FLASH'S LOGBOOK

Oh man it’s been ages, I’m really sorry for lack of updates!!
The last two months were pretty busy and exhausting so I didn’t have much time to sit down and write a new log entry, and when I did have the time for it I instead used it to rest.

So I’m pretty sure that way back when I mentioned that Alien told me I won’t get to be a freeloader on his ship and that I need to get a job and I’m like yea, obviously, that’s only fair. Gas and food are not cheap.
We brainstormed a bit on what I could do, and it was important for it to be something I could do from home because well. I live on his space ship now and we kinda move around all the time, I can’t have a job that would require me to actually go somewhere right haha

Alien suggested I could just draw for a living. I told him that seems like a ridiculously irresponsible, uncertain and stressful profession, but he was like “all you gotta do is sacrifice your sanity and take on a huge workload every week, you’ll do great, you have 4 arms and 4 eyes and you like to draw so what’s the issue” and you know, I thought that was a good point.

But it turns out that having four arms and four eyes doesn’t actually give you any advantage when it comes to drawing, because I still only have one brain. I tried to work on two drawings at once, but then I realized that while I was working on one, I did nothing on the other, and vice versa, because I can only concentrate on one at a time. Soooo that plan went nowhere. I just got really frustrated.

I did take a few commissions though and sure they ate into my time, but they were a lot of fun to draw. I think I’ll just keep doing that, even if it means I’ll draw less of my own work. Sacrifices have to be made for a happy life!

Oh also the reason I was away last month was because Alien took me to some kind of an art convention (or so he said but I am 99.9% sure it was an anime convention and he wanted to go), where he said I could put my work out there for more people to see. I drew a lot of stuff for the convention very quickly, got exhausted, and then more or less rested for a month while finishing some orders. That’s why I’ve been silent for about two months. Just, lots of work and tiredness. But I should be good now!! 

Also the convention was great, I was nervous because I’ve never met any other aliens and I had no idea what they’d be like, but they were super open and accepting, I quickly felt at ease. And they liked my art too! Especially these funky skeleton dudes, they were all over my most colourful pieces.
Kinda cool, kiiiiinda creepy.

But nevermind all that I don’t think anyone actually cares to read about my work so here’s something more ridiculous from the other day.

Alien and me have been space travel buddies for a few months now, but great thing about people is, you keep learning new things about them no matter how long you hang out, right? Well, the other day I learned that Alien is a HUGE brand loyalist. And that is stupid.

When you literally travel around the entire galaxy for most of your time, how can you even remotely expect all stores to have the same brand of snacks!?? I mean okay expecting is one thing but Alien gets all grumpy when some tiny backwater gas station on an ASTEROID doesn’t have his preferred brand of sushi, ARE YOU SERIOUS??

One, you won’t find sushi at a gas station!!!!
And two!!! You won’t find Sapurrian fish sushi ON EARTH’S MOON.

I think that while he does realize he won’t find his special snacks everywhere, he still kinda hopes he will, and then he gets disappointed and upset when he can’t find his preferred brand of OJ among like five other selections of juice.

He has a preferred brand of almost everything and when he can’t find it he has this face on like he’s been wronged. It’s adorable.

I wish I could feel bad for him but it’s just kinda funny because like… come on dude. It’s rarely that you end up hating the other brands anyway so just.. don’t get straight up offended if a store doesn’t sell your favourite candy omg