Table of contents:

• Chronic disease disability diagnosis (if skipping: most important thing to note is I have chronic fatigue)
• New drawing tools 
• Shift in interests/focus
• purge ig

Hi so…. My summer wasn’t great 😵‍💫 Tldr, I got diagnosed with celiac disease. I’ve had this serious chronic autoimmune disease since at least 7 years, and what it does is that my body sees gluten as a threat and attacks my intestines when I eat it. To the point that it damages the intestines where it can’t absorb nutrients and what that means is that I’ve been slowly starving for the better part of a decade. It causes stuff like chronic pain (indigestions + joint pain and skin rashes and whatnot), anemia, can lead to varied symptoms like brain damage, osteporosis, hair loss, but most of all, chronic fatigue. This was the worst it’s ever been for me this summer, where I was bedbound most days. Brainfog (GINI) and fatigue have sabotaged my college sessions and so many things have been explained by getting finally, finally diagnosed this summer. It was a surprise to me, but the diagnosis was groundbreaking and I’ve since stopped eating gluten completely (it’s the only treatment for the disease/symptoms), that’s a challenge in itself but I’ll get better from here on out. Some symptoms immediately stop when you don’t eat gluten, but my body will take years to fully recover, the parts that can recover.
What I mean to say is: sorry for anyone I’ve interacted with this summer or year and to which I haven’t been very attentive or decisive 🙇 Thinking and interacting at all have been terribly hard to do, and though it isn’t an excuse for wasting time I hope it’s a comfort of sorts to have a valid explanation. 

On a more positive note, I got a new ipad! An ipad air, with like 256 go of data space, plus an apple pencil! It feels so nice and I’ve already doodled a bunch of stuff and aaa yes I feel myself living again! :]  My fatigue still means I don’t get much done, but it’s a really great start for my recovery. So yeah: higher quality & quicker digital art to come.

Oh I suppose I did want to mention- Since you have to sit and focus etc to draw, I shifted most of my attention to writing instead this summer. Writing what? Fanfiction, of course. And most of the art I make is fanart now I guess? It’s mostly wips rn but I post them on my tumblr fuumiku.tumblr.com , and yeah I draw much less oc stuff than I used to. I still do of course, why, I’m currently drawing a detailled ref for a new dreadnaut design of mine, but I still have shifted most of my life focus let’s say towards fan content rather than oc content. It just brings me more serotonin and feels like less pressure and work. That doesn’t mean I’ll become inactive on Toyhouse, nothing like that, but I just wanted to mention it so people know what’s going on with me and why my typical schedule’s changing.

I really need to edit my profile with updated info, yeesh…

Annnnd that brings me to: a purge! It’s always going on, I just don’t get much offers on the chars I want to rehome lol. All the important info is in my rehoming character folder but I accept offers on everyone anyways so go ham. I want to downsize!! I’ve wanted to downsize for a long time!! I do not care about so many of these designs!! It can be really casual and quick too, no need for trade offers to be a big deal. No hard feelings, shoot your shot.