Hello everyone,

Things are very busy still and I'm feeling down, but I've gotten some encouragement and am still going.

I have art in progress/completed that can't be posted yet as they're zine related. So far:

A BSKY-appreciation zine in preorder phase (+ bonus). It's a very small casual thing, if you want to join its accepting submissions until May 14th.

The others are in creation/TDA.

I hope you can enjoy them when they release!

The Language Studies post is being tweaked here and there. I'm hoping to find more options for English German and French, as well as add sections e.g. Slavic languages and especially endangered languages. I'm aiming for low cost/free alternatives and dodging tools that basically rely on AI generating the content/answers with no checks.

Glaze has a 2.1 update to combat a new attack. If you have not updated, please consider doing so.

Several JP artists were commenting how tools like Grok are editing their art, as well as thieves taking WIPs from streams to generate new images. Those posts made me consider doing my own tests to see how AI handles different techniques in replication/text removal and find the best solution for protection. A real-time glaze project would be funny but I believe the process is already so intensive that its unrealistic. I'm not code savvy but it might be a cool project.

A few friends asked me about commissions. As of right now I don't think my quality is consistent nor on par with the general market of NGS and other sites. I'm open to the idea but I'd rather improve more and get other opinions. I have a very small following so general feedback is scarce.

Several plans have been affected by the trade war and uh, lets call it, government shenanigans within the US. If you know me, I was hoping to create a small charm shop in the future, but that idea is on hold due to supply-chain problems and other uncertainty. Normally I'd just have to wonder if anyone would buy it... (ó﹏ò｡)

I'm very, very tired. But thank you again for the support.