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“C-can I? Pwease?”

Economy lately has been awuful, I know, stuff has been going on of which I really don’t desire to talk about. We all know, we all have been living it.

But alas, I am a full time artist and I really need to eat. So I will give you all the ways (paying and free to play) you can really support me (or any artist you like).

For starters, I have commissions open. This is the expensive but fastest way you can really help me out with my living, bills, feeding my cat, getting groceries, clothes and all the basic stuff a human needs to live and survive this world we live in. You can get your commission through my vGen, or send a DM to my Bluesky or any other media you can find me on (like NewGrounds or Furaffinity). I had open DMs on Twitter but each and every day I had at least ten bots in my box trying to scam me and I got really tired of it so, not an option anymore. Links are embeded on the text but you can also find them on the left side listed under my profile~

Then we have Patreon. I really wish to be more active there but commissions are my first way of income so I really need you to take a leap of faith there. It's a monthly subscription that gives you access to my whole art library, my discord server and a lot of content that I don't post on media, like my OC's stories, chats about my day, and practical jokes. Eventually I plan to draw more minicomics and short stories, and try to make more patreon exclusive art (tho actually a lot of my unfinished work is there) but for that to happen I would need to get a good number of patrons to be able to span out the number of commissions I need to take every month. Prices are 3USD and 5USD monthly, with 5USD you also get the .PSD and Timelapses of my original artworks.

If you don't really have the motivation to pay monthly, or the means to ask for commissions, a good alternative is Ko-fi. I just opened one after a lot of thought around it. It's a simple tipping page. You can pay for a "coffee" and the money just goes straight to my PayPal. Kind of a "good job kiddo, keep going" thing. You can do a single payment, from the simbolic coffee to a large sum of money (tho I don't think I will ever get a 2k tip haha, I'm just wishing here) and then just keep at your life. If you have spare money, Ko-fi is a good option to help out your artists and don't sweat about the money.

And finally, the F2P method. Just interact with my art. Being here, Twitter, Bluesky, Furaffinity, Newgrounds, wherever you find me and my art, just like, comment, repost, even saving it into your markers will help. Algorithm is abusive these days, and if people don't engage on the content, it really feels like everything we're doing goes to waste. It's simple to push a couple buttons, even if you only push "like". It gives us hope, motivation. We shouldn't be worrying about the numbers but it's the numbers what gives us the money we need to live from the art we love making. Sad but true. Share our art with others, spread the word and the art (and the sexyness) to the whole world. That much is free (for now, at least).

I used to have instagram but it really wasn't working, and then I had a TikTok but I can barely do art to, on top of it, have to do all that requires to keep up the rythm of tiktok content creating... Also we have to mention that every single video I tried to post after my first one got banned so my account got thrown into the abyss forever and now I only use it to watch memes and cat edits...

And that's everything you can do to help me (and other artists) to keep doing what we love. Thank you for reading through all that.

Anyway Bye~

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"And what if I don't want you to respect me?"

Oh boi. I had a very... interesting DnD session yesterday.

A little context: We are playing Dungeons and Dragons and we're a four member party formed by a Paladdin, a Rogue (formerly a Mage), a Druid and a Warlock (me). My character is a Genasi Warlock, very handsome (Kouran), and has certain atraction to the Tiefling cute-ass rogue (Dahlia) who's the adopted daughter of one of the captains of the Portuary Town we're currently questing.

We're investigating the murders of a bunch of tieflings with flower names by the hand of a strange cult (so obviously we all think Dahlia will be a target at some point) and in this session we had to investigate her mother (Hismaya) and the rumored lover of her, Viren, another of the captains.

SO! I was in the task of distracting Hismaya while the Druid investigated her office. Kouran is a very charismatic warlock, he likes the sailor life so he can get his way into a lady's (or man's) bed (not on purpose for the most of it, he sucks at flirting actually, he's just very handsome). Hismaya has a brothel, so she's a madame, and Kouran works for her at the tavern, doing mermaid shows since he can actually breathe underwater. They talk a lot, he's distracting her quite well until she leads him to her office (lucky for us the druid had finished her investigations and was going out at the time disguised as an ant.

We go into her office. She locks the door. Shit.

She starts to question me... about her daughter!!! For the stuff we could see during the druid's searching for information, she has a ton of drawings and diaries of Dahlia from when she was a kid, so we know she cherishes her baby somehow, she's protective and a single mother so, of course, she was intimidating. BUT!!!

She... seduces Kouran. Oh boi. She puts incense (apparently was not enchanted but... bro) she uses her brothel skills to the max, asking me questions, threatening Kouran that if he hurts Dahlia's heart, it will be hell to pay... Then she sits on the desk in fron of him, opens her legs (right into his face) and he stammers something about "I respect women despite my promiscuous appearance" and she goes... "And what if I don't want you to respect me?"

No need for saving throws. I was done. Star Transition(?). You remember that Hamilton musical song? The one that explains about Mariah?

Hey...

Well HAHAHA. After going to group B for their investigation of Viren we all reunite on our basecamp (a Tavern called the Beerholder) and of course they can smell the incense... and the other stuff... And Kouran is quite ashamed for being tempted into that stupid trick (he's just a man, and I'm a sucker for romance drama) and Dahlia of course was pissed. 

We later on had a conversation about the situation and it turns out IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME HISMAYA DOES THIS TO DAHLIA??? So, yeah. Kouran is kind of safe? Of course Dahlia is mad still, but she admits he's CUTE!!! 

