☆ lumi's doodle diary ☆

☆ cokeandredrum ☆

Some quickly edited phone photos of my friend performing. <3

Trying to get back into photography/videography seriously for once. Bought a nice camera, been refreshing on lens knowledge, gonna get lightroom, and gonna get an on-camera mic to take with me to local music shows.

Main things I plan on photographing:

☆ concerts/musicians

☆ portraits

☆ cosplay

☆ protests

☆ queer community

☆ cokeandredrum ☆

Some quickly edited phone photos of my friend performing. <3

Trying to get back into photography/videography seriously for once. Bought a nice camera, been refreshing on lens knowledge, gonna get lightroom, and gonna get an on-camera mic to take with me to local music shows.

Main things I plan on photographing:

☆ concerts/musicians

☆ portraits

☆ cosplay

☆ protests

☆ queer community

My sweet vampire, Elio.

He's one of the main characters in the book I'm writing.

He's a sweet angel that wouldn't hurt a fly. Unless you hurt Harper.

Don't hurt Harper.

Also, I'm redoing the opening to the book rn, but i will be keeping this gem somewhere in the book in some way because reasons.

Gender: deliquent

New carrd <3

Trying to seriously get back into doing music. Im very rusty from not really doing it for an entire year, but im gonna try my best. Im gonna try to get an electric violin to learn, and practice bass and vocals again.

Im working on my first serious song. It'll be metal, about my experience with OCD. Im not sure when it'll be done as I'm basically starting over from scratch with my vocal skills, and it'll be awhile before im happy enough with them, but im aiming to have it at least recorded by the end of 2026, if not fully released. I have the structure figured out in my head and lyrics started already. :)

I'll post little updates of me practicing every now and again on my insta, tiktok, and YouTube, so please feel free to follow those.

Im not sure what genre my overall sound will end up falling under when I have more songs under my belt. I have a wide variety of sounds I like—from various forms of folk, to prog and death metal, to trashy 2000s pop, to different kinds of vocaloid, to every form of visual kei, to electroswing, etc. I do tend to use a decent amount of fuzz, especially on my bass, so expect that much lol.

On my way to appalachia to visit family and friends. <3

Have another WIP in the meantime.

Finally drawing Lita for the first time in like 3 years lol.

Also, started college a few weeks ago. Have straight As so far and im excited. ^-^

Might mess with this a bit more but I finally got it mostly done.

Working on a totally normal self-portrait.

I'll post more of my thoughts when it's finished.

Got my hair done. <3

"You look like you're about to make very specific video essays."

- my bf

He's not wrong. 😂

Anyway, I got accepted into college. I've always wanted to go back, but imposter syndrome be a nightmare.

Gonna go for Creative Writing with a focus in Fiction, but take some scriptwriting classes and maybe one poetry class as well.

My schedule will be pretty full when I start classes, so I'm going to try to get at least one video done before then.

Wish me luck.

so, i am attempting to work on a book currently.

it's been something I've wanted to do since i was literally old enough to read and hold a pencil, but my imposter syndrome always crushed me. T-T

I already have some outlining and such done in milanote. I'm gonna make sure i have the themes, core conflicts, and characters decided, and then i'm gonna hop straight into actually ✨ writing the damn thing ✨

I will not be getting pounded in the butt by imposter syndrome any longer because that's really uncool and like totally a drag (apologies - i have Chuck Tingle on the brain).

anyway, i have a whole gameplan, and my partner and friends to keep me accountable with my goals. i'm gonna start with small, reasonable ones, and work myself up.

when i've proven to myself i will actually consistently work on this project and have a clearer picture of where i want the story to go, i'll start doing some promo for it. when the first draft is close to finished, i'll try to do a kickstarter to cover fees for editing, sensitivity readers, etc. that money will absolutely not be touched until the first draft is done. that way, i can insure i can refund anyone if i can't finish the book for whatever reason. the last thing i want is to be a conman. 😭

in the meantime, i'm going to try to use more of my free time to read and be creative. i really want to start making videos again, probably more along the lines of talking about media i like, and video essays this go around.

i miss being more active online. i miss writing. i miss drawing. i miss practicing music. i was just so tired and burnt out that i had no motivation to do anything whatsoever, but things are getting better, and i don't want to be stagnant any longer.

i'll see y'all soon, hopefully with more energy and creativity than i've had in a long time (and more consistency).

Been really struggling to finish anything lately.

Im sorry if I stopped getting back to you, too much going on atm, and getting myself to draw has been difficult.

That being said, I made this sketch awhile back that I do want to finish because she's gonna be a character in a big world and story i want to make. Its giving me motivation to write again, even.

Everything is kind of just disjointed ideas and characters atm, with only random plot points thought out beyond "i want this character to say/do this," but it'll come together eventually. :)

I can't unsee this ~

I feel like garbage lately, but at least I looked like 🔥 hot garbage 🔥 the other day.