#puddingvalkyrie posts

Including the RSI. That probably at least contributed to the RSI and is why it's taking so long to heal.

Like, I started having similar problems with my feet, so I went to the doctor to see what the heck was going on, and I've been suffering with painful feet for like... Seven weeks? Maybe a bit more.

A week into taking vitamin D supplements and I could do my usual workout with no foot pain today. Despite having an absolutely brutal week at work this week.

I have been paying such careful attention to every other nutrient but I just kind of assumed my vitamin D was fine because I wasn't particularly anxious or depressed, because those are the main things I associate with a vitamin D deficiency.

I really need to mention that I found this out by going to the doctor to ask them to investigate why the heck my body seemed unable to cope with my regular activities anymore. They did a blood test to check vitamin levels etc.

I thought maybe I was just middle aged and it's just Like This now but it also seemed extremely odd.

So yeah, if you seem to be getting weaker and you have muscle pains etc and you think 'oh I'm just getting old' or something... DON'T. Go and get it investigated, presuming you can afford to.

I have been suffering unnecessarily for MONTHS.

It was SO HARD TO DO.

I needed to open commissions to pay a bill, so I kinda forced myself back into it. One friend commissioned me for some chibis. This is a commission that would've taken a day maybe, back before I stopped. It took WEEKS.

I couldn't draw anything from scratch. I had to use old art of mine as bases and stuff. Everything felt slow and laborious.

But I got it done.

I drew a few things for fun. Simple things. I picked old WIPs that I never finished because I still couldn't draw anything from scratch.

Had an absolutely minus amount of spoons for backgrounds.

Starting to write again was just as slow and difficult.

I wrote a few disconnected scenes. Just random happenings.

They got longer.

...eventually two of the random happenings happened one after the other and then I just kept writing and it became the manuscript I'm currently feral over.

I dunno, I guess just. Art is hard. Writing is hard.

But it's worth getting into, or back into, if you lost your fire.

And who should be on the third floor but Neil Buchanan from Art Attack getting ready for an Art Attack live show. And I ran on stage like 'Help me Neil, big fan btw, loved your show as a kid, there's some men chasing me! They think I'm a witch!'

So we're both crouched down on the floor behind the art attack sign and the men come up the stairs which is scary but mainly my little brain is going 'Wow, I can't believe Neil Buchanan is here!'

Then he was suddenly Phoenix Wright instead which was also cool I guess and Phoenix said the men were prosecutors which caused my brain to go 'doesn't seem legit' and wake up. Yeah, THAT thing specifically.

Do you know how incredibly disappointing it is to work hard on things and the only comments you get are scams?

I left the house with no pants on.

I was walking along like 'Why is it SO COLD? Like i know it's about -12 today. But geez.'

Got to the train station before I realised I was only wearing my leggings.

I live in Norway and that's degrees celcius so.

Also these are old, ratty leggings not fit for society which is why I only wear them under pants on cold weather now.

Unsuccessfully I guess.

I just watched a video about methods of book theft and it sparked a memory.

I remember going to GoodReads to check something and noticing duplicate copies of about four of my books. And I just thought... Huh. That's weird. I should fix that later. But I have been Not Okay for the majority of the past five years so I didn't do anything about it.

Anyway I realised that maybe someone published a duplicate of my books so I went and checked and yeah, the AISN of the only duplicate left didn't match mine. But when I did a search for the AISN it didn't come up with any results. So I can only assume the duplicates have been discovered and removed by some system or kind person or whatever.

Anyway I'll be keeping a closer eye on that.

I actually wrote Miss Prince partially to answer that question.

We were in Japanese media class, watching Howl's Moving Castle. And someone said something like "Why doesn't Howl just use magic to clean? Why make Sophie do it?"

And I just wanted to scream "Because there are consequences!"

And that planted the seed.

And I didn't know the answer was going to be 'because vampirism' at the time.

I actually did not set out to make the Vampires Don't Belong in Fairy Tales series about vampires. I know that sounds stupid, but it was only after I wrote a sequel that I realised it WAS a series.

This time last week it hurt to dry my hands, now it doesn't.