I've been holding off announcing this for a long time. I've been talking about my health issue here and there, but never put it under a big spotlight. I didn't want to make people feel bad/afraid for several months. Nor did I want any kind of pity points.
I received the news in October, but I couldn't do much but wait, till now.
On the 20th December I'll be going to the hospital for a surgery NEAR my back. Nothing directly with the spine, but near it. There's a difference, less impactful.

A group of small blood vessels have entangled themselves around a major artery. The constant pulsing of the artery puts a pressure on these vessels causing them to expand. Which in turn causes them to put a pressure on my nerve. Resulting in me losing my feeling and mobility in my legs/hips.
I honestly forgot the correct medical name for this, google isn't helping either.

This started probably in August this year. Maybe earlier but didn't pay attention to it. It started with no sense of heat in my legs, thinking the bath had no warm water, only to be surprised when I sat down. The symptoms became more obvious over September where I was having more tripping (loss of balance) and sleeping toes. Eventually had a talk with a neurologist and later an expert on spine issues. Discovering the above issue.
2 Months later and it's starting to put some heavy strain on me, barely able to walk around without having to support myself somewhere, stairs are a pain and I'm missing my bike to move around. It also made me realize how shitty the walkways are here in my town.

So hopefully this surgery will remove the issue and bring me my mobility back. Basically going to burn the veins so no more blood goes through them, similar on how they treat a constant nosebleed. That or use glue... yeah weird. I'm just glad it's nothing with my spine itself. I'll have to remain at the hospital for 4 days to recover (standard procedure), and if everything goes right, I'll be home by Christmas. During my stay I'll have a laptop with me to keep me entertained. I have my models and Blender installed on it, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get any work done. I don't think the laptop has the power to render, so I'll probably do poses and then put them on my pc to render. But I really hate working with a mousepad, so maybe nothing will happen, we'll see. . One thing is certain, I'll remain in contact on Discord.

TL;DR: Slowly becoming paraplegic, getting operation to stop it and recover, Won't be able to do shit for a few days.

Our cat Dushi has passed away this night. 
She was a kind and sweet cat, one of the first cats we've adopted from the local cat shelter. 
We were very hopeful for her recovery, but she suddenly passed away. At least she died in her home surrounded by her friends. 

All remaining donations will be send to the local cat shelter to help the local cats. 
I've promised my sister that the commissions will remain open till the 17th.

We would like to thank everyone that has supported us and shown good will. 
https://twitter.com/Tahlian1/status/1469981144833798148

I feel like I should give an explanation on Kiki and some other stuff. It's going to be a bit of a read, but if you're wondering about her and Shantae, read the next line.

Who is Kiki?
Kiki is largely based on Shantae's monkey form (I'm not going to deny this, very heavily inspired) and strangely enough, my starbound character with the same name. A purple female Apex.
She's from Felicia's and Kimiko's world, but not from the island that Kimiko and Felicia live on. One of the reason why the forest elves can't talk to monkeys, it's because they don't exist where they live.
Kiki is me caving into the idea of a monkey oc after the Kong pack got released by Kabalmystic. As all but one monkey had no tail, it kinda bothered me to the point where I decided to make my own. I hope she's going to be as enjoyable as Felicia and Kimiko.

What is Kiki's role?
Besides giving monkeys some more love, she's actually meant to be the third and last OC I wanted to make.
Early on when I made Felicia I had the plan for 2 extra characters to be added to compliment Felicia. 
A human who was going to be Felicia's childhood friend, to be the anchor point for the human side for Felicia and the average height character.
And a wildcard, who became Kimiko. Kimiko sort of took the childhood friend idea, including the "you've grown quite a bit" joke. And took the roll of the largest character.

As Felicia got fleshed out, so did the need for a human character, she kind of became the human anchor point herself. And honestly, Felicia also is considered as a human, kind of lowering the uniqueness. 
There have been other characters interacting with Felicia and Kimiko, guest characters as I'd like to call them.

I hope this clears up some stuff explains my complex mind of things.

