Wherein I discuss every fic I’ve written since my birthday last year, how I am doing (bad), and also the fact I am a vtuber now because everyone is a vtuber even you.
SALTY STATE OF THE UNION for 4/21/2025
Hello and welcome to another blog post discussing my creative output as an author and creator. I am Piddleyfangs, still rocking this username I often tell people “I don’t really like!” I hope everyone is doing good.
The purpose of this post is to discuss how I am doing, my thoughts on my writing, and just general vibes. The last Salty Union post was in 2024 on June 4th, my birthday. We will discuss how things have been since then.
I would actually like to start by talking about each of the fics that has come out since then and what my feelings are on them now.
FIC REVIEW
My trend of writing mostly original works and commissions continued into the second half of 2024 and honestly through 2025 as well. While I haven’t opened my commissions again just yet, I was able to get through all of them from the previous batch, meaning I have now done two successful commissioning openings since rededicating myself to them. I am pretty happy with this though I still wish I was getting them done faster and opening more often. Alas. Everyone wishes they were doing everything better. We’re efficiency machines, not people, after all. Sarcasm aside, some of the stories to come out in this time period are some of my favorites as well as commissions that were long overdue.
WARM METAL (Gwen feminization story commissioned by Hamilton4)
This was a commission that was a very long time coming. Ham and me have been buddies for a little bit since we both have a taste for corruption and transformation and also Ham has great taste in OCs. They really like my android girl, Gwen, and have always encouraged me to write more about them. Gwen I feel is a fun OC but she is hard to do stuff with since she a weird android with a lot of rules and powers to her and she also has a fairly specific story she’s a little locked in to. As well, a lot of artists on principle just don’t really want to work with androids which I respect. It is hard for me to come up with quick little fics to write with Gwen since for the most part I would just want to finally start up her bigger, longer story, her novel or whatever we can call it in this silly little post. Commissions, however, are easier to justify since they are kinda non-canon, obviously for fun, and I get paid. Yay.
Ham wanted Gwen to finally use her body suit powers I gave her forever ago, and that was what they got. Gwen swallowed someone up and feminized them and it was pretty good. I don’t really write feminization this often and almost never slow burn. When people become girls in SaltyTea fics it is normally very immediate, completely with a pronoun change in bold italics! So this was fun, very different for me, and a fantastic excuse to write Gwen as well as a little more sky island lore for her world. Her world always excites me to write, and I’d definitely be open to doing more of this in the future.
Out of The Smoke (Goblin TF Commissioned by Sabrith)
Ah yes, the Sabrith story. Sabrith is a prolific and supportive commissioner with whom I will essentially always have work. My grave’s epitaph will be commissioned by Sabrith. The biggest challenge at this point is to write these stories in a way that still feels novel and refreshing. I’ve written this cat getting corrupted and destroyed in so many ways now. Out of The Smoke played around with a slightly different vector for transformation and also played with goblin lore a little bit by making them more prone to extreme good luck. I was pretty fond of this fic and frankly it performed pretty well number wise. In general I haven’t been as into kobold and goblin tf as I used to be. I used to literally go to bed thinking about how hot getting turned into a goblin would be. I’ve mellowed out a lot since then, but goblins are still a fun sometimes treat, I just usually need to pair them with something to justify it. That’s just the kind of person I am. There needs to be a reason to write and a good way to stand out.
We Dream The Moon (Slowburn Bug Cult Corruption for Monstrifex’s Beasts Within)
This story is the furthest I’ve gone outside of the “this story is porn” realm in a long long time. We Dream the Moon was one of my particularly more inspired and frankly indulgent stories. What, a crazy cult of tall insect ladies who worship the moon?! And one of them is a hot dominant puppet queen who can live inside of multiple bodies? We Dream the Moon is one of my favorite things I have ever written. I struggle to talk about it in hindsight the same way anyone would about something they worked so hard on and they just want someone else to come and witness it themselves rather than substitute it with a trite summary.
