I...really ought to write more than one journal per year, huh? Whoops!

Hear hear and huzzah, we've reached 8/18/20, and that means that I've now officially been Snowe for 8 years! It feels kind of weird in a way that it's actually been that long. And feels bad in several ways that the last few have seen a dramatic slowdown of content coming from me. I keep trying to find encouragement to get my desire to draw back, but the rust factor has hit me hard and slow progress plus my high standards for myself mean trying to even start work on anything tends to become self-discouraging rather quickly. I gotta find a way to push through it. In the meantime, as I start to work my way into year 9 of bear, here's a few notes about things I'm potentially looking into, going forward...

Sona number three. Folks are already mostly aware that right now I have two characters in the menagerie that would be considered my "sonas," the real personal representatives: Snowe the bear, and Karther the velvet dragon. I don't have any art to properly intro them yet, but a third form is gonna be joining those ranks eventually, someone that will do a better job of speaking for certain preferences and aspects of my personality that I don't feel as comfortable using Snowe or Karther to depict to people in general. A couple of folks know who this is already, at least conceptually, for everyone else I'll just say this much for now: since he first came to mind, this is an idea that's very quickly endeared itself to me.

Set the story free. I've talked about this a bit before but when I first debuted Snowe it came along with grand plans of telling a consistent storyline of how he went about building up the world, and especially focusing on his relationships with other characters, like Doveland, Amelia, Reyers and more. Eight years later most of those ideas never fully came to light and it looks unlikely that they ever will...so rather than waiting around for that, I've decided it's better off to just...depict what I want to depict within the moment, and the justifications and explanations, if necessary, can be filled in as we go. This means that as long as I can finish the requisite reference work, we'll see Doveland's true form. Characters awaiting intros I'll feel more free to just...use. The story of it all, in hindsight, wouldn't have been all that interesting to most folks anyway, I think.

Small sidenote, but beyond the vore stuff that obviously makes up most of my gallery I do also want to get some more "slice of life" kinda things for my characters. The little daily life things are nice!

My social circle within the community seems to fluctuate in size a lot and in the last year or two I feel like I've been going through a bit of a restructuring in that aspect too, a process which I'm not comfortably completed with yet. It's...a bit weird, since I don't have anything particular in mind for what I want to get out of all this anymore, but at the very least, know that I'm not going anywhere for now.

That's...all I've got for now? See you in next year's journal probably!
-- Snowe