Artist  ElviraRecrud is hosting a Halloween Art Raffle over on their FA profile:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11230359/

You should check them out, their art is cool and I have commissioned them a number of times in the past:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45545295/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52209196/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54253335/

Raffle ends October 25th!

If you're not following me on Twitter (and if not, please do) you'll know that I have set myself a challenge for 2021, nothing too difficult but something to help me get back into drawing by, as the kids would say, "Just Doing It!" *Shia LaBeouf posing*
I'm going to post a drawing every week to my twitter, whether it be a sketch page of doodles to a full piece.
To catch you up:
Here's Week 1!
Here's Week 2!
Here's Week 3!
Here's Week 4!

Update:
Here's Week 5
Here's Week 6
Here's Week 7
Here's Week 8

I was recently reminded of the following Japanese advert for Mouse laptops:


I would love to get a GIF image of Sally Aeon wearing the same dress as the ladies in the advert but also doing the swaying hips dance you see at 22 seconds in. I imagine it would be around 5-7 frames?

EDIT - Someone has made a cut of the exact dance I want - https://streamable.com/a6j2b

If you know anyone who could do this and are open for comms, let me know in the comments below

I'm at 225 Followers on Twitter!
https://twitter.com/salmir/
I'm also at 297 Followers on my alternate Twitter!
https://twitter.com/AeonSally

I'm at 133 Followers on BlueSky
https://bsky.app/profile/salmiraeon.bsky.social

I'm at 236 Followers on FurAffinity.
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/salmiraeon/

I'm at 75 Watchers on DeviantART.
https://www.deviantart.com/salmiraeon
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Waiting for art from the following:
-  Riendonut (currently have IRL troubles, recieved last WIP on Aug 21st)
- Ferversaile on Reddit (Recieved last WIP on September 18th)
-  Katibara (Recieved last WIP on March 19th, not heard anything else since)
-  Maiuo
-  BlitheDragon

Comms Expected for October:
- Miralulla on BlueSky
-  Supki
- JamoART on DeviantArt/Bluesky
- WhimsicalForge on Bluesky
-  Theme
- Kuridel on BlueSky
- GraveGrime on BlueSky
-  ikeart.rellatab

Comms I'll Never See Finished:
-  NE0N-BaNdIcOoT (Missing in action?)
-  Strype (Sally & Christina Manchester Cats: ordered in 2020 - In the process of cancelling)
- CaedmonDraws (Possible that this person has passed away)
- Daminite on Twitter (Recieved last WIP on Feb 10th, Artist has disappeared)

I need some serious help in gaining some self confidence. This week I've just felt like a complete waste of space but I don't know who to turn to with my problem because my self conscious doesn't want to make myself like an asshole who needs his ego inflated to do things
It's a path I've been down before and it has tainted several past friendships. So now i'm cautious of what I say to people, to friends. With that, I end up feeling like I'm curling up inside myself whenever I want to talk about my own mental issues
My lack of self confidence leads me to anxiety, which then leads to depression.
I always live for the present and don't think too far into the future, but in times like this, the question of "What do you want to do with your life?" ends up hurting me since I have no answer.
I thought I had was that I would like to have a day where I draw with my friends. No worries about a job I feel i'm muddling along with. Either on a livestream but really I'd love to do in person. Just talking and drawing and helping each other. The extrovert in me needs the human connection.

So hey... I haven't said or posted any art since Christmas last year... My apologies for this
Well that's because of one big reason. I got a job.
Not an art job mind you, it's a customer service job for a web hosting company which I got because of a friend.
I've been working for this company now for about 5 months, answering tickets, fixing websites, clearing spam emails. It's a vary from "I can do! I can do it 9 times!" to "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!"
But thanks to this job, I was able to buy and build a new Gaming PC as my previous one is 10 years old and was prone to Blue Screen. Which, bad news, means I don't have my art programs anymore, meaning I haven't really been motivated to draw a lot.
But here's the thing! I am planning to purchase a new graphics tablet very soon & a few program licenses, which will hopefully mean I will get back into doing the arts again.
By the way, I'm looking for graphic tablet recommendations. So far, a lot of recommendations I've heard from art friends have been for Cintiq 13HD, but I'm open to other recommendations.
In the meantime, again, I'm sorry for no art and no words to why until now.

