Not counting some WIPs, I have in the works, some "friend only" private pieces, and several backlog pictures better suited for a holiday upload than a random toss-up. It would seem we're all finally caught up!~.

My apologies for not having uploaded it all sooner, but between my real-life job and mental health, I've honestly lost my mood in general.

Between late 2024 and last year alone, I lost
- My former job
- Broke up with a partner I've known for nearly a decade.
- Got abandoned by several friends I've known and supported for years.
But worse than all of that . . . I lost my purpose in life.

Dramatic, I know, but for someone like me who based their whole life around making others happy and putting others before themselves. Having that feeling unrequited hurts, a lot. Not that I'm fully without blame, of course. I should have been a better judge of character, and hell, my whole reasoning for being in this community in the first place was shaped by lurking around and seeing the "golden years" of Furaffinity and Deviantart as a whole. I hung around so many toxic people with vile opinions and content solely to get to them to like me, and now that they're gone or tossed me to the side, I have no one to blame but myself, really.

I no longer have the passion, time, or motivation I once did. The "magic" of creating new characters, storytelling, and collaborating now just feels like a one-sided expense I'm stuck footing the bill for (both figuratively and literally) with very few of them, even with friends I trust and ideas that I love, no longer bringing me the spark it once did. I can't even begin to describe the amount of times I wanted to just shut down my various online accounts and just go radio silent without a trace, just to try and find some true measure of peace again.

...But that's not the type of person I want to be, and I know deep down that while a hiatus has been good for me in the long run, cutting off the few good people I have from my life will only make things worse. So, while it doesn't "hit" as strongly as it used to in this age of short attention spans and AI slop. I still like writing and using my characters every now and again as a hobby and will continue to do so for at least a few more years.

I also really want to return to my roots, and to that end, I created the "artifact division" cast. My new "main" cast, so to speak? https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....ieval-Division

I've tried basing each member off a primary color + a particular genre and fetish/kink I like a lot. Both to have them stick in people's minds a bit longer (color association and whatnot) and to have a definitive "go-to" OC to use for X or Y kink pin-up ideas.

Also, as hinted at in my Lilith upload description ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63656422/ ). Quite a few older ocs share the same colors and mannerisms as one another, so why NOT just fuse them into one while having the previous designs be something akin to "Alternate Universe" variants?

That isn't to say you won't see ANY of my other, older oc's again. Alyth, Leona, Stacy, etc are just a few off the top of my head I'm still going to use every now and again when the random idea strikes.
Plus, I'll also MAAAAAAAAAYBE bring back certain oc's during the holidays. (For example, my catgirl witch, Caroline, will still pop up often during halloween due to obvious reasons.)

To use a tacky DnD comparison. The "Artifact Division" are the player characters and thus get the star role, while my other OCs are more akin to NPCs they bump into along the way? They still get attention and pop up every now and again, just not as much.

I hope this isn't too confusing for anyone; if so- feel free to comment down below, and I'll clear up what I can.

For now though, take care, everyone. Enjoy the uploads and try to do something selfish for yourself at least once a week. If life has spat on you as badly as I have, you deserve it, trust me~.

Expect more pictures soon, just at a less "art dump"-y rate, lol.