🔥made a new discord server
Posted 6 months agoI made a better, more organized discord server if you’d like to keep up with my work, commissions, etc.!
https://discord.gg/9GEzC9duNM
https://discord.gg/9GEzC9duNM
a personal journal
Posted a year agohello,
I imagine most of you don’t know me. I built a following from 2010-2020 under a couple handles, ultimately deleting everything and going completely offline for a few years while I tried to find my footing as an unwilling participant in capitalism, navigate a budding relationship, and figure out what my future interactions with social media would be.
like many of you likely relate I grew up in online communities, forums, art sites and the like, my only friendships contained online, my first relationships over text in private chat rooms. when I finally graduated homeschool high I got a job and moved out so that I could transition safely, and it was around this time I nuked my online life to focus on building one in the other place.
art has been my unabashed passion since my earliest memories, and pursuing it as a career has been my dream since I was pretty small. this year I want to begin to realize my dreams as reality, and I have high hopes for myself and have been working very hard when I find the time and energy. sometimes there is none and I still try anyway.
sometimes it feels like I have very little to show for it, but I remind myself I successfully released my first t-shirt this year, as well as my first commission since I left the internet, and that can only mean the start of a very long path I can’t possibly see the end of. I really hope it’s a wonderful adventure, and though at times it will be difficult, a creative life is the one I desperately want to lead.
there are a lot of worries that come with it, and being trans in florida is pretty frightening right now, but I finally have a future I want to fight for. I finally want to live.
I hope, for my future self’s sake, I am able to make the comics, fanart, merch, paintings, and everything else I yearn to create, for it’s been the only way in my life I have ever saved myself. to future Kacey, I hope we are creating more often and crying only when we are happy. I love you.
I imagine most of you don’t know me. I built a following from 2010-2020 under a couple handles, ultimately deleting everything and going completely offline for a few years while I tried to find my footing as an unwilling participant in capitalism, navigate a budding relationship, and figure out what my future interactions with social media would be.
like many of you likely relate I grew up in online communities, forums, art sites and the like, my only friendships contained online, my first relationships over text in private chat rooms. when I finally graduated homeschool high I got a job and moved out so that I could transition safely, and it was around this time I nuked my online life to focus on building one in the other place.
art has been my unabashed passion since my earliest memories, and pursuing it as a career has been my dream since I was pretty small. this year I want to begin to realize my dreams as reality, and I have high hopes for myself and have been working very hard when I find the time and energy. sometimes there is none and I still try anyway.
sometimes it feels like I have very little to show for it, but I remind myself I successfully released my first t-shirt this year, as well as my first commission since I left the internet, and that can only mean the start of a very long path I can’t possibly see the end of. I really hope it’s a wonderful adventure, and though at times it will be difficult, a creative life is the one I desperately want to lead.
there are a lot of worries that come with it, and being trans in florida is pretty frightening right now, but I finally have a future I want to fight for. I finally want to live.
I hope, for my future self’s sake, I am able to make the comics, fanart, merch, paintings, and everything else I yearn to create, for it’s been the only way in my life I have ever saved myself. to future Kacey, I hope we are creating more often and crying only when we are happy. I love you.