dremelf

My last journal entry is way out of date, so I thought I'd give you all an update.

In 2010 I contracted a chronic illness, so life has really slooooowed down since.

These days I mostly write fiction, though I also am brushing up on my French-to-English literary translation.

I did manage to acquire a wacom tablet, so every now and then you'll see more art from me.  I'm hoping to be able to do more in the future.

Slooowly yet surely is my mantra.

Till next update!

This place has too many memories--most of which, by now, are painful.  They say that time heals all wounds, but that's not exactly true. It just changes them a little.

I haven't really done much art over the past year.  School and my two jobs together have kept me very busy, along with other things, such as grief combined with a lack of scanner access. (Art was always meant to be shared....)  I've caught up on the 10k deviations I've had waiting for me in my message box. Added a few jewels to favorites.  Now I have an itch to pick up the pencil again.  I want to at least update with -something- this break, but we'll see what happens. I make no promises this time.

I don't think I'll update Maze of Mirrors ever again. Though the unfinished story has haunted me every now and again, I can't restart it without reopening old wounds, as they say.

This isn't goodbye.  Think of it more like a giving up. I'll update occasionally, but it's no longer an overabundant source of joy for me.  It hasn't been for a long, long time. Bittersweet? yes.

Bittersweet.





Merry Christmas, everyone, and Happy New Year.  Vienna Teng said it best, I think, when she wrote her lyrics -

it's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
of feeling the full weight of our burdens
it's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
and knowing we are not alone in fear
not alone in the dark

I'm in the minority, but I hated v.5  and I LOVE v.6

Count me back, now that there's a reason to *come* back, I'll be updating my art and giving comments and following people again soon.

Just... I have 7,546 deviations, 600 messages to catch up on from the year of backlog.


By the way. My university wants to kill me.  I have SO much homework. BLAH.

Sorry for the silence. I just realized I haven't logged in seriously in over a month.  Also, am currently using my sketchbook as a desk for my computer, so... this means I don't use it for sketching very often.

There will be an art update soon, however!

Yes, I'm still alive. I apologize for the long stretches of silence lately.  Most of it was due to the HUGE MESS that was my summer.  No, I'm not going into details but it involved summer school at the university, finding apartments, jobs, crazy scheduling, paperwork, etc. etc.

Today is the start of Fall semester, so it's likely that I won't be on super often even now, but it will be more often than it was before, and I'll try to post more art.

Goals, goals! I can do it!