The most recent chapter of PMD:WE has been out for a while. Find it here: https://toyhou.se/~literature/18483.....xpected-guest/

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In seriousness though, I've been in a very intense writing slump, again. Life got wacky, I'm burnt out on life, the usual. I am still working on Chapter 3, though it is infinitely harder and slower than normal. But I'll get to it. Eventually.
Happy Halloween~

You can read it over on my ToyHouse here: https://toyhou.se/~literature/18483.....rom-last-save/
Any and all feedback is appreciated!

I forgot to make an update to let people know that the rewrite of PMD: Worlds Eclipse is in progress, with chapter 1 finally finished! (It's actually been up for a while, I just forgot to make a journal announcing so. Oops.) For those of you who wish to read it, you can find it on my ToyHouse!
https://toyhou.se/~literature/18483.....worlds-eclipse
I'll be working on the rewrites of chapters 2 and 3 next, then (hopefully) actually write out further chapters.
As for what this chapter is, Chapter 1 is sort of a set-up story, introducing one of the 3 main characters of the series, known only as K.

Back this January, I decided to take one more swing at college classes. In this semester, I took 2 classes totalling 6 credit hours, on top of my fulltime job and the usual other personal responsibilities.This left me with little freetime, and given I was taking an Englih class, all my writing ability was focused there. As such, I haven't taken time to work on the PMD story or YouTube scripts, but do plan to do both in he near future once I no longer feel class burnout.
In the meantime, my plans around writing will be:
-Rework Chapters 1-3 of PMD:WE over on ToyHouse
-Update here with a journal whenever a chapter is finished
-Get more progress on other chapters of PMD:WE
-ACTUALLY make scripts for YouTube vids
-Potentially finish gift story that hasn't been worked on in forever
-Side stories around transformations or extra scenarios with characters might be a thing too

I have no timeframe for any of this. Thank you for reading. ~Gemini

As of right now, all stories I have written along with most art I've gotten of my OCs and sonas can now be found over at https://toyhou.se/Fairweather !
There's one piece that I need help with though. In my scraps is the "Plushimon" piece, with Plush drawn as a unique pokemon. (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/32054719/) This piece was originally drawn by someone I vaguely knew on Telegram, named TheUnknownUnicorn. Their FA page was linked on the original piece. I no longer have their Telegram, and the FA account is long deleted. Toyhouse requires a link to the original artist, rightfully so, but I have no link to give.
I tried Google, but found nothing besides an abandoned DeviantArt centered on photography and a Steam account, both I believe are a different person. The art piece does have a watermark overlay, but I'm unable to tell what it says.
If anyone knows this original artist or knows where I can link to, please let me know! Thank you!

All art of my sona, characters, ECT are being posted to https://toyhou.se/Fairweather now! Any art that I don't post there is being moved to scraps, the rest are being deleted. I'm going to do the same with stories once I get to posting them over there too, but those are staying up for now. Be sure to follow me over there! I won't be abandoning this account entirely, but I probably won't be posting any new stuff here unless I promote a newly written story of mine.

So I have a lot of drafts for stories, ideas for stories, and general notes, especially around the PMD:WE series, that are purely on pen and paper as just a first draft and nothing else. Instead of just keeping these papers sitting and collecting dust, I'm going to be slowly scanning them onto my PC and typing them up word-for-word in some Google document files, as a sort of "first draft archive". Some of these will be cleaned up separately to become finished stories, and as such, that means some of the stories in here may sorta be "spoilers" to my plans for the PMD series and other unrelated stories. The grammar in some of these may be exceptionally poor, as the initial writing of these stories are usually done while I'm at work, where I'm interrupted every minute or so. This sometimes causes thoughts to be interrupted, and some sentences run-on exceptionally. Yet I want these to stay pure to what I wrote for now, meaning the only changes will be punctuation that may be missing, along with names being swapped in on stories where the names are missing or wrong (Like one story, The Mountain, where the character is Volt, but I mistakenly put Shock in the pen-and-paper draft). The archive is in the link below, and I won't be making a post every time it is updated, so be sure to check in once in a while! You know, assuming you are fine spoiling yourself on potential PMD:WE plot points.
https://drive.google.com/drive/fold.....usp=share_link

Not really sure why, but for a lot of today I've just kinda been idly thinking about just wiping my internet presence. From email to chat apps to multiplayer games. Not that I will do something like that, or have any real reason to do so. It's just idly in my mind, like a type of intrusive thought. Don't know.

Apologies for the lack of writing. A lot of personal life stuff has been happening, plus my workplace being more strict about phone usage really has cut down on the time I've mostly used to write. I'm still here though, and plan for the next story to be a return to Yensti's shop, with her showing Frost a particular haunted mirror. No clue when that will be finished.

I'm having a boom in writing motivation, so be sure to keep an eye out on all that!

Just Uploaded some commissioned stuff that I've sorta neglected to, hope you enjoy!

