October update 2 (Attachments!)

hi, today I've got some stills for you,

the animation is also well underway, so far I've roughed in both characters movement and now I'm going onto polish and expressions. From there it'll go onto sim adding some nice squish and jiggle and reactive fur, I'm aiming to post up everything in the first update next month. I didn't get quite as much done as I wanted to this month because of real life health annoyances (there is a text wall down below if you want to read the details)

As the Executive Producer's latest poll ended in a tie I'm shortly putting up a tiebreak poll for everyone in the $5+ tiers. Poll is for the next activity, there are three choices (as the EP poll ended in a 3 way tie) so now you all get a chance to decide which of the three activities it's going to be. This is going to be a flash poll over the next 2 days. Once that is decided I'll be putting up another Executive Producer poll so they can choose the character pairing.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the 4K stills and I'll be back next month with hot Racc on Wolf rimming action!

The following text wall is stuff about my medical issues, you can skip it if you are not interested:

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A quick catchup, a couple of years back I got covid. Since then I've had constant fatigue. It gets worse if I overexert myself, with no way to tell when I have. First I know about it is some random time the next day when a switch gets flipped and I have zero energy. It can take weeks to get back up to 'idling' energy that seems to be my normal with fatigue. I mitigate crashes by taking tasks slow with lots of breaks. (annoyingly not everything can be done this way and sometimes I need to push through getting some IRL tasks done and suffer the consequences)

What's being done about this? I was put on Iron supplements they helped for a little bit (and I'm still on them) the energy didn't last. A few months back I had tests/scans and I'm 'subclinical' for hypothyroidism. Started thyroid meds. After the side effects lessened I finally had some energy back, got a glorious 3+ weeks where I started feeling like my old self...

Well not so fast. over the past week or so I've been having a string of days where I don't have energy again. So back to pacing out physical tasks. This also kicked up a bout of depression. (I've been dealing with depressive spells for over a decade, I know I just have to wait it out.) Having 'normal' suddenly get taken away from you is a great way to lower your mood.

Going to be seeing the endocrinologist again in December so fingers crossed they can update my medication dosage to get me back to reasonable energy levels again. It's really hard thinking that you've got a solution to your issues only for it to randomly stop working... The Ted Lasso quote "it's the hope that kills you" feels apt. And not to worry this does not mean I'm not going to be working on the animation, I just need to go back to pacing myself and getting back into the swing of working when tired. I'll carry on like I always do :)

Why tell you all this? You are supporting me after all, keeping you in the loop feels like the right thing to do. (Congratulations for making it through the text wall.) :D

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