I was lucky to be welcomed into another Monstrifex collab as they are usually very fantastic to work on. I was just as lucky to discover that Monstrifex really liked this story and even drew the biggest meanest bug lady in it unprompted for me. I was utterly dazzled and star struck and Maroth remains a character a lot of my friends really likes. She’s a more subtle, insidious dom, and behind her haunting gaze is a woman ready to set the world on fire if it means a better future. I really liked writing it and it felt like it matured me a bit. Yes, I was already very fucking mature and had been writing as a hobby for more than 10 years at that point, We Dream the Moon kind of put a fire in me to push even harder for purely original works. While writing fanfic that gets thousands and thousands of views and etc is great, writing original stuff hits different. I think I’ll always do both, but fanfic will get likely keep getting rarer unless I get very, very obsessed with something soon.
Beasts Within OST
Oh yeah, and I wrote an album. I feel like the previous State of The Salty Union brough it up so I’ll keep it brief.
I wrote a song inspired by the world map Monstrifex made for their project. They really liked the song and I brought up that I was willing to make more. This led to me composing an entire soundtrack for the main sequences of the story as well as a song for We Dream The Moon. This Ost is frankly some of the best music I’ve ever written. It was very challenging and interesting to write music about transformation art because it felt like the music could never really return to where it started. The characters change and everything about them becomes new. They stand on new paws or stare through at the screen with ignited expressions filled with a new and terrible energy. Verse chorus bridge wouldn’t do that justice. I think some of the songs went a little too hard and got a little too scary, but fuck it. All the praise for this album lives rent free in my head and it keeps me from turning into a cocoon in bed (not sexy cocoon sad cocoon.)
Selfmade Mana (original honeypot ant bustyboy tf)
This was a story mostly for me. Basically once a month I get an idea for a pseudo RPG world where a TF happens. I was also recovering from my busty boy mood and wanted to try and merge this element with the RPG nonsense and also the fact I guess was still hankering for bugs. I liked the idea of honeypot ant tits. I liked the idea of a guy getting forced to grow them and getting silly and stupid haha horny bug. I feel as thought this is self explanatory. I also did a journal approach for it so I could describe the sensations and intelligence drain better. Overall, I enjoyed writing it but I don’t think I’ll do something quite like it again for a while.
Starshine (Original fic about Desda~!)
I got a new OC in this time named Desda. She is a fail milf who is rich and horny and suffers from almost no self control. She is a also a deer and obnoxiously star themed. She is my carnal desires laid bare combined with a recent taste for funny haha milfs. Desda is very deer to me. However, since in my mind all of my OCs should have a purpose, I made sure to pair Desda’s creation with a fic intended to explain the appeal of the character. Mandy had her cosplay story from forever ago which introduced her, and so too does Desda now have Starshine which also features Mandy!
It was important to me to establish a relationship for Desda to have that way she didn’t feel totally isolated. One of my biggest issues with my OCs is that I have a habit of making whole entire new universes every god damn time I make a new character. Mandy is off in furry haHA tf world, Cecille and Noireve II are rotting in the kingdom of sunset, Riza and Gwen are up in the sky and NONE OF THEM CAN TOUCH. THAT WILL RUIN MY CANON. So, it was nice to have Desda be this new character that can actually go hang out with Mandy. The Desda story was also my first comedic story I got to write in a bit. It felt like this was the story that finally got the We Dream the Moon taste out of my mouth. Another vital thing to me will always be balancing lighter tone modern stories with darker tone fantasy. I think I would die if I could only do one.
While numbers wise Starshine didn’t do super great (It is an original story that introduces a new character no one knows about) the feedback was very good. People enjoyed Desda, thought the story was cute and fun, and to me that seemed like I hit my goal. A cute fun story for people who are open to being introduced to a new character. Besides, Starshine was another story mostly for myself as I was searching for Desda’s voice and how it was I wanted to write her.
