Check out that game. For real. Great gameplay, great community.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....ct_Silverfish/

Let me put it simple: Everything is going expensive. Way too expensive. I have what is considered middle class income, I live with family and have enough to get myself pleasantries from time to time.

But it's not enough.

I've taken a loan about 6 years 9 months ago, it was mostly an emergency due to me having no work at the time. To put it simply, it was a money well spent that put me into relatively comfortable situation I'm in right now.

Still, it's not enough.

Quite often, I lend money when family needs it. Most of the times it's emergencies where one of our pets (as of the time of writing we have 3 dogs and 3 cats) gets sick. My sister is studying - I've been helping her out as well.

I don't want to ask for money. I don't want to do anything for free - but I need this debt gone. I have 40 payments left to make. Each about $300 a month. ~$12000 total left. And I've been thinking about it a lot - should I finally pick up writing commissions? And the answer seems yes. I don't expect generosity. I want to do fair work so that I can finally be free of these shackles. So I can afford more than simple pleasantries - to go on proper vacations outside of my own country, to take care of my own needs beyond basics without waiting until I'm 30 or more.

The question lingers, though. I don't know how to advertise - I don't know what a fair price would be. I would consider myself an average writer... Maybe ever so slightly above average. And given my anxieties, ADHD and asperger's, it is quite tough to do anything on my own without motivation, even more so publicly.

Any help here would be appreciated.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11073931/
If this was not taken yet, I am taking the deal. Anyone up for one or both of the 2-character pic from second option?

Here. That's the journal. See you in a year with a new one probably.

https://bsky.app/profile/dracory1.bsky.social

I... have been playing a lot of Dwarf Fortress recently. With new learned tips, tricks and a huge amount of luck (my armorer has made an adamantine breastplate artifact and I got screenshots) I have basically beaten the game on my most successful fort. Circus opened and obliterated. 10/10

Well, I can certainly say this year was a lot... but then also not. A lot happened and yet almost nothing changed for me - except for having even more money issues from all the all around accidents and price inflation. Hopefully that will change next year, otherwise I'll have to find another source of money - which is not another job because that is beyond my health.

I hate to say it but I'll probably just have to cancel any commission plans for at least half a year or more due to how much there's happening here. [i]Oh well.[/]

At least got games to get that sanity dose. It was a pretty good year on that matter. Especially with Genshin's Sumeru plus card game release and Dwarf Fortress Steam release.

As in title. Not even a month left and I'm not decided on anything yet.

Let's keep it short, I don't have much time to write, work sucks.

Just seen some news. Apparently Poland is being accused of "tolerating terroristic militia" and NATO is being threatened that their sanctions are a declaration of war.

Well, Putin, cry more. No one wanted a war, people will cross through Poland to help Ukraine. Whether native or volunteers. Sanctions you brought upon yourself.

All I can hope for is that nukes won't be used. It won't be as "pretty" of a world as fallout is.

So, I have decided to make my discord server slightly more public. It's fully NSFW, so minors begone.
Got a couple of friends in there, talking from time to time, nothing crazy. Maybe you'd want to talk too. Got some of my telegram stickers applied in there, but need boosts for more.
If you decide to join, just type where you got the invite from in gate channel.
Here's the invite: https://discord.gg/vwv7un2vy7

So... I am commissioning  baroque
It's gonna be a gore type - indulging in that side a bit - comm, getting my Dracory axed/guillotined. Looking for headsman, need one asap.
Will include a part 2 somewhere in June.