Just because I noticed several people tried to reach out for me on here!!! and that i let them hang for centuries before i even saw their messages

I'm still using toyhouse yes, but i haven't been cleaning my notifications decently for months. Sometimes i log in, see my 4568 unread notifications, delete everything without evening checking (except for fav + pm, i do check those..... every so often)

If you want to contact me, toyhouse is not the way lmao im so sorry    im busy with college, and busy with irl relationships/activities (quality time with friends, associative/activism work, etc etc!). you could send me an email on my university inbox, you'd get an answer within 20hours max (don't tho)

so, if you want to chat!! hmu somewhere here:

- Twitter !! cuticulecafeine or gakipper_ (cuticulecafeine is a safer bet)
- Discord (ask me for my username!)
- Instagram, preferably on my art account gakipper , im not active (as in: i dont post much) but i try to answer dms quick

Flight Rising account is also more active / has its notif MUCH MORE carefully checked daily lately. I'm Gakipper (ID: 291141)

FAQ

Do you still do OC stuff ?
YES! i do. I don't draw much anymore but i'm still ranting about karaci my Kattenan OCs 24/7 (occassionally Draudan OCs too)

What time are you typically online ?
No clue, it depends. I check instagram every morning ?? and i'm more often on discord, but if i have class or if im hanging with my crew, you're not gonna get any answer from me until im back home

What are you doing in college that is so cool you don't even feel bad about not creating OC content ????
Master's degree in evolutionary parasitology. it's evolutionary biology (=study of evolution) but with a focus on long-lasting interactions between organisms from different species! It's amazing. Also some epidemiology and helminthology to go with it. But i also spend a LOT of time with my classmates crew (not necessarily studious, work-full time)

Any other big news for us?
You can check Karaci's and Micolau's profile for a surprise (the surprise is that they're dating now)

I don't know if I'm gonna participate this year... I love the concept and the general mood and atmosphere of the event, but they keep filtering/flagging my characters because you can see their nipples and it drives me fucking nut

Would you like to see me join it still ? What do you think ?

By the way, drop your userpage in the comment !! Mine is https://artfight.net/~Gakipper if I decide to play the game this year :^)

Yooo

So, nothing that hardcore at all, but I need to get all that out of my system, to vent somewhere my other (IRL/college life related) friends can't see. It's all mostly related to my student life tbh and they don't need to see it, but most of all they TRULY don't need that negativity in the current context :(

So as you (might?) know, I live in France. In the current pandemic situation, France (like most other countries) is quarantined and everyone is confined. I ended up at my mother's in the countryside, along with my sister. That alone is soooo much trouble lmao, like it's not that bad and it fluctuates a fucking lot, but overall we're not getting along. And that's gonna last for at least one more month (nightmare)

But mostly, relating college life, god that sucks. (the two following paragraphs are giving you a context lmao, feel free to skip them.)

I went to college without any purpose and project other than "well, it gives me some more time to think about what I want to actually do later!!". First-year was something hard to handle, not many friends, absolutely no social life, and no motivation for studies. The first year in a biology license is very broad in subjects, so I was fighting against the current with 5-10% of classes I enjoyed, and all the rest that I couldn't get a hang on at all. Somehow, I passed and arrived in second year.

Second-year was not that great either, but definitely a bit better at first. I started studying some subjects that fascinated me. However, it wasn't enough to keep me on track: my second semester was a disaster. I skipped all of my classes, even some exams. When I told my teachers I was planning on dropping out and thinking about social assistant training (literally my plan was just doing a full 180°), 3 of them sorta freaked out. They took so much time to explain to me lots of things, talk about my project, etc. They weren't forcing me or anything, just giving me pieces of information I didn't have, putting some light on some dark part of academia I didn't understand, and reassuring me about my skills. They were super sweet. They motivated me to keep trying. I worked super hard the week before exams, and somehow I managed to pass.

And now, I'm in third year. Dude, that's the best fucking year of my life. I ADORE most of my classes. I discovered new things, new subjects, I found out about a huge passion, I built projects !! I felt like I BELONGED there for the first year of my life. Huge impact on that little life of mine, huge impact on my mental (and physical) health.

