The match between the lone wolf of the X-Men and the post-apocalyptic wolf of the "We allow our furries to be horny while making creature designs" IP is here. Usually big hard balls are used as a metaphor for grit, but not here, here we go literal like a bunch of dim-witted himbos that don't care if they're topping or bottoming as long as there's meat slapping other meat. Enjoy and choose the winner and rules of the next match here!
Guys this took three years, and I'm so sorry about that. Quite a bunch of things has happened. Some had control over, some not. I mean, it was still my choice to let my survival part-time job to become my full-time job. But I can't blame myself for having chosen a reliable source of income and the human connections I developed through the years over the uncertainties of being a full-time NSFW artist in this age of renewed bigotry and rampant AI exploits.
Especially considering I'm a narration-driven artist, and I'd like to keep making the stuff that resonates with myself instead of living on commissions and gigs.
But yeah, the other thing I had definitely control over was spending my time on monthly challenges, which are fun but can burn you out quickly especially when life gets in the way.
(Like having spent my Saturday afternoon building a pen for my tortoise because she has found a way to escape the backyard. I had to use scrapped wood, and it looks very post-apocalyptic.)
But I'm satisfied this time I took a week to review my work, have the dialogues edited and fixed some visualization errors before posting in a rush. This is clearly the best-looking piece I've ever posted, and it's saying something considering I drew over years-old sketches for the most part.
So, what now? I'll work on all the rewards and commissions I've piled up in the last few months, and I'll write the next chapter according to your choices. While writing and editing the match in one go, I will from now on post it in batches of 4 pages, which will also diminish the intimidation factor of laying out an entire match in one go.
Maybe I won't be an artist that lives exclusively with his art, but I won't stop dreaming and pouring all of my time in the thing that makes me happy on a deep spiritual level.