Here be Dragons and Whatnot

@herebedragonsss.bsky.social

Jack of many trades, still working on the mastery bit. Artist, animal lover, nerd, and rabbit-hole adventurer! 🎨 Art Feed: https://tinyurl.com/35ktbrsk 🏷️ #art | #dragon | #vrchat | #blender | #krita ☕ Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/herebedragonsandwhatnot

Well... The good news is I found one of the main underlying causes of my illness. Apparently I've been living my life with a chronic staph infection in my sinuses--and yes, that's every bit as miserable as it sounds. Thankfully, it looks like I'll be getting by with minimal long term tissue damage +

TurboTax is such an ungodly combination of polished UI that obscures a labyrinthine UX. Few services stress me quite so much as TurboTax. Why did it take me 20 minutes of digging to get old tax returns? Why did I have to go through my Intuit account, which all sources say is a separate service?

Dusting off some animation skills, it's been a while since I've done any so just sticking to some basic block out stuff for now until I get back in the groove.

Well, in a rather last-minute turn of events, I'm going to be at Furality this year! I've only ever been to one (non-work) convention and certainly never a furry one! If anyone else is going, I'd be delighted to say hello! Now to see if I can get some kind of costume situation together in time...

Barring any fresh disasters and tragedies, I'm on track to have better financial stability in the next 6-8 months. One of the things that excites me most of all is FINALLY getting to join all the Patreons, tip all the Kofis, and buy all the commissions :D ARTISTS, I AM COMING FOR YOU WITH MY DOLLARS

Man, I wish PC problems were more comprehensible. In the year of our lord 2026, why can't my system tell in me in plain language what's wrong? Why do I have to do so much manual debugging lol Also, having my primary source of income suddenly unusable is a whole new kind of stress

... So I guess a medication being covered by my insurance doesn't actually mean it will cost the standard copay :'D Currently scrambling because one of my prescriptions is $3400 AFTER insurance. Time to see if I can get this one from foreign pharmacies 💀💀💀

Ok, help me solve another work debate LOL. If you come across a product/service whose verbiage feels obviously AI generated (with tropes like em dashes, lists of three, "it's not X, it's Y" and etc), does that impact your decision to engage with that service? If so, how?