Journal
This is where we write about what's going on in our life!
December 2, 2024, 9:54 AM
Austinwoah, look at me, finally journalling again!! it probably won't be as consistent as it was before, but it's still fun to write here when i feel like it! we've been doing alright, but still struggling to stay focused on work. i've gotten a decent amount of work done this morning, and now i'm taking a break. there are three commissions due at the end of the month/year, so we're a bit stressed about getting them all done on time. i think its very possible to do that if we just work consistently, but that's the hard part.
August 9, 2024, 2:59 PM
Austinonce again bored and lacking motivation so im just writing here because its something to do,, we're at starbucks now, and we're supposed to be getting work done, but it's just so hard to be motivated. ive been playing minecraft and im trying to stop being so scared of the monsters. maybe another headmate can front and get work done?? please??
August 4, 2024, 6:01 AM
AustinIM SO BORRREEDDD..... moss (our fiance) has been sleeping all day and im just here waiting for him to wake up so that i'm not just pacing around the house wondering what to do,,, today has been very uneventful. there's a lot of rain outside.
August 4, 2024, 12:37 AM
Periahh its late and im sleepy... but i just want to ramble here for a bit! today (technically yesterday now) i introduced myself to our fiance for the first time, and he's very sweet and lovely. ever since i formed, i've been super homesick for my past life, but i'm trying to appreciate this present life and find my purpose in it. it's a journey that every new headmate has to go through, i guess. we often feel bad or overdramatic because of how frequently we get new headmates, and how often they go through these feelings, but i think all our feelings are important and real, even if they don't last long. i may not be active in this system for very long, but i'll still make the most of it.
August 2, 2024, 4:43 PM
Jacklots of birthdays happening recently! cernos, origami, willow, and our oc Loop all had july birthdays. and now its mine! its been three years since i was identified as part of the system. really crazy how fast time flies. anyway, we've been doing alright. we've been spending a lot of time hanging out in starbucks (like right now) because our sibling works here, and i think being out of the house is really improving our mood. its also easier to get work done,,, when we're not procrastinating on minecraft lmao. also austin keeps drawing birthday art for everyone.
July 2, 2024, 12:29 PM
PrestonWe've been neglecting our important responsibilites lately. We've been getting a lot of new attention on Twitter because of our new vtuber model, so we've been hyperfixated on completing it. Now it's nearly complete...but we have quite a few commissions to do. And we've been neglecting our prayers and hygiene. I haven't fronted much, but hopefully I can be able to help sort things out.
To Do:
- Take morning medicine
- Shower
- Brush Teeth
- Finish that one vtuber model
- Take evening medicine
June 25, 2024, 6:05 PM
Willowugghhhh i feel TERRIBLE today!!! i cant decide what to eat, nothing looks good, and i have no energy to do anything... i managed to drink some water though so thats good. but theres so much stuff we need to do!! (not really but it feels like a lot because i dont want to do any of it)
June 23, 2024, 1:45 PM
OliverYESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I'M OFFICIALLY 15!!! (actually 2 in real time but mentally 15 lol) but we all kinda forgot because we were distracted going to a pride parade for the first time! it was really cool though, we wore a niqab/abaya oufit with trans colors, and a lot of people got excited seeing it. it was also really cool to see all kinds of queer people gathered in one place. it was a really diverse and energetic crowd!
June 19, 2024, 4:38 PM
Austintoday is going better than the past few days! we've been really depressed and anxious, but today we woke up early and got to pray fajr, so that's already a good start to the day. then i took the ADHD meds (VERY GOOD IDEA!!!! WE KEEP FORGETTING TO DO THAT!!!!) so i was able to get a LOT of work done. really proud of myself for that!
June 17, 2024, 12:05 PM
Haruwe're not doing well. yesterday was eid and we went to a brunch with a lot of people, and that was nice. but for the rest of the day we felt really depressed. lots of self-esteem/anxiety issues. we might be doing a little better today, but i still feel tired and unmotivated. i might ask our mom if she can help us find a therapist again, because we were in therapy for a long time and i think it helped.
