#IRL update

[mmothmanners]

It has been one of the hardest weeks I've ever had to experience in a long time. I had to say goodbye to my dog of fourteen years suddenly - it was especially draining as I had been the only one there with him until, luckily, my brother & SIL was able to be with him and I at the end.

I figured this update was necessary as I'm a little off kilter and will be for the next bit.

#irl update #moth talks

[belethlegwen]

General li'l update

So, things have done anything but slow down for me in the real world. To keep it as vague as possible, there's a chance I'll be losing my job within the next month or so, though we're all currently working on possible solutions to this. Hoping for the best.

I've already done my panicking and preemptive grieving. 18 years in a single career is a hell of a run for someone my age, and if it has to come to an end then I've made at least some peace with that idea.

Still though, working every day to find solutions. To fix things. To keep surviving. It's exhausting, I will not lie. We're doing what we can over here.

There's so, so much good to look forward to this year. These are just bumpy patches of road. And some of the bumpiest roads I've driven on have taken me to the best places I've ever been. I'll be alright. I know I'll be alright. I'll be more than alright, by the time this is all said and done.

Been doing more reading of late, which I've been loving. You all are putting out such amazing work and I love bouncing in to read even if it takes me 3 attempts and a couple of hours to get through a posted chapter. Lovely escapes, all around.

My sister turned me onto a game ("game" kind of seems like an odd word for it but either way) on steam called Spirit City: Lofi Sessions. You customize a character, you have a little room, it plays lofi music at you and you can poke at a few playlists, build soundscapes around it (rain noises, thunder, wind, birds chirping, crackling fire etc etc) while your character mills about in spots doing things as just a beautiful little vibe-generator. You can collect spirit pals to vibe with you. It's just really cozy and nice, I love it. Highly recommend.

It has an optioning for in-app journaling, and I've been meaning to get back into journaling regularly just for the sake of my memory and everything else. That's been a huge boon over the last 2-3 days. It's got a productivity timer, to-do list, daily task/habits tracker.

Anyway, I've been making progress on writing but it's slow, staggered. Hit a bit of a wall last night with some of The Stranding where I wrote 8.5 pages of a scene and then just felt... unhappy with it. I had clearly lost the thread of why I started writing it, and needed to walk away to see if a fresher mind could find a place to rewind to and pivot so I can salvage it, or if I'm just gonna carve the whole thing out and set it in the Cut Scenes doc. The other 20 pages I've got waiting? Fine. Good, even. Proud of those. This one, I'm proud of what I'm writing but again... just feels more like floating aimlessly and bouncing. It was clear I wrote it while heavily distracted or with gaps between focus, so it jumps.

I'll see what I can salvage. Can't promise an update and am avoiding making it feel like I'm 'back on schedule' just to find something I can reduce pressure from in my life for the time being. But: I love you all. The Kudos, the views, the comments, the everything. It means a lot. You're all great.

If I do any generic vent/vibe writing, not necessarily attached to anything, I'll consider sharing it here for y'all. You guys deserve a bit of fun and sunshine <3

Have a great time everyone, love y'all to bits <3

~ Belle

#g/t author #gtauthor #author thoughts #just general rambling #irl update #life update #life is a mess and boy am I too tired to clean #Sometimes you just keep chuggin' until someone tells you aren't actually a train y'know what I mean? #If you do know what I mean please let me know #My brain is scrambled eggs because of all of this #I would like things to slow down plz #A friend of mine at the farmer's market this morning asked me 'what's new?' and I just moaned 'too much'. #I would like Less New #For a little while #Until the next big New Thing #The good one #the one where I get to see my fiancee and take them home with me forever #That's the good shit #Looking forward to that

[breathe-and-push]

Hi everyone, some good news today—I am currently 8 weeks pregnant! :)

I am hoping to share some bits and pieces of the experience here but please don’t message me to ask for anything. I’ll share what I’m comfortable sharing when I feel ready. I want to enjoy this time privately for the most part.

There’s not much to share at the moment, early pregnancy is not nearly as fun and exciting as you’d think lol. Lots of nausea and tiredness and worrying about making it to the next trimester. I am hoping that come this fall, we will have a healthy baby and an uneventful birth story to share. 💕

PS—If IRL preg posts aren’t your thing, I will tag any updates with ‘my preg’ if you want to block that tag.

