FA+
Shop
How's it been going.
2 years ago
General
First off.... The Ursa Major Awards nomination period is now open, and will run until mid February. Shine has already won once, (and I can see the award from where im sat and it still fills me with determination to keep working hard to finish my project Shine.) So I don't need to ask for nominations as You lot have kindly already shown your support for my work, but theres lots of artists and creators and fursuiters and just....our community here is full of such talent that im sure theres others out there who deserve the same support. So if you feel inclined go on over and nominate some folk then here's the links
https://ursamajorawards.org/index.htm
https://ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm
Secondly Life has been a bit...hectic recently. (everyone rolls their eyes as lets face it..when isn't my life hectic...have I ever come on here and said...hey guys zero has been going on and i have nothing to do....I'd like that for future me, if just for once...just to see what it's like)
I did a four day intense group therapy training event recently and im still kinda reeling from that quite a bit. sticking 150 people in a room and getting them to talk to each other for 4 days was a bit...crazy really. Lots of huge topics came up and lots of really opposing views so trying to find common ground when you cant just block them and not talk to them....It was really interesting but really hard work and I guess all part of learning to be a therapist, finding way with coping with people that really are your polar opposites. I'm not gonna lie. It was really overwhelming at points, but again I think the idea was to be overwhelmed and work out how to cope with that or how to let go of being bombarded with so much information in such a short intense time frame. I came away with a lot of new ideas about myself so I guess it helped me solidify some things in myself, so huzzah for that. But I practically went around in a daze for a few days as my brain tried to process it all, and the crazy dreams were fun.
On monday i go into my first proper assessment where i hafta be therapist for 50 mins and record the session then transcribe it and write an essay about why I was asking teh questions I was askinga nd what i was thinking and doing during the session and what bits i did well and what bits i did badly. I think I'm not nervous or anything so I think even if it goes badly so long as im aware its gone badly then thats what they're looking for.
I also went to Aunty Kim and her partner Alaras house yesterday (and they're now currently here at my house) and had some proper little time in the first time since what feels like forever. Its mad how just a bedtime story and being fed a bottle and being talked to/acknowledged as a small child will just top up my ability to tackle the world. I've felt like ive been running on empty for sooo long that suddenly I have energy to really get stuck in to so many projects and the vitality just feels really strong in me again. so i guess thats why I also have energy to write this. So yeah really super grateful for that.
Anyway on with drawing more pictures. Hope you're all doing ok
https://ursamajorawards.org/index.htm
https://ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm
Secondly Life has been a bit...hectic recently. (everyone rolls their eyes as lets face it..when isn't my life hectic...have I ever come on here and said...hey guys zero has been going on and i have nothing to do....I'd like that for future me, if just for once...just to see what it's like)
I did a four day intense group therapy training event recently and im still kinda reeling from that quite a bit. sticking 150 people in a room and getting them to talk to each other for 4 days was a bit...crazy really. Lots of huge topics came up and lots of really opposing views so trying to find common ground when you cant just block them and not talk to them....It was really interesting but really hard work and I guess all part of learning to be a therapist, finding way with coping with people that really are your polar opposites. I'm not gonna lie. It was really overwhelming at points, but again I think the idea was to be overwhelmed and work out how to cope with that or how to let go of being bombarded with so much information in such a short intense time frame. I came away with a lot of new ideas about myself so I guess it helped me solidify some things in myself, so huzzah for that. But I practically went around in a daze for a few days as my brain tried to process it all, and the crazy dreams were fun.
On monday i go into my first proper assessment where i hafta be therapist for 50 mins and record the session then transcribe it and write an essay about why I was asking teh questions I was askinga nd what i was thinking and doing during the session and what bits i did well and what bits i did badly. I think I'm not nervous or anything so I think even if it goes badly so long as im aware its gone badly then thats what they're looking for.
I also went to Aunty Kim and her partner Alaras house yesterday (and they're now currently here at my house) and had some proper little time in the first time since what feels like forever. Its mad how just a bedtime story and being fed a bottle and being talked to/acknowledged as a small child will just top up my ability to tackle the world. I've felt like ive been running on empty for sooo long that suddenly I have energy to really get stuck in to so many projects and the vitality just feels really strong in me again. so i guess thats why I also have energy to write this. So yeah really super grateful for that.
Anyway on with drawing more pictures. Hope you're all doing ok
And very much not first.
Best of luck with the assessment, you'll ace it!
How was interaction done? Like, just slap 150 in a room and cage match it or were there tasks you had to complete forcing the interactions? Have mini groups that get shuffled up? I can see all being a thing, good job on handling it tho.
(also crazy dreams? I remember you mentioning lucid dreams before.)
best of luck monday, interested to hear about it if you chose to share after
Glad the topics were interesting tho, something everyone can comment on as were all have a relation to them as hoomans.
Good job on picking the harder one, certainly seems to of paid off. Thank you, Ill stop pestering now.
We had a massive breakthrough on mental health things last week and has led to the weird side effect of us basically not having a need to post on FA anymore for a while lmao. It's been nice having things line up in a way that makes them make sense and we're (collectively) going to get outside more and take more time for processing stuff going forward ^^ OH also corrupted a friend into being both a furry and asking questions about themselves that led to them realizing they were Trans too >:D
You seem to have got a lot out of that Intense Group Therapy and best of luck on Monday. I hate evaluations and self assessments. Being self-critical is mush easier than blowing my own trumpet for me.
Glad you had little time with Auntie Kim and Alaras. It does seem to be rare still.
Take care ^^
Say Hi to Kim and Alaras for us (^_^)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot.....ts/ar-AA1mLfv2
With that said, Fauci shut down, in essence, all but the big-box stores. All the mom-and-pops were forced to close up shop... And I can't help feeling that was the point... If you reduce the number of places people can shop, you can better control what people have, and when you shut down peoples' ability to earn a living, you make them dependent upon government. Is that tinfoil-hat territory? Possibly, but it's hard to deny that was the effect of the whole covid nonsense-response. Covid killed people, true. So did the flu before it, it just didn't make the papers and TV news.
And with that, I'm going to stop discussing this in Ms. Sammy's comment section and let people enjoy the artwork. :)