Howdy all, dunno whether or not folks will actually read this but I figured I'd write it out anyways.

As of around 2 years ago, I started working overnight shifts. The pay was good, but boy is it brutal on the mind and body. In short, my spotty attendance here on FA is largely due to physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, but also due to a bit of an image problem.

You see, when I first made this account, I largely intended for it to be strictly SFW and I segregated my NSFW content to another account, and that was working out fine for the most part.

However, in the past two years I've also kinda changed my personal image - Gumdrop was always an OC to me, a character - having her be the face of my account worked well enough, but that's just not who I am, you know?

Aubrey, on the other hand, is a proper fursona - he might not have my exact name but he vaguely resembles me and for all intents and purposes is my own personal stand-in for furry art.

So that left me in a weird spot - what do I do with NSFW art of Aubrey?
If I dumped it on my alt account, that would defeat the point of having that account be anonymous.
Furthermore, juggling two accounts is a pain in the butt.
That account was primarily for my NSFW writing, but I also haven't written in two years - maybe it's long Covid, maybe it's not, but my attention span has gotten markedly shorter these past few years and my ability to write has gone with it.
Instead, I've focused my creative energies on sketching, only some of which has been posted here.
It's kinda clear to me that there's very little audience here for my work, so I've mostly limited my sketches to a few specific discords and/or sending them directly to their recipients.

So we return to that weird spot - do I merge the two accounts? Leave the other one to gather dust as a repository for my old writing and continue posting all of my art/commissions here, regardless of age rating?
I'd imagine people who don't wanna see the weird smutty stuff probably have the site filtered anyways so it's not like they'd see it.
Plus, most importantly, this is my space, not theirs and I can do with it what I want.

Either way, posting stuff takes time and energy, neither of which I have in abundant supply.

I'm not dead - I go to cons, I hang out in discord with the people who will give me the time of day, and I'm financially stable.

I'm still not really taking commissions - I can't charge enough for them to be worth my time and energy, which I value more than the $10-15 I think they're worth. Plus I don't want to deal with the stress of having to produce something of a specific level of quality.

Expect me to catch up on my uploads in sporadic bursts going forward. I might start posting NSFW content in here as well.
Big shrug.