[Insert Comment About Not Being Dead Here]

Christ, I'm getting tired of making these. Seems like it happens every other year or so. Anyway, let's cut to the chase:

• Graduated college. Finally. Six years after I initially should have done it. Now I'm in debt. Whoo.
• Spent a good 2 months doing nothing, then got a part-time retail job. Barely got any hours until Christmas, so I hardly earned any money at all (one of my coworkers actually put it into words best by saying "I'm not making money with this job, I'm losing money."). I was pretty much facing a financial crisis by the time Christmas rolled around.
• Spent the first weeks of January frantically looking for a replacement job that was full-time and by some miracle found one. Been working there for about a month now, and I'm about to receive my second paycheck (it's bi-weekly payment).
• Job isn't exactly hard, but it's really hectic and I work with a number of people who expect me to do things perfectly only after seeing how to do something once. I guess "patience" is a word that doesn't fly around there.
• Spent the first half of last year in a Discord channel with people who I thought I was friends with, but they revealed themselves to only be concerned with their "clique" of friends that they knew better than me and couldn't wait to throw me under the bus whenever I had a different perspective than them. It goes without saying I don't want to see or hear from them again, unless it's in the obituaries.
• Been working on side projects for other artists, one of which you can see here , the other of which is under a different alias of mine which most of you don't know about -- trust me, it's for your own good.
• Man, Dragon Ball FighterZ was a fun game for about a year. Too bad the developers ruined it by saying "hey, fuck team composition and synergy and also fuck keeping momentum when you have the advantage, we're tired of this competitive aspect being associated with this game that's beloved by an insurmountable number of competitive players". So yeah, if they're just gonna make it a 2D version of Xenoverse or one of the arena brawler games where there's no competitive aspect to it, I'm out.
• Oh yeah, tumblr killed itself by removing the porn. L O fucking L . I don't miss it.
• That being said, here's some new profile pages of mine:
• https://twitter.com/Cloperella1 (not really much there quite yet, just links to the stories I'm most proud of, will probably have some more activity there as I'm getting used to the website and once I gain more followers.
• https://inkbunny.net/cloperella (pretty empty right now, not sure when I'll get around to putting stuff in it, but I was recommended to have one anyway.)
• Old links: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Cloperella/works https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7638624/Cloperella

I think that's pretty much it as far as cliffnotes go. As for future stories: yeah, everything is kind of up in the air right now. I'm at that point in my life that I'm dreading, where I can't really afford to spend hours of the day working on something unless I'm gaining some kind of profit on it, since I have to keep a roof over my head, insurance and in the next few months, student loans. So any of the stories I had planned to write just because I wanted to write them, MLP or otherwise... yeah, not looking good right now.
I might start a Patreon in the near future and hold polls to see which stories people want me to write the most, or some other site where you can vote with your wallet. Or I might open commission slots so someone can tell me exactly what they want me to write for them (though I really don't expect that to take off too much, because I'm still going to remain extremely selective about what I'll write considering I have my own values and a reputation to maintain, so I won't be writing some run of the mill "my self-insert OC fucks a canon character" schlock -- you can go find someone else to write that for you, you won't have to look hard.)

Other than that... I don't know. I'm catching up on season 8 of MLP. It's pretty decent.
God, I'm tired. Growing up sucks.

Comments

[Love Moth]

Welcome back, if ya feel like chatting join B_25's discord server. There's usually some good conversations going on

[Cloperella]

5019524
Is there a theme to the server?

[Love Moth]

5019530
Not really, there's a bunch of fimfic writers in it, it's pretty chill. Lands of The Banned. Kinda a joke.

[StardustSurvivor]

Ayyyy, it's nice to see you again!

[Lanxide]

Good to see you again.
If you want to make a quick buck then yeah opening commissions is an excellent start. Bonus points for doing fetishes that normal author wouldn't do.

[Violet Rose in The Rain]

Great to see you again.

[Cloperella]

5019717
I kind of already have an account where I do stuff like that, but it's kinks I'm into as well. But I'm not going to force myself to write kinks or setups that I myself am not at least a little bit into, one because I want to maintain a reputation on both accounts, and two because I feel like I'd just make myself miserable if I were to spend months on a story I'm not enjoying writing. I already have a full time job that stresses me out, I don't need my hobby to do the same thing.

[B_25]

• Spent the first half of last year in a Discord channel with people who I thought I was friends with, but they revealed themselves to only be concerned with their "clique" of friends that they knew better than me and couldn't wait to throw me under the bus whenever I had a different perspective than them. It goes without saying I don't want to see or hear from them again, unless it's in the obituaries.

I know that fuckin' feel bruv.