Hey all, how's the apocalypse treating you? I've been pretty good, aside from missing my family. I miss my nephew the most :( Just jumping on here to share a journal from my new account, which you should totally be watching if you aren't already!

Anyways, due to the Corona Virus I've been laid off of work, and how things are looking now we won't reopen until June.
SO I'm looking to make a little extra money to help with my bills and to feed my pets. And my mom and I, but we're ok for now. It's just the furbabies that I worry about most.

SO I'm designing little hermit crabs for $10.
The base is here, and you can see an example here. I'm really proud of this design, it turned out really cute!

My YCH is still open, and that ranges from $15-20.

And as always, my commissions are open.

I say there's 10 slots open for all of these, but really I have no limit. I need all the help I can get.


If you can't afford to commission me, there's always my Ko-Fi.
Thanks for looking and even considering me! I appreciate you all, and hope you're all well and safe during this quarantine!

I know I'm not on this account anymore but I figured I would hop on to ask for help.

Long story short, we are behind on funds and I could really use some assistance, please.

Go here for more info, and thank you for even considering it! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9255297/

WELP, I didn't get any feedback on my last journal, but I decided to make the command decision to move accounts anyway.

SO! If you like my art and you want to continue supporting me, then please follow me here:

If you don't, I understand. But I hope to see you there anyway! All new and future content will be posted there :D

I'm not deleting this account, it'll serve as like an archives for me. I'll steadily be following everyone throughout the day, so if you get a new watch from this nerd named Mira, that's me ♥

So I've been thinking off and on about this for a while.

If I were to move accounts, would you guys follow me over there, or would I just be shooting myself in the foot?
I don't really identify with this name at all, it's just a character that I made up for this site.
I can't guarantee that I'll be more active if I DO move, but it might just be the push I need to get my rear into gear.

I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud.
What are your thoughts on the situation?

I am not ded, are you all ded?

I'm just great at disappearing
Anyways, there might be more art here, there might not be.
It's all kind of up in the air

I am lurking.



Support me on Ko-Fi!
YCH
Commission me!

I made a Ko-Fi!
http://ko-fi.com/miranthia

Every little bit helps, and if you even consider supporting me I appreciate it so much!

My YCH is still ongoing, and I am also open for commissions right now ^^

YCH: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29285689/
Commissions: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20903067/

Long story short we are in a bad financial situation.

I work but get paid shit, mom works, and Pops can't work because he's dying. They've filed for bankruptcy, we have medical bills out the wazoo, one of our cars got taken away the other day, we have 5 pets to take care of, and we can't even get groceries. I applied for a loan to help get the car back but so far it's a no go

We have literally hit rock bottom.

I'm opening my commissions back up and I also have an open YCH going on. Believe me when I say every little bit counts. And if you can't help me, then would you please consider signal boosting this? All I can give is my eternal gratification right now, but maybe somewhere down the road I can work in a free sketch.

Thank you, so very much for even remotely considering me, and for just reading this.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29285689/

So I'm going to take a stab at this YCH thing.

Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4

All species and genders welcome!
I will TRY to do wings & horns, though I can't promise anything.
Hat, scarf, mittens, and gloves are customizable as well.
Character will be flat colored with some shading; if the character is super complex it will be an additional $5

First come first serve. I will be doing 5 of these for now, and if they take off I may do more. Payment is due upon my slot confirmation.

Post below to claim a slot, and include
1) Slot number
2) SFW ref sheet, please
3) What you want your winter gear to look like
4) Any additional notes you feel I may need.

SLOTS:
1. OPEN
2. OPEN
3. OPEN
4. OPEN
5. OPEN

Thank you in advance!




Support me on Ko-Fi!
YCH
Commission me!

I just......there is no winning.

I don't know what to do.......what to say..........how to feel....
I'm just kinda numb tbh.
And I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing at this point.

Things were fine.
The surgery in June got everything, granted he's had a Ileostomy bag this whole time.
Two weeks ago there was nothing.

It's spread to both of his lungs.
And his lymph nodes.

Just....why.

Anyone still there?

Just curious to know if any of you still like my stuff.
I've been gone for a long time, but I'm TRYING to get back into the art game!
Try being the operative word here.

Anyways, how are you all doing?

We need help.

Long story short, especially if you don't already know what's going on, Pops is terminal and therefore can't work. Yes we are getting a little bit of help, but not enough and they are dragging their feet on it.

I'm the only one working right now; mom does, but has been staying home because he's been needing her. And now shit is even worse because his knees hurt him so bad he can't walk.

I have a whole $16 to last us until the end of the month.

So I'm opening emergency commissions, again.

