Story/Life Updates

Hey, guys! I know I just wrote the new Paging part, but it seems like I haven't written on here in a while. Admittedly, I have been kept pretty busy with school this semester, so if some of my other stories got neglected *cough*If You Have a Little Hope*cough*, that was mainly the reason why. My hope is that, after Paging ends next month, I can go all in on Hope and my novel Imperfect Storm. But expect a new part for Hope within the week!

Anyway, I have a few updates to show all of you. First of all, those of you who follow my Tumblr probably already know this, and if you don't follow it, that's okay--you've been spared a ton of obsessing and freaking out. But basically, a month or so ago, PaulAsaran began reading IYGALL, and his review of it finally came out today! I got a "Worth It" rating from him, which is extra good because IYGALL's so long, just saying it's worth the investment is good enough for me! I also got some really good advice from him, including how to incorporate exclamation points more in my writing.

(By the way, this is probably the most exclamation points I've ever used in such a short space. I have a lot to unlearn about writing, since I feel like the "no exclamation points" thing was probably something my early childhood teachers nailed into me, and it still stuck somehow.)

To commemorate this occasion, I requested a CocoBabs moodboard from aesthetics2spare , and to my utter surprise, they actually made it! (I assumed I got bogged down in the sheer number of asks.) In addition, they said they really liked my headcanons about them, which was even more validating for me.

Finally, in completely non-IYGALL news, some of you who've followed me for a while might know that I've been a taesuga fan for quite some time. I've always loved their batpony art, and I've been starting to get into their new Witchfae closed species. I even dreamed of commissioning my ponysona from them. Well, today, I got something even better. I was able to get my hands on one of the characters from the newest Witchfae line, Mint Chip!

Just in time for the holiday season!

She's a collab design between taesuga and yangries, and basically, I fell in love with her the minute I saw her. Her bat details and theming especially, since mint chocolate is one of my favorite flavors of anything. I'd like to flesh her out more in the dA group, but from her picture, she seems like she'd be a sass master. Or perhaps that's just me associating her with another favorite "mint" of my childhood--Mew Mint, specifically. Tokyo Mew Mew was my first manga, after all.

So with all that excitement, I'm extra fueled to finish the new If You Have a Little Hope part. Look forward to it!