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10 years ago
I've been so goddamned busy, i've totally been neglecting fa and all the awesome peeps here, I didn't even notice I finally surpassed the 10k watcher mark, that's super cool! Thanks to everybody who likes to see my work and encourages and supports me with comments, commissions, auctions etc. There's so many great people here and I can't tell you how much it means to me that people enjoy my porn, it does a lot to motivate me to keep making it! Mainly my dick does, but I appreciate that so many people enjoy my work.
My life is hectic as fuck but pretty interesting lately, I figure I should give some updates on things and apologize for letting life get in the way of my duties as commissionable artist, I'm really doing everything i can to get caught up but fuck is it hard to manage my time with so much going on. I'm gonna give some updates on things going on in my life that have come up here because people ask me about them and i've made journals about them.
Probably TL;DR, but i'll break it up into relevant sections.
1. Scud the ferrets health and the Scud Raffle.
Basically it's closed, and I am working to get caught up on the things i owe for it as well as just about everything else.
I took it down from my featured submission and the scud raffle which was my attempt to make it worth peoples while to try and fund an absurdly expensive surgery for my beloved pet ferret was well, a complete flop and it didn't even come close and almost nobody was interested, i'm not terribly surprised, it was a long shot but I figured i'd give it a go. I raised about enough money to take him to the vet to get more detailed information about what exactly needs to be done, and that's it. I still have the money, and since I can't fund the surgery anyways, i'm not sure what to do but It will be spent on him. If anybody has advice I wouldn't mind it. The money i've raised would cover his initial visit to a new vet which i have realized i need (Pretty sure my normal vet are not honest at this point.), the follow up and part of the anesthesia/MRI to look at his jaw tumor. I couldn't even begin to afford the surgery now.
As for his health, the doom and gloom i was given to try to in hindsight, pressure me into making a decision from my old vet has only partially come true. His mouth tumor is still growing, but it's slowed down a lot. They claimed by october of LAST YEAR iirc that he would be incapable of eating at the rate it appeared to be growing (They also claimed he had adrenal disease and i paid them thousands of dollars for meds, which i ceased due to my money having to be spent on supporting my father....well, he doesn't even fucking have adrenal disease at all. I'm pretty sure this vet has been hosing me for years, that or they're just grossly incompetent. They're the only vet with a ferret vet for hours, and I'm not going to use them anymore that's for damn sure.). Well the tumor is still growing, it's branched off into little tumors on top of tumors. At one point his food would get stuck between it and the other side of his jaw on the roof of his mouth, but then it got a little bigger so that the kibble pieces don't fit. He's the fattest summer weight he's had in ages, and seems as far as i can tell, totally comfortable, and unaware he even has this issue. It is a problem that will need to be dealt with for sure, hence why i'm so hesitant to do anything with the small amount of money i raised just yet. But scud is fat and happy and lazy as fuck as usual, other than the tumor, he's very healthy for an older ferret. I am 100% honoring everything with the raffle, i got all the stuff here, i gotta do another draw, which i will do shortly soon as this work project is sorted out.
2. My dad's health issues. I made several journals about this when his mental issues started arising looking for advice and just wanting to talk to others who have gone through this, i was pretty terrified. Not sure if i've ever followed up on how it all ended up, but this is probably the biggest impact on my life and productivity on fa right now. Basically what we and the doctors feared was a VERY rapid onset alzheimers thankfully isn't, but what he actually does have pretty much sucks. He's got a very vague seeming general thing they just call mild cognitive impairment or MCI, basically mild brain damage that affects for him, mainly his memory and focus. They think it was brought on by decades of poorly managing his type 1 diabetes, smoking, and the year or two of secret alcoholism he had unbeknownst to us after the recession pretty much destroyed his business and life. His career is over, he doesn't have the focus to bag groceries (He tried that, it didn't work out :\) much less create amazing works of art in the form of jewelry like he did for 30 years. This has left him unable to work or support himself and so that burden has fallen on me and my brother. I'm pretty much in a constant scramble to scrape together the money I need to support myself as well as him. It's been a huge financial burden I never expected i would take on, that's what's been keeping me so busy.
