21st of Nov. 2020: *checks watch* nope still not dead!

But wow man this place sure is a shadow of its former self *whistles*

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20th of Nov. 2016: I'm not dead!

I'm doing OK, working and dealing with my mental health as well as I can. I won't be back here, though. I've started creating content for The Sims 3. As for anime, I've left it behind mostly.

If any of my old friends end up reading this - the years together have been great, and I still get nostalgic about them sometimes. Hope life is treating you well!~

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8th of Nov. 2015: For anyone wondering what's happened to me

Simply put, I grew distant from TheO. The fine folks here have nothing to do with it, you all are still amazing (and I feel awful for missing so many birthdays >_<). Tagging on Minitokyo took up a lot of my time, and I gradually found myself visiting TheO less and less, until it got to literally months between visits. Hell, I don't even think I can remember my password, thank God Firefox has the option to save them.

I'm also not that interested in anime anymore - I mean, I like the style and still add to my collection of eye candy, but I don't feel the need to keep up with new releases. I've got my gigs of old manga and am pretty much satisfied with that. Art-wise, the same: haven't felt the drive to pick up or finish a work in months, probably as a result of my passion for anime fizzling out. I'm still playing The Sims 3, and have picked up Doom too (love them custom WADs!).

Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks for the visit. Drop me a line on Minitokyo if you feel like it.
Hope all is well with you, and a huge thanks for the support. Take care.

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Quick update: uni drama, life in general

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates lately. I haven't even updated the manga challenge I set for myself - I haven't read anything new either, though, just re-reading old favorites now and then. Lately I feel like I can't focus on anything unless it's for uni and, well, I probably shouldn't since I still have the theses to write, but that can get tiring. Sometimes I feel like time's going by so freaking fast, it's like not even two days pass for me after I reply to someone's message but I realize it's actually been 4-5 days when I look at the time! Time's the same for everyone but, yeah, sometimes I feel like I get less of it XD

So what I do to relax is play Wolfenstein 3D, Quake or Sims (which has been crashing so often it's become a source of stress instead, yay). Not even opening Photoshop, save for editing scans of courses and texts for seminars. I'll have to read some tutorials to get back on track after all this is over XD But I still visit TheO fairly often and read posts and I'm really enjoying the high quality wallpapers that have been posted lately!

Aside from that, I've had a serious argument with a few friends from uni. Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but one of them left for Holland last year on a 6-month scholarship and, naturally, we had to adjust in order to fill that gap in our group. When she returned, well, she kept saying that she made lots of friends there, loved it more over there and that she felt "trapped" here. Things had been pretty shaky since then, but it all blew up about a week ago, and all because of a trivial reason (she misinterpreted a reaction of mine that wasn't aimed at her anyway). Thankfully, it didn't get too nasty (we're still kind of civilized), but she refused to talk it over in person and settled for the internet ._. There're lots of background details I won't go into since I don't want to appear overly subjective, but her behavior left me speechless at first because I couldn't understand her and, honestly, expected more of her and considered her more mature.

Bottom line is the big group was split in two; my group has two more other people whom, frankly, I consider awesome and whom I'd love to keep in touch with after uni. The others...not to much. And it hurt a bit when this girl said she wasn't interested for "a shoulder to cry on" and just wanted "someone to have fun with"...after complaining that we weren't paying enough attention to her ._.
The drama was kind of fun to observe, though XD And a fitting example of this:
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