G'day lovelies!

How are you doing, what have you been up to and how has life been treating you?

I have some really fantastic news to drop.
Myself and have been dating for over four years now, as a long distance relationship, with him being based in the United States, and myself here in Australia.
Well that is finally about to change for good. As of writing this, we officially have applied for his partnership VISA to live here with me and he is currently on a bridging VISA while we await the Australian Governments determination on whether he can stay and live here as my partner for good. It has been an arduous and stressful journey, and a VERY expensive one, the VISA application and associated lawyer costs are reaching close to $20000 AUD at this point, but yeah, it is all basically done now and underway so in the not so distant future we can both just get on with our journey together, and think about more long term things.

He has been staying with me here for around 3 months thus far, and we had originally intended for this to just be a visit, but due to recent events politically in the united states and the very real potential for there to be issues with Essy's passport moving forwards due to the situation over there with Transgender related issues, we decided to fast track the process so at least when he DOES visit the US he will be doing so on a travel authority from the Australian government so they will not have any jurisdiction/sway over his stay there. So yeah, we decided to move the whole process forwards six months and get it happening now. It has been a big relief for the pair of us to have this in place and there is a lot of peace of mind that comes from finally getting this huge hurdle over and done with.

And yes, i guess I should mention that it's going to be my 38th birthday this coming week on the 7th March. I wish I could say that I am happy for that and excited but TBH, its probably going to be a pretty flat day for me. Waking at 4.35 am, working for 12 hours in the heat, and then going back to my camp room and going to sleep, but hopefully it will at least be an easy day at work for me. I would love to just hear from people and have people comment here and hear how everyone is doing. I have been really quiet on the online stage and pretty isolated, and I really should reach out and engage more often with people so I do apologize for that, I have just yeah, been pretty closed off in my own little world, dealing with my burdens as best I can. I am doing ok though! <3

GOOD news though, now that the immigration stuff is mostly over, I can FINALLY think about treating myself to more things like art commissions. I have some new characters that I would like to finally start getting art off, aside from just Taluthus, and yeah, it is going to be a fun time moving forwards. ALSO, once i have the financial ability, I WILL be attending more US based cons in the future like LVFC. FWA etc, so yeah stay tuned on that front.

Please take care, be kind, considerate, and compassionate towards your friends, family and community. The world is a confusing, scary and complicated hot garbage fire right now that we are ALL trying to navigate together, so now more than ever we ALL need to show a little respect, a little love, and get back to the things that make us happy in our every day lives. Regardless of skin colour, regardless of nationality, gender, sexual orientation, however you choose to identify yourself, show love towards each other, not hate, violence or abuse.

Or ill fuckin eatcha >;3

Have a lovely day all <3<3