Thank you all for the bday wishes and gifts. And again, no worries if you couldn't supply me a drawing, I rather have you having a good time or work on your commissions. It's the gesture that counts.

Still sad I missed July 4th's picture. I wasn't feeling it and also forgot to do the message. So happy (very late) 4th of July, wave them stars and stripes. Maybe next year I'll get a picture done? Or at least use the idea in a future image. I mean stars and striped bikini isn't an uncommon thing to see.

Speaking of future, I might have 2 things in mind to drop. I'm not going to say it yet to avoid disappointment. It really depends on how work is treating me. Which is much better atm really. Not that moving trash around was a bad thing, I didn't mind it, but working on toys and making sure they're in good shape is fun too. Kinda tickles that old dream I had of making toys when I was a kid.

Anyway, hope you all have a great day, enjoy Iruru from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. I recommend it.

7th July :3

Birthday wish is like last year, Felicia fanart is welcome, but not required.
Also apologies for not uploading stuff in the weekend. I've spend those 2 days working on the Bday picture. It's a really big one.

So far, it's pretty good. 

I won't bore you with all the details, but smashing stuff up and putting it in the right container is fun to do. The people I work with are really nice and I love the working environment.
It has somewhat impacted my art stuff, but I'm sure that it'll improve over time. I'm mostly tired from the trip back home. The blistering sun on my head while I'm on my bike for 4ish KM's isn't the greatest. But I'll survive :p

I'm happy to say that life is finally moving forward.
In 2 weeks from now I (hopefully) will be starting my job in training for 2 months. Mainly to get more experience (any really).
I have no idea how much this will impact art time as of now. But it'll be part time, so I'll have half a day free time. Mind you, this sadly doesn't count as a real job, so commissions will have to wait.

Speaking of art time, you might have noticed that I've been uploading daily (with a day off at times).
I've challenged myself to get an image done every day, just because of how lazy I sometimes am. Thanks to the many questions you guys and gals send to me, I can do a quick render when I don't have any ideas to render. It also helps to expand Felicia's lore.

Also, just because this has been annoying me and I can address this now. I'm sorry if I don't reply to comments that often. Or on other sites like Twitter and whatever DA has as a chat system.
I read your comments and try to reply to them if I can. As for Twitter, I only use it to upload my stuff and to reply to friends. Honestly I'm more actively talking on Discord. Which I'll also advertise soonish as a yearly tradition. So you know what to expect as an image soon :p

I've been only hearing praise for it, and honestly I'm slacking on uploading alts of images. I tried to link them to Twitter since they allow up to 4 images, but it's true, the quality is pretty low. My other idea was to upload these to Patreon, but I forgot that images with nudity need to be a patron only upload, which means you have to spend money to see the alts, and I'm not going to do that.

So yeah, I'm experimenting with this program, and hope I'm not going to screw up too much with tags and ratings. 
Single Images are still going to be uploaded manually. 

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Been sick for about a week now. it must've been something in the air as a lot of people i talk to online got sick around the same time. :<

Got my voice back, but the coughing will probably do some damage to it, at least I'm getting rid of what's stuck in my throat now. 

Kimiko

I decided not to bother with stuff for the week and got myself to work on another character as you can see :p.

I always wanted a panda character alongside my list of models. I was excited to hear (a while ago) someone was planning to commission a panda OC by KabalMystic, but dropped the idea.

It was a nice change for me to learn some new methods on making a model, this one having it's head actually stuck to the body instead of the floating heads like the Sonic models and her top being a better attempt then my other clothing attempts.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to do some more commissions. Still not feeling 100% for it. Stupid cold.

As part of the celebration I've opened a CuriousCat account where you can ask questions about Felicia (or anything else, but mainly Felicia related).

"Why not Tumblr?" I hear you ask. Because screw that site. CuriousCat also allows for Anonymous questsions just like Tumblr, no need for an account.

So feel free to leave a question. I'll answer the questions on CuriousCat, but if I can pull of an image in regards to the question, that will be posted on all other sites too.

https://curiouscat.me/Tahlian