1.For my Secret Santa wish list I'd be happy with any of my OCs. Which can be found here on my toyhou.se account https://toyhou.se/UrticaGrimm
2. I ask that it have a winter or holiday theme.
3. Please keep it SFW
4. Just have fun with it!
Wow it's definitely been a while. Let's see where to start...my four year old started preschool! I have to say dropping him off and leaving him somewhere for 3.5 hours is actually pretty difficult. He's my one and only and basically haven't really been apart from him ever so the first day was rough. It's getting easier, but definitely harder for me than for him. It's just weird having my house so oddly quiet!
In other news I got a HiDive account to access of course more anime. A friend came to visit and got me addicted to Oshi no Ko and HiDive is the only place you can watch it. I went into the show having no idea what it was about and I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a murder mystery and not a cute show about idols XD. I'm very much addicted to it and looking forward to the next season. I have seen a bit of the manga and there are a few things that worry me going forward in the plot that I hope don't happen, but I'm not going to ruin anything for you! Another one on there that I've really enjoyed called The Eminence in Shadow. It has a bit of fan service so if that's not your thing it might not be for you, but the humor of the show actually had me laughing out loud a few times. The plot was genuinely amusing to me and I had a good time watching it. I'm looking forward to season 2 of that one as well which from what I've see should be coming out soon. Something I'm really looking forward to next month is The Apothecary Diaries!!! I adore the manga soooo much. If you haven't read it, it's about a girl named Maomao who lived with her adoptive father and studied being an apothecary under his tutelage. She also has an extreme obsession with poisons. While out gathering herbs she gets abducted by people who sell "relatives" to the palace as servants and then collect a percentage of their pay. She ends up working in the palace and gaining the attention of various people becomes a food tester for poison. While there she solves various mysteries that arise. The anime of this manga is coming to crunchyroll sometime in October! I can't wait to watch it! I love manga, but it's always fun to see it adapted to the characters "living" on screen.
Art wise I think I burned myself out a bit during artfight in July. I'm hoping to get back to things in October if I can find a good challenge sheet. Nothing like OCtober or inktober to help get back into the creative realm. I do have a few pieces that I'd like to post here when I get a moment. I feel like I've just had a lot going on. We just spent the last week or so being sick and finally recovered from it. (Yay exposure due to preschool). I hope you're all staying healthy and thanks for reading!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/oQybM1-rWuU
Time lapse of my most recent drawing Kaiis. Kaiis is not my character I drew him with permission of my friend. I hope you guys like it! This seemed the best spot to post it for you all!
(Side note for some reason youtube wouldn't let me use the link sooooo I just put it in above)
It has definitely been a while since I updated here! We just had so much going on...holidays followed by my son's 4th birthday followed by hospital trips. Life has seriously been a bit exhausting lately. Back in March my kiddo turned four and we had a great birthday party for him with balloons, pinata, and even a cake decorated to look like Pororo his favorite cartoon character. We had a bunch of family and friends over to help celebrate and wouldn't you know it...someone was sick. Who? No idea...well a few ideas, but long story short we all got sick. Now recently I had taken my son to his yearly check up and told the doctor I was suspicious that perhaps he has asthma just because I noticed after running around a lot he usually starts coughing. He prescribe albuterol to see if it helped. Well before I could fill the prescription we all got sick from his birthday. By that weekend it was obvious Sammy was super sick. We were miserable, but he was really not good. He had the runny nose and horrible cough, but it was so much worse. He was super lethargic and trying to take naps on his own. He seemed wobbly and when it was bed time I noticed he was breathing like he was running a marathon just trying to sleep. At midnight I called it and said we're going to the ER. After getting him checked in we get called over by the nurse who put the finger monitor on him to check blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen levels. Immediately he tells us to take Sammy to a room. Turns out he was definitely in respiratory distress. They put him on a nebulizer and initiated breathing treatments. We ended up spending two nights in the hospital in the pediatrics wing. Seeing a toddler have to get an IV put in and with breathing mask on is probably one of the most heart breaking things ever. I have to say it was some of the worst mommy moments of my life. Luckily I felt the need to bring him in or things could have been so much worse. Since then we've been doing daily breathing treatments and likely he does indeed have asthma which is why this virus caused such an issue. He's recovered well and life has gone on with a new routine that will hopefully keep us from a return visit to the hospital. Right after we recovered from this was Easter. Then it just seems like various other things kept happening for a bit, but finally stuff is calming down.