He's had some periods of deep decline where he can hardly even remember who i am or carry a simple conversation, and periods of like lately, where he almost seems normal if you didn't know what he was like before. The lengthy period of decline that's been going on for months we think now might have been due to a malfunctioning insulin pump where he was pretty much in a low blood sugar stupor for the longest time, because he got the pump replaced when they realized it was giving false readings and incorrectly metered boluses of insulin and he seems way more cognizant, so that's good at least. He's far from normal but he seems a bit more like my dad now.
3. Posting, Drawing and Mailing porn. Other than a few extreme problem commissions that have stretched on for embarrassingly long just due to my own lack of ability, iv'e been drawing a lot more than my activity here would indicate. I'm doing commissions, keeping my queu small and enjoying it where i can. I need privacy and time to draw porn and both have been in very short supply lately due to my other work, but i'm getting shit done. But, i'm basically a bit behind on everything, mailing, posting, all of that due to work and a seemingly endless series lately of out of town guests. Bout to post a flood of porn so enjoy that! I take the time to do this stuff where i can get it. If you're waiting for art in the mail, yours will be going out now that i finally got a little breathing room, but packaging stuff so that the post office is incapable of mangling it and sitting in line at the worlds busiest post office take a ton of time but i'm getting through it.
4. What i've been up to. Basically me and a guy started a company making vidya games and vidya game accessories. We make games and we make tools to make games and sell the tools and game assets and it's awesome but fuck is it a lot of work. Our first beta product was surprisingly successful charting at iirc, number 7 out of like 10,000 charting assets on the unity store the month it released. We're currently in crunch time to get the full release out as well as a sorta satellite asset then we're finishing up two fun little mobile games we have sitting at about 75 to 80% completed before making our first more ambitious game. But this has had me wearing a ton of hats and learning a ton of art stuff I've always wanted to dig into but never had the time. I'm enjoying the hell out of it and we're making money but it's a shit load of work, and i don't get paid till things release, and LLC law allows only for me to be paid from our company coffers 6 times a year so I'm making ends meet and supporting my dad off that and filling in the gaps with patronage from fa. For awhile i had the freedom to draw anytime i want, now i have to take it where i can get it. While i got less time to draw, i still go the policy of not taking on a commish till i complete a commish so i'm definitely not letting myself get buried under a massive commission queu.
But yeah, so that's my life lately. I haven't made a personal journal in ages and I feel like i've been neglecting fa and owe an explanation for my slowness lately. Brb, posting a bunch of porn!
My life is hectic as fuck but pretty interesting lately, I figure I should give some updates on things and apologize for letting life get in the way of my duties as commissionable artist, I'm really doing everything i can to get caught up but fuck is it hard to manage my time with so much going on. I'm gonna give some updates on things going on in my life that have come up here because people ask me about them and i've made journals about them.
Probably TL;DR, but i'll break it up into relevant sections.
1. Scud the ferrets health and the Scud Raffle.
Basically it's closed, and I am working to get caught up on the things i owe for it as well as just about everything else.
I took it down from my featured submission and the scud raffle which was my attempt to make it worth peoples while to try and fund an absurdly expensive surgery for my beloved pet ferret was well, a complete flop and it didn't even come close and almost nobody was interested, i'm not terribly surprised, it was a long shot but I figured i'd give it a go. I raised about enough money to take him to the vet to get more detailed information about what exactly needs to be done, and that's it. I still have the money, and since I can't fund the surgery anyways, i'm not sure what to do but It will be spent on him. If anybody has advice I wouldn't mind it. The money i've raised would cover his initial visit to a new vet which i have realized i need (Pretty sure my normal vet are not honest at this point.), the follow up and part of the anesthesia/MRI to look at his jaw tumor. I couldn't even begin to afford the surgery now.
