You don't usually realize that the last time you speak to someone might be the last time ever, but it always can be. I didn't know Dragoneer personally but I considered him a friend. We worked together on some art, he was always a help to me, and from my experience, he was a really good guy. I hope he's reveling in that eternal bliss people talk about, but as for us down here, we'll miss the hell out of him.

Hello All, hope you had a nice Halloween!

Some of you might remember the old donation gift art from 2006 -2012; very occasionally a query or contribution trickles in about it. For which I am grateful, but as I detailed in a journal years ago, eventually I'm going to pull them completely so I don't have to babysit this embarrassingly out-of-date collection of work. I'm just making a formal statement today that they are officially unavailable for purchase. I thank you for your contributions back then when I was feverishly desperate for money.

Please do not ask me to send them to you or just randomly send money, I will have to return it.

Thanks for reading, take care!
-Tanno

Hello,

Just wanted to apologize for being very absent lately. I've taken way too long to get back to the few people who've commented or noted, but I'm not really online much right now. I know that seems odd in this day and age, but it be true. Been super tired from work, still struggling with art. FA is literally the only site I use social media-wise and I haven't felt up to even that much. Just in a funk, I guess.

I wish you all a safe and happy autumn and Halloween! 🦇🎃🦇
-Tanno

My thanks to everyone for your thoughtful advice and encouragement on my last journal! I was actually able to get some art done yesterday, it felt pretty good. I have yet to complete any of it, and who knows if the productive streak will continue, but it did feel like it used to for that day. It was partly due to a sudden desire for a familiar fetish.....for me, stuffing is not a constant thing. Like a stray cat it comes and goes as it pleases and I never know when it'll show up again, but a few days ago it turned up on my porch asking for kibble. Additionally I'm trying out some different styles for my characters, to keep my interest and make the work a little simpler, especially where the painting stage comes in, which is a lot of what I'm having trouble with these days. I'm also thinking I might need to draw in new places other than our apartment, where other diversions sometimes sidetrack me. I'll see.

Thanks for tuning in and offering your help, I am always grateful to hear from you guys :3

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It's been a year since I've posted a journal, apparently....

Well. Creativity and I haven't been getting along. I thought once I was fully done with commissions I would start getting work for myself done, but that just
hasn't happened. The hardest part is that it doesn't really seem to bother me. It bothers me that it doesn't bother me. If that makes sense. It's not as though
nothing I draw comes out right, or that I can't think of what I want to draw (which is an artist's block I'm familiar with) I'm just plain not motivated.
I have a lot of ideas I'd love to see made, but going through the motions of doing that isn't fun anymore. It just feels like work. So when I have free time I
choose other activities. I'm not really sure what's wrong with me.

The internal fantasy I've always had in my mind is still active, the thing that helps me cope with gender dysphoria and regular old boredom, I just haven't
produced any drawings from it like I always used to do. I even tried working on some simpler ideas, just random "easy" characters for practice, and they don't
go anywhere, or look like anything, and are never finished. I look at other people's work when I get around to browsing submissions here and I feel that inspiration to draw, but nothing comes of it. I don't know, it's been weird. I hate the thought that my time as an artist could be over, does that even happen to people? I've always drawn. But now I'm kind of in a weird state where I don't know what I feel like doing.

Does anyone else feel that way? How do you dig out of it? I know for sure I was burnt out from so much commission work for so long, but I figured I just needed to give it some time. Now a year's gone by and I still don't feel much like getting back to it. Took me a long time just to finish this little avatar thing I just made.

That aside, I hope everyone is doing OK? Preferably great, but I'll settle for OK. My partner turned me on to the wonderful world of VTubers, now I spend my lunch breaks watching Ironmouse and the Hololive crew, they're all fantastic. Also Wings of Fire 15 is here at last! And waiting on The Wild update to Minecraft. That's pretty much all the things. Ima try and get more drawing done. I'll figure it out......

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I will no longer be taking commissions, at least not for the foreseeable future. If you want the whole run-down on that business, you can read it here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9722562

But I am rather excited to focus my efforts on to my own work, which will show up here eventually. After I play a little Minecraft. So, I'm trying to migrate my FA presence from  Squeakie , an account that served me so very well over the past decade, to this one, where I explore my own interests. I am unspeakably grateful for all the support I've gotten from folks over the years, I couldn't have gotten by without your help! I'll still check up on Squeakie of course, but the galleries there are filled with the inspiration and characters of the people who've commissioned me, and not representative of me personally. So, we'll see what happens.

