Kimeria87

Hey, folks! I hope everyone’s doing well. I’m making this journal as a response to what’s been happening more and more recently. I didn’t want to make this journal.

I always find it fun when I’m being commissioned or requested through Patreon to draw myself in quirky situations as long as I’m comfortable with it (seriously, thank you! It’s flattering)!

Anyways, I’ve been having a huge problem with people commissioning/requesting artists to draw me in certain subject matters without asking me if I was even okay with it. A lot of the subject matter involves things I frankly dislike. Very recently someone who I’ve known for a pretty good while told me that “somebody” did this (it turned out to be the user himself who commissioned it after I searched it up).

When I said that it was upsetting, I didn’t even get an apology. :/ After thinking about it overnight I ultimately and sadly decided to block this user. And I HATE doing this!

I’ve had cases where people would ask me if they could commission/request an artist to draw me in a situation that I dislike, and after I politely asked them not to do that, they did it anyway. I find that extremely rude and disrespectful, and it makes me not engage with those users anymore.

For the most part, and for those of you who don’t know, here are the main contents I’m not a huge fan of and don’t want myself inserted in due to personal reasons (keep in mind I don’t hate these - I just don’t want myself being drawn in it):

Digestion/Torture/Death - I have been dealing with a lot of deaths within my family as well as close friends within the last three years (including COVID wiping a large portion of my family out). People are commissioning artists to draw myself digesting and killing off people and stuff like that- which is out of character and while the pictures are not real or anything, I still find it distressing as I’m still dealing with all of these personal losses in my life

BBW/FAT - As much as I love drawing this, and drawing other characters fattened up, I don’t like myself being drawn as this not only due to preference but also probably because my family has a history of eating disorders as well as weight related deaths. I made a life change nearly 10 years ago because of this

Toilet related stuff - I don’t have anything against this but someone thought they were doing me a favor by commissioning another artist to draw me digesting someone crying and screaming for help and then…. Yeah. You get the idea. AFTER I told them that I wasn’t okay with it.

Myself As Prey - Huge dislike.

Few things for us to keep in mind so that we can all be safe and healthy:

FOR COMMISSIONERS: If commissioning an artist to draw a character/insert neither of you own, it is best to:

~Ask the original creator for permission/consent

~Let the creator know what is going to be happening in the picture

~Take no for an answer if the creator declines - it isn’t a good idea to do it anyways, even if you plan on doing it in secret. It usually always goes public anyways

FOR ARTISTS:

~If unsure whether or not the original creator gave your commissioner permission, it’s best to reach out to the creator to ask.

~If neither commissioner or artist receives a response from the creator, it’s best not to involve said creator’s characters and to do another type of commission.

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The internet in particular is a great way for me to get away from all of the stresses that I go through IRL, and can be difficult for me to do if I’m dealing with people who don’t respect my wishes. For those of you who are unsure, it’s best to just simply ask. My mental health matters too.

Anyways, Thank you for reading and take care! Looking forward to creating more and having a good rest of the year.

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Hey everyone! I wish each and every single one of you a productive, lovely, and healthy New Year. Special thank you to Bowser2Queen and TymanTy914 for the birthday gifts I received and to Quicksilver-88 along with Subarufoxboy for the wishes too!

My last few weeks of last year were challenging, but luckily, I received a great surprise as a result of my hard work this semester:

My Patreon has been going well too and I want to thank all of those who continue to support me. Here's to 2023!

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Hello, everyone! It's been a little while since I've made a journal entry here so I've decided to make one here at work while the students are playing with their toys and stuff.

Day Jobs and Rising Crime

I was given a really difficult class this summer. All of my students are screamers, about half are violent, and I'm still recovering from a piece of my skin being scratched off my arm as well as a bruise from when a student bit me on my thigh. They're nonverbal, so they can't tell you how they're feeling, which is suuuuper frustrating for them. It's been a pretty stressful month. Other than that, I work for 6 Saturdays doing an art teaching gig so I've been working 6 days a week.

I have a particular routine in which I go to the gym at either Bowling Green or Brooklyn and get dinner after work as a way to relieve stress. By the time I get home I'm ready to eat and go to bed, but I've managed to illustrate from time to time before sleeping. Sometimes I do it during work. I am trying to get back into drawing every day like how I used to. I'm looking forward to when summer school ends so that I can draw and chill out for at least 3 weeks!

Other than that, I've been really trying to watch my back since the crime in NYC is completely out of control! It's tough when you're dealing with a mayor who doesn't really do enough! I'm not saying that this is his fault, I'm just saying that there's much more that can be done and that hasn't been happening.

Patreon

It's been going well! Thanks to everyone who continues to support me! I have a lot of work planned. I'll have to finish the rest of the sketch suggestions over the weekend. If I'm not able to finish them, I'll carry them into August. If you're interested in being a patron, please visit here.

Commissions

Finishing off the last one! They are opening back up on August 12, which is the last day of summer school. Comics will remain closed. Prices are shown here.

I hope everyone has been well!

I meant to post an update as soon as I tested positive last week Friday but I kept forgetting and am still dealing with pretty bad symptoms. But yeah, I caught Covid-19 from the unsafe conditions at the special ed school I worked at on the 21st of January (the children there don't understand the importance of mask wearing) and to this day, everyone there continues to get seriously ill. Staff, students... I spent the whole week isolating and to this day, I still have issues with breathing. I worked very hard trying to keep myself and my family safe (including getting my booster shot 6 weeks prior to getting sick) and it really sucks not only getting assaulted by the students every day, but also getting seriously sick from them. I'm really going to miss the staff there because they're so amazing but I unfortunately had to cancel. I start my new assignment at another school on Monday.

I presume there will be a lot of teachers and school staff resigning in June... sub teachers get the short end of the stick when it comes to benefits because you don't get any. I covered for every teacher when they got sick and they get paid leave for being sick. But as a sub, I don't get that. So I lost about $1000 this week because I got sick and couldn't work. That really sucks. That hurts bad.

For my patrons: thank you all for your patience! I plan to continue doing sketch requests there but I'll most likely bring the ones I was supposed to do this month into February.

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Hey, everyone! I wanna thank everybody for wishing me a Happy Birthday. It means a lot. Today's been a pretty emotional day for me; normally I spend my birthdays with my family but that hasn't really happened. So I'm grateful for social media since it allows me to connect with people from all over the world. Special thanks to Bowser2Queen, @dypaul15, and Edreder for the birthday shouts here on DA. Thank you for the birthday gift, sis!( @bowser2queen )

Work has been extremely challenging for the last couple of weeks; At first I was at a location in which I was teaching children with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and I did very well there but I was recently transferred to another location (same school) due to a severe staff shortage. These kids are diagnosed with severe forms of Autism. Reason why it's challenging is because instead of having a bunch of paraprofessionals in a room, there's only one to two placed in a huge classroom with me so I'm not getting the support I need here... what's more I'm sometimes left alone with them when the paras have to do other things and they end up fighting each other bloody. :/ The last time I tried to break up a fight, I got bit on my arm and I ended up having to throw that student on the floor so now whenever they're fighting I can do nothing other than watch the show until they stop. :/ It's pretty bugged out and unsafe when you're not getting the support you need.

School is going okay but there's this one class in which nothing I do makes the instructor happy :/ but I should be okay. This semester is almost over and I hope to use the extra time off to relax and draw more. I'm still struggling with trying to draw every day due to work taking over my schedule but I just need to get into trying to do it during the little amount of free time I have nowadays.

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