08:37
Sorry about the wait, thanks for the patience and the support.
I swear to god I don't know what happened, snowball effect, I guess, but things are probably going to start normalizing now, and unless something really bad happens, we should be good from now on.
I guess that’s the thing about me. I stress a lot over small issues, but if I have my way, I end up with a reliable fix that will be useful forevermore. When I started posting, before this horrible hiatus, I didn’t know 100% what I was doing and that made me accumulate problems which made me leave. Other unrelated and bad things then ruined the rest of 2021 for me, but eventually I had to deal with most of the things that were holding me back in order to return. That was A LOT longer than I ever intended (was supposed to be back by last November), so I’m REALLY sorry.
As of right now I should be pretty okay. I have plenty of drawings to post, very clean systems to handle them, and while my tag-helper application might not be… the best… it’s helping me with tag-anxiety because now I don’t have to wonder what tags people use anymore, I can just search for them in my application and click. No mystery, no typos, and they even add synonyms. So that helps.
I’m still going to leave commissions as partially open for now since I’m still a bit busy.
After that I’ll bring back the slots system because I don’t want to accumulate too many commissions at one time.
I’m also being more precise with dates in journals and descriptions, since they can be a whole mess where the future talks to the past, the past talks to the future, I can contradict myself and hopes can either thrive or fade away. It’s important to mark the dates because otherwise it would just be so confusing. I hope it helps. I’m a bit embarrassed about all the failed promises and things like that which will be forever register in these journals or descriptions, but ehhhh… I don’t wanna have to change any of it just because I’m embarrassed.
For people who couldn’t care less… I know it’s stupid, I’m sorry.
Please no bully.
Part of me wishes I could show people the stuff I’ve been working on more recently, but given that I only want to post in order now, that will have to wait… a long time… sorry about that. I’m considering just sending it privately to people if they ask, but that might get annoying, so don’t do that (maybe a future patreon reward? Question mark? Double eye emoji?).
Honestly, I might actually never post “contemporary” drawings, meaning that whatever I post is going up at least some weeks after it was made, which means that anything you see in the descriptions isn’t talking about “now” or “today” as the date of the upload. Any “now” in descriptions along with problems I was having at the time I wrote it, or things I struggled with… that’s all going to be in the past by the time it gets uploaded.
As for the stuff I’m posting now… I decided to start earlier than the original plans (starting at the first 2021 drawing), since there would be a lot of gross and weird drawings otherwise, and I wanted to return on something more vanilla. Then I decided to start even earlier than that, and I don’t even remember why… but that would land me on humanposting, so I decided to start EVEN EARLIER, which invalidates the no-gross stuff since even today I’ll be uploading some extremely gross drawings… Oops.
But hey, at least that made me either finish or do flat colors for some things I wouldn’t have otherwise and I like them… so… yay?
On humanposting, though… I’m guessing that HicceArs wouldn’t full let me in yet, since they claim you need over 1000 watchers. I think I meet the “over 6 months of posting history” requirement, even if I literally vanished for longer than that (oops), but since I have more than enough uploads to meet their monthly average requirement, it should be fine. So yeah, I need a few hundred more watchers to make HicceArs my “homebase” and I hope that site grows.
For now, I’ll do what people do here on IB, which is censoring the human drawings. My style of censorship is turning the humans into non-humans (I literally created an alpha-channel-colored species I call “void bunnies” just for that, I hope people don’t think it’s stupid), and I’ll link the human versions in the descriptions. I assume this is allowed because I know people do stuff like this. The difference is that where people censor the sex in the human drawings, I keep the sex and censor the… humanity? Yes, that.
But that’s not a concern yet since I’m not posting humans today. I need to be careful when I do, though, as I don’t want to upload forbidden content through distraction. Hopefully I don’t do any oopsies on that tomorrow.
08:57
