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Regarding recent problems and silence in social media Update

Hey everyone, it's me again X) I hope you're all alright, this post doesn't contain drawings and you don't really need to read it, it's only if you're curious!  anyway here I go; as I said in the Gabriel Dropout update, we're dealing with serious problems here in Venezuela affecting my internet, access to basic stuff, services and my motivation/exhaustion, however, I'm okay in the sense that I'm not starving, my family is healthy (and a huge part of that is thanks to your incredible support, sincerely, I don't think you can imagine what is like for me to be here like this as an artist, thanks a lot!) and safe and I have good friends to lend me a hand... So I will overcome this situation one way or another, but for now it's gonna be hard to stay online and talk to you, the fact that I can't stay and check your reactions and suggestions as soon as they happen is what hurts me the most, a big part of the joy of being an artist is that, and I'm missing it... I can't wait for things to get back to normal! 

I appreciate your patience with me during this situation and I understand if you feel disappointed, but if you feel actually worried... It's okay, look, I've been in (arguably? XP) worse situations and what saved me was my drawings and the fact that I'm a super bad loser so defeat isn't an option no matter the odds, I can get mad or sad but I'm 100% sure things will get better, so I'm not in despair, but thanks :)

I don't update my pixiv or twitter because I can't be active if there's a response with my flickering phone data and my upload speed isn't stable, besides, I don't like to talk when I'm mad, no one wants to read me venting my frustration and I will regret it later anyway.

That's the gist of things, but if you want to know the specifics I'll share it, after all, I want to be honest with my supporters [but don't read the rest thinking that I want you to feel pity for me, after all, despite everything, I'm still doing what I love and that keeps me going]. I think things started to get bad after Christmas, I already knew that because of the holidays and celebrations I wasn't going to have much time to draw but that was okay, after all you need to spend time with family and friends too, but right after that around the 27th my internet stopped working, that's not unusual over here no matter what ISP you have, but it didn't come back the next day, what we had instead was a blackout that lasted from 1pm to 5AM, electricity came back but my internet did not(still hasn't), support wasn't available until 5 days ago and they told me to wait for technical service but I'm still waiting, when my friend saw me down and bored he told me to bring the PC over and play some online games together, and that's when my Power Supply decided that it was time to stop working with a short circuit that scared the fuck out of me, "luckily" only the power suply was affected, all the other components are fine...

However, that's still 100$ that I had no plans to spend to get a new one (and once again thanks to you, I had them saved) and it took 2 days to find one because many stores are closed, there are rumors of disturbance in the government, the national guard and the neighbor countries so this week is difficult for everyone. Add some problems to acquire potable water(I found a way thanks to a friend), sporadic blackouts (1 to 3 hours) and that's pretty much the situation right now with my environment, in my head that translate to being really tired of all this bullshit and frustrated that after deciding to make changes to improve things with my work, now because of things out of my control, even the simple stuff are harder... 2019 doesn't feel good for me yet.

Thanks for reading, I know things look bad but hey, I'm a fighter!! so it's alright, this is just an informative post, no need to reply and the help I'm already getting from you is very big! I'm sorry that there isn't an estimated time to be fully active again but what matters is that I WILL BE BACK! and that's a fact.

Comments

Thank you very much for your kind words, really nice to see the support you guys have shown

Serene and Silent

You would think that beeing out of internet, having Blackouts and problems to acquire water(that should just not be a thing like ever) is bad enough already, but then hardware decides to die aswell, sorry to hear that :/ Yes, keep fighting, i hope you can move as soon as possible, but till then i hope you will have better luck with your environment 🧡🧡

UzumeKurome

Thank you!! yup I will, gotta be safe around here! I was thinking Panama, Argentina, Costa Rica or Chile... There are cool places and I know friends from there that could help get a place (plus, they speak Spanish!)... And if open commissions again, I could stay there with a similar salary per month like a normal citizen and that's good... If I move to US or Europa then I would have to get 2 or 4 times more money... Doesn't seem like good choices for anime artist unless they're super pro x_x)!

Serene and Silent

That's rough, I can't really offer any advice but good luck.

Fishin

Hope stuff gets better for you! Just remember to keep saving stuff, and even if the updates aren't as frequent, these art dumps of many pieces at once aren't bad either =) I thought before you had mentioned trying to move elsewhere. Is that still something you're looking to do? Brazil may end up actually working out now, as their new President is basically anti-"everything Venezuela has become", and they'll hopefully be a nicer place soon. It may not be your dream currently, but it's probably an easier trip than say, moving everything up to the US or to Europe!

theamdrag


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