Once upon a June, 2023 to be precise, I started a new job. I've been working hard at it ever since. I help the elders of this country save money on something they need to have. The craziest times are October to the 7th of December. Today, at long last, is the 8th.

I put in 76 hours over the last 7 days and slept in today for the first time in a long time. I'm not the best at what I do, but I'm better than average and glad to be doing as well as I am.

That said, last June I posted two stories to my now-abandoned Patreon and never posted them here or to Sofurry. I'll fix that soon.

I'm almost done editing a story for the Wilde Thyme Universe that only took a couple of years to write. I'll have to break it up into chapters because it ended up being much longer than I intended. I hope to finish editing it and get back to writing more stories soon.

In more personal news, last year I came out as transgender. In January I started taking Estradiol patches, doubled the dose in April, and they still weren't absorbing. So I switched to injections in July. That finally worked. So realistically I'm almost 5 months in.

Originally, therapy to see if I should transition started and was abandoned back in 2000, when I was 19. I slapped plaster on my "egg", shoved it in a box, in the closet, and tried to pretend it wasn't a thing for the next twenty-two years.

I came out at work in the first week of June for pride month. It was better received than I anticipated. I still have a huge amount of fear, anxiety, self loathing and it only got worse in November.

Hopefully we survive the next few years without having to flee the country.

Nimona keeps getting watched lately. I always feel like I say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing, get misunderstood... and end up rejected and alone. I never seem to know what I've done until it's too late, if I ever understand at all.

"I don't know what's scarier, that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart, or that sometimes, I just want to let 'em." -Nimona

To paraphrase, "What are you?" "I'm Leah."

I'm herm, salmatian, bi-gender, dual-gender, she/her, and trying to become more myself. If magic were a thing I'd be fully femme with one not-so-little addition. As it is, I look in the mirror and think, "Well, at least it's better to be an ugly old woman than an ugly old man... I guess."

Thanks to everyone watching and putting favorites on my stories and sketches. I'll try to be more active here.

Cheers.