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I haven't posted much in a while, I'm still alive though, I'm trying to keep my Weasyl and Tumblr updated with Swatchery goodness. If you miss me, seek me out there!
I've gone to community college for renewable energy engineering to improve my job prospects. I'm learning a lot, and I hope to have a good job by the end of it all, but it's been incredibly draining in some ways. The climate on campus in the engineering wing can be truly awful. There are very few women in the program, and I can see why. I'm the only queer person that I know of in the entire department and having to be the only person who speaks out against the kind of casual homophobia/misogyny of bro culture (there are a lot of bros) is causing loneliness feelings. I have to spend a lot of time there and it's hard.
A lot of straight people like to co-opt the word "fag" and "gay", but those are words that mean very different things coming out of a straight person's mouth than a gay person's. Sorry South Park.
I'm turning 30 in a few months, that's cool.
I miss the community here a lot, without the heavy weight of the masses, people don't interact with Weasyl when they could interact here, which I understand. I mean, despite not posting, I think I still use FA about as much as I use Weasyl simply because the people here, some staff excepted, are fantastic. I feel conflicted about leaving, still, I'm going to wait until certain people are officially no longer on staff.
Transformation is still a big thing for me. I've been working on photomanipulations and I've been cribbing a bit on Weremoose, who's been one of my favourite photomanip artists for a while. It's really fun to turn into things!
Still unemployed, but making it. I've been taking occasional circuit design gigs to make ends meet, and I'm on a student loan, which will have me in the hole a little over ten grand by the end of things. I hope I can make that back quickly.
Since I've been so grumpy the past few months, I've become a grinch until January.
That's all I can think of right now!
I've gone to community college for renewable energy engineering to improve my job prospects. I'm learning a lot, and I hope to have a good job by the end of it all, but it's been incredibly draining in some ways. The climate on campus in the engineering wing can be truly awful. There are very few women in the program, and I can see why. I'm the only queer person that I know of in the entire department and having to be the only person who speaks out against the kind of casual homophobia/misogyny of bro culture (there are a lot of bros) is causing loneliness feelings. I have to spend a lot of time there and it's hard.
A lot of straight people like to co-opt the word "fag" and "gay", but those are words that mean very different things coming out of a straight person's mouth than a gay person's. Sorry South Park.
I'm turning 30 in a few months, that's cool.
I miss the community here a lot, without the heavy weight of the masses, people don't interact with Weasyl when they could interact here, which I understand. I mean, despite not posting, I think I still use FA about as much as I use Weasyl simply because the people here, some staff excepted, are fantastic. I feel conflicted about leaving, still, I'm going to wait until certain people are officially no longer on staff.
Transformation is still a big thing for me. I've been working on photomanipulations and I've been cribbing a bit on Weremoose, who's been one of my favourite photomanip artists for a while. It's really fun to turn into things!
Still unemployed, but making it. I've been taking occasional circuit design gigs to make ends meet, and I'm on a student loan, which will have me in the hole a little over ten grand by the end of things. I hope I can make that back quickly.
Since I've been so grumpy the past few months, I've become a grinch until January.
That's all I can think of right now!
I really hope you can find a job soon, too. Perhaps you could open up commissions here on FA?
I am surprised that the college still does such discrimination; are they that purist?
Weremoose? Interesting concept!
A lot of the bad stuff happens when there are no authority figures around. I've reported the nasty class climate but so far I haven't heard anyone do anything about it.
Counseling service seems reasonable, so hope they could give you more advise on financial resources or accommodation!
Now, there isn't so much overt discrimination anymore but you still have to deal with a rather distasteful culture. For a recent, rather public, example look at the shirt Matt Taylor of the European Space Agency thought was not only OK to wear at work but OK to wear for an international television interview, (and the fact that nobody thought to say 'um, Matt, you might want to change your shirt' before the cameras started rolling).
Switcher we miss you come back.
This does remind me I should update my Weasyl.
Live well, live long.
And your icon is a little... Hypnotizing...
I'm a programmer (C++, mostly audio processing) but I'm trying to get closer to the hardware side of things. These days, I work with people who reverse engineer old digital sound hardware.
I also still watch you on Tumblr and Weasyl. In fact, you're probably the one who drove me to expand to those places in the first place. You're right that Weasyl does feel kind of dead in its community sometimes by comparison.
Still love your stuff, though, regardless of where it may be!
I've been checking you on Weasly every once in a while, seeing what you've been doing. Love that Tony the tiger face more you did. Looks Sweet. But if you need money and are accepting commissions. Is there a way we can contact you for one? *Well not me right now. Need to save up for one First*
Good luck with everything ^vvv0
or better yet. post here more often. :D