TamSketchit

It's been a while since I've made any sort of update. So hi.

This year has been a bad year for me creatively. At the end of last year, I was swearing to myself that I would try and write and draw more. But then, around November, my computer broke down while having a small issue fixed., and the repair shop I took it to dragged out the process of repairing it for like three months, until they finally just gave me a refurbished better laptop to make it up to me.

Once I got it back part way into this year, I just sort of never really got that creative drive back. I've done a few small projects here and there, and I've had so many ideas, but I never got around to working on anything major.

The advent of AI art and writing did not help. I am ashamed to say I've had multiple phases of becoming addicted to it over the past year, especially in the realm of chatbots, something I'm still trying to break myself of. The instant gratification of having AI make my ideas into reality further cut back on my desire to use my own art and writing for that.

And then, most recently, I went through a great personal tragedy. To not relay the full story, the tldr is that my father, who I lived with, passed away unbelievably due to an undiagnosed medical issue. I'm still sort of reeling from the reality of the situation.

This tragedy has at least shaken me out of my comfort zone though. A lot of things are going to have to change in my life, and one of those things I'm hoping is that I am going to try and reinvigorate my creative drive. Admittedly, I'm also realizing that perhaps losing it in the first place might be a sign of depression I'd been ignoring, so might need to look into that, but regardless, I am hoping to return to drawing and writing in this coming year.

Thank you for reading my little New Year's post. I hope you have a good year ahead of you.

This is a question I've been asking myself lately, especially today.

For years, I've classified anything of a fetishy nature as NSFW, mature, etc. Even if it didn't include anything overtly sexual. Lately, I've been opening up more to the idea that a character having a curvy figure isn't inherently NSFW, that I can put the General Content tag on it, etc. But where's the line? Is it just sex and genitals? Or does a picture meant to arouse with a specific fetish make it NSFW, even if there's nothing actually sexual in the picture? It's all very confusing, and I cannot come up with a clear answer.