#i dont think i ever said hteir names in the post whoops

[kafus]

i've been giving thought to how i want to present my pokemon ocs moving forward, bc like. initially i never planned on making their actual story public, i was going to only post a very sanitized version of them forever due to various fears about that. but that wasn't sustainable for me and after a few years of having my ocs i finally mentioned their Actual Story some months ago back when i was posting about them a lot. but because of keeping them sanitized for so long, i was freely posting them on my public accounts that minors follow, and now that i want to be upfront about them i kind of have to reel that back and transition them to a more mature space since i don't feel comfortable jumpscaring people who follow me for fun pokemon posts who may or may not be children with like, my extreme abuse ocs. this is my first time navigating anything like this.

my current plan right now is to make some sort of containment sideblog for just oc talk specifically that is properly marked as mature content with community labels and then also have a space dedicated to them on my personal site that has an age gating prompt and properly warns the content before you can view any part of the site. i can't think of anywhere else i want to put them tbh? twitter is an absolute no because people on there are insufferable. i hate platforms like instagram and i think i might have a similar issue there as to twitter. i can't think of any art website that's actually active (and not deviantart lol) that would allow them and that has proper filtering features that isn't like, a website for NSFW.

anyway i'm just sort of thinking out loud, to people who have voiced support for my ocs i'm definitely thinking about them in the background and have plans, it's just slow going and i have other stuff going on rn. and apologies to anyone on the younger side who thought my ocs were cool before i decided to be more upfront about them, i did not anticipate there ever being a time in my life where i'd feel comfortable opening up about characters so close to my personal traumas but here we are