"Ahhh! After 300 submissions I'm free! Time to conquer... EARTH!"

This was actually completed on September 27th, 2015, which may be the longest it ever took a picture I commissioned to go from being completed to being posted; in my defense I didn't intend on ever posting it at all. The reason I gave at the time was "this really doesn't jibe with Balinology" -- strictly true, as there was an unwritten rule of 'all Balinas are ladies' that I was sticking to, but in 2015 I had a lot of very dumb ideas about who I was and who I could be. The deeper reason was that I was absolutely terrified of showing myself, even abstracted into artwork. I laughed and called it kayfabe, like I had to keep up the illusion that there actually was a moof on the other end of the keyboard.

Hahahaha, it's almost like I had some kind of deep-seated problems about my body that I was unable to cope with or something. Weird, huh?

The sequence was originally done as part of a set of emergency transformation sequences TeknicolorTiger was offering earlier that year. Despite the fact that Balina came from a TF-centric MUD, transformation isn't really my thing; I just like when things get bigger. For reasons I don't think I even understood at the time, however, I thought it would be a hoot to send a few photos of myself and get a moof TF drawn, caused by the Shitty Bronze Idol that nearly everyone, including myself, has long forgotten about. "I'll bet that Crystala will get a kick out of this," I said aloud. The fact that multiple other people in my circles did precisely the same thing probably should have put up little flags at the time.

Believe it or not, there was a followup to this.

Art: TeknicolorTiger (original)