¡Buenas!

Hace rato que no actualizo lo que respecta

a mis fanfictions, y es porque he tenido que

hacer una pausa debido a mis episodios de

depresión, pero poco a poco he ido recupe-

rando tiempo para escribir, y es por esto que

hoy les traigo mi nuevo fanfic!

¡Desabrido Romance!

Esto es un fanfic que escribí para desahogarme,

así que es un poco edgy y tiene temas como el

gaslight y violencia ligera además de incluir

referencias a la Ruta Snowgrave, pero espero

que por lo menos les resulte algo entretenido. ^^;

Lo pueden leer en AO3, Wattpad, y FFN:

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55574302

WTT: https://www.wattpad.com/1442386064-desabrido-romance

FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14351905/1/Desabrido-Romance

¡Buenas!

Normalmente no publico en español pero

en esta ocasión estoy aquí para presentar,

¡mi primer fanfic! Les traigo a: Almas Y

Monstruos, un crossover entre Yu-Gi-Oh!

y Shaman King. Los dos animes shounen

que más me gustan ^^

Es, como ya dije, la primera historia que

escribo así que está un poquito cringe y

cursi, pero es algo que empecé a escribir

a mediados del año pasado cuando estaba

en medio de la depresión, y le tomé cariño,

así que por eso la estoy publicando. Es para

aprender. A mí me gustó y espero que a

ustedes también.

Pueden leerlo en Wattpad, AO3, y FanFiction.Net.

Gracias por su atención ^^;

It is time for end-of-the-year thoughts

and art summaries!

2022 was the worst year in my life, and

2023 was the aftermath. A whole year of

recovering from the emotional burdens

that '22 left on me. Had to deal with burn-

out and depression, and try to find some

sort of balance between producing art to

get them filthy internet likes, and actually

putting in some effort to get a little better

in my life. It was a long process, but I can

finally say, that I am happy once again.

I think you can kinda see my emotional

state reflected on my art during this year

in this art summary. Around April and May

I had my meltdown and decided to go on

hiatus on June, which was the direct or

indirect cause of my art becoming simpler

and lower effort, eventually falling into a

same face syndrome. Around October I

finally started to feel good with myself

and actually enjoy making art again,

leading to me discovering a new style

of coloring that I'd say reflects my current

state of mind. I had to stop making art so

my art could become better. Man, hiatuses

are SO underrated, y'all have no idea.

The highlight of this year is that I did not

end up giving up entirely on art and I don't

feel like giving up on art, in fact, I've never

felt like making art so much as right now,

but for my own health, I have to slow down

on the art production until I can actually

afford to waste my time making art only.

I discovered new hobbies, so I won't get

bored in the meantime! I debuted in cosplay

and I have projects that I'll soon announce

here and will still make art for those projects,

but everything will come when it is the right

moment, and only I can decide when that is.

I'm not worrying about my art getting better

or worse this year that's about to come, nor

am I thinking about how many drawings I'll

make. I just want to get luckier in life, and

art never did me any favors.

It's so liberating to think this way, finally

realizing that, in the "algorithms" game,

some people just never get their chance to

become popular. Knowing this, I can just move

on to the next thing. Maybe I'll have better luck.

Anyways, this text wall is long enough as it is.

I hope y'all live your best lives, and have a very

Happy New Year!

By: Y-K☆ミ

The Face Your Art challenge thingy!

This year I developed a certain level of

"same face syndrome" due to making

low-effort drawings during my art hiatus.

Since I don't limit myself to one formula

of drawing (i.e. cute girls smiling idly), I

normally attempt to portray the facial

expression the characters would be

making in the "context" of the drawing,

but this year I didn't feel like putting in

that extra effort, so most of the drawings

I've made have very samey expressions,

and these are the few that stood out.

I know I can overcome this, and hopefully

next year I'll continue on improving and

maybe make more varied drawings, but

for know, these are the faces I've drawn

this year.

I hope y'all like it! ^^

Yesterday I attended to an anime bazaar

and debuted as a cosplayer! I'm no longer

a wannabe♥

Check out my Nurse Kris Dreemurr cosplay!

