New Year, New Me?

I have decided to move over to a blog style kind of content posting as I am so tired of social media, the rat race, the influencers, the greed, the division, etc... you name it so my first post on this blog is essentially me mentally preparing myself to move over into this format after so many years waffling on it.

In the coming weeks and year, you can expect to see original and fan artwork, projects being discussed, patterns and other usable content being shared. I feel kind of overwhelmed by this and it's a bit daunting but here I am. I'm choosing to exist within this space, here and now for a reason.

I'm not yet sure how I'll be posting on here, how to archive and divide it. I'm going to play with some things for a while and get aquatinted with it first before dedicating to a permanent post flow.

For now, at least until I'm migrated over, you can find me in IG, X, Bluesky, DeviantArt, Artstation, Tumblr, Ko-fi, and Patreon. I plan on shutting down X for sure, IG is going to be the hardest one for me. I'm still deciding on whether to leave it up as a redirect, or shut it down completely. Bluesky is a possibility of a redirect, might shut it down too. DeviantArt will stay because I can use it as an art portfolio and cross post, it's where I came from in the early days and where most of my community is based. IG will be hard, I built a community there but it started causing mental health decline and other issues for me. I'm hoping to somehow get folks from over there migrated into finding me elsewhere. If not, I guess it's 6 years wasted. Sacrifices must be made. Tumblr for now stays because it's a blog and I can cater it to what I want to see and not see, less toxic that IG in my opinion and I can cross post there. 

Ko-fi and Patreon were kind of in hopes that I could become self employed at one point, but I'm feeling pretty ambiguous towards them. It feels more like a headache to me. All the fees, the keeping track of things, taxes, legal, and self employment stuff seems overwhelming to me. As someone who is ADD ADHD and possibly autistic SEO and metrics, taxes, and all that is overwhelming and overloading and I'd rather be in a place where someone else can deal with it and let me just create and hang out with folks. To be honest, I don't even care about SEO or Metrics.

If you really want to support me, the best places to do so for the time being would be DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Here. That or help me with supplies by gifting things from my Amazon wishlists. They help me create content and other fun goodies and keep it free. I'll link this for now, my current project: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3KO0HZTVUG366?ref_=wl_share (I would definitely prefer gifts from my wishlists over donations on Ko-fi or Patreon its less headache, thank you.) Everything I share here is created freely and independently by a human artist and not AI. I want to invite people into my space and create joy. Not expectation.

Support is always optional and never comes with expectations, rewards, or requests. Thank you for understanding.

If you would like to get an idea of the kinds of things I am doing please check out my DA here: https://www.deviantart.com/ladyseshiiria it'll at least give you a start on what I'll have available here.

I'm going to try to get my sewing patterns and crafts posted up soon. For right now my downloadable content goes through Google drive as I'm not really sure what is out there that keeps folks safe. Google drive has allowed my virus scanning protections so I hope that will be sufficient for others as well.

I know I do not yet have trust built up here, so please give me some time, and hopefully I can get this blog off the ground. Thank you for reading and being willing to hang out here. It means a lot to me, more than I think folks realize.