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Another life update - Long
🕑 Added 2024-11-17 16:47:41 +0000 UTCThis was a lot to write, and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a lot for you guys to read, hopefully I formatted it well enough to make it easier.
I'll wrap you all in warm blankets and serve you hot coco with cookies for your reading journey - 🟦☕️🍪
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I know I haven't been active much lately, but I've been keeping myself busy with a lot of projects and things, and so far it's going well. I am doing a lot better now.
Psychiatrist Appointments
My last psychiatrist appointment was last month, as we talked about my life improvements and ways I can get a start on my life for the better by combating my loneliness, the area I live in isn't suitable for me as I am just unable to settle or put in the effort to find local distractions, so I have been taking it more online.
I know I should listen to my psychiatrist but we both agreed that even if my doctor recommended me to the psychiatrist, it's not really needed as other people have difficult times than what I have, despite my loneliness, but what can I say, it's just loneliness and depression, everyone has those and manage in different ways, so I will be ending my psychiatrist appointments in behalf of both me and my psychiatrist due to it not being the right choice for my struggles, we tried, and it did help me see different perspectives so it did help.
I'd say, my psychiatrist appointments werent unsuccessful, I don't know where I would have been today if I didn't go to them, so I am grateful that I was at least given the chance to have some professional to talk to so it could help me with my life.
Don't get me wrong, I am still getting redirected to a less-emergency psychiatrist, or something, I forget the name of, but it's a long waiting time.
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Community - Letohub
I have been working a lot on LetoHub discord server, hence my absent on here, tho I haven't finished any art except the Arin, Pebble & Lee one I posted almost a week ago.
I am trying to get the Letohub discord server where I want it, and trying to figure out how I am gonna use it as my next gallery, I am also working with a close friend of mine with making a new website, tho it's a big project so it will take a bit, but the domain has been bought so there is progress.
Community - FiveM
Despite all my projects and such, I have been doing a lot of roleplaying as well on a game known as GTA 5 RP - FiveM, which is a different category compared to GTA 5 Online, this year.
Moving from different Roleplay servers and eventually ending up in one where I feel closely attached to because of friends I get to hang out with, experiences I get to share, and as well as own RP businesses like Taco Restaurant and EMS.
I have been promoted to the Head of Discord Developer for this Community now known as "Phantom Rigde Roleplay".
This means I got the task of freedom to clean up their whole discord server to help out their Community, as it looked very bare and unfinished; And make it look more professional and as well as implement interractive lore and fun features to hopefully spark new life into their Community.
In a sense, I am now working on 2 completely different Communities, my own and a Roleplaying one, so it has been giving me a lot more to do to keep myself distracted.
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General Life
Last month, I got to travel back to Canada after 10 years, so from the 18th until 24th; A short trip but that left a positive huge impact on my life that will stay for the rest of my life.
I got to meet my close friend again, Tamer, as well as 1 new friend and an old friend which I've known the longest online out of all of my friends, getting to meet them made me appreciate life even more, because:
You may get to meet someone online who you think you'll never ever get to meet in person under different circumstances and time passing by, but after 10+ years of friendship, that possibility came true, last month.
General Life - Trip
So when I arrived Canada, went through stress and a small panic, because I forgot 1 important document (Visitor Visa) but found it again in my mailbox after a few minutes, I landed in Canada around 7pm? on the 18th October.
I was picked up by Tamer, with Vice as passenger.
We drove to Niagara Falls hotel, slept, woke up and went to eat breakfast, we then meet up with my old friend for the first time, who (idk if they want to remain anon) and had an amazing time, going on walks along Niagara Falls river, doing aero cart over the whirlpool and went to eat burgers and poutine at a super nice rustic restaurant, with a waitress that went above and beyond with service.
We went back to the hotel then slept, checked out in the morning then drove a little to do more walks along the Niagara Falls and visting souvenir shops, before we left for Toronto, checked in, slept, eat breakfast then we went to Toronto Zoo where we walked for a few hours before we finally got to see Rico, well... the first Raccoon I've seen in my life, which I decided to personally name Rico (idk what their real name is) but Rico it is, he slept lazily at the top of a tree, not a care in the world.
We all wish we could live life just like him, careless and no worries.
After a quick, I mean a very quick souvenir run, before the zoo closed, my old friend had to drive back home, splitting our group with new experiences we all will live with, we drive back to the airport, but not before a quick food stop at Harvey's, I hadn't eaten one of their burgers since 2015.
I travel back to Norway, dreading of being alone again but at least with new experiences to keep my mind occupied with.
But invited again back to Canada this month, this Friday on the 22nd, will be meeting more people which I am looking forward