll do my best to write more stories sooner rather than later, but please forgive me if i take a bit more time to make sure i'm in a stable mental state! also like. feel free to share yr thoughts if you relate to anything i vomited out here.

patrick out, thanks y'all

Hey! Thanks to everyone who's already followed me.

For those of you who might be curious about the state of the stories from my old account, I've decided to make them available for download here: https://www.filehosting.org/file/de.....Collection.zip

It'll ask you for an email address and then send you a download link - let me know if it doesn't work.

Happy reading!
Patrick