It mah burpday.

My car died on the highway over a week ago, and until today, I didn't know what the issue was. Apparently, something chewed the wiring to shit and now my auto repair bill comes to $927.64.

That's more than I make in a single paycheck.

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After slumming it with metalgear500 for over 16 years I can finally have an appropriate username. It's nice to not have to stare at that Xbox Live ass username anymore.

Nobody uses proper tags on this site. If the tagging system was more like Eka's Portal where each tag was it's own line of text it would work but it's a pretty useless feature at the moment due to tags being a single word. You can't block anything specific.

I want you all to know I appreciate your continued support of me and my work. I hope you have a happy holiday.

Since everyone has left Twitter, I figured I'd remind my watchers here.

https://bsky.app/profile/richteraeo.....ki.bsky.social

A good friend of mine,  pantra needs help. Details in their journal below.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10970217/

I've tried several things and I don't feel like I've improved at all.

FA's founder has passed away due to the incompetence and greed of the US Healthcare system. Didn't really know the man, but there were several people here on FA that did and I feel for them and Dragoneer's family.

But, what happens now? FA's future is now uncertain and while I'd love to be optimistic, this could very well be the beginning of the end of this site which has been a safe-haven for our kind for almost 20 years. It's true that you take what you've got for granted until you lose it. Where will we go? I came back a few months ago because Blue Sky was censoring me. I have no interest in Twitter, and Itaku is a complete dud that isn't very good for building a community. What do we do now?

FA might not be perfect, it has things that other sites don't. The sense of community, and it aggressively gate kept the racists and trolls and the ones that did get in were usually dealt within a few days. I have over 1400 submissions here, I spent almost half my life here. Do I just take a day to painstakingly download my whole gallery and move somewhere else? I guess we all have these questions right now.

Well... Rest in Peace,  Dragoneer. Thank you for giving us a safe haven, even if some of us weren't very grateful.

Go follow me there.

https://bsky.app/profile/richteraeo.....ki.bsky.social

I kinda lost it.

I don't know how much it will cost me but I'm gonna guess it'll be a lot. If you're interested, PM me or hit me up on Discord if you're able.

I did a bunch of grittier, grayscale variants to some of my recent work.

3 decades. Jeez time flies.

A little over a week and my 20s are gone. Where does the time go? No seriously, I want it back.

The viewership of my art is less than half of what it was a year ago. On top of that this site has become a Reddit worthy, toxic dumpster fire. People in general are just more rude and hostile and it's not the friendly social environment it was when I joined almost 15 years ago. Not to mention the fact the site is now flooded with low effort shit that ultimately gets more attention than the higher effort stuff just due there just being more of it. Most of the good artists have moved elsewhere and I totally see why. Whatever the staff doesn't fuck up, they shit on and it's finally come to a head with them trying to blanket fix a case by case issue. I don't have any interest in using e621 or DA for obvious reasons. I have an Eka's Portal and Itaku account so if you haven't followed me there, you're more than welcome to. If anyone knows other sites where my work would get better traffic, let me know. I don't know when I'll stop uploading here, but it will happen eventually. Perhaps I'll open a Patreon. Idk, this whole thing makes me sad.

Eka's Portal: https://aryion.com/g4/user/Richter

Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/r_a_t

Low on funds. Note me or message me on discord if interested.

Eka's Portal: https://aryion.com/g4/user/Richter

Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/r_a_t

Between Super Mario Bros Wonder, Super Mario RPG, and Armored Core 6, it looks like a good year. I hope it is at least. Mostly wanted something more positive on my page.

I'm running pretty low after bills and need to make it until the 21st. If you want something, hit me up. Prices listed above.

I had to replace a tire and I need to make sure I don't fall into the red. If anyone wants anything, hit me up.

But I can't get enough commissions in to make ends meet.

I just got the news my Grandma passed away. Towards the end of the year, I was told she was on a machine to help her breathe. She had been suffering from dementia and muscular dystrophy for awhile now. Over the last few years, the woman who raised me for a large chunk of my childhood turned into a different person. My brother went through hell, trying to care for her. After awhile, there was nothing anyone could do to help her, because she wouldn't cooperate because her dementia made her believe she was alright when she wasn't. We basically were forced to leave her until the state finally did something, because her Medicaid wouldn't help because she wouldn't cooperate with any rehab she was brought to, and we couldn't afford to keep her there ourselves. The whole thing was just a mess.

It's like 2021's dying breath took my grandma with it. Now, my grandma and my dad are both gone, and I've never felt so alone. I'd always confide in them when I was feeling lost. Those two were the ones who raised me. They're gone now. They're gone and there's nothing I can do about it.

Rest in peace, Grandma, and thank you for taking me in when I was a child. Thank you, for not letting my insane mother get custody back in the day, because she would have turned me into a horrible, bigoted person. Thank you, for accepting me when I came out of the closet. Thank you, for everything.

I was alerted that my father passed away. He went through so much. Man was in his 60s had one kidney, arthritis, bad heart, bad lungs, survived a heart attack, and survived Covid twice, only for an infection to slowly take him over the last month. My dad was no saint, but he loved me and my siblings very much. He was was the toughest man I ever knew, but at the same time he was an understanding man.

Back when I came out as gay, I expected him to be disappointed in me, but he accepted me for who I was. He told me, that he didn't care if I was into men, and that all he asked of me was to be a good man. I don't think I understood more than the superficial parts of what he meant at the time, but these last few weeks I think I get it. In his younger days he was a criminal, who was in and out of jail for all sorts of things. I think he wanted me to have a better life and be a better man than he was at my age. I'm happy to say, I've stayed out of trouble and even if I've had my fair share of assholish moments, I've at least stayed on a righteous path.

What else can I say about him? He loved Quinton Tarantino and John Carpenter films. His favorite games were Super Metroid, Super Mario World and Einhander. He was a huge Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne and AC/DC fan. His favorite cartoons were Looney Tunes, Popeye, and Samurai Jack. We bonded a lot over a lot of these things when I was a kid. Now all I have are memories. I wish I could talk to him again, but I'm thankful I managed to talk to him on the phone one final time before things took a turn for the worse.

I love you Dad. I'll miss you. Rest in Peace.

The author of Berserk, Kentaro Miura passed away at age 54. Berserk is and always will be my favorite manga series and it inspired so many other things I enjoy to this day. His artwork was unmatched and his character writing was on a whole other level. It's sad to know Berserk will never be finished now, at least not in a way he would have wanted. Rest in Peace, Miura. May your legacy be remembered until the end of time.