Hi all. Here I am again!
If you don't follow me on my social media or Patreon, I probably seemed to disappear off the face of the planet for the past 4 months or so (minus the stream announcements, anyway). Sorry for not saying anything sooner.
Exactly one month ago I concluded a massive project, unrelated to my furry art, which was taking up all of my time and energy. I had to set aside my personal projects very abruptly around mid July in order to keep up with everything, and although it was a massive undertaking, it was an amazing experience and went really well.
The past couple of weeks I've been working on picking things up again here, and it's going great so far. I'm really glad to be back.
I just uploaded a sizeable backlog of art to my Patreon this week, and I will be posting regular content updates there as I work towards catching up on everything. If you're not into that, I'll be releasing them publicly in fairly short order, as I always do.
For those of you interested, I should note that commissions will resume as soon as I've cleared out my current work queue. You'll have plenty of content to enjoy until I get to that point though, so stay tuned!
Hey, So: More About My Relationship With Posting
Last night I got distracted from drawing things I planned on drawing because that's just the way that I'm built, but also because I discovered that the FA crosspost of my recent journal entry "I'm Genuinely Just So Fucking Fed Up of Posting Art" sparked lots of really thoughtful discussion and suggestions from those who read it, and ended up putting a lot of time and effort into replying to as many of those comments as possible.
(And here I am still procrastinating from making art by writing a journal about the replies but shhhh we don't talk about that part)
Important Sidenote: I don't intend for any of the points mentioned below to come across as a passive aggressive sleight against my peers. I've said it before and I'll say it again: even if I disagree with the ways other artists post and curate their artwork online, that's entirely their own business and what I say about the amount of effort I put into mine has no bearing on what they should or shouldn't do.
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I'm Genuinely Just Fucking Fed Up of Posting Art
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At this rate I'm just going to give up, dump it all into a web folder somewhere and occasionally post a link to it to remind people where to find it all cause I'm just about at my fucking limit I swear to god
I am so fucking tired of it all and I've posted 3 things today
It's genuinely discouraging as an artist with a middling following and doing this full time cause it's entirely in my best interests and feels like a
Sitting Still, Moving Fast
I've been terribly ill this past week, and even still it hasn't stopped me from moving forwards.
Without going into too much detail, I had the beginnings of a sore throat just before catching a very nasty stomach bug that surfaced this time last week, on Saturday night. The combination left me extremely weak and very much worse for wear, and even after recovering from that weekend from hell, it ultimately culminated in an agonizingly bad throat infection that lasted the rest of the week, denied me sleep, and has only started abating as of this morning.
Both episodes came dangerously close to delaying major stages in my transition journey, even after enjoying an entire year of decent physical health. The timing was abysmal.
The final major appointment for obtaining my HRT prescription was set for Monday morning, meaning that I had just about 24 hours to recover from a very unpleasant and physically draining night. Rescheduling would more than likely result in postponing the process
I've made mistakes and caused harm to my friends.
Hi everyone. I've been quiet following my last announcement.
I'll cut right to the chase - I've fucked everything up. I seriously hurt some of my partners and closest friends with my recent actions and caused a lot of lasting harm to many of those who've been most actively supportive of me for the past several years.
Without going into specifics or over-explaining things, quite simply: I betrayed the trust and disregarded the feelings of those I love the most in an egregious way. To make matters worse, it had a knock-on effect which caused a massive rift within several groups we shared.
I've done what I can to own up to my mistakes and try to help wherever possible, but the damage has been done and there's no way for me to take it back. I'm working on myself to figure out why this happened and how to avoid it in future, and slowly salvage my friends' trust after undermining it with my actions.
I'm choosing not to name names because while I think I can trust folks not to bother them
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