Pokemon-TF-Fan

I'm not going to beat around the bush this time: this page is dead.
I no longer wish to update this page as much of the work on is so old that it makes me cringe just looking at it. I apologize for anyone who looked forward to seeing more from me, but this is simply how it is.

Things are not so bleak, however!

As you may have gathered from the title of this Journal, I have started a new dA profile, ClanPunktaku. Rather than the normal "post everything I ever do," I will be using that profile to accept and post commissions and works of which I'm particularly proud. I encourage all of you reading this to head over and even watch the new page. I've already got a three part story posted there and another on the way. It would be even more helpful if you would commission me!

That said, RIP Pokemon-TF-Fan. We knew ye. Then ye left us for several years without a word.

I've stumbled upon this really cool game called Transformania Time in which you basically take the form of whatever your many opponents decide fits you best. It's a great forum for RP, as well as a great amount of fun! It's updated often and allows the players to write up the characters for the games! On that note, I've decided to write a character for the game. It's based on an RP I've been having with a friend on that site. All forms on the site have an accompanying image, and as I'm sure you'll agree, I can't draw. I'd like to commission (with real, actual money) an artist to create an image for the form. All images on the site are either 3D models or digital drawings, so nothing done with colored pencils will work, unfortunately. Please understand that this image will be going public, and if you allow, your name will get out there if the form is chosen by the admins of the website. I don't want to give out too much information, but the form is basically a neko princess. Please send me a note if you have any further questions and are interested in making a bit of extra cash and getting some extra recognition.

I know I'm the queen of announcing my own return and then not following through with it. That said, I'd like to try another comeback to dA. I'm not saying it will work for certain, but I have an idea. No, it's probably not going to work, but it's worth a shot. I want you to give me ideas for a long story in the same vein as Within, Ten Years After, and Cynocephali (was going to be). I'd like to include some sort of TF aspect into it, simply because that's what I do. So here's an open forum: Give me your ideas! I'll try to remember to update this journal with ideas I'd like to try. Please don't feel bad if I don't accept your idea. It doesn't mean it's bad. It may just mean that I doubt I could make a full story out of just that idea.

So give me your ideas for a story to write and I'll give it a shot. Hell, if you want to collab with me, I'd be open to that as well.

I consider myself a punk. I go by Punktaku on the internet (outside of dA, of course). I am, however, straight edge and I do my very best to respect all opinions. When an opinion becomes hateful, however, I must speak out. As many of you know, I am a citizen of High Point, North Carolina. I've been a proud southerner for most of my life, but now I must revoke any pride I had in my region. Pat McCrory, our wonderful governor, has finally put an end to perverts who wish to circumvent the law and use the bathroom opposite of their sex to sneak a peek at young men or women when they are in a rather vulnerable position. Why is this wrong? Because I can no longer use the women's restroom in public. I am a MtF transgender. I am in the process of transitioning. I can think of very few people who don't know this about me, yet my family still calls me by my old name. I am Cass, not Taylor. I am her, not him. I have to deal with this everytime I'm in public with family. But I can deal with that. If I need a break, I excuse myself and head into the restroom for a minute of alone time. Now, I can't do that. Recently, I have decided to look for a job because I'm a broke college student. Now, I can be refused employment on the grounds that my gender identity does not match what's between my legs. I like to think that I pass fairly well. Now, when I enter a bathroom, I can be sued for trying to be perverted and look at women in the stall: something that laws never would prevent in the first place.

Oh, that's right. I can change my birth certificate to say F and not M, right? Well, not until I've had surgery. So basically something that costs tens of thousands of dollars is the only way I can pee in peace? Sure.

I'm sure he'll never read this, but I'd like to give Pat McCrory a hand. Go on, clap with me. I try not to get political, but after the Democrats in the North Carolina congress walked out in protest to these new laws, he and the Republicans passed these discriminatory acts of hate. I can't for the life of me see why these people would want to put even more stress on a community with such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's population control for them.

These laws were passed in response to an anti-discrimination ordinance passed in Charlotte a few weeks ago. This simply allowed anyone to use the restroom assigned to the gender they identify most with. Now, I can be refused a job based on the fact that I'm trans. I can be fired or forced to leave a public place. I can be arrested for having to take a piss while trying to change my name at the Guilford County Courthouse.

This is the point where I cite Thomas Jefferson, but I can't seem to find a source for his quote about unjust laws. Instead, I give you Martin Luther King Jr. writing from jail in Birmingham Alabama:

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

To close, if you  never hear from me again, blame Pat McCrory.