I'm able to sort them a little easier on TH, but here, I've knocked all my remaining adopts down to $4, $5, and $10. It's also now reflected in my gallery, so anything that says OPEN in the title should be reflecting the new prices appropriately in their description. Hopefully.

Feel free to Comment here or PM me to claim anything listed! Or you can comment or PM on TH directly if you prefer! :>

$4 ADOPTS: https://toyhou.se/JelloBeans/charac.....folder:7243924

$5 ADOPTS: https://toyhou.se/JelloBeans/charac.....folder:7243927

$10 ADOPTS: https://toyhou.se/JelloBeans/charac.....folder:7243930

In the very near future, I plan to revisit some of my much older designs that haven't sold, update their artwork and concepts a bit, and try again to sell them new. Additionally, plans for future sets are going to be:
- The legendary/mythical gryphon hybrids I promised but never delivered...
- Hippogryph hybrids!
- Lycanroc variants (based on types of rock and/or gemstones and/or minerals, etc. etc.)

So! We made it halfway across the country in my tiny little car, and we're safely in our new place. However... we won't have internet for another week 🙃 so that sucks. I'll still absolutely be working on comms and customs in the meantime since it doesn't require internet to draw, but I can't properly upload and deliver anything to anybody until a week from now. I'll try my best to take not-as-awful-as-I-can-manage pictures of progress on my phone and send them, but please bear with me! This has been a very rough and unpleasant move, and having them not able to come install our internet hookups until next Wednesday is just the icing on this sh*t cake, if you will, lol. But it'll all be over and done with soon, and again, I appreciate everyone's patience with me while I work with no internet. 🤣 Thanks to you guys, I was able to put gas in my car, get my bills paid, and necessities in the new place for ourselves and our pets, so I can't thank you all enough for all the support! Comms and customs will continue to stay open until I'm working again, too, so don't hesitate to hit me up since I'm somehow getting through them faster than I expected!

Eheh oops. As some of you already knew, I changed jobs a few months back to something almost full-time, and it was graveyard shift, so I didn't really have as much time to draw. Pretty much was sleeping all day, then working all night. Rinse and repeat. Like, I had free time on the weekends, but I usually ended up having to do a bunch of errands those days since I couldn't do them on weekdays anymore. You get the idea.

Anyway, I'm not working now, but that's because... I'm moving! To a different state. So, now I've just been busy packing and finishing up all the obligatory things that need doing before making such a big move. So I apologize, everyone, for not being very present. Once I'm all moved into the new place, I'll start regularly posting again, and even before we leave, I may be posting a few hybrids for adoption (Smaugust-themed! Get ready for dragon-types! <3) just so that I have a little extra for the road. Which, yes, we're driving the whole way, not flying, since there's no way to afford shipping my car there or flat-out buying a new one when we get there, so... is what it is! Anyway, that's why I've been so quiet. I promise, I'm not dead, lol.

But yeah, I'm planning to drop a set or two of dragon-type hybrids for Smaugust, and I may put a bunch of my more recent no-sales on discount to help boost me a little bit financially for the road, so if there're designs of mine you've been sitting on waiting for them to go on sale, it'll be happening soon! Every lil' bit helps, just in case, like, my car breaks down or something on the way. Fingers crossed that won't be the case, and I'm pretty sure we'll be just fine, but a little cushioning certainly wouldn't hurt.

Anyway, hope you all are doin' alright out there since I haven't been around much to keep in touch!

I don't make much money, y'know. Not that most of us really do, but you get what I mean... So when I really want something a little pricey, like an adopt auction that already starts with a high starting bid and would normally end up way out of my budget, I just enjoy them from a distance because I don't typically make enough to buy them. And that's usually fine with me, I deal with that just fine, it's a luxury, and I can't always have what I want just because I want it.