$10 for something like this:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25402120/

Extra characters are $1 apiece, extra detail up to $5. If you want something more elaborate, feel free to check my commission info on my front page.

I will get these done asap, and I'm not doing slots. If anyone can help, that would be amazing. Anything right now would make all the difference in the world.

For those of you that still semi-sorta kinda like me, and who keep up with stuff that goes on; Hi, I'm still here for the most part. There's not a whole lot to report; I finally got fed up at the Y I was working at and transferred to our secondary location downtown. It's not even HALF as busy as the other one was, but I'm not complaining. I am no longer so stressed out that I wanna cry and rip all of my hair out, and I don't dread getting up and going to work. Now I'm just bored out of my mind, and there are only so many times one can clean a room, but I'll take it over so stressed I can't think straight.

Maybe I'll have the guts to move on to something even better someday, at least paycheck wise.

Baby steps.


I am stressed out still, but for other reasons and not work-related ones.

Pops' cancer is back.

He was officially in remission three months ago, but now..... He'd been having quite a bit of pain after he had finished up with his chemo, but the docs all thought that it was just residual effects and all of his scans/tests/whatnot had come back just fine. He went in last week because the pain had gotten to excruciating levels, and that's when they found it.

It's terminal this time. They gave him 6-9 months, though his Oncologist won't be set on anything until they do more tests and biopsy's to see if maybe it's not what they're thinking. I pray to GOD that it's not the end, but I'm also afraid to get my hopes up too much. It's just....not fair, at all. He's the best thing that's ever happened to my mom, and she was finally, finally, happy, and now.....

I don't even know how or what to think right now. My brain has so much going on in it that I can't even think straight, and it's slowly driving me insane. I haven't even really had a chance to just sit and process everything.....and I know my mom hasn't either. There are so many things I could do that could occupy my mind a bit, but I can't even begin to try and do them. He's already started talking about the, 'When I'm gone...' shit and I just.....I can't handle it. We went through this with my great grandma 5 years ago, and with her it was so soon and so fast, but I don't think I'm strong enough to go through it again. I don't know if I can handle watching him waste away to nothing and just.....

I don't know.

We just can't catch a break.

I wonder what it would be like to live a normal person's life, for just one day. I really do wanna know what it's like to not have to worry about anything......like how the bills are going to get paid, where the groceries are going to come from in a week, how are we going to cope after he's gone, if we're going to lose touch with that side of the family after, how his four year old son is going to be, how his two grandchildren are going to be....how my mom's going to be a widow before she's 50.

What did we do? I don't get it.

Yeah.

I've had a headache for a week now.

Anyways, my aunt set up a GoFundMe for some extra help. If you can help, awesome. If you can't, awesome.

www.gofundme.com/4g9hy14



I'm going to try and be around, but I can't promise anything.

Another year, another day.

So much closer to 30 now wooooooow.......scary.

I actually took the day off for the first time in 5 years. I'm gonna sleep in. My happy birthday present to me!

Life, man.

Life.


My step-dad is doing better at least. He finished his chemo about mid-March, and so far so good. He had to go to the ER about a week after because of some possible complications, but when they did scans then they didn't see any new growths or developments or anything! His oncologist is very optimistic that he is now in remission, but he won't see her again until next week. Then they'll know for sure, and she'll decide what to do about his port then.

Yay for that at least!!

Mom had to have surgery on her right thumb and elbow. It was necessary, she couldn't put it off any longer, but now she's going stir-crazy. She won't be able to go back to work until after May.

Last weekend, uuuuuuh the 8th/9th?, we found out that my cousin was in a very bad car accident. They took her to one of the hospitals here but they couldn't do much for her, so they airlifted her to the pediatric hospital in Columbia. Long story short, without getting into the details about that experience because it just makes my soul angry, they had to completely reconstruct her skull and her face; we don't know what kind of lasting damage has been done to her brain just yet, she lost one of her eyes completely, and she might not be able to see out of the remaining one ever again. She spent 14 hours in surgery on one stretch, and they're still not done. She's only 16.


And then last night my little nephew was rushed to the ER because he suffered 5 seizures in the span of a few minutes. They admitted him, and right now they are taking him down for an MRI to rule out anything neurological.


I don't know what I did to piss someone off, but dude it'd be nice to know. Plus if they've got a beef with me, I'd rather all of this shit to be happening to me personally and not everyone I love.

2016 sucked.


Horribly.


And this year isn't off to the greatest start, BUT it's been better so far.


I made exactly 0 New Year's resolutions. HOWEVER, if I had been awake, I would have made 1: DO MORE ART 8'D Which includes finishing up every single thing in my to-do list.

EVVVEEERRRRYYYYYTTTTHHHHHHHIIIIIIINNNNNNNNG.

