I am always trying to pull together the wider ryoxxl "lore" where the big purple dragoness xenos ethereals (Gjodo) are playing cosmic dolls house with humanity who have just over stretched their colonisation of the galaxy and are beginning to fray at the seams. These seams are where the transhuman corruptions set in and filter all the way back to terra, with lots of little storylines and settings where the outcomes tend to be very fattening and transformative! Very 40K inspired, but with less grunting man meat and more fake eyelashes and ill-fitting shapewear.

The recent Rhinoko lore is very much what I envisaged for the Gurm-like WGTFs-- a sort of dark, deeply corruptive and bloated nurgle-like force that blesses its devotees with a super trippy and endlessly enjoyable high... whilst turning them into flabby brutes with a warped but highly invigorated new sense of self. The Rhinoko stuff feels like it's an off-shoot of that kind of corruption with the whole pretty girl into big heavy brute vibe. In contrast, getting gifted with an enormously fat dragon rear, tail and a complimentary glitzy new wardrobe feels much more the big Gjodo space girl end member WGTF. Choose your kinky poison...!

I love both sorts of WGTF and stories lend so much more to the enjoyment of a weird and wonderful illustration that falls out my brain. If people keep supporting me when I go off on one with these short stories or brand new TF sequences I'll be fleshing out this a lot more! Likewise if people want more coherence, actual plots that also something I'd be interested in doing for the Gjodo stuff. It's all very nascent still.

I think this is genuinely what'd happen if you let a lot of us totally unleash our base sexual and hedonistic NEED to become a monument to consumption, surrendering all control over our physical representation on Earth to the extremes of a six figure daily calorific intake.

So many XWG stories culminate with the hoggish, mindless gorging on a feeding funnel until the subject has metamorphosed into a heaving, wobbling blob of blubber. It's part of the fantasy: what would happen if you simply devolved into a vehicle for total pleasure, letting all of your complex human nuances evaporate, simplifying your existence to a single need, and becoming no more mobile or cognisant than a sea squirt that breathes in nutrients from sea water... except you're a hole to fill with calories, sweet sweet gooey energy all wrapped up in sugar, to grow to lose more of yourself to your own psychic hijacking. You've let your mind become hopelessly addicted and each passing second makes it 10 times harder to go back.

Feeling your body expand rapidly across the floor, you know you've short circuited, you're pure id now, you tried to keep it down for years, but finally given the opportunity to turn 8 ton pig, you jumped... you grew and you let greed turn you into an ocean of greasy fat... and you LOVE every moment.

I do think that furries are much more chill with fats, and a hugely obese furry could walk into a room and nobody would bat an eye (unless they're like super hot and have a rack that could sink a battleship, because who could resist THAT). Until people get over their apparent "revulsion" at seeing fat bodies online we will always be a category... rather than just a body type. Ideally FA or other sites should simply allow people to filter on body type, rather than classify as a sub-fetish anything north of a muffin top. I think things are changing. I have no stats, but it feels like fat furry is a growing (heh) community. It's clear that fat furry art is awakening a sexual attraction for fatter people, in the same way it can open up peoples' sexuality.

I hope fat furry art can at least encourage people to see the attraction in a wider range of body types, helping de-normalise fat phobia. Obviously fetishising fat isn't exactly helping in that regard, but I do hope that fat furs are blended into the mainstream because we're all sexy, whether we're fat, thin and everything in between!

Ryoko is from Tenchi Muyo, a huge anime franchise from back in the day. Very 90s. It aired on Toonami in the early 2000s which is where I and most other western viewers found it and fell in love. Since then it's developed a pretty hardcore fanbase.

Episodes 1-13 of the OVA continuity (Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-Okhi) are definitely worth a watch. There are 3 feature length movies too that are fun and cross into different continuities. It's a rare series insofar as it began as an anime, not a manga, so they kind of went nuts with different storylines. I also like the entirely separate manga storyline enough to have bought physical copies for my collection.

You can skip the other series, like Universe/Shin/GXP/anything post-2003 unless you're curious. There's a ton of it out there with so many spin offs it boggles the mind.

Sadly, the writing fell off terribly in later seasons (read became weird, incestuous and ends with a polygamous marriage... no thanks) and it became the personal vehicle for the original creator seemingly without any checks or artistic collaborations. It's aged, like a lot of older animes, but the original character designs are peak. It's also refreshing to watch an older anime without CGI (at least the early seasons)—there's something magical about cell animation and matte painted backgrounds.

It should have been rebooted by now, but the rights are so fragmented and the Japanese creators couldn't give a flying f*ck about the western market where the original series was always popular. Because of that it's practically unknown now to newer generations, which is a shame, but it's their own fault for sitting on an IP and not doing anything with it... or worse writing turgid self-referencing schlock that totally ignores the original characters that made the IP fun to begin with (personal rant).

