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No, I don't have it :phew: Hardly anyone in my state does, in fact. But I feel like the whole place is on lockdown. My town just declared a state of emergency, and tons of people in town are alternately self-quarantining and hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer. All the public schools in my state are closed for the next three weeks. All concerts and other events in my town from now until June are cancelled, which means no more winter art market, no spring art festival, and no lilac festival :crying: I also cancelled my Pokemon club until May 1 since I figured none of the kids would be able to show up for a while.

And to make matters worse, my internet is gonna get cut off on Friday because I couldn't pay the bill :dead: But as long as I can activate my copy of ACNH before Comcast cuts me off, I'll be okay.

Stay safe, everyone! :wave:
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Oh, don't worry, I'm not gonna stop making them! ^^; I'm just trying to think of how to proceed with icons for gen 8 Pokemon. You see, a lot of the sprites are bigger than gen 7 sprites, and my current formats would cut off part of the sprite. In order to have the sprites not be cropped, the icons would have to go up to 128x128 (or possibly 100x100) instead of 64x64. These concerns are especially true of the Pokewalker icon format in particular.

So here's what I'm thinking:

Option A: make new icon formats for use with gen 8 sprites, including a new Pokewalker base
Option B: make new icon formats for use with gen 8 sprites, but don't do gen 8 Pokewalker icons
Option C: just use my current icon formats and let the gen 8 sprites get cropped where needed
Option D: something I didn't think of here (please explain)

Please comment below and let me know which option you think I should go with!
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Okay, I did NOT mean to go this long without writing a new journal entry. :iconorzplz:

First off, Mom's fine. Mostly. She beat the infection (twice), and is currently doing physical therapy to recover some range of motion in her shoulder. She's having some self-confidence issues because of the loss in strength and the fact that her scar makes it look like she got jabbed with a running chainsaw, but she's recovering well! She even just got a job at Dollar Tree! :D

Second, Mom and her dogs have been living with me since the end of July. Mom lost her restaurant job because the accident made her miss work too long, and she lost her house on the edge of town. I offered to have her stay with me until she gets back on her feet, and admittedly it's been hectic; I'm keeping two peoples' worth of stuff in an amount of space meant for one person, I can never be completely by myself at home, and the dogs have me up at dawn every morning to take them for their morning bathroom walk. It's been hard trying to adjust, but I'm keeping Mom off the street while she recovers, and that alone is more than worth any inconvenience. :aww:

Third, I do still want to make my Pokemon icons and practice drawing. Sword and Shield includes updated menu sprites for many Pokemon (same style as before, but a bit bigger), so I'll need to download those from somewhere and figure out how to incorporate them into my icons. I may need to rethink which icon formats I make. I guess I'll see which ones people still like. That being said, requests for icons and doodles are OPEN! :dummy:

Fourth, Mom and I want to get our craft shop up and running this year, for real this time. We want to make 2020 our year of making craft money and taking no bullshit. :nod: I make bracelets and earrings out of origami wishing stars and earrings out of origami cranes, and Mom makes plushies, plushie dolls, and little zip-up bags. I want her to get back into making animal-ear beanies too, but we'll see. Anyway, I'll post more info, along with the name of the shop, when we have it more set up.

tl;dr Mom's alive and mostly well, she's living with me now, my icons and doodles are still a thing, and Mom and I want to open a crafts shop.
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A couple weeks ago, Mom hurt herself REALLY BAD at work. She was lifting a huge container of vegetable oil (she works at a fancy restaurant in town), and detached the cartilage on the right side of her collarbone. When the cartilage tore away, some muscle tore with it, which caused a bleed. The bleed wasn't caught for a few days, and she got an infection. She was taken to the hospital in the big city a couple hours away from town over a week ago, and she's been there ever since. She had to have surgery the day she got there to remove some necrotic muscle tissue and fix the bleed. She is recovering, which is an immense relief considering she was practically half-dead from septicemia a week ago :fear::crying: but it could still be days before she can come home.

I'm currently house-sitting (and dog-sitting) for her while she's in the hospital, so I don't have access to my desktop computer. Thankfully Mom said I could use her laptop, and I was able to go back to my apartment today to get some things, so I grabbed a copy of my pixel art directory. I can still take Pokemon icon requests, but I won't be able to do icons involving new custom Poke Balls or palette swaps until I get back home. (Feel free to request those still; just know you'll have to wait a while for them.)

Also, feel free to send my mom well wishes :iconnyoronplz: She's { :iconpinkoctopus13: } here and Domino on Subeta.


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Omg I finally hit 30,000 pageviews! Thank you guys so much for liking my Pokemon icons and the other random stuff I post! :iconexcitedblushplz: Seeing how much you guys like my stuff makes me want to make more of it :D

I'll keep making Pokemon icons for the foreseeable future, but now that I have a drawing tablet again, I want to get back into drawing, even if just with simple doodles and drawings like I've done before. If you want me to try drawing you something, let me know! Just keep it simple; I'm not good with complex subjects or fine details. The things I'm the least crappy at drawing are people (especially women), mermaids, and some Pokemon, and the things I'm worst at drawing are quadrupeds, mechs/robots, and buildings.

I also want to start doing kiribans like so many other people here do. Starting now, I'll do a kiriban every 500 pageviews so I can get extra drawing practice. If you send me a screenshot of my profile when the pageview count ends in 500 or 000 (or within three pageviews of that), I'll draw you something. :meow:

Again, thank you guys all so much for getting me to this milestone, and I'll do my best to keep posting content! :love:

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