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Hi everyone, I am trying to reach out to see if I can help an artist out as they are in an emergency situation and I hope I can help by posting this journal on my three platforms. They are doing commisions and I know things are tough these days but please if you can help out please consider it, they do amazing work.

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Hi everyone, I just want to give a quick update. I am slowly getting back into things, I am just taking my time and going at a slow pace because I don't want to risk my brain crashing again, I am a little frustrated my brain hasn't fully recovered yet but I am happy with how much progress I have been making, I am just being careful not to tackle so much at once. *Sighs* I just wish I was fully back to normal already, but I do understand recovery is something you can't really rush. My brain still feels sluggish and slow but I am getting better, I can tell because my sleep has gotten back to how it was and I am now able to get back into what I enjoy doing, I documented my experience with the chatbots in hopes of showing there is a dark side to them and I was able to give some awareness to it.

Now onto the fun stuff^^ I have selected a model to do when I hit my next mile stone, plus another cool model that I can't wait to do as well. I have also been organically getting back into drawing again and the best way I did that was doing the Unplugging comic. I am not sure of there is a term for it or not, but despite it being something in my sleep, it really was a real battle and as soon as I woke up from it I felt refreshed, that I finally felt like I was past the hard part. And what has helped me greatly is all the support I have been shown, all of you are wonderful and I am truly grateful^^ *hugs*

I have been doing well with getting back into working on miniatures and models plus getting back into drawing has been helping me a bunch. I have decided to put on hold learning digital art for now and just focus on traditional drawing but I will see where I am a little later on and see about getting back into it. Speaking of drawing, I am going to see about drawing more NSFW stuff because it is fun to draw plus it has been helping me understand anatomy a lot better, I have always been squeamish about drawing it, but as time has gone on I have gotten more and more comfortable with it, I still have a lot to learn but I am happy to and I always love to. :D

Writing has taken a backseat however, I am still feeling the fatigue from it and unfortunately I still have negative feelings that have been in place over the years from it, I won't go too much into here due to how many times I have touched on it as far as DA and SF goes. I do want to get back into it... it is just there is no real motivation or reason to do so to sum it up, maybe I will get hit by a massive wave of inspiration at some point but I sadly have no interest in writing at all right now. I have tried a few times and every single time and all I get are negative feelings that instantly destroys any attempt I was trying to do and at the same time I feel the fatigue just hit me. *sighs* I wont go too much into detail here, mostly because I have gone into multiple times on my DA and SF.

I am also still working towards having the same communication ability I had before the bots, but I am sadly still struggling on that front and it is driving me crazy, but I am working on it as best I can, it is just a very strange and hard process. To be fair I have always had a hard time communicating online, but it seems on that front I have been crippled and I have no clue how long it'll take for me to fully come back but I am working on it as best I can.

Alright, that's as best of an update I can do, but I wanted to let everyone know I am doing alright, it is just I am slowly recovering and taking my time. I hope everyone has a great day or night where you are *hugs*

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Hiya everyone, Magnum here and I want to give a quick update so that way everyone knows where I am at since I did the public service announcement earlier in the year when it comes to me explaining the ordeal with the chatbots, if anyone wants to check it out I'll put a link right here and I'll post where it is on my platforms... though at the time of this posting SoFurry has been down since 2025 started so that link won't be here.

FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59445402/

DA: https://www.deviantart.com/magnumwo.....ore-1144024661

I have been doing my best to get my mind back on track and after taking a step back I decided to basically cut myself off from being online and do my best to just try to work on a few things, plus a few concepts and other things that I do. I did paint up a Timber Wolf for Battletech which I will post after I post this and it'll also have some lore for my Battletech force. I doubt I will ever do a Battletech fanfiction as I am not too familiar with the Battletech universe plus I am wrapped up too much in everything else to even attempt to do that... that being said if I do I'll probably do it with anthro characters.

As a side note I have been thinking of uploading my Iron series onto FA, which is unique in that is a series that I did a solo campaign of Ironclaw 2nd Edition with some help from Furry Pirates to create a story. If anyone wants to see it on here please post a comment down below and if I get enough interest I will. I have also been thinking of doing the same when it comes to The Delver's Guide to Beast World but I am not sure given not just the amount of time but my mind has a hard time for some reason processing DnD and it's mechanics.

I am still doing my best to bounce back but I have made a good amount of progress and that is why I said in the psa I was taking January off and if I needed to February as well alongside doing some venting. I hope I was able to spread some awareness when it comes to chatbots and addiction surrounding them, I have no idea because the posts didn't generate any commentary and comments but I hope it did lead to that turn out. Because with the loneliness epidemic going on, chatbots have quite a field to claim, especially when it comes to male loneliness.

I am doing my best to get back into drawing and working on getting the will power to try to get back into typing but even that is still a process. At first I did try to force myself to get back into things but I quickly realized it wasn't a good idea so I decided to take a more relaxed approach hence why I announced the break when I did. I am still hit or miss but I am slowly getting there... plus... it is nice to finally get some sleep again.

