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Hi, so it’s been a couple of years, huh? I forgot that my goodbye post was just… So soon after the horrible hospital and ablation nightmare I had in 2019. Literally in my first week coming back home from it all.
I can’t recall what my emotions could’ve been doing at the time where I was kinda harsh on this site in my goodbye, but the burnout I felt was legit for sure. Especially considering all that happened.
After becoming more active on Twitter - during 2020 no less - I’m finding it way too stressful and annoying of a site to use. It’s really not my thing, but I’ll use it for networking purposes or whatever. Announcing when I go live on Twitch and whatnot.
Coming back to Tumblr to peek at things, I wanna chill here again. But not on this account anymore. I want to start fresh, and leave this blog behind as one of my strange online relics. Some things I regret here, other things are simply fun/silly memories to look back on.
I created this account with anonymity in mind, but years later I lifted the veil and whatnot. IIRC, it was good timing within my comfort zone for when the Journal 3 book would drop and reveal Dipper’s real name in it too?
Um, anyway, I’m starting fresh on another Tumblr. If any of you are still around and follow this blog, you can see me around again over at @werewolf-kat.
I really need a breather from Twitter, but also I hate trying to share my artwork on there. I’ve really missed Tumblr’s system of having tags be their own piece of a post. Hashtagging within the limited-character postings for Twitter gives me an irrational level of annoyance that I cannot tolerate any longer. It’s too inefficient trying to use it for displaying works as an online creator. At least for my liking.
( And no way in heck will I be able to return to DeviantArt either, on that note…)
But yeah, seeya on my other account! I’ll be writing up a post on there going into a few more important things that should help catch you guys up some more. Like a “where are they now?” sort of post if that’s an accurate way to describe it?
Hi, so it’s been a couple of years, huh? I forgot that my goodbye post was just... So soon after the horrible hospital and ablation nightmare I had in 2019. Literally in my first week coming back home from it all.
I can’t recall what my emotions could’ve been doing at the time where I was kinda harsh on this site in my goodbye, but the burnout I felt was legit for sure. Especially considering all that happened.
After becoming more active on Twitter - during 2020 no less - I’m finding it way too stressful and annoying of a site to use. It’s really not my thing, but I’ll use it for networking purposes or whatever. Announcing when I go live on Twitch and whatnot.
Coming back to Tumblr to peek at things, I wanna chill here again. But not on this account anymore. I want to start fresh, and leave this blog behind as one of my strange online relics. Some things I regret here, other things are simply fun/silly memories to look back on.
I created this account with anonymity in mind, but years later I lifted the veil and whatnot. IIRC, it was good timing within my comfort zone for when the Journal 3 book would drop and reveal Dipper’s real name in it too?
Um, anyway, I’m starting fresh on another Tumblr. If any of you are still around and follow this blog, you can see me around again over at @werewolf-kat.
I really need a breather from Twitter, but also I hate trying to share my artwork on there. I’ve really missed Tumblr’s system of having tags be their own piece of a post. Hashtagging within the limited-character postings for Twitter gives me an irrational level of annoyance that I cannot tolerate any longer. It’s too inefficient trying to use it for displaying works as an online creator. At least for my liking.
( And no way in heck will I be able to return to DeviantArt either, on that note...)
But yeah, seeya on my other account! I’ll be writing up a post on there going into a few more important things that should help catch you guys up some more. Like a “where are they now?” sort of post if that’s an accurate way to describe it?
optimistic-violinist said: you’re amazing!! thanks for being such a quality person and blog
You’re welcome, and thank you tons for those compliments! I also remember seeing your blog a lot and appreciating your support while I was active here!
I wish you well, old mutual! It’s real neat seeing some familiar names here again. :D You’ve been a great person yourself!
