With Tumblr's impending downfall (?), there's talk of people coming back here. And even if this site doesn't experience a full-blown renaissance, I figure a small update is still in order in the year since I last posted here.

The thrift store job I mentioned in my last post here has come and gone, and honestly was one of the hardest experiences of my life post-college. People are not kidding when they say working retail is heck. Granted, I had it better than probably most retail gigs in a number of ways, but it still took a hit on my mental health... To the point where I went through therapy. And am now on an antidepressant. Thankfully after eight months of working there I finally found another job, which I thought was a lost cause. So now I'm a security guard working the night shift. If you've followed me on Tumblr and noticed my weird posting hours, that be why. (I've gotta do something with the downtime on my shifts, and a lot of that is spent scrolling through my phone, writing in my digital journal that I springboarded from the Word doc archives of my old account's content, drawing, and/or playing Fate/Grand Order).

My boyfriend and I broke up but also didn't, really - we just sort of redefined the relationship, so now we're essentially in a queerplatonic relationship or qpr. Basically neither of us can necessarily tell if what we feel for one another is romantic (What even is romance anyway? Outside of the actions and dynamics often associated with it, beats me), but we do still care about one another a lot and in a different way than our other friends. So yeah. That's a thing. We're also tentatively engaged. I only say tentatively because there are no plans to move forward with that just yet, not until we both have our lives more together and are in a better position to leave our parents. He's anticipating that taking a year or so, I see it happening in closer to two or three years myself. We'll see what happens.

I sold at two cons this year, both local, and since then I've just been focused on work I guess. So far I'm only registered for Phoenix Fan Fusion (formerly Phoenix Comicon and last year was called Phoenix Comic Fest), and as it is I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna get the time off from this job for that. My company is a bit stingy with letting people take downtime without trading shifts or like, actually putting in a leave request, it seems. And the leave request process... I'm not sure what exactly constitutes a justifiable reason to request leave other than medical or family emergencies. Which I mean, I guess I can understand in an industry like security. Maybe I'll have moved up in the company to some kind of office position where I only have to take a couple days off for that con instead of like a whole work week, but who knows (right now my schedule is Wednesday night through Sunday night... The con runs Thursday through Sunday, and setup will probably take place Wednesday night and even if it didn't, working all night before selling at a convention with little to no chance to even get a nap in between? Recipe for disaster if there ever was one)

So that's about it with me. I'll try to come here more often, not sure about uploading my art though (the file sizes... The file sizes!!)