lack of new material bothers me

It be the result of any small interesting group to become large and annoying. As for the lack of content... Maybe people are starting to realize that we enjoy this. Most of the previous art was incidental. These days, most of the work is completely on purpose. One of the stories I wrote (one I consider one of my best) was about Violet returning to the factory. The amount of inflation is proportionately small compared to the amount of story-telling. I think accidental or incidental inflation is the best kind. If things were tailored to us it would be much harder to enjoy, at least for me. I love being surprised.

I've noticed that too, it's a shame :(

Right on schedule.

Every summer, many creators leave their campuses and go outside. Every summer, people freak out about the lack of new content. Every summer, someone suggests that the community is dying or drying up or crumbling because some of the key recent names have fallen silent, and/or they are personally bored with it so therefore it's all over for everybody. Every summer, we're doomed.

But every fall, we forget. Because school is back and people stay indoors or they have time over holiday breaks to generate new content again.

More often than not, more energy is spent writing about the lack of new content than energy is spent actually writing new content. Where does new content come from? You, and people like you. Me, too.

Next time you find yourself about to bemoan the annual creative void, create something to fill it.

(My suggestion is annual, too.)

The thing is, OK, we may not have the budget and resources to do what the mainstream media do, but we can create our own content. I have to say i like the occasional find in a TV programme or something, but since we have a much better idea of what we like than they do, which is probably literally none, we ought to be able to make better stuff for each other too.

It'd be nice to have the money to do something really spectacular though, wouldn't it?

This is actually to a tiny extent my fault: I have a friend who works with a midwest based animation Company that was going to pitch a character who would be essentially a balloon to her company. Now, this is a woman who has been telling me how she turned down commission after commission to do sexual drawings: very conservative woman. And as soon as she mentioned this to me, I told her about this community (I told her I found out about it through ED) because I knew she would be horrified to find out about it after the fact, which I couldn't help but think she would. Of course she completely scrapped the character with little effort on my part.

Jumping on him, no. Strongly disagreeing, yes. It was not a personal attack -- you shouldn't take it that way either.

I apologize for misinterpreting the first message, but ...concerned about the lack of inflation scenes in MAINSTREAM media? That's even less rational. The mass media has never catered to us and never will; if there was a run of relevant scenes, it was surely a coincidence, not a sea change for Hollywood. We get scraps from cartoons, kid's shows, and the occasional PG-13 comedy. That content is not generated for us in the first place; that's content generated for laughs, and we happen to like it on a different level than intended.

Hey, rather than being sad about it, I suggest being thankful for the lucky fluke run of coincidental scenes.

What you said, but in spades.

Really, folks, people that don't contribute to the stories around here IMO don't have the right to complain about content, new or otherwise. I've submitted six stories to this site without seeing a dime; I do this for myself and to show that I can do it.

And to be honest, I really hope the mainstream media doesn't access this site overmuch...