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I haven’t posted here- or, generally, any of my Tumblrs– in a hot second. And I don’t know if anyone is really following this blog besides folks from the Sonic days and/or porn bots, but I’ll tell my tale.

My radio silence has been true for the majority of my social media accounts except my Twitter.

On the personal side, I can chalk this absence up to a lot of things. I started my first semester at college in New York, and we know how things move in New York. On top of being extremely busy with schoolwork (not to the point where I had to pull an all-nighter, or even a 2:00AM-er, thankfully!), I started to get into D&D and I didn’t touch my Switch, so my interest in what most people would probably know me for at this point– Splatoon– waned a lot. (Splatoon-wise, I’m more active on @rancid-squids than I have been here, so look there if you are unfamiliar with names mentioned in the rest of the post).

I drew four shitty doodles of Scribner and Bryant being fluffy and shared one of them on my Twitter, and that was the extent of Splatoon content that I put out for more or less the final half of the year. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still love Splatoon and I’ll deffo tune in whenever a third game or a spinoff comes out, but I lowkey have sort of reached a burnout point/disinterest with the current state of the majority of the OCs I created for it.

(It’s a little bit of a shame, because y'all never got to meet Viola. I have a Toyhouse page and art created for her and everything. Just never made any supplemental art to bolster that tweet/post/deviation.)

Note that I’ve mentioned “current state”. I’ve given some of the characters a new lease on life through D&D. I started playing in a campaign in September and have succumbed to the hell that is crying over pretty dice, religiously listening to The Adventure Zone and having a slight interest in Critical Role (no spoilers for either, please), and drawing art of the PCs and NPCs I’ve made. Doing this has been a lot of fun, but because it’s so entwined in IRL business I haven’t posted much of the art that’s come out of this foolery.

At this point, though, I do want to maintain a decent amount of activity on my socials and let you guys in on what I’ve been doing, so you know what? I’m gonna post some got damn dnd and there’s nothing you or my self-conscious conscience can do about it

On another topic, I put the cover of Self-Preservation on this Tumblr and then never posted anything else. Don’t fret- I’ve made thirteen pages, and while they are all on my Twitter, I’ll post them here, too.

So then, I suppose I should present the question of “what does this all amount to?” Let’s bullet it.

I will be consolidating my presence on Tumblr into this specific blog, @rancid-arts. There is a high likelihood that most art from prior to 2018 will be deleted to maintain a more professional appearance. View it now while you can if you wanna chalk up some nostalgia or something.

After all pages of Self-Preservation are posted, don’t expect a lot of Splatoon art or activity from @rancid-squids, unless if it’s commission-related. 

Expect, for the time being, a lot more D&D and general original content being posted here. I have some TAZ fanart that I wanna yeet here that may or may not also lead into some larger things, so that’ll come tomorrow!

I’ll be uploading Self-Preservation pages on to rancid-squids and then reblogging them here every couple of days- it won’t adhere to the Wednesday schedule I’ve established; I’ll probs post in batches until y'all are caught up

I suppose that’s the long and short of it.

For more real-time activity, you can follow me on my Twitter . I’ll also do some similar updates to my DeviantART.