That said, it's good fun and worth a watch!

I am culturally more Scottish, never really losing the accent and having a strong affinity with the landscape, food culture and general openness (and broadly liberal attitudes). Scottish tories are the worst though. I love England too, as it’s where I’ve spent most of my life so far and people are in general a little more worldly down here. Some Scots will never leave Scotland! I can’t stand the English at sports. Unbearable. Plus Brexit-voting England pissed me off hugely.

Anyway! Scotland is full of the pageantry and Victorian-era romanticism around clans, tartan, bagpipes and all that’s good stuff. Do a ceilidh when you can! It’s a great way to dance yourself sober.

Nessie is a babe, obviously, and we keep her hidden away to stop ogling tourists.

Celebrate Burns night! Our national poet! Can be tricky to read the Scots dialect but my fave is the story of Tam O’Shanter—a tale of getting drunk and stumbling upon a satanic ritual in an old Kirk (church) and getting spooked teh-fuck and chased all the way back to the village on your horse by a naked witch. Great stuff… especially reciting on a cold January evening over whisky and haggis.

Eat lots of greasy food. I’ve never tried a deep fried mars bar because it’s for tourists… but grab a “Munchy Box” if you’re ever out in Glasgow or Edinburgh. You’ll gain 5 pounds overnight…! Tunnocks are also a brand of chocolate bar to look out for in international aisles too. Defs seen it in places in the US.

And obviously, don’t forget the beacon of Scottish cultural exports… Limmy.

Putting myself in this scenario (because those are the most fun things to imagine... and even possible... i'm even eating cake rn, oops), let's say as a big soft fatty myself, I would certainly be a pom-pom wielding cheerleader for helping somebody totally blob out. Like, don't get me wrong, I'd be indulging and allowing all my hedonistic desires to turn me into even more of a sofa crusher, but I have BIG feeder tendencies and stuffing somebody silly to the point of rendering them helpless hogs is super hot. If you hang around me, you're gonna get FAT.

For other scenarios, particularly the "feederism out of nowhere" type story where WG curiosity gets the better of a skinny girl or boy, I kind of like it when they are insanely bent on becoming fatter than anybody thought possible, much to the horror of their friends and family!

Leave a pencil with me and after about 10 minutes I’ll have drawn our spiky haired menace. I can’t stop. Looking back, because I end up drawing her so often I wondered if she would look good as something massive, fat and bulky—and what better than a lazy, chunky rhino? I was looking for a really really strong body contrast to play with. She makes a good cow and pig, why not a rhino? Those horns…

Turns out, it really hit the mark when I first drew her more BBW rhino design, and I received a ton of feedback and positive comments on how she looked. It encouraged me to draw her again, and in different sizes/TF levels. I even started crafting a story which I’ve nearly finished the final part of. I then started looking at other rhino characters in animation and I got super into those big dumb rhino guards from Robin Hood. Imagine if one of them used to be skinny woman? What if?

For those familiar with the Ryoko character, a super fat rhino body works because her canon personality is so brash, larger-than-life, greedy and reckless that a big bulking beast actually suits her far more than her original slender human female frame. It’s also why she makes such an excellent TF subject—she’d definitely be into it if it gave her a stats boost or allowed her to really let go. The corruption would take over quickly.

My darker, more curious TF interests have pushed her transformation much further into the unrecognisable territory as a cool way to explore extremes, and some of that more juicy girl to huge beast before/after action. She’d make a good fat brute. I still like the BBW furry Rhinoko stuff as a separate thing entirely, but it’s been a big mixture of my own artistic/kink curiosity and lots and lots of feedback from you guys! If people wanna see more I’ll draw her more often.

Thanks so much! I find a lot of enjoyment not sticking to one particular style, both out of a desire to improve but also out of curiosity. Skipping around though, I'm not sure I can ever pull off anything as good as somebody who draws the same style as a proper signature!

I also have a short attention span and need to get art out there quickly to fulfil an idea! This is where the idea of a "daily doodle" or the rapid sketches came in. Good practice, more content... but the quality had to drop. Sometimes I wanna super stylised cartoony flub, other times I want something that looks like it jumped out of a body horror comic. I do want to do more vector/sticker art. I have some plans in that department once I complete this latest batch of comms.

I appreciate the support and kind words as always, I wish I could deliver more and more, and it feels nice to be able to share even a half baked idea as a sketch and get feedback!

Good question! I honestly find that fiction writers for TF, furry and feedism manage to hit areas us artists just can't. I get crazy hot over stories... and should really illustrate some!