Best wishes to you and yours in 2021!

Been 5 months, I need a new journal.

I'm a huge fan of Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series. I know it's for kids and I'm old, I don't care. Dragonslayer was the most recent book and in my opinion, it was one of the best so far, I loved it. The interplay between dragon and human was really fun to read, and it's got me voting for a someday-mutual-understanding-alliance between both cultures. Why, my dragon persona doesn't even eat humans! I see him more like Winter, fascinated with the weird little primates and the confusing things they do.

I so wish one of the animation studios would make a WoF feature film for us, and give it the treatment it deserves. Not run off the rails like they have with other adaptations. *squint* Maybe not Disney, they'd censor the hell out of it. Can't show blood or violence, that's unbefitting the Disney "brand". Pff.

It's late and I'm rambling. Which tribe do you belong to? I'm a SeaWing.

Later Friendos.

Thank you very much to all who watch me here! I'm sorry I haven't had much of anything to post. Three submissions in one year isn't so hot. Most of the time that I'm not at work is spent on commissions because of my precarious financial situation. There are so many things I've started for myself that I haven't finished......I have to get better at managing what little free time I have.

Anyhoo, I hope you all have a happy winter season and all the best to you in 2020!

[For those who don't know: I tried to make a living on art alone a while back, it didn't go too well. I was desperate for money and asking for monthly donations and in exchange, I drew up an exclusive pic or comic set as a thank you for contributors. Kinda like Patreon before Patreon was a thing. I haven't done donation art in a long time and I hope I won't have to start it up again.]

Recently a few people have asked me if the old donation art was still available to buy, and yes, it is. I don't plan on offering it forever mostly because I don't want to lock myself in on a promise like that when who knows what will happen years from now. But for now, they're still here. If you're interested, I've put the list up in my scraps: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/32781871/ If you have any questions, please read that info first before commenting.

Here's a sample collage so you get an idea what I'm talking about: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/32781889/

I've also heard from a few people that they've tried to contact me through an old e-mail address that I don't have anymore, duoradon@sbcglobal.net. It's super confusing to me since I had updated duoradon.com (which is gone now) with my hotmail ages ago, so I don't know how anyone is still seeing the old address. PLEASE please don't send payments or messages to the sbcglobal address, you won't reach me there.

So, if you'd like to buy any of the artwork listed above, please contact me before you send any money. I can be reached at duoradon at hotmail dot com. I'll need you to tell me which pics you want and where I can send them. These are fairly old pics, 2006-2012, and they are JPEGs. I'm not planning to revamp them into great big PNGs and they won't be posted in my galleries; they are what they are.

Thanks for reading!
-TR

Anyone who's known me for more than 5 minutes probably knows what would draw me in, here. I have a thing for a man with stubble. And a gut. The way they render Peter in this is truly spot-on, I love the way he's not really fat anywhere except the middle. His chest isn't flabby...I love arms that are toned but not grossly developed. And arm hair. And feet. Off track.....

Fat aside, I loved everything about this movie. I'm so glad we got the chance to see it in the theater....the animation was fantastic, I love the comic book style, it was funny, actiony, and the story was engaging....sweet, without being sappy.

One thing I found particularly intriguing was the juxtaposition of Peter B. Parker with his blond counterpart. It's something that makes his character very relatable...he's looking at the idealistic version of himself: pretty, talented, popular, no glaring flaws. It's why so many people are so taken with celebrity, but that's not real life. The majority of us aren't pretty, we have problems, sometimes insurmountable ones, we screw things up, and the whole city won't grind to a halt when we pass. But that doesn't mean we don't have value, can't accomplish great things if we try.

It's easy to feel for Peter especially if you're not just unpretty, but socially awkward. "You're weird". I get that one a lot. I take it as a compliment. Because there's a lot of weirdos out there, which means there's someone to love you the way you are, all unperfect and beat to shit.

Plus Stan Lee was there. We sure will miss him.

Ok, the flood of uploads is at an end, thanks for your patience! And thank you for the watches and favorites :) If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me any time.

I didn't expect to have any watchers yet, thank you guys! :) I'm in the process of uploading selections of my older work here, so for the next several days you'll have some spammy inboxes. My apologies.

I won't make a journal on Squeakie about this page until I have the old stuff up so you won't have so very much "hey I already saw that..." Then non-commissioned images over there will be deleted as they now live over here.

Thanks for watching!
-T