However... when I really want something, right... and it sits for over a week with no bids... I start to maybe get my hopes up. Like, hmm, nobody else actually seems to want this thing? Crazy, maybe I should bid. Might actually be able to afford something nice for once because I'm not gonna get in some bidding war with someone who's just gonna end up ABing the damn thing anyway, most likely, right? So then I do that... I put in the rare first bid for me, and the auction gets kind'a close to the close out point from the time of the bid, and I get real' excited for once... and then some dickhead somewhat last minute, who could've bid on the auction like a fucking week or so ago when it was first posted, swoops in and starts consistently bidding against me.

Feels fucking fishy, for one thing, like it's some friend of the artist trying to fluff up the auction, you know what I mean? But even if it's not, they had so much time to have done this sooner. Why wait until it's almost timed out before ruining my day? I'm just... I know I'm not entitled to anything, and again, it's a luxury I by no means need to have, so this is really just me whining about being extremely disappointed, but... it just feels like a real' dick move to pull, y'know? I so rarely pull the trigger on stuff like this, which I know is really only my problem and not worth complaining so much about, but I'm just so frustrated and mad about it that I just wanted to vent about it, get it off my chest.

Anyway, sorry, I sound whiny as fuck about it, I'm sure, but whatever. I'm sad. 😓

I don't do pretty much any NSFW work, so I dunno how relevant it'll be for me to tag stuff to be filtered out, but are there any tags you'd like me to use? Anything you want blocked? Lemme know, I'll start tagging more specifically if preferred.

So, I have a full set of Pokemon Hellhound-themed hybrids planned, and four out of ten of them are already done as of this moment... buuuuut it's already Halloween, and there's no way I'm getting the other six finished in one day. I had planned on working on these a lot more in the past couple weeks, but holyshit, my daily job took another sharp turn that ate up all my free time.

I'm sure I've complained about it in the past, but my stupid little retail job is in a perpetual cycle of chaos. My boss was fired, so now we have a new boss, and the poor guy got the whole store literally dumped in his lap overnight because he wasn't given any warning that this would be happening. That was a couple weeks ago now, but the point is, a couple weeks out is how far out our schedules are all made in advance, so our already skeleton-bare team had to pick up ALL his extra shifts, and because he was our boss, he had the most hours and the longest shifts to pick up. SO, naturally, as the person who's been at my store the longest and therefore knows how to run everything in his absence... I got stuck with the second-largest bulk of his shifts, our new boss getting the majority, but still. I typically can only handle so many hours, so many days (I have a disability that makes it very difficult for me to work consistently), but working is all I've been doing day in, and day out. So while I'd planned to have these adopts out by today, if not before, that just didn't happen because I was called in or requested for almost all of my days off, and the rest I had to dedicate to getting errands done because when else am I gonna be able to do them? Jeeze, we're on... lemme think... store leader number five now? I think that's about right... The position is fucking cursed, they all either get fired, driven out, or demoted because the job's insufferable or impossible. You'd think a small store wouldn't be this hard to run, but it's a small corporate-owned store, so the poor store leads all get several layers of management looming over them and breathing down their necks. And even if they work 40+ hours, they can't get everything done that they're tasked with on top of being in trouble for going into overtime without permission, so they end up having to try and leave it to their keyholders (since the company basically got rid of all assistant manager positions), but the keyholders aren't paid enough to be doing the tasks of a store leader, not with how many other responsibilities they already have on their shoulders that they're never properly trained for, either! It's insane. It's all kinds of nuts. Never before have I worked retail while also having all the responsibilities of an assistant manager on my shoulders the way I do. And frankly, my current, new store leader is fighting and making a case for our store to be granted an assistant store leader position like it used to have because he wants to actually promote me to that position. And if he does, great, I'll actually start getting paid for all the extra crap I do, but our district manager definitely doesn't like me, so fat chance anything'll come of it. If I eventually get the position, I'll stick with the job, but otherwise, I'm gonna start seeking new employment because even partly working for myself like I used to as a massage therapist was fucking easier and had less responsibilities than this.