I love these two dorks. The scene cuts there and we have another session programmed in two weeks. So if you liked this post stay tunned for more DnD gossip(?).

Anyway Byee~

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"September Rains"

Weather has been crazy lately. Along with my moodswings.

I don't even know what is it that makes me so moody. I have lots of energy to do stuff but my body would simply not respond to anything. I just want to be still, and to achieve that I have to put on Netflix or brain rot into TikTok. It's quite frustrating actually, because my mind is really active but my body just won't move.

But hey, don't tell me twice to start my Sims 4 game, I will spend the next nine hours building stuff and looking at my Sims doing what I should be doing instead (working on art or writing books, usually).

Meh, maybe I just need to build the habit of being more active. No, truly. The days I "fake" being a functional adult it kind of works. I just need to do that more often, but I really kind of wish I could just do it without having to play pretend, you know what I mean?

That shit about "Fake it till you make it"... Nah bruh, I just wan to make it. I want to be productive and to finish up my days and say "ah, what a great day, good night, more tomorrow" and not waking up the next day wanting to dissappear as if Thanos has just snapped again, just to avoid my obligations and responsabilities at life.

I really am grateful tho. I don't have to go every day to office or be awake at 6:30 am to go to work. I live from art and that has left me with all the freedom I always wanted to have to organize myself, prioritize my mental health, and above everything, not having to put up with an asshole of a boss. 

What can I tell you, I simply hate being told what to do all the time. I hate working my ass off to minimum wage, enlarging some CEO's wallet like a pig. Nah, I rather keep making my minimum wage but it's all to myself and only making my wallet a little less empty each time.

Ten years working for companies and restaurants and offices and I never had the real chance to even save money for myself. Three years working only on my art and I'm planning my next trip to see my family across the Atlantic Ocean. Do the math. And I earn much much less than when I had a contract.

Anyway this entry is becoming a little gloomy, sorry for that, I guess I just needed to dump some crap on strangers to get my motivation up a bit. It actually has helped, so, yay!

Anyway Byee~

- 2 -

"Need a break, can't take one"

I had a very terrible day yesterday. TLDR insomnia attacked me in full force and I barely could sleep 3 hours. So I spent all day walking around like a zombi, couldn't think, couldn't sleep either. I grew anxious whenever I was in my bed trying to sleep so in the end I basically had to wait until night to finally rest a bit. I still had strange dreams and this morning I woke up to the horrifying spanish doorbell and barking of my roomie's dog to let the workers in (they're changing our shower).

Whoever who's wondering about the spanish doorbell, think about that sound a buzzer makes when you say a wrong answer in a contest. Then multiply intensity of the volume three times. Yeah. Angelic music for deaf people.

Anyway I have to work on some commissions! I have two fullbody Illustrations coming up and I want them to be perfect, they are both in a lovey-dovey context and the characters in them are so pretty~ I love when they ask me for those~

I hope I can manage to make some advances today, I still feel pretty battered up and I can't get to concentrate enough. I wish I could go back to bed for a couple more hours but there's a lot of noise and I can tell I won't be able to sleep either...

Anyway Byee~

- 1 -

"That took so long!"

Hello, and welcome! Phew, it took a whole day to get the blog up and going!

For those who know me, yeah, I finally succumbed again to the blogger era. I don't know, blogging was always something I enjoyed and in the end I just abandoned it and never looked back for some reason. Until now, of course.

And for those who don't know me, Hi! I'm Roasty and I'm an Artist! Please, visit my links on the sidebar to your left and explore as much as your heart pleases through all my places, links, art. Get to know me until you are tired of me! (or maybe not). I highly recommend following me on >>Bluesky<< and if you see my art and want to hire me to draw your characters or something perverted like a furry, don't hesitate to contact me through >>vGen<<

I just want to use this space to lead you to my different places and websites, kind of a place to hold all places, to organize a little all the stuff I have (all my OC's and some of my work), and also like a little newsletter of what is happening in my life. I don't even intend to make publicity of this, I just want to write silly shit and have a place to release writings and organize my released content to make it easier to find in the future.

I want to make reviews too, from games and books and anime, just because I had a blog in the past and I found it last year again and read the reviews in it, and it was actually helpful because I didn't remember half the stuff that's written in there, so now I have more things to re-watch so I can enjoy them again.

I tend to write daily and interact with followers through >>Patreon<<. There you will find a nice community and know about all my art, original characters and exclusive content freshly out of the oven, but I can understand not everyone has money to spend on a monthly subscription to an artist just because they like the works, so this blog will be kind of like that but for free... And without most of the perks of being on patreon like daily updates or sketches or chit-chat... Just some compilation of news and novelties you can check out whenever they are made public.

I will probably write really strange because I tend to blog in the language of my "inner voice" so don't be bothered if you read something and go like "what the hell is this girl saying? can't understand shit about this ramblings..." I get that a lot, trust me. At least now I'm not as cringe as I was when I started blogging. Believe me, you really don't want to read that. Your brain would burn, dry and pop out of your ears as mere dust if you were to read me in my early era. What can I say, I was 17 and a socially excluded otaku.

I mean... I'm still a socially excluded otaku but I want to think that now that I'm 31 I might be wiser. Aaaanyway. Thank you for reading through all of that and if you still don't know what all this is about, hit the ||Follow🔔|| button to be notified every time I post something and stay tunned. Maybe you'll understand, maybe not, but for sure you won't miss any of my updates.

Byee~