[transcribed 2020-08-30]

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Hello the temperature is presently like 450C and I am dying as a result.
I hope I live to see another day.

This font is fun to use. These sorta feel like secret messages, but they're
not actually that hard to read. Mostly they just look [???], which is fun
enough.

I haven't been doing much art lately. I'm kinda uninspired? I feel like
I haven't been s[p]ending as much [...]time at communitying lately?

Actually, that's not exactly it - rather, I haven't felt like I've been part
of such a community. I don't think I ever really _was_ part of one ever, but
I was in a Discord server with a bunch of people who drew things, and that
been deleted for a while.

I mean, I've also been preoccupied with a bunch of other stuff that's
important to me, but... not art.

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Taking a break from art stuff is maybe not bad. I've been soaking up lots of
art in the meanwhile, and I feel a little silly for not drawing too, although
the art I've been seeing has mostly not been that inspiring.

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For a while now, I've been imagining a character in my head. It's funny - I've
sort of made them as a comfort. It's nice to pretend there's a dragon who
understands and shares your emotions without questioning and thinking too hard
about them. [note: see art/2018-05-26-drlod.png for a drawing of the dragon]

I've felt a bit alone lately - not lonely exactly, but alone. It's not that
I've actually been more alone, online or off; it's just a feeling I've been
having. And I'm glad I can share it with this in-my-head dragon friend of
mine, without thinking critically about it.

I'm not sure it's something you - I - can get from someone in real life.