Ah well, anyway, this was mostly just for me to explain that I will absolutely be releasing some cool, spoopy doggos to adopt eventually, but I got ran over twenty times by my job workload, so I ran out of time to get these done before/by Halloween. ;; So I'm sorry they won't be ready on time. My apologies to the winter holidays, too, that I'll be encroaching on when posting them so late. But hey, at least horror designs are usually accepted all year 'round :'D Hopefully I'll have something new to feed you all sooner rather than later, so keep your eyes peeled, and thank you all for your patience <3

1. Pre-evolutions for Hatterene & Mismagius line (finished!)

2. Spider lily Meganium variant (finished!)

3. Full-body piece featuring two of my adopts (finished!)

4. Giratina & Kitsune fusion (finished!)

5. Primarina & Cursola fusion evolutionary line (unpaid)

6. Eevee & Galarian Zigzagoon fusion (unpaid)

So, despite never being invoiced or charged anything, my laptop was repaired, and the battery was replaced... seemingly free of charge??? I have no idea why, and for all I know, some charge may happen later? But that's not what I was told would happen. I was told I'd be quoted a price before repairs even began, so realistically, I never consented to any payment or repairs? So... I guess I could dispute it if they charge something?? I really assumed that, at the very least, they'd charge me for replacing the battery... you would think, right? But... maybe not, I dunno! Maybe they honestly just thought the repair was way too minor, so they just... tightened up the port, stuck a new battery in it, and called it a day without ever sending me an invoice. Who knows!? But if that's the case, it's the absolute best possible outcome. All my laptop cost me to fix was what I paid to ship it there, and that's it... hopefully.

So there you have it, folks! Expect to see semi-regular art from me again! :D I'm stoked. <3

So, I checked my RMA status, and apparently two days after it arrived at the service center, they'd already checked it, repaired it, and sent it back on its way... which doesn't make sense at all! It's out of warranty, so I was expecting to pay something for the repair, first off, and I never got charged, much less quoted... And it all seems like it took them no time at all, secondly, so I'm worried they didn't... fix it at all??

Anyway, I reached out to one of the live chat agents, and they told me they couldn't verify anything due to me contacting them over the weekend when the service center is closed. But my laptop is due to arrive back to me this Monday, according to FedEx, so I just pressed for a little more insight and asked, like, why didn't I get charged? Why didn't it take roughly 14 days like they estimate it usually taking for laptops? Did they even repair it at all? And the agent said that he couldn't say for sure, but in cases of very small, minor repairs, they'll just fix it for free and send it back pretty fast, so there's a chance that that's what happened.

I mean, I'm not holding my breath, but I can't really get any answers until tomorrow anyway, so I guess I'll find out once my laptop gets back whether it's charging again or not! :') If not, well, I'm probably fucked on a laptop. I mean, if they won't or can't fix it, there's no way I can afford another one. So... rip me! Hopefully that's not the case, but... we'll see.

So, my laptop is taking a slight dump on me. Seems like the shell is coming apart, and I don't know if the battery's coming loose, if the charging port is unseated, or what exactly is causing it, but it won't charge easily without a lot of adjustment. I have to send it back to its maker for them to repair it, and that's gonna take quite some time. Obviously, during this time, I won't be able to draw. :')

I'll still answer comments and notes, but you might not see any content from me for a while. I'll try to post more before it's sent off (obviously I gotta build up some funds to get it done), but once it's in the mail, it'll be out of my hands for a while. u_u Thanks for sticking with me!

So, a little backstory here... I have a phone that's ages old now and can now barely perform even the most basic functions of a phone, much less anything extra or, dare I say, enjoyable. But I'm also very poor, too developmentally challenged to handle full-time work, and trying to somehow save my piddly checks for moving to a less expensive state in the distant future amidst all my bills. Soooooo, to mitigate monthly payments for a phone upgrade, I've decided I might give custom adopts a shot. A couple slots a month should about cover it, and they'll be either for Pokemon hybrids/fusions or variations. I'll figure out all the specifics once I've picked out a new phone and know how much it'll cost me a month, but in the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions on how I should present these openings every month, let me know.

I assume it'd be best to not do it through journals but rather through some sort of art submission? Or maybe I should just post the custom slots at the bottom of an adoptable sheet since I usually do post at least one set a month? I dunno, let me know what you think, what would catch your eye easier and such.

