And so once more a dusty old tome of mistakes is pulled down from its comfortable space on the bookshelf to be disturbed with another aggravating entry...

Holy HECK has it really been three years since I updated this thing?! Yes, yes it has! Well, grab a seat, a spot of tea or something - time changes a bunch of stuff, and we might as well get everything nice and neatly back in order shouldn't we? I've actually been meaning to do this for a couple of months since someone left a shout noting that I had essentially gone dark on my usual socials - which raised a good point really! Why didn't I do this a couple of months ago then? Simple answer really, I'm lazy, oops.

Anyway, still kicking, not dead etc etc - ring the bells rejoice all very fun. I've actually been relatively active artistically the last couple of years, which is good I think? I intend at some point to upload a chunk of that over here, but honestly FA isn't my main site and has not been for a long time. If you want to see a more up to date gallery of whatever I've been making, you can find it over at Itaku at https://itaku.ee/profile/dangl

As for engagement social nonsense, You may have noticed that Twitter has essentially become a cesspit recently - I mean more than usual, and in horrid ways. Frankly I got sick of it the moment the owner started trying to incite riots in my country, kinnae be having that or tacitly tolerating that, so I left. Social access is still important though, both for discovery, and because one of the main bits of enjoyment I get out of drawing is being able to natter with folk afterwards and around the various subjects - so in absence of a bird, there's a butterly now over at https://bsky.app/profile/thedangl.bsky.social - this'll PROBABLY be the most up to date place for me posting anything since even with Itaku I'm probably only ever uploading things in batches, similar to how I used to over here.

My DMs there are considered semi-open, in a "This is the internet and I'm not really obligated to respond to anything if I don't have the energy or willpower to" way that introverts delight in. I obviously have private messaging apps, but I reserve those for people I know and am comfortable being around, since uh - yeah, scary. But otherwise I do hope to be at least semi reachable whilst breathing!

And finally just to wrap everything up in a neat little bow since this'll probably be up for a few years too:

I'm a hobbyist artist, I go through phases of making and not making stuff, usually personal, sometimes on a whim for people I like/know and for the Bit - but I do not do the whole commission thing. I have a perfectly boring job to fund my life and adding compensation/money in the mix only stresses me out when drawing and I think affects the end product, which doesn't really benefit anyone. Whilst I operate on a base assumption that I do not do art trades, this is not set in stone, and firmly dependent on how confident I'm feeling in my own ability to actually live up to that trade - and since it would only really be between people I know/friends etc, it can be safe to assume that this is a no as well. I do not take requests either since I don't even do that from my brain. Sorry it really is rather unprofessional of me, but alas, hobbyist artist. I'm putting stuff up here for reasons I'm not quite... .sure of yet, and if people like that that's just a nice bonus :).

Anyway - Dangl signing off, with a quiet request for me to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change my bloody username here, it's been a typo for nearly 20 years now and it is patently insane that I am stuck with that!