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The Year 2017 in Review
7 years ago
Current status:
TRADES: Sure, but only if I initiate them
COMMISSIONS: Open?Ish?
REQUESTS: I will never open for requests
TRADES: Sure, but only if I initiate them
COMMISSIONS: Open?Ish?
REQUESTS: I will never open for requests
Figured I had time to type this up before I ran off to a party tonight.
So.........2017. A little better than last year, but not by much. Rather than make this a huge TL;DR kind of thing, I'll just sort between the good stuff and the bad stuff.
Good:
*Blade and I hit 3 years together this fall, which is amazing. I've never had a relationship last this long before, and even with all the crap going on he's still at my side. I'll never know what I did to deserve him in my life.
*We brought our business Fuzzy Feelings to ANE 2017 and were met with astounding success. Since then we've sold at Furrydelphia 2017 at our own table and guest-sold at a few other cons since then, and support has been amazing.
*I've rekindled friendships I've thought I'd lost, and realized just how important these people really are to me.
*I landed a job as a special education teacher in early October, and not only am I now earning a comfortable, living wage, but I'm doing something I love and really making a difference while doing it.
Now, the Bad. Oh god, the bad:
*I've had to come to terms earlier this year that I suffer from anxiety and PTSD, largely in part to events that happened last year. I'm getting medical and emotional help for it but it still takes control over my life. It's gotten bad enough that i can't go to certain events or things without my rescue meds on me.
*The crap that happened last year carried over in to this year, and got worse. Even more people have cut ties that I wasn't expecting to, I've received physical threats, and still others are slandering my name/my business/my meets. I don't get the point of it honestly.
*I quit a job after I realized just how unsafe it was not just to the people I worked with but the people we provided a service for. I knew they wouldn't have my back early on, and when I made a legal and moral decision that I knew I'd feel bad about if I didn't do it, I got thrown under the bus and made to feel like I'd lose my job. It just wasn't worth it to stay.
*That whole A_B thing I had to do back in May has left such a sour taste in my mouth. I got such an outcry from the DAD community for -again- sticking up for myself, to the point that i left and changed Senlin's species to an angelic forest dragon. And even then, it still wasn't resolved. I got less than half my refund back and two boxes of fur scraps, not what was initially promised to me as a "half-sewn suit." It was such a nightmare, and then to get attacked for it afterward and made to feel like I should have walked away from $2k? Not cool.
So...hopefully 2018 treats us all a little better.
So.........2017. A little better than last year, but not by much. Rather than make this a huge TL;DR kind of thing, I'll just sort between the good stuff and the bad stuff.
Good:
*Blade and I hit 3 years together this fall, which is amazing. I've never had a relationship last this long before, and even with all the crap going on he's still at my side. I'll never know what I did to deserve him in my life.
*We brought our business Fuzzy Feelings to ANE 2017 and were met with astounding success. Since then we've sold at Furrydelphia 2017 at our own table and guest-sold at a few other cons since then, and support has been amazing.
*I've rekindled friendships I've thought I'd lost, and realized just how important these people really are to me.
*I landed a job as a special education teacher in early October, and not only am I now earning a comfortable, living wage, but I'm doing something I love and really making a difference while doing it.
Now, the Bad. Oh god, the bad:
*I've had to come to terms earlier this year that I suffer from anxiety and PTSD, largely in part to events that happened last year. I'm getting medical and emotional help for it but it still takes control over my life. It's gotten bad enough that i can't go to certain events or things without my rescue meds on me.
*The crap that happened last year carried over in to this year, and got worse. Even more people have cut ties that I wasn't expecting to, I've received physical threats, and still others are slandering my name/my business/my meets. I don't get the point of it honestly.
*I quit a job after I realized just how unsafe it was not just to the people I worked with but the people we provided a service for. I knew they wouldn't have my back early on, and when I made a legal and moral decision that I knew I'd feel bad about if I didn't do it, I got thrown under the bus and made to feel like I'd lose my job. It just wasn't worth it to stay.
*That whole A_B thing I had to do back in May has left such a sour taste in my mouth. I got such an outcry from the DAD community for -again- sticking up for myself, to the point that i left and changed Senlin's species to an angelic forest dragon. And even then, it still wasn't resolved. I got less than half my refund back and two boxes of fur scraps, not what was initially promised to me as a "half-sewn suit." It was such a nightmare, and then to get attacked for it afterward and made to feel like I should have walked away from $2k? Not cool.
So...hopefully 2018 treats us all a little better.
Though it was cool seeing you at the MaineFur BBQ.
Here's hoping this year sucks less for us all.