So, I've had it brought up once or twice that I should possibly make the Pokemon Variations and Hybrids I do available for adoption? Seems like people like them and would like to make characters out of them, which I didn't realize until more recently. So, for whatever next batch I do, there'll be an adoptable option for them, though I'll probably only make them available to adopt here on FA and over on DA rather than anywhere else. I'll probably also make a second buying option where I'll draw the pre-evolutions for an additional price and ask the buyer about any preferences they might have on it, etc.

Also, if you read this and are interested in buying any of the hybrids or fusions I've already made, with the exception of the few I've done on commission which would be the Mawile hybrids, the Eevee variations, and the Goodra variations from a while back, feel free to inquire! There're some from too far back for me to access their original files since they're on my old computer, but I still may consider drawing an updated individual from any of my old sheets if they generate interest.

I think I'll price them at $15 each, and for drawing pre-evolutions of any of them, I'll tack on an extra $5-10 depending if it's a double or triple stage evolution. Feel free to let me know any thoughts!
Please also remember I'm always open for custom hybrids and variations at literally any time, too. Individuals or even whole sheets of them if you like! So don't hesitate to inquire about custom Pokemon Hybrids or Variations, those're always open.

You know how, like, you wanna draw stuff, like you really want to 'cause you've just got like so many ideas floating around, but you don't have the energy for it?
That's where I'm at right now.
I have SO many themed Pokemon teams I wanna draw, so many, a LOT of them, and always coming up with more, but... where is my drawing mojo ahhhhhhhhh

I live in Eugene, Oregon. I'm not far at all from the very violent riot that went on a few nights ago where several fast food places and small businesses were decimated in a hijacking of the originally peaceful protest by a bunch of white teens and adults who had no business doing what they were doing while several of the original, peaceful, black protesters begged them to stop over megaphones. Among some of the businesses destroyed was an e-cig and vape store completely run and owned by blacks.

Rioting and looting is absolutely an understandable means of protest, but I think there's a way to do it to make a statement rather than do harm to those you're trying to help in these protests. First of all, I don't think it's okay to do this to small businesses. You've no idea if you may be ruining the livelihood and future of POC owners or allied owners. I don't and won't participate in violent protest personally, but if you're going to, you should direct your anger towards businesses that value their merchandise over human lives... I'm sure you know the big businesses I'm talking about, I doubt I have to explain it.

Because I believe in this cause and I want some fucking justice for George Floyd, and also because I had something to say against violent protests, I felt I owed it to the black community to do my part still and speak up. I participated in a peaceful protest in Eugene the very next day and marched several miles over highways and streets to make a scene. I believe in peaceful protests, but I also believe a protest can't just be some picnic, either. Protests are meant to get attention, to make a statement, to make a scene. If its so peaceful that no one sees you, then it's not enough.

I, along with hundreds of others, occupied as much space as possible to be seen, and I want to pass along the advice and information I gained from Oregon Senator Manning who came out to meet the protesters and make a speech on the matter. His advice was that change is made best from the inside. Of course, that being said, it's not possible for everyone and anyone to run for political offices, so his next best suggestion to everyone is to do extensive research on your area's District Attorney when voting or petitioning because the District Attorney is who's in charge of prosecuting police officers for their crimes. Make those petitions, make whatever calls you know you should, and vote when these elections come around for a District Attorney who you know will do right by the people rather than favoring bad cops who fucking kneel on people's necks until they die or who stand around and let their fellow officers do so. This's unacceptable behavior that is now trying to be passed off as George Floyd having a heart attack in the ordeal in order to relieve officer Chauvin of his crimes. Even what he's currently being charged with, 3rd degree murder, is inaccurate, and I want some fucking justice for the man he killed.

