The opticians isn't opening again until the 16th so I'm blurry for a bit longer. 🥺

On good news scotiacon this year I am trying to be brave and give the dealers den a shot rather than artist alley 💖

I accidentally broke my new glasses :(
Luckily they're still in warranty so I don't think I need to pay anything. But I have switched to my old glasses for now as they need to order in new frames for my other ones.

I'm blurry right now and that's not good. Hopefully they'll be back the end of the week

That's decomposinghorse away back home to Canada again this morning. We had a real good time :3
I'm very happy I managed to squeeze some sketches out of him. He's not been drawing as much these days, but his work is beautiful and the world deserves more of it

I'm going to be able to focus more on the art grind now. Sorry for the mega delays!

I'm the big 3-0 today!
Me and decomposinghorse are going to spend the day seeing some llamas and goats 🐐

I got my new glasses now - I can see in HD again :}
Thank you for everyone who helped!!

Good news: Got access to my old 2005 Neopets account again. :3 Memories!!! I missed it so much, I tried getting access a few years ago but it didn't work out. I guess they're more lenient now? If anyone wants to add me, the username is The_Empires_Tyrannus!

Bad news: Stalker is still doing this thing. Still spamming nasty rumors and whatever, bleh. It always gets my mood down seeing this stuff. On top of that, irl family stuff is really getting me down as well. My moods been in the trashcan the last few weeks, and making art so slow. :(

Good news: Is coming to stay with me for a month soon and it'll overlap on my birthday, so I'm going to book a nice stay at a Llama lodge for us ♥️Something I can look forward to!

Bad news: my eyesight has had a bad dip again, and I need another glasses prescription change. That's another £250ish, just because my prescription is always super strong and needs the lenses thinned. Does anyone have experience with those websites you send your prescription details to that are meant to be cheaper? I never know if I can trust any other options... Luckily, I am due a refund for overpaying something else which will help cover a large chunk of it.

So sorry the art is being slow again. I've been having a lot of stuff happening irl recently that is severely getting on top of me, and I'm not sure if it's going to get worse or not, but the stress has been exhausting me.
I wish I could run away for a holiday 🙀

I made a sheezyart - https://sheezy.art/anophis

I can't believe this site is back up! Well, kinda - It's a fan made revival. So it has a different look, and different mascot (I'll miss Dante, he was cute)

I used that site a lot as a kid, the original one... It's giving me fuzzy nostalgia seeing it back :)

Stalker is still at it - he's claiming me and another artist recently scammed him through discord or something for a commission on gaiaonline.

Which is hilarious because
- I haven't spoken to him in literally years and we never did 'commissions'. - it was all free sketches.
- The character he posted claiming we were to draw, after a quick image search, was stolen from KIKI-UMA. So no, I'm not drawing anything stolen.
- I am awful for keeping up with platforms like Disc, I don't log on anymore really except for furcation staff meetings once every few months.
- he claims the commission was done through gaia trades for gold, which the admins can back me up never happened because I've been chatting with them in pm often about this dude whenever he pops up.

The third point makes me worry he is potentially using an impersonatom account on me like he does for the artist @Nishi/oxynard.

I only have one, very inactive discord account. If you get any weird messages claiming its me or my boyfriend , please let me know and I'll confirm whatever. It's stressful and depressing this guy still won't leave me and others alone🤦

Im starting to feel better now :)

that was a HORRIBLE crud/cold!!! I kept getting woken up in the middle of the night with thick mucus stuck in my throat. deffo won't miss that

I hadn't drawn for over a week there, time to get back into it

I'm usually good at dodging con crud but it's got me bad this year. Been in bed ever since I got home chugging lemsip and vitamins :( sore throat and/nose/eyes/head lots of sneezing, ughnh

I hope I can feel better soon to work on art. Right now I'm just resting up.

Hi, I'm home from the con now!

I couldn't sleep well at all so first thing on the to do list is a big good nap. Then I'll get back to commission stuff :)

Despite being a zombie from my sleep struggles it was still a real fun time as usual, good to see everyone

My sleep struggles have sadly kinda ruined the con for me. I've been exhausted, my head is thumping and I just feel like a floaty zombie :(
My roomie is snoring away happily, I'm so jealous.

