long time no see

man, it's been a while! i feel like so much has happened and yet nothing has really happened at all. i figured it was about time i cracked open a new blog post, even if it was just so i could get back into updating my website again. i've really fallen off lately, haha.

last month i went to my last art walk of the year - they officially end in october, but i didn't go to october's. normally i make blog posts about this stuff, but i never took pictures of the things i got because i was really pissed someone sold me something with uncured resin (which if you don't know is highly toxic and should not be messed with). i did also go to a bigger art event later that month, where i got some books, cat ears, and a bombass drink. i'm not sure where the ears are right now though, so no pics. they're super cute though!

i also started school again. it's been going really well! i didn't do the best on my first quiz, but otherwise i've really been on top of things. i also started… taking notes. (the crowd gasps and swoons). i was inspired because i saw this video about taking notes with obsidian. i'd already downloaded obsidian a while back but hadn't really had a use for it. i was inspired to start actually notetaking and i've found it helps a lot! who woulda thought? it's not like people have been saying that since the beginning of time or anything.

this month has been a bit up and down. as soon as i got paid i ordered myself a steam deck, and i've been loving it! my favorite thing to do is play hundred line in bed. i picked it back up again a few weeks ago and man… second scenario killed me dead. i'm thinking of making a shrine for yugamu at some point, if i ever get back into writing for shrines. maybe i should write that one more like one of my oc pages; my other shrines are getting pretty ambitious.

i thought of drawing one oc a day every day for oc-tober, but i quickly fell off doing that. a part of me still thinks i can catch up, but i should probably cut my losses. i've never been great at doing art challenges, even self-imposed ones. oc-tober was a bust, but at least i got these two sketches out of it!

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i got sick with anxiety pretty bad sunday night and it took a few days to fully recover. it's really crazy what anxiety can do to you! i've never had anything like that happen before despite having anxiety since i was a kid. i've been in decidedly worse situations than my grandma coming over to drop off some photos, but i guess that's what did me in. le sigh.

that's about all i've got for y'all this time! sorry it's been so long since i wrote. i'm hoping to start demo-a-day back up soon too. i haven't been making the best use of my time this past month or so, haha. i've been having a lot of fun though! i guess that makes it all worth it. hopefully i'll have some site stuff to upload soon!