LonelyShine

The algorithm will hate me for this, but the algorithm was never fond of me so... Iiiiii am going to take a short break. This kinda sucks, because I was already gone for pretty much the whole of May (sickness) and June (DEJ), so to take a break now in the middle of July feels... eeh. I wish I could stay and post stuff and be active, but I haven't been feeling my best and I really need the mental space of taking a break to ease some of that self-imposed pressure to do stuff. So yeah, uhm, I was thinking about two weeks? More or less, it all depends on how long my batteries take to recharge. Also, I miiiight still be online, but I'll try to limit how much because social media isn't exactly helping my mental health (which is already bad because I'm one of those people whose mental health actually gets worse at summer). Anyway, I hope I'll come back feeling better. I've been missing a lot lately, for a reason or another, and to be honest it doesn't feel great. Thanks for understanding, and see y'all around/once I'm back!! 💕

Heeeey, everyone. Sorry for kind of disappearing on you, but it seems I've been dealing with health issues non-stop lately 😅

I think the last update I made here was about my hand being strained? That's all okay, was probably just some tendinitis, got better with some anti-inflammatory pills in any case... Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of my health misadventures, since I've also went through the following:

Health issue n°1: I've been dealing with stomachache and nausea again. Since I've got better with meds, my doc deemed it not necessary to run any kind of tests to see why does this keep happening/if something is wrong with my stomach, despite this being a recurring thing and it having landed me in the ER this last time. She did tell me that if once I get off meds the issues return, she'll consider. This is, of course, annoying as hell, but as I *did* get better with meds it's kind of on the back of my mind, specially because of the issue n°2 taking most of my attention right now

Health issue n°2: Just barely a week after landing in the ER because of my stomach (which was already feeling better), I landed in the ER *again*, this time with what turned to be every symptom of arthritis. They did different tests on me (including different blood tests, urine tests, and even a throat swab) to rule out any infections that might've been causing the symptoms. They also put an IV on me (both to give me 3 different kind of meds to deal with the hardcore pain and inflammation on my joints and to keep me hydrated). Since the tests came back negative and the IV made my symptoms infinitely more manageable, they let me go home after some hours with some meds and an appointment scheduled with the rheumatologist. So, I'm currently waiting for the appointment (23rd of June), aaand for the results of some more of the blood tests (those which are more complex and take more time to do) to come back. I'll keep you updated on my condition as I know more about it. For now, all I know is the medical report from the ER says 'non-specified poliarthritis'.

(btw, if anyone's wondering why health issue n°1 and n°2 got handled so differently, it is because I went to a different hospital the second time)

So yeah! This has been the update. I'm feeling better now, no more stomach issues so far and my joints are feeling much better with the meds, still a little sore and I'm tired easily, but I'm managing well considering it has been just barely a week since I had the flare up.

Obviously, I'm gonna be considerably less active for... the foreseeable future, I guess. I'll be focusing on taking care of myself and trying to safely get back to some sort of routine.

Thanks for understanding, and I'll keep you updated as I know more ❤️

Hey everyone, this kind of updates are getting old and I'm getting kinda tired of it, but here we are, unfortunately xD

So, I've been sick. Again. Nothing serious, just my uterus and my anxiety forming a powerful alliance to give me some digestive problems and some other contractures (yaaay). I think the worst of it is over now, buut it's still gonna take me a while to get back on track. My neck and shoulders are stiff as heck T^T

Also, since I'm giving bad news, I should probably tell you about how my hand has been strained on and off for the past three months (which makes no sense because I've been taking extra care of it since the big strain incident last year, but here we are). I have an appointment with the doc the 2nd of May to tell her about this and see why the hell is this happening.

This is all to say I haven't been working on art for the past two weeks and I don't know how much I'll be able to do so now either. Needless to say, I'm mad about this, since art is one of the few things that keep me sane, but nothing to be done about it, I guess. Gonna have to take things easy and slow and with patience no matter how much I hate that, ugh.

So yeah, expect me to be less active than usual for at least a while (I hope a short while rather than a long one). Wish me luck and send healing vibes <3

(Long story short: I'm still posting my stuff on here, but I'm more active on Insta in terms of interaction)

I never thought this day would come, but at this point I think I must announce the maybe obvious fact that I'm more active over Insta xD

I've been... feeling increasingly disconnected from dA, since Eclipse came out. Which kinda sucked, because I've previously always thought of this place as my online home, but... I dunno. It just doesn't feel the same anymore, like the place, or the community, has changed. Maybe it's because I've never had much of an audience in here, or because a lot of the mutuals I had here have gone inactive, I don't know. Whatever the case, I'm finding it a lot easier to interact and keep in touch with people over Insta nowadays.

It's admittedly been a long time since I've felt like putting a real effort with interacting with people here on dA, maybe because when I tried to in the past it didn't get me much of a result. And I do get it that there's MORE I could be doing if I really wanted to achive that, but fact remains I have a rather limited amount of energy to work with, and I have to use it wisely. And well... I'm not really doing anything different on Insta that I was doing here on dA. Literally the same work, but I just find it easier to interact with people there, and I do get more interactions and support over there too... so I'd rather put most of my energy there. Also, I have to admit I'm having fun with posting silly stories (even when I was skeptic of them at first) to get to interact with my followers more.

This is not to mean I'm leaving dA!! Nothing like that, not leaving this place, will continue to post my stuff here as I always have. Just, yannow, if you would like to see more of me, see me in my natural habitat so to speak, and get to interact more with me/my characters through games and Q&A, maybe head to my Insta ^^

https://www.instagram.com/lonely.shine/

See you around! Whether on here or over there~

Guess who's made a Patreon!

So! It's been a long, long time since I first started to toy with the idea of making a Patreon and sharing some extra goodies with you on there, but now it's real. Aaah, I'm so excited!!

For now it functions like a tip jar, with only one tier that gives you acces to:

-Full sized artwork

-WIPs and sneak peeks

-Concept sketches

-Alternate versions

-Unposted art (mostly doodles/sketches)

One of my patreon goals involves starting to make more content and tiers, so fingers crossed that the goal will eventually be reached! It would be so cool to share even more goodies ^^

Me making a patreon will not affect what I post publicly, so no worries about that. You'll keep seeing same content as you've always done in here or any other of my sites. Only real thing changing is that now you can access extra content by becoming a patron, which I think it's pretty neat (granted I'm biased xD)

I'm not good at giving the sales pitch about myself, so I'll just go straight to the point and say if you like what I do and would like to support me, then consider subscribing at my patreon. I'll make sure to keep it filled with plenty of goodies, and your support will make me so very happy :3

Here's a teaser of the goodies you can find in there!

If you miss me while I'm away working on bigass drawings, you will probably enjoy the WIPs that prove I'm alive and still working on stuff xD

If you join today (22/05/2021), you'll have access to 14 posts and a total of 66 exclusive images! (and I have more scheduled for tomorrow) Go check it here! https://www.patreon.com/lonelyshine

Also, no worries if you can't subscribe, there are still other ways to support me! Motivation is super important when making art, so faving, commenting, and sharing go a long way to support me too Click here to see a list with all my accounts!

Also, alsoo, I know patreon functions as a way to make monthly donations, but if you can't commit to monthly donations but still want to donate one month and cancel subscription after, I won't be mad; that's still extra pocket money that month xD

Soo... I think that's all!! Go support me on patreon if you can and want to (my unemployed ass will be forever thankful), and just stick by my side here or on any other of my accounts if you can't (and I will still be forever thankful)

Take care and see y'all around!

PS: I actually forgot to say, but if you could help me spread the word by sharing this I would really appreciate it :3