I'd say I'm doing quite well, all things considered. I have a very stable living condition and, really all I need is a job and I'll be good. Also will be going to college on the side so, yeah - I'd say everything's great on my end. Hope that the same can be said for you, and if not I hope that it eventually can be.

Glad to hear you're doing okay! I hope you find a job quickly. I know how that can be.

I'm doing well enough.
Wish I had a better paying work-from-home job, so I'm applying to those.

Thank you for asking, hope you're doing alright. :)

Ty, I'm hanging in there as best I can. I'm glad to hear you're doing well. I just had the thought of well...this is how I'm doing...how is everyone else doing right now?

you know, honestly i was just talking to a friend of mine. We have been furries for like 18+ years and we saw a artist selling icons for $400 now we aren't the type to flame anyone for getting that bag but we remember when icons were $20 and it just blows our mind that inflation has hit furries and other creators so hard.

like i would love to blow money on furry animations and smut but fuck me i gotta eat first. i guess i'm showing my age here but i remember when a full color illustration was sub $100 and that was like across the board for everyone now i see a sketch for that much and badges for $400+ at conventions.

*sighs* I am glad for the work i have and life i do live but man i wish the days of $20 icons and $100 commissions were still around.

I guess once i hit big adult status and got a mortgage and cars lots of furry commissions went on hold and it sucks, cause i like art.

I'll live <3

My first con was back in 04, I spent 250 dollars and got an entire bag of art + swag. I was insanely mindblown by how chill and friendly it all was. I'm doing my damnest to keep my prices extremely chill and fair. Mostly what I'm worried about is i'm just unable to keep up skill wise.

And I feel that, I think between inflation and the cost of living just becoming a marry-go-round of speculation cash grab I get the sinking feeling everyone is being way more careful about what they buy.

I'm hoping you're doing okay otherwise.

Honestly I think your prices are fair for what you do so keep it up

But yeah I'm doing okay otherwise

I appreciate that, I'm very bad about advertising things or media in general.

Ugh, got savings and can live frugally but the industry I work in is having a bad time so it's real had to find a job, took me a year to find a position and recently they decided I am not what they need. Back to searching for me.

I understand that, I stopped going on my LinkedIN entirely, it feels more like everyone in my industry is giving a eulogy every week rather then positive behavior or affirmations. I really hope you're able to find work and some stability.

Thank you, seeing how you dabble in 3D I imagine you're struggling with the same industry too. Yeah, it's... hope things improve. For you too.

3D animator by trade. I am a rigging artist too ._.; yeah it's grim rn.

Hanging in there. Worried about the health of friends and family due to ... everything. But personally okay.

Understandable. Hopefully money and living situation going okay?

Thankfully, yes. Hoping that'll last even through changes with how healthcare is being managed.

Thank you. <3

That's relieving to hear. I have this fear everyone is doing really badly in my head so I was curious today figured I'd ask o.o;

I feel that for sure. I really do hope others are hanging in there too. Yourself included.

My housing situation is stable atm. But money rn is really not good.

At least you’ve got that stable. Hopefully that means you can get the funds sorted out sooner rather than later. <3

Hoping, student loan situation is kind of making me a little concerned rn.

Vibes: trying my best one day at a time!
Financials: Could be better >3> lol

Completely understandable, that's all any of us can do right now right?

Not too bad, had to change a mortgage deal which is costing me more but nothing I can't handle.

Still have disposable income for art and hobbies, don't feel a big need to save money though since it'll be worth much less by the time I'd want to use it.

Hope you're doing well yourself chief c:

Very relieved to hear you're doing okay. My situation is, complicated. Lost my job last year and money's gotten so tight I had to move back in with family.

Sorry to hear about that dude, I hope you can get back on your feet sooner than later

*hugs* much appreciated. RN I'm just wanting to hear about how everyone else is doing. Hoping people are okay. I went through my watched list and half of the accounts were deactivated and some deceased :[

Not coping particularly well with some current events. Job hunt is also hellishly slow and disheartening.

Hope the job thing works out for you, all the best there. And I understand. Hoping everything smooths out as best as it can.

I am barely managing and trying to keep it together.

:[ I hope things pick up for us all. I know everyone is going through something atm. Wishing you the absolute best.

Same to you hun.

Much appreciated

Surviving best I can, but the mental health is not great, unfortunately similar for many friends i know, I hope youre doing okay yourself

Ups and downs, mostly it's financial rn. But hopefully things will improve for you.

Nah but its fine, long as it improves for those I care about around me

I work, I have money, I have a car payment and rent. Do I have 20 bazillion? No *sadface* bit I survive.

As long as you're happy, healthy and doing okay that's all that matters.

Financially fine, just annoyed at my state's inability to handle housing properly.

