Howdy, fellow furs! I'm fresh here, starting my archives anew under a different persona. I hail from Deviant Art -- a site I've since abandoned and deleted my accounts from, due to the massive breach of trust there.

I was never an influencer or a big name there, and I doubt I'll become one in the future, but it does hurt to lose such a big backlog of art from years and years of work. On the other hand... it gives me a fresh slate to move forward and onward. I'll preface this journal with a simple, I don't expect many to read this... but if you do, it's quite appreciated.

I'm a person with bad ADHD. While I can focus hard and get things done in the short term, such as commissions and such, big projects have always been a struggle for me. My motivation dies out, I get distracted, I get forgetful... I've even forgotten some design tricks I used to use on my art itself. It's difficult to work in an environment where everything feels fleeting and easily lost in the corners of my mind, but somehow I've managed to keep it going for the time being. My eyesight is becoming stranger as well (astigmatism), which is not at all helpful, and is depressing when one's passion is in art and animation... but that never stopped any artist before, and it won't stop me.

I know at the moment, my profile appears to pander very heavily towards sales, and I apologize for that. I used to do a lot more commission work, and it was way more stable at one point in my life, due to daily livestreams and work I was doing on a shop front I made in Lioden. It's surprising how wildly successful that got. But it was absolutely draining for me and left me exhausted and burned out. Which, getting burnt out on your job that requires great attentivity, passion and love isn't the best thing for you... at the same time, I recognize how much you can create a small community, doing that. So I may consider something similar in the future, just not quite so daily, as it's tiring for someone who is antisocial and has a battery that refills very slowly.

But, I know I need to start building something soon, as I don't have any other job, nor any method to get around. No driver's license, no car. My only way to help my husband right now, is through art, and I'm doing my best to get out there... as terrible as I am at self-promotion. I hope you understand. It took me a while to get into selling my art -- it felt wrong, somehow. To peddle off and ask money for something I enjoyed making. I felt like... and I still do, most times, that it should be done for fun, and to share that fun with others. Not for some capitalistic, materialistic purpose. It always made me feel dirty somehow. And let me just head this off before it becomes a concern: I do NOT just do this for the money.

I do it because I love to see and hear peoples' reactions. I like to see the light enter there eyes, or flavor their text, when they get something they really want, have plans for, inspires their creativity and brightens their day. I adore that feeling, as much as I adore managing to make someone laugh with a joke, or grin over some dumb mistake I made that both parties can giggle about. There's so much hate and violence in the world, that makes these little moments of humanity and positive expression so much more valuable to me.

Which is one reason why I also share my own thing now and then... just little bits and pieces I've done on my own time for personal art, for humor's sake (I like to make little doodle comics now and then), and for story's sake. I've been working on a comic that I'll be putting on Ko-Fi, and while only some portions will be monetized (early access, members' features), it's my desire to make stories for people and take them to another world for a while. I want to help free people from their worries long enough to get their breath back. My persona might have changed, but my slogan has not.

So please... come and fly with me.