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Update: I’m Sorry + Moving Forward
a year ago
Geeze… I really left this place to gather dust for so long, huh? Five or something months of nothing when I could’ve done or said… anything… Ergh… Well, at least I’m here again. And hopefully, I’ll make it stick. Well… hopefully, anyway.
And look… I’m sorry.
I never meant to just quit making or posting art here on FA, or that I meant to just disappear without so much as a whisper. But… at the same time, I… really couldn’t bring myself to come back here for… a lot of reasons, really. Both external and internal. Too many bad things happened to me, too many plans just ended up going up in smoke and… well, it left me at a bad place that I’m still trying to recover from even as I write this.
But… that was before. It’s been four, five months, and that’s… given me enough time to think about things and dust myself back up. So that’s what I’ll be doing from now on. No… perfect guarantees, but I’ll try my humanly best as I can.
Now… Admittedly, I originally wanted to post a journal like this earlier and even wrote up some segments about some changes I wanna be doing to my stuff around here — buuuuut it ended up being WAAAAAY too long. Like, actually pages long (trust me), and I figured that’s just way too much for a single FA journal (and this is already starting to run its length as is), so… instead, I’ll just put the rest of what I wanna say in (lengthy) bullet points:
(( CHANGES I’M IMPLEMENTING ))
1. No more story segments in the descriptions of art posts. —— This part kills me so much, even as I’m writing this now. I love, love, LOVE story/scenes in descriptions which is why I tried to put them in my own pics… buuuut that ended up putting way too much pressure on me and thus scared me from posting stuff for a long time. So… any long narratives in my descriptions has got to go. Sorry, but I can’t keep biting off more than I can chew. Maybe, if there’s a full story that I really want to write, I’ll make it a separate thing instead.
2. Regular commissions will be closed. —— Or, at least, I won’t be having them on 24/7. I never had a concrete plan for them anyway and no one seems to be interested in ordering any from me (sans a few, but not through FA anyway), so… yeah. There’ll probably be times when I’ll open them again, but most likely for limited time/slots only.
3. YCH’s will be limited as well. —— My original plan with YCHs is to just have a bunch of templates open indefinitely and just let people choose whichever one they want, close and open the slots whenever I feel like it… But, now that I think about it in the long run, it just introduces way too much tedium for me to deal with, most likely. I’ll just focus on new YCHs and close them up after… say a round or two of doing them.
4. Different form of commission payments. —— All this time, I’ve been using a specific commissions-handling site in order to handle the commission payments and all that, but… due to some circumstances, I’m going to have to use a different method instead. Not that I’m saying that the site doesn’t work, it’s just that I couldn’t get the money thanks to some stupid restrictions enforced by my country. So… I’m going to have to experiment with different commission payment options for a good while. A lot of apologies in advance for everyone who’s going to order some comms (YCH or otherwise) from me in the future
Other than that, I’ll mostly (for now) be trying to post the pics that I should’ve posted by now — the completed comms, for one thing — as well as work on new stuff for me to post here on FA. I… admittedly haven’t done much post-worthy art over the past few months, but… I’ve got some in mind, and hopefully you all don’t have to wait too long to see ‘em. Oh, and I’m also thinking of opening up another account on a different socials site — maybe Bluesky — for a more day-to-day approach of posting updates, but… mmh. We’ll see.
In any case, thank you so much for your time and understanding. Hopefully, this all won’t be just another flash in the pan like last time… But I guess it’ll be up to me whether that’ll be the case or not, huh?
-- D.P.C
And look… I’m sorry.
I never meant to just quit making or posting art here on FA, or that I meant to just disappear without so much as a whisper. But… at the same time, I… really couldn’t bring myself to come back here for… a lot of reasons, really. Both external and internal. Too many bad things happened to me, too many plans just ended up going up in smoke and… well, it left me at a bad place that I’m still trying to recover from even as I write this.
But… that was before. It’s been four, five months, and that’s… given me enough time to think about things and dust myself back up. So that’s what I’ll be doing from now on. No… perfect guarantees, but I’ll try my humanly best as I can.
Now… Admittedly, I originally wanted to post a journal like this earlier and even wrote up some segments about some changes I wanna be doing to my stuff around here — buuuuut it ended up being WAAAAAY too long. Like, actually pages long (trust me), and I figured that’s just way too much for a single FA journal (and this is already starting to run its length as is), so… instead, I’ll just put the rest of what I wanna say in (lengthy) bullet points:
(( CHANGES I’M IMPLEMENTING ))
1. No more story segments in the descriptions of art posts. —— This part kills me so much, even as I’m writing this now. I love, love, LOVE story/scenes in descriptions which is why I tried to put them in my own pics… buuuut that ended up putting way too much pressure on me and thus scared me from posting stuff for a long time. So… any long narratives in my descriptions has got to go. Sorry, but I can’t keep biting off more than I can chew. Maybe, if there’s a full story that I really want to write, I’ll make it a separate thing instead.
2. Regular commissions will be closed. —— Or, at least, I won’t be having them on 24/7. I never had a concrete plan for them anyway and no one seems to be interested in ordering any from me (sans a few, but not through FA anyway), so… yeah. There’ll probably be times when I’ll open them again, but most likely for limited time/slots only.
3. YCH’s will be limited as well. —— My original plan with YCHs is to just have a bunch of templates open indefinitely and just let people choose whichever one they want, close and open the slots whenever I feel like it… But, now that I think about it in the long run, it just introduces way too much tedium for me to deal with, most likely. I’ll just focus on new YCHs and close them up after… say a round or two of doing them.
4. Different form of commission payments. —— All this time, I’ve been using a specific commissions-handling site in order to handle the commission payments and all that, but… due to some circumstances, I’m going to have to use a different method instead. Not that I’m saying that the site doesn’t work, it’s just that I couldn’t get the money thanks to some stupid restrictions enforced by my country. So… I’m going to have to experiment with different commission payment options for a good while. A lot of apologies in advance for everyone who’s going to order some comms (YCH or otherwise) from me in the future
Other than that, I’ll mostly (for now) be trying to post the pics that I should’ve posted by now — the completed comms, for one thing — as well as work on new stuff for me to post here on FA. I… admittedly haven’t done much post-worthy art over the past few months, but… I’ve got some in mind, and hopefully you all don’t have to wait too long to see ‘em. Oh, and I’m also thinking of opening up another account on a different socials site — maybe Bluesky — for a more day-to-day approach of posting updates, but… mmh. We’ll see.
In any case, thank you so much for your time and understanding. Hopefully, this all won’t be just another flash in the pan like last time… But I guess it’ll be up to me whether that’ll be the case or not, huh?
-- D.P.C
Very happy to see you being active again~
And always feel free to message me i you need a pal ^w^
I’ll keep that in mind. x3