I know there've been other posts made about other ways to help, such as donating to protester relief, to George Floyd's family, etc., but I haven't seen many posts pointing out the one responsible for charging police officers and what to do about it, so here's my contribution. I hope this information helps. Stay strong, stay safe if you need to or be brave if you have to. Support POC because they're very much still in danger. Listen to them and do right by them. They need it... okay? Okay. <3

There needs to be a separate type of "submission", per se, for when people are posting reminders about their YCHs and leftover adoptables because I feel like I want to scoop out my eyeballs and boil them when I see the same twenty YCH reminders in a row... especially when they're not even from people I watch. They're just users posting them non-stop throughout the day several days a week as if this helps drum up their business when, really, it just drives people up a wall. There needs to be, like, an 'update' function or a 'reminder' function / separate submission option for these things that I can subsequently turn the fuck off so that I don't have to see them. Because I'm sorry, but submitting twenty reminders a week for YCHs that people are just not buying iS NOT HELPING IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM I'M AHDGJKLGSFDS

Sorry. Ahem. Don't mind me, I'm just... so very annoyed.

I wanted to apologize for having slowed my pace on commission work lately. Don't worry, of course, I'm still working on them, to those left in my queue. I'm just sorry it's so slow-going.

My workload at my actual job has been varying severely. I'm getting overworked, and for those of you who don't know, I'm a massage therapist. It leaves my hands, elbows, wrists, shoulders, etc. in a lot of pain. Sometimes I can't even draw lines smoothly on workdays or even sometimes the day after, either. This causes delays in my artwork.

I'm also battling with everything else I have to do, errands I've been putting off, commitments I've made to people, a lot of things I've been putting off.

And to top it all off, I now have to find a new place to live within the next two months because my landlady wants to use the room I rent as her fucking grandson's room for the rare times she has to watch him. So I'm getting booted out of my home I've consistently paid for and whatnot. Cool, right? So I'm not in an okay place mentally.

I'm sorry for delays, and I hope you'll understand. And thank you to those who were patient with me prior and to this point, too. I really do appreciate it.

I'm open! Not that I haven't been or anything, but here's to let you know I'm very much open for commissions!

And I know, of course, that I've been a slow worker in the past, but I'm trying to rectify that... so if my very slow turnover is putting or has put you off, please give me a chance! I promise I'm motivated, ready to work, and I'm gonna get things out in a timely manner this time around, I swear it. I always do deliver regardless, but I'm gonna do my best to deliver much much faster than I've been with my past work. I'm also offering cheaper and significantly easier options for people on a tighter budget with sketchy teams, which I've been doing a LOT of lately! And I know for sure I can push teams like that out in a matter of days as opposed to fully lined work which may take about a week or two tops as long as I kick my bum into gear and work on it! So please, if you're interested in commissioning me, let me know! :'D

Technically I never closed commissions, but I haven't had to really advertise much because, you know, I have a pretty solid career that, up until more recently, has been as lucrative as I'd needed it to be and therefore didn't need to rely on commissions for literally any income at all. However, now, my job is not cutting it anymore. My days and hours are dwindling as my boss's boss cut back the hours and days of everyone in the place who wasn't basically constantly booked for services. Because my shifts are in the evenings, I don't get booked as often, so I was cut down severely. Even with that, I was, for a while, still able to at least cover my expenses as long as I basically deprived myself of all possible luxuries (which is hard for me to do, I'll admit), but I've been trying. And for my efforts, I've been... kind'a basically just barely scraping by. However, I'm potentially facing even more cut-backs starting... like, now. And with my barely squeaking by as it is? I don't honestly know if I'm going to be able to afford to... uh, exist. Anymore. I'm gonna try and sort things out, I'm gonna try to pick up a different day, maybe, that's busier, maybe somewhere they need more people, but... I don't know if that's gonna cut it, honestly. I'm doing what I can, but it's REALLY not looking good. However, at least for right now, picking up some extra cash so that I can handle my bills and stuff for the moment would really help me out, so I'm advertising now that I am, in fact, open, in case anyone ever thought I wasn't, and I'm gonna work as hard as I can to get my work out to commissioners in a timely manner. So if you wanna help me out and get some artwork from me in the process, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks for reading, sorry if it was a bit much. Here's my commission sheet for those interested:
http://www.furaffinity.net/full/31134579/

