WinterWarning

I have BluseSky now:

https://bsky.app/profile/winterwarning.bsky.social

I posted some sketches I did during the recovery there.

Here are the links for if you want to donate to me:

https://boosty.to/winterwarning/donate

https://hipolink.me/winterwarning

I go into more detail about that part in the post.

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Hey everyone! I wanted to give you a little update on what's happening and I suppose just vent a little as well. I'm typing this out as an image because I know it's going to be a lot and

it definitely won't fit into a twitter post.

I'm still recovering from my arm issue, which is actually much more likely a back/neck issue. I've been doing a lot of exsercising and yoga in the past few weeks and I'd like to think I'm

getting a better picture about what exactly is going on. I feel much better now and I'm hoping to get back into drawing in the near fututre.

To be honest with you I've been feeling kinda anxious about drawing recently. Every time I sit down to draw now I am terrified that one wrong movement of my arm will undo all of my

recovery and send me into another several month long hiatus. I'll do my best to take it slow but the process is not as smooth as I'd like, let's put it that way.

I don't want to make any predictions since i've been wrong a few too many times, so I'll just say that you should expect me to return whenever: maybe next week, maybe next month.

In other news my country continues on a route of complete isolation from the outside world. At this point it's not a question of whether it's happening or whether it will change, but only

a question of how long it will take and how far it will go. Depending on what happens in 2025 I might easily lose the remaining means of working outside of my country which will in turn

end my whole freelance artist career. Time will tell, but the prospects are not great.

In the meantime I have created a BlueSky account. Not for any reason that you might think but becauset that platform asctually isn't banned in my country yet. Now, I have no doubts

that it will eventually end up blocked just like every other western social media website but until then I would be really grateful if you could follow me there. I'll probably be posting the same

art there as on Twitter but it might be important for me to have a platform on which I am present legally. I'll leave the link to my page attached to this post.

I'm not going to go into much detail about how I've been feeling lately because I don't want to bring you down in this festive time of year, but long story short is that the past few months

were easily some of the worst time of my life. I have lost a lot of faith in myself and hope for the future. I am going to do whatever I can to move forward but I have very little optimism

remaining in me.

The past few months were so stressfull, in fact, that I picked up smoking again for the first time in about 5 years. I only smoked for a week straight, but that was enough to get me addicted

again, so now I can't help but smoke a pack at least once a week.

Lastly, I'm going to leave my Boosty and Hipolink donation pages in this post. I'm not in an entirely dire financial situation yet, I still have some money and some relatives I can fall back on,

but it's not going that great either. Considering returning to drawing is going pretty slowly and is full of anxiety, I'm not entirely sure how things will look in another week or two. Now, once

again, it's not an emergency, but if you're in a position to donate a dollar or two - it would go a really long way for me and possibly buy me a little more time to get back on my feet, as well

as reduce some of the stress.

Ufortunately Boosty and Hipolink are the only means of recieveing donations for me right now and as far as I know they don't accept Paypal and only accept VISA and MasterCard cards.

I understand that those are not really going to be acceptable terms for most people, and - as I said - it's not really an emergency yet, but if you could consider it - I would be extremely

grateful.

I'm sorry I had to make a rather bleak post, but I really needed to get this all out somewhere. One of the biggest issues I've faced in the past few months is that I've had no one to talk to

about this, partially because I don't have that many people in my life and partially because I'm very stubborn and have a habit of keeping my issues to myself.

I hope you take this post not as "Winter is in a bad spot" but rather "Winter was in a bad spot but is now making it out". My goal wasn't to make you worried about me, more so to be

honest about how I'm doing and where things are going. Hopefully this post was at least somewhat reassuring despite it's topics.

Happy Holidays! Hope you are all doing well!

I was going to write a very big post about what's been up with me lately but I ultimately decided that it's not necessary. I didn't take my wrist RSI seriously enough in January/February, so recovery takes way longer than it should.

This is probably the worst my wrist has been since the original trauma 7 years ago or so. I really miss drawing and is pretty stressed out about not being able to work.

At this point I'm not going to try to specualte how much longer it will take me to recover as I was previously trying to be hopeful about it but I'm clearly just guesssing. It might be a week or it might be another month.

I now have tiered monthly subscriptions available on Boosty! From now on all artwork will be posted there before anywhere else! I already posted some pics from last months that I haven't shown yet!

I also have a Discord server now:

https://discord.gg/bmEKFq2D

There's not much there yet but I would really appreciate if you could join and I'll be happy to chat with you!