having a real bad chronic pain time!!! may be using some of my last few sick hours if I am rough again, tomorrow...

got a look at a picture I've restarted 3 times after a 2 hour break only to hate it...it's not even comic work, it's my for FUN work! deleted it off my phone and settled for knowing I'm gonna have to try again, but won't get to until tomorrow afternoon...

Just a few moments with the royal twins in Vermillion, this week! #webcomic liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com

Good morning

This week is gonna be busy, so I'm not gonna force myself to do any other work, BUT: 👍no more urgent work needed on my teeth for a bit! there is a looming issue, but hopefully after the past month being wretched, I can use March and April to catch up and get ready for the future.

I had a real rough February and it's made all of my normal low-grade mental and physical issues really SPIKE the past day or so, so hopefully if things go well at the dentist tomorrow, I can calm down enough... I really need to consider commission runs or something for all these tooth bills.

meeting a horse villager in ACNH named Elmer....dark...

getting one vent out of the way: my foot really feels like someone smuggled a bunch of sharp rocks into it the MOMENT I wake up, lately!!

I don't think I am quite at the level I WANT to be, for "pretty characters making ugly faces", but I think I am at least having fun drawing some princesses make some distressed expressions.

I had to draw it

Afternoon repost~!

Just a few moments with the royal twins in Vermillion, this week! #webcomic liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com

too grumpy to try to do anything tonight

I am burnt out on Let's Plays, may need to start a Hellboy rewatch or finally crack open the MOTU dvds when I get home...

Makai Snack Bar 🍻🎤 すみませ〜ん！ビールのお代わり！！ Let’s sing some songs 🫶

I have had so many screaming babies around me and I realize it is not their fault but it's exhausting all the same...

sighs, I have two new monstery designs I wanna draw, but I have to finish a comic page and an art meme that I lost all focus on when my tooth exploded...

another thing I gotta be more forgiving on to myself: ofc my minor pains flare up after I stop following my dentist-recommended dosage of ibuprofen cold turkey, like, everything will feel a Bit More, when that stops.

Only a hint of pain in my wrist today after getting back into drawing more, and considering the 1-2 cold spike and hormone phase punch I'm taking on, it isn't THAT abnormal or severe - I think I'm still steadily improving and will be back to stuff being pretty normal in March! 🙏

doing a protein shake that's too delicious as the source of where you have cold brew really just feels like you inject it right to your brain and are that one Jason Statham movie where he's the Speed Bus

I'm done with my antibiotics as of today...I feel like even my foot/leg pain levels are back down, the painkillers I'm on are ACTUALLY helping, and the coffee rush is fading into actual Focus. mostly tho I'm just excited for Monday to be over so I can slowly go back to normal diet stuff next week!

D&D/etc game that has you start as clearing rats out of a basement but then goes on to reskin every encounter into an upped-CR Rat Foe

I apologize for the person I'm about to become in the next hour after I have coffee/high-dose caffeine for the first time in, like, a week.

have we coined the term yet for Hunky Boys Who Do Too Many War Crimes To Be Called A Himbo, yet? Can we use the term "Grimbo"? much like a Himbo must be kind, a Grimbo must be villain-coded

resting my foot for a bit after work so I can hobble over and make myself some instant noodles...

I'm just so glad that webcomics are real.

this time tomorrow I will have cold brew🙏

I had a really weird dream that I got lost in a city that encouraged you to park your own car and then drive around in free little electronic buggies that were more economic for parking space and the environment, but had strong visual themes??? mine was a Knuckles The Echidna Buggy...

I also love how much writing fiction has confused my autocomplete settings into thinking that I will just want to randomly end (OR begin) sentences with an all-caps OMINOUS 🙏😌

car turned on fine, no visible leaks or anything off about it, today; gauges are even working despite the wet cold, so I think we just had me at peak stressed after work. 👍

I hate how often I get paranoid "should my car smell like oil and gas and be hot after driving it up a freeway???" reactions to my car doing perfectly normal things for a 25 year old car to do in winter but oof, Summer's multiple car issues left me paranoid

rude of life, for me to be insecure with drinking hot beverages on account of the temp fillings, when it is incredibly cold and I want to drink tea and cocoa!!!!

managed to shove a bunch of coupons into a pick-up order and score some nice beans super cheap, because one thing I've learned from being low energy from a soft food/low appetite/dental injury diet and also being exhausted from chronic pain, is that cutting out coffee didn't HELP...

quick Kain warm-up cuz I haven't drawn in like...a while...

We get to see the whole Shadowmurk Gang for Valentine's! liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com

Monday has a back-to-back cleaning and final crown repair, and that will hopefully be my fourth and final dental appointment this month. 😔🙏 smooth sailing, hopefully, until my next cleaning half a year from now, and back to having normal food...

having a local Wienerschnitzel where I can get chili cheese fries would fix me

the worst thing about food apps is absolutely the "recovering from sharp implements in mouth" dental procedures where you can't have crunchy food and Taco Bell is sending you thirsty Nacho Crunch Cheese alerts

dentist: now it may be sore for a week or so me 3 hours after the root canal: it still feels sore, something must be wrong....

first round of numbing down, so I should be under way for the root canal in 10 minutes... 🙏

Gonna have my last day on Antibiotics on Thursday by Lunch/Dinnertime, which is exciting! I am sure it will be traded out for being on heavy duty acetaminophen for the root canal, and I will have to wait for the crown to get fixed but I can't wait to have a celebratory cocktail.

no sadness about my root canal tomorrow is as overpowering at my relief to not be at work early in the morning on Saturday, the next two weekend...

I'm not even HUNGRY again but I am thinking about: the noodles I had for lunch, lol.

#transmutualaid friend on mine's sister needs help for her surgery! Any help is good, including just boosts. :)

I think I'm also like, 3-4 minor tweaks away from perfecting my homemade brownie recipe...

dug into some far-past conversations and felt glum about how I handled some past people I cut contact with but like. I also feel instinctively on-guard and uncomfortable if I even think about them, so...? sometimes I think I am guarded to protect myself but maybe I'm also just cutting myself off.

Damn, even using milk and cheese to try and calm down the spice, going back to the original Buldak flavor today is a real kick in the sinuses, haha