My best friend needs to get herself back home. She's in a terrible situation right now, she's struggling to get through it, and all she wants is to be back home with her family.
So I wanted to offer anything I could. I've done this before, so I'll gladly do this again now. I'm offering all sorts of sketches and things to those who donate to my friend's GoFundMe.
Any five bucks thrown in there gets a cool Pokemon doodle! Or a fusion! Or a variation! Throw in more fives, and I'll do even more! Whole variation or fusion sheets, if you like!
I'll do ten-dollar donation half-body sketches of OCs and such.
I'll do $30-40 donation sketched half-body Pokemon teams!
Basically, any sketch commissions I get within the next month will be going towards this, not me!
If you donate, send me a note or private message with what you're looking to get, and I'll get it done!
(And don't worry current commissioners, I'm still working on my owed work to you first and foremost! <3 But this is important to me, and I ask for everyone's patience and understanding)
https://www.gofundme.com/jssrgz-going-home

I don't really vent much on art platforms... mostly because I know the people who follow me are here for my art, not for my feelings, and that's totally okay.
But I can't just vent this thing on Facebook where too many of the examples of this vent happen to be. No, I'd rather vent it to strangers who aren't going to yell at me for it later.
But here's what's been weighing me down for quite some time... I see too many goddamn people who want others to make them feel better.
People want validation from others, people constantly post that "People with X-illness like me just need someone who's going to constantly tell them they're wonderful, needed, loved, etc."
But do any of those people ever actually reciprocate it or do that for other people? Hardly. HARDLY. And unfortunately, that means the person doing it for them has to do a LOT of work that usually doesn't have an end point.
Being the one thing that stands between someone's sanity and total mental breakdown is a massive burden on that person who probably isn't a full-time psychologist and doesn't have the expertise to keep someone else grounded all the time.
I don't want those people to feel like a burden, I truly don't, but at the same time... no friend, lover, hell, not even someone's spouse can be constantly responsible for another person's mental stability.
That's not their job! Sometimes these people wind up feeling obligated because they care about their ill friend, so they do everything they can, and it's often never enough because the person they're caring for still constantly feels unwanted, unloved, and unnecessary to anyone. I'm not saying they're not allowed to feel that way, that's why it's an illness because they can't really help it. But for goodness sake, it isn't their friends' jobs to always be their rock. Especially not when, in the end, it doesn't even work, and that person still continues to not feel how their friends have tried so hard to make them feel.
If someone's ill, they need proper, professional treatment. Friends, family, and spouses are not professionals, they're not medication, and by putting them in that position... they may eventually end up ill themselves.
I'm saying this from experience. I don't even feel like I can come forth and say I'd like someone to tell me I'm great and that I'm loved and that I'm wanted because everyone else around me is constantly begging for that on every platform they can think of where it'll reach multiple people. There's technically nothing wrong with occasionally seeking some attention and validation. I think everyone needs that sometimes. But when no amount of attention or validation is able to make someone feel how they want to feel, then that's when it's time to seek the help of a professional.
I'm saying this because... I'm tired. I'm sad. I'm drained. I'm going through a lot, and I don't feel like I have any medium to voice it because everyone I know is depressed or anxious or suffering and constantly seeking others' attention, love, and non-stop support for it that I'd have no place in joining them. I'd just be one other person adding to the SEVERE imbalance of people who want to be cared for but don't give that care to anyone else who might need it. And I'm pretty sure I'm getting to a point myself where professional help is going to be all I have.
So, I guess if I want anyone to take anything from this... it's that the "strong" friend, the one shouldering and mommying probably twenty other people who want to be taken care of, needs some fucking support, too. They can't do it all. They may try to because they care about someone, because they want to be supportive, and because everyone around them is suffering, but guess what? They're probably suffering, too. Much more internally where none of their friends can see it because, oh, they're always just "so strong", so clearly they can push through anything, right? WRONG. The strong, mothering friend needs some validation, too. They need to know that everything they're doing is actually making a difference, and that there's eventually going to be an end point to all the work they do and the support they give. People can drain other people, sometimes it's very quickly, resulting in them no longer wanting to hear from their problem friends. Sometimes it's very slow... and very numbing. Until such time that the strong friend no longer can be strong. Everyone's foundation is only so sturdy before enough battering, weathering, and strain eventually breaks it.
I feel like I'm at a breaking point, and yet for all that I've tried to do, I'm not even sure that any of it mended anything. If I crumble, the last thing I'll know is that I tried so goddamn hard but didn't even make a difference, and the thing that broke me is just going to continue to crumble other strong foundations in their whirlwind of needs that can't ever really be subsided by the means of their peers. I can't do this... I'm just me. I'm just one person. And what've I accomplished? I don't even know. Did I make my friends' lives any better? Did any of them heal even a little because of me? I don't know, and most of the time, it definitely doesn't seem like it.
And then some of them have the nerve to call me insensitive. After everything I've tried to do. I can only try to fix so many broken people at a time, and I'm not an emotional mechanic. I don't know what I'm doing, I can only attempt, so when people come trying to tell me what's wrong, and I start to shut down... it's because nothing I've ever said for people in the same situation as what I'm currently listening to ever actually made a difference to them. Sure, it helps in the moment sometimes, but they go right back to needing it again within a few days. I feel like a broken record, like a dying battery.