I have a lot of art i gotta upload at some point and I've been working on actually writing a story, multi-parter and all. So yeah. Sorry if I go a long time without more updates.

I've had a Twitter for a while. Decided to actually use it today. I doubt I will keep up with it but if you are interested, you can find me on Twitter as PlushThePlushie

New year, new FA layout, new-ish species. But yet I'll probably still stay the same. Who knows though.

I'm aware I haven't been updating much here. I'm here and still around and all that, I just don't upload when I get art. I should though. Also I'm still open to PMs and will respond as soon as I see them if anyone wants to stop by and say hi.

This journal may be re-made once in a while or edited whenever I get new art or if there are updates.

In this journal, I'm basically going to make a list of everyone I have ever commissioned art from, and give both a ranking and personal thoughts on the artist. The ranking is based on 5 points in each category of the following: Art, Availability, Reliability/Trustworthiness, and Communication. 20/20 means I personally had no issues.

This list is made based purely on my personal experiences with these artists and may not reflect your own experiences with them!

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Jayrnski (Only on Ifunny): Jay is a good guy. He's the only person as of now that I have commissioned multiple times, was the first person I commissioned from too. While I have no clue how to link to his Ifunny, looking him up should work, although he has an active and dead account. One is Jayrnski, ones Jayrn. Note: Now it's just Jayrnski. He does college so he isn't as availible, but I still 100% recommend checking him out!
Art: 5, Availibility: 3, Reliability: 5(+), Communication: 4. Overall: 16/20

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  gay-dad-ignis : My memory is a bit fuzzy so I don't remember much about this person. I'm pretty sure they were friendly and such, and it was a raffle I won so had that going. Their art is a bit on the lower scale but I can tell they are working on improvement, good on them!
Art: 3, Availibility: ? (Defaulting to 4), Reliability: 5, Communication: 4. Overall: 16/20

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  ducclord : Ducc seems like an amazing artist, and I would definately commission them again if it wasn't for the fact that they dropped off the map maybe a month or 2 after I commissioned them. Art is amazing and I can only hope that they are safe and have something good going on, and not what my dark thoughts say.
Edit 5/10/2019: Ducc is back and from what I can tell, safe too! Availibility will be altered later on, so score will be different (Was 16/20, 1/5 in availibility)
Edit 5/15/2019: With Ducc back, I should add more. Very kinda and able to be straightforward, and as mentioned, amazing art. Although I wouldn't mind a chat if they ever wanted. I whole heartedly hope their art becomes huge, deserves all the attention and love.
Art: 5, Availibility: 5, Reliability: 5, Communication: 5. Overall: 20/20

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  artificialmonster : Im gonna be honest, I was a bit disappointed in this one. Back when he had a discord, I commissioned 2 pieces that were supposed to come with laminated versions in the mail. How he ran the discord, along with a new emergency commissions every month kinda felt sketchy, especially once I didn't recieve physical badges of the art (Although I did get the files of the art). I had contacted him about it before and we did talk but it didn't lead anywhere, so to this day he is one I set as one to be wary of if you commission.
Art: 4, Availibility: 3 (Wasn't easy to reach), Reliability: 2 (Miscommunication, Badges never recieved, shady 'emergency commissions'), Communication:4. Overall: 13/20 - DOES NOT HAVE MY PERSONAL STAMP OF APPROVAL

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  Likara : I messaged once about a YCH, but I personally withdrew as I didn't have the money. Plan on commissioning them maybe another day.

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  fox0808 : I plan on commissioning them soon, and had sent a commission form before. Fox usually has a full list of commissions. No payment sent yet.

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  Dollctor : I commissioned this person with their YCH, while they still were using   PlushJuice for commission stuff. I don't have anything bad to say, or anything above and beyond either. I recommend them.
Art :3, Availibility: 5, Reliability: 5, Communication: 4. Overall: 17/20

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  Kloe : I had contacted them about a YCH, and sent a form a while back. They at the time had a lot of work, and I have not heard back yet on them. I have not sent any payment or such yet.

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  StarryPrince : I was interested in a YCH they were doing, but got something else. The art is amazing, and I do like it, but there was 0 communication basically so instead of the YCH, I got something different. I'm unsure how to feel about them because of this.
Art: 5, Availibility: 4, Reliability: 3 (Made great art of the right character, but not for the YCH I had asked about), Comminication: 1 (Only response was saying art was done with link). Overall:13/20

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  Ximeon : Another YCH as well, Ximeon is super nice and very good about communication. Something about his style, much like Jayrnski, just hooks me in. I had no issues at all with him and the art came out better than I expected, so theres that going for him too.
Art: 5, Availibility:4, Reliability: 5(+), Communication: 5. Overall: 19/20

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Edit 5/31/2019:   Shortcake0 : I just sent payment for a little YCH of a pride flag, so will update later on a score. YCH was accepted, payment is sent and waiting now for response. Edit 6/16/2019: Very very late edit I think. I got back 2 art pieces from Shortcake, the pride flag one and one I forgot I had commissioned honestly of Candy. Both pieces are very cute, lovely pieces even if they are simpler.
Art: 4, Availibility: 5, Reliability: 5, Communication: 4. Overall: 18/20

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Edit 6/26/2019:   TheUnknownUnicorn : I met this person on Telegram, and they were at the time offering to draw people as pokemon. I was interested, and now I have a pokemon self! I think Unicorn goes by 'she', her art is great, especially with how quickly she did the drawing! Very nice piece.
Art: 4, Availibility: 5, Reliability: 5, Communication: 5. Overall: 19/20

Uploaded 2 commissioned pieces, one by   StarryPrince and one YCH by   Ximeon . You should check them out, the art and the artists

Yes I'm still here.