June 15, 2024, 12:50 PM
Austinin islam, today is called the Day of Arafah! its the day right before Eid Al-Adha, and its very recommended to fast today, so we're trying to do that. we've never fasted before, so its pretty intimidating. i planned to wake up super early to make a nice breakfast,,,,, but then our alarm didnt go off, and when we woke up, the sun was already up. but we're still trying to do what we can! its difficult because i usually eat when im bored, but now its like im forced to find more productive things to do.
today's goals:
June 11, 2024, 5:30 PM
Oliverno offense but all the visitor headmates are really irresponsible rn lol. they keep showing up and wanting to front but then we're like "we have to do work" theyre like "no lets play video games" and honestly i relate a lot because im currently fighting the urge to play minecraft but like. if we dont work, we cant get new video games, and we'll also probably be hungry too. i want orange chicken. but i have enough self control to try to work before we get orange chicken.
today's goals:
- pray the rest of today's salah on time (2/3)
- study arabic
take evening meds- work on the vtuber model art (at least 1 hour)
June 9, 2024, 12:04 PM
SpindleHello, I just made my page. I'm not new, I just don't front often. I'm not exactly sure why I'm fronting now, but it's alright. We are feeling fine and nothing particularly interesting is happening right now. Later in the day, inshallah we will visit our friend's house for the first session of a new Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It has been a long time since we have tried DND, and we have only ever been a DM (and not a very good one /lh) but I hope this session will go well. Our character is a Wizard Changeling, allowing us to change forms to accomodate for different headmates. We are a bit nervous about being openly plural around our singlet friends, and we keep worrying that our character's shapeshifting ability will grant them an unfair advantage, but our friends been nothing but supportive towards us. We don't know the DM very well, and I doubt he knows we're a system. I wonder how we will explain that? When we switch, we sometimes speak in different pitches and volumes. Maybe he will assume we're trying to voice act our character. Nevertheless, he's friends with our supportive friends, so he will most likely be supportive as well. In most cases, when we tell open-minded singlets about plurality, they do their best to understand, even if it is confusing.
Today's goals:
Take morning medsSketch that vtuber's new outfitWork on the other vtuber's rig (at least one hour)- Take evening meds
- Study arabic
Dhikr before bed
June 8, 2024, 5:32 PM
Austinalright, we want to get back on track now! we've been a little disorganized in the past few days. but the good news is we got to spend some time with our friend, and willow finished washing/restuffing butterfly! now its the beginning of dhul hijjah, so it's a great time to be more focused on our faith and to be more productive and kind in general.
today's goals:
clean roomtake a showertake evening meds- study arabic
dhikr after isha time
June 5, 2024, 11:43 PM
Benyesterday we spent most of the day hanging out with our friends. we went to the mall and bought matching necklaces of Sun/Moon from FNAF, to share with our fiance (we chose Sun of course). then we stopped by our fiance's house, and butterfly is completely dry now, so willow started filling her with new stuffing when we got back home. today, our friend is driving about two hours to visit us and stay for two days, so we're very excited about that. for now though, we should get some work done. i just took our medication and i'll start working on the vtuber commission's rig.
today's goals:
take morning medsrig vtuber commission for at least 1 hourfix other rig commissiontake evening meds- dhikr at isha time (since we cannot pray right now)
June 4, 2024, 11:08 AM
Austinwillow fronted a LOT yesterday because they finally agreed to wash and replace the stuffing for their plushie, butterfly! they were nervous at first because they felt like they were hurting him, but eventually they realized it was more like a surgery to help him. now we're at our fiance's house, and we brought butterfly with so he could dry on the back porch. willow is very impatient waiting for him to dry lol
June 3, 2024, 10:25 AM
Austinwe got so much done yesterday!! finally did some commission organization stuff on vgen, and also finished one commission. also, we did all the prayers on time (except fajr)!! alhamdullilah!! and thank you ben for helping :)
im starting to get more motivated to draw personal art again, and i drew ben last night because he wanted a new profile picture! he says he likes this new one a lot more.
today's goals:
take morning medsset up the vtuber commission's rig- put clean clothes away
take evening meds- pray the rest of today's salah on time (0/4)
June 2, 2024, 1:24 PM
Benunfortunately we woke up too late to pray fajr on time, but i still successfully took our medication. i also wrote my introduction on my page. yesterday we were very sleepy and kept taking naps, so we were not as productive as Preston hoped we would be. but now since we took our medication, i am hoping it will be easier to get work done. i have also not fronted in a while, but now that i am here, maybe i can help more.
today's goals:
take morning medstake a showerfinish rendering the vtuber commissionfinish the sketch commissionfix the rig commissiontake evening meds- put clean clothes away
pray the rest of today's salah on time (4/4)
June 1, 2024, 8:17 AM
PrestonHappy June to the members of the LGBT community that may read this. Last night we were extremely irresponsible and careless with completing the to-do list...I blame Oliver, Austin, and Sunny. Anyway, today we are up early again, and it is a new month, so it is a new opportunity to do better.