Gwen’s Vestige (Original android demon corruption)
This is a story I’ve wanted to write for a very, very long time. A part of Gwen’s premise was that she was a demon war machine with amnesia that lost all of her parts. This was an idea I’ve had since Highschool, but at the time it was attached to a character that was a lot more like Riza. It also wasn’t a very good story. Gwen however, I feel, explores the idea in a more novel way in a more interesting world. The point of Gwen’s Vestige is very similar to Starshine. Demonstrate what Gwen’s full potential is and who she actually was beneath the surface and scare people a little bit with a giant demonic android that won’t hesitate to rip people apart.
In exchange for the soundtrack I had provide, Monstrifex created the artwork and design for Unleashed Gwen. This made me extremely happy. They worked very well with the notes I gave them (they were mostly Metroid Prime 2 screenshots and concept art) and delivered a delicious two stage piece. I would love to get more Gwen from them someday. If I win the lottery.
I also revealed Gwen’s true name in the story since Gwen was just a name she adopted in her amnesiac state. Venythea sure is a name huh? Piddleyfangs try not to make an overcomplicated name that starts with a V challenge. I really like Gwen’s Vestige. I really like Gwen. Please commission more evil Gwen.
RIBBIT RIBBIT RIBBIT (Original frog TF)
Woah, that’s a lot of originals in a row! Anyways, this was me getting hit by the “TF a jrpg party” mood again. Only this time I wanted to write a much meaner story where you were basically doomed the second you heard these strangely dangerous frogs start to ribbit. It is just really hot. There isn’t a lot to say here, and the feedback to this story was very satisfying. I’ve considered bringing this party of girls back and keeping them around as my bad end team. Though then I’ll be tempted to give their canon a name and get OCs of them and oops my arms are so heavy too much to carry and worry about. I also appreciate that most of the comments I got on this fic was just people rrrriii… rrr… riiiibbiiiii—
IGNITER (Metaphor Re:Fantazio fanfic about Brigitta)
Metaphor ReFantazio is a fucking excellent game. Brigitta is such a hot woman I could die. I decided to write a story about her forcefemming the protagonist because the main character is such a god damn twink I could sob. It is the developers’ fault for making her look like someone who forcefems people. I will never forgive them. (I really like the logo I made for Igniter. The font goes really hard.)
NEW OATH (Original slowburn TF set in Monstrifex’s fantasy universe)
In preparation for the sequel Muss was about to force me to write for We Dream the Moon, I decided to participate in Monstrifex’s yearly Vivid Shadows project. I chose to write under the theme Symbiote. Naturally, this meant dark knight corruption.
If you are my friend, you are aware that I have always wanted to write a very very slowburn dark knight corruption story. I want to write it so physically badly it hurts. New Oath has essentially quenched my thirst for now. I am deeply satisfied with how this story came out. I feel like Elencia is one of the best flawed protagonists I’ve ever written, and Tiffy is such a satisfying side character. The slowburn is delicious and if someone else had written this story I’d be messaging them every single day begging for more. Get art of it, make a sequel, tell me how to live my life and where to move to this is my bank pin. Oh, and this was another story experimenting with first person perspective since I don’t normally use it. 2024 was the fucking YEAR for first person from We Dream the Moon to Manapot to New Oath.
I really want to continue New Oath, I’m just not sure how to do it yet. I think to do a sequel to New Oath is to basically doom myself to at the very least a trilogy. New Oath had a Virgil to Elencia’s Dante named Vyl. I’d want the second story to be about her and how she deals with the ending of the original. Vyl is an even more flawed and strange person than the previous protagonist, so a story about her would fucking nuts. New Oath was already very long, very complicated, and very dark and a sequel would have to be all these adjectives and more. One day the stars will align and we will get a sequel to We Dream the– I mean New Oath.
