Kamidu

March Journal

Added 2022-03-14 05:34:24 +0000 UTC

So I’ve been putting off this journal for quite a while but it’ll be weird if I don’t say something…

Here is the TL;DR version of what’s going on this month:

If you’re here for the long haul, let’s begin with the pleasantries: as always, thank you so much for continuing to support me here on Patreon. I know I say it every time I post but seriously, this gives me purpose and reason to get out of bed and actively do something, given:

Naturally, I acknowledge that I have been extremely fortunate in having this enterprise work out well the past 6 years and a bit. I mean, like wow… this was a pipe-dream pre-2015. And despite my caterwauling about many a thing, I certainly do not have any regrets or gripes about doing this anthropomorphic art career (does it count as a career if you’ve been doing for a long time?)

So believe you me, this isn’t a:

A fair number of long-term Patrons will have noticed I’d scrapped the Discord server after… I’m not sure how long it had been active for to be honest… 2018, 2019?

Anyway, it was just getting too much for me to handle; I can’t do the social interaction or the management of social interaction thing very well, at least not to nowadays’ standards. I feel there is an increasing divide between myself and others, not just in terms of cultural differences, but generationally speaking too. A lot has rapidly changed within the past decade and I feel unable to meet others’ expectations (or what I perceive as such). I apologise for no longer having a Discord server and withdrawing from people.

For now, I’ve retreated back into my art, into the language I can understand best to emote in. Why keep doing it…?

(Disclaimer: I’m not taking a fictional character’s side, I just liked the way the story was written and how the first animated adaptation handled that scene; it best illustrates what I'm trying to say).

But seriously, it’s what I do and what I love doing: my raison d’être, if you will. Thank you so much for enabling me to do so, and continue providing content.

And that’s pretty much it. I had written a lot more but it’d sound like self-indulgent yap. And given what’s going on in the real world… pales in significance, really. Nevertheless: