I hope everyone had a Happy New Year, whether you partied or just slept through it. I stayed up late and watched Red Line with some friends before we watched the ball drop, which was a lot of fun.

I haven't journaled much over the last few years, and thought it might be nice to put some thoughts down and order them a little, thinking about the year gone by and my goals for this next one. It was a year of ups and downs, we lost my father who I had a difficult relationship with, I basically didn't lose any of the weight that it was my goal to, and split with my boyfriend. (We are still good friends, it just didn't work.)

A lot good happened too, got to go to both Anthrocon and MFF, met some cool people in the furry and vore communities, I only missed five days of Voretober, and we won a Strike at my job. It's been a roller coaster of a year, but it's over now.

Looking back and thinking forward, I hope to make more friends, and be part of the art and furry community more. I feel like I've been on the edges of these places, I have friends in them but I myself feel like someone who has sit out afraid I wouldn't fit in. I'm more than a little jealous of those who can so casually be vorny on main and talk to a whole community about it. I'm going to try and open up more and push myself out of that comfort zone.

I also hope to make more art and animation this year. I have a few ideas, but when the depression hits because work is way too long and I'm tired, it can be hard to put pen to paper. I don't know if I want to set a goal with it, but I want to do it more.

As with last year, I will set some goals for my weight, and some rewards! I want to get under 300, and if I can do that I kind of want to get a partial of TK, head, paws, and tails. Huge if I can, but... we'll see. I'm mostly calorie counting, which has done me well in the past. If I can get under 250, thinking about upgrading to a full suit!

I think that's it. I just wanted to kind of order and sort my thoughts a little. It's been a year, there will be another one, and we'll strive to be and do better.

Happy Halloween! I hope you enjoy what spooks you have planned and eat all the candy you want! I love it. The air gets chill, the leaves start to fall, the sky is gray most of the day, it's my favorite weather to crack a window and let a little bit of the cold air in while I game. Wish I still took the time to costume, but I don't go to parties like I used to, but hey, there's next year.

Voretober is also over! I missed a few days, but it was fun! As I said in my last piece of the month, it is a challenge, some days you don't want to draw, or the prompt doesn't inspire, and it's important to take a day if you're not feeling it. Other days I was electric, feeling the piece and prompt and just in the zone. Kind of how it is outside of challenge art stuff too. I think I got a little better at bodies, and really enjoyed some of the detailed bulges and imprints from this month. A friend suggested I pick a thing to work on next, like shading, or poses, so I'll have to think on that. I worry next will not be nearly as good because I was on Strike part of this month, it's why I had more time to draw, but... we'll see how next year goes. Thank you to everyone who let me use a character! And thank you to  voretober for the month's prompts!

I want to animate something next, I have a couple ideas to work on, but I should take a few days to rest and get used to work again. Happy Halloween again, and I hope everyone enjoyed Voretober!

Streaming again this afternoon! Not sure when I'll be done, and not sure what I'll work on.

https://picarto.tv/ModifiedMatthew

Once again, not sure when I'll stop, but I'm going to be working on the vore version of that stripper pole animation, and depending on how I feel, I have an idea for a last minute mermay thing.

https://picarto.tv/ModifiedMatthew

Don't know when I'm going to be done streaming today, we'll just feel it out. I think my primary project today is going to be a stripper animation!

https://picarto.tv/ModifiedMatthew

I want to try and get into streaming a little bit, I think it'll help break some of the art blocks I hit and force me to draw more often.

So I'm live! Title says it all.

Edit, forgot to link Picarto, I'm so dumb.

https://picarto.tv/ModifiedMatthew

... and just lazily copy/ pasting their descriptions if they had one. Most are from my profile on Eka's, where I post most things. Just a little head's up!

I haven't done much but comment and fave stuff with this account, but I have gotten back into art, and thought I might put some of it here. I do mostly vore stuff, and my full gallery is over Eka's, which I'll link when the site is back up. I'm just gonna put some of my favorite/ best pieces up for now, and then I'll put pieces I make from here on out on both. I've always been a little hesitant, because I'm not a great artist, but hopefully people like some of the stuff I put out.

Edit: Alright, I got my backlog up, don't expect me to put out much very fast, I really only draw when I feel like it, but I hope you like what I make!