Drunken Dragon (Metaphor ReFantazio fanfic)
I got further in Metaphor. I was really satisfied with the female cast, but I really wished we got to see more of Eupha hanging out with the crew. Usually the best way to get me to write a fanfic is to have an excellent story, but make me fall in love with a character that juuuust barely doesn’t get enough. I am a curiosity driven person, so if I feel curious I will search for answers or satisfy myself with my own. This means Eupha must grow a dragon dick. It is her sacred duty.
There was a short scene where some of the characters get drunk. I wanted to expound about this. While I am very happy with this story and feel like I handled the characters well the story didn’t really perform for some reason. To be honest I think it is because you need to have played this game for AT LEAST 60 hours to be able to safely read it. That is INSANE. The Persona stories I’ve written had a similar hurdle, but also I think Persona fans were just hornier in general. I am damn well willing to bet if I did a shadow bunny Persona 5 corruption story it would do double the numbers Drunken Dragon did. Despite this, I personally really really like this story as it was very fun to try to depict these characters accurately. Eupha is the best. I love Eupha so much.
Mall Reindeer (Commission for Sabrith about Reindeer TF)
I am at the point in my professional relationship with the commissioner known as Sabrith that they no longer necessarily even need to know every story they will receive from me. Mall Reindeer was written with very little heads up. They still really liked it. In fact, a lot of people LOVED this one. I’m pretty happy with it myself, especially when you considered anything with reindeer is deeply indulgent for me. I tried to write this as a more hypnosis focused story, however I seem to always deviate from focus on hypnosis towards other themes and moments. I think this comes from one of my strengths being character writing, and when a character is tranced and completely controlled there actually isn’t much character to write about. It’s weird. Hypnosis is a fun kink.
I also threw Mandy in this because Mandy deserves to be in more stories. Also it is fun to me when Mandy is sort of “forced” to be the dominant person in a scenario since she is otherwise very shy and reserved, especially when it comes to sex. Alas, when presented with two horny hypnotized reindeer, former friends or no, Mandy is gonna do what she has to do. I meant for the story to be a bit more demeaning, but ended up in a more comedic tone that honestly worked better for what was going on and what the vibe was turning in to. It was Christmas.
Tanuki Shrine (Silvia Commission about Tanuki TF)
Tanuki are great. I love writing about the bastards. Silvia is a new client and was very nice and extremely easy to work with. While I did like writing this story I don’t really think I brought my A game to it? Hard to explain, I think I was just in a strange mood. This is why a lot of comms tend to take some time since I really don’t to half ass the fic or write it when I don’t have ideas or a good mood. Writing is a lot of “you need to be clever and very good at getting people to follow along with what you are trying to describe” and such. That sentence sucked. Anyways! The highlight to this fic was, honestly, getting to work with Silvia. I really thought it was fun!
Therai’s Dungeon (n666 Commission about Dungeon feminization and various lewd traps)
This comm… was written WAY long ago. Posted very out of order. This era is defined by how long it takes me to post shit. I can only be sorry ahaha. N6 is a fun person to work with! I don’t think all of our kinks perfectly align so it can be interesting at times! I say this just in case any of my sounding scenes didn’t seem like “my heart was in it” lol. But I don’t mind, I don’t have to be frothing at the mouth for every single thing I write, and N6 is VERY easy to work with and very polite and supportive. For that I am deeply grateful.
Total sidenote. There is a really weird comment on the Furaffinity where a guy does a bunch of typo checks on the story. Yeah, my stories are grammatically not the best, my word choice strange at times, and frankly I could do better. But it is very weird to have someone just proofread it in the comments unprompted. Especially since I don’t actually agree with all the proposed changes but hey. “Thanks for the practice” kinda rubbed me weird but I don’t think they meant anything by it. So, hey. Cheers.
DESDA IMPREGNATES THE WORLD (Muss commission about Desda impregnating Kindle)
Muss is a silly pea. I bullied them into commissioning Desda impregnating their OC. This will not be the last OC Desda impregnates. Please commission me. Desda can afford the child support.
