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Staying true to neocities tradition by keeping a blog section for personal thought ramblings, you, the reader, probably dont care about.

June 2025

20/6/2025

Ok i started redesigning my characters and rewriting part of their lore. There were a lot of things that i wish i had made differently and since iam restarting this, this is my chance to write them better/make more sense of them. Iam always a bit envious of oc artists that have their whole story planned out with relationships/plot twists/personalities lol. Will post stuff soon.

18/6/2025

I will be honest, i feel burnt out, i wanna do art but drawing my characters has been quite difficult these past 2 months to the point that iam thinking of redoing my comic in a different style. People are prob gonna think that the elaborate backgrounds are tiring but actually the character art is annoying. Iam also too bored to redraw the same pages but iam too perfectionistic to keep them if the style is gonna be different going forward. So maybe making an alternative comic start?.

5/6/25 -> Worldbuilding part 1

So since iam busy with exams and tired to draw, i decided to share some worldbuilding. So basically the flora in my world:

Each plant has a hanging organ, blood vessel, tissue or neuron attached to it. Not all plants have them but most of them do, especially roots. The idea behind it is kinda allegorical, basically nuclear world left earth with wounds(->Environmentalism comment). I was also inspired by the fact that my Masters was in Medicine at the time of conception. So the plants have various uses:

1. Cuisine. My people eat them bc they are a source of fats and nutrients. They are also a good alternative to meat and the tradition of eating them dates back to the time when Earth was hit by consecutive Nuclear winters. My main oc Yiannis who is about 65ish at the time of the comic and who narrates my cookbook series (in my concept art section) knows these recipes well bc he lived in harsh winter conditions when he was a child. (Main reason, also, why my cookbook will have a lot of fish recipes, bc fish can be caught even in Tundras). Anyways, apart from that, the organs are part of a vegetable that is being eaten, so the tradition kinda stuck despite more animals existing post nuclear winter period
2. Herbal Medicine. So advanced pre-world medicine can only be created and used with caution by medical robots which are rare, mostly bc these robots have old world knowledge. So the local/tribal doctors use these "plant organs" as medicine. Each organ is thought to contribute to the health of its corresponding biological organ (e.g. plant stomach for health of the stomach). Although these are simple herbal medicine and not scientifially proven. Plant organs can also be used in extreme rare cases as transplants. My oc Yiannis has the heart of an olive tree, after a heart failure. His transplant gives him superhuman (or superfurry lol) strength and endurance. He also "feels" it strongly when he is stressed or angry (this would be expanded in future pages). Other uses could be: using a blood vessel from a flower for blood transfusions or the neurotropins of the neuron of a mushroom as mood enhancers, hallucinogenics or hypnagogics (my next page has a theme like this)
3. Religion. The pagan groups believe these plant-organs are part of Mother Earth as her wounds. They have special women that are believed to be able to select the best ones for food or medicine. To them these organs are gifts from The Mother to her children to survive the apocalypse. They thank Her by praying to her and doing environment-protective activities. On the other hand, the monotheistic groups (they believe in the Sun as a Father/Lord) disregard them as superstitions and mostly treat them as food and medicine. Although, they believe that plant-brains are brains of their saints. Multiple reasons for it. Brain stores wisdom, personality and emotion, thus is a "person". Second, they are rare sighting and Third, they release neurotropic factors that can have mood-altering or healing properties. Other than that, a lot of priests have pagan mothers and they have internalized some pagan beliefs (will expand this on another post abt Religions in my universe and ofc in my comic)

3/6/25

Oh boy finally learnt to add image descriptions! iam so glad that i can now go more in depth in my images

2/6/25

Reflecting on a bit of yesterday and i think i might attempt to stick to posting once a month on tumblr and post exclusively here. At least in my site i dont have to expect people to share my stuff with others which always disappoints me, bc i feel like they dont want to be seen interacting with my art (had this problem with some folks on instagram that either outright said it or implied it). Iam sure that people dont care enough for me tbh but, in any site at this point, growing your account means people resharing your stuff so yea this thing ruins the mood for me any time. And i dont feel like putting the work on these sites either :/. I really just lament the fact that i didnt have the vision and mature art earlier with the better social media landscape and i was posting cringe sexualized art. But also there isnt any point thinking it, sometimes timing is everything in a good or bad sense

1/6/25

Social media of any kind are so difficult to use for me lately. If it wasnt for some people who appreciate me and i appreciate i think i would have given up long ago. Everytime i post its the same thing, wishing that my friends would see it in the vast ocean of posts, wishing that people would even care to reshare it/ reblog it, knowing damn well that they wont. Everytime i go into this thinking, that my art is too weird, too niche, too much text, too traditional, too non western, too furry but also ugly for furries or too much for others to invest. I used to get so much genuine engagement online but it turns out people were only interested in the weird human x furry old man yaoi i used to do which ugh. I mean i dont mind that they liked this content but its sad that this was the "height" of my likeability online.

I think trying to detox from all of them will be a good thing. Giving up Instagram especially but also twitter helped me a lot with negativity but it comes back when posting on tumblr. Social media used to be better but nowdays unless you cater to others and the trends 24/7 is just pointless.

1/6/25

So happy new month, i have been busy with my second Masters but its halfway finished. Hopefully the state education applications will start soon and maybe just maybe i will be able to get a job as a school psychologist instead of looking around for random employers or jobs. I also worked hard for the qualifications i have now (which are a lot for my age) so iam optimistic. Other than studying, iam a bit obsessed with Wasteland 2, mostly bc they do a great job of representing post-apocalyptic groups that feel fun, original and realistic.

I try somewhat to do the same, i want my ocs to feel Greek or European (iam honestly tired of everything being made to appeal to Americans), but also their own culture that is strange bc its new. I like the aesthetic of primitive cultures with modern tech honestly. Iam also toying around with my own radiation mutated animals, which i always liked abt fallout. That concept that radiation is something magical that turns people and animals into monsters with superpowers lol. I will surely make some following entries to describe my organs-related flora and delve into some fauna

May 2025

23/5/2025

My resolution for my online "career" (laughing track) is to be able to make my project relatively big, say up to 50 pages would be ideal. Just for the vanity of it. Investing for so long can be a challenge but i am passionate about it and now i dont feel forced to post online constantly. Tumblr so far seems relatively chill with seldom posting which is a welcome change. However, each page takes me almost 3-4 days if iam feeling productive because of the crazy details and collages, so idk when it would be finished or if it would be finished but we will find out.

20/5/2025

First of all, i loved making my own website. I had to manually find my own layouts, gallery preferences, choose which sections to include etc. I learnt some basic code in the process but i still miss a lot of things like being able to use greek letters, changing the fonts, using bolt lettering or simple apostrophe, or making my gallery look not wonky but who cares really, iam proud of the results tehehe (this blog section prob needs better layout as well). Anyways credit goes to Teppys layout for the layout of this site.