As for his health, the doom and gloom i was given to try to in hindsight, pressure me into making a decision from my old vet has only partially come true. His mouth tumor is still growing, but it's slowed down a lot. They claimed by october of LAST YEAR iirc that he would be incapable of eating at the rate it appeared to be growing (They also claimed he had adrenal disease and i paid them thousands of dollars for meds, which i ceased due to my money having to be spent on supporting my father....well, he doesn't even fucking have adrenal disease at all. I'm pretty sure this vet has been hosing me for years, that or they're just grossly incompetent. They're the only vet with a ferret vet for hours, and I'm not going to use them anymore that's for damn sure.). Well the tumor is still growing, it's branched off into little tumors on top of tumors. At one point his food would get stuck between it and the other side of his jaw on the roof of his mouth, but then it got a little bigger so that the kibble pieces don't fit. He's the fattest summer weight he's had in ages, and seems as far as i can tell, totally comfortable, and unaware he even has this issue. It is a problem that will need to be dealt with for sure, hence why i'm so hesitant to do anything with the small amount of money i raised just yet. But scud is fat and happy and lazy as fuck as usual, other than the tumor, he's very healthy for an older ferret. I am 100% honoring everything with the raffle, i got all the stuff here, i gotta do another draw, which i will do shortly soon as this work project is sorted out.
2. My dad's health issues. I made several journals about this when his mental issues started arising looking for advice and just wanting to talk to others who have gone through this, i was pretty terrified. Not sure if i've ever followed up on how it all ended up, but this is probably the biggest impact on my life and productivity on fa right now. Basically what we and the doctors feared was a VERY rapid onset alzheimers thankfully isn't, but what he actually does have pretty much sucks. He's got a very vague seeming general thing they just call mild cognitive impairment or MCI, basically mild brain damage that affects for him, mainly his memory and focus. They think it was brought on by decades of poorly managing his type 1 diabetes, smoking, and the year or two of secret alcoholism he had unbeknownst to us after the recession pretty much destroyed his business and life. His career is over, he doesn't have the focus to bag groceries (He tried that, it didn't work out :\) much less create amazing works of art in the form of jewelry like he did for 30 years. This has left him unable to work or support himself and so that burden has fallen on me and my brother. I'm pretty much in a constant scramble to scrape together the money I need to support myself as well as him. It's been a huge financial burden I never expected i would take on, that's what's been keeping me so busy.
He's had some periods of deep decline where he can hardly even remember who i am or carry a simple conversation, and periods of like lately, where he almost seems normal if you didn't know what he was like before. The lengthy period of decline that's been going on for months we think now might have been due to a malfunctioning insulin pump where he was pretty much in a low blood sugar stupor for the longest time, because he got the pump replaced when they realized it was giving false readings and incorrectly metered boluses of insulin and he seems way more cognizant, so that's good at least. He's far from normal but he seems a bit more like my dad now.
3. Posting, Drawing and Mailing porn. Other than a few extreme problem commissions that have stretched on for embarrassingly long just due to my own lack of ability, iv'e been drawing a lot more than my activity here would indicate. I'm doing commissions, keeping my queu small and enjoying it where i can. I need privacy and time to draw porn and both have been in very short supply lately due to my other work, but i'm getting shit done. But, i'm basically a bit behind on everything, mailing, posting, all of that due to work and a seemingly endless series lately of out of town guests. Bout to post a flood of porn so enjoy that! I take the time to do this stuff where i can get it. If you're waiting for art in the mail, yours will be going out now that i finally got a little breathing room, but packaging stuff so that the post office is incapable of mangling it and sitting in line at the worlds busiest post office take a ton of time but i'm getting through it.