I just can't do it anymore.

I was emailed a while ago about it and took forever getting back to this poor guy 'cause he caught me around convention time!
But one'a the journalists from Geek and Sundry emailed me about my silly Parasect variations I doodled up some time ago,
and now they're featured in an article! There're some other cute variants, too!
http://geekandsundry.com/pokemon-fa.....and-real-life/

I'm on vacation to visit my dad! So art might be a little scarce while I'm here.

ALSO I'M SUPER CURIOUS IF ANYONE'S GOING TO OTAKON IN MARYLAND NEXT MONTH???
'CAUSE I'M GONNA BE THERE. Not as an artist in artist alley or anything, BUT I WILL BE THERE AND IN COSPLAY. 8D

It took me forever to jump on this bandwagon... but now that I have, I don't plan to stop for a little while. @v@

ANYBODY GOT ANY SUGGESTIONS???
I'm working on Sharpedo right now, and then I'm gonna try and do variations of Volcarona based off different star stages, might do Tropius based on fruit trees, too.
But dO ANY OF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS 'CAUSE I'LL CONSIDER PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING PFFFFF
These're so easy to do and kind'a mindless??? And apparently Tumblr really likes these, too. BONUS! 8D
So I'll be doin' moooore.

Sorry, couldn't log into my FA for, like, several days 'cause of the reset thing and emails getting all messed up?
Anyway, I'm on now. I'm here. I'm alive (I think).

Just bumping down my other journal! Time to take the negativity off. uvu

Sooooo, I just bought Bravely Second the other dayyyy, and omg, Tiz's new hair is cute af.
Okay bye

So... I just got done reading the most bullshit article I've ever read about "parents these days".

I really can't believe what I read.
They said, and I quote, "When did adults start caring whether or not their kids were safe, happy, or popular" and then "We all love our kids, and we want to see them happy and fulfilled." both in the same article.

They also say, and I again quote, "You develop common sense by making mistakes and learning from them. It’s a skill best acquired in a setting where it’s safe to fail, and is only mastered by actually doing things for yourself." I'm sorry, but "...and we had crossed two major highways on bicycles with semi-flat tires to get there." is NOT a setting where it's safe to fail. That's a setting where if you fail, you're probably dead. "In fact, that’s why some people had children. We were free labor." does not sound like a parent who loves their child (or even gives a single fuck about them, to be honest). Aw damn, they got hit by a car on their flat-tire bike ride across a major highway. Well shit, gotta pop out another one otherwise the lawn's not gonna get mowed when I want it to.

