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My mega Tears of the Kingdom spoiler ramble: mixed feelings with both highs/positives and lows/negatives

By leonieyue Posted on 19 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection No Comments Tagged with disappointment, excitement, expectations, GameReview, highsandlows, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, leonieyue, Link, mixedFeelings, Princess Zelda, reflection, spoilers, TearsOfTheKingdom, TearsOfTheKingdomReview, TearsOfTheKingdomSpoilers, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate, Zelda

Please do not read if you don’t want to be spoiled. You have been warned.

Full game spoilers!!

Pikmin 4 / Me, my pikmin and my space dog Oatchi!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 July 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video No Comments Tagged with animatedshort, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, asexual, asexuality, AutismTrauma, bluepikmin, bluesky, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, finalfantasy16, frayromantic, glowpikmin, healthUpdate, HustleCulture, hyperfocus, icepikmin, Illustration, indiegamedev, instagram, leonieyue, neurodivergent, NintendoSwitch, Oatchi, overthinking, personalTraumas, personalupdate, pikmin, pikmin4, pinkpikmin, platonicRelationship, purplepikmin, redpikmin, reflection, reflective, rockpikmin, romance, romantic, romanticSpectrum, shortFilms, shoujoAnime, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, TakingBreaks, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate, TextSpeedpaint, Threads, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma, trauma, TraumaProjection, traumas, twitter, videoreflectivenotes, whitepikmin, yellowpikmin, youtube, オッチン, ピクミン 4

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary for this fanart
– Twitter & social media woes
– not sure about my Thread account
– reflecting on some youtube videos, romance & asexuality, hustle culture, personal update & taking a break

Drawing for my birthday

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with abandonment, anxiety, autisic, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, birthday, birthdayBreak, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fears, gratitude, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, insecurity, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, loneliness, lonelyArtist, overstimulated, overwhelm, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, scapegoat, self compassion, self portrait, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, SuperLeonieMode, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate

Oh no

A mini reflective ramble & update

Young Cricket the meat dumplings lover! [Warioware: Get It Together!]

By leonieyue Posted on 6 June 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with adultFriendship, aloneTime, alonewithcompany, anxiety, autism, autismFriendships, autismLife, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, BeingMisunderstood, burden, burnedBridges, comfortZone, commitmentfear, communication, confusion, connections, contentCreators, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, defensive, delayedProcessing, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, disappointment, dumplings, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyProcessing, exhausted, expectationsProjections, fanart, flowers, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, friendships, gaslighting, ghosting, heartbreak, humanConnection, Illustration, incompetence, inconvenience, influencer, isolated, jawPain, jobsAutism, judgement, kungfu, leonieyue, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, limerence, limerenceProjectionFantasy, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, manipulative, martial artist, martialartists, masking, meat buns, meat dumplings, monkey, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, nintendo, nonVerbal, notlookingautistic, Online:urker, onlineAcquaintances, OnlineContentConsistency, onlineFriendship, OnlineLurker, onlinePersona, OutgrowingFriends, passivereactions, PerformanceAnxiety, personalSpace, personalTraumas, personalupdate, personalZone, phonecalls, platonicFriends, publicpersona, rechargeTime, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, RomanticProjection, scapegoat, ScriptingAutism, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, socialMediaPoll, socialNeeds, SocialNorms, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, socialrecluse, socialValidation, speedpaintcommentary, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, stubbornness, subtlety, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, tired, toxicFriendships, TraumaProjection, unavailablepeople, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, writtencommunication, youngCricket, youtubevideo, ヤングクリケット

In this blog post:
– back to text commentary speedpaint
– commentary, youtube analytics & video making woes
– autism thoughts: masking, not looking autistic enough, scripting, “selective” mutism, burnouts, jobs/workplace accommodations, social faux pas, friendships & intimacy
– social media & personal update

Princess Zelda [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom]!!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 May 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, adultFriendship, antisocial, AttentionEconomy, attentionSpan, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticMeltdown, autisticShutdown, autisticThings, blackTea, blogging, ChronicallyOnline, compatibility, Cramps, DiscordServer, fanart, FireEmblem, FireEmblemTea, FireEmblemThreeHouses, friendships, hyperfixation, hyperfocus, Illustration, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, leonieyue, MakingVideo, managingWorkload, masking, nonVerbal, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlineTime, openOfficeEnvironments, OutgrowingFriends, overwhelm, personalupdate, Princess Zelda, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, SensitiveSnowflake, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, tea, TearsOfTheKingdom, teatime, TerminallyOnline, textcommentary, timeBlindness, timeManagement, WaitingModeMonotasker, Zelda

