Hello all!
As several of my comics have been nearing their end, I been working on new stories, but would love your feedback!

It's a bit long but would appreciate it, so can bring your more of what you guys like!

https://forms.gle/xn7jeGT3Y4YB2h399

Seeing how some of my 50+ page comics, uploaded at any decent speed would just spam FA submissions, I'm wondering if there is a bulk way that isn't obnoxious in the process. Other sites can put chapters all into one post.

But haven't been using FA for a while. Any suggestions?

Hey all, been a bit!

I don't usually do shoutouts, but a friends' partner just had the short end of the stick beat em over the head and could use a bit of help.

Had a surprise cost catch them off guard and are just asking others to help out if they're willing.

If curious, can read up here.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10823638/

Thanks for lookin!

So this has been a fun week.
Have yet to sleep longer than 2 hours at best since monday, fever and migraine that just wont break, plus sore throat etc.

Goin on day 5 of this Flu kickin my ass, guys.

I have high hopes that I'm past the worst of it (tues-thurs was brutal) but the weekend is not looking promising for me.

To commissioners, art will resume soon as I can. (At moment screens hurt eyes too much) and PM me if theres any issues with waiting, but at moment I'm just a sick useless blob.

Sorry for the slowdown everyone! But rest is my best option for now.

Didnt get a chance to update here, but have been real sick past few days and could not get work done this weekend. (Been up all night+migraine etc etc)

There will be no page this week unfortunately but hopefully back at it soon!

Just woke at 5am to four fire trucks and sparkly powerlines doing battle with the tree branches across the road...

So am not an expert, but can assume I am not getting my power back for a while. Can see several power poles at 45degree angles across the road.

Can't turn on computer, so I may not be able to get this upcoming weeks page out on time. TIme will tell how bads the damage after.

If anyone else getting hit by storm, stay safe!

Going on vacation in a week, and bringing an android tablet. Figure see if it can hook up to picarto or other streaming apps to livestream my doodles/screen while away.

Picarto app only seems to be able to stream your webcam (nothankyou) but not your screen.

Anyone have any luck?

Hello one and all!

Tis true.

After several requests, have opened a Subscribestar account for those who prefer alternate methods of support than Patreon!

https://subscribestar.adult/black-kitten

Please Note: There will be NO difference between the accounts tier rewards and what is posted between patreon ( http://patreon.com/blackkitten ) and Subscribestar. It is simply another option for those who choose to use it. There is no need to subscribe multiple times etc. (and also thank you so much for any support you have given to me and/or this comic thus far! )

Please bear with me any kinks (heh) I may still need fixing on the new SubStar page and getting used to uploading multi sites from now on. So will be slow/lax this first month as I learn the ropes of the new site etc.

Will be moving around a few methods to how I upload, because I know have quite a backlog to get uploaded here. Is on the todo list! But alas, is very late so need sleep for now! o/

Take care all :)

Drove 20 min down the road for my phone to connect again.

Woke up to my phone and internet down in my area!

Can't sit here on side of road all day, so if anyone trying to reach me, know I have little to no access to my chats.


PS: always takes a network down to see how many of your software/apps/games freak out or refuse to start without internet...

I am not the most savvy at sheets but have learned enough to get around, but...

...yeah I suck at making them.

So if anyone has an AMAZING spreadsheet/google sheet for keeping their commissions organized, I'd love to see it!

If this is one of those "if you want it, pay for it!" or "make your own!" kinda things, my bad/didn't know!

But just hunting clever or good ways to keep my commissions organized.

(Prior, I LOVED trello, but then they got bought by Atlassian, turned my account into a trial and am still miffed by it) -__-

Hey everyone!

Power is back on at my home but apparently half the city and general area is still down. So managed to save my freezer food luckily with a generator but the internet still off. (Probably located in still downed area)

Man, footage of funnel clouds, roofs and church towers ripped off just a few roads down can be crazy to see. But no serious injuries reported to best of my knowledge!

SO

Yes, I'm back to arting! Just am not online aside from phone mobile when it works. (I did a dumb and hotspotted my phone internet to my computer, and in hour used up almost my months net downloading windows updates in background)

So progress is happening!

So this happened:
https://imgur.com/a/4VDYmf4

And now my whole everywhere is out of power with no ETA on when will be back...

