another birthday, another instance of me feeling increasingly like a grandpa... but i come bearing a small gift as a token of gratitude for supporting my little graphic endeavours ! use this link or enter the code BIRTH10 at checkout when purchasing any of my ko-fi store products for a 10% discount. the code is valid until the end of april (midnight on the 30th) ! thank you all once again for all the support over the years despite my sporadic activity ! as an alternative means to support and help me out, leaving a tip is always super appreciated too (but no pressure!)
i'm about to get billed 70$ a month to keep up the (previously free) text editor i use for the space generator :) :) :) so if i can't find a free alternative within the next 2 weeks pls bear with me if i have to disable it for a small while
APRIL 26TH - Artist claiming begins for the stories. A post about the claiming process will be created on the Buddie Big Bang Tumblr soon. If you are an artist and not part of the Big Bang Discord Server, we highly suggest you join before this date as the claiming process will take place on here.
APRIL 29TH - Artist claiming ends. All stories must be claimed. If a story isn't claimed, we will ask for artists to volunteer to take more than one story.
MAY 2ND - Artists must have reached out to their authors by this point.
MAY 5TH - Authors must have responded back to their artists by this point.
MAY 25TH - Artist check in #1. We ask how your art is going, if you think you'll still be able to make the deadlines and confirm you're still in contact with your author.
JUNE 15th - Artist check in #2. 80% of your art for the story must be completed - so at least one piece fully completed.
JUNE 30th - Artists must send in their completed art to us and to their author by 11:59 PM EST.
JULY 1st - Claiming begins for authors to chose their posting dates.
It's gonna be a LONG ass while before I'm really myself again. Losing my dad as well as just trying day by day to keep my home and keep up the bills by myself with no income yet, needless to say it takes its toll. All while cleaning out junk that makes you remember things and breakdown AND deal with fighting siblings and family because apparently I'm now what my dad was. The new glue that holds everyone together and sane. Its tough right now.
However, so I don't make more regrettable and impulsive decisions, I will be returning here to MY home to keep sane and distracted while I survive. And I can't even begin to thank those of my friends and mutu.als who check/checked in on me during this time. I love you, you real MVPs. 💋✌🏼
> me having every intention of doing my drafts on here & picking things up again at some point.
> also me:
i know i shouldn’t be sorry for how long it takes me to do drafts on here, but i do feel like i owe some sort of explanation as to why i haven’t been around for a bit.
it’s nothing bad. nobody has died, i haven’t gotten sick or anything like that. but i feel rather uninspired to be here. i think that’s in part to me roleplaying on anima again and i’ve found i’ve had a lot more muse & motivation than i originally anticipated. plus with me working full time, going to the gym & various activities outside of tumblr, i’ve found myself with a lot less time than i had before, which has certainly impacted my motivation to be on any blog.
that’s not to say that the borderlands fandom hasn’t been great, cause it has, but it feels a lot harder to get anything going here than it does in the ffrpc. people bring so much life to these characters and i absolutely love it! however, i know that’s partly my fault that interactions might be so limited/sparse cause i have a hard time reaching out to people to start things. people do come and go quite frequently here and it does kind of put me off reaching out in case they disappear after a couple of times and i’m right back at square one again.
i also do want to be here, but the tiny little watcher voice/muse inside me has just gone quiet again. she’s still there, but not as vocal. i also don’t want to put this blog on a hiatus but i feel like i might need to? to try and step away and get some perspective. having two muses has made me realise that i’m terrible at managing multiple rp blogs. if i bring one back, the other one fizzles and visa versa.
