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I posted it on Twitter but I'll say it here too for my Tumblr only followers.

I'll be having surgery on my eye tomorrow, it turns out the retina in my right eye is detaching.

Fun. Wish me luck!

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HE IS! He's super cool and brimming with personality, it always makes me sad when people call him a blank slate, he's absolutely not!

This is obvious during even just the first few mins of the game. He's on a training sim, his skills having improved massively; he's already dedicated to battle studies, and i love the the fact that this helps canonically explain why this child is able to best even adult trainers (mainline just has the protag as this inexplicable child prodigy the moment they're given their first pokemon with no prior experience, boooring)

He gets on well with his sister! The two are rarely apart.

I like to think he lets Jovi tease him the way she does. A doting big brother.

His room also gives you clues to his personality. It's full of sports equipment and toy planes- he's playful and energetic! This is also made apparent later when Megg at ONBS talks to him.

He's headstrong and determined. Just like his mother... or perhaps even his father.

and to add to the previous point of his battling skills:

(also clues to his parents' personality eeeeee)

He's also got a bit of an ego- he sure likes telling people of his heroics and getting that sweet, sweet praise. Especially this guy.

alright going overboard here but these are just some examples proving he's not a "blank slate" loser dweeb thank you for coming to my TED talk Also I know Wes' bike is objectively the coolest effing thing on the planet, but if I was 13 with my own motorised vehicle, I'd feel pretty damn cool about that myself, just saying. (i suppose the SV ride dinos may one-up that by this point but eh)

i know between wes (pkmn colosseum) and michael (pkmn xd) michael is generally considered the lamer one. and while i do think wes is probably cooler overall, theres something i like abt michael. i think its the fact that hes a kid, yeah, but he has his own personality, unlike literally every other kid protag in pkmn. hes a COOL GUY OK .

now look at him

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I was trying to search if I'd posted this on here yet but I can't find it on my blog. Maybe I have and I didn't tag it properly. Oh well. This was done last year, I was testing out some watercolour brushes I'd found. I'm happy with how it turned out!

I just think they're neat together :)

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Ooourgh ohg oof i forgot how to draw

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Eye operation was a success! Right now I have a big black orb thingy in vision of my right eye but i'm told that's normal and should disappear at some point. Wearing my glasses again but it still feels weird to see out of them and i do feel a little woozy, but i'm otherwise fine.

The hospital stuff was sorta neat? At least, the parts where they were hooking me up with wires and a blanket and wheeling me around in the bed. The waiting before the surgery sucked ass though, and it started later than it was scheduled.

I was told the day before that I wouldn't be going under completely but when I finally got into the surgery room itself they gave me a choice so i asked for the full sleep. 3 puffs and I was out. Fun! Waking up I was actually surprised how lucid I felt, I was able to understand what the surgeons were telling me and able to speak back clearly (relevant side note; i live and work in France, but French is not my first language and i can sometimes still struggle with the barrier).

Was sent home the same day so at least I got to sleep in my own bed. Not allowed pillows for 2 nights though. And I have to sleep on my left side (unfortunately that's the side that hurts if I sleep on it too long, yay), but I have just over a month off work now to recover. And a whole bunch of eye drops to administer several times a day for a while.

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This cave painting in Asgard always felt like a Wind Waker reference to me. I can't find any confirmation online that it is, but this is what I choose to believe.

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I'm on break and there's a girl nearby very loudly chewing and popping gum and it's making me want to start throwing things across the room.

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Art moots and strangers;

What's a good art program for Android? Either free or one time purchase (I don't want to pay for a subscription service). I currently have Sketchbook, and Krita (I'm used to it on the PC, but it's a little sluggish and awkward on the tablet rn and idk if that's just me or if it's because the android "version" is technically still in beta). There's PENUP too but not overly keen on that.

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This just in.

Current doodle's art style looks nothing like the one before.

More at 11.

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I am gently dying of tummy ache but i'll try to be brave about it

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trying to draw but my brain is NOT cooperating with me

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Had a follow up appointment, recovery's going well. The black void in my eye has shrunk down from practically half my eye to a marble size over the past few days so it's not nearly as uncomfortable to look down now. Don't need to wear my eye patch at night now either.

Vision's still generally fuzzier that side tho, might get clearer in a few weeks but wouldn't be surprised if I needed to update my prescription (again. i got new glasses just before all this lol) I'm more sensitive to sunlight/strobe light atm too, just going outside wears me out.

Hoping I can get back into drawing comfortably again soon. I did do some painting yesterday and had planned to do more bug studies but just doing that little bit was mentally and physically exhausting.

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This tablet has been a blessing and a curse.

I love it, i am drawing more often in my downtime and i'm having fun with it...

But i'm ignoring the other creative projects i wanted to do at the start of the year, and what i am drawing are all unreleased/privately shown doodles.

Oops.

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That feeling of working on several creative and personal projects at once and getting none of it done fast.

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