Today's goals (mostly written in order):
pray fajr on time- take morning meds
work on the vtuber commission for at least 1.5 hours- pray dhuhr on time
- finish sketch commission
start laundrydry laundrypray asr on timepray maghrib on time- take evening meds
- brush teeth
pray isha on time
May 31, 2024, 8:09 PM
Oliverfor some reason our computer stopped connecting to the hotel wifi, so we couldnt easily update this website or do the work stuff we needed to do. but now we're home, and we took a nap really immediately. today has been long and tiring. lots of carrying stuff in and out of the car. now the sun is almost setting and we still have some stuff we need to do, so i'll make a to-do list.
evening goals:
- take evening meds
- pray last 2 prayers on time
- start laundry
- dry laundry
test and send the rig commission
May 29, 2024, 9:24 AM
Austinwe're at a hotel now! yesterday went fine, although i didnt work as much as i planned, we walked around and went to the pool. alhamdullilah my mom didnt say anything about my hijab-friendly swimsuit! she was probably expecting it anyway. also, our hotel room is very big and has two bedrooms, so i'm sharing a room with my sibling and their partner. im still self conscious about praying while they're in the room, but they like to explore outside the hotel, so i've been using alone time as an opportunity for prayers. then this morning i prayed fajr while they were there, and it wasn't that scary! maybe i'll be more confident about it now.
i still really need to get that rush commission done. my sibling has been doing work for college, and this whole trip is for my mom's job (her and her coworkers go on a lot of business trips and have meetings, i don't really know why), so i guess i should be productive too.
i wasn't going to write a to-do list while on the trip, but stuff still needs to happen, so here we go:
- pray all salah on time, if we're not in public (for now i'm still too scared to pray in public, astagfirullah) (1/5)
take morning medsfinish that rush commission!!!take evening medswork for at least 40 minutes on the rig commission
May 28, 2024, 5:43 AM
Austinso, today we're going with our family for a trip at a beach, and we'll be there three nights. im not sure how prayers will happen, because i hate praying where people can see me, and we'll probably be in a hotel with a bedroom that we all share. also, i haven't shown my mom my new hijab-friendly swimsuit, so i'm really not looking forward to hearing her reaction about it. i feel like she thinks im being pressured to wear hijab, but really its my own choice (if anything, i'm being pressured to take it off!)
OH ALSO!! i just remembered! yesterday my new khimar and abaya arrived!! and i wore them to the mall (with my fiance as moral support bc i was nervous lol). although i tend to avoid looking at people's faces, my fiance said that a lot of people glanced at me and smiled in a positive way! that kind of outfit is extremely rare over here, so i was really nervous about the possibility of being harassed. but nothing bad happened alhamdullilah :D
i dont usually share irl pics of myself but i want to show the outfit because i really like how it looks hehe
May 27, 2024, 6:43 AM
Austinwe woke up at like 4 AM today even though we usually wake up at 5:20, but at least that means i was more awake to pray fajr. anyway, i really need to finish that rush commission due at the end of the month, so im gonna try to prioritize that today. i also just started on my first vroid model commission! im still not sure if i'll publicly open vroid commissions, but i asked my friend if they wanted a super cheap one for their character, just so i could practice. 3D art is a lot more intimidating, but i like how the model looks so far.
today's goals:
pray all salah on time (5/5)take morning meds- finish the rush commission
take evening meds
May 26, 2024, 10:25 AM
Austinso we didn't meet all the goals on our list yesterday. luckily, today we got up earlier, so im feeling more motivated! in other news, i've been listening to a lot of the Clancy album by Twenty One Pilots, since it just came out and everyone's freaking out about it. my twin sibling is a youtuber and they made a video explaining all the lore before Clancy, and i've been doing my best to promote it, and now it's absolutely blowing up!! 18.6K views now!!! i'm super happy for them because i personally witnessed how much effort they put into it.