I love to draw. I'm not any good at at it, but it helps to keep my mind busy and occupied, and I think it does help me out somewhat with my anxiety/stress/depression. Along with writing. So kudos for that!!! 83 I also love making things for people, especially when they genuinely like it ^^ I'm all about making other people's day. I can be at a super duper low point, and knowing that I made someone else happy will help me jump out of it (: It's cathartic.


SO, I am gonna try my hardest to get my ass in gear and get back to it. I have a few things from last year, that I actually managed to do, to upload. After that, I'm gonna doodle some to get me back into the flow. PLUS I'm still getting used to this new tablet's pen; it didn't come with a built-in eraser so I'm having a little trouble with that. Other than that, it's poifect!

That's it in a nutshell I think.

Yay :D

SO LIKE, I was going to post this awesome updateyish journal type thingar, but that's going to have to be an adventure for another day.

BECAUSE LIFE 8D

My current cellular device has decided to flippin fritz on me. LUCKILY, I still have my old phone.

However, none of my contacts appear to have been saved on my SIM card. SO, I need ya'll to message me your #'s again, either here or text me with your name. If I didn't have your # before and you wanna be texting buddies, now's your chance!

I'm seriously so close to having a panic attack it's sad.....

I definitely bit off more than I could chew. But, that's ok; it keeps me on my toes, and it keeps my mind busy.

Right now I am currently working on two commissions, redlines for several collaboration YCH's, lines for collaboration examples, and two different Inktober challenges.

My traditional art sucks, but it's practice.

On top of that, I still need to try and work on story collaboration examples, personal stuff, and slap ink on the sketches I have done right now.

So yeah.....yeah things might be slow, but I'm working on things, I promise. I need to try and get done more commissions in because I'm....barely staying afloat. I had to reschedule my doctor's appointment because I couldn't afford the co-pay after I got my bills paid and helped out with what little stuff I could.

It's pretty pathetic. But we're managing to get by so far.

My step-dad starts chemo on Tuesday. He'll do it once a week for 6 months, and depending on how it effects him he might be able to work some. But we won't know for sure until after this week. I may just have to suck it up and either get a second job, or quit the one I have and find something that pays more, I dunno.

Anywho that's all.

I'm sorta backish!!!

We've gotten all moved in to the new house, and pretty much everything is unpacked and organized for the time being. Except for my room.....because I'm totally not in any hurry to do it XD

ONE DAY.

Things have been hella crazy the past couple of weeks and I've finally had a chance to just breathe and relax. Cashing in my PTO time at work for this week has helped out a lot. My step-dad has been doing pretty ok; he over-did it during the move and is still pretty sore from the surgery, but his head is in a better place now. They met with the oncologist today and he'll start chemo in 3 or 4 weeks, and will have to do it for 6 months.

I am confident that we can beat this. The Go Fund Me page is still up and running, and I added some more prints to my [url-https://society6.com/miranthia]Society6[/url] store as well. There's not a lot there, but it's something. Thank you to everyone that helps or spreads the word around; we greatly appreciate it. Every little bit counts.

I'm also still open for commissions, and now that things have settled down I can start working on them again.

Long story short, my step-dad has stage 3 colon cancer and starts chemo in 5 weeks. During that time he’ll be out of work, and I don’t get paid enough at my job to help out like I would want to.

A group of his coworkers and I think some of their mutual friends have set up a Go FundMe for him, to help us out. Someone has already posted a bunch of derogatory comments, someone that we don’t even know, claiming that it’s a scam. Why anyone would ever pretend to have cancer to get other people’s money is beyond me. Cancer is not funny. Cancer is not cute. And cancer is not an excuse for begging for money.

So please; if you do go to the page and feel the need to be negative, keep it to yourself. My mother is dealing with enough as it is, and any more bs is bound to push her off of the edge.

Sharing the link would be awesome, and if you are the praying kind, prayers are very welcome as well. Thank you for even considering passing it along; you don’t know how much we appreciate it.



On top of that I opened up a Society6 store, so that I can try and help out even more. I get paid enough to barely take care of myself, let alone help them out. I try to whenever I can, but most of the time I can’t. It’s frustrating as all get out x-x

Anyways, right now all I have is one print featured, but I plan on adding more in a day or two. I’m not counting on this at all, but it’s just something for me to do that could potentially help out some.



And lastly I’m still open for commissions. We are moving on Saturday and I’m taking my PTO time all next week, so as soon as I’m settled I’m going to continue working on my current queue.

I know I have stuff to work on, but I just can't right now.

I'm just....really sad. And numb. And tired.

I don't even have an appetite.


I'll be ok, just.....not right now.

