Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since my last journal; although I've kept pretty up to date on commission uploads and thankfully managed to write two more short stories since then, I still feel like random blog posts can also be fun to make. I'm not sure if I mentioned this on here before, but before my furry writing, I actually used to write for ScrewAttack (a video game website) as a community member, starting with hundreds of news articles before later writing many lengthy blog posts as well; those sadly aren't visible anymore thanks to regrettable decisions from the site owner and later Rooster Teeth, but I at least grew in writing experience and reputation. Later on, I made a biweekly retro review column named Pixel Gallery for 1 More Castle, which later became Skirmish Frogs.

Minor Commission Backlog
I have three commissions from amazing artists that I haven't posted yet, but that's due to two traditional pieces not being scanned yet while  TheGlassWolf and I try to fix technology problems at home; the third digital piece could be uploaded onto my gallery now, but I don't personally like posting things out of order:
- Casually Posed Mello (cute full-body line art)
- Circus Mello (adorable clown-themed line art)
- The Unknown Stalks Mello (badass Dead by Daylight fanart)

The first two are from Bheckadee, an amazing and super friendly artist who I had the pleasure of meeting at Anthrocon a few months ago; she has her own website and an ongoing Circus Animals comic series (which I currently love) that I highly recommend backing! My talented friend Vir-no-Vigoratus drew the third drawing listed above, which was also uploaded on his gallery if you're curious! Both of them take commissions and are super-duper peeps who I'm really grateful for.

Creative Writing Updates
I should say occasional creative writing, because I haven't written a short story in a while, although I did write a silly cat story and my boyfriend's transformation-related origin story since my previous journal entry, so that makes me a little happier. Later last year, I also made a complete outline for another cute couple story, but that never really went anywhere beyond Glass liking said outline. If anyone does want an explanation as to why I haven't done a lot of writing lately, I'm afraid that I don't have a simple one; I could say that it's related to general anxiety or a lack of motivation, among other reasons like recurring software work, but that would be an incomplete answer. Sorry to anyone who did like my past stories; it means the world to me that even one person liked them enough to comment. I will say that I hope to write again someday; just don't expect a specific timeline.

In the interest of being optimistic though, here are some cute ideas that I do have for future stories:
- Ski lift and hiking date between Mello and Glass; this has an outline and would also cameo my Leo and Alex skunk characters
- Holiday shopping from Mello, him trying to find a really cute and unique present for Glass
- Mischievous hangout between Felix and my Sam husky character; this would still be mature but not take place at a club

Gaming + Furry Conventions
While it technically doesn't matter now, for history purposes, these are conventions that Glass and I went to last year and this year:
- MAGFest
- Fur the 'More
- Anthrocon

We decided to skip Midwest FurFest last year for multiple reasons; we instead had a short trip to a distant zoo that had a hyena couple, so that was fun! The southern zoo was named Creation Kingdom Zoo, which isn't about creationism before anyone asks; they had many exotic animals who were being treated really well.

We're not currently planning to attend Midwest FurFest this year either, but it's extremely likely that we'll be doing Furry Weekend Atlanta next year instead; I've never been there myself, but Glass and friends speak really positively about it, so that's on the books! I would like to try to find an additional new convention that takes place earlier than late spring, but we'll see how life plays out.

I'm sure there's other stuff I could spend time talking about, but I wanted to just make this quick thing tonight. I'm also on Bluesky now, and my other social media things things are listed under my profile page. Thanks very much to everyone who reads this, and have yourselves a pleasant rest of the year!