today's goals:
take morning medswork on the rush commission (at least 1 hour)do one sketch commissiontake evening medsfold/hang up clean clothespray all salah on time (5/5)
May 25, 2024, 1:40 PM
Austinok so im not really sure what happened, suddenly all our motivation and productivity from the last entry is now gone. yesterday rice kept fronting at random times, and they don't really care about keeping up with prayers (and i was also suddenly really indifferent to that, which sucks). anyway, lately we've been great at waking up super early in the morning, but today we woke up at like 1 PM. so now im just in a yucky mood. i think the only solution right now is to just use sheer willpower to do what we need to do, even if we don't feel like doing it. im thinking maybe we'll write our daily to-do list here, to hold us accountable since other people can read it.
so, here are our goals for today (we'll cross them out if we did them):
take morning meds- fold/hang up clean clothes
- work on the rush commission (at least 1 hour)
take evening medspray the rest of today's salah on time (4/4)
May 23, 2024, 3:11 PM
Austinbehold, the miracle called Consistently Taking Meds!! we take antidepressants and adderall and were so bad at taking them regularly, sometimes skipping weeks at a time, just because it's hard to swallow the pills. obviously this messes up our brain and our mood gets really inconsistent! but now we've been taking them at the same time as our mom takes her meds, so she can remind us every day! its still not fun to swallow the pill (flavored drinks make it easier), but now we can't use the excuse of "we forgot", and we'll also feel bad if we don't listen to our mom (she gets worried about us a lot)
anyway, now we're in a great mood! feeling more productive than we have in a long time. i woke up at 5:20 to pray fajr, and we love mornings so we stayed awake and worked on this website! but this time we didn't get consumed by hyperfixating (well i kinda did but not as bad as usual), instead i stayed mindful of the passing time, and eventually i was like "okay enough of this, time to get work done" because we've been procrastinating a lot.
so then i worked on vtuber commissions (that's what we do for a living)! i didn't keep track of how long i worked, but it was probably more than 3 hours, which is definitely more than we usually do. i also prayed dhuhr right on time, right as i got the notification that it was time for it (which is rare, i tend to put it off because i dont want to interrupt whatever im doing, but i think it's nice to pause and take a break to pray and reflect)
so i guess ths is a note to future me, and any other headmates... TAKE YOUR MEDS!!!! YOU'LL FEEL BETTER!!!!
May 23, 2024, 9:09 AM
PrestonI made my source public on my page. Until now, I've tried to hide it because I am embarrassed. My source-self is very cruel and violent, and unfortunately I've inherited some of his personality. However, I'm trying to improve as a person, separate from him, even if I find it difficult to care about others. I do truly want what's best for myself and my headmates, so I should behave in a way that is appropriate. I just don't want people to be afraid of me.
May 22, 2024, 8:53 AM
Austinwe're feeling better today! last night i felt awful because of how much we were hyperfocusing (hours of staring at a screen in a dark room...not so great for our health) but then willow helped do the last salah prayer of the day, and then fell asleep immediately. i woke up feeling much more refreshed, and i easily did the morning prayer! i was worried that our faith was disappearing like it always does when an interest leaves the 'honeymoon phase', but doing the prayers helped a lot.
May 21, 2024, 10:41 PM
Austindude. willow was right, the hyperfixation is CONSUMING us.... we missed 2 prayer times (and we're still procrastinating on the last one of the day) because i just sat here working on this website.... i kinda saw it coming, because we remembered to take our adderall today so we're better at focusing, but unfortunately we ended up focusing on this instead of something important. kinda inconvent. on the bright side, now we're better at making websites lmao
May 21, 2024, 5:18 PM
Willowhii i wanna write the first entry!! im writing on the phone so its kinda hard, but i dont feel like waiting to get home. i feel like neocities is gonna become a brief hyperfixation hehe, we'll have to make sure we don't forget about other responsibilities. we have some commissions to work on, and we need to keep up with salah prayers (a very important part of being muslim!!)
besides that, we're doing okay. we ordered some clothes and we're really impatient waiting for them to arrive, but it might take over a week!