#my preg #pregnancy kink #birth kink #irl update

[maireadralph]

Smudge went to the vet yesterday for his boosters and six month check-up.

It was a nice and standard vet visit, unlike the last time when he was very unwell. This time he got pets from the receptionists, wandered around the counter, snuck onto their section and even tried “helping” them do some typing. At one stage I picked him up so we could take a walk around the empty waiting room but he turned straight back to the counter and jumped right back up 😂

#my son #irl update #smudge #my cat #kitties #cats

[ofishal-fish-posts]

going through some life stuff right now so this blog is gonna run more on the q for a while. what that means is you might see less posts.

im not going anywhere, just a little busy right now :)

#not fish #irl update

[cervidae-demon]

Once I'm a bit more financially stable, I'd like to hatch and raise some quails in my house.

>> Support and donation and updates <<

#Ooc #irl update #poll #animal #quail #picture from google

[themarydragon]

Fic Scheduling

Okay so "scheduling" is the wrong word but I'm putting this up as my pinned post and I'll replace it as things progress and hopefully I'll come up with a better descriptor.

I have three (finished) fics in three fandoms I have never posted in before that I am talking myself into posting, if only to get back into the habit of posting fic. I have other fics in even more fandoms that I'm probably never going to post or even talk about again because (1) I'm not super happy with the way they came out, (2) I never really captured the voices I wanted, and (3) I repurposed some aspects for other things. I am formatting a Mass Effect short (for me) multi-chap (like 25k words) to start posting now as a means of kicking myself back into action.

In addition to those three, I have two FINISHED fics for a massive (three-and-a-half part, currently 162k words) MELE (Mass Effect parts 1 thru 3) that I have argued with Eisen (are you still on tumblr?) about for an actual decade now. He was right, I did need to write a longfic from Chakwas' POV and it has been super satisfying. That said, I need to actually finish ME3 so I can finish writing the third installment and I like to have things DONE before I post them (because otherwise how do you accurately foreshadow?).

MEANWHILE I have my new LoZ totk extension of the Trouble the Water universe (starring Calm Waters Run Deep) all outlined, I'm just trying to get my life to a point I can start writing.

What has been keeping me from writing: 1. We flooded this July. My house was an island. We will never know where our mailbox ended up. While we were in pretty good shape (on the side of a mountain) we still had wash-outs to repair. We got my driveway MOSTLY patched today. 2. I sort of have a Stardew lifestyle now; I've got a lot of outdoor work to do in the warm months, like stacking 2 cords of wood and prepping the fireplace for winter and growing food to eat etc. 3. I finally finished my old job (it took months for them to hire a replacement, and then I stayed on even longer while my old boss went on parental leave) and got a new one, and onboarding in the US is a friggin nightmare. My new job is a perfect fit for me, though, and I'm pretty thrilled I found it. 4. No A/C in my office. My doggo has epilepsy and needs to be monitored, so we take turns. The after-dinner hours are usually mine, and he hasn't been able to come sit in my office in the evenings because it's hot as balls up here. The heat finally broke, and it's 75 in my office right now, and Best Boi is living up to his name on the other side of my desk. I have, in the past, written on my laptop at any number of locations, but we moved my mother in with us and I have no privacy if I'm not in my office. It is what it is.

#fanfic #my fic #fic writer #irl update #me

[dragonprincedrake]

So good news and bad news. Good news is that I’ll have much more time for drawing from here on out. Bad news is that I got unfairly fired from my job. Just give me a few days and I’ll start to finish the Skywing ref I already started, I need to cope with being fired for the first time ever.

#update #not wof #irl update

[ask-carmenpondiego]

Life update:

Now I know I haven’t cleared my previous non pony posts, but I figure I’d leave them so folks can enjoy them. It is what my artist does in her free time.

Speaking of my artist, she is celebrating 5years remission from her cancer! She still has a ways to go mentally since it nearly destroyed her and myself (with me being in her brain and all). The diagnosis took a huge hit to her spirit and she had been struggling with the trauma. She is almost back to normal after so many years and I have been able to finally set hoof on the internet once again!

