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Unplugging from socials for a while | Life update: 10/4/2025
Posted a month agoAfter some thought, I've decided it's time to deactivate all my socials and unplug from the internet for a while. Being online and trying to maintain friendships has become exhausting and unhealthy to the point where I started distrusting some of my closest friends. I couldn't help but notice that my follower count on Bluesky and watch count on FA are slowly dropping; meanwhile, many of my friends are the complete opposite, with some of them even ghosting me more often, leading me to think I'm too irrelevant for them. I realize this way of thinking is unhealthy, and over-obsessing with it only sends me down a rabbit hole I cannot climb out of. Unplugging and reconstructing myself is the best thing for me to do right now.
Aside from that, things in my offline social life have been great; my local fur friends are actually some of the best people I've hung with in so long, they actually make me feel like I belong, unlike some of the ones online.
Normally, I'd post a link to my journal on my Bluesky so it'll reach more people, but I just can't bring myself to look at my activity on there, seeing my friends do better than me and feeling ignored is too painful for me to bear. I just want this to be found by anyone who stumbles on it.
I'm gonna keep my accounts active for a little bit longer, but don't expect me to use them too much. My DM's are open as always, and I might keep my Telegram around since it's primarily how I keep in touch with my local friends. Discord is a bit up in the air atm, I do use it for messaging, but with all of the servers I'm in, it might become too distracting for me if I keep it.
I'm gonna think everything over before I commit to it. We'll see how things go in the coming months.
Aside from that, things in my offline social life have been great; my local fur friends are actually some of the best people I've hung with in so long, they actually make me feel like I belong, unlike some of the ones online.
Normally, I'd post a link to my journal on my Bluesky so it'll reach more people, but I just can't bring myself to look at my activity on there, seeing my friends do better than me and feeling ignored is too painful for me to bear. I just want this to be found by anyone who stumbles on it.
I'm gonna keep my accounts active for a little bit longer, but don't expect me to use them too much. My DM's are open as always, and I might keep my Telegram around since it's primarily how I keep in touch with my local friends. Discord is a bit up in the air atm, I do use it for messaging, but with all of the servers I'm in, it might become too distracting for me if I keep it.
I'm gonna think everything over before I commit to it. We'll see how things go in the coming months.
Life Update | July 2025 (even tho it's technically June)
Posted 4 months agoIt's been a while, so I thought I'd hit you with a life update. Quite a bit has happened since the last one.
I finally graduated from college, so that's a relief off my shoulders, now I'm currently trying to recover from all the college chaos before I find a job. Most of my close friends know what happened, but I'll breif you on it here, I made the mistake of letting an online friend crash with me for a week during my last month of school and they completely disrespected any and all boundaries I had laid out, long story short, I cut all contact from them once they left my apartment. Thankfully, I had much better friends come visit me from Winnipeg during their road trip; it was around the same week as my graduation, funnily enough. Now I'm planning to hit up a fur meet in Halifax and hopefully run into some of my other good friends, never been to one but I'm sure it'll be fun. I need that escapism right now due to some political nonsense, won't name any names here, but some people need to grow a backbone before they should be allowed to lead a country. If that wasn't bad enough, I'm still trying to fully process the death of Mikayla Raines (Founder of SaveAFox), who took me by surprise when I heard about it. I didn't sleep for a few nights due to how messed up I was. I think I'm on the road to recovery at this point. First, it was my grandmother who passed in April, then Mikayla, so a lot of recent deaths kind of crept up on me after that incident with the online friend. Currently, I'm in a good enough place that I can focus solely on preparing for that Halifax trip, then maybe I can get back into some old hobbies I pretty much had shelved for a while.
In other news,
and I have been going hard on Stardew recently, so that's been fun. It's also his birthday as I'm writing this so wish him a happy bday!
That's pretty much it.
Take care 💛
I finally graduated from college, so that's a relief off my shoulders, now I'm currently trying to recover from all the college chaos before I find a job. Most of my close friends know what happened, but I'll breif you on it here, I made the mistake of letting an online friend crash with me for a week during my last month of school and they completely disrespected any and all boundaries I had laid out, long story short, I cut all contact from them once they left my apartment. Thankfully, I had much better friends come visit me from Winnipeg during their road trip; it was around the same week as my graduation, funnily enough. Now I'm planning to hit up a fur meet in Halifax and hopefully run into some of my other good friends, never been to one but I'm sure it'll be fun. I need that escapism right now due to some political nonsense, won't name any names here, but some people need to grow a backbone before they should be allowed to lead a country. If that wasn't bad enough, I'm still trying to fully process the death of Mikayla Raines (Founder of SaveAFox), who took me by surprise when I heard about it. I didn't sleep for a few nights due to how messed up I was. I think I'm on the road to recovery at this point. First, it was my grandmother who passed in April, then Mikayla, so a lot of recent deaths kind of crept up on me after that incident with the online friend. Currently, I'm in a good enough place that I can focus solely on preparing for that Halifax trip, then maybe I can get back into some old hobbies I pretty much had shelved for a while.
In other news,
and I have been going hard on Stardew recently, so that's been fun. It's also his birthday as I'm writing this so wish him a happy bday!That's pretty much it.
