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I think it's a reasonable request because it doesn't really make sense to automatically sign messages when someone wants to remain anonymous.

I would be pretty upset if I created an account for a mobile game that I wanted to enjoy without being recognized, and then I discovered that some global big brother like Google had automatically linked my identity with Yuni.

Maybe it would be better if I added another input field where it asks for your username below the comment box... It will remember what you entered and you won't have to type it every time.

They hide behind their religion like cockroaches under the fridge in a rotting house that should have been demolished long ago. The worst and most dangerous people on earth have the highest level of power and they're not ashamed to exploit it in the most disgusting and cynical ways. You're left with no other choice but to build walls over walls to have the most basic protection from this walking human waste.

Enjoying nudity and sex in art as something normal should be a privilege of the gods who bless this planet with their divine presence, not a right of the random Tom and Jerry, whose infantile beliefs forbid even the existence of various inconvenient parts of the body.

I'm really happy that you encouraged me to finally add the character page and that I came up with this idea of tiers to give it a more structured look... The ranking of characters will naturally change as their pictures get more views than others. But hey, I was right, there are 4 times more characters on this site than in the English alphabet! ;D

The most daring decision was to replace the main menu with this folder-like structure... But I think folders are more fitting for a contortion website, and with this kind of flexibility we can now have unlimited sections :D

Dear Sasha! Thank you very much for such an insightful and touching comment. You know, I've been in the dark depths of despair myself and have experienced the true power of acceptance. A few years ago, I was overwhelmed by the knowledge of everything that could go wrong in the world... and then something strange happened. My emotions became numb. I stopped worrying about politics, ecology, global warming or any other problems. Not because I didn't care anymore, but simply because there was nothing more I could do. I realized that no matter how bad things got, I would still find ways to create art, write stories, code, or just hang out with friends on Discord. And that's when the real healing began. Suddenly, I understood that life wasn't about striving for perfection, it was about accepting what is and making the best out of it.

My thoughts went from 'if only' to 'what if' and eventually to 'oh well'. The transition was neither quick nor easy, but it was liberating. As for punk rock, I think you're one of the few or maybe even the first person who enjoys the old school punk from the 70-80s. To be honest, the first song reminded me more of Lemmy from Motörhead, pretty sure the AI had the chance to sample his voice among millions of other things, as it clearly reminds of his manner of singing but then again I have no idea how this technology really works, so it's just a wild guess...

And as a big fan of Albert Camus, I wonder what the Absurdist would say. After all, he believed that meaning can come from acting, doing something meaningful. And now here we are, creating art like crazy! In the end, it's not the reality around us that matters, but our perception of it. We can choose to see the world as hopeless and cruel, or we can see it as a canvas waiting to be painted upon. Camus said that one of the most fundamental questions, in the face of absurdity of life, is whether or not to commit suicide.

What he didn't mention is that there is also another question: "What am I going to do next?" And that is where hope lies. Hope is not about getting out of the dark, hope is about finding a way to live through it until naturally the light returns over time. Does this make me a happy fatalist, I wonder? Probably not, because I am not unfree - at any point in time, I still have Camus' three choices:
- Suicide (simply quitting the whole game altogether with a single swing of the kitchen knife),
- Revolt (against absurdity, by embracing all kinds of belief systems that "make sense", or more like, tell you what to do and what not to do), or
- Acceptance (of the absurdity of life, knowing that every choice you make is absurd, but still choosing them nonetheless).

But anyway, so much to think about... I think I may need to put this energy into another song, maybe see what Wolfy has to say on the topic.. XD Meanwhile, thank you again for always sharing your thoughts and for many enjoyable conversations!

Thanks so much for your comment! Just googled some images of The Beatles and funny enough, none of them actually resemble him, but he'd sure fit right into the band - or more accurately, "the bend"!

I'm really glad you enjoyed him, Sasha! Now, thinking about it, doing flexible poses usually takes relaxing your muscles, but I was wondering... What if you could use your muscles to literally pull yourself into tighter shapes?

Maybe even build special muscle groups using nanobots, so those muscles can be used for actually pulling yourself into amazing twists and folds... or it could be special muscles the Bendigo kids naturally have in their bodies.

If this guy can curl himself so tightly by flexing his muscles, it's fascinating to imagine all the advanced poses he might discover in the future. It's like getting stretched by a partner but instead using one's own muscle strength to hold yourself. There are definitely loads of exciting ideas to explore here!

But no matter what, I'm sure he's known most not even for the ability to fold so tight without external help but mainly for his bearhugs of love and always being happy to help everyone else to get better bends 💪🐻💪 Maybe he needs a super power to turn into a teddy bear XD

Haha, that beautiful cinnamon roll, too pure for this world 🙈❤️🙊 Thank you Sasha!

Yup, seems to work wonderfully and I don't have to manually define who's supposed to be popular. How cool is that? ;D

I'm super happy that you think the more realistic version still looks like him! It's my ultimate goal/dream to eventually give each character a distinctive face, kind of like Sarah... It's still not an easy task for me because my workflow isn't primitive, so maintaining the facial high quality, emotional expression and recognizability, all at once, is almost too magical for me. But I'm really trying my best!

Sure, I want a character catalog but you wouldn't believe how many characters there are. It's like 50+ and I haven't even counted yet! So I don't think anyone would be that into scrolling through a page filled with them all. My idea was to just bring them back every now and then, so when I post a new pic of Sir Lichard, people can look at other pics of him, so it's never overwhelming.

And I'm happy you like their last names, I generally select them using some "names and their meanings" websites or name generators. The name Yasha Lebedev was entirely generated, and there's nothing wrong with that since the name Yuni was also auto-generated using a random name generator I made back in 2003 that randomly combined kana syllables - I used it to create the names for my early characters like Yuni, Jahi, Haji, Atsu, Shani, etc. The name Andrzej Kowalczyk was entirely made not by me, my friend Filter-GX at DeviantArt created this Polish character back in 2014, he made several other contortionists from various countries, as well as their stories, but his characters were mostly girls and Andrzej wasn't really in the spotlight. In the end I ended up making more pics of Andrzej than Filter-GX himself, so over the years I kind of stole him from the original creator little by little haha. Well, not really, we talked many times and he always loved how I turned Andrzej into a real prodigy - his original Andrzej was used to be pretty humble. As for marriage, maybe Kowalebdz or Lebodzcyk... or Kawaii-Lewd XD

Thank you so much for commenting on these monsters, I'm quite proud of them as usually AI generates very refined pictures, with bad anatomy and artifacts but still refined... I literally had to break how the AI generates images to achieve this scary effect :D Sadly, Halloween is the only time when I can share something like that, I doubt that my visitors are interested in monsters haha...

You're right, I can sort of hear Wolfy here, not that you mentioned it... the only question is what did he smoke XD (though I think I know what XD)

The ghost you saw, couldn't it be a fortunate arrangement of clouds at night with a large gap where you see the stars and the clouds around it slightly highlighted by the atmosphere, creating the effect of a giant silhouette? Just a thought, I don't mind if you think it was a ghost :D After seeing the pictures of the four suns over China, I can believe almost anything haha...