She still has an issue with some lung nodules but the doctors seem confident though wary that its not cancer. They just cant rule it out yet but they say its not acting like cancer. I’ll take that as a win. She’ll be having biopsies for them in the coming weeks.

I’m hoping to stick around for quite some time longer but if I need to suddenly get scarce again, thats probably why.

#carmen pondiego #mlp oc pony #life update #irl update #cancer survivor #cancer sucks

[diicktective]

so uh. i've been drowning in work and also trying to adjust my 14 - year - old puppy to a new nighttime schedule so she doesn't hurt herself going up the stairs or jumping off beds... to mixed results in both departments. i'll be back eventually, but 'when' is getting harder and harder to guess. i love youse, i miss youse, i am sending youse the best vibes, always <3 <3 <3

#ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ( vice ) #irl update #like i'd love to even be here erratically but #rn im pretty entirely focused on this stuff and trying not to literally stress myself sick #really looking forward 2 being able to unclench enough to write tho <3 whenever that is <3

[belethlegwen]

The Rescue - Chp 54 - That Dark Old Friend [+ Life Update]

Hey there everyone!

So sorry about the delay in updates since the Christmas season, there's a lot of shit to blame for it and I'll get into it in more detail, but in short this was a wildly busy Christmas season where I had 0 time to write between work and family stuff from like, November-end of December, and then a whole lot of house shit started happening and I've been unbelievably stressed since just before New Years.

Longer details and stuff below the cut for people who are interested, but in short the important details are:

Updates to works on AO3 may be at random times with long delays between for the coming year. Can't be sure, but for now that's how things are looking while I have way too much shit going on IRL.

Please enjoy this little chapter for now, and if you're up for a long winding journey about why it felt like all of my hair has been falling out for two weeks, meet me below <3

So the Christmas season at my job was wildly busy, on top of that there's some issues going on there between the business owner I rent space from and the person who owns the building. It's a mess, for a while it looked like/still kinda looks like we're going to have some major issues with the lot clearing what with winter being a major issue where I live in the Frozen Nor'Atlantic. That was all bad enough.

I had been told back in the fall by my landlord, who I've been renting from for 10 years now, that her mortgage was up for renewal in January and that it looked like it was going to go up a hot amount. Rates are super fucking high in Canada right now, shit's bad, the mortgage specialist at the bank I was talking to yesterday said that it's bad enough they legitimately expect the government to be stepping in soon to do something about it before it's a crisis (or more of a crisis because personally, it's already a fucking crisis and has been, but I digress). She warned me the rent was going to have to go up, I told her I expected it, I knew it was going to happen, she's been amazing to me for 10 years, if it's gotta go up it's gotta go up, I get it.

This past fall is when my partner Zip came to visit for 6 weeks and we got engaged, and when we started to plan to move them up here so we could start immigration and the like, which we were aiming to do for the beginning of this summer.

So as we're gearing up to New Year's and everything, I am expecting to deal with the start of immigration application readying, and expecting rent to increase. December 27th, I got a message from the landlord that uh, someone wants to buy the house (as an investment property and keep the renters) and despite her best efforts to try and bounce around and get a lower mortgage rate, it didn't work out and she's going to have to sell either way. So we suddenly had to get the house ready to be listed and viewed.

Viewings were fucking hell, by the way. While priority for accepting the offer was going to someone who wanted to take the property over and keep the renters in place, Real Estate agents just want the fucking sale, so being in my home while people are wandering around it scaring my cats and talking about how my bedroom was going to be the kid's room and my office was going to be turned into something else? Shit time, don't recommend. Not to mention the agents that were showing up half-hour not just away of their own scheduled appointment but a half hour outside of when viewings were actually permitted to happen.

I'm glad we have such high paying careers available for people who are, apparently, fucking illiterate, but I was getting extremely rude to agents and their desperation for a sale by the end of it. Someone tried to show up yesterday after a offer was accepted literally the night before and we sent them packing fine enough, but now anytime the rain hits the gutters too hard I think someone is walking into my home so that's fun.

