It's weird how my profile lists me as 30, five days early. I must have entered my birthdate wrong. Of course, I'm still a middle-aged man with broken dreams regardless.

After not touching this account for years, I have decided to catch this one up with my other ones as much as I can.

It would be nice if this site allowed sorting by tags like Pixiv does.

As you all might know, I am an "essential" worker. As such, I am not subject to quarantine. Anyway, I had my hours cut again, which sucks hard. Not only that, both DeviantArt and Pixiv changed their interfaces into confusing messes. I just have terrible luck.

Has anyone else here dealt with someone attack your entire gallery while saying all sorts of nasty things? I just had someone do that to me. I thought about being really smarmy in my comebacks, but I started to become more hesitant when she said that she would hang herself. I understand that it was likely histrionics (given that she said that one of my drawings "gave her cancer"), but one can never be too careful. She sounds like she has some sort of borderline bipolar disorder or something. I might block her if she keeps harassing me.

I understand that it has been a while since I last posted anything here. A lot of things have been happening in my life. I have been battling depression with world events not helping much in that regard. I also moved out on my own into an apartment, which was a big deal given that I had always lived with family prior to that. I will be starting a new job soon that is only a 5min walk from my apartment, meaning that I will have more independence. It all is a work in progress, I suppose.

I know that I hardly do much with this account, but that is more because I am more active on other accounts (and by "active," I mean I check messages and lurk on those accounts as I am not a very productive person). I just figured I would compose this post just to say that I am still drawing stuff (in fact, I am working on something right now). I simply am just distracted by my Switch.

Also, Happy Gardevoir Day (it is a thing that was started on Pixiv).

This is the time of year where people resolve to do all sorts of things--only for them to renege on these things a few weeks later. For me, I am hoping to maybe increase my output, but no promises. I am in the process of becoming more independent and eventually living on my own, which is likely to occupy a fair amount of my time in the future. Unfortunately for me, I have been suffering from underemployment and general Weltschmerz as a result of Late-Stage Capitalism and the slow-roasting of the planet. I hope to eventually go vegetarian when I start living by myself in order to reduce my carbon footprint (going vegetarian right now would just inconvenience my aunt and uncle as they would have to buy separate things for me--and it lead to more dishes for me to wash as my meals would require separate pans). The problem is that I unable to do much else to make my life and the rest of the world better, which is a major source of frustration and despair in my life.

I would talk more about my problems with Neo-liberal Capitalism and my fears regarding the rise of Fascism, but I am already likely angering a large chunk of my watchers. I will instead talk about what I am working on at the moment. I am currently working on another character reference sheet and hope to finish the sketch fairly soon (I am probably 70% done with it). I also hope to make something that could be worthy of being a print on DeviantArt. My hope is that my mental health stays good enough--and that I do not procrastinate too much--for me to finish these things in a reasonable amount of time.

Here is to a new year, and to hoping that things do not worsen too much. I want to be an optimist, but that is easier said than done.  

If anyone is wondering what I am doing, I have playing Smash Bros.

Since Tumblr is axing lewd blogs, I figured I would make an account here.