@_@;

I dunno when will have update as am saving phone battery. Will let know when am back soon!!

Hello one and all.

First off I wanna thank the many who have reached out with messages asking how I've been last month & half. Can't thank you guys enough for the support for all the hectic things been going on on this end.

Leading from that, would also like to apologize for the silence. I'm not one to complain publicly when am down for the count, but this past month and some really threw me a curve ball.

Long story short.
-Got Flu (not covid) but knocked me out a week or so
-recovered (yay!)
-Rest of fam got sick, (boo) leaving me to be now their caretaker
-Soon after recovered, family came from out of country and dropped off some covid. (dont blame them but oof)
-whole house now covid positive (including me) Am lucky no one is in a severe state so far and hopefully stays that way.

So that's where I currently am at. Head and limbs feel like i haven't slept for a week, but otherwise am functional! Am not one to normally point out when sick, but I am so low energy, it feels like an artist burnout, but this isn't a mental state, but a physical one. So all above isn't an excuse to leave yas in the dark, but think I'm just gonna overload if I don't let you guys know where I'm at.

I am planning on kicking this covid asap and getting on to next chapter of the comic as soon as I can! Also expect a mini package of some edits of old comic pages. I have to address some continuity earrors that have been well overdue.

Thank you all so much for your patience and let me know any feedback you may have.

PS: I also have been discussing with some friends ideas to bring to the patreon that can give you guys more from my tiers. Any ideas you think are a good idea I am more than welcome for messages/suggestions! (I do have a backlog of PMs to catch up on now, so bear with me a bit)

Thanks again and hope you all are doing well on your end!

~BK

Hello!

I'm just giving an update for now,

Unfortunately I was sick for last week, to almost 2 weeks. 4 tests later, am convinced is just regular flu instead of Covid. (regardless of family who respond each one with "test again") And when recovered, was in caretaker mode up until this weekend tending to everyone else in house! Having a quota dayjob means it isn't the hours you do, but 'as long as it's done by deadline' job, means I have been pretty busy my small free time to catch up on work. So after today I should be all caught up and can focus back on furry art!

Apologies to the hold up last few weeks, and have a few backed up messages I have not been able to answer yet, but thank you all for your patience! Will be pushing hopefully this weekends evenings to get all caught up and back on track.

I just ask for a little more patience as I get to it.

Hope you all are doing well!

Hey all! Am just workin at giving updates when I can ( i suck at them, I know )

But have been absolutely ded last few days. Just tired and no amount of caffeine cared if I had work/stuff to do. etc

So last night evolved from tired into headache, and this morning's been full on migraine. (I get them once in a while. but man this one is a 'back of eyes throbbing' rough one)

Been lying down most of day but will be trying to get back at work when this subsides meds kick in.

If you messaged me and got no response, or a 'seen', but no reply. I probably don't even remember opening the message and will check again later. ^^ Sorry!

Talk soon

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So question is about Hermes/Fandaniel.
If I understand correctly, the only 2 seats of the Convocation that were sundered (shattered) were the seats of Fandaniel and Azem.

he was Sacrificed to Zodiark, which sundered him into bits, and his soul was reincarnated through time over and over. And the first prominent one was Amon in Allagan times, Since he seemed to have remnants of his former life in Elpis/Ascian world, he became a prominant mad scientist and attracted the eyes of the unsundered ascians to use.

But since Zodiark is an empty shell, (Elidibus wasn't driving him while locked up by Hydaelyn) Amon wasn't enthralled to his whims etc. And instead got obsessed with the ideals of Emperor Xande of peace through the silence of death in the void, prepped the Allagans to fail and died again?

So my question is:

If he reincarnated, how did he regain his ascian abilities of Fandaniel? I remember the Ascians approached him again, but did they give him the teleport abilities? was he always an ascian and just pretended to be someone in Allagan times?