We have signs all over the house about keeping doors closed to keep the cats inside, including one on the back door (where it isn't an enclosed porch) that says in extremely large lettering Access To Patio From Outside ONLY, and there were still at least two agents that opened the back door, so. Nightmares all around.

An offering has been accepted, the person who is hopefully going to buy wants to keep us as tenants, and I'm locked in a lease until later this year anyway. Things are at least, as of yesterday when I got the confirmation that an offer was in that stage, stable now that I didn't throw up this morning. Hooray! It's been hell. I can not stress enough that this has been hell.

It still leaves the later part of the year up in the air a lot, because new landlord may still want us out at the end of the lease of whathaveyou, and between now and then I am flying down to America to drive across that wild country with a car full of stuff to move my fiancee here, then we gonna get immigration rolling and the employment switchover and everything else. My Dad has been a massive rock for me during this time in terms of trying to keep me level, and as he says: "this is all just one-step-at-a-time things. You're just keeping ducks in a row".

And as I keep saying: "Yeah but I've got a lot of fuckin' ducks, man."

So that's the kind of thing that's in the air right now for me. Lots and lots of stuff going on. I'm still picking away at writing but to make things easier on myself, I'm going to not stress about any kind of schedule or the like right now and just play with whatever flows come when I have them and have the time/ability to focus on them in the few quiet moments I have between all of the other stuff.

Much love to all of you, thank you all again as always for the wonderful comments you've all left, the kudos, the people who reached out, all of it. You're wonderful <3

Take care of yourselves out there,

~ Belle

#The Rescue #AO3 Update #g/t #giant/tiny #giant tiny #gentle giantess #gt #g/t author #g/t writing #gtauthor #author thoughts #big little thoughts #IRL update #life nonsense #real estate agents have no fucking respect for your time #the one that lied to my face THREE TIMES IN A ROW in just a matter of minutes still fucking gets me #And she drove a fucking Tesla so #that says more than I'd want it to to me #'I have a written confirmation for the time' No you don't #'I wasn't expecting anyone to be home' you pulled up in front of my house while I shoveling and salting the driveway and saw me come inside #'I'm gonna step outside and call the listing agent to clear this up' she did no such thing #fucking hell man

[ask-indigoskies]

Just a little announcement for mod~

#mod art #pegasus #non arc art #scarlet sunrose #digital art #lovebug #ipad art #mlp oc #changeling #engagement #ponies #oc #mlp #irl update #lover #gay

[starkcanvas]

So it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. Not gonna lie, I’ve kinda seen the Omori community kinda burn up in flames on Twitter for the past couple weeks so after everything that’s happened over there, it’s kinda intimidated me in terms of being careful about posting stuff. I’ll still post stuff and get to the couple asks still in my inbox, but probably not as often as before and now idk if the Ethereal Route blog will ever come out of hiatus.

I’ll make a post after this one about this new Omori AU I made in place of the failed “Wolfwalker” one but in all seriousness, I thought I’d give an update as to where I’ve been recently.

#omori #omori game #omori au #omori: ethereal route #mod mack #mod post #mod update #text post #irl stuff #irl update

[anarchy-shoutmon]

Hello hi yes it's me, sorry for not updating or posting on this account, I am no longer active on this account and i am more active on my second account so I will only be posting and other stuff on my second account.

I now say this profile is now deactivated as I can't remember my password to log out or log into a new device so everyone please go follow my second account for more updates and stuff

@anarchy-shoutmon-2 here is my second and now main account.

Thank you all for listening.

#irl update #this account is no longer active #see you on my second account ^^

[bow-tie-bartender]

Flamester With The Bowtie

When you finally get back to Tumblr and need to go through the wave of P-bots. Well hello, ello everyone. How is everyone? :D  IRL is here/there so I will be on/off with Tumblr but I do promise to get back to rps I’ve meant to get to, and open for new ones. Hope everyone has a great day!

#blog update #IRL Update #i feel bleh #cooling off (OOC)

[maireadralph]

One very brave boy who went on the bus to have his boosters and check up at the Vet.  He proceeded to manspread on the waiting room chairs

#cat #my son #irl update