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Unstoppable Force (my love of seeing other people's takes/stylization on my OCs) vs Immovable Object (my gripping fear of not doing other people's OCs enough justice when I draw them)

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I'm not one who really cares about commission wait times and I'm not an artist but thank you for being so open about delays. Most people I think are fine waiting on a creator to finish their orders as long as they're kept abreast of the situation. It's not like a lot of artists have safety nets to fall on when times get hard or emergencies happen.

Thank you, nonny! I feel terrible about it, ngl. I really don't like that it happened. But it did and now what's left is to finish what I owe and I'm very grateful that I've not gotten a single negative comment or reaction. I never want my brief statements regarding what's been hindering me to seem like excuses because they're not - they're just explanations behind what contributed to the situation.

And it's true. I didn't have a safety net until the start of this year, which is why I can afford to stop taking orders right now so it doesn't snowball any further. It's going to help repair some much neglected mental and physical health on my end lol

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Hi again! I just wanted to give another update on the status of commissions because I don't like keeping my clients in the dark. Long story short, everything's the same as my last post! I'm not going to be reopening again until I'm completely finished with my current queue, no exceptions.

At the start of the year I speculated I would be done by the end of April, which is not the case. I'm famously bad with time and also April tends to be the point of the year where life just gets incredibly chaotic. This year was no exception.

I recently got a (good and helpful!) medical diagnosis that will actually make work easier once I've adjusted to the treatment I'm receiving. It's already helping and I'm excited for the future. However right after that a family health emergency AND a pet health emergency happened back to back and I've frankly been too out of sorts to even touch my tablet. I'm fine and everyone else is fine (knock on wood it stays that way), it's just put a delay on my already quite delayed queue.

I deeply apologize again that the wait has gotten this long and thank you guys for being so patient. Even with the unexpected and very large delay I've not had a single person show anything but extreme kindness and lenience for me and I really appreciate it. If I'm quiet on social media please know I'm not just running off and ignoring anyone, I'm actually trying to hunker down and bang out the work I owe. I'm jumping around queue but more or less finishing the full and half bodies from last year and then hopping on finishing the sketches from this year. Hope to share some of the art I'm getting to do for you guys soon <3

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Hello hello I just saw your “dost thou even shred” art piece and I reeeeeallly like it. Is there any chance you’re going to sell prints of it again?

hey there, thanks so much! I've moved my shop over to Society6, you can find it here along with a new design I recently added https://society6.com/makkon

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guys im almost 28 and got diagnosed with ADHD :'). i thought i was just a lazy idiot moron dumbass dipshit alien robot but apparently it was The Disorder

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In this house we love and appreciate Rosemary with all our heart 💕

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Recent sketch commissions I’ve liked

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'don't get inspired by my style' is such a funny thing to say. do NOT let any art i make have any lasting impression on you. only view my work if you are going to men in black mind wipe yourself later. the territorial defensiveness over "art styles" is a disease of the mind stg

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She's a good dnd oc

drawing is hard but look....u made her happy

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Caspian's new look going forward now! We have a few fun tweaks to his overall look now. That's odd, he seems to be missing something.... hm 🤔

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What if you were the cutest little druid/rogue changeling

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Comms are CLOSED until further notice! I don't want to open again until my backlog is COMPLETELY clear. I'm in a better financial spot now and won't need to constantly be taking on more work. ty for your kindness and patience with me <3

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I'm sorry about your D&D game. Can I ask what made your players and yourself decide to restart the campaign?

(Continued from another message: "I meant in terms of just stopping the game versus continuing without the kicked player versus restarting. It's not a judgement thing I'm curious on your thought process. I think a lot of groups have gone through this.")

Oh, absolutely groups go through this all the time! Two of my players are also DMs that have had games fall through or stop due to people leaving or getting kicked. It's always a huge bummer for everyone involved. Our game's been running since mid 2021 - so that's a lot of (almost) weekly sessions. We were on session 67 I believe. I've got 900 hours logged into roll20 and a good 750+ of them are just the one game I've been running. As a DM it hurts because you put sooo much time and effort into setting it all up; having it just suddenly end totally sucks. It sucks for the other players, too, who just wanted to get together and play.

It's not the first time for us - two players at the very start of the campaign didn't vibe with the table and ended up leaving, which is totally fine! It's the first game I've ever grabbed people together to run for, so it wasn't an already established group that all had experience together yet, if that makes sense. Once they left we kept playing for nearly two more years until just recently.

When it happened I basically asked my players what THEY wanted to do. The PC of the kicked player was integral to the plot of the campaign, so do we find some way to write them out? Do I turn them into an NPC? Or did we want to restart the whole game, giving myself and the players an opportunity to try some new things? I'm not as inexperienced of a DM as I was in 2021 and felt like I could make a more cohesive game for my table. The players were excited at the idea of taking their PCs in slightly new directions to make it fresh, especially since we've been playing together consistently for a while now and the awkwardness that comes from roleplaying with new folks is gone. They've been having a blast changing builds, designs, and backstories around and we're all super stoked for Waterdeep 2.0!