Luckily, there is a prescription of new sleep meds to pick up and try when I go home. Bummer they weren't ready to pick up before the con.

Thanks to anyone who grabbed a sketch at the artist alley or got to chat, I'm sorry if I'm acting funny!

Hiiii!

I think that's me ready, packed and got things sorted... Finally calming down a bit :)
Will get back to working on com stuff soon!

I'll be back to working more smoothly on commissions once the con is over - sorry for being slow!

Having my usual anxiety freak out before cons happen, but it'll be a good time

Rusters fursuit tooth fell out today - he's a really old suit, and other than the hoof spikes breaking off and a couple holes in the body that have been patched up, he's always held up well!

Im ordering in some strong glue to hopefully help 🥹 poor baby. One day he'll get a version 2 in the far future. For now he's holding on

Time for my yearly freakout!

I always get so worried about being prepared argghhh but it's always a fun time. Sadly couldn't get the extra days this year :(

I recently have been having fun with roblox, particularly the graffiti/doodle games where you can draw with other people!
Does anyone else play and want to add me? I've been hopping on in between breaks drawing coms :D

Annoyingly, since I'm on mobile, it kicks me out when I leave the tab for more than ten seconds, but it's fun otherwise and runs surprisingly smooth. I've mostly just been doing what I used to do on SL - explore pretty maps and take nice screenshots. But doodling together would be fun

The stalking and harassment is still going on. I noticed my stalker was trying to commission art of stolen characters as he often does, and reported it - he's upset I'm "stopping him from getting art", and is now spreading things trying to say I'm a "pedo and zoophile". If you guys saw characters stolen, I'd expect any artist to report that kind of thing, it's just disrespectful.

The pedo accusation in particular is hilarious considering this guy practically used grooming tactics on me when I was well younger and still talking to him. He knew I had a shitty home life and wanted out. He used that against me and tried to say if I dated him he'd take me to America and we'd have a cute farm life and live happily ever after or whatever. He started me off drawing innocent things for him (buttering me up saying my stuff was awesome and he wanted to use it for his game project which didn't even exist) then gradually over time wanted more and more porn, then pics of us together. Basically, he loved pushing boundaries. I'm SO glad my gut told me to keep turning him down.

I really, really wish this guy wasn't in the US because I would have done something legally about this forever ago. It really sucks waking up and worrying what weird stuff he's spreading. (I know it's not just me, either - there's a tonne of other artists I've seen post about this guy, but for some reason there's never properly been a good beware page to actually refer to, I'm guessing because of him constantly getting banned)

I literally woke up to a message from him on New Years day. Go spend time with your friends and family... It's so creepy

Understandably, my anxiety is through the roof needing to wake up to this. I hope 2024 is the year he can go away. It's been really stressing me out :(

I know realistically talking about it makes creeps double down. But I want to get ahead of him each time he tries this stuff - he's bad for messaging random people, spamming folks pages and Impersonating me and my partner even while spreading stuff.

Have a good day 💖

Sorry the art has been slowing down again. The last while I've been feeling super groggy and tired out, I've been feeling so slooowww getting through things...

Just arrived back now. Knackered so gonna chill for a day maybe then can get back on art :)


I accidentally overdosed on travel sick meds, and they haven't fully worn off yet. I am extremely sleepy/dopey. So no drawing until I feel better :(

(It's the day after, now, and I still feel grotty. If I try to sit upright at the computer for a while, the dizziness kicks in again. If it doesn't wear off by tomorrow, I'll definitely need to poke a doctor...)

I'll be home tomorrow from the con, and probably need a day or two to recover from being all socialled out. But I'll work on art again soon 🤗

Hi there - I've been running around at furcation last few days and I'll be here another couple days too. I've not had much of a chance to work on stuff! Also, the WiFi here blocks furaffinity which is making things tricky.

It's been fun, though - and the travel sick pills I tried did great, so no accidents in the car like last year x(

You can say hi if you like. I haven't been feeling up to suiting as much as I hoped :(