Ask The BellHunters: 2024-06-09

Ask the BellHunters

Hello, I'm Dawn Hunter-Bellwether...er, formerly Dawn Bellwether if you didn't recognize the added surname. And before you ask, yes 'that' Dawn Bellwether. Ex-Assistant Mayor, Ex-Mayor, Ex-Criminal Mastermind (Reformed thank you very much), City Savior, Controversial Author, and Predator/Prey relationship advocate. I'm also, as you probably guess by the hyphenated last name, married, and happily so to my mate Vernon Hunter, a gray wolf. I'm also a mother to three wonderful pups, something I never thought I'd ever have the chance to be! But, lamb sakes, I've gushed enough about myself here without explaining exactly what this blog is for. You see, after the release of my book “Predator Seeking Prey”, our little family started to get a lot of public attention again, and with it came a lot of question from curious mammals and other pred/prey couples from all over Animalia. My best friend and mate Vernon thought it would be a good idea to deal with these questions directly by opening a sort of blog/forum and taking those questions about our lives directly. Since then, I'd like to say our little blog has been quite successful, with even members of our family and friend circle pitching in and taking a few questions as well. So with all that said., please feel free to Ask Away!

Oh, and also, feel free to check our old location for previous asks until we can get a better archive system in place!

The original Ask Dawn And Vern Tumblr! This blog is a continuation/reboot of the "AskDawnAndVern" tumblr, as I am permanently locked out of the Tumblr at present.

https://askdawnandvern.tumblr.com/

(Blog Author Note: This blog is based on the fanfiction “The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether” as well as it's pseudo-sequel “A Lamb Among Wolves”. If you haven't read them, it'll probably help you better understand what's going on here if you do. I'll link both stories below. Oh Also, I'm open to questions as well. Simply direct “Author” emails to “WastedTime” when composing them. And before I forget, I have a Patreon! Five dollars gets you access to in progress fics, Ask priority, and art previews of both SFW and NSFW art. Of course, even a dollar would help. Seriously, it's how I keep projects like this alive.

The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11999389/1/The-Rehabilitation-of-Dawn-Bellwether

A Lamb Among Wolves:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12364172/1/A-Lamb-Among-Wolves

Wasted Time's Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/wastedtimeee

Friday, June 14, 2024

A Breathless Summer Semester

I don't think I need to tell you by now what's first on the agenda, so without further ado let's get to those thank yous! Thanks so much to everyone who continues to support me, especially you Parishioners! It means the world.

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So, let's get started with health first. As it turns out, my blood oxygen levels while sleeping dip into the danger zone. And so, because of this I need to be hooked up to oxygen as I sleep. I dunno if it's Sleep Apnea, or whatever...my heart doc didn't specify. She just wants me on an oxygen machine while sleeping. Hopefully, this will give me a better quality of sleep, and lead to further improving feeling up and awake when I'm...not sleeping.

I'd say I just live at too high an altitude at this point, but my heart doc said my POTS was the result of a vaccine injury. Then there was also the fire and god knows what other factors that could have made things worse. I don't know. It's evident we really should move to a lower altitude, but it's only gotten harder to find housing...pretty much anywhere. And if we had to move out of state we'd have to change a bunch of things over and...it's already giving me a headache just thinking about it.

As for work log stuff...I'm finally pretty much clear. The spring holidays are behind me, the summer lies ahead, and with it, I'm gonna be hitting the art studies hard. Specifically Cubebrush Art School, which I signed up for a lifetime pass in January and have been waiting to jump into. 2 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the other 2 days set aside for studying Toon Boom and Blender. I need the first few weeks of this aggressive study period to kinda...roll into the schedule. And once I'm used to it, I'm hoping I'll be able to squeeze in more and more free-form work around it. I figure, if the guy who made Indigo Park can learn to make a basic game in a week, I can vastly improve my art and reach a serviceable level with Toon Boom and Blender in a month. Well...fingers crossed anyway.

Now, I've got a few pieces that just went live to Patreon, and they'll go public in a week or so. My study sabbatical doesn't mean that all the work is going to completely dry up. My art program missives have...unscored the importance of having wind down time after lessons to draw whatever. I'm just not expecting to make anything I'd call a 'big project'...at least during June and July. (As I have a friend visiting mid-July.)

So yeah, short update, but a mostly hopeful one...save for the breather machine. Hopefully, a much better artist and animator will emerge from the other side of this sabbatical. God, I hope so.

Thanks to my Patreon backers again!

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-Wasty