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i hope everyone's had a good time! be wise and stay warm for the winter still ahead, folks!


this is more autumnal than wintry but take it anyway
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i tidied my room today to make room for a huge beanbag i got as a gift. it would be amazing to draw in that thing, but it'd involve moving a few things around to get my PC in the right place, so we'll see if i can make that work. if not, it'll make a great reading/lounging/napping spot. my back has been hurting lately and it really feels good to sit in it, since the "beans" move around a bit like memory foam

i might see about getting some fairy lights to string up in my room for next year. maybe see if my parents are ok with me putting up some posters - i'm worried about damaging the paint since we're trying to sell the house but this room is just so BLEAK and white/grey and euahgh

my new year's resolution is to stop drinking altogether, cold turkey, WITH the exception of actually leaving my house and going out to drink socially (which is a deterrent, for me, because i am introverted and tired and that is a lot of effort) so uhh i guess we'll see about that too.

i also want to draw more, and faster, and also to play more Furcadia. be the activity you want to see in the world, or whatever.

it's been a nice, quiet holiday. i'm working again tomorrow, like i was on xmas eve, and then i'll be working on new year's eve, but that just means more money and at this point i'm getting to a stage where it's not that much of a struggle to motivate myself to get up in the morning (close friends will know why) so that's fine...

i wanna say a big thanks to everyone who's become/remained my friend over the years. everyone's an absolute star. y'all know who you are. [clinks glass ceremonially]

may i offer you a simple umbreon in these trying times?

because it had to happen sometime and i've got some very tasty and choice screenshots/photomode images

I ALSO SLID SOME ART IN because i have a Good Character and i like to draw his adventures sometimes

you should be able to click each image and it'll open the full size version in a new tab!
( cut for, yeah, picspam )

last night i had a dream about going to a small group of about 5 nearly-empty cabins in the middle of a pine forest during winter. it was snowing real hard and everything was covered in white and it was cold, but i'd apparently volunteered to go to this place with another few dudes who don't exist irl and i brought all three cats. the cabins were small and only had a bed each, everything was bare except for a light, but with three cats and some friends living nearby i was ready to do whatever it was we were out there to do. forestry? man i dunno. it was cold but i was super comfortable

anyway then it turned into a dream where we got on a spaceship helping out some actual transformers. i think they were mostly non-canon generic kinda transformers but they worked under some version of optimus prime? me and the other cabins-in-the-woods people were sneaking around the ship looking for evidence of betrayal or something and it was exciting and good. we were high tech super spies. and i think i had to chase my cats out of the mission more than once. go home idiots

i don't normally have (or remember??) dreams, much less about my actual interests, so it was rad to finally have one about living in nature AND about transformers in one fell swoop!! nice.

i went for 2 runs that averaged 4 miles each and, as someone who doesn't do a goddamn jot of cardio on a daily basis, i'm pretty sure my legs fell off. like, they're back on now, but i know they fell off. you could not convince me otherwise. hot damn.

the reason i did so much jogging is because i finally downloaded and tried out Zombies, Run! and oh wrow, i am invested. the voice acting is sometimes super good and other times not so fab, but even the not-fab parts kind of sound natural, like someone genuinely is having trouble communicating the fact that he's upset that another character turned their radio off in a post-apoc world. you can sort of let a lot of the not-so-great parts slide for that reason, and the good parts are really good!

i didn't want to believe the hype, but honestly, i really enjoyed my taste of the app so far, and when i get a job again i'm gonna probably get myself a subscription so that i can try out the different gamemodes and not have to wait a week between plot episodes.

i'm thinking of starting up a youtube series of me telling dumb stories (maybe to a limited animation/animatic?), but it's actually surprisingly hard to think of good stories that aren't confidential. i dunno if i'll make anything of it but i guess more on that later.

i also finished a redraw of the first page of my long-haul fantasy comic, and it looks good! i'll try to work through some more and post them somewhere. the hardest part is trying to remind myself not to spend too long fussing over small details. it's a bad habit of mine to get bogged down in that kind of thing and ultimately never finish a project.

in other news i started watching The Dragon Prince on Netflix. and it is!!! super good!!! it's about three kids going on a mission to save a fantasy kingdom; one is a dorky mage, one is a naive little kid, and one is a hardcore elf with a fake scottish accent. there's also a character who speaks entirely in sign language and some of it is left untranslated so i, a dipshit, has no idea what's being said. i've always meant to learn! but yeah, it's cool that they animated all the handsigns with care. aside from that, the plot is also really gripping me! i miss high fantasy for every 5 seconds i spend not consuming it!! give me high fantasy or give me death

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