Hey, I'm still here.


Work has been super crazy,and I'm seriously about ready to just quit. Long story short, my new boss is treating me like her personal supervisor, only I'm not getting paid to do any of it. She expects me to do the schedule, have all the shifts covered, and to find subs for people that can't make it in.

Um, no.

If people can't make it in, it's their job to find their own sub, and then get back to her when they can't.

I only agreed to do the schedule until she got a feel for it. It's been over a month now, and we're still short staffed. All the new people she hired were for a different department, and only a few of them can work with us when it's convenient for them. Again, it's not my job to do any of that. On top of that, she doesn't even communicate with me when I ask her for people to work with us on the days we literally have no one else to work.

I don't get paid for this. It's not my job. I'm an underpaid part-time peon just like the rest of my coworkers. The only difference, is I'm, according to our Executive Director, 'Veteran staff'. Out of all of the staff for my department, my good friend and I have been there the longest.

Pay us like we're 'Veteran Staff', instead of the measly $7.65/hr we already get. Which is BS in itself, we're worth so much more than minimum wage.

Ugh.

Moving on.


Last week my step-dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. He had surgery yesterday, and as far as we know they were able to remove what they saw. However we don't know if it had spread anywhere else, and we won't know until the results get back. Which they said would be soon.....but who knows. On top of that, we're moving on the 17th and our current landlord is being a real dick because she's in a financial pinch, and expects us to get her out of it.

Fun times!

But I have been arting.


It's been slow going, but it's happening. I've been working off and on on lily-girl414's commission, and should have the lineart done for approval in a day or two.

Also, my friend mullein and I have been working on Collabmission accounts, because we're both strapped for cash and thought it would be a good idea to do commissions together in addition to the separate ones we both do. So I've been switching between examples for that, and working on my own commission lol

I'm still open for them btw!


And if you're interested in checking out our collabmissions, all of the information about it can be found here. We're still working on our FA account XD


This update journal turned into more of a rant than anything, and I apologize for that. I guess I needed to vent about things more than I thought x-x

Anyway, that's all!

Took me long enough, huzzah!

2016 Comission Sheet

If you're interested feel free to note me. I don't have a set number of slots open right now, but I'll put 5 here for now.

SLOTS:
1. Open
2. Open
3. Open
4. Open
5. Open

WELP after several days of lurking around, I decided that it's finally time to come back into a semi-existence.

So hi there, hello, yes I'm not quite dead yet.

This year has been pretty shitty so far.....back-to-back deaths, sickness, grandmother's falling and breaking their hips, bills, the usual. Not all of it has been bad; my mom got remarried, again, and I'm going to be an aunt for the second time, I'm a year older (sob), so that's fun stuff right there (:

It's just been a crazy time all around XD Things uuuuh....got pretty dark for me, there for a while. I lost all interest in everything, and my anxiety seemed to kinda spiral. BUT, I've been on an anti-depressant since May, and I think it's helped me out quite a bit. I want to get back into drawing and writing and talking to all the lovely people that put up with me. If any of you are still around that is, it's been a while....


SO YEAH.

I'm going to try and make a point to be as active as possible, for several reasons. Mainly to just try and boost my mental health even more, plus I miss being around.

I am[/a] going to be opening commissions, because holy crap bills suck.

I had to take off most of last week because I had flippin' strep throat.

Strep.

That was the first time in twenty years.

Twenty.

[i]I was 7 the last time I had that shit -.-

And since I get paid crap money as it is for my job and missing even one day is a struggle, I have nooooooooo idea how I'm going to be able to pay my monthly bills. On top of brand-new medical bills. And more to come...

Because I found out thaaaat I may have a heart condition, and I'm going to have to have an echocardiogram (ultrasound on my ticker) and a stress test.

Go me!

Eh.

I'm gonna be working on a commission sheet. Hopefully I'll have it up by tomorrow, but who knows. I'm not so great at the pricing thing >.<

I've also thought about, witch much encouragement from AJ <3333, opening up a Society6 store, and coming up with some comics to put on Tapastic.

We will see.

That's it, that's all I've got for now.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about this place.

Sorta.

Kinda.

Not really.

My b.

Hey it's me again.

So here I am, asking for a little bit of help even though this is very hard for me to do. Uuuuuh long story short I've been super sick and have had to take off more work than I would like to this month......and I've had to go to the flippin doctor twice this year already. Not an expense I had budgeted, but it had to happen. Anyway if my insurance wasn't so astronomical this wouldn't even be an issue BUT here we are.

Literally anything would help me out right now. If your interested, message me and we'll talk about it. If you have questions, message me.

Yeah that's about it. Thanks for even considering this!