I will return!

For a while now I've wanted to make a journal post to big-up some of my artist chums, not just their my friends but also because for one reason or another they help inspire me for certain things in my art, whether it be poses, themes, art styles and techniques to try out, so on. They're awesome peeps who could deserve a little more atteintion and love. And so I'm gonna list those peeps now, in no particular order.

Lady Elizriel

I met Elizriel back in Teen Second Life (yeah, there use to be a TEEN Second Life. Its gone now before you ask) by the name of Mayleene (which I will call her from this point on). We comment a lot to each other's work... well, I comment mostly to hers... I've been kind of lacking recently with my own work. But when I do have something, I know she'll comment and favourite (depending on the image). May draws a lot of humanoid characters... and most of them are vampires... be glad they don't sparkle

 PrismaLin

This girl... oh boy! Lets get it out of the way, if it wasn't for Prisma I wouldn't have my FurAffinity account. Her fursona inspired a lot of my art a couple years back when I was properly starting out in the "Let's Be An Artist On The Internet" thing. Her own artwork is bright, colourful and cartoony, for some people it might not be the best artwork, but at least you can tell what's going on.

 Kunzai

I met Kunzai at university (the first time) during the 1st Year intro week. I awkwardly spoke to her first, she awkwardly responded and we awkwardly talked for a while. We were never in the same after that point and we sort of lost contact after that. Few years later, we got talking again and we've been arting and commenting since. There's a wonderful mixed style of cartoon and realism in her work I enjoy.

 enkasilverrain (NSFW Warning)

Yeah, I'm recommending someone who's trying to make a living drawing porn. So what? Enka is an awesome gal and has kick ass art to boot! She has a good eye on colour shading, it's something I've been trying to improve myself and seeing her work is a good example on how to correctly do it (she is using a different art program from me though) and some of her work can be thought provoking, even when it's just vent art.

Huh... guess my list was shorter than I thought... and is mainly female... I need more male friends =/

Have you heard of Ingress? It's an MMO-ARG (Massive Multiplayer Online Alternate Reality Game) played on your smartphone. The objective is to hack, capture & link portals together for 1 of 2 factions and you find these portal by physically traveling to real life locations, mostly statues, houses of worship *eg: churches, mosques, temples, etc...) or historical buildings. I've been playing this for just under a month now, and I've found it rather addictive. It may be different for anyone outside the UK, but since a large majority of portals near me at under 1km away it's quite the motivator to get out of the house for 2 hours rather than sitting on my chair watching YouTube videos or starring at my sketchpad going "I wanna draw, but I don't feel like it..." I've even got my closest best mate playing it too. We keep planning late night raids on other player's portals, it makes me chuckle.

Since playing, I have changed the colour of my hometown from green to blue, being very OCD about how I set up my portal links & fields. In my town, there are 2 large areas that contain many portals, one is the main town area, where the town hall is; the other is the local park, about a kilometer down the road from my old college. The setting for my story I'm about to tell you is in the park. The time & date for it? Saturday 6th June (Yesterday at the time of writing this). I had originally gone into the park just gone lunch time to recapture some portals that had degraded over time (a good mechanic to have in a game like this) when my phone ran out of charge which was a way of telling me "You've been out for 2 hours now, take a break." and so I did, I went back home, recharged my phone and had my dinner, but once it came to 5:45pm, I was out again to finish what I had started in the park.

My starting plan was to link the portal at the South entrance of the park to the bandstand in the center of the park to create a field, I already had the portal key for the south entrance, I just needed the key for the bandstand. As I walked over the small slope of the hill towards the bandstand area, I noticed a gang of chavettes sitting and smoking in the bandstand. The girls where clearly late year high schoolers, if not early year college students, dressed in there typical chav wear most likely bought by their parents. Luckily for me, I don't have to stand directly on the portal to hack & link the portal so I didn't have to engage in awkward conversation with them. Unluckily for me however, 3-4 of the chavettes had spotted me, noticed I was the only white male walking past them that wasn't looking after kids and quickly made their way other to me to quickly annoy me by asking me for my phone number and stating "You're the guy of my dreams, you have long hair, etc..." which I ignored. Then, a few more of the chavettes started following, then the rest. We're talking double figures of annoyingly high pitched tweenage girls trying to get your attention. Luckily for me, once I had walked past the bandstand area and into one of the gardens, they had stopped following me and left the park, allowing me to finish what I went into the park to do.