Take care 💛
🌷 Rest in peace, Dragoneer
Posted a year ago(some of this is copy-pasted from bsky with added text)
As much as I wish I could be active online rn, there's just so much processing and grieving to do on account of Neer's passing that I won't be for a while, I never knew him at all, I don't recall if we've ever spoken, but from everything I knew of him, he was a nice guy, he deserved better, I wish his family well and they get closure to such an awful situation. Nobody deserves what he went through, I just wish things could have turned out differently. After seeing all of the stories and tributes to Neer from all of his friends and acquaintances, I can tell he meant a lot to so many people. My DM's will be open to my closest friends while I'm offline, I know we're all going through it, so maybe I'll feel less alone if anyone wants to message me. I've never experienced loss in such a way to someone I didn't personally know well, but he did so much for all of us that I can't imagine life without him. As much I wish I knew what this meant for the future of FA, I know now is not a good time to discuss it, it should be left up in the air at this time, I'm sure we'll get all of our answers when the time is right. 🌷 Rest in peace, buddy. Your endless contributions to FA and the community will forever be cherished. We love you.
-Locke
As much as I wish I could be active online rn, there's just so much processing and grieving to do on account of Neer's passing that I won't be for a while, I never knew him at all, I don't recall if we've ever spoken, but from everything I knew of him, he was a nice guy, he deserved better, I wish his family well and they get closure to such an awful situation. Nobody deserves what he went through, I just wish things could have turned out differently. After seeing all of the stories and tributes to Neer from all of his friends and acquaintances, I can tell he meant a lot to so many people. My DM's will be open to my closest friends while I'm offline, I know we're all going through it, so maybe I'll feel less alone if anyone wants to message me. I've never experienced loss in such a way to someone I didn't personally know well, but he did so much for all of us that I can't imagine life without him. As much I wish I knew what this meant for the future of FA, I know now is not a good time to discuss it, it should be left up in the air at this time, I'm sure we'll get all of our answers when the time is right. 🌷 Rest in peace, buddy. Your endless contributions to FA and the community will forever be cherished. We love you.
-Locke
A brief life update
Posted a year agoSo, I secured a studio apartment around mid-May and got a few things moved into it, though, I can't say for sure that I'm feeling it quite yet, namely because the neighborhood is rundown and littered with drug addicts, and the whole street reeks of cannabis, it doesn't give me the piece of mind that I had hoped for. That said I'm giving it maybe a month before I decide if it's right for me. Aside from that, I've been planning my PC build in the meantime, I'm just waiting for one more part to get here before I start building it with my friend's help (since I'm God-awful at that sort of stuff lol). After, like, 2-3 years of trying to get a PC but not being able to secure most of the parts due to limited supply (I started planning this build around COVID so the timing was bad on my end), I finally got to it. I'll post updates about it once my setup is put together. Also, I plan to redesign my character soon, which I'm excited for, just thought I'd mention it here.
An artist has a YCH open
Posted 2 years agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/55126991/
This talented artist has been struggling to find any takers for their work and quite frankly I think they deserve more recognition. Check it out if you're interested!
This talented artist has been struggling to find any takers for their work and quite frankly I think they deserve more recognition. Check it out if you're interested!
I'm on bluesky!
Posted 2 years agoI finally managed to get an invite code, if you're on there feel free to follow me!
lockepaws.bsky.social
I'll try to give out codes to whoever needs them when I canSelling some characters!
Posted 2 years agoI've had these guys shelved for a while and want to give them a new home. Plus, I have some financial things I need to sort out.
https://toyhou.se/Lockie/characters/folder:2375836
If you're interested send me a note. CAD currency. PayPal is preferred.
https://toyhou.se/Lockie/characters/folder:2375836
If you're interested send me a note. CAD currency. PayPal is preferred.
🎈 Birthday Foxxo 🎈
Posted 2 years agoOh yeah, my birthday is today, I'm 27 now! Sweet
To celebrate,
and I plan to see the Mario movie at the drive-in which happens to coincide with my birthday.
Edit: change of plans, we ended up going to the regular theater and saw Across the Spiderverse
To celebrate,
and I plan to see the Mario movie at the drive-in which happens to coincide with my birthday.Edit: change of plans, we ended up going to the regular theater and saw Across the Spiderverse
No longer on Twitter
Posted 2 years agoAs of April 15th, 2023 I am no longer using Twitter nor will I be using it in the near future.
Instead, I will be migrating to an alternative site. It probably goes without saying, but the Musk takeover has gotten atrocious, I would not recommend going on there right now. I will be active elsewhere as per usual so nothing has drastically changed in that field. Take care!
Instead, I will be migrating to an alternative site. It probably goes without saying, but the Musk takeover has gotten atrocious, I would not recommend going on there right now. I will be active elsewhere as per usual so nothing has drastically changed in that field. Take care!
Pending Art
Posted 2 years agoJust using this journal to keep track of pending art I have commissioned
this just helps me stay organized ^^
Created a Telegram Channel
Posted 4 years agoHey! I know it's been nearly forever since I last posted anything on here. That's going to change eventually, I'm just trying to get things sorted out with myself before I start fully using social media again.
Anywho, I made a Telegram channel so it'll be easier to keep track of commissioned art that I get, as well as in the case I forget to upload anything on here, overall I just find Telegram to be faster.
Anywho, I made a Telegram channel so it'll be easier to keep track of commissioned art that I get, as well as in the case I forget to upload anything on here, overall I just find Telegram to be faster.
It's 18+ so I'd advise against subscribing if you're a minor.
Here's the link: https://t.me/InariFoxShrine