Hope I'm not TOO Far off the story lol

Pinched my back yesterday and didn't feel much. Just rolled off couch and didn't think much of it. Few hours later just while walking, my back went 'nope' and then had a lovely view of the ceiling for next hour or so. @_@;

Meds have arrived and pushing through day, but am very uncomfortable sitting atm. (lying down relaxes, but sitting/standing compresses the spot of spine)

So next comic page for this weekend is 80% done, but wasn't able to complete unfortunately. Hopefully this afternoon/evening can finish it up and send! Apologies for wait. Hope you all doing well ^^;

First, really appreciate those who reached out to me. I can't thank enough, even if I can't reply to all of you! ^^

Just because I've had to type it out too many times; I have had a close family member have a stress induced break down, which led to them not taking care of themselves/eating well (not eating at all) which THEN led us to discover their untreated diabetes in the worst way possible; They're system shocked into a very dizzy/tired incoherent state that needs attention and care.

I'm very sorry, but I don't think I can give a comic update this recent weekend, and appreciate all who have been understanding.

Take care of yourself, even if you are putting on a face for the world, have someone you can talk to. Your mental health is half of your whole state. One affects the other so don't neglect it! Whether counselling, a friend, sleep or just giving yourself a mental break from work; make sure you take it even if don't feel you want to/can't/deserve etc.

Thanks.

Is abrupt, and I know y'all eager for next page of comic, (and Patreon will be ready to post very soon,)

But a family member had a health issue that preoccupied half my day and will probably be most of tomorrow as well. (Everyones alive, and no not covid etc, they just had a sudden turn for worse)

Will be back to normal release as soon as all sorted out!

Not planning on skipping the week, only heads up that I will not have a comic page ready by tonight for anyone. Will hopefully be able to make time tomorrow night to finish it up !

Apologies and Thanks for the patience!

Hey all! Thanks for all the requests to and offers to help repair my computer!

With help of you guys was able to get things fixed.

RAM doubled. space quadruped. was big success!

UPDATE:

when i first installed the new drive, I clicked 1 or 2 things that made using the drive to clone troublesome. (didn't wanna reinstall everything) So after cloning the drive, had both the SSD and new nmve drive both fighting for C:
Even after wipe and other formats, the bios kept going "nope, that old one's C: drive"

So ended with a combo of Clonezilla, Diskpart and some bootable linux drives to permakill the drive.

My comp now sits with upgrade of
16 to 32 RAM
225gb SSD drive to 1tb SSD nmve
and 2tb of storage to 16tb of storage (mighta got carried away with wires and old drives I found in a box...)

Appreciate the help from everyone!!!

1. Inserted new 1tb SSD to be Boot drive for Win10 OS (to replace old small drive)
2. Requests me to Format it upon startup (GUID) puts a 16mb "unallocated" partition at start of drive.
3. Clone C: drive to new SSD
4. All copied over, but in Disk Management look same but the 16mb unallocated is on far left of drive.
5. Directing all boot options to new drive, says 'all good'. But upon restart, fails to see boot, so returns boot to original C: drive
6. Figure the unallocated is causing problem, and can't re-order it. Try to extend the main NTFS volume and grab that 16mb from the start.
7. fails to grab the 16mb, but instead changes the Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk and now says 'you can no longer boot from this, or any other volume on this drive'
8. CURRENT STATUS! Can't re-format the new SSD to start over and try again, even from fresh restart it tells me 'the drive is in use', and I have no idea what.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. T_T


EDIT:
Got lots of good advice, thanks! kinda taking a bit from everyone figuring out best course of action. Will update if anything goes wrong!

Was asked by a friend,  sutherncross2006 to spread the word of someone who financially in trouble. (their drawing tablet is broken)

They're heavy in debt on a lease so cannot solve their living situation until they regain their only source of income, ie drawing.

 Arcturus. 's is asking for any donations people can offer to starcatren{at}gmail.com

Just giving small shout out if any are willing to help!


As fellow artist I really feel for someone stuck in such a situation. :( So hope they get the help they need.

Hi I'm Black-Kitten, original owner etc.

This is for DA support to verify I am the original Black-Kitten and original artist of the "Mornings" comic series.

I hope this is enough!

Hi I'm Black-Kitten, original owner etc.

This is for DA support to verify I am the original Black-Kitten and original artist of the "Mornings" comic series.

I hope this is enough!

If anyone I been mid convo and I suddenly stopped replying. Apparently my net is being shit.

So sry to those i was talkin to!

i noticed my posts were not gettig the 'sent' check or error

Dunno.