Last few hours of 2017 here, and the place has sounded like a warzone for days; wonder how the recently arrived Syrian refugees are handling it, poor sods. It's not as bad as previous years, by virtue of half my neighborhood being demolished, but some of my trashy neighbors are still setting off borderline if not outright illegal explosives, sorry, "fireworks" "for the kids" so I'm still going to have to struggle through hours of anxiety.

Whoo!

It's been a bad year for a lot of people, myself included. And while I'm usually more optimistic, I don't have much hope the next year will be better. I'm still going to try of course, I have some plans set in place to structure my time better, to split my time between commissions and personal work more, I have my personal projects planned out; you'll have to follow me elsenet for that as I'm only using FA for commissions and the like.

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I want to say the best place for regular updates is my Twitter, but there's also general life stuff there. I'll probably go ahead and have a free art raffle there though, once I finish a few commissions; I have a few that are a hair's width away from being finished, unfortunately the end of the year stress and some obnoxious colds have conspired to murder my productivity. More reasons to stick to my resolutions I suppose.

Anyway, whether you've had a rough year or not, I hope your next year will be better.