StalkedByDragons

Holy mother of updates, Batman, I return from the depths!

Just wanted to drop y'all a line and let you know I've moved shop. If you're interested in following my art, please head on over to:
phillistrations.deviantart.com…

Now for a little explanation as to where the hell I've been!

I graduated college about four years ago. I lost my passion for a while, I'm not going to lie. College really beat the living shit out of me, as did making the transition from school to a full time job. But I did it, and to those out there still struggling: keep at it. You'll totally get there.

After about two years of doing absolutely nothing artistically due to exhaustion, I finally stepped back into the ring drawing birthday cards for people around the office where I work. I currently work for a stationery company. Honestly, I kind of love it, even if office politics sometimes get me down. But, they're allowing me to continue making art every so often. You'll see a lot of my designs posted to my new gallery, as well as fanart, and now, even some personal projects. Recovery is a long, long road, but I'm finally out the other side.

Full disclosure: I've come out as transgender, queer, and also as a furry (big shock to most of you, I know). Because my identity has changed so much, I've decided that soon, I will be closing this account entirely. I will be archiving the art here, so if there's a piece you really want me to keep live, let me know so I can properly archive it in the new location. Otherwise, it will be locked away in a hard drive somewhere.

I'm not ashamed of my art- in fact, I'm rather happy to have a collection that demonstrates my growth through my teenage years. I have all of you to thank for that growth. Thank you all for being my followers! It still means a lot to me, and your support and encouragement helped make me the artist -and person- I am today. Honestly, the only reason I am closing up shop here is to help with my gender dysphoria. I now prefer male pronouns, after all!

Other life updates: I am about to get married to the love of my life, have a lovely little studio to work from, and have a multitude of personal projects I'm chipping away at, including a dragon-themed coloring book, and a comic I'm writing. You might recognize the characters! Pinto and Annie are slowly getting their own story. Someday, I will hopefully be able to make that comic. I post concept art and noodlings for it from time to time if you're interested in keeping tabs!

And that's about it. Thank you all so much for your comments, favs, support, and love over the past few years. I hope some of you will follow me to the new page so we can reconnect- I've really missed interacting with you all. Once again, the new link is: phillistrations.deviantart.com…

If not, I wish you all nothing but the best. <3

Well, I was going to hold off posting a journal here 'til winter break, but it appears I have been gifted a subscription by an anonymous donor! I don't know who you are, but thank you very, very much, Anon! That was such a nice surprise to find floating about in my inbox ~

Actually, I don't have a lot to say outside expressing gratitude, except that yes, I'm still alive. It is finals week here and I am one very, very tired Stalked. Construction workers have basically made themselves at home in our apartment complex for the past two months or so and they seem to be completely unaware that 2 AM is not a suitable time to fire up the mortar drills and talk loudly amongst themselves. The noise will start and stop through the night and well into the morning, keeping us from getting much deep sleep, so despite the fact I've been sleeping in a rather shameful amount I've been getting very little actual rest. Between this and getting burnt out on drawing on class work, I've had very little motivation and energy to create personal art worth looking at.

Can't wait to visit my dad and get some actual sleep in. I am shamelessly looking forward to a low-stress, pleasant holiday season and hope that every single one of you are gearing up to have an excellent round of them yourselves!

That being said, it is now 1:30 AM. The workers have lowered their voices and have stopped throwing two-by-fours around so I am going to sneak off to bed before they get obnoxious again. I will definitely try and have some new arts and a legit journal up in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, have some very happy holidays, and thank you again, Anon! <3

I don't normally post journals for small things like this but Jesus Christ I think I just had a heart-attack

So Pinto and I have this new apartment. It is beautiful and extremely cheap and I couldn't love it more. And as I was laying propped against a bean-bag chair on the floor, enjoying my brief window of meme-reading and video-watching and other general internet fun before bed, I heard this strange popping sound from behind me. Since we live in a state which goes from horribly hot to hideously cold on a daily basis at certain points in the year, making the wood in houses pop rather loudly at random intervals, I was not concerned. I kept watching my video, enjoying the trippy dancing cows, until I heard yet another, louder pop. I looked up almost nonchalantly to see the cat sitting bolt upright, eyes completely dilated and staring over my shoulder. It made me worried.

That was when I turned to see that Pinto's ipod player had burst into flames.

I yelled, grabbed the device, tore the ipod from its socket, and threw the radio at the brick firewall. Shortly afterward it stopped combusting, and then started producing this massive cloud of smoke.

Smoke began to fill the room. I called for Pinto and warned her that the fire alarm was about to go off as the smoke filled the room. It never did. She also never woke up. In the end, thankfully, nothing but the player was burnt.

I just got done airing out the apartment. I am terrified to go to bed. Again. I think this is also a good time to mention that in the span of two weeks, we've had the fire alarm mysteriously go off, the sink *literally* explode, and have been hearing the toilet start hissing at random intervals. All at 12am or later. The cat *refuses* to go into the bathroom unless I am in there, and even then she always scans the ceiling and sniffs everything as if she's expecting a wallmaster to carry her back to the beginning of the dungeon at any time.

I really love this apartment but I'm starting to think it might be haunted or cursed .__.

UPDATE: Lol I lied, Pinto's ipod is totally fried. Oh this will be pleasant to explain. lD;

Hey guys!

I'm about... half an hour out from hitting the road and helping dad move across the country. Not expecting the trip itself to be very long but I'm also planning on visiting some folks while I'm up in Indiana. Hoping to be back with a little time to spare, because if everything goes well I should totally have a new, idiot-free apartment to move into when I get back!

I'll definitely have some sketchdump stuff to upload when I get back- I've been meaning to put one together for a while now but I got caught up in family/friend obligations, finding a new place to live, and end-of-the-quarter finals, among other things. I may or may not have a handful of other things to show depending on how bored I am and how rough the road is!

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summers! Anyone doing anything exciting with their breaks? :>

So I'm sitting here in the terminal on my way to what is likely going to be a pretty excellent adventure. Heading off to Florida for Megacon for the weekend, about which I'm very excited. Not only have I never been to a con before, I'm ecstatic about meeting some friends I'd been hoping to see for the longest time.

And if in the somewhat-unlikely event anyone here is going to Megacon, have fun, might even see you there!

Also I'm solidifying plans for Phoenix's Comic Con as well with Pinto at the moment, so definitely drop me a line if you'll be heading down there. We've got plenty of time to wrangle up a posse yet~!

As for the rest of life, it's going pretty swell. After a long lapse, the family's starting to band together a little more, though the stable life isn't going as well. Our new manager came in recently and initiated some changes that are kind of causing some unrest, whether for better or worse has yet to be determined. I'm not too happy about him giving my favorite kitty the death sentence (she's very old, and was living in the bunk house after some guy dumped her off on us, unwilling to take care of her while his daughter went to college, but there's no more cats allowed in the bunkhouse so I had to plea to spare her dignity instead of just letting her be eaten by the coyotes... which I hope they honor as I'm away). Despite this, my horse is doing well, all the old stablefolk are still hanging out with one another, and I'm still having a fair bit of fun showing folks around the park. There's really no point in bellyaching about the changes, or the inevitable, so I'm just taking this time to enjoy whatever moments I have left as a wrangler.

School is going very well though, and I'm looking forward to seeing all my buds when we let back in after break!

Expect, hopefully, at least one or two pieces for your inboxes fairly soon, because I don't expect apartment or job hunting to go very well. Sorry for the sporadic inactivity- if I haven't been busy out of my mind, I've been slacking off to make up for it. lD;