🌱🍄A little babushka lives here🌷🌿 (Patreon)

Edit: I didn't expect so many responses!! 😱 I was going to head to bed after I wrote this, so I'll leave this here for when I wake up. I'll write back to you all soon. Thank you for writing to me💗Finally...an update!!! Sorry it's been so long, but a combination of feeling like no one would care & also not wanting to give ammo to the ppl keeping a close eye on me deterred me from writing, but I feel like it today. It's going to be long so I'll update you on my plants first since most people won't read the whole thing. 

I moved all my plants into one place & added grow lights since winter is dark. My plants are much happier now and  less leggy. I've since decorated them with stuff I've thrifted & cottagey things I found online. There were also a lot of sales at the craft stores, so I got lots of good stuff for a great price. My room feels so cozy now and i love waking up to it. I do get lazy to take care all of them though so some of the fragile ones have lost leaves, but most of them are still kicking. I left the shamrocks in a dark corner and it lost all of it's foliage so I decided to put it in a bright spot and keep the soil moist to see if the corns will push out new growth. About a month or so and it's back to it's former glory =)

As for my health, I find that overall I'm doing better. I'm less stressed since I don't have a long commute to work anymore and I don't have to deal with difficult coworkers, but I do stress about keeping my numbers up and pumping out content. Even so, I try to do all the healthy stuff everyone should do. When I feel overwhelmed, I just try to go back to basics and just make sure I'm eating and sleeping properly. Sometimes that's all it takes to have a bad day.I haven't played many new games recently. I always have a nagging feeling that I should be drawing when I do, but I did spend a good chunk of time on a little indie game about running a tavern. It's called Travellers Rest on Steam. I made Grave the tavern owner and put lots of plants inside lol.

As for the state of my comic, I'm continually trying new things and taking little risks here and there. I feel like it's been hit or miss. I think no matter what I do, if I can't pump out as much content as other artists, it's gonna be hard to grow my audience. That's why I'm still putting bite sized updates. It takes me a long time to draw and research things for the comic and I'm not ready to hire staff on yet. I'm still new to this so I'm trying my best to streamline the process so I can run a tight ship when I can find someone trustworthy to work with. I know there are people out to get me because of all the drama from 2020-2021, so it will take time before I'm comfortable working with someone else.Back when I first started reading comics online, webtoons didn't exist and people had to create their own websites to post their work. It was normal to post one page at a time cause most artists have day jobs and comics take a long time to make, so they'd usually post around 5 panels per update---Hamlet machine's comics is an example. Now webtoons created a new standard and it's really tough to meet if you have a more complex style because people expect 50+ per update---unless it's a comedy or slice of life story for some reason... I'm still struggling with simplifying my work. I know most people won't see/ care about the details or the shortcuts taken. Quantity is more important nowadays so I'm slowly trying to get over my personal feelings about it. I have a plan, but it requires that I learn an entirely new set of skills, so hopefully I can get there soon. I know it will make a world of difference.And lastly, my reflection on the plot of my comic. I know there's not much right now, but I work on fleshing out and rewriting the script often. I have quite a bit of material to work with. Mostly action, and world building, conflict, etc but I'm starting to realize that maybe people don't really want all of that. We'll have to see though. That's why I'm focused on just trying to get through this prototype as fast as I can. If people end up loving that stuff, I'll keep it, if not...back to the drawing board.