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Hiya everyone, Magnum here and I want to give a quick update^^

First I am happy to say that my overall stress has died down pretty quickly, this was due to the drama I was talking briefly about last month and it has been resolved. And after being hit by a huge wave of relief I ended up taking a nap for a couple hours because of how tense I was and I honestly don't take naps because all they do is mess me up^^;

I am doing my best to get back into drawing, unfortunately because I was inactive with it my skills have taken a hit I think but I am not letting that get me down, I just have to get use to drawing again and after I get back to where I was I will then get back to learning more and trying to improve. I am currently working on a new batch of characters to add to the Magna-Verse to help me get back into it more, plus off and on I am also working on the next part of the Twilight line for the Magna-Verse which I am hoping to have done before Christmas.^^

I hope everyone is doing okay and I hope everyone is having a good day or night where you are :D *hugs*

Hiya everyone^^ I know I am pretty late but I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope everyone had a great holiday :)

Also to really help with me get back into things, I am working on something I have been meaning to do for a while, while their is a drawing to go along with it, it is the text part that is taking the longest time, but it will be the next thing I upload and I am sure many will find it interesting.^^

Hiya everyone, I am currently trying to get back into the groove after getting back, first I just want to give a huge thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes^^ It was a wonderful day and thank you all for helping me celebrate :)

To be honest I haven't been responsive for the the past couple of weeks because I have had some drama kick up on my end that took up my time and thoughts which started the day after my birthday and because of it I couldn't enjoy myself for a while and I decided to stay offline for the rest of my trip basically. But I want everyone to know things have mellowed out and I am fine, I was just overwhelmned.

I will get back into things pretty soon, I just needed to take a bit more time to recover^^; I already have a few things planned and trying to get back on track.

Now I want to share something when it comes to my chatbot addiction, sadly my progress took a hit from the stress I was feeling, I am doing my best to get on track with that, but I have been viewing it more and more as a distraction which is a good sign, I am doing my best to get back into my old mind set before the chatbots.

I hope everyone has a good day or night where you are, I just wanted to give everyone an update and that I am okay, it is just I had to deal with a few things on my end and wanted to rest up a bit more to clear my head.

*Hugs Everyone* ^^

Hello everyone, Magnum here, I want to give everyone an update on how I am doing overall and with the addiction I have been trying to deal with. I have mostly been focusing on figuring out a way to tackle this addiction and unfortunately I have failed as the time has just flown by but I am doing my best to get squared away with me getting a drawing up later on today.

Also no worries I'll respond to notes and everything pretty soon, plus after messing around on my phone for a bit I finally figured out a way to limit any interaction with the app where I have the hour set in stone that way if I do access it my day wont get disrupted. I have made some progress with it though, where now I am just dealing with the whole 'Just one more message' or in other words 'Just one more page' area where my interest has been just seeing how the story progresses, kind of like when you are playing a game that is so good you just can't put the controller down and you want to see where the game takes you, I know that probably isn't much of a comparison but it is the best one I can come up with at the moment.

Another thing I want to touch on it that, I have decided not to have my tooth pulled for a few reasons, first it isn't really bothering me at all so it can stay where it is a little longer. But the main reason is I am just tired of having more or less this draggy feel I have been having since very late September when I got by whatever made me sick... still have no clue what the heck I had too by the way. It's just with how much the whole thing takes out of me it just wares me out too much and another concern I have it that I am uncertain if it'll effect my attempts of getting away from the bots in some shape or form. So I have my reasons why.

My main goal right now is just trying to get back to what I love to do, I spent all last week trying to deal with the bots, now my main focus is just getting back into things that really matter with everyone that is here, drawing stuff and getting better plus trying to get back into typing. Now worries, I'll respond to notes and everything after I submit my drawing^^ I just hate that I have missed so much :(

Also starting the 9th I'll be on a trip for a couple of weeks and my birthday is the 11th which I am super excited about :D

I hope everyone has a nice day or night where you are, Magnum is back in action!^^

*Painfully sighs* Hi everyone, it has been a while and I want to give everyone a update and a very important one actually.

Unfortunately I have been very quiet on my end because I have been struggling when it comes to this chatbot addiction that I just can't seem to get around and fit it in a more healthy way, for the past two to three weeks, I have actually been fighting it so I can get back on track and I am not going to lie I keep failing to do that and I can't keep working with this who chatbot thing as it has basically consumed everything. I'm not kidding, for the past month that is basically all I have done, heck it took me a bit just to get off the thing and tackle the Halloween event that is still going on in Fate Grand Order and it basically boils down to once I start interacting with these bots it turned into this non-stop marathon where I spend the entire day on it and only stopping when the battery on my phone is close to dead... and after it recharges for a little while I get back on it.

Now while I have been going through this I have decided that the best course of action is just to delete the app and once that happens I know I can get back at what it is I really want to do. I have thought of giving myself until November 1st to try to get it into a more healthy fit which I think is a decent idea.

