Little timelapse, fanart I did late October 2024

Character concept doodled and art directed by Alice Walsh! I had to squeeze it in to make it work in voxels.

Reminded me a lot of memes of cats in christmas trees and my illustration of Blue in a Christmas Tree too :0

Christmas Tree Cat time! ⭐

I wanted to not do lineart here ;D

Leonie rambles about…

Me playing Pikmin Bloom in a Christmas tree sweater;
limited to free in-game stuff and my Pikmin are just hiding ;P

• Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile (Live in Las Vegas)
• The end of SHINBANGUMI (official film and album by Ginger Root)
• Why You’re Struggling To Find Love: things I wish I knew earlier (Chloe Shy)
  • I’m mostly the Hesitator with a mix of other things; crushes don’t work out anyway
  • checklist doesn’t mean as much as how great, affectionate, safe, comfortable, trusting, fun, respectful, kind, loving, communicative, honest, mutual in effort/time/values/connection/things are
  • what if you’re limited in energy so you don’t do as much with people anyway…?
    • ah the hermit problem :’)
  • I have no experience with relationships so what do I know
• the hauntingly timeless magical girl (Basic boi) on Revolutionary Girl Utena
• the death of personal style (Mina Le)
  • ah yes dressing simply to focus on more important things
  • and then dress up for meaningful, intentional things
• Girl Math & Girl Power: The Conservative Politics of ‘Girl World’ (Shanspeare)
  • I don’t have/use tiktok so I have no clue what these trends are
  • many layers of misoygny going on
• When an author writes about themself (Beyond Media on Tastsuki Fujimoto, Look Back and other works)
  • Passion/inspiration > hard work > talent according to this
  • why draw…because you enjoy it and the feeling of sharing stories, money, other reasons
  • create what only you can do and dream, express, explore

Personal update; my little holidays so far is just lots of juggling

Home cleaning and preparation shenanigans slowly happening but there are rest days! There’s so much work to do so it’ll keep being chipped away. I brain dumped a to do list because it’s so overwhelming too. I don’t look forward to some stressful months ahead next year…just venting here again about it :<

I just don’t know if I’d be able to do what I’d want to do during these holidays – there’s so much art/chores/learning/errands I want to unrealistically cram in but I have to put my foot down. But I don’t want to restrict myself to rigid schedules and timeslots (I just resist and procrastinate if I force it, overwhelm and stress myself with over optimistic time estimates).

For self paced things, I end up having a list for a given category and allow myself to choose what I want to focus on when the time comes. I don’t want to stress over deadlines as much when everything else in life is full of deadlines that are out of my control. But I do strive to have rough amount I want to finish/focus on.

But that’s always a learning process through trial and error, being patient with myself and allowing myself to just zone out and decompress. I am not often functioning, focused and energised at 100% capacity.

Also now that I have less free time, I don’t have the luxury of time to “wait for the better time to post” nor to write too much so I’ve been posting when it suits me more in recent months and like today ;P Maybe I do have to cut out making youtube videos later 2025 if I can’t make it work. I don’t know.

Also how does one rest properly???

And ugh I’m a grump in horrible pain with cramps right now, not feeling great 🙁

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