Stories I have written but not yet posted (various)
This is its own segment. I have a sequel to We Dream The Moon, probably a Sabrith story or two, a Genshin Impact corruption story that I feel like the commissioner is gonna want sequels to, and probably another thing or two I’m forgetting about.
TFCC 01 “The New Girl” (Original series)
This is a hard story to talk about in brief but currently it is my most important work. TFCC is a send up of tropes in the transformation fetish community rendered through an episodic office comedy. It is in equal measures inspired by House MD, Youtube channel CubbyEmu, and the video game Home Safety Hotline. TFCC is the most satisfying thing I’ve written in a while and has been a fantastic outlet for my need to write funny stuff, heartwarming stuff, and also create more original characters that interact with each other and do fun stuff. A lot of stories I write just kind of feel like lewd little islands where we get to the part where you cum and we move on. I never want to stop writing these, but TFCC feels like the best way for me to flush my mind and make space for more of the islands.
The first entry is a rough sell because I feel like it is a little too focused on introducing the world and new characters and fails to really have an interesting transformation or really much lewd content. That said, I really, really like these characters. Hazel has a place in my heart forever. The story did ok number wise. I try not to judge numbers for original series that much since they don’t have as much appeal and TFCC is inherently niche as hell. It is a niche within a niche parodying the first niche. That said, I forsee myself writing quite a bit more TFCC. If you see TFCC episode 22 someday, just mutter yourself “I bet they’re happy…”
TFCC 02 “Dolls Don’t Always Obey” (Original series)
Oh shit two of these? Yes. I wrote 3 chapters before I even posted 1 as a rule. If I didn’t even have three chapters in me I was just not going to even post it. I passed the test, especially chapter 3 is muuuuuuuuuuch longer than 1 or 2.
Chapter 2 is inspired by conversations I’ve had with friends about dolls. It is also inspired by some of my own feelings of isolation and social struggles. I’ve never written an out and out doll tf story before so I think this one was very fun to do. While writing it, however, the tone gradually changed. Originally it was supposed to be very straight forward haha the doll is haunted is get horny get horny obey my commands but it very quickly metamorphosized into the most inherently transgender thing I have ever written. I think it is good I had something like this in me.
Numbers wise, the fic didn’t do well in the slightest. Feedback wise it is some of my favorite comments I’ve ever gotten. I am a bit nervous because I want my super duper most original thing I’ve written that makes me really really happy to do well, but also I don’t want to write things just for numbers. If I did, all of my fics would be deeply impersonal and almost all of them would be very similar I feel. And I do not think searching for trends in the TF community and chasing them sounds like fun. I’d rather just keep writing TFCC as the mood hits, and the REAL Salty Tea fans can read them and go “hell yeah” and get a vague sense of superiority.
The Loamy Lea (Sabrith commission about Cecille and horny bunnies)
And here we are in the modern day. Loamy Lea is a fun little story about Sab and Tay getting tricked yet again by that big terrible empress. I haven’t had time to digest what this story means to me as a writer just yet. It’s my first Easter fic in 5 years, my 20,000th Sab fic, and my first fic in a bit to have Cecille in it. Numbers wise it is fine but also still a little early to judge. So who knows! Read it and you tell me what to think.
SALTY TEA IN GENERAL
Twitter Deletion
I deleted my Twitter. I hate Twitter and it is only getting worse. My posts do insanely better on Bluesky, and Bluesky so far has yet to contribute its funds to far right political parties. This may change in the future. It could be changing as we speak. These sure are times we are living in. All the same, I just didn’t feel right having a Twitter and posting my porn on it for bots to scrape and teach Grok how to get people to jerk off. Felt wrong. Felt very wrong. SaltyTea will never be on Twitter again unless it gets purchased by a really cool person who fixes everything and also personally invites me on. Oh, and I don’t judge you if you still use Twitter. It is already really hard to get eyes on your things and Twitter is still the best place to get discovered in many ways. Please, get that bread.
