Happy Pride Month People! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Gonna make these a regular thing every June, to take stock of what’s been accomplished and to let you guys know how I’m doing. Can’t remember if I did one of these Last Year but nonetheless.
This Year has been BUSY. Been working extra hard damn near everyday on fixing up the House and raising Puppies. But I’m getting a good pace with balancing that and Art again. The last half of 2024 and start of 2025 was very hard for me and my Family. In a way though I think all that direct hardship helped steel my resolve again, that plus spending more time with my Family and Pets. We’ve made a lot of progress on the Home for the new Pups, they’ve also helped us all recover.
That said they’re getting big now so I’m going to dedicate more time to Training them soon. They catch on fast but are all little Tasmanian Devils too. Taking the Yearly Trip to the Ocean in a few weeks as well so my Art might slow a bit. But I did just get some new equipment to play with, including some new Sketchbooks.
Still waiting for Approval to start looking for Work, Art and otherwise. But that should be done this Year.
That’s about it for updates regarding what I’m up to. I’ll link another News Post with all Art Plans I plan on doing in the near future. Like I’ve said before anything I can’t get done now I’ll go for later.
https://cyberneticshotokan.newgrounds.com/news/post/1531547
Edit: Kinda taking this June as a Semi-Vacation. I already hinted at it but I should say I’ll be doing a little less Art this month outright.
Ok.
So now we talk about where my head’s been at. This Year’s been a lot but I’m dealing with it all much much better than the rest of the Decade. Even better than Last Year. Which is Good because don’t get me wrong. There’s a lot I’m Angry about in the World, not being able to do much is maddening as well at times. I’ve got a good balance of Work, Fun, and Contemplation again though and more importantly not being stunned for weeks by the Hard Times in my Life or in Communities I Love.
That all might be a bit repetitive yeah, it has been a repetitive few months in many ways. But also consistently making progress on something. Going to really appreciate the Mini Vacation later this June.
Guess that’s really all I have to say for now. Doing mostly good, getting stuff done, and going to be busier this month so a bit less Art will be out. I’ve got other things on the mind but I don’t want to make this very long. My Twitter and Bluesky are good places for seeing my Thoughts on whatever. I will make more casual News Posts here too I just don’t want to clutter it.
There is one thing I want to ask of anyone reading this. There are YouTubers called Technicals and Kusari. They’ve both made videos discussing the Melee’s Community’s mistreatment of Aziz “Hax$” Al-Yami. I was a casual fan of his as a kid, but his work on the BOXX inspired me when I was young. Learning more about him post-mortem is as well. But unfortunately his Death feels like the culmination of all the Darkness in the Smash Community. It seems abundantly clear that scum involved in his harassment/mistreatment are abusing YouTube’s Report System on both Kusari and Technicals’ Investigations. YouTube only cares about quelling noise and have been easily manipulated since I was a kid. I’m sick of it.
I’m asking you to please go watch, archive, and share both of those videos so those sick bastards don’t get to run from this, and so the Community never forgets how badly they failed someone who dedicated his Life to the Scene.
Rest in Peace Aziz.
Anyway I’ll cut here. Happy Pride Month people, and Men’s Mental Health Awareness too I guess. Sweet gesture having the month dedicated to both. Take care of yourselves, but Live too