In terms of different writers, I have regrettably read and misplaced so many stories without remembering the writer, but two writers that stand out at the moment for me are
whatsonsecond on FA, especially because I was able to do some cover art for them and I love their StarFox stuff. For the gaining/TF and everything in between I have been a big fan of AdmiralAkbar1 on FA (WhatZ1tT00ya on X) for a while... his stuff helps in my own personal corruption.

If people have any recommendations or want to send me their own stuff I'd love that!

I've definitely enjoyed playing around with my feminine/female fox girl fursona Suzie, who has rapidly become a fave OC. It was fun to start off with the premise of how i'd like to present myself as a furry... It turns out that I ideate myself as a big, soft woman full of nurturing energy but a rock/goth gritty aesthetic to give her some gumption and strength (and match my clothing and music tastes). Strong feminine traits, fiercely loving but also sexually open are some things I'd like to have more of. It's been really fun to explore it and let it evolve. I never felt the need to have a fursona until I realised this is kinda where my heart lay, so it's now evolving with a reflection of my own personality, furry silliness, a community aspect where people are conjuring up scenarios and stories that are beyond flattering and satisfying to read. She might evolve independently into something more individual, but at the very least she's a bit of an avatar for this account and my fat furry art in general. I think she's slowly becoming more of a softie, but the party girl is still in there... a bit of a reflection of my own age.

Increasingly, because of the obscurity of her original anime source, Ryoko and her furry/TF'd offshoots are sort of OCs, hopefully not too close to Sonic recolours on DA circa 2007. People just assume she's mine when really it's just because I love putting teal spiky hair on things and going "oooh look what you've turned into" and anybody under 30 has never heard of Tenchi. It's pure theft. I've answered a few Qs already as to why it never gets old for me. I guess it's the same reason some artists love to draw Rouge. Timeless baddie girls are peak.

Occasionally you hit a rich seam of inspiration and the rhinoko and generally affinity with drawing beast-like rhino girls has been very fun, and it turns out a little underutilised in furry art. Work your niche! She's definitely grown into multiple "alts" where she's either more cuddly and anthro versus becoming an extremely transformed brute or animal hybrid. Huge personality contrasts and characterisation there. As always, when I get positive feedback for something and people start to suggest stuff based on OCs or unique designs I get a big boost and more stuff begins to spill out my kinky brain. It also guides their development and I've reworked things because I know it gets people off haha! I never know where things will take me and this one has definitely stood the test of time from a fickle artist's brain.

Altogether, there are more OCs that I am desperate to let evolve by drawing them more, adding some fluff or backstory. The Scottish cow girls + Yumi (old OC who has a Ludmilla-like TF into a big purple dragoness xenos) melded into a single universe of mythos vs xenos BBW that I can flesh out (in multiple ways) is a goal. I imagine the good "local" mythos fighting back against a draconic and malevolent xenos incursion with lots of heavy girls plotting against each other would be mildly popular, and allow for some stronger characterisations, incrementally better designs and personality development. It's kinda cool how much hotter a character becomes when you see them go through range of feelings and experiences. It certainly makes them more real.

I find that magical/instantaneous weight gain is satisfying when the weight gain or TF is sometimes unexpected or involuntary. Suddenly blorping into a blubberball is a lot like those cartoony weight gain tropes that can be alluring when it's done right, with that sudden transformation both shocking and highly contrasted with their previous shape, i.e. Ludmilla's dragon TF. In my opinion, you absolutely have to include some post-TF content to really explore how that character is reacting to their new body, whether it's horror or happiness, or a mixture of both. It's hot to combine the sudden drastic change that might have happened because of an arbitrary curse or revenge with a longer story of adaption to a permanent TF where somebody is now adjusting to growing half a ton of fat on themselves, or more.

When I write weight gain stories, sudden WG is just another mode of transformation: the changes are fast, overwhelming and uncontrollable. This feels like a more like wobbly and soft offshoot of the TF kink rather than feederism, which is much more about savouring the journey and experiencing every new pound in all its squishy glory.

Feederism and the gradual WG experience is sexy because it can describe in juicy details all of the changes to a body over time as well as the impacts of fat on lifestyle, energy levels, appetite and so much more. The psychological element of gradual WG is also exciting, with an initial curiosity and apprehension leading perhaps to denial until, finally, they give into all their piggish desires. The slow pacing of weight gain allows for a contrast in how fat changes on the body relative to the person's weight, starting off as a chubby or curvy beauty and ending with eating themselves into immobility or at the very least a waddling 400 lbs heifer trying to handle every day tasks. All angles and stages of WG are hot, and you can build kinky anticipation much more easily with the slow gain.

You also see a mix of the two quite a lot. The first 300 lbs are slow and sensual, and the final 700 lbs to turn them into room sized piles of flub happens in the last 2 pages!