Commissions
I am hoping to open before Spring is over. I think this will be the last time I open commissions at the current price point but I’m not sure. As I get older, the need for money rises, as too does my taste in things.
VTuber Activites
I now have a Mandy Vtuber. I am writing this on stream and people are literally watching my disgusting voice come out a multi-thousand dollar vtuber model. It is beautiful and one of the best things I have ever bought. I purchased it using a ton of commission dollars I saved up over time! I had been streaming for a year with my voice on and with a pngtuber model, so at the very least I figured I would get my money’s worth. I believe I am correct. It has been fun.
Twitch
I made a twitch to host my vtuber activities. Trashitermandy. Yay.
PERSONAL LIFE AND HOW AM I DOING
The Broad Scope
I do not want to get into it but I am currently in a low point. Life has thrown me a lot of curveballs. It is stuff that is hard for me to talk about because it is personal and embarrassing and also events that I want to keep private just because they are not fun things to learn. I’ve vented to people on Discord a lot. I am greatly thankful that I have a support system of commissioners and artists and peers and friends. I hope they never feel like I take them for granted. I am so scared of taking advantage of people. Sometimes I just wish I could turn into a fog and be so weightless that no one minds my presence. What the hell am I typing.
Anyways, yeah. Family’s been rough. Job situation has been rough. Everything is scary. My mind is very unkind to me. The world hates me and my friends and allies. But at least I am a cute raccoon.
I saved this part for the end because I knew it was either going to be very long or it was going to be very bleak. I think I’ll conclude it here.
Health
For a little bit back there I was sick. I had a nasty cough that developed into something worse that basically had me in bed for very long periods of time. My gym routine completely crumbled and my diet became nebulous. Thankfully antibiotics have cured me, an inhaler has allowed me to finish my gym routine uninterrupted, and I didn’t really gain much weight during this time. I didn’t lose much either. All things in moderation.
THE FUTURE OF SALTY TEA
Currently, my writing hobby will definitely continue. I am still getting that satisfying buzz out of typing and exploring characters and finding new exciting ways to describe things. I’ve been reading a lot more books lately including House of Leaves, a very challenging novel I was happy to have finally gotten around to. While fanfics have become more rare, I have become more reliable when it comes to finishing commissions, writing impromptu horny ideas inspired by conversations with friends, and I now have a longform series that I feel deeply invested in and what to see continue. Salty Tea has yet again metamorphosized into a new beast that continues to keep me satisfied and engaged with an audience that understands my work and encourages it. By all means, this is a system that is currently working and I find satisfying.
I don’t really know what is up next for me in the immediate future. This year could either be my last or the second year into my next ten. I feel dread about a lot of things, regret about a lot of things, and have conflicting thoughts about myself and where I belong and what I should do. My personal life remains tricky and without much control but my writing continues to be my outlet where I am able to express myself and get my ideas out there.
More TFCC entries will be written for sure with potential for a lore bible to assist those who wish to engage with the universe or write their own entries. As well, I am hoping to write more music I feel comfortable sharing with my audience as I find music to be one of my most important creative outlets. Streaming… is fun. But I don’t think I have the ability to ever have let it be my main thing. It is time consuming, draining, and difficult to plan. But… I am having fun doing it! And I have been pretty consistent for a bit. I am genuinely grateful for those of you who tune in for both the nsfw focus streams and the sfw fun streams. To me, as a consumer, streams can be difficult to engage with, a little demanding, and frankly sometimes cringe. I appreciate those who have come to enjoy the streams and continue to wish to see them.
That is all I have time for this time. This blog is now longer than the last two fics I wrote combined. That isn’t really saying much because it is easier to just talk about how you are than it is to arrange words in a precise and meaningful manner. This was not straining at all to write, and yet full fics can often leave me exhausted. Lol. Lmao even.
Thank you for reading! If you got this far, the secret code phrase is “raccoon is good.” Say this, and I will know you are the kind of person to read 5.3k words about a weirdo. Weirdo.