Aral

Need a history loving gf

I'm careful about eating too much at a time and crying victory as I'm eating a small lunch right now, but I feel ravenous after those few days eating so little. Like as I was getting ready the only thing I could think about was the bottomless pit in my stomach and feeling weak when standing up for too long. I guess that's a good sign.

Little doodle I did a couple days ago, tbh I'd love to do more of that type but as usual I get caught up in making shit perfect, in "getting it right", and end up erasing the whole damn canvas all the time.

I want to do some of the other couples hhh, I actually have a lot of ideas

Found this website with colourized pictures looking for references for the next shipgirls, and wow, the pre-dreadnoughts had some legit style: http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives/1252906.html

Good news, I'm feeling better today, woke up hungry and am not feeling sick anymore. And had a weird dream concerning prostitutes (no actual action) that perhaps confirms hormones had something to do with it. Lol

Might be coming down with something, I have hardly any appetite, feel miserable after just a few bites or even drinking water, I keep food down but if I wasn't afraid of throwing up, I'd probably have barfed at least once by now, and even my morning tea just makes me feel urgh. Thought it was ovulation but idk. No fever, checked and double checked. Fear makes my shoulders hard as rock lol. Been like this since yesterday and hoped that I'd be hungry in the morning, but nope. Like even right now I'm just... uughghh. Not feeling well at all. Not letting it out unless I really cannot hold it in anymore.

That being said, I'm pretty sure it's limited to the stomach, if there's really any issue and not just hormones fucking with me. I ate something with a shit fucking ton of cheese and béchamel a couple days ago, and I wonder if it hasn't upset my stomach, or if the ham had really not taken a bit too much sun coming back from the store. Either way Aral's gonna gorge on ginger.

New York's post released

It's so awesome when your favourite colour actually looks super good on you

Spent a couple hours studying for anatomy and such, I actually really like doing that, it's fun, and my art will only be better afterwards

Texas's sister ship New York, who now has a well-defined role. The "Old Lady of the Seas" was among the kindest of all of the ships, sometimes to a fault, generally talked to everyone, and was always willing to see the best in others as long as it was safe to do so (aka, she wouldn't have done so for man in the mustache, or say, a serial killer). Texas herself would often say "damn sis, you really are too nice", but the two were very close and pretty much always put together in divisions along with Arkansas. She was also known to like gossiping with the smaller ships, but no one is perfect, lol. Just your friendly neighbourhood big sister battleship who did a whole lot of goodwill cruises.

This is going to be the last status for today, but I have a fun idea to do sometimes, draw my shipgirls that have a design in another universe (like Kancolle or Azur Lane) meeting their other self. Out of the 7-8ish that I did, 4 do already.
"Oh, uh, nice to meet... me?"

Edit: Musashi has 2 other selves, my god, this is gonna be identity crisis level, so does Nevada

It took me a ridiculously long amount of time to write all of this because I had to look into parts of history I wasn't too familiar with, but here we go! If anything, I may develop this further as I'll do more ships...

It was one of the most emotional ones that I wrote, too.

I'm a cat magnet help, neighbourhood cats that aren't feral and have families want to get inside my house lol

Arizona and Pennsylvania the two artsier ships of the fleet. Arizona was a gifted dancer and gymnast and would often be seen doing acrobatics on her masts, while Pennsylvania, nowhere near as physically talented as her (clumsy, hands constantly shaky for some reason), but her number one cheerleader nonetheless, was gifted in memory and storytelling in a very vivid way. Arizona had a tumultuous relationship with Nevada, who had then recently broken up with Utah. The two had incredible chemistry but it was fraught with a lot of arguing and emotional cheating with the ex. Arizona left Nevada after realizing she would never love her the same way, that her heart belonged to someone else. She went on to date more, unfortunately repeating the pattern, but her life got cut short by that certain horrible event that is the reason why she's now under a memorial.

Cat is sick again, though this time it appears to be just gastritis. Hopefully it is, because I don't want him to be on the brink of death like he was a year and half ago

Now that I got a pillowfort, no more endless posts here with an ungodly amount of comments, lol, I can develop their stories all I want without worrying about that.
And now I'm going to sleep later than usual cuz recent shift to DST and I wanted to finish this up tonight

Arkansas, now. I wanted to do Pennsylvania and Arizona first but the state anthem was too good and inspired me lol. The pattern on her shirt is, like I did for Utah's shawl, inspired by one of her camouflages, one she had in WWII, I reckon.

Arkansas was known to be chill, liked observing some drama but hated being involved in it (for example awkwardly playing buffer). That's partly why she's one of the ships who remained celibate all her life, she wasn't really interested in dating and never met anyone who made her heart sing, but also saw a few bad relationships between other ships and just didn't want to bother with that kind of BS. Didn't really get along with her sister Wyoming, but they both ignored each other. She was most importantly Texas's closest friend and was there for her in her hardest moments, almost like a second sister.

I got a Pillowfort now! Moved my stuff on here. Also added more details to a couple ships' story.

> Be Aral
> Look for shipgirl themed servers as to find fellow enthusiasts who will actually get invested in the storylines, who will be very interested in the art or at least more into it than her usual artsy friends who are into other things mainly, or even just to talk about it and exchange ideas
> All of them or almost are RP themed
> Aral has stopped RPing in her teens and is no longer interested in it
> All of them are tied to games such as Kancolle and Azur Lane, no "independent" shipgirl server
> Aral doesn't do those games and doesn't do anime either, hers have "branched off" and seem to be an entirely new thing
> Aral is a bit frustrated

I could finally eat at a table with people without feeling sick yesterday. Was at my friend's house and his roommates were here. I hadn't done that in 6 years because of specific trauma related to eating with others. It's crazy how I seem to be releasing more or less everything that has plagued me for the last few years in 2024.

Dude has some stuff that I suspect might become an issue long-term though (spiritual bypassing, a feeling that he's avoiding his deeper emotions with spirituality and positivity), but other than that, so far he's been a good friend. I'm just keeping that in mind, just in case.