I feel that...i think that's the entire country tbqh

I'm doing OK.. not great, but thank the heavens I'm not struggling or worried about food and shelter from one month to the next.
For quite a while, the landlady ( in who's home I live, along with her brother and HIS son / her nephew ) have had troubles with her getting suckered in by hiring a few years back, a roofing crew that turned out to be literally nothing more then glorified handymen. They charged her a lot of money, did a resulting piss poor job on HALF the roof
( and it got blasted off when we had a heavy, early spring windstorm the next year) and because there was " no written contract.. .just verbal agreement"... we got shafted in the end.

Thanks to another family relation o f hers that had both some pull and some financial influence in some circles, we, for christmas last year, got a brand new SOILD metal roof. Contracted by a reputable dealer and in the end, heck, that roof is going to "outlive" everyone in the house!
**Grins**

As I said.. I'm not great, but thank the furry goddess that I've got good shelter and a home to have a bed in..

it's a weird time to be alive rn, the amount of people ripping each other off is kind of staggering. I'm glad to hear things are somewhat getting back on track on your end.

Just scraping by would be a bit overestimating things in my case, sadly. House wise, I'm not sure how I'm doing. My landlord is a decent sort, but he's very old, and everyone else who lives with me thinks his wife will dump the house... and all of us in the street... the moment he passes. I usually fall short on funds before the end of the month, then coast into the next.

Glad to still hear from you. I'm hoping things improve for you tho

Thankfully thriving, but I also like working 50+ hours a week. Working in power infrastructure is pretty stable.
Hope your situation improves this year!

That's great! Glad to hear you're keeping it going, that's a long week though ._.!

Not doing so great, been trying for two weeks for commission work and I got nothing. So, I am closing it up due to lack of interest. I had to leave up something for donations instead for Groceries.

It's been very slow on my end lately as well so I completely understand.

overall, things are rather, tough, for everyone, everywhere at the moment.
-- prices keep going up, wages keep going down, more and more are perpetually unemployed, with how things are going, at least hopefully, the requirement for currency will cease to be.
since nobody would have any of it left.
-- the situation is almost like an massive-scale reset, forcing things to breach their limit, crash, then restabilize from an clean slate.
here's hoping for an better, happier, free future for all.

Yeah I feel that, I hope we can figure things out. But I know money itself has sort of been a thing since the dawn of mankind. I think one of the first written things ever found that's in "prehistory" was a ledger. Even before written language there was the idea of exchanging currency so I'm highly doubting we're ever going to see an exodus to that. However, I do think everyone's relationship with work will have to change. Everyone works way too much just to exist. If that's the baseline, just existing, you don't really need a job for that. We were hunter/gatherers for 1000s of years without any concept of working for someone else. It was a team effort of games....there are still groups of people that live this way. To me that's just the default of man existing with nature. v_v but i hope you're doing okay other then current happenings and societal minutia.

in general I've been fine outside of financial things, literally 3 days into the year and my car fucked up costing me 4k+ to fix and 3 months of it being in and out of the repair shop constantly.
Basically wiped out my bank account and as I've been trying to restabilize other small setbacks keep nickel and diming me at every turn.
best thing that's happened to me this year is finally getting to play FF7 Rebirth, which was a blast the whole way thru, most engaged I've been with a game in a long time

I still need to play the remakes. I've mostly been preoccupied with marvel rivels after working during the day. I'm sorry about the car trouble, I know how much that can start syphoning money out at a rapid rate. v-v

Completely alone. Persecuted and targeted for being a Christian all my life. Being left alone, ignored by everyone, including people i respect or respected. I get people have lives. But two people barely talk to me all my life. And i have sixty people in my discord. I have made many social media accounts and theyre all, inaccesable because my passwords where changed so xXdjinglesXx on twitter is still up but i cant use it so now my twitter is xXdjinglezXx so im there now, i just dont even want to particpate in society realy anymore. But i still will even thru all this and more, its hard to be a artist and make it past anything sketched or lined for me, or put in the effort to try and learn and study animation, physcially practicing it, i jusy need to do it more. I keep stopping myself. I keep trying to talk to people because i see all this nsfw stuff people draw for themselves and their friends and im like, i gotta do something with my life because if i die i want to make something that matters to leave behind and i havent yet
And i cant get a damn job straightend out all my life but ill keep trying i got some family run buisnesses near me, so next week ill start handing in apps, but i work at a grocery store and i am on disabillity trying to get off it but i cant, mom wont let me but thats cool cuz i made my life i set it up so now its good for me, im chilling but, 5-10 hours a week, i have like 5 days usually of anything i want to do and i just stay and try to talk to people and well goes nowhere usually. Sumtimes it does and well sum people i talk to a few are really important people to me like Uni M and Harvey Rothman. Im Uni Ms friend kinda becoming their friend and Harvey we cant be friends at least rn but they said i can def message them thru email again so theyre a contact id say, so i got a lot sorted out. I just wish i had someone to talk to some more. I guess i just, need to put in the work lock in more