4. What i've been up to. Basically me and a guy started a company making vidya games and vidya game accessories. We make games and we make tools to make games and sell the tools and game assets and it's awesome but fuck is it a lot of work. Our first beta product was surprisingly successful charting at iirc, number 7 out of like 10,000 charting assets on the unity store the month it released. We're currently in crunch time to get the full release out as well as a sorta satellite asset then we're finishing up two fun little mobile games we have sitting at about 75 to 80% completed before making our first more ambitious game. But this has had me wearing a ton of hats and learning a ton of art stuff I've always wanted to dig into but never had the time. I'm enjoying the hell out of it and we're making money but it's a shit load of work, and i don't get paid till things release, and LLC law allows only for me to be paid from our company coffers 6 times a year so I'm making ends meet and supporting my dad off that and filling in the gaps with patronage from fa. For awhile i had the freedom to draw anytime i want, now i have to take it where i can get it. While i got less time to draw, i still go the policy of not taking on a commish till i complete a commish so i'm definitely not letting myself get buried under a massive commission queu.
But yeah, so that's my life lately. I haven't made a personal journal in ages and I feel like i've been neglecting fa and owe an explanation for my slowness lately. Brb, posting a bunch of porn!
Hope all goes well for ya dood!!
P.S. The PPQ is ordered >_>
Still no word on my possible free gun bonanza :|
I've always provided porn for people to look at, as much as i can justify doing in my spare time which as you can see is a bit less these days and i don't like hte idea of just suddenly yanking shit i've been providing for free from people and suddenly charging for it.
What i was thinking was maybe something like a hostage free patreon. It's just set up to basically tip me if you like my work, but wouldn't really offer any specific benefits. Maybe a system where if it is actually at a decent level of patronage, instead of commissions, i'd just draw personal stuff, and offer each commission slot for free as a random raffle drawing to a patron or something like that.
I don't know if this has been done. But i don't want to make my work off limits to people who don't pay me, that just irks me. I'd like it to be a total goodwill/voluntary thing, but i got a feeling like nobody would go for it.
This is the vet that said a teeth cleaning for scud would be 570 bucks. When i asked for an itemized quote, literally 2/3rds of the shit on it was vague useless things like "vitamin shots" and some other totally unrelated shit i couldn't remember and some thing where they wanted to charge me 100 dollars to put him in an oxygen box till the anesthesia wore off.
Red flags had been going up for me with that place for years, but as long as i made sure to clarify i ONLY wanted the services i requested, they seemed ok.
BUt man, realizing now i've been paying them for adrenal disease meds for 3 fucking years when what he probably had was just a temporary insulinoma that made his fur fall out and clearly doesn't have adrenal disease has me pissed. I don't even know how many thousands of dollars i wasted on meds for a disease they claim he has but he clearly doesn't have.
I got your note as well. Sorry it's taken me forever to reply. I'm quitting my job at the SFDA's office on Monday and things have been hectic. If you want to go shooting, that'd be cool. I'd just bring my .22 pistol. Money will be tight for me until I pick up a new position, which'll take a month or two; point being... .22 is cheap ammo lol. We can coordinate. I'll add you on Skype.
.22 is no fun :P
And yeah, that vets yelp is pretty abysmal, i only went htere cuz NOBODY else knows shit about ferrets, they have an exotic vet there who specializes in them. They're a part of a big vet chain and i think a lot of the shit they do is pretty much them trying to meet required quotas from their parent company or something.
As for shooting though, things are a little complicated. My friend fucked up the finish on my sig p228, so she's paying to have it cerakoted, and i'm probably about to sell my sig pro to a friend, not sure if these line up but i might actually be without a gun for a bit.
On the other hand, a friend of my step mom informed her that deceased husband has "a whole pile of gun stuff, guns and ammo" and apparently a press just sitting in their garage and i can....have it. I'm still waiting to hear from her to see what all is there and she's taking her sweet time. But i might be coming into a massive free bonanza of guns and ammo.