A lot happened since the last time I update a bulletin but I guess the most obvious thing is that lack of new art? Well, I have been in an on-and-off chronic art block since last year because of depression but it hit me the worst since Jan. The reason is, I lost my dog whom my family adopted 13 years ago as a puppy, over a totally absurd reason that left me seething. He just went missing, even when the fence gate was closed but somehow he climbed out? And he was nowhere to be found.

          I only barely recover by the end of March. Then, summer is at full-blown, which limits my time I can be on pc each day. My room where my PC is in in on the west side so in the afternoon it becomes hellishly hot and doesn't copl down until way past midnight. And if you can't imagine what summer in Thailand is like... well, something like 13 hours of sunlight, temperature hits 30C as soon as 7AM outside (barely an hour after sunrise). As the sun creeps toward noon and afternoon, temperature is something around 36-39C UV index from 11-14(!) and feels like 40-43C. Unless it rains, the earth just retains the temperature through night and here, not even 6.30AM yet and I'm already sweating, even though sitting in my room with a fan on.

          So likely, I probably going to write a lot of fictions in meantime with not much art or new profile (it's quite difficult to write profiles on my phone, when I use it in code view mode, for whatever reason it lacks really bad - when I type a word with 6 letters, it took something like 6-10 secs for every letter to appear on screen). And other than that, I'm pretty much confined to using my phone to get on internet. Hence, I guess I can do a research for future OCs... which brings me to what I need opinions from Americans since I don't know much about American history.

         I've been planning to broaden the cast of my main AE verse to include US Navy ships for years, but my lack of basic knowledge of American history and US Navy impedes me. So far I've shortlisted the ships I want to make OC based on and one of them is USS Shiloh. I kinda envision him to be an African-American guy, but when I search from the origin of his name, I'm not sure if that would be an appropriate idea? Turned out the name is from Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War (and tbh, my knowledge of American Civil War confined to just 'the North wanted to liberate people of African origin from enslavement'). I'm totally clueless if this particular battle has any kind of hidden meaning behind it? If I were to assign a representative of African-American to the name, there's not some kind of stigmata to the combination I hope?

         Also, another ship I have my eyes on is the carrier USS Ronald Reagan and... admittedly I want to play with the idea that the android for this ship doesn't have to be Irish in appearance? The concept I have on the US Navy androids is that they represent more diversity and 'open-mindedness' than the Russian Navy (which the majority of cast constructed during the USSR era when they pushed the Slavic element to dominate over other cultures). 

         Gradually, I hope to continue adding more OCs, though may be slow due to the restriction on working on new art and proper design. Those already on my next to be list are as following:

FGO AU OCs

•           Ruler Constantine - STATUS: haven't started on writing profile yet, rough sketch of design since last October.
•           Lancer Sleipnir - STATUS: haven't started on writing profile yet, rough sketch of design since last December.
•           Anne of Kiev(Yaroslav's daughter) - STATUS: brainstorming concept, still not quite sure which class she will be.

AE OCs

•          ...OCs will come out at random, depends on the speed of drawing art and if I can figure out how to write one's profile.

City OCs

•          Priority is Zemun, Beograd's other half - STATUS: writing profile, need new art for display
•          ...the rest are pretty much on hold, though chances are new OCs that aren't those I created prior switching to AE as main plot may get a better chance to show up.

Flower personification OCs

•          Priority is Lilac sisters, representatives of Serbian national flower - STATUS: slowly writing their profile, art will likely take very long.
•          Other flowers in shortlist are Chamomile(Russia), Cornflowers (Germany and Estonia), Koon (unofficial name of Thailand's national flower - just hope it won't change anytime soon since it ties to the late King Rama IX) and probably one of the national flowers from Ex-Yugo region (Bosnia's golden lily, Slovenia's red carnation or North Macedonia's poppy).

Slavic Mythology OCs

•          Mokosh? - STATUS: Rough sketch design since Jan, not writing profile yet
•          Art for modern human disguise of Veles

           And, two pieces of art I'm in debt of from the last bulletin; one for Shura and another for the two Varyag. Orz. Let's pray rainy season will come soon so I can draw... (also pray for no thunderstorm cuz power cut...)