Hello, hope you all have been doing well! After a little bit of staying lowkey, I thought to drop an update bulletin since there are quite a lot of things I'd like to announce and bring up. Aside from slowly moving on from the recent events (iykyk), I've been working on a lot of things which I hope to eventually share in the future as I work on the traumas I've got from those events.

GENERAL

If you ask me, I would say I've been generally doing a lot better than I was a few weeks ago. I've had an opportunity to work on the things I've been wanting to for a while and have started a pretty ambitious project which I'll share below. Other than that, I've also been sitting down and tbh, people in my server already know this but I'm currently also experimenting with the name of Ragna. I will not be leaving the name Demi behind, so feel free to keep calling me that if you prefer.

Oh, and you probably noticed I finally changed my CSS after years. I'm much happier with this tbh, I kind of got tired of the banner after a while ;w;

I will still be very spotty in spaces outside of my own Discord Server, if you want to join to keep up with me or to have fun with other people who also enjoy art & OCs (and also Pokémon HELP a lot of people I have grown to appreciate are there too), feel free to join: https://discord.gg/EjYkbd6aju

WIP PMD ARPG - PMD: DESTRUCTION CALL

Some of my subscribers are very aware of this, but I thought to bring it up in here (not in the forums yet, I'm not ready to go out there with it). But, I've been working on my own PMD ARPG on my own which at first was only going to be a personal world & story where I would expand on the Pokémon I have grown to cherish over the months. A lot of people in my own server have expressed interest and so I've been working on this for quite a while with a group of friends & mutuals who were more than happy to help lend a hand.

The idea of this ARPG is that Pokémon from all around the multiverse find themselves in the peculiar region of Kogranar, which is filled with ancient legends & magical phenomena, and the goal is to figure out the world while also forming ties with other teams & the NPCs of the world. There will be some cameos from my own works as this was intended to be a personal world, but I am doing my absolute best in making things as unbiased as possible. 

There will be a prominent story mode, as well as a dungeon system which dictates your requirements depending on the amount of floors and it will also include the appearance of Kecleon Shops & Monster Houses. There will also be a questboard where weekly quests & rescue missions from users can be found, as well as a guild rank system & a dojo as well. I honestly can't explain everything I have in mind for this ARPG, but know that I want to keep the integrity of the PMD games (mostly from Rescue Team & Explorers since those are the games I am most familiar with, I am also currently in a playthrough of Super) and that a lot of the worldbuilding & mechanics are inspired by them!

If interested, I can start a pinglist for when this ARPG gets fully released! A beta is planned, however, for my own comfort, will be exclusive to people already in my Discord Server. You can also have a taste of some of the NPCs in here too: https://toyhou.se/DestructionCall/characters

I'm very excited to show the work we have done so far, and we still have quite a lot to go, but we are all doing great & really enjoying ourselves!

LIMITED EXPERIMENTAL COMMISSIONS

I've been doing something a little different for some of my art, including the most recent adopt, and would like to experiment a bit more with that new style! For now, I have busts & icons open on that style over on VGen! https://vgen.co/Demistasis/service/experimental-flat-colored-bust/f4833a66-c103-4d0c-aede-df8437a6d009

If interested, you can also send a PM in here or a DM on Discord.

GENERAL ADVERTISEMENT ZONE HEH CHECK THESE OUT!!!

I also want to advertise the things friends & mutuals have been doing, CHECK THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

My contest ends in a few weeks and has a lot of USD prizes: https://toyhou.se/25535504.open-art-contest-2024
ShadowChromia & I made a dual adopt batch, mine got taken but theirs is still open: https://toyhou.se/26387414.12-mythical-beasts-ota
vvvanii is looking for humanoid OCs and designs: https://toyhou.se/~forums/13.adoption-center/503027.lf-humanoid-ocs-and-designs
WeafyAnna has commissions open and they also feature some fun bouncy chibis: https://weafycom.carrd.co
KanjiTheBloodedge has two types of commissions open as well: https://toyhou.se/21228825.pmd-icon-commissions-open + https://toyhou.se/19040500.doodle-pages-35-open
Chaotic_Clueless has Pokémon adopts currently open, all themed after food: https://toyhou.se/~bulletins/1796314.poke-picnic-march-adopt-batch
CRAWSMOST also has commissions open, very banger art too HEH: https://toyhou.se/24369953.commissions-info-updated

Thank you all so much for checking this long bulletin out, and hope you all have been doing well!