The Lutzblog
08/16/25 | Use the interwebs
If you are concerned by the rapid enshittification of platforms, like I am, I strongly suggest making your own website and putting all of your stuff onto it. You may not have a huge audience, but you have full control of what you put on it & it can look however you want. The freedom is great. If it’s possible, find someone who can help you with coding. My bestie Pearlnight is helping me code my own website. If you don’t have one, learn HTML and CSS. W3Schools is a godsend. It might take a bit but it’s doable. Take back your freedom. Make your voice heard on your terms. Get on Neocities. Get out from under the boot of huge platforms that can change everything in a split second! I can’t stand the instability of social media, which is why I can’t rely on them. This also happens to be why I don’t freelance. When I don’t know where my next paycheck is coming from, I get brainworms. Clearly a website is not a substitute for having a shoutbox like a platform, but think of your site as your little home. Go out to the socmed village & share the word, then direct them to your stuff and let them have a look around. there’s so much more to the net than shouting into an algorithm.
08/12/25 | Purging some crap
Did some hardcore cleaning. My husband helped me set up my new loft bed. I put a bunch of stuff under there for storage. I have a floor again! Got rid of one of my bookshelves bc it was literally falling to pieces & tossed my old dresser bc it’s dissolving too. My room is finally presentable yaay! I still need to vacuum & organize some stuff on my other shelves, but it’s a night and day difference. My mattress was on the floor with very little walkable space. It was a depression nest, no other way to describe it. Btw if any of you are wondering why there’s only one twin bed in here and I’m calling it “my room”, even though I’m married, it’s bc I have severe sensory issues that make it impossible for me to share a bed. We’re both autistic & having our own caves keeps us sane. I’m happy with it and so is he.
08/11/25 | Random nuisances
Every time I get irritated at unmonitored children running rampant around a store, I remind myself that I don’t have to go home and deal with kids of my own. I will never regret my decision to be childfree. Every time I see the diaper aisle, I think “look at all this money I don’t have to spend!”
07/26/25 | "I want all those kids OFF! THE! INTERNET!"
Quit giving your kids unmonitored internet access. Cyberspace is not and has never been child friendly. I’m sick of platforms being forced to censor adult content because someone’s iPad baby “might” see it. God forbid they see a queer person. Oh no!!!! I don’t go on social media very much anymore because every time I pop my little purple head out of my hidey hole, something absurd is happening because conservatives make up new things to have moral panics about and foist it upon everyone else. It’s very tiring. Every time a mass moral panic breaks out, it inspires a thriving underground scene. Hopefully it’ll be the case this time. Lovely how censorship is getting out of control as I’m preparing an extremely gross horror comic that has gay sex in it! Oh well lmao they can’t stop me.
06/09/25 | My Bestie is Free!
My best friend finally left her emotionally abusive girlfriend, and on Pride Month no less. I’m so proud of her!! I’ll be the first one to tell you that leaving an abuser is very, very hard. They’ll worm their way into your brain and get you to think horrible things about yourself. I am so thrilled and happy to watch her grow and thrive now that she’s finally free!! It’s been a few days & we both feel so much better. I was close mutual friends with this person & she’d been bullying me too, so it was a dual-fisted breakup. Lots of emotions lately bc we’re unpacking the whole thing, but we’re far more stable and happy! I’ve been drawing more regularly too.
06/05/25 | Situations
Something I’ve learned over the years of struggling with my mental heath is that your life will immediately improve once you stop engaging with people, places, and things that are bad for you. It sounds so simple, but i used to recreationally doomscroll & hang out in spaces with putrid vibes. You often don’t realize how much something has been bothering you until it’s no longer a part of your life. Sometimes you’ll feel trapped in a bad situation because you worry that leaving will have social repercussions. Maybe it will, who knows—but the discomfort of walking away is better than being bullied into staying with people who don’t respect you.
06/05/25 | Injury Update 2
After being given the runaround from workers comp for weeks, I had my first physical therapy appointment for my elbow today! The PT says my nerve inflammation is mild & easily treatable. Crazy how a month ago I was having a huge breakdown about not being able to draw & now I’m almost back to normal. I’ll be going twice a week for a month and a half. I am looking forward to the night I won’t have to strap my elbow into a splint, I miss sleeping in the fetal position!!
06/03/25 | Website Update
I am working on my Neocities site because I haven’t touched it in ages. I’m creating a gallery of my work, much of which hasn’t been posted anywhere in public! I’ve been needing a permanent repository for my art for a long time. My bestie Pearl helped me put together the code!! I’ve been posting way less now that I have actual friends and don’t feel the need to use social media as a dopamine dispenser. The downside is that people don’t get to see my art very often. Pretty soon everything will be in one place and it’ll be my very own little corner! I’ll post the link to the site once I’m done putting it together. My plan is to make the design fun while still being accessible and easy to read.
05/14/25 | Injury Update 1
THE DOC SAYS I’M OKAY TO DRAW AGAIN!!! I’m not at 100% yet, but she said I should be okay as long as I take breaks. She actually said “you have to draw at least a little, you’ll go mad!” And I said “YES YOURE RIGHT, I HAVE BEEN”
05/02/25 | Injury
Hey guys, I haven’t been active or making art in a few weeks. I oughta tell you why. I’ve been having arm pain from a work injury. Yesterday I was diagnosed with ulnar nerve neuropathy, which is a fancy way of saying I hurt my funny bone! Luckily it’s not serious & I should be ok in a few weeks. The whole time I thought it was a strain or a sprain in my wrist. Urgent care said the same thing. I was confused that the pain was moving and was worried my wrist getting worse. I was focusing on the wrong joint. it was nerve pain that was traveling down my arm via my inflamed ulnar nerve. It’s such a relief knowing exactly what it is. I’ll start physical therapy as soon as workers comp goes through.
04/09/25 | Save your shit NOW
Happy to report that I’ve backed up all of my art files from the past 7 years onto an external drive! If something happened to my iPad and I lost all of my artwork, I would scream SO loud and probably die. Multi-terabyte external hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays, so get one and save your work.
Changelog
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 8-16-2025 | Redid the homepage a little. |
| 8-09-2025 | Merged the lutzblog and links onto the directory. |
| 8-06-2023 | Crossposting bluesky posts here for archival. |
| 8-05-2025 | NEW COMMISSION POSTED TO THE COMMISSIONS PAGE!!!!!!!!! HE'LL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! I also added a True and Honest shitpost to the sketches page. It's the best thing I've ever drawn lmfao |
| 8-04-2025 | Added a section for Geocities sites on "Links". |
| 8-03-2025 | Added some "new stuff" banners. |
| 8-02-2025 | I added descriptions and shit to my gallery pages. It took a while because Pearl had to format it so it didn't look like an abortion. |
| 6-10-2025 | Site overhaul! Added stamps page, put more things in the Nora shrine, lots of things |
| 5-1-2023 | Added a Nora shrine, buttons, general housekeeping. |
| 5-1-2023 | Added an about page. |
| 4-30-2023 | Fucked around with the code. |
| 4-30-2023 | Created this website. |