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Welcome to Ilrak’s Roost!

About Me

I'm ilrak, a 35 year old Black and Non-Binary digital artist who also happens to be a furry and alterhuman (Ceratosaurus, Raven, and a third thing I’m trying to figure out). I’ve been in the online furry and otherkin communities since 2007 but had a bit of inactivity as offline got in the way from about 2016-2020 - but I’m back!

I also produce, write, edit, and cohost a very irreverent musical theatre podcast with my husband. (Currently on hiatus while we try to get unpacked from moving back home - will be returning on patreon first)

I’m also a a chicken, dog, cat, and fish parent as well as a small hobby gardener.

I draw humanoids, anthro, and non-anthro characters in a cartoonish to semi-realistic style.

You can find me on:

Artconomy

Kofi

DeviantArt

Commissions: OPEN!

Trades: OPEN!

Requests: OPEN!

Commission Info

You must be of 18 years of age to commission me.

Payment can be made in USD over paypal, ko-fi (for tipping) or by using my Artconomy page and is required upfront.

My turn around time is between 7 and 14 days, but if I think it will be longer than that, I will let you know. I usually make my icons on a 750x750 px canvas, busts on a around 3400 x 2500 px, and ref sheets on 5000 x 2000 px so that detail can be put in before it's resized to whatever size is needed, but I can be flexible with canvas size! Just let me know how big of a piece you are thinking of! If you want something that isn’t listed below, let me know and I will work with you!

Please let me know if a piece is meant to be a private piece as I usually like to upload the finished piece to my art sites and/or social media. If you do not want your piece shared, let me know.

This art is not for resale or for use in NFTs

I will not refund for a finished piece.

Things I will do

Humans

Humanoids

Animals (anthro or non-anthro)

Things I will NOT do

NSFW or fetish art

Rates and examples below the cut!

#commissions #otherkin #therian #furry #anthro #art #alterhuman

afurioushawk

frustratedasatruar

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair

alarmist-nonsense

0v9

this is what upstairs neighbors have

that-house

billymayslesbian

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

torchichate

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

katyusha454

I was thinking about Project Hail Mary and I thought of this conversation that definitely happened on the way to Erid:

Grace: "It feels weird to call your planet by a name humans gave it. I know I can't pronounce the real name but can you tell me what it means?" Rocky: "Rocky will tell Grace, but first Grace must tell Rocky meaning of 'Earth'." Grace: "Well, uh, it sort of means 'ground'." Rocky: "Boring!" Grace: "Okay smart guy, what's your planet's name mean then?" Rocky: "..." Grace: "..." Rocky: "..." Rocky: "Ground."

cryptidfuckery

Absolutely losing my mind over this text I got from a client today

golongbyjoannanewsom

obsessed w this person in the replies

z-a-d-i-e

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

z-a-d-i-e

it's funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it's run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn't been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it's so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.

nuclearfeels

One time i went to the bakery near my home and just as i entered the put out a fresh tray of spinach cheese ham crossiants, and when i ordered one they just told me its on the house

otherconvention

New Website + Forms Open

The full news post can be found here:

But to summarize: The new website is up! Artist, panelist, and staff applications are open right now and can be found here. Those forms auto-close on June 30th at 11:59pm (US East). This year's mascot vote is also open, and can be found on the same page. The mascot vote only lasts a week, so get your votes in! The email newsletter is also being retired in favor of RSS, with more details available on the news page.

samcormac

what’s the rush?

rainwasheseverythingaway

The time will pass anyway

housederiva

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

forestgreenandgray

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

frameacloud

“There are no ‘elders’ or leaders [of the otherkin community]. Just because someone has a website, has written a few essays, is an admin or a moderator, or has had more ‘experience’ than you, it does not necessarily make them any more qualified than you to say something or any more worthy of respect. There is no arbiter of the truth here and there is no one who should be given special treatment.”

-Excerpt from “Advice for those new to Otherkin,” an article written by Mikh’to in 2014

vagabond-beast

While I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, I would like to clarify that you should still at least hear those who are older in the community. They've gone through a lot, have lots of experiences to share, and sometimes hearing those experiences can help you through your own.

The young can learn from the old and the old can also learn from the young.

who-is-page

A young alterhuman does not owe an older alterhuman their ear.

Older alterhumans have just as much (if not sometimes more) capacity to be as biased and misinformed as any alterhuman younger than them. Age does not make wisdom, age does not dictate how worthwhile someone is to listen to.

It is worthwhile to approach someone who has more knowledge in a specific field, discipline, or craft than you and ask them for advice on that specific topic, but that's circumstantially based on what someone has actually done, not age. In this same way, age also does not make knowledge.

So, no. Age has no merit innate in itself. Listen to others based on their actions and if they've proven themself to be trustworthy and accurate, not how many times they've been around the sun.

frameacloud

All of us in the otherkin communities are equal peers. Any of us can listen to, criticize, view with skepticism, or ignore any other of us, according to each of our own personal choices. You, me, any of us. And that's good. Each of us creatures came together in this community because of something in common that we already had before each of us met each other, not because we're looking for gurus telling us what to do, think, or believe. That's a healthy safeguard against cultishness. For this reason, it's a red flag for anyone to proclaim themselves a leader of our communities, whether they get an exaggerated sense of importance about running a chatroom, or whether they give themselves titles such as elder, king, princess, alpha, or graymuzzle. That can be a warning sign that they expect to be treated differently than others in a way that they cannot deserve here.

2ilvervictory

These were some of my first hylics doodles before I had even really looked into the game. I let my sibling color some :]

nurtleteckk

pongorma dramatically playing piano as his fur blows majestically in the wind. and then Dedus and Gorma Gaming

b4ckbones

Something something ancient knight and archeologist

boiledegghole

americans love doxxing their home states more than anything. we hear the name of our home state and everything goes black and we wake up 10 minutes later, having reblogged no fewer than 8 posts featuring the name of our home state

princessbonecrimes

h/t to emilyscartoons

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