On my way back home, I thought about the encounter I had in that park. It occurred to me that if it was the other way around, a gang of men annoying a lady walking through the park, it would be a 1 page article in the local weekly paper about "Sexual Harassment In Our Parks." and the classic domino effect would happen of angry letters to the police, increase of security on the park and so on. Also, the thought came to me of "What if I did report what I had experienced?" would my case be treated the same as any other human being, despite gender or race? or would my case be ignored because I'm a white male and I should "just get use to it"? The more I think about it, the more worried I get someone will related me to GamerGate.

I'm not looking for an answer by the way, I just wanted to write my thoughts down, tell you about a sweet smartphone game that doesn't have micro-transactions in it and a recent experience of mine.

... and not failing this time.

Yes, despite my pass posts on how I felt about the "summer project" bullshit and my kind of laziness to this year, everything has been handed in for this 2nd year and I have strong feelings I will be taking part of the 3rd year.

Will this mean I'll be adding more pictures to my galleries displaying my uni work and new stuff? Not at the moment, no.
Currently, we are prepping for the Uni's End of Year show, which means I have to set up a bunch of display boards of my finished work, and polish up some other bits of work. So as soon as my show is done, then uploads shall commence!

Thanks for sticking by with me, through thick and thin and what not.

All replays saved from the Team Fortress AWESOME server
http://www.videogamesawesome.com/

So a month ago, I wrote a blog explaining how I was screwed before I even started my 2nd year of a new uni course because I never finished a 3000 word essay.

Turns out, nothing happened. No really, nothing.

My tutors haven't come up to me to ask about it. It's a little confusing. I had a whole speech of an excuse ready to say to them if they had ever pulled me aside to discuss it, but I guess it wasn't that important as they made it out to be. With that said however, they really are pushing a little heavier now assignment wise. Dunno if it's because someone higher up told them they were being lazy or something, but the fact 1 month already in and they want 3 months worth of work done for 1 assignment, stretching 1 week worth of an assignment to 3 and making us write our own assignment for the last, it's bonkers.

I'm reminded of an argument I made a while back on a private blog I have to use for uni (part of an assignment). We're taught in an educational standard which involves taking on several different assignments from several different people to produce a full and complete result, by ourselves (unless stated otherwise) as we’re told this is how the working world works… But this ISN’T how the working world works! You see, if you worked in a games company for example, your manager would not call everyone in to a meeting and say “Ok chaps! We have 4 different games that need to made, we want everyone to take the brief and create they our results, we want 4 full game from each of you for this date next year!” because THAT’S BULLSHIT & A WASTE OF COMPANY MONEY! And yet, you’re taught like this in education. Yes, I completely understand that I should be spending 300-odd hours of self-studies to work, but that’s vague in itself. 300 hours for each module or spread between all modules? Either way, for a single person to do that is pretty ridiculous. If someone really could spread that time for several assignments, they’d be only doing work their whole educational life. No social interaction, no culture embracing, they’d be pale and awkward to hang with… or a robot.

Speaking of dumb ideas, we were told our Reading Week is next week, which is good for me because it's the same week my sister gets married. But then told us we had to come in normal time on the Thursday (day before my sister's wedding) to do a pitching presentation for our studio project... note that this was the 1st time they told us it was a presentation of such. In fact, the more I think about it, why are WE pitching this, when it should be the external examiner who should be pitching to us? I'm guessing it's "We're pitching our ideas for his project" but from a logical look, it's pretty backwards.

OK, that's enough ranting from me. You can go back to your daily lifes

As most of you know, I'm not a fan of blogging. I don't like writing about myself, it's why I barely post anything and sometimes I still have an "End of the Year" post in May.