Good luck out there pal!!!!! The good ol’ gravity falls days were a golden time... I always loved your posts! And your username always made me smile :’)
Awww, thank you so much! :D Gravity Falls was such a golden experience indeed! I’m glad to hear you loved my posts and got some joy from my username here - it’s very heart-warming to know. Best wishes to you as well, Anon! Keep being awesome and striving for improvement in life no matter how good you think you’ve got it!
Important little post for those who are still following me and wondering where I’ve gone...
I’ve obviously lost interest in Tumblr over these past couple of years. I’m not that active here anymore and a lot has been going on in my life anyhow.
If anyone wants to keep up with me on social media, I’m on Twitter the most! And I’ve actually gotten myself comfortable with doing Twitch streams as of May 2018. It feels like a great accomplishment for me to overcome most of my public speech fears through that!
Aside from getting into streaming, I managed to finish enough of my website for it to be hosted! I put a lot of money into that, but it’ll last about 2 years. :’D
Sooo...
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/WolfKat777
My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfkat7
My Website: https://wolfkatworks.com/
Sometime soon I’ll be able to complete the HTML/CSS tutorial pages for my website, but it wasn’t possible to get it launched ASAP when those pages take the longest to put together. I’m not sure when I can get them done yet, but I hope it’ll be before Tumblr completely crashes and burns... I need my old tutorials on this blog to reference back to for how I organized everything. There are lots of mistakes to fix and new screenshots to take for better lesson examples, etc.
But yeah, a lot’s been going on. I’ve been trying to search for a new job (with no luck yet), managed to reach Affiliate on Twitch by some miracle, various family issues took place, my dad had to get heart surgery, etc.
Before going to a read more, if you don’t quite want to read a big wall of text or are scared of reading any medical topics (I get that), I’ll provide my thanks and more right here.
It’s been awesome to meet all the people I have on here - mostly through Gravity Falls! Writing and replying to theories was such a freakin blast, no matter how ridiculous things would get at times. Granted, I don’t like Tumblr itself as a social media platform and community if I’m brutally honest... However, I still had a little good come from this regardless of my bitterness from my old account before this one.
To you old mutuals of mine, and some of you old pals, keep being awesome! I hope you’re doing well in life; and if not, I hope for things to improve. Fight a good fight, but be careful in picking those fights. Life’s worth living and all that cliche junk that may or may not have much affect on you as motivating advice.
This all goes to my general base of followers too if any of them come across this post. Thank you guys for following this dumb blog and enjoying and sharing so many of my fun posts for Gravity Falls! The show is still super important to me, and my all time favorite cartoon to exist. Whether you sent asks, replied, reblogged, or simply liked, all of that was awesome in its own way. Having discussions on the series is one of the best memories I’ll have on this most often unbearable website! (I hope that doesn’t sound too insulting or generalizing about this site...)
And thank you for anyone who enjoyed the rest of my content here, and bearing with any personal ramblings I may have had on some bad days.
It’d be cool to come across anyone here again in the near future, but at some other online platform. I’ve provided my active links above, so feel free to find me elsewhere if you want.
Goodbye to you all, and have a great rest of 2019 and beyond!
This new year is also already off to a very... Surreal and terrifying start. In case you haven’t already checked my Twitter from the time of this post to see what I wrote there, I got a severe case of my rapid heartrate and ended up hospitalized rather than stuck in Urgent Care on its own. Just 3 weeks ago, I was in UC from a less severe but still terrifying rapid heart rate that woke me up at 5am and wouldn’t calm the heck down.
I know it seems weird to include this following story for my “farewell, Tumblr” post, but I think it’ll help give some interesting record of closure here. I’ve had personal posts and ramblings on this blog about my cardiac terrors and fears. I don’t recall exactly what I’ve written here, but maybe it’d be interesting for me to search for any of those posts again to kinda look back on those thoughts...
It’s been a few years since I’ve had a bad case of rapid heartrate... In fact, I remember writing about that experience back then here on my blog too. I was put on a heart monitor for only 3 days and yeah. Of course 3 days wasn’t enough to catch anything significant... So my heart issue was still freakin shrouded in mystery and only ever connected to my anxiety/panic disorder.
