Hope you're all doing well!
I haven't done a journal like this in a while. Normally I don't like sharing about my personal life online, but a lot has been happening and I feel like sharing it.

TLDR: starting college back up in 2026, so I'm trying to finish a lot this year.

Here's the "roadmap" of all the major art plans I have for the rest of the year:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62985753/

Lots of variety here! We have a new illustrated story, a new comic, a donation drive, and also a side-story to accompany my Visual Novel, which I am most excited about. I have never had a project before that I've been consistently motivated to work on, and I'm glad that I am still working on the visual novel even though I first started working on it all the way back in March of last year.

A lot has happened since then, too. As of last Fall, I have a wonderful job that I love, but I can only progress in the field by getting a specific masters degree. I've been accepted into a degree program and I will begin in early January 2026. This program allows me to work on my degree at my own pace; so if I can finish the program fast enough then I'll only need to pay for a single 6-month term. I'm going to use the donation drive with Endra to help pay for this single term of tuition. The main reason that it took me so long to do another donation drive was because I felt like other artists only created donation drives for dire reasons, and I felt bad for using a drive for anything other than a financial emergency. But this seems like a good reason, and I'm excited to see how this one will go.

Aside from finances, though; I am a bit concerned that being a full-time student again (in addition to still being a full-time worker) will significantly cut my creative time. This is one reason why I want to try and finish so many projects over the next two months: because I have no idea how much time I'll get to do anything once school starts again. I'm still very grateful for the time I'm able to spend on my visual novel and my other projects. If I can finish all of the projects I have planned for the rest of this year, then I will know with confidence that I can handle anything 2026 throws at me. Still, the surge of art at the end of this year, may be the last major posts for a while, so I want to make them count.

I've also been meeting a lot more people lately. I've been going to more cons, and I host a VRchat hangout every Saturday night. For once I have been gathering a lot of friends that are from all sorts of different communities, which has been good for broadening my horizons. A small concern has plagued my mind as I keep meeting new people. But I do not want to spend this journal talking about it; I will think on it more and save it for another time.

Just know that things are going great for me, but they may be getting very busy very quickly, so I'll be working as hard as I can to get everything done on time.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!

And thank you so much for your interest in my visual novel.