So I haven't really done much story progress anywhere past random brainstorming that I don't end up writing or typing down. I do have a little more art and commissioned some new stuff, mostly of Candy.

Motivation can be hard.

I can't tell if I'm getting overall better or worse in my emotional and mental health. I'm seeing a therapist now and all that, but I sometimes feel like it really hasn't done much. I started about end of February.

I've lost friends, had friends I just haven't messaged first in a long time, so my list of people I chat with is shrunk again. I feel pretty sad realizing how most of the time, I have to message people first or I will never hear from them. I didn't block anyone, I just... Haven't messaged first in a long time, and honestly don't wanna have to try so hard messaging first every time anymore. Its a bit frustrating really, sometimes I will not see someone for months unless I send a message. It makes me feel like that person doesn't really care, or such. This isn't just one person I'm talking about either, I won't name anyone, but I could easily have made a long list with it. It's kinda also frustrating because I always say that everyone can message me even if I'm offline, but nothing comes of it. I only have like 4-5 people I really chat with at all right now, only really 2-3 of those are people that I don't have to message first to hear from too, and I have tons of people on Discord and Telegram. The other like 2 are people I have met recently, out of many through a Discord server and a separate site, who I sometimes will message because I care and like them, but I have to message first if I wanna hear from them. It becomes disheartening seeing a long list of online friends when none of them ever even attempt to reach out ever, it makes me feel more alone really when everyone's online. This all is also after trying to reach out and meet new people recently too.

I do still have a long road in therapy.

This is in no way an April fools thing, serious.

So I doubt anyone's really been keeping up-to-date with my stuff, but if so, 1000 sorries and more!
To do a full update on where I've been and why I haven't posted:
1. I'm no longer in school due to screwing my classes up, bummer and a bad mistake on my end. I need to put more focus in if I go back next year.
2. I'm now working a full-time job, a production line, non-union, night shift, and the line I was placed on is on 7 days a week... Every week.
3. I haven't made progress on any stories and would like to re-boot again, mainly due to changes in characters, self-perception, and generally feeling like my first released story was not exactly good at all. I may move the story to my scraps and once again, start back at square 1.
4. If I do reboot, I may allow some darker and more sexual centered stuff in it purely because my stance on that type of stuff has shifted drastically, actually for the better.
5. I don't get much free time, so I still may not be seen much. I will try not to disappear for more than a half a year again though!
6. I may try spending my free time to work on my writing skills, but not release my stories out unless they go directly in the scraps as again, likely wont be that good at it.
7. I do have a long list of traumas and life problems that I could list here. Just put this as a note that I'm extremely traumatized, mentally unstable most likely, and have been looking at options for therapy. Therapy in my area is either expensive and not well received, or not even there so no guarantees.
8. I did get art I commissioned and plan to repost them at some point with credit to the artists. 2 are from   ducclord and can be seen down in my faves, while the other 2 are by   artificialmonster , who I commissioned before the pieces by Ducclord but have yet to post in any way.
9. If I do a reboot, I may keep the theme I generally wanted to put but will try to not go weird with it.
That's about it. Thank you for reading, all like 4 of you that will see this.

Not long after I made the last journal entry, I got a burst of motivation to write something short enough to finish, but postable. At around midnight was when I completed the story and posted it. Now that I have a baseline story describing two of the important characters, I need to get work down on doing more stories describing out my characters, and setting the baseline plot. Hopefully the future stories will be much more detailed, longer, and have more substance to them. I do know of some important plot points I need to add too once I do get into it more.

On a separate note, I realized recently how sensitive I have become to some concepts I planned on having be in a few of the stories, and how sensitive I also am to random subjects or such on the general web that shouldn't bother me so much. I'm a bit worried over this kinda thing impacting my writing in a negative way, we will see.

I just uploaded the art I have gotten over the last while, most if not all being pieces commissioned by the very talented Jayrn! He went by LonelyFox on Ifunny before moving to his current name, and is a good friend. I 100% would commission more from him if I had the money, but hey! If anything, all of you should check him out!

In news with stories, I keep having periods of typing, revising, scraping and breaks. I'm basically back to square 1 and have been pretty focused on classes, so I am unsure how long it will be until I actually get a story out. Whoops!