Well, that was... surely a month.

Welcome to yet another end of the month blog post! Can't believe it's that time again...

Unfortunately I have no time/energy to make a thumbnail for it so I'm just gonna use the artwork I already done this year.

We have A LOT to talk about, but as usual let's go through what happened on my side first.

Get ready, it's gonna be a long one.

So I started this month with resting and recharging after Art Fight because as usual the event took a lot of my energy out (along with having to write blog post script, work on a thumbnail for it and a birthday gift for my sister afterwards)...

Speaking about Art Fight... on August 16th we got the results and Team Comedy won! After 5 years of a losing streak I'm finally on a winning team! So to celebrate that... I'm thinking about bringing Jester!Lerun back for this year's spooky month again.

However... I also have some other options and because of that I'm really conflicted... so it's poll time! I'll be using Leaflet's poll function for the first time so you guys can help me to decide who Lerun's gonna be this year! It'll be up until September 27th!

All votes are public

With that being said... back to telling what happened on my side.

So... even during the break the universe decides to come back to kick my butt and this time with throat issues, yippee! Because of this I've been stuck in a medical appointment hell FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH... first I had to go to the doctor, then she gave me the referals for blood draw, ent doctor appointment and then got my thyroid/parathyroid glands checked. I still have one more doctor appointment left on Wednesday (originally on Tuesday but we had to move it to the day later).

I wish I could say I'd be done with the horrors afterwards but two days ago I had to go back to the dentist appointment hell because the part of my tooth decided to destroy itself and I have to go back on September 8th :)

And on a top of everything our water tap in the bathroom also started leaking so we won't be able to get it replaced until sometime this upcoming week :) I can truly never catch a break.

But anyways, in other news after I was done resting I've finally finished working on my Leaflet Canvases for my art gallery so I could use them as a placeholder until I get my Nekoweb page ready! I'm so happy that after several month I got it done! You can see it here!

I also made a Leaflet Pub blog site specifically for my reviews! I'll be having my first one there hopefully this Wednesday (originally I was planning to have it last week, but due to sad stuff happening it just wasn't the good time and I'll be talking about it in a bit). You can see it here!

Oh and before I forget... yes I did some art this month too. Just 5 of them though because again, I was resting.

A drawing of a pink hybrid bunny/alpaca, has a lighter pink hair, wears a light yellow sunhat with blue bow on it and blue summer dress. She's looking at the sky while fixing her hat.
A drawing of two animals. One is a very light silver fox, has a purple/blue eye (another one is covered by their hair), a part of their hair is dyed dark purple. They have a ponytail and wearing a blue coat. The other one is a pink hybrid bunny/alpaca, wearing a white beret with a lavender bow and a yellow star compact on it and a white sailor outfit-like clothes. She's hugging the fox from behind.
A drawing of a yellow hybrid cat/squirrel, has a pointy round ears, wears square glasses, black scarf, gray shirt, cream colored coat and brown birthday hat. Their blowing a light-pink party horn.
A drawing of a small pink hybrid bunny/alpaca, lying down tired. A battery with a low energy is above her.
A reference sheet of a small noseless and mouthless creature with a sprout with a white flower on its tip on her head, has lighter-pink hair, same colored wool on her body, lilac eyes and pink bunny ears, wears a yellow star compact on her neck. Her hand sample, back view and color palette are also shown. Text: Lerun (Pikmin form) She/They/It|Very small

I believe that's all on my end.

And now... general stuff.

Cara got scraped THREE TIMES IN A ROW to the point of legal action being taken. I decided to take all my art down from there because it's obvious it's not safe to post there right now.

We also lost three wonderful people in a row this month... Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen have all passed away during that same week... and because of this I had decided to cancel my first review as it genuinely wasn't a good time at all.

I'm honestly not really optimistic about this year (or even future) anymore and I'm afraid to ask what horrors the universe will have for us next... but I'm gonna keep doing my best no matter what.

It's been a really tough time for us all and we need to have each other, especially now.

On the good note though... ATProto is finally making the permissioned data become true! It's in alpha stage right now and I'm so excited for it to come out fully. which hopefully means... private accounts soon! (Yes unfortunately because of that I've decided to postpone my Xitter accounts' deletion once again with being back to not having a date...) I already made an account on Bluesky Spaces and planning to test it out as soon as I figure stuff for it out.

With that, this marks the end of this blog post.

As usual: please make sure to take care of yourselves. Don't forget to stretch, hydrate, eat proper meals and rest well. Don't work too hard and don't scroll social media too much. Check on your friends and loved ones.

And always remember: love is stronger than hate!

I'll see you in the next blog post, whenever that is.