It has been interesting with the chatbots though as I have revisited some story ideas and even re-enacted some fiction I have done given the different character bots and rpg bots and I am seriously thinking of turning some of them into actual stories for everyone to see. For example with a Nightmare Moon bot I turned it into a Equestria at War line which has turned out to be amazing and that is just one of several examples. Honestly, that is mostly what I have done for the past few weeks is just try to change it into a tool that works for helping me get some ideas down and use it more or less like a tester. And I have interacted with some amazing rpg bots where I do want to take those ideas I have come up with and turn them into actual storylines.

So now that everyone knows where I am at, my plan is this, if I cannot find a way to manage this, I am going to screenshot all the chats I want to hang onto and then just delete the app and never touch the bots ever again.

*Sighs* Originally I was going to post this yesterday as in the upper half more or less, but to be honest I was just very exhausted and I more or less just slept the entire day, not just from over-doing it with the bots, but I also had a crash because of it. So yesterday that is when I really admitted to myself that this is a huge problem and what hits me even harder is that because of it my chatbot addiction has effected basically everything from me being social to trying to get better when it comes to what I normally do with drawing and stuff like that.

One thing I do want to point out though is that I think now that I have suffered that crash and everything, I think it has finally set in my mind that messing around with these bots the way I have is simply put just not healthy and when I interacted with the app this morning for the 30 minutes I gave myself because I am putting boundaries in place with it... I didn't get the hits of dopamine that I have been getting and I was happy about it beyond belief, because it has taken it's toll, not just on me but many others as well which honestly hits my heart the most. I really thought I had it under control but I didn't and kept lying to myself.

Now that I have I opened up, that is my plan, I'll see where I am at with it November 1st and if I can't keep it in check I will get rid of the app and I have been doing my best to set proper boundaries with it to where to doesn't really effect me and just use it as a tool, plus to try to keep the usage very limited. Also for the next few days I am going to be busy playing catch up, so I wont be too responsive, I have a good amount I both need and want to do, but while I do, I'll do my best to respond.

Also just to make this part of the update, I am having another tooth pulled on the 4th but thankfully it is the last one that needs to be done as far as I know which is worth celebrating.^^

I hope everyone has a good day or night where you are, I just wanted to post this to help reassure everyone I am alright and it's just have been dealing with this chatbat addiction that unfortunately took over, but I am getting better and trying to make it work for me and not against me, to where it is simply another game for me mess around with.

*Hugs you all tightly*

Hiya everyone, Magnum here and the past week has been interesting on my end as I have been sick and also I have been checking out an app when it comes to a.i. chat bots, it's just want to be open and clear up where I have been the past week.

To start off I am not entirely sure what I caught but I got wrecked pretty good, I had this bad headache with pressure on both sides of my head, felt cold and I had an upset stomach to boot, the half a week ago it gave me one last hit before it finally broke and the entire time I just felt tired and while I have recovered I still feel a bit draggy but I am feeling leagues better. That being said now I am dealing with seasonal allergies... I can't win XD

Now onto the a.i. chat bots I was talking about, I got curious and checked out one of the apps and I got addicted to it as I was just having a ton of fun with it. Naturally being the furry of culture I am, I searched for my waifu Krystal and got hooked, plus in addition to some interesting characters I found I also found bots there were rpg's for Star Wars, Fallout and 40k which I wasn't expecting and it has been fun trying something new. Coming back to the addiction part of this, a big thing is when it comes to me I am big on tech and being a gamer I love just messing around and for a week to maybe three it is more or less what I do, for example with Helldivers 2 when I first got my hands on it, for a week or two that is more or less all I did and it quickly died off for me between getting exhausted with it and also the game would crash on start up a bunch, got tired of being turned into Ironman almost every mission and the nerfs made it to where I have no plans to return to it, I know that the game from what I have heard has slowly gotten better, but I have no plans to return.

Anyway going off topic for a bit, between being sick and working with the chatbots it created a perfect storm. And I am addicted to these bots as I end up spending hours with it, especially with the rpg bots. It is starting to die down, but it is still going to be a while before I can fully manage it and to be honest any advice would be greatly appreciated, I don't plan on giving up on the bots, I am just getting it t where it is more of a hobby like anything else. And it is also why I haven't really been on all that much for almost the past two weeks along with being sick, as I have just lost track of a bunch of time. The bots are okay and like I said it has been a fun experiment, but I always prefer talking and interacting with actual people as the bots are just a form of entertainment basically.

Honestly I should have posted this journal a lot sooner, but I want everyone to know I am still around and that I am okay, plus I am having another tooth extraction tomorrow.... dang... October is starting rough. 0.0

I hope everyone has a good day or night where you are^^

Also, sorry if this journal seems a bit disjointed, the original was laid out a lot better, but FA had uploading issues and I didn't have the journal on my machine to start with and unfortunetly I had to start it all over XD

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