Episode 92 High Res (Patreon)

Salutations! How have y'all been? I hope things have been swell for you!

I've been doing moderately okay. Since the shit storm that was last week I've been trying to take things slower and easier. On top of cutting back on comic work at this time, I've been slowing down my pace on my walks and the like, and generally trying to relax when possible, even though it results in me bumming around and not actually doing much. "Oh! I'll play some games or watch anime!" - me this past weekend who did very little. But, ya know, I do enjoy doing "nothing" too.

I'm still dealing with what I'm assuming is anemia, but won't get a confirmation until April 12th when I get the televisit with the doctor after I have blood work done on the 6th. Thought about taking some iron supplements, but decided not to until after the blood work so as not to tamper it. In the mean time I'm being more careful. As I said earlier, I'm not speed walking after work as I typically do for my 2 mile walk. On top of that I'm being mindful of when I kneel down and then stand back up, being sure not to do it too quickly so as to limit dizziness. I also started eating more refried beans.

I'm sure most here are already aware, especially since I wrote about it in that lengthy blog post. Nevertheless, I know plenty didn't from the reactions on social media, so I figure I'll say it again here: Yes, I'm trans. I've been on HRT for 5 months. It's been pretty good so far, outside of the anemia symptoms since doubling my dosage of spiro at the end of January. Could be that, or it could be mold growing in my bathroom what with all the issues I've had, or some mold somewhere else due to the flooding. There's several variables that all happened mid to late January that could be the cause. Regardless, putting aside the stress from being overworked and junk, I've been feeling really good about the HRT. Sometimes when I look in the mirror I get a small glimpse of a feminine version of myself and can't help but smile and do a dumb little dance. Course my lips are chapped as all hell so smiling is painful at the moment. I need to get some lip balm.

Once I get the test results back and hopefully get on track to feeling less anemic, I'll try to start increasing the number of pages of B23 back up. I appreciate y'all being patient with me, and what has ultimately been a roller coaster of fuckery with releasing updates these past two chapters. I also don't want to stay on 1 update a week for too long since it really ruins the pacing in my opinion. It was already way too slow as it was before for what's a story driven comic.

One of the benefits of slowing down (besides catching up on stuff I didn't finish previously because YOU KNOW ME!!!), I've been able to doodle some on my own accord without the immense pressure of guilt. It was fun drawing this little comic about myself and my experience drawing Bodysuit 23. But you know what the COOLEST thing I was able to doodle recently?! I think I finally cracked the code on how the spaceships in my silly spaceships wielding giant swords story will look! It has been a hell of mine for literally YEARS trying to think about how they could look and how things worked. On top of that, I never had confidence nor skills to draw vehicles, so my thinking was I'd always get someone else to do it for me. But while looking at concept art for the ill fated Outlaw Star II anime, I got to thinking "wait a second, I can draw a rough at this level of roughness." So after finishing the roughs for today's update of Bodysuit 23 I got to doodling, and about two hours later I got a concept of a DRAGON (the name of that style of sword wielding spaceships) in front of me. Something that 10-year-old me would think is the coolest fucking thing ever. Hell, 34-year-old me thinks it's the coolest shit! Don't get me wrong, it's duuuuuumb as hell, but in a cool sort of way! Things keep falling into place more and more with that story. I SUUUUUUPER want to work on it in the near future. Just, uh, no idea when I'll be able to.

Also, just so I'm super transparent, I'll be uploading the next episode publicly in the next day or so as I'm submitting everything I've gotten done for Kat to the contest Pixiv is currently running! This one right here! I feel like the next episode is a good cutting off point versus this one. I'm going ahead and apologizing that it'll be out in public before y'all, but the cut off time for the contest is just a few days away. Goal was originally to have all this done already. I doubt I'll win or anything, but it won't hurt submitting Kat anyway! Hopefully someone there winds up enjoying it!

Anyway, that's all from me for tonight! Gonna wrap up posting the comic pages everywhere and make my patented salad pizza that I make every wednesday as a treat for myself! Later!