07/26/2025
New Directions and Slowly Healing
Hello all! I hope you're doing well I've been working on trying to heal my wrist and slowly getting back to my former self. It's been pretty difficult all things considered but I'm hopefully i'll get more help and clarity soon.
Humorism -> Duomon
I've been pretty disatisfied with the direction Humorism/Nextholders has been going in for the past few years. As some of my oldest friends may recall Humorism started as a pokemon fanfic but quickly blossomed into it's own thing. However, completely divorcing it from the pokemon world was something I never really wanted to do with the story.
I've also had a couple of other ideas kicking around in my head for a mon like creature collecting game specifically one that focued on a symbiote type relationship between humans and demons. While working on these two ideas separately I had the brilliant idea of merging them together into a single concept which would take the characters from Humorism and the world building from the demon project.
And so Duomon was born! I'm still in the extremely early planning stages of this project but I do want to make this into an rpg of some sort once I figure out some more fun and unique mechanics for it!
Laura Quest
So we're a little more than a month out of the projected date of LQ Chapter 3 and while I'm a little worried right now about it I'm also still working until the end of the first week of August, so I'll have significantly more time after that. My general plan is to finish all of the script editing by the week of the eighth and use the remaing two weeks to focus solely on the art and minor programming fixes.
I'd be lying if I said I was completely confident in this working out though... My wrist has still been a pretty big issue for me and the pain throughout my body as a whole has been making me incredibly fatigued as well so it's hard to predict what I'll be capable of going forward.
Wrapping Up
So yeah that's what's generally been going on, I'm very much resisting the allure to work on Duomon with the energy I do have and am instead trying to make slow but steady progress on LQ3. But despite this I'm trying to stay optimistic and find new ways of working that may look a little worse but are easier on my body. Thanks for reading this and I hope you all have a good day/night/whatever!
03/23/2025
I'm So So Busy
Hi friends, as you can probably tell from the lack of updates my life has gotten pretty busy outside of here. Job has been going good thankfully, I work with teenagers on their art projects and it's been really fun to help them problem solve and get to actually talk to and inspire younger artists.
I've also been learning a lot more about web design through my classes! the teacher definitely isn't the greatest but I've been able to piece together almost everything myself later on so it's not a big deal. I'm learning basic javascript at least which is more than I knew before.
Projects?
Yeah I really have nothing to show right now... ;_; Everything has been a lot and it's hard for me to sit down long enough to make a single piece nevermind write or draw something with a narative to it. I have a lot of ideas for new projects and stuff cooking in my brain but most are in the conceptual stages so I won't be sharing them for a bit.
Laura Quest
LQ is still very much in hibernation, things have been very busy for the other people helping me with this project as well as myself so it's been practically stagnent since my last update. I'm hoping that once I get some time off from work/school I'll finally be able to buckle down on it again.
Art Block
Something else that hasn't been helping the stagnation that I've been feeling recently is because I have no time to sit down and do studies/experiment more I can feel this prolonging the art block I'm currently going through. Because I'm no longer taking art classes full time anymore and have other things to focus on it's been making it harder and harder for me to power through this. Honestly if anyone has any advice for how I can break out of it please send me an ask here or leave a comment on my Neocities Profile.
Wrapping Up
Anyways that's about all I've been up to. I hope everyone else has been doing well and that you have a good day/night/whatever!
02/01/2025
Things Changing (for the better?)
Hi friends, Nova here and if you've been keeping up with my site updates over the past few weeks you may have noticed I've been somewhat steadily updating all of my pages with the new format. This has been easier than expected thankfully and I should have most of the major pages done within the next few weeks if my estimations are correct.
However, that may not exactly be accurate as I got a new job recently that's been taking up a fair chunk of my time. It's a good job I enjoy it a lot and it pays well so if I'm lucky they'll hire me back after this semester ends. In addition to that classes for my web design major have also resumed which means I'll hopefully be learning more stuff I can apply here as well as in my professional life.
Stuff I'm Hoping to get Done Soon
Petal and Leaf
So I have a few things on the docket outside of here that I need to work on. A major one being the original comic I'm doing for Petal and Leaf that has been on the backburner for at least 4 months now. Things keep popping up that have been of higher priority so it's kind of fallen to the wayside unfortunately but I'm really hoping this'll finally be the month I'm able to get it done.
Wonderful Precure AU
In addition to that me and my beloved partner Zim have started tossing around ideas for a wonderful precure AU in which Satoru and Daifuku become cures along with Satoru discovering she's actually a girl. He's been doing a lot of the visual design for said au (which you can see here and here) and while I'm trying to do studies to help me get better at a similar style I think I'm gonna try and stick to the narrative side of things.
Oh right! Speaking of that, I've been trying to write some more prose recently and posted a few wonderful precure fics on my AO3! Now you may be wondering "why no tropical rouge fics?" and this is mostly because I'm getting most of my tropical writing fix through Laura Quest.
Laura Quest
LQ Chapter 3 has been pretty stagnent I'm not going to sugar coat it, I'm currently at a point in which I'm looking for some feedback from my editors but none of them have gotten around to looking at my current draft. This by no means is a slight to them of course I understand they have their own lives and are doing this completely out of their own passions so I understand it completely. It's just I'm hoping to get some help before I continue working is all.
Wrapping Up
Anyways I think that's about all I have for you all today. Expect more site updates as I overhaul old pages and hopefully some more art soon! Hope you all have a lovely day/night/whatever.
01/19/2025
Starting Fresh
Hello all! If you've been keeping up with my site over the past few months you may have noticed that my blog page (this page) mysteriously stopped working. I'm still not exactly sure what the problem here is but it seems for the time being it would be wise for me to move away from hosting my blog on dreamwidth. My old blogs can still be found here but going forward I plan on to just update this page instead!
Anyways it's a new year and a new start to this blog which is cause for excitement. I'm hoping now that I have the main page updated it'll get me back into the swing of updated various pages here. (one can hope at least...) The main things one my agenda are as follows:
- add in an actual changelog page as that's now missing from the homepage
- spruce up and fix the sitemap since it got messed up in the homepage update
- make a 2025 art page and populate it with my most recent works
- redo all of the other pages so that none of them are using template's anymore
Now that last one's def gonna take the longest but it's something I'm hoping to do eventually and not immediately. As I've been learning more actual html in my classes (I mentioned in a previous blog I switched my major/school I think?) I've been finding myself less and less content with the way the templates I'm using have my site currently structured. You can tell with how drastic the change between the old homepage and the current one is I feel.
Project Progress
Laura Quest and my other projects are still in the works I'd say I'm a little more than halfway done with chapter 3? That sounds about right. Along with that I have some other more nebulous concepts kicking around in my head I'm hoping to be able to develop more this year.
Most notably I have a sort of multimedia narrative in the works which I've always wanted to take a stab at but felt like I didn't have the proper knowhow until recently. That compounded with a myriad of life experiences has gotten me inspired to work on a narrative about online friendships and the masks we were both in person and behind the screen. I hope you'll all take a look at it whenever it releases!
Anyways that's all I have for today! I hope you all have a good day/night wherever you are and I should hopefully be back soon!