This was a lot to write, and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a lot for you guys to read, hopefully I formatted it well enough to make it easier.
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I know I haven't been active much lately, but I've been keeping myself busy with a lot of projects and things, and so far it's going well. I am doing a lot better now.
Psychiatrist Appointments
My last psychiatrist appointment was last month, as we talked about my life improvements and ways I can get a start on my life for the better by combating my loneliness, the area I live in isn't suitable for me as I am just unable to settle or put in the effort to find local distractions, so I have been taking it more online.
I know I should listen to my psychiatrist but we both agreed that even if my doctor recommended me to the psychiatrist, it's not really needed as other people have difficult times than what I have, despite my loneliness, but what can I say, it's just loneliness and depression, everyone has those and manage in different ways, so I will be ending my psychiatrist appointments in behalf of both me and my psychiatrist due to it not being the right choice for my struggles, we tried, and it did help me see different perspectives so it did help.
I'd say, my psychiatrist appointments werent unsuccessful, I don't know where I would have been today if I didn't go to them, so I am grateful that I was at least given the chance to have some professional to talk to so it could help me with my life.
Don't get me wrong, I am still getting redirected to a less-emergency psychiatrist, or something, I forget the name of, but it's a long waiting time.
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Community - Letohub
I have been working a lot on LetoHub discord server, hence my absent on here, tho I haven't finished any art except the Arin, Pebble & Lee one I posted almost a week ago.
I am trying to get the Letohub discord server where I want it, and trying to figure out how I am gonna use it as my next gallery, I am also working with a close friend of mine with making a new website, tho it's a big project so it will take a bit, but the domain has been bought so there is progress.
Community - FiveM
Despite all my projects and such, I have been doing a lot of roleplaying as well on a game known as GTA 5 RP - FiveM, which is a different category compared to GTA 5 Online, this year.
Moving from different Roleplay servers and eventually ending up in one where I feel closely attached to because of friends I get to hang out with, experiences I get to share, and as well as own RP businesses like Taco Restaurant and EMS.
I have been promoted to the Head of Discord Developer for this Community now known as "Phantom Rigde Roleplay".
This means I got the task of freedom to clean up their whole discord server to help out their Community, as it looked very bare and unfinished; And make it look more professional and as well as implement interractive lore and fun features to hopefully spark new life into their Community.
In a sense, I am now working on 2 completely different Communities, my own and a Roleplaying one, so it has been giving me a lot more to do to keep myself distracted.
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General Life
Last month, I got to travel back to Canada after 10 years, so from the 18th until 24th; A short trip but that left a positive huge impact on my life that will stay for the rest of my life.
I got to meet my close friend again, Tamer, as well as 1 new friend and an old friend which I've known the longest online out of all of my friends, getting to meet them made me appreciate life even more, because:
You may get to meet someone online who you think you'll never ever get to meet in person under different circumstances and time passing by, but after 10+ years of friendship, that possibility came true, last month.
General Life - Trip
So when I arrived Canada, went through stress and a small panic, because I forgot 1 important document (Visitor Visa) but found it again in my mailbox after a few minutes, I landed in Canada around 7pm? on the 18th October.
I was picked up by Tamer, with Vice as passenger.
We drove to Niagara Falls hotel, slept, woke up and went to eat breakfast, we then meet up with my old friend for the first time, who (idk if they want to remain anon) and had an amazing time, going on walks along Niagara Falls river, doing aero cart over the whirlpool and went to eat burgers and poutine at a super nice rustic restaurant, with a waitress that went above and beyond with service.
We went back to the hotel then slept, checked out in the morning then drove a little to do more walks along the Niagara Falls and visting souvenir shops, before we left for Toronto, checked in, slept, eat breakfast then we went to Toronto Zoo where we walked for a few hours before we finally got to see Rico, well... the first Raccoon I've seen in my life, which I decided to personally name Rico (idk what their real name is) but Rico it is, he slept lazily at the top of a tree, not a care in the world.
We all wish we could live life just like him, careless and no worries.
After a quick, I mean a very quick souvenir run, before the zoo closed, my old friend had to drive back home, splitting our group with new experiences we all will live with, we drive back to the airport, but not before a quick food stop at Harvey's, I hadn't eaten one of their burgers since 2015.
I travel back to Norway, dreading of being alone again but at least with new experiences to keep my mind occupied with.
But invited again back to Canada this month, this Friday on the 22nd, will be meeting more people which I am looking forward too!
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Mc
Minecraft, yes random turn of topic, but LetoHub (my discord server) now offers Minecraft Multiplayer server!
I decided to start hosting a dedicated minecraft server for meeting, building, roleplaying and sharing experienes with my community so we can bond closer than ever before, because I do want to get to know my community more, but messaging over 80,000+ individual people doesn't seem like the most efficient way, as I wouldn't have time to do literally anything else.
But this community, our community, is literally the reason why I am here, you guys are the reason why I exist and get to do what I love, without you guys, there are no LetoDoesArt, only Leto, perhaps not even that.
But let's not dive into that!
This minecraft server called LetoHub (whitelisted) is a modded server with goals to make it roleplay friendly, immersive and with new transport features such as cars, planes and helicopters with QoL datapacks as well as optimization mods to help run the server better with Distant Horizons for super far render distance.
Cool feature that I recently added to this mc server (still in beta for testing and development) also includes real-time seasons, which means when it's time to snow in real life; December through March, it'll snow in-game!
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Projects!
So yeah, as you can see, I have been extremely busy with all sort of things, but don't worry! This doesn't mean I am quitting drawing, I mean my name "LetoDoesArt" contains the word "art" for a reason, and I still want that to be my main focus.
But to continue being a full-time artist, the most important thing isn't because of the "art", the most important thing is to build a strong and healthy community that are there for you, and in return, you are there for them, whether its through art or through interractions.
And that's what I have been focusing on at the moment, I am nursing my community because you all are helping me out in incredible ways, and I can't thank you guys enough!
Art doesn't justify the amount of support you guys have given me over all these years, so this is why I am trying to stretch even more beyond art, to build the best community there is!
-Hopefully haha, I don't want to toot my own trumpet, but at least I hope I am doing something right?
Projects - the future of my art
So regarding future projects, I am trying to make it so my community such as discord server, mc server, other FiveM server runs itself basically, with minimal moderation and more interraction.
Once I hopefully managed that, I will dive back into creating a lot of more new contents.
I mean despite all this, I haven't run out of ideas, actually far from it,
I got literally thousands of brainstormed sketches in the works, which I will bring out with time, a lot of you guys have been asking where my otter character "Arin" is, so he will be visiting more frequently, hehe.
Regarding my halloween drawings, I was planning to finish a couple by Halloween but got super busy, so I will still finish them with time and post soon!
Commissions, Personal Comics such as Wireless, 4th Wall part 2 and general projects, I will finish as well throughout december out next year, with new animations and comics to be posted!
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End of this post, I love you all and thank you again for your incredible support, I could not have done this without you.
I love you all 💙💙💙
-Leto