Everything By Yuuki:

260117 WIP Talk 0001

2026-01-18T05:07:46Z

I had grander plans for this journal entry -- and I do still do have the drafts for those plans saved somewhere, even if I don't plan to use them -- but I feel this more casual way of laying things out will be easier for me to write up without getting stifled by perfectionism.

So, without further ado, here's what I wrote up in about 30 minutes covering one idea/WIP that I've been working on lately!

( Click ahead if you want to see my ramble about my WIP PMV for PJO. It's about the demigod major players in Titan Army, and the song is ''Buddha was a Rich Boy'' by That Handsome Devil ! )

[Note to self: this entry doesn't have an icon that I think really fits, and I'm really not sure if I should make an icon specifically for WIP Talk as a genre of journal entries, or if I should have a specific icon for like, the characters this focuses on? Much to think about. Once we settle on something, this should have an icon!]

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260112 Is it really already that late into the year??

2026-01-12T22:15:50Z

Happy New Year!

This wasn't the journal entry I had intended to serve as my first entry of 2026, but seeing as we're twelve days into the year, and I have more than ten new drafted ideas for journal entries, and I started writing those up in late December of 2025!?

...

Yeah...

So! Henceforth, I will be giving myself a half-hour to write a journal entry! Any longer than that, I feel I'd be using my time poorly!

No, my journal is not my life's work! It's not my greatest creation ever! I refuse to let this be the thing I put the most of my effort into! I want the bulk of my energy to go towards actually interesting things! My fanfictions, or my meta essays, or, hell, just spending time with friends, those would all be better uses of my time! I don't want the majority of my time to be taken up with writing about inconsequential things, and spending months editing every word until it's perfect!

Guess what? Nothing's perfect! No one is perfect, and art reflects it's creator, so thusly nothing can be made perfect. It's as simple as that. I'll never finish ANYTHING if I'm constantly striving for perfect! That's just the truth!

You're all going to hear a lot more from me this year. I won't promise any quality in the journal entries I publish, just that they'll be frequent, and that they'll be me.

I refuse to be held back by my own perfectionism any longer!!!

- Yuuki

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251106 : Bloom and Zoom + Your Wings and Mine + Debut or Die

2025-11-07T03:41:44Z

Woo! I just bought the Bloom and Zoom volume 1 and 2 physical editions with the merch bundle AND I also got my hands on the 2021-2023 Your Wings and Mine artbook reverie that only had 2 left in stock. I was going to go for the mini print deal (buy 3 mini prints for the price of 1 with the purchase of reverie), but I realized I don't reeeeally care that much about the mini prints and the extra 11 USD it would cost would kill me, so I stuck to spending 120 USD ((´。＿。｀) that's so much) on hobby stuf for this month.

It's only the beginning of the month, so it's not really this wise to spend all my hobby money at once, but I don't want to miss out on having a physical copy of Bloom and Zoom('s first 20 chapters)! I really like Bloom and Zoom!

Edit: I've since cancelled my order of Bloom and Zoom. Oops! Turns out I needed that money for groceries! (〒▽〒)

Besides, I can wait another month to buy more Debut or Die chapters off of Tapas.io (which is what I was going to buy this month for hobby stuff), especially since I still have chapters already purchased that I've yet to read. There's only like 20 of them, but still, that's 20 chapters! Also, the Wait Until Free on Tapas.io has caught up to where I was reading last, so I should probably go through the tedious process of unlocking and downloading those chapters before I go spending money.

Edit: I no longer buy chapters of Debut or Die from Tapas.io, nor do I do I buy anything else from them. When I learned about how their parent company, Kakao, talks about their employees, and when I heard the rumours of how they're moving to using generative AI to machine translate their stories, I knew I could no longer financially support this company.

Speaking of Debut or Die! I've been working on my own designs for TeSTAR and Cheongryeo - well, mostly RGW!Park Moondae and Cheongryeo so far, I haven't really gotten into the designs for the rest of TeSTAR yet... and it's been a painful process!

I'm currently not that skilled at character design, it's just not something I've put a lot of practice into over the years, which is part of the reason why so many of my original characters don't have their own designs. Adding on to the pain of this project: I'm currently doing a more realistic art style for humans while I try to figure out how anatomy works for skulls and faces before going back to a more stylized artstyle... It's been a serious challenge.

Drawing to create characters only based on how they've been described in a novel, even with taking inspiration from said novel's official art and comic adaptation, and drawing while trying to learn anatomy is hell. Even if it is the sort of hell I put myself through pretty much every time I try drawing in recent months, it's still hell... If I had the motivation to not multi-task with my art and actually just do drills of studies, I would, but it's just not fun to me to do art study drills! If it's not related to my interests or easy then I don't want to do it! So instead I just put myself through hell every time I draw instead...

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