It's my first cosplay so it's very low-cost,

but I had lots of fun and it was one of the

best experiences I had in my life ^^

I made a new IG account where I'll post more

photos and hopefully more cosplays in the

future. It's a new start for me and I'm ready

for it! ^^

I hope y'all like it!

Comparing a drawing I made this year with

a different one from two years ago.

The 2021 one was colored by an art pal

of mine, who goes by Wiza47off on Twitter.

You should check him out!

The 2023 one was fully colored by me.

Nothing special. I just wanted to compare

these two pieces, because I found out that

I tend to draw Yukarin in this specific pose,

for pretty much no reason other than it's

pretty much a pose I do a lot irl and that is

reflected in my OC.

These drawings are very different in concept

so I'm not sure how accurate this comparison

is, but I feel like I've improved a lot in respect

to anatomy and structure of the characters, so

this pose feels more natural and less "stilted"

The proportions are quite different too. But I

definitely see that I now give the characters

pretty big heads, which is probably not very

anatomically correct, but thanks to this com-

parison I can now know that.

And, yeah, there's not much else I'd like to

say. Check Wiza47's art out! He makes some

neat stuff.

Be seein' ya!

Since I don't know where would be more

correct to post it, I'll just make a blog post.

Art vs Artist! See my face!

This is the third year I do this, since I don't

really post my face on social media outside

of my own personal accounts, but this one

is fun and it's December, so why not?

I will make more posts following the Face

Your Art challenge and of course, my Summary

of Art, but for now you'll get my face = )

Some of the drawings featured here have

not been posted yet, but eventually...!

It's been a while since the last time I posted

here. I want to come back.

I hope y'all like it! ^^

It's international cosplay day!

So here's my (attempted) Kris cosplay:

Photos have been edited because

I can't afford stuff.

It's not perfect, but I had lots of fun

doing this silly thing.

I hope y'all like it!

Hey, so I just kinda disappeared out

of nowhere with only a vague comment

about going on a hiatus but never making

any "official announcement" about it.

So here I am, just tryna get y'all up to

speed with what's been going through

my life. Nothin' much, but still quite a

lot, so when I make a comeback to all

art places, I'm gonna have to do some

heavy rework of all my social media to

make sure everything's up to date, since

many things are very outdated.

So first off, the reason why I went on

this hiatus was because of the heavy

burnout and a lot of pressure that I was

putting on myself, on top of being very

emotionally unstable due to gruesome

things happening in my life (cutting ties

with "friends" that manipulated me, feeling

awful about myself, my art, and everything

I do, added to having an overall bad luck

strike for some months, where it seemed

like I could not do a single thing right

without messing up five in the process),

so I was forcing myself to draw to exhaustion

just to keep doing something, so I wouldn't

have an anxiety attack. But I just couldn't

keep on doing that, which is why I decided

to stop producing art for most of this year.

The emphasis is on the word "producing".

I'm still making and creating new art, but

putting less and less effort into it, and just

drawing anything I felt like at the moment,

mostly just pencil sketches that I posted

on my Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, and

refraining from creating digital art.

It's worked wonders on my psyche, and

with every week that went by, I began to

"fall in love" again with drawing. I still do

not plan to return to making art "seriously",

but when I do, I definitely will change the

way I produce art, so I can still find the

art process enjoyable without putting too

much "unnecesarily pointless" effort into

it. Some of the sketches I made got a lot

of likes and attention, easily putting the

rest of my artworks to shame! So yeah,

there's that.

The second reason is that since I am a

person who just-so happens to be and

live in Venezuela, my Paypal account

got terminated when I received a very

much needed donation, and now I cannot

accept support from anyone until I can

find a suitable replacement to use that

is not Paypal. This means that I am no

longer taking commissions(not that I

ever got any commissions to begin with),

and my Ko-Fi account has donations

turned off, essentially locking away

all the exclusive content that was

uploaded there. Then I watched that

Duchess Celestia video where she

talked about Ko-Fi's lack of security

and how she lost a lot of money, so

it's safe to say that I will quit using

Ko-Fi altogether. I'm planning to

migrate all my content to Patreon so

my content is still available for, idk,

some lost wandering soul that sends

me money probably by mistake, but

till then, all of my more recent artworks

are banished to the Shadow Realm.

