Aprilius

so this year i bought an ipad and it's one of the best spending i made this year! im so thankful i can draw everywhere anytime even while i wait for my work

the first half of this year was full of mlb, mostly the lovesquare!! it was really fun waiting for new episodes to air and drawing silly fanarts of the new episode ^^ i even learned how to animate with procreate and csp to make some mlb fananimations

and then in the middle of this year, i found and read manacled and i fall in love hard with dramione. i really wantttt to understand the wizarding world so i can understand dramione more thus i binged read the novels and watch the movies in august (yeah there's a period of time when i drew dramione fanarts without knowing anything about hp)

the other highlight this year is i made fancomics and published them on ao3!!

the first one is called Filling Space. surprisingly it's felinette. i remember waking up with this idea buzzing in my head and then i wrote everything in 1 day. it took so many hours to draw tho and so many stressful time figuring out how to layout the page and the mood hahahaha *cries in the corner*. i pushed thru everything and finished them!! it's a human felix, senti adrien au and i feel kinda stupid now knowing felix might be a senti too... ohwell

the second one is a series of dramione fancomic called Draco Wont Admit He Has A Crush On Hermione Granger. after binging the novels and the movies i just had so many draco crushing on hermione headcanons. i was worried that i wont ship them after i read the novels but omg they made so much sense!!! so yeah i had to bring them to life or else these ideas will keep hammering my head

the most recent was a dhr advent piece called Christmas Morning Interruption. it was such a nice surprise to be invited to participate in dhr advent this year.... i didnt know there's enough people that knows me to suggest me... thank you so much ;w;

it's not all smooth this year... i had a couple of social media breakdown this past months. i got so overwhelmed every time i open the timeline... i think the feeling of "needing to constantly post" finally caught up and bit me in the ass.

so for the next year.... i want to be chiller. i want to read more fanfics and i want to make more dramione fancomics... if i have enough chapters i want to try printing my comics into one personal hard copy.

closing this post with a picture that really describe my state of mind this year with my mlb and dramione obsession!! happy new year!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Some of you may know that I'm writing my first original novel, a sci-fi romance with the current working title, The Sojourners. This may change because I'm a fickle bitch.

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being 'YEAH-YOU-GO-RIZZLE' and 5 being 'SRSLY-YOU-CAN-BARELY-FINISH-WRITING-A-GROCERY-LIST', I sit somewhere at 3.

OK, maybe 3.5.

My heart, head, spirit and loins are willing, but real life is, as always, really, really real. Progress is being made and with my daughter going back to school, I anticipate a weird blend of more time but also more spot-fires to put out, if that makes sense?

But why am I telling you all this? Well, I commissioned the brilliant artist, Anna Helme, to do some concept art for my book. But because my brain has essentially been marinating in Dramione for almost 2 decades, my female protagonist turned out to be....there's no other way to put it... she's basically (my) fanon Hermione.

This is was unintentional and a bit hilarious, tbh. A happy accident. After much consideration, I have decided to go back to the literal drawing board for my original character, 'Lilia'.

But Anna's art is so reminiscent of Gildedshiver's BAMF Hermione, that I saw no reason not to gift this beautiful girl to the LIATOTZA fandom, complete with post-apocalyptic background.

It's kismet.