And oh, this gem, too. "Our kids don’t know a damn thing about delayed gratification." Don't you give me that. I was actually gifted a very expensive tablet once upon time by my parents, something that, in this person's eyes, I should've earned with money from a job but did not, and not a day goes by that I don't think about how lucky I am to have it. I use it for art, a hobby I absolutely love, and everytime I even pick that thing up to draw a masterpiece with it, I think "Where would my art be without the parent who actually gave this to me for my birthday?" I've earned the money it took to pay for it in the commissioned art I've made with the damn thing, so don't you tell me today's youth isn't grateful in the long run for things they might be given now. That's some A+ quality garbage coming out'a the writer's fingers to type all that, lemme tell you. And I get it, there're definitely some spoiled kids out there, but there were spoiled rich kids even in this person's day, too. They just didn't happen to be one of them.

There's also this, "The real beauty of it is that none of these kids are going to score a job straight out of college that will allow them to pay for the necessities of life, ... so guess who’s going to be getting the phone call when they can’t make rent? Yep, we are." And "most of them head off to college without a clue what it’s like to look for a job, apply for it, interview and show up on time, as scheduled." Well wait a second here. It talks earlier about doing everything on their own rather than relying on mommy and daddy, but if mommy and daddy don't teach you shit, I guess you did it for the first time on your own without their help? If kids these days don't know how to apply for a job, it's 'cause either mommy and daddy didn't teach them or because, well, YOU DON'T GET TAUGHT ANY FUCKING LIFE SKILLS IN HIGH SCHOOL. Change my education system, and maybe I'll be more prepared. Or maybe you as a parent should do your fucking job. Or is your job just popping out free laborers and "double bolting the door in order to keep us out of the house" as it says in the article? And really, do not get be started on the economy all of the kids, teens, and recent adults of mine and the next generations are being brought into because let me tell you, my friend, it is a HUNDRED TIMES DIFFERENT, IN A BAD WAY, than the generation of the current "back in my day"-ers. I mean the economy where it's impossible to actually pay for college, even WITH a high school job, without the assistance of PARENTS HELPING THEIR CHILDREN BE SUCCESSFUL or ridiculous student loans that'll take 30+ years to pay off after college with the jobs you parents apparently didn't teach us to apply for because we're supposed to be so independent already.

Well you know what? FUCK YOU. Fuck you right up the ass because I've had it! I've had it, and I am SO tired of hearing how it was so much better in your day. Guess what? IT WAS better, especially financially. You had it a lot fucking easier than the youth of today does. So don't you tell me about how you "don’t recall anyone being worried about my workload being stressful — or my mental health, in general." because I'm sure you didn't HAVE to stress about how bad your student loans are gonna be, about how little openings in your career field there're gonna be when you graduate in order to pay off those loans. Maybe you're so bitter about today's youth because nobody did care about your mental health and probably should've. You sound like your parents never loved you, and that really fucking sucks. Thankfully, mine actually do. So take your bitter, unloved, mentally damaged self out of here until you're ready to admit you probably could've used some love from your fucked up parents, too, instead of being locked out of your house to fend for yourself when not being used as their house maid and landscaping service. Maybe if you did, you wouldn't be writing the things you've written against kids of this generation who clearly have parents who actually do care about their children succeeding and want them to be happy. Did you ever think that parents these days treat their kids this way because maybe, deep down, they hated how they were treated by their parents as free laborers? And sure, maybe they're not always right in getting them the most expensive things whenever asked for, but actually, not that many parents do that even still. Only the ones who can afford it. Technology is taking over instead of cheap toys for entertainment, and if you don't raise your kids on this technology, they are going to fail in this future. It's not that unreasonable for a child to have a cellphone with which they can at least call you if they get kidnapped or threatened or someshit. If your parents had the technologies of this day, you'd've been given a cellphone and other nice things, too, because they're a means of keeping people safe, and they're this day's mode of entertainment.

Get with the times. Otherwise you belong in the garbage with all the rest of the old shit that can't transcend time and change. Your opinions are outdated and are no longer useful nor relevant to this society.

And for those who'd like to read the article, well HERE IT IS, BREATHE IN THIS CARCINOGENIC BULLSHIT: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rhond.....50.html?te=Ozy