Hi people, allow me to vent a lil' bit. It's something I've been doing a lot here lately.

I have to say I'm quite ashamed of myself.

I recently meddled with grok and it seems to believe and summarise myself as an artist struggling with self-harm as if it's something I do a lot.

I do admit to getting hot-headed and slam my desk or punch a wall, but it has never been something serious. Last time was a bit more than that since I slammed my head on the keyboard a few times, but keyboards are soft.

I did treat it as something silly to do after I cleared my head. It was very late and I have pulled an all nighter so I was very drowsy. I'm dealing with a deteriorating PC for 2 years and I have already reinstalled windows as it did get corrupted, so it is indeed frustrating.

However, grok's summary also got me to feel self-conscious. I have had gotten DMs from followers asking if I'm ok or if I am even active, drawing and posting new things. I have to apologise for I'm not good with "social media" and I tend to be more isolated in a personal life.

Still, I'd like to make it clear that I am always making new things. Drawing and writing is what I do full-time and I have been really busy lately. I have worked on private commissions that I promised not to post anywhere.

Unfortunatelly, that means I couldn't work much on personal work and end up not being able to post much anywhere besides some doodles every now and then. I understand that it makes it look like I'm not active or that I abandoned my projects, but it is inaccurate.

I have become more secretive about my works in progress and those have built up and added to an already big backlog. However I seldom give up on a project and many images I work on have been created a decade before they were finished.

I wish I have been able to stream more, but due to an increasingly unreliable PC, private work, art classes, drawings for said classes and also time dedicated to family, it has been difficult to balance all of that.

I don't post the drawings from class because they are on paper. My scanner is broken since I have focused on making digital art since 2013 and they are mostly just exercises. I have been doing those to cement my foundations and techniques since I mostly learned art by myself.

Also, lately, I've mostly posted about my worries on my country's worrisome censorship measures as they are hell-bent on persecuting political opponents of the government. I will try to not be too vocal about my country's political climate going forward as it is depressing.

Well, I think such an update on my life has been long overdue. So, once again, I apologise for keeping people in my social media accounts and galleries in the dark. I haven't gone anywhere. ironically, I can't go anywhere since I have become a shut-in for 10 years now.

For those who wonder why I don't open a Discord server... Well, that is the sort of commitment I'm really not built for. Plus, I'm not that popular anyhow and it would totally ruin my "mystique".

Believe me, I rant way too much and I'm a chatterbox, I'm absolutely obnoxious.

I hope you are all doing good and taking care of yourselves. I know I am. I have been working out and it actually got me some insight on anatomy and ideas since I have written a scenario for Lipe and Zan working out together. I just haven't decided on a story or image sequence.

I have also done much progress on new chapters for the Factory and ironing out the character hierarchy and finally settled on what I want with 2 very important characters, one of them brand new.

But, that's enough for tonight. (I told you I'm a chatterbox. |:P)

PS: This is a copy/paste from a thread from Twitter/X. So sorry about the format of which this was written.