So imagine me being told by my uni tutors that my "Summer Project" is a 3000 word essay in which essentially I'm writing the "Tell me about yourself" section of a CV. You don't need to imagine actually, that actually happened. And this "project" was given to me 3 months ago, and I'm still staring at a word document with 1/15 of the word count. I'm screwed. I'm really fucked, since the hand in is in 2 days.

That's not to say I haven't tried, believe me I have. And there has been legitimate things that have stopped me from doing so, such as an out-of-nowhere camping holiday to the south of England, my grandfather going to hospital for open-heart surgery, a job my older sister asked me to do and was paid for. But for those times in between them, I haven't been able to write anything for this insult of a "Summer Project" (seriously, they should of just called it a Summer Essay, calling it a Project makes it sound like theirs an end product that needs to be built as well as some writing.) not because I don't understand what they want, but because I don't know what to tell them and my brain begins to hurt. Writing this now makes my brain feel like a cage is wrapping tightly around it, to a point where every pulse made is numbing.

And because of that, i cannot do anything else. I have ideas for drawings, let's plays, even plan to finally talk to someone professionally to tell me if I'm actually depressed or not. But every time I look at my sketchbook, or plan to leave the house, I hear my brain giving me examples of other people would say to me, like "If you think you have the energy to do that, why ain't you using it for that essay you should be writing?" to which I respond to myself "Help me then, what is great about our self that we can write in this personal statement section?" and I responded with silences, followed by the throbbing of my brain. Then I can't do anything, just be glad there isn't a gun in the house, but then if there was, I might of off'd myself years ago.

"If you think you're depressed, why don't you talk to someone like your parents?" I can hear some of you say, believe me I've attempted, gave them hints and just stated it. They don't believe me, the only people who do are friends I trust but can't do much to help me on the other side of the country/continent/planet. I think only written evidence from a doctor would be what would change my parent's minds about the matter.

"So you can't write an essay, but you can write this blog?" Fair enough, I'll give you that. I think it's evidenced from my Frozen review that I can complain about things better than talk about myself, so complaining about myself isn't what my essay is about, since I can only talk positive about myself in that. But I'd better get on that now, you don't have to response to this, it's just a rant about myself.

Wondering if you peeps could help with something, very simple & will only take 15 seconds of your time.

I would like to get the following Team Fortress 2 Replay to 1000 views:



Hyperlink Here

If you play TF2, you'll know why I'd like to get 1000 views on it
Those who don't, there's an achievement in TF2 to get 1000 YouTube views of a replay, if you get it you're rewarded with a hat.

Much appreciated =3

I don't blog as much as other peeps do that I follow, so I decided to keep my journal fresh I'd do one of them meme thingies, so here we go!

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Basics

Name: Salmir Aeon
Nickname: Sal, Sally (close friends only), The Last Aeon, That human with the cat ears
Location: Manchester, England
Age: 23
Height: erm... I don't actually know, I've not measured in a while >.>
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Pets: None. Technically, the goldfish in the house and the koi in the back garden pond belong to my parents.
Favourite thing about yourself:
Worst habit: Procrastinating
Fun fact: Vomit & Parmesan cheese has the same smell... what? was I meant to give you a fact about me?

Identity, Sexuality & Personality

Gender identity: Male
Sexual orientation: Straight
Romantic preference: Considering I've been single my whole life so far, I have no answer for that
"Kinsey Scale" score: what?
Relationship status: Single
Myers/Briggs type: huh?
Hogwarts house: N/A

Routine

"Early Bird" or "Night Owl": Neither, I'm a Midday person
Bath or shower: Whichever is available
First thought in the morning: "What day is it?"
Last thought before falling asleep at night: Depends on the mood I'm in when I sleep

School/Work

Do you work or are you a student: Student
What do you do well: I'm being asked the same question for my "Summer Project" at the moment, and I just can't answer it. I really don't know
Where do you see yourself in 5 years: Sitting in front of my computer, maybe in a different house...

Habits (Do you…?)

Drink: Socially
Smoke: Never
Do Drugs: Only Caffeine
Exercise: Not by choice, I was force to do running with my parents ¬.¬
Have a go-to comfort food: Too many to name
Have a nervous habit: When I can't answer a question, my brain freezes and I fall silence.