The third reason is that my ol' dinosaur

PC is finally gonna get upgraded to 64

bits, so I had to do the tiresome task of

making backups of everything I had on

it, using only one 23 GB USB drive.

Because of that, I couldn't make any

digital art even if I wanted to, because

I do not have the program to do it, so

yeah, if anything, I'd call that a win.

That said, once my PC is fully functional

again, THAT is when I will be able to

produce digital art normally again, so

my hiatus will go on a little longer after

I feel fully "recovered".

That, in a nutshell, is why I went on this

massive hiatus, and let me tell ya, hiatuses

are underrated! I know y'all who live off of

art have your brains consumed by hustle

culture and wouldn't take a break even if

your working hand fell off your arm, but as

someone who never had art as a career

option, taking this time off was the best

thing I could ever do. I feel rejuvenated!

I'm starting to enjoy things again! I'm happier!

I'm exploring new things and rediscovering

things that I'd forgotten about or left behind!

I am much better now!

So yeah what I'm trying to say, is that

this perception of taking a break as

something bad that has to be avoided,

and more like a positive thing, seriously!

People gotta stop focusing on those silly

Twitter numbers and start focusing more

on their health and well-being!

"Yeah but it's not that simple, some of us

need to make art for a living", brother,

I am not looking for a debate, please do

not try to reply with this, because I will

ignore you. I am in the right, and so are

you. Let's just agree to disagree, and

move on with our lives, okay?

And that would be it! Just dropping by

to let y'all know that I'm still breathing,

that I haven't given up on Newgrounds,

and that hopefully soon I will return with

more art and better than ever!

As my favorite FNaF character would say,

I always come back. ;)

Be seein' ya!

Heyo people, I've been absent (once again),

but today I'm here to bring y'all MORE of my

OCs. This time's two for one! Let me introduce

you to the Chicory twins, Maia Chicory, & Kralis

Chicory!

As you can see, even though I introduced them as "twins", they don't really look much alike, yes? Well, that is because they aren't really related at all! They only pass up as twins because they agreed to pretend to "be twins", using the fake name "Chicory". Their real names aren't even "Maia" or "Kralis"!

In fact, nothing about them is "real", not even their physical appearances. This is because they're both under a curse that was cast upon them, causing her lives to be intertwined, so they cannot be separated, lest they are punished with physical transformations and wormhole teleportation. So they have to be always together and work together to be in "peace", as they search for a way to be freed from this curse.

I created them both when I was around 12-14(don't remember exactly when, but they definitely came after Akai & Amber). I did not create both girls at the same time though, first, I designed Kralis, and around a month later, I made Maia. So despite them both having the same biological age in "canon", Kralis's date of creation is juuuust a little bit earlier than Maia's. ;)

Their backstories are a bit convoluted and it'd be a loooooong trip re-telling them in the same space, so, let's skip that, their backstories are a secret, just like their real names and appearances! ^^;

So let's talk about how they look now!

Due to the curse they're both under, they are trapped in their twelve years old bodies, however, they have lived like that for years, so both of them are currently over 18 years of age. They both are slim girls who share the same height (1.45 m) and body shape. They both have heterochromia. Kralis Chicory's eyes are green(right) and blue(left), and she has big and dark bags under them, on top of always having a tired expression. She also has piercings on her left eyebrow, and on both of her ears. Her short hair is lavender, straight, always messy, and very greasy. She wears a dark purple knit hat with little blue hearts on it, which also has a blue ribbon with dark purple hearts tied to it. She wears a matching sweater and a pair of gloves with opposite colors: green with orange fingers on the left hand, and orange with green fingers on the right. She wears a black skirt and striped socks with dark purple and blue hearts.