In this blog post:
– art process & text commentary video
– avoiding Tears of the Kingdom spoilers
– Fire Emblem black tea
– workload with making videos & blog posts
– how to fix “waiting mode”
– reflecting on my autistic shutdowns and meltdowns
– declining attention spans & managing time on the internet
– personal update

My computer OS died on Saturday / storytime

By leonieyue Posted on 14 March 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with computerbuildupgrade, harddrives, hipsterWhale, leonieyue, personalupdate, progressupdate, reflection, SamsungSSD, self portrait, sketch, SSDprovisioning

Consequently my weekend was terrible and stressful but hey here’s what’s going on

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe is out!! 🎩✨

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIartDiscourse, AIgeneratedWork, art learning, ArtAndFear, artprocess, BandanaDee, CBTapproach, dreamLife, fanart, gratitude, gratitudeJournaling, headspace, Illustration, journal, KingDedede, kirby, kirbysReturnToDreamlandDeluxe, learningJourney, leonieyue, Magolor, ManagingStress, manifesting, MentalHealth, MetaKnight, personalupdate, pixiv, reflection, reflective, sleepDeprived, sleepy, speedpaint, stress, subscriptionArtLearning, The Artist's Way, Timelapse, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint for this piece!
– reverting my efforts in Youtube videos
– morning pages & gratitude journals are not for everyone & other journaling approaches
– quitting pixiv & their AI generated work mess
– personal update

Happy Lunar New Year of the Rabbit 2023 with Moon God Yumigami / 弓神🌙 & mochi bunnies! [大神 / Ōkami LNY Project] Hey I’m back!

By leonieyue Posted on 22 January 2023 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIartDiscourse, ArtHabits, artistCommentaryYoutube, artstation, bunnies, Celestial Brush God, ConAir1997, contentCreators, Crescent, fanart, flow, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, GuillermoDelToroPinocchio2022, habit, HabitTracker, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, Kimo, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, Mochi, mochiBunnies, moon, Moon god, NicolasCageMovies, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, onlineBoundaries, OnlineContentConsistency, pixiv, postingSchedule, productivity, QualityCultureYoutube, rabbit, reflection, RobinRobin, TheRock1996, twitter, yearofrabbit, YoutubeShorts, youtubevideo, Yumigami, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions, 兎, 大神, 弓神

In this blog post:
– speedpaint commentary video on feeling behind with productivity!
– the Year of the Rabbit horoscope
– movie rambles
– removing my art on Artstation
– figuring out my videos, workload and nobody wants to watch speedpaints of studies
– personal update

2022 Art summary: reflecting on my art, feelings and future plans

By leonieyue Posted on 21 December 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with 2022artsummary, AIartDiscourse, artof2022, artsummary, artsummary2022, artvsartist, artVSartist2022, contentCreators, decompress, doomscrolling, entertainmentConsumption, fanart, heartbeatirregularities, heartpalpitation, Illustration, instagram, internetConsumption, leonieyue, MostPopularPieceReddit, OnlineContentConsistency, personalupdate, reddit, RedditRecap, reflection, relax, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, topnine, TopNine2022, twitter, youtube, YoutubeShorts

It is as the title says ;P
Changing my posting schedule and
time for an extended break too!

Study & sketch post / Portraits from imagination + Figure studies ❤️💙💛💜

By leonieyue Posted on 19 September 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AIartDiscourse, art studies, ArtCareer, careerthoughts, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, EadweardMuybridgeFrames, EmptySoul, existentialEmptiness, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mindlessdoodles, photoStudy, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, reflective, Shiver, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slowStudy, Splatoon3, Splatoon3doodle, studies, study, studyPost, sustainableArtCareer

Portraits from imagination + Eadweard Muybridge frame studies!
Reflecting on art brain dumps, AI art discourse & I continue to juggle life and trying to relax better :’)