Environmental storytelling is when an artist's commission rate sheet has a "per additional character" surcharge, and also a completely separate "per additional penis" surcharge.
The funny part is that this isn't even as weirdly specific as folks are making it out to be. Like, yeah, it could be because somebody tried to commission the Beast With A Thousand Dicks, but it's equally likely that the artist just got sick of commissioners trying to weasel out of the "additional character" surcharge by arguing that an anonymous penis poking into the frame from off-camera isn't really a character, and thus instituted a "penises count as people" rule.
See that's weird because to me the Occam's razor answer was the Beast With A Thousand Dicks—the personhood of off-screen anon-dong seems far more complicated.
It's a crying shame reblogs aren't allowed to contain polls anymore, because "which is the more likely additional penis scenario in your experience: one character surrounded by a dozen dicks, or one character with a dozen dicks?" is prime demographic survey territory.
I notice there's not a surcharge for additional vulva. Maybe the artist just doesn't like drawing penises and wants people to stop asking, or at least make enough money to make it worth doing something they don't enjoy.
I feel like having additional vulvae present without also including enough of said vulvae's owners to trigger the full "additional character" charge would involve a pretty specialised scenario.
a person gets covered in invisible ink except their vulva, a floating vulva with googly eyes, a character with multiple vulvas, somebody with no legs sticking their vulva sticking sideways into the frame, I could do this all day
Not to mention the obvious Beast with a Thousand Vulvae
