#follower feedback

Hello!

So first off I want to thank everyone for all their interest and support so far. I have officially selected and contacted the three beta readers, and as of just now have sent them the updated draft of Royal Flush!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered, and for sending in your reviews. They made me so happy to read, and the interest has been staggering. I wish I could pick every single one of you!

While the readers are working through the updated draft, I’ll be looking into publishing options for people interested in a copy. And I’ll be working on some of my other projects in the meantime! I’m halfway through a new chapter of “Burdened by the Stars” even!

I’ll be trying to be more active on here in anticipation of the eventual release.

Additionally, I’m almost at the next milestone for followers! Yay! I’d like to do something special for you guys. Any thoughts?

Any who, Lots of love and all the best! 

This is the best fucking compliment I have ever recieved. My brother says to put it on a T-Shirt. My friend says put it on my resume.

i’m considering making an art-only tumblr but at the same time, bc of the exodus based on shitty tumblr implementation of the 2018 ban, i’ve been focusing on transitioning over to twitter (a platform i actually hate bc it’s even harder to organize media and it constantly floods my tl with algorithm-chosen activity)

anyway just felt the need to mention that since ukiuk is circulating more than she has in a long while and some people are following! thank you! but also this is a random space and i am sadly in a stage of my art journey where i’m studying and a perfectionist so it’s sporadic how often i publish art

BUT if people are following for art i might as well plug

aerroknot @ twitter and instagram

aerrosmut @ twitter for n$fw art

i am in a constant state of thinking of opening commissions. we’ll see. i’ve been being a bit frivolous with money lately but am having to buy a new car bc mine got totaled, so i more and more consider Nov.... but then I think maybe i could afford to wait for Jan and instead try to pump up my skills by trying to get thru my current prompt list specifically for content for my DnD campaign

Hi, friends and followers! I’m trying to get my life back on track these days, so I thought it would be a good time to examine thoughts about my blog. As I climb out of my hidey-hole, I’m going to be looking at everything I do and thinking about how to be better. I’ve mentally stagnated, so I’m shaking things up as much as I can.

Please, please answer these questions for me so I can figure out what kind of content you like the most--and then I’ll provide more of it!

As you answer the questions, please try to not think about my irregular posting schedule. That’s being worked on, and I don’t need to feel worse about it than I already do.

Anyway, it’s 10 questions about my blog for my followers to answer.

Well, thanks, and I can’t wait to see what you say~! <3

It gets better.

Feeling generous and want to thank me for my work on this blog? Then please click here and donate to me via PayPal!

You can also become a patron of me on Patreon. (Literally no one has done so yet. I’m not sure why I’m including this anymore.)

I edit blog posts for $5 each via Fiverr. I’d love to help you out!

Don’t have a dime to spare? That’s totally fine! :) Thanks for your support~!

Here’s the basic data from the first enrichment poll (artificial but visible enrichment vs naturalistic but less obvious enrichment).

In nine hours, we got 244 distinct responses. 11 were discarded due to confusion/lack of application to the question. 

Of the 233 relevant responses, the number of people who prefered one type of enrichment over the other was almost equal: 88 went artificial, 89 went naturalistic. 53 people expressed a preference for both types of enrichment and 3 people had no preference. (For answers where a personal preference and a general perspective on enrichment design were expressed, only personal preference was counted). 

Of the responses, answers fell into a number of distinct categories that were user-suggested (not part of the poll question). The main five were: desire for enrichment to be visible and identifiable, signage about the enrichment needing to exist, the interplay of education and enrichment, enrichment and the behaviors it encourages being as natural as possible, and the interplay of animals being raised for release and enrichment types. Frequently, more than one topic was mentioned in a response. 

The most mentioned category was that enrichment needs signage. There were 40 distinct mentions of the need for signage of some sort, with people who preferred natural behavior mentioning it slightly more often (18) than the people who preferred both (16). 

The role enrichment plays in education of the visiting public was the next important category, with 38 respondents highlighting it. It was mentioned most frequently as an important consideration by people who preferred artificial enrichment (29) with an overwhelming focus on the fact that visible and obvious enrichment items creates openings for dialogue with visitors. 

Third, 36 respondents wanted to be able to see that enrichment was present in the exhibit. Desire for this also correlated strongly with people who preferred artificial enrichment (29) or both types (4). Reasons varied, from distrust of the zoo to provide enrichment if it wasn’t visible to guest enjoyment of being able to identify enrichment items. 

Fourth was the concern that enrichment should encourage as natural behaviors as possible from the animals, mentioned by 18 respondents. This was almost entirely a concern of people who preferred naturalistic enrichment over artificial or a mix (16) with two people chiming in who also preferred both. 

Last, seven people were worried that animals who were raised with the goal of being released back into the wild might be affected later in life due to the types of enrichment they were exposed to. Concern about this was slightly stronger from people who preferred artificial enrichment in general (4) but equal between people who preferred naturalistic enrichment (2) or a mix (1). 

This is a good question, friend.

Minors can absolutely be in polyamorous relationships. And also, adults in a polyamorous relationship can be not sexually active. That’s 100% valid. As an asexual, I am very aware of the validity and value of non-sexual romantic relationships.

I used the phrase “consenting adults”, because it’s what I usually need to say to avoid the angry messages people send me. But you are right in that the “amory” suffix does not necessarily imply sex. Unfortunately, if I were to use the phrase “consenting people”, I would get messages from other people, who think polyamory is sexual and therefore angry at me for saying “people” instead of “adults”.

I get a lot of angry messages, and sometimes I’m stuck in between 2 conflicting problems, and often I just choose the least wordy option. In this case, that has meant a loss of clarity.

Here is what I would say if I wasn’t trying to be short:

Polyamory is an arrangement between consenting people, who are all informed and have all voluntarily entered into it, but if sex is involved as well then the people consenting need to be adults (or above the age of consent in their jurisdiction).

You can probably see why I sometimes just say “consenting adults” to cover my bases.

But here’s what I’ll do - I’ll queue up 3 affirmations specifically to affirm the validity of non-sexual polyamory. I hope that will make up for you feeling excluded or ignored.