Bi-Weekly Report #34

Job applications. So many job applications.

I have been reduced to trying to get certified to train the computers that seek to replace me. I have heard back from nobody on any front - accounting, art, anything - and am really feeling what I was last year all over again but with significantly less financial backing to keep me afloat.

Perhaps understandably, I've been a bit busy doing whatever I can to move the needle on any of these fronts. Throw in Kaz starting home therapy and apparently now one sick cat and my thousand yard stare and short tone are being refined into masterworks of their kind.

They denied her disability claim on some technicality bullshit. Comcast charged us a hundred bucks to send a dude out who didn't fix the actual problem that had shut my business down for weeks. None of these job apps are fucking responding to me and every day is a fun bag of surprises I feel completely out of control of. Today's surprises were egg salad and a constipated cat. I love egg salad but if everything's gonna be a trade like this then all the surprises could just knock it right the fuck off for a bit please.

Whatever. Stuff time. Things, even.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

I've begun setting up a Twitch page. I don't have a planned "launch" yet, and I'll still be on Piczel for anything NSFW. I thought Streamlabs allowed dual streaming without being on their paid plan but I guess not so we'll see what I even do here. It took me all week just to get around to the like 30 minutes of work that was doing up my panel art. This one is not a rush, but it's there.

I cannot confidently declare when the next Drawpile will be as we still do not have a concrete weekly schedule for what's going on around here. There may at some point be a surprise Drawpile. Or not. Let's find out together???

I did manage to make this cute-ass elemental rabbit adopt though. It has a couple days left, if you're interested in nabbing that. There may be more down the line. We will see!

WRITING

I am very very slowly chipping away at editing the next chapter for y'all. Finding the time and energy at the same time has been very tough. You need your eyes to work and stuff??? Whose idea was that?????

ANIMATION

I got two animations done this last week.

Rarity is finally done giving that boy a boob job, though it sounds like Rowlet is trying to pin down a VA to add something to it that my folder of overzealous fuck noises couldn't. Understandable, they're kind of obnoxious this time admittedly.

I also did one for a skeb comm for Yuri, because hell yeah getting Sidy against the wall why not.

Maybe eventually either of them will be posted somewhere that isn't Bluesky. I am... terrible about that, sorry. Never sure what to do with public work on here, never mind when it's video and I'm not allowed to post those natively because boobies.

I will probably be poking the manor tomorrow, lord willing. I was going to tonight but it got WAY LATE on me so I did this instead. Lot of waiting on other people to show up and then go away today...

COMMISSIONS

Completed:

• Surprise Box x3

• Sketch-A-Thon x 1

• Rarity Paizuri for Rowlet

In Progress:

• Rabbit With A Hammer (very overdue)

• Haunted House YCH

Upcoming:

• Thing for Aist (very overdue)

• Vale Trading Card

• Surprise Box x 4

• Sketch-A-Thon x 2

Commission Me Here | Check the Queue

AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT

I keep chipping at Bloodstained when the depression wins. Trying to get that 100% completion thing. It's... a slog, but really passive for the most part, which is sorta where I've been at. Not very exciting, I know. Apologies.

There's not a ton else to talk about I guess. A lot of setting things up and poking at this and that and just generally running in circles like a confused dumbass trying to figure out how to even remotely keep us afloat. Parents have bailed us out this month but it feels bad, man. Tired of struggling. Tired of everyone else struggling too. There's plenty of food and shelter and it's kind of stupid that we're all fighting to even survive when you consider that. It kind of makes you want to go on tirades that'll get you banned from platforms, which feels less and less impressive as I keep seeing more of them crack down on NSFW and furry stuff courtesy of nebulous terms pushed onto them by payment processors. Y'all hear about itch, now? Good grief.

Oh well. At least everyone can distract themselves wondering if the president is a pedophile or not. I mean, he is. We all knew that like a decade ago. Nobody cared then but now they all do for some reason. I guess when it's 14 year olds in a dressing room it's no big deal but hey now it's some mystery island of nebulously-aged children. That could mean whatever you want it to mean! Kinda makes me feel bad for the 14-year-olds, though. Wish people'd given a fuck about that. Or the grabbings by the pussies. Or the attacks on and demonizing of queer and especially trans people. Or how his strangling of the economy through his bullshit tariff war is pushing all but the most well-off of us to the brink.

... I do not like that man.

Until next time

• Sera