Welp, I was put on a heart monitor again just last week and I requested for it to last 30 days. Lo and behold, about 8 days later, my most severe case occurred and my monitor recorded a 250bpm max rate... This monitor is linked to cellular wifi thankfully, so the company got alerted of it and called my local UC to take me in and then called the house for my mom to answer and help drive me there. (Some moments before leaving home, my heartrate went back down to the 140′s or so, but still really bad and wouldn’t return to normal.)
In UC, I had to get X-Rays as well, but I have no idea what they found from ‘em? I wasn’t really told what they resulted with... I’ll have to ask sometime.
However, with everything going on and not even medication getting my heartrate back to normal, I was moved into a hospital shortly after my stay in UC. That was my first time ever being in an ambulance.
At the hospital, I got more blood tests done, more EKGs, all that stuff. There was also talk of me needing a uh... An ablation procedure. Then later that night, a cardiologist visited me and explained that I FINALLY got a confirmation on my issue. I’ve waited 10 years for answers on why my heart would be like this... Ugh. I’m relieved, but also frustrated it took that long to figure it out, y’know?
At this point, I didn’t have the name of the condition, but I was feeling more at peace when the cardiologist mentioned this condition isn’t life-threatening and doesn’t increase my risks of heart disease. The most common issue of it is how disruptive it is, and some other symptoms it can induce (dizziness,fatigue, etc.) Gosh, that cleared away so many worries and questions I had throughout these years.
But yeah, it’s something that people are just born with and it causes a faulty circuit or two in the heart giving it weird signals at times. Stuff like that. Those with the condition have a chance to never have symptoms of it, while others start showing symptoms between 11 - 50 years old. Mine started showing when I was 13, so that was... Great.
The only way to most likely treat it, is through an ablation... And that’s where things get really scary. I’ve always had nightmares about needing heart surgery, or my heart getting shot by bullets, etc. Like, that’s how bad I felt from never knowing what’s wrong with my vital organ.
My other option was medication, but it wouldn’t be guaranteed to help by itself. Afterall, I’ve had a few times in UC throughout my life where these meds didn’t help much if at all. They also figured it’d be good to get this procedure done the earlier the better, since it can be much more complicated if I were to have it done at an older age.
-big siiigh- After spending my first night there, yep, I’ve had that done. I don’t want to describe it ‘cause it was a terrifying experience, but I hope it helps in the end. I indeed had a faulty circuit they found, and they uh... Did what had to be done.
After I was sent back to my room, the cadiologist returned and gave me the name of my condition. Of ALL THINGS, it’s “Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome” or “WPW Syndrome” for short. Despite all the straight-up trauma I’ve had, I guess in a way I can kinda thank God for the bit of humor?? (For context, I developed an interest in wolves and werewolves during my teens and loving them about as much as cats...)
I was keeping my closest friends up to date on this through my phone during all this too. I kinda knew what I’d get myself into when revealing the name of my diagnosis to them... But the friendly teasing (such as “wow, so you DO have a wolf’s heart!”) cheered me up. I’m just really thankful for my friends for keeping me company even if only possible through online chat. And despite my conflicts with my mom, she stayed by me and helped me, spending nights in the hospital with me and all that stuff. I would’ve been so much more terrified and - errgh, for lack of better words - heart broken. Being all alone without someone I know being nearby during these types of things, regardless of how much I like being alone, is stressful. I would’ve otherwise only had doctors and nurses, but they’d come in and out and not always be in the room.
So, my heart needs to adjust to this, and the recovery is a little scary at times too. I’m pulling through the best I can, using guidance from my doctors. They had me stay one more night, and as of yesterday, I’ve been able to return home. Gotta spend a week relaxing and healing up, keeping up with certain medications to help, and so on.
With all that said, and for those who read this entire mess of a thing, see you all elsewhere!