Now, I wanna get a master degree, and do a Ph.D thesis. I thrive to be an evolutionary biology researcher, and most of all, I want to share all that. I want to teach, and to become a university lecturer. That's not easy, that's not always pleasant, but that's what I want to do.

And right fucking now, college is CLOSED because of the quarantine. Everything is FALLING APART Jesus fuck I hate that.

Class work ?? From a distance. Suddenly and even though me and my friends have been working so efficiently all year long, it goes incredibly bad. No one has understood the same planning, the same task management, everything is wrong. "Hey Alec, you better fix that content table soon" Well I most definitely will, but that'd be easier for me if you didn't fuck up the entirety of the document by exporting, importing, copy/pasting it in every possible way on every possible format. The file is so incredibly fucked up and I have to fix it up and hjvzfbkzjen

Master degrees ?? Well, I'm applying to a few universities. But I don't have any grades/no score for the ongoing semester. Even if I'm accepted, I'm gonna lack a whole semester worth of skill, theoretical knowledge... Everyone will, but that just upsets me a lot.

Field work session in the Southern Alpes in May ?? Canceled. That was the one thing I was so excited about. And it's canceled. For the best obviously, but it just makes me sad.

Exams ?? From a distance. A few students have been complaining about the "short" time between the notification and the actual exam (1 week instead of 2s). Which I believe is rather egoistical: now we might have to re-do it entirely, all of the student promotion and the teachers as well, because they will have to rewrite a whole new subject and re-correct it. Egoistical but easily fixable with a conversation and some MATURITY.
Instead we've got a TORRENT of hatred and violence, both on public groups and even worst in private group chats. And I understand everyone is on edge because of the confinement, and I understand everyone his angry because that's egoistical and unfair (so am I!!). But what the fuck. We're talking about insults, sometimes really menacing and violent ones. We're talking about incitation to violence.
I don't CARE if they are upset, I don't give a FUCK if they don't really mean it, that's 50 shades of not okay. Less than 10 students have been egoistical divas!! Upsetting!! Unfair!! But that's NOT an excuse to do that. I'm fucking horrified.

And I just learned my whole laboratory internship is canceled as well. 8 weeks of research training canceled. That was such an important element of my schooling, and of my life too in general because that's a great experience. I was looking forward to it.

The best year of my life is (mostly) ruined.

I miss thriving in class, I miss the general dynamic of our student group before 1) fucked up distance group work and 2) outburst of verbal violence for stupid shits. I miss my teachers. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Send good vibes and then help me cheer up please
Talk to me about your hobbies your art your cool animals or your OCs if you can thank you

Hey buddy

Do you like this?

Do you like Enrique, Basil, Chuip, and Ferenc? (You don't have to like them, mostly Ferenc since he's pretty terrible)

Do you like the concept of collaborative worldbuilding, RP, plotting?

Do you like meeting new people? (But like, not too many, the group is still tiny)

If you answered yes to at least two of these, you might want to check a group I've been working on, and which is finally open to all!! It's called Draudan and there's a lot of potential fun in there.

Group | Full Google doc. | Discord server | FAQ | Suggestions

Kiss kiss thank you for reading and have a nice day 

https://artfight.net/~Gakipper

https://artfight.net/~Gakipper

https://artfight.net/~Gakipper

Trying to actually draw thing for that this year >:^)

His profile is here if your curious btw

https://toyhou.se/~forums/71.art-marketplace/58352.-gakikaelle-s-commissions-open-

https://toyhou.se/~forums/71.art-marketplace/58352.-gakikaelle-s-commissions-open-

https://toyhou.se/~forums/71.art-marketplace/58352.-gakikaelle-s-commissions-open-

I made this thread all neat and pretty to advertise my art please feel free to check, boost, or anything ♥

I'm selling a bunch of fantrolls right here !! Please feel free to check them out, they need a loving home 🙏🙏

Some of them are really cheap, some other are more expensive as they come with more art and/or more quality art or full references.

I'm willing to negotiate prices ! I also accept deviantart currency (points).