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Bi-Weekly Report #23

Added 2025-02-25 04:06:37 +0000 UTC

The sickness. The plague. Our home has been ravaged. I spent a week and a half primarily existing on the couch. Kaz is trapped in migraine hell.

And I still got an urgent commission done.

ANIMATION

Things have been stagnating pretty hard on this front thanks to my crippled ability to muster an ounce of energy for most of the last couple weeks, but even before that I was struggling hard to get any momentum for my present projects. So, I decided I needed something more casual to loosen up with, hit up the KTC, and now there's something cute and quick in the works.

It'll probably be done later tonight, if things go to plan. Always that "if" right now. Doin' my best.

WRITING

Chapter 6 has released on ScribbleHub as well as Wattpad. This one was a pretty light affair, actually, which is a nice change after the last couple chapters and their many many translation footnotes.

I'm finding myself a bit intimidated by what comes next for Thralls, mostly because I'm juggling the two timelines with a more specific intent and end goal this time around, whereas before I let them inform each other a bit more in the flow of the moment. There's a lot of important worldbuilding and character progress in the coming chapters, both drafted and not, and I'm finding myself very concerned that I'm gonna fuck something up.

This is why I draft in the first place, mind. It's what drafting is for. If I need to move something around or fiddle to make it all work, that's not the end of the world. And yet, here I am, stalling. Excited, but stalling. Hopefully I get irritated enough with myself to get on with it out of sheer frustration with the stagnance, as I would genuinely love to. We're finally going to get to know the real Lyselle, and so is Lyselle.

GAMEDEV

Hard to code when you can barely write a sentence in actual human language, not gonna lie, but I did make a bunch of progress on the 3D modelling course I've been chipping at, so that's cool. I'm almost done with the modelling part and will then be on to texture painting, which I understand to be a very useful thing to have available to you compared to painting over UV unwraps in an image editor. Exciting!

It mostly sucks to have no Slime Forest progress though because I more than once sat here at my desk while sick off my ass and just kinda stared at the GODOT icon trying to muster a thought that could prompt me to move forward. Not remembering what I was even trying to do in the moment told me that was probably unwise at the time though.

I am so glad to have (most of) my brain back in action again...

COMMISSIONS

New Vegas is a dangerous place...

Completed:

PWYW x1
Foxgirl Jo for Aistarin
Emergency Valentine's commission for LMTSK

In Progress:

Haunted House YCH

Upcoming:

Rarity Paizuri for Rowlet
Some more emote sticker things for Cloud Hop

Honestly, all things considered, it could be going a lot worse. Aiming to be back in full force this week.

Commission Me Here | Check the Queue

AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT!

Even gaming took a pretty solid pause for the illness. Starbound? Don't even know her.

No, the only thing we've been able to manage in this bout of illness is Sticky Business. It's not bad. Very chill, very casual. Make your own silly sticker designs with the parts provided to make customers happy. It's not a bad time at all, even though the DLC has me extremely tired of being told to use nothing but pride flags and practical items like checklist parts and calendars and shit. I wanna make dumb shit, dammit! The pride flags are all just rectangles and the checklists are checklists. They aren't even broken down into parts I can organize or palettes I can assign to shapes and such like most of the other pieces. In their effort to be sugary sweet and inclusive they have in fact hamstrung my output, all because they won't give me more cool parts like the pansexual planet. It's just a planet with the colors of the pan flag, but I can work with that. I need more things like that. Or like the ability to skew or squash and stretch the flags. Something. Something besides rectangles. I can only make so many stickers of animals sitting on pride flags before that creative well feels tapped. Please.

But whatever. I feel better now. I can make my own pride stickers if I want. I can channel my energy into them properly. Oh yes. Sticky Business may be cute and wholesome, but I am spit and vinegar and queer as in fuck you, so I was destined to burst out of that prison in a ball of big gay fire at some point or other.

Not a bad game tho. I made this rat in it.