Welp, I haven’t been using Tumblr much lately, but I’m half-tempted to organize a full, elaborate post on the “CalArts Style” whining. Been tempted for a while, but just... No energy for it. My sleep schedule is messed up and other stuff’s going on. Not much time, ‘cause I have so many projects to do and hopeful job searching to keep pursuing soon.
Still, claiming there’s some singular style from one art/animation school of thousands and somehow it’s the ONLY place most people in cartoons come from, and so on - it’s all ridiculous beyond belief. And people keep tossing around some stupid image that’s inaccurate beyond imagination (don’t remember if it was intended to be serious to begin with, but people act like it’s proof when it didn’t come from each show itself).
To also make whatever dumb post I’m half-tempted to make, I’d have to draw some example things to explain stuff about cartoons based on what I can learn from observation and research. Research I do for MY OWN artwork to improve it whether it’s realism studies, or cartoon design/animation rules and techniques. Research which lots of these people blaming “CalArts Style” don’t do either.
I maintain a mindset of “there’s always more to learn, so I can’t claim to be an expert until I’m fully in the field/career - but that won’t nullify infinite learning.”
Many others claim to already be that expert.... Based on some other peoples’ Twitter posts. Yes. Very smart.
Anyways, that only sums it up here on my sadly-almost-dead-blog. Gonna go back to life stuff. I apologize for inactivity on this site - I just don’t have as much motivation to be on tumblr compared to other websites, and I’m busy trying to build/prepare things for my own website, portfolios, and so on. :’D
Hope you old followers and mutuals are doing okay though. -thumbs up-
I finally have a chiropractor to go to for adjustments! Had my first adjustment yesterday and I feel like I can breathe a LOT better? Idk what happened to my left ribcage, but it was starting to hurt more this week to a point that laying on my side, in my bed, was painful. Also had some mild adjustments to my neck and other places on my spine. I feel MUCH less stiff! Next appointment is Monday, so I wonder what other physical improvements are in store for me in the future...
Still, I can’t handle the amount of joy I have right now. Usually, it can feel stiff and uncomfortable on my left side when I breathe! But NOPE! NOT ANYMORE! I’m so GLAD! I never knew breathing could actually feel good like this! I’ve never been able to breathe this well in my life! Crud, man!
My version of Kim Possible! She was SO COOL 📟🖤💚 I even changed the ringtone on my first mobile phone to be the same as hers (🎶 Call me, beep me, if ya wanna reach me 🎶)
jessie from pokemon is such an upsetting character bc her life has been a failure since the very beginning
she is a broken person
unlike for james, who could quit at any time and return to a comfortable life, for jessie, team rocket is everything she has.
she lived in poverty, with a mother who was a criminal, and they were so poor they ate snow
her mother disappeared, looking for mew. there was never a mention of jessie having a father
she wanted to be an actress, and decided to take that route instead of going with a boy she loved, but she ended up losing both as her audition didn’t go through
she wanted to be a nurse, but failed
and now she keeps failing trying to catch that god damned pikachu
as much as i like dawn i almost want jessie to win all the ribbons because she fucking deserves to be happy and she deserves those victories and she deserves a friend like james
this post is good except for one tiny detail, and that’s that james cannot just “quit at any time and return to a comfortable life”
james’ family has riches and luxury, yes, but his parents are neglectful & uncaring and have engaged him to an abuser. they refuse to let him live in the lap of luxury unless he marries her and spends his whole life miserable.
everything about jessie and james is, from where i’m standing, intended to be opposite. james is a soft-spoken boy from a family that knows wealth but not love. jessie is a headstrong and outspoken girl from a family that knows love but is dirt poor.
the thing they have in common is that neither of them found happiness until they found each other (and meowth, of course) i know this post is about jessie, and trust me–she fucking deserves it–but you can praise her like the queen she is without making it sound like her partner has it easy. neither of them could live the lives that were handed to them with a smile on their face, and they’re both amazingly strong people for continuing to work hard every day, even if it is as antagonists.