Maia Chicory's look is quite different. Her hair is green and very curly, carefully kept in place with a dark purple ribbon with orange stars tied to it. Her eyes are pink(right) and yellow(left), and always has a judging expression on her face. Her outfit is very close to a school uniform, consisting of a white shirt with a dark purple tie with an orange star on it; a green belt with a silver buckle, and a dark blue skirt, along with white socks and green shoes. She wears a pair of gloves of opposing colors; red with blue fingers on her right hand, and blue with red fingers on the left.

Kralis is very apathetic and lazy, her favorite hobby is doing nothing and she can keep awake for two days in a row or sleep for 20 hours straight. She barely eats and is a little too fond of alcohol, her preferred drink being rum on coffee. She's actually very talented in art and music, playing the violin and making watercolor paintings skillfully, but she does not think highly of this talent, or herself as a whole. She does sometimes play the violin on pubs for money to spend in these same pubs, and sells her paintings under a fake name. She has a very low self-esteem and a very poor image of herself; she believes that no one cares about her and thus, does not see anyone as friends, even those whom she'd hang out with often. The only other person she actually cares about is Maia, despite this feeling not being mutual. She is an aro-ace tomboy. She likes to engage in self-destructive behaviour, and she's always wearing long sleeves and socks to hide the fact that she wounds herself when she's "got nothing better to do", and has attempted to end her life at least 3 times. She has depression. She talks in a very sarcastic way and often overshares her inner turmoils because, even if she feels like she's lost all hope, she wants someone to help her out and still longs for a miracle to happen and her curse to be dispelled.

Maia on the other hand, is a "workaholic"; she's always doing something, from keeping the house they live in, to whatever jobs she may find. She's not talented or experienced on plastic arts, but has good redaction skills and can write good articles. She's crazy for organization and would freak out if something is out of place. She does not have any particular hobbies, but wehn she does take some time to rest, she would sit down and listen to some music while smoking a cigarette. She wakes up too early and goes to bed too late. Her cooking is not good, but does what she can. She stresses and struggles a lot and constantly thinks the whole world owes her and sees Kralis as an ungrateful parasyte that is leeching to her and that if not for the curse they have on, she'd be at a much better place. She belittles everyone else and is very hypocritical, she thinks she's above everyone and nobody is as good as her or even close enough, and thus, is always unhappy and miserable. Despite this though, she has fallen in love with Midnight Sun, who is clearly way out of her league, and she also hates him because of that, loving and hating him at the same time. She is a bisexual with gender dysforia. She's cold and rude and "never has time" to spare, she does not want to be helped despite being a living emergency alert, as she refuses to search for a way to get rid of the curse that both her and Kralis share, blaming everything on Kralis. Now, as this is a magical girl fantasy story, they both gotta have special powers, right? This curse didn't only make their bodies change, but also gave them seemingly random superhuman abilities: Kralis can float over any surface, which is not quite flying, but is good enough for her to not walk on the ground ever again, and the ability to camouflage herself among the shadows. Maia can see perfectly in the dark, which is, even in the darkest of nights, everything looks like it's a sunny midday to her, warping her concept of time, much to her own chagrin; and she can also control her own hair, which is actually very long and strong, like it's a set of tentacles, but she normally only uses this power to keep her hair always in perfect order, as she views this power as gross. They do not share the same powers. They also have their own weapons: Kralis has her violin, which is modified to transform into a crossbow; and Maia, although later in the story, has a two-handed sword chained to her right arm. They aren't magic users.

Welp! Those are my OC's alright!

As you can probably tell already, all my OCs

seem to have dark and troubled backstories

(although I didn't touch on these girls' ones this

time, but they definitely play on that stereotype

of "little girl who's actually an adult"), and be all

edgy and gritty, but that's because I created them

back when I was a pre teen going through that phase! ^^;

I swear my most recent OCs aren't like that!

In the end, all my OCs are actresses playing

parts in the big theater play that is Universal

Traveler! =)))

I hope y'all like it, and I'll see you around~!