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Finally putting this big guy up for sale! 

I've just posted this to my tumblr, but i want to get this on here too just so people know what's going on

Over the weekend, some very sudden personal/life events arose, and i first and foremost will apologize once again for my absence here and what absences may arise as well due to this. I mentioned an immediate family member being ill since summer in my previous journal, and want to give some closure to what has happened from that. 

The other night, my father, some may have known him as thecuriodditiescabin on etsy or instagram, passed away after a long battle with several forms of cancer. 

The weeks prior had been going very well in terms of recovering from chemo and building his strength back up since he was walking and starting to do his work again, but all at once he fell ill to a bacterial infection of his intestines, and was brought back to the hospital. He passed peacefully the next night and in the company of several friends and his family, myself included. 

He was endlessly supportive and so excited by the arts and natural world, incorporating it into every aspect of himself and his life. He was always by my side to motivate my art as we both worked together in our craft ; his own art and connections inspired me to create and explore my own creations further. Always so full of humor and curiosity and good vibes, he left the world doing what he loved best, providing support and inspiration for and creating many wonderful things for all the wonderful people that entered his life.


Thank you all so much for your support and being patient me since summer as i was coming to terms with this knowledge, and for your continued support as we begin the healing process.  I am happy that the struggle is finally over for everybody involved in this, and it's all just recovery from here, I just need to be brave.

I will be online and very slowly responding to messages as I have been. I know i've been asking for it a lot, but i really appreciate your patience with me as I do get back to working. I've suspected my new medication is affecting my memory, so if there is anything urgent that you need me to reply to or see, don't be afraid to send it again or send it here. I know there's plenty of notes and myo snaps to approve and the dta to judge, all of those things I will be getting to very soon once i gather the energy

I think now that this is all over and that i'm out of school for the time being, I can finally redirect my focus back to all of you guys and making art again. And again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, all of you guys, so so much for all of your kind words and wishes and just being here for me as I cope with all of this. It's been really hard lately, but i'm ready to get back to making cool things for all you all!!!

Hey guys whats up mental health kept scared me away from deviantart for like half a year

I owe all y'all another apology and explanation about this impromptu hiatus

An immediate family member of mine has been worryingly sick for a large portion of the summer and about a month before i left to come back to school, it was finally diagnosed as several forms of cancer. They have been in and out of the hospital and having operations since then and while i'm hoping there's been signs of improvement very recently, it was incredibly mentally taxing at the time that i just learned of this news (and still honestly really is) and sort of just went radio silent on most of the internet trying to come to terms that this is going to eat up a large amount of focus and concern for a very long time

But i eventually did have to head on back to school! so the moving process on top of that all wasn't any sort of breather and school alone prevented me from getting any digital artwork or catching up with messages done. I doubt, because i'm still in school, that's going to Let me any time soon, but getting this journal done after so long  is a start :') my major is Animation if i haven't mentioned it before, so that eats up a load of my time from personal art, especially now that i am in 3D animation classes this quarter; the most time i've had to focus on art was doing inktobers during class, but hopefully after midterms it'll be slow enough to pick up commissions again

Seriously I know it's no excuse since this i've always been very absent/distant from online interaction, but all of these factors being heaved onto me at once has absolutely been KICKING MY BUTT and i sorta started slipping backwards into a really dark mental place for a while :'y Thankfully now i gathered the courage to talk to my doctor about my depression and social anxiety especially with the recent aforementioned events and have recently started medication for it, so I hope that will begin to help productivity/focus and keeps me from chickening out from the internet again

my last journal explains a lot of the Feelings i have and my social anxiety and how severe it's gotten lately and honestly it still really stands today as accurate, i wrote that with a lot of heart and genuity and while i was struggling with it a lot back earlier this year, i obviously haven't really gotten any better since i was still incredibly absent from a lot of groups and conversations and tasts that i previously felt a lot of comfort in. Again, i'm now actively working to fix this, but i really really truly do want to apologize again for letting my fear get in the way of making and talking to friends and letting me interact with you guys. As i said before and will say again, all of you mean the absolute world to me and I seriously would not be where i am without you, and i want to give back to that somehow, so the least i can do is start and be more involved with all of ya

I want to thank you all, with every ounce of sincerity and gratitude in my heart, for holding on with me and sticking with me as I completely flaked from the internet (again,) for far too long. 

I'm slowly building up the confidence to get back to commissionwork and hopefully some more personal works and projects first, but you guys take priority! Especially after how long i've made y'all wait! So in turn for that, i'll be finishing all commission art i've had on my list to do, but giving full refunds as well as an apology for the wait.

SO NOW THAT all the sappy stuff is out of the way, my next journal will be more art direction and business oriented, so for those more concerned about gastrosnaps and the likes, that's coming up next! may be tomorrow since it's 3 in the morning here, but i'll see what i can do

I just want to let you all know everything is far more okay now than it was before, and I really do hope, with all my heart, that I'll soon be back in full swing making neat art and gifts and adoptables for all of you guys!! If anybody has any questions or needs to contact me as i sift through the builtup messages from my absence, I will be responding to comments here!! again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so so much for sticking with me during all of this!!!

i don't know whether or not i'm actually notoriously bad at replying to people at a reasonable time or it's just my brain hammering it into itself, but i suppose i should explain why every so often i just tend to drop off the face of the earth

i'm scared! just really really scared. i wish i had a better explanation than that, but that's the gist of it. whether it's people i've never talked to before or people i have known for years upon year or even know in real life, it's hard to bring myself to reply to people purely out of anxiety. and then i wait too long, and then i'm too scared to reply at all at the fear that the person i'm replying to will be angry with me

i don't think it's untrust at all, you all mean the world to me and i could never express how grateful i am to all of my friends and mutuals and watchers for letting me be where i am with my art and life. i just wish i didn't have to feel nervous or worried when i try to tell you all this. i plan and want to do LOTS OF THINGS but never get around to it for this exact reason too, and the fear of upsetting a large number of people absolutely terrifies me, so i kind of just shut everyone out from time to time and quietly hope it'll blow over and i'll go unnoticed under my rock when, in reality, messages are only really building up while i sit and worry about responding to them

these past couple months i have been in a rather bad place mentally with anxiety and depression and have been avoiding most forms of social media, including here and skype and tumblr for the most part. i'm really trying to fix this lately and i hope making this journal will be the first step to it. again, i want to thank every single one of you guys for sticking with me regardless of how shitty it must seem someone not returning the favor to their friends, but know nothing goes unappreciated and, if anything, it's helping me get back on my feet and i want to start using it to motivate me to try harder. thank you all so much, please know i really appreciate you all and want to try harder for you. i'm sorry i've been unreliable up until now

this isn't everything i wanted to say, but today was an especially worrying one and i cant think very well right now aside from the weird need to apolgize to everyone. and if i haven't replied to your messages tonight, i will try and get to it tomorrow before or after class. 

i'm tagging a few people in this because i owe you guys this especially, but this is for everyone too, really;
AngelSockII hoshi-kou shinyarceus4

again, thank you all. i'll try harder

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