What is your favorite…?

Physical quality (in yourself): Depending on the clothes I'm wearing, my size looking straight at me
In Others: Facial features, mainly how someone smiles. Can give ideas for drawings
Mental/emotional quality (in yourself): I have a collection of random facts I've collected over time, as demonstrated with my previous fact of similar smells.
Food: Too many to name
Drink: Too many to name
Animal: again, too many to name... just don't expect me to say nice things to insects & bugs >.>
Artist/Band/Group: I'll just I like Jazz in general.
Author/Poet: Douglas Adams, Lemony Snicket, JRR Tolkien... that's all I can think of off the top of my head
Actor/Actress: I'm sadly someone who remembers character names, not the actors >.>
TV Show: I'm actually trying to catch up on a lost childhood in relation to TV shows. So nothing current

So recently, I've been watching the Canadian Internet Comedy Group, LoadingReadyRun, most specifically Alex, Graham & now recently Cam, playing Dark Souls 1 over on their LoadingReadyLive twitch channel. It made me want to replay Dark Souls again. Yes, again. I've attempted to play it before completely blind for my old offline let's play show, click here to watch. But now that I've watched some Dark Souls LPs and understand what the game never teaches, I've gotten pretty far, much more than before.

So, whenever you see me post up the Livestreaming picture of Sal dressed as the TF2 Scout in the next few days, I'm playing Dark Souls on stream. Best you subscribe to my twitch page to be notified too.

In the meantime, I leave you with some of my previous boss fights, as a way to interest you in checking out my gaming stream in the future:

So, first week into my Easter break and I've finally seen Frozen, the Disney film which everyone is calling the best of their 3D animated films (not including Pixar) and Tumblr will not just shut up about. I'm sadly one of those type of people who has to watch/play something due to it's hype, see my Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition lets play for an example, and normally my opinions to it may be lesser to everyone else. Frozen is one of them.
Before I continue, this part is my Spoiler Free, TL;DR summary of Frozen:

Frozen is a good film, there's no doubt about it. Animation is brilliant, the use of scenes and sets are wonderfully done. Characters & Songs are memorable and I was never bored. But it's not a great film, there are things in the film's story I think could of been improved to make it great if not just below.

Everything beyond this sentence is now in spoiler territory, read at your own risk!

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So at the beginning of the film, we see Anna & Elisa playing in with the snow Elsa creates. Elsa hits Anna with her powers on the head & their parents take her to the Trolls. The Troll Shaman Leader changes Anna's memories to forget Elsa ever had these powers. So far, interesting... What are the King & Queen gonna do? They lock up the castle and hide Elsa away in her room. They don't tell Anna why she's staying hidden in her room, Anna is just left in the dark thinking Elsa is now ignoring her with no reason given. Here's my first problem with the story, there was no evidence the parents told Anna that Elsa had to stay in her room. There could of been a small part of the "Do You Want To Build A Snowman?" song where the parents could of told Anna something like "Elsa has fallen ill and needs to rest, we don't know when she'll be better..." it's small, but it would of been nice context wise.

So let's now fast forward a bit. Elsa has become Snow Queen and Anna has made it to her Ice Castle with Kristoff, Sven the Reindeer & Olaf the Snowman. Anna tries to talk Elsa into stopping the winter she's caused in her silly, quirky way but gets hit with Elsa's ice magic again but this time in the heart. She then snaps at Kristoff and Elsa and leaves the ice palace. Hey, this is a pretty interesting idea, Anna's heart is getting cold, therefor her attitude gets colder, that's a great idea! But on their way back to the trolls, Anna is still the happy gal she has been through the film. What a missed opportunity!

Following that, when Anna & Kristoff get to the Trolls to get the Shaman Troll Leader to see what's wrong with Anna. Question! How come the Shaman Troll doesn't recognize Anna? I can understand why Kristoff can't recall the first time Anna got healed from the Shaman Troll, he was a kid. But the Shaman Troll should of known, his magically powers could of had a sort of déjà vu moment to tell him "Hey, haven't you done some sort of magic on this person before?" because the whole beginning moment with the trolls is never brought up again after that. Kristoff doesn't look at Anna when they first meet and think "You look familiar..." and neither do the Trolls. Like I said, Missed Opportunity!

Finally, the twist with Prince Hans. He met Anna before & at Elsa's coronation party, had the whole "love at first sight" song and wanted to marry. Elsa said no because "logic", Anna got angry, Elsa panicked revealing her powers and running away becoming the Snow Queen. Anna goes off to find her and leaves Hans in charge. Fast forward to Act 3, Anna returns to her hometown to find Hans, telling him what happened and that the only way to cure her is with "an act of true love" which with their fairy-tale logic is "true love's first kiss". Here's the twist, Hans was actually planing to kill both Elsa and Anna due to being the youngest brother and wanted to rule a city. Granted, I didn't expect it, but it's kind of lazy story-writing. "We don't have a villain in this film..." a writer for Frozen said, "... how can we fix this?!" "What if Hans becomes the villain?" another writer askes "That'll do!" Writer 1 responds. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but if instead of him having this planned from the start, why didn't they have Hans come up with this plan after he was put in charge of the city? Like, have him be all "I saw how everyone looked up to me, saw me as a sign of safety and leadership, told me I was doing such a great job. I don't want it to end, so I'm gonna kill you and your sister." would be better then what was given. And before someone thinks the same thing I just did, girls aren't the only ones who have those "Love at first sight moments" I'm pretty sure most guys will admit having such moments in their teen years.

Well, there's my thoughts on Frozen. I'd love to hear your opinions and may even do a respond post to any good points made to my thoughts.

... and quite frankly, I really don't care.

People are "apparently" leaving FA because someone said something that makes that someone sound like something wrong and therefor everyone goes "WHELP! Fuck this! ADVENTURE ELSEWHERE!"

Just so you know, I ain't leaving. It took a good week to upload things from DA to here, and i don't wanna go to some art site and re-upload things (although that would be a good idea to try and gain people's interest... bah! too much effort!)

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PART 4

I've never taken the time to think about my online persona. Or at least write it down. That's what i'm doing now. I also hope this inspires some peeps if you ever feel like drawing my character. Allow me to talk out of character for just a moment.

So, as you may of been able to tell, Salmir is a neko. Half human, half cat. Why is he neko? Well, it's because I have 2 groups of friends. The 1st group is of course my furry friends and if I didn't think they were cool, they wouldn't be my friends. Most of them are artists, but a few are also film and music makers, they are great creative people. The 2nd group are my human friends... who hate furries because the internet told them to. I've always wanted to show my respect to the furry culture but I not to a point where I'd want a full fursona, so I went with Neko. Half fur. This led to 2 outcomes. 1) My human friends questioned my actions, I explained my story and they took it well, some even changing their views on furries. 2) Most of my furry friends didn't see this as a respect, rather they saw me as an Otaku =/

So now, the persona of Salmir is as follows. He's adventurous, he likes to explore, he's quite the gentleman and ladies' man. You threaten to hurt a friend, you've gotta get past Sal first. He'll protect anyone who deserves it, no questions asked. He can be a joker at times, a little crazy. He's happy when he has made you happy. But this happiness is just a cover really... for Salmir, just like RL me, lives with mild depression. Normally triggered by loneliness. If I had ever did a comic series with him, there would of been a story line involving Sal built up with so much depression that he would prepare to... well, end it all. But to then release it's not the best thing to do. Of course, it wouldn't be for a normal reason, it would of be for a silly reason, such as "Killing yourself is just the cowards way out. You wanna die? Fight for it!" leading into the character of The Last Aeon

The Last Aeon was the super hero version of Salmir. (Name slightly inspired from FFX & Second Life). Dressed in all black, wield 2 one handed blades that could combine into 1 two-handed sword. Never kills, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't stab you in the back on the knee to give extreme pain. All this because of the boiled up depression turning to violent anger. Silent in step and voice to all, I talk to no one in this phase... expect for those close to me.

Everything of Salmir is what I wish I was. But for that, it would require some friends closer to where I leave of all genders and races.
But you wanna know something. I wouldn't change it, cause I wouldn't have this life to have this journal now.

Thanks for reading