feathers & ink

hello! my name is ash *:･ﾟ✧

i'm a human services/social work student! i'm also very interested in video game development, cooking, and a bunch of other things (including pokemon!!).

i follow from @takentosilenthill!! i post anything and every thing there.

i am also disabled (depression, anxiety, am paranoid, am a hypochondriac, run risk of heat exhaustion, have sensory issues, get exhausted easily, am scared of needles and talk about medical procedures, ie an iv being put in someone (i feel nauseous, faint), and i suspect that i have either: asd, adhd, bpd, or bipolar) so i may post about that here as well.

hi all! i hope everyone's been well <3.

recently i've been up to commonplacing using a very small sketchbook! so far i've commonplaced using Dinner With A Cannibal and Carmilla. i'm very interested in cannibalism as a topic, and i'm taking down quotes from gothic literature!

i completed reading Dinner on Jan 5th and tried to start reading more nonfiction, but my brain can't do it for some reason lol. so i started Carmilla on the 13th!

i also got some spanish children's books so i can read and translate them! also looking for language exchange buddies haha </3.

i need to learn spanish so bad it's not even funny.

UNRELATED but i'm going to a concert tomorrow with some friends!! i'm so excited but not looking forward to the drive.

more updates to come!!

i've been doing some habit tracking for getting 8hrs of sleep, drinking 102oz of water, reading for 15 mins, meditating, and getting movement daily ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾

this past semester put me in the dirt but i have come out victorious (i'm done with my undergrad)

i got some school necessities today!!

5 notebooks (3 spiral for my in person courses, the other 2 for one of my ip's and the other for my online ( got blue to think of my lovely @a-fox-studies :33 and red to think of her and @winryrockbellwannabe !!)

a mechanical pencil set (i am SO stoked to use them) and extra lead and erasers

a set of 4 erasers

2 mini white outs

a set of 4 chunky highlighters (i've never had chunky ones before im so excited)

and of course masks!! they fit so frickin well and are lovely to my glasses :3 (covid is still rampant <3 be kind to your disabled neighbors like me and wear a mask!)

this is my last semester as an undergrad so i'm making it count!! i'm so glad that i have a head start on a bit of my master's app stuff hehe. my fav professor is writing me my first letter of rec <3.

trying all sorts of things lately so i'm looking into c++ for game development too!!

i'm learning on codecademy :3 hopefully i don't give up just bc i'm not instantly a master at game development ;w;

any encouraging words or communities of newbie indie game devs would be very nice <3

i'm starting to learn python to start my journey as a hobbyist indie game dev c:. pls leave recs for any other programming languages or easy to use game building apps!!

using learnpython.org for right now !!