Hey, thanks folks
2 years ago
thank you folks for such a kind welcoming. It’s very nice to be remembered.
I was gonna do an update on what’s been going on with us but I think I’d much rather hear from you folks instead.
I was gonna do an update on what’s been going on with us but I think I’d much rather hear from you folks instead.
I'm just glad I finally get to read Vincy & Arty. I love webcomics and seeing one that seems to be beloved becoming lost media was very sad.
Good to see you back. Your art style has developed tremendously.
And you just reminded me of something. I remember that FC, for reasons I'd rather forget. I didn't spend all of my time at the con itself. I did a bit of walking around San Jose, especially in the Chinese section of town. On the road coming back from that con, I started feeling sick: chest congestion, nausea, runny nose, inability to taste or smell anything...
Sound familiar?
For two nights I fought the worst illness I'd ever had, coming close to being unable to breathe at a couple of points, and for months after my lungs felt like they were being regularly punched. Unfortunately, by the time proper tests were available for COVID, I was long past the point where they would have found anything. So I still don't know for sure what it was. But I'm willing to bet money I got to be one of the first victims of the damned thing and only survived by sheer luck. We couldn't hold funerals for my parents because of the disease, though Mom said before she died she was grateful for that since she hated funerals. We had a brief viewing of my dad's body at the funeral home, and Mom just went straight to the crematorium since we'd all made a point to be with her before the end. When I picked up Dad's ashes, I asked how it was going for them, They were all overworked, scared, and treating any bodies they got like they were radioactive. They spoke of one poor family who had a son die from it, and all they could do was have the body on one side of a window while the family drove past it.
I remember you always were a little frail, and worried that I'd one day find out you'd caught the thing and succumbed. I was so glad to hear that you're all okay.
I managed to avoid it up until last August, then it nearly killed me. I was taken to ER by ambulance twice for cardiac issues. My resting heart rate was 160. It was a nightmare; my rheumatologist managed to get me Paxlovid and that saved my ass. But yeah x.x I’ve been in quarantine since effectively 2019 because I was pregnant and severely anemic with Kismet. Going kinda stir crazy now since everyone stopped caring about masking and I’m still feeling stuck inside. Not a nice feeling at all. Just wanna be able to live some again.
Let's see... Trying to hold a career after quitting university.
Had a few nasty attacks of Crohn's.
Scrapped with cancer and came out on top.
Unfortunately had to say goodbye to my father due to the same.
Slowly getting to a good point life and career wise and started classes to get my motorcycle certification.
Welcome back, Vinci! We missed you.
Things are good on my end, though my dad's health is not great these days. I'm looking at going back to school to learn some new things and shift my career direction, though I'm still narrowing down what I'd be best served by (likely more Asian language work or possibly something artsy).
I can’t wait to see what you do with your characters!
I don't think I've shared any great relation or depth of RL stuff with you beyond events and subjects close in time to most of our conversation over the last handful of years, but the one big art-stuff change- and a very good one- that's happened in my life as a veteran-journeyman hobbyist-artist, is finally getting my 2005-model Wacom Intous tablet installed and working properly right before the beginning of the Poondammit, and drawing with it almost every day since then broke down and blasted away the almost two year's worth of art block I'd had previously to that.
I did very likely gush a bit at getting to meet- and later on, to call friends- the legendary Arty and Vinci yourselves both, and on occasion to meet your youngling gentlepersons in your Picarto and Twitch streams, to find out their names and see their faces over those streams with 2Paw spectating in chat. It's not every budding artist that gets to meet two heroes of his and their family into the bargain, Professors Nicolaides and Sunspot!
-2Paw.
I've held down a job for 5 years and counting, and I can't complain, the pay's decent.
I suffered from pretty bad burn out and I still have issues trying to get back into the swing of things when it comes to furry art, which is why I haven't been too active here. Since then, I've also been diagnosed with severe depression, but I'm getting help with that, and it's been helping me lots :)
I'm still active in my local SCA group, making illuminations for award scrolls. Sometimes, when we visit NYC, I'll go to the Morgan Library and get the chance to look at actual medieval books in the reading room, and get to flip the pages (without the white gloves!!) and draw the illuminations as I see them :)
I'm also going back to school! I started last year, going to college as a part-time student, working on getting my certificate in Studio Art :) It's...really the first time I've ever gone to school for art (I don't count that one class in high school that I didn't even want to be in), and I'm doing very well in it so far! My next semester is this Fall.
My hubby and I just got back from a trip to Italy, where we went to Rome, Naples, Amalfi coast, and even visited the village where my grandfather came from over a hundred years ago. It was amazing :)
Last year, we had to have our bestest girl, Bella, cross Rainbow Bridge. She was 15 and a half years old, and I miss her something awful.
I'm currently working on getting my back in order...I have a bulging disc in my lower back, which is causing nerve pain in the left leg. It's slowly getting better. I got a cortisone shot back in March, which helps, but I'm going to PT and Pool therapy for it, as well.