Currently been trying to figure out a decent way to implement art time for me. I had slowly been getting back into drawing even if it's by the way of just drawing challenges. Back when I started doing art socials again, I wanted to avoid the idea of drawing for the sake of a crowd and instead draw for myself and only post works that I can agree with myself that it's worth showing off. Easier said than done when you feel like every piece is worth showing off... I already dumped info on my previous experiences regarding art socials on Weasyl and FA so maybe check those out if you're curious?

I don't want to share art for the sake of fame and glamour. It's more for building a bit of a community and outer circle for myself. Regardless, I take the lack of any sort of reaction to heart and rather hard... It's still being worked on.

Blogger site had been discarded in favor of DreamWidth and I honestly don't regret the move. The site is very reminiscent of something like LiveJournal and offers a good amount of features for a free user. Image hosting is a bit on the crunched side but something like ImgBB is a nice alternative option for that feature. I will need to update the blog link since the current is no longer maintained. Posting one last thing there with notes on moving bases is considered.

I have been trying my best to use this for portfolio purposes, but problem with that is that I have a slim audience on other socials and well - it's easy to say that not a lot of likes can make it count as a worthy piece to share here...

Mostly work has been taking front and center as always, but just haven't been able to manage time for art lately. I do notice that if that occurs, mental health gets a bit shaky. I also thought about not using the journal feature here unless it's something important that pertains to this site specifically. Otherwise, I thought about just cheating and using my Blogger site more and adding a link to that for prosperity.

Imposter syndrome is kicking into high gear again and it has been leaking into other portions of my life. It's a real bummer considering that I know I've made some amazing progress, but according to it - not enough. I try to not dump too much personal issues here as well as anywhere in general, but I just wanted to drop an update for the curious folks.

Might not be as short as the previous entries. I have been using the site but it's more along the lines of background features such as commenting when I feel it is necessary. I have thought about dropping by the forums and getting myself out into the wild more but I had been avoiding forums since I had gotten into a bit of a pickle years ago on Neopets through the forums. I was a silly child and I didn't know better and I'll leave it at that.

I had finally got my Artfight account verified and I have been trying to work on character reference sheets for them. Still a bit worried over being traditional while most of the art I've seen is digital. "Most" being a key word. I can be wrong and maybe there's some traditional art there people use for AF, and I'm not talking about the traditional art digitized.

Lately, it's been quite a bit busy and that might be why I've been more in the background...

While I do like what NG has to offer here, when I get little to no activity somewhere I tend to lose interest... Haven't had much luck with reach unless they follow and honestly, I don't consider myself lucky on that end either...

In the case of me falling off the world here, I do have other links for folks to check out if they want to follow me there.

Edit: it turns out I didn't erase it from history on my browser and I stumbled upon it. Lit.link was the site I had been looking for and I honestly feel pretty rough knowing this might of confused a lot of folks or just flat out made them a little fussy... I had little to no other clues to work off of and it made it very difficult to track down.

So I've been thinking about replacing my Linktree site with something more robust and customizable - not card site if at all possible please... Problem is - I can't remember the name of the site. I remember stumbling upon it while I did a field trip through various Neocities pages. I unfortunately didn't think twice about it and it's not popping up in my history which means I don't remember it period or I cleared my browser history since then which is bound to happen time and time again...

After a nice little break, I am slowly returning to form. I might consider doing little breaks like that to help heal when I need it. Of course, I'll give heads up when I need the break.

Much like what the title says: I'm still trying to take a good breather before returning, but I'm contemplating on coming back otherwise I'll get too comfortable with not posting that I go anxiety crazy when I do.

Most of my time on break is just made up of work time and cry time. Latter part is made up of just dread of not finding good groups to converse with in a local sense unless one uses FB like it's still 2010... I still have mine but I hardly give a bit of a darn to use nowadays. I've been using an app called Meetup, wouldn't recommend it unless you know your area is densely populated and/or has a couple of good groups worth joining... I have gave up on those type of apps and just decide I will stick to looking in the real world when I can.

We finally got some snow, just not enough to say I don't feel safe driving to work in... Although there's a chance we're going to get colder weather and get some more, so here's hoping.

I ended up going to Blogger for my blog needs. SpaceHey was okay but not exactly for me so to speak.

Most of the text following this is copied over from my Weasyl account. I don't edit repeats unless it's due to difference in site's structure and social features. I edited the rating up to T due to how unsure topics regarding Gender Identity is handled here.

So long story short: taking a break from posting art for a while. I've been work crunched (aka: energy draining from working and worrying) and haven't been able to do art too much...

There's not much of a long version of it, that's it. I've also been trying to find a spot for blogging that's not the Google owned Blogger site. If push comes to shove though, I might end up just getting a blog set up there - if I can. Google seems mobile friendly since they have dibs on Android so to speak, but there's that probability of being incorrect.

CoHost and Pillowfort have been okay, but they are just microblogging sites... Maybe I do want to go all out and do a full size blog. Granted, I could just be saying that because it's been on the brain lately. Mostly been dealing with gender identity a lot and I can't stress this enough - online quizzes and personality tests aren't meant to be accurate but they are very silly still.

I'll post one more piece and hopefully I'll get back to posting more soon. But for now, indefinite hiatus.

I kind of forgot about this account for a bit. Love how being an adult is all work and no play... Kids, enjoy your childhood years as long as you can.