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3 November 2014 06:40 pm
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hi! my journal is currently partly friendlocked which means i'll have to grant you access if you want to read some of my more personal posts, but i'm very laid back and always looking to make connections so feel free to send me a message anytime - it's very unlikely that i'll say no! :^)

note that for personal reasons i'd rather those with access were over 18. i'm an adult and i talk about adult stuff. if you're under 18, please have mercy and get off my lawn

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There's a writing meme by [livejournal.com profile] fionnabhar where you're supposed to answer a question per day.

It's thought-provoking and might give me things to write about, so I'm going to do it, but I'm starting late and I'm not going to hold myself to a schedule or anything. I'll just make a journal when I feel like it, answer however many questions I feel like at that time, and complete the whole thing in chunks as/when I remember.

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I'm very tired as of writing this and I don't honestly have a lot to say but I'm making a post anyway because I TOLD MYSELF I WOULD USE THIS MORE IN 2020

I took the Scout to the vet today because she's old and wobbly and they took some blood to test but I mean, she seems okay now. Apparently, she has a minor heart murmur, but the vet was like "honestly you'd be hard pushed to find a terrier her age that doesn't have one" so I guess she's okay, basically, for all her ancient bones.

EDIT: just realised I wrote "THE SCOUT". She is a dog. Her name is Scout. I'm leaving it in because the mental image of putting the TF2 Scout into a cat carrier is the fucking funniest shit in the world

I'm also trying Mort on this back-of-the-scruff applicator Valerian remedy for his crazy old man anxiety, but I put some on yesterday (it's meant to last a week) and he hasn't really shown any changes. Upon looking it up I hear they're sometimes more effective when taken orally but considering his hatred of taking pills I reckon that'd do more harm than good lmao. Anyway, he's fine, just trying to improve his quality of life somewhat.

Did some streaming yesterday and hosted Adam, who is an electronic musician and long-time bestie of mine. We did nothing art or music related and just dicked around getting bullied by my viewers and watching 5 Minute Crafts videos. Absolutely marvellous to see how feral these people become when set loose with a hot glue gun.

Anyway, it was fun and apparently entertaining, so we keep brainstorming other stuff we could do on streams, but it's a little sad knowing we may not have much time since he's potentially moving out of town in late February. As much as I hate being left behind in this shithole, I still feel like this year is gonna be the one where changes start happening, so I'm trying to remind myself of that and stay positive :'^) We'll find ways to do stuff together in future, everything's just... a juggle at the moment, I guess.

Either way, I'll still be streaming, just more solo stuff. Might do a little more later today, we'll see. Working on DEIFY is way easier when I stream it, because knowing people are watching helps me to stay on-task and not get distracted watching YouTube videos or fucking off to play Spyro. Twitch is a pretty good ADD remedy or something???

Speaking of Spyro, I've been sinking a great many hours into the Reignited trilogy lately and writing fic for it and drawing fanart and... everything. Hyperfixation activated. The original trilogy was absolutely my favourite game as a kid and I still have fond memories of playing it in my grandparents' house and marvelling at the idea that finally, finally here was a real existing thing where you got to be a dragon in a fantasy world. The remake really did it more justice than I could have dreamed! Also the dragons are hot.

Mort just sneezed all over my screen and keyboard as of typing this so I'm gonna end it here. Big oof am I right gamers

Edit: also I just remembered to mention I'm trying to work out how to decorate my room behind my streaming area so that there's some interesting stuff in the background. The trouble is, we're trying to move out of this house, so none of it can be shit that needs to be hammered into a wall or anything that will otherwise leave marks or anything like that. I have no shelves, it's just a blank white wall/corner, and I don't have any furniture to put there save for a low TV stand and a beanbag chair that are both already there. If anyone has any suggestions go wild.
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let's get the fun part out of the way. here are my new year's resolutions:
  • only drink on special occasions, or when out of the house with friends
  • do more art
  • maybe write some of the stories i've been sitting on since i was ten
there you have it, folks. and here's the most important part. it's okay if i slip up sometimes, as long as i'm at least doing better than last year. which, so far, i definitely am.

last year sucked but i have high hopes for this year. by the end of this month i'll hopefully be back in the black on my primary bank account. i have good friends who understand my weird brain to a point where i don't have to make excuses for myself all the time and (i hope?) i'm not hurting people as badly as i was before. i have some Life Goals and they don't seem as lofty as they might have done once upon a time. i'm drawing more. i'm on medication and it's working!! and i'm motivated enough to go to work more consistently, so that i can accomplish more. i cleared the surface of my desk and got some organiser-y stuff to help me sort things out, and i'm using it sometimes as a quiet space away from screens. i'm going outside more. i'm more confident than i was.

i'm also working through commissions to figure out how much i can manage at once while still leaving time to do personal art (and maybe work on my comic???????). i've given myself permission to post non-commission art while working on commissions, AND without writing "did xyz thing between commissions" as if it's some kinda mitigating excuse. it's made me want to draw more, i think, because i'm not entertaining guilt over daring to do anything else than paid art. and it's also made me want to do commissions more than i did before. usually it was like, i'd get a commission, and barely through the sketch i'd be like "i hate this, i don't want to be drawing this" even if it was a subject i loved to draw normally i.e. furries. i think it was just the pressure i was putting on myself. it's time to have fun with them!!

i'm setting rules now, too, at least privately. if someone asks me to do something super-mega-ultra-perfectionist-detailed with 10 paragraphs of details about pose/tone/etc and constant back-and-forth over how a leg looks or whatever i'm just straight up gonna be like "look i need to just finish this and move on" because that was a huge stopping force for me before.

i'm also working on smaller canvases and higher resolution and BOY HOWDY it is so much goddamn easier than what i was doing a year ago with 600dpi and an entire huge 2000x2000 canvas.

this year can give me its best shot. i'm ready and much more stable, bitch!!!


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hi i'm ANDERS, i'm an adult, and i'm more powerful than big lion

don't be afraid to subscribe/request access, though i don't use this journal much any more

i draw, rp, and sometimes write. i have a webcomic called DEIFY.

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