Rime communicates plenty on his main account, (Yes, the one with the fart fetish stuff. That's his main account, the one he uses the most, talks to fans with using, posts life updates on, reposts fan works on, replies and comments to others on, and speaks his native language on)
I would like to point out that the account was made in 2017 and was abandoned by 2019 after the Ichikoro phase (if you couldn't tell from the @ name). It even still has vore tagged to it despite having basically no vore whatsoever. And I can attest there were pre-2022 art post (I did check around 2019 at the latest, and yes there were vore art, and the source links in
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images can back me up on this)
The title of this thread may have led you to believe that EFP was his main project that he was devoting most of his time to but only for a brief period of time and will never his primary focus. And EFP is a terrible example to get a sense of what Rime's average work entails because for the most part the kissing stuff is an outlier.
Sorry, I had to reword your paragraph there. When you use an
absolute conditional, preceding with an
exception, I was obligated to paraphrase your wording to steelman your argument.
On to the point, yes
now he's not really into EFP development. Back
then he was into EFP development. And guess where he was back then? His art fetishes were nowhere near as lopsided to fart as it is right now. There were more update on the release of the game in almost a single month than the entire 'development' over the last
2 years combined (mind you, those test runs are supposed to be integrated in EFP but are very incomplete). And his Furaffinity and Inkbunny accounts weren't entirely abandoned. You could say that his "taste" has "evolved", but to say that 'EFP as an example to his average work
in 2020 (when it was released) is a terrible example' is treating the relics by today's perspective. In other words, insinuating that Rime was always a fart artist despite the fact he has only shifted his focus on fart over everything by last year, despite the fact that fart was not even a plurality by 2021.
You could still claim it still fits your argument by pointing out the recent addition of the skunk in the game as an evolution of his taste, but that's not your point since you have needlessly casted this game away as "a terrible example to get a sense of what Rime's average work entails."
Hell, even looking at "Ichikoro" as you've talked about proves my point, skimming through the files now about 85% of the content is gas focused (mostly mouth based but gas nonetheless), and the WIP section has 4 finished fart animations, with a 5th one in progress.
I'm not sure where you insinuated that I actively don't like non-fart aphrodisiac porn, as I have plenty of games and comics on the genre. Monster Girl Dreams and Cruel Serenade have their fair share of them, and yet you don't see me complaining there. Maybe my "scent-oriented art" was too broad of a term (since pheromones can still go through the mouth, which isn't scent)
Pheronoa as a character's pheromones are just an excuse to have her spew gas in your face, not the other way around.
I mean, yes? I'm not sure what you're trying to say other than stating the obvious.
Just because you've shut your eyes to the majority of his work doesn't make it suddenly cease to exist.
I'm actually going to dispute you there. It may take a lot of numbercounting and archive digging, but I'm sure fart isn't a majority.
I'm counting at Ichikoro with about 130 out of over 800 images that contains fart. And mind you, the farts in the game seems to appear much, much later in the game (the majority being AFTER the Plantain boss fight).
And the e621 pages count the non-fart of over 300 compared to around 110 images of confirmed fart art by Rime (yes, I had to manually count the ones that were passable as a fart fetish and those that aren't). I'm not sure how much unique x.com posts that aren't present in e621 that are present in either accounts to tabulate, or how many tumblr post that are lost media, but I can safely say that fart has yet to be the majority of his art. Yes, it is his main focus now, but then again, Pheronoa was a main focus for two years.
Sidenote: I tried to get a more accurate date on the first Pheronoa post on twitter (the one with Sylveon strapped on a slab), but it has since been removed, which I suspect that a lot of his older content (including the
ichikoro account) were deleted on twitter.