On to the lighter stuff! Anime I've been watching lately is Shadows House, My Love Story with Yamada, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, and Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion. Shadows House started a little slow, but the story has developed so much since the start and I'm really enjoying it now! I just finished season one of it and I'm getting started on season 2. The whole concept is interesting and it kind of has almost a fairy tale kind of feeling to it. My Love Story with Yamada is just a fun Rom-com and as an online gamer I couldn't help, but feel some connection with the main characters. It makes me laugh and I love the parts where they interact online! The Ice Guy one I just finished and I'm kind of bummed I reached the end. It was just one of those super sweet anime that almost makes your teeth hurt it's so sweet. It was really just a ridiculous feel good anime. I liked the mix of yokai and people that they blended in it! Fun if you're looking for something light hearted and very much none serious. Finally Raeliana is still coming out and it's another Isekai (anime is super saturated with these right now) Honestly it's not a super original plot, but I'm enjoying seeing the characters develop and the relationship build between the main character and the Duke.
Drawing wise I have been drawing, but it's been kind of spread out. I've also been realizing that I've been forgetting to post them here and then when I do notice I have quite a few to post and I hate to flood the gallery with my stuff. I have to admit that I've also been feeling some art block and that unless I feel inspired I'm having a hard time creating good pieces. I've been thinking about finally starting commissions as well, but I'm seriously at a loss as to how to set the pricing. I suppose I'll figure it out eventually.
Other than all of that I've been squeezing in some video games. Grow: Song of the Evertree has kept me pretty pre-occupied. It's really cute and has some really creative ideas twisted in with the farming sim feel and town management. It's different in a good way and I really enjoy that.
Whelp if you've stuck with me and my rambling until here I thank you for reading my randomness! I hope to be putting up some cool pieces soon. Got two to post right now. Hope you're all staying healthy and have good things happening!
Well October has hit! We've been busy unfortunately not in the way I thought. The friend who has been living with us for a year and her son were due to move out last weekend, but alas they gave us one more parting gift croup. Her son was sick and he sneezed and spit (not malicious kid thing...hard to explain) in my son's face. Unfortunately my son got even sicker than hers did and we ended up going to urgent care with him having croup. He woke up unable to breath with the classic barking croup cough. Luckily croup sounds much worse than it is. We took him in and they gave him a dose of medicine to help and now we're recovering. Delayed the move for a week as we went into sick mode. I was holding up ok and got my first couple OC-tober drawings done when it hit me. I'm now woefully days behind! I feel a bit like OC-tober is cursed for me....
Aaaaanyways....enough whining! On a different note I just finished up Black Summoner and Parallel World Pharmacy. I loooooved Black Summoner...definitely had that harem feel, but the story is great and I'm looking forward to another season! I really like Parallel World Pharmacy, but I feel like it ended kind of abruptly. I like the whole idea and it was a little different from some of the isekai tropes we've been seeing a mess of lately. Book wise I've been reading The Abandoned Empress....I love this series so much! It's a manhwa (Korean comic)and it's just beautifully done. It is fantasy and takes place in a time of nobles etc. I liked that it wasn't just "reborn in another world" comic. The main character always existed in that time period, but gets to go back and relive her life differently. I've been buying it as it comes out, but not going to lie I got so into it I HAD to go and find it online so I could read the rest! It started off as a webtoon so it's all out online already. The books are lovely though and completely in color. They're a bit spendy, but they're really good quality! I also got caught up with Something Must Be Wrong With Us....which can best be described as a steamy soap opera! I mean there's murder, lust, mystery, and betrayal! It feels a bit like a guilty pleasure. I'm not sure how Japan does it, but they can make the most banal things into something really interesting. In this case it's wagashi (traditional Japanese tea sweets). Thinking about it though there was Chihayafuru which is based around karuta or Shion and March Comes in Like a Lion both based on shogi. Bravo Japan! There's a brief summary of what I've been up to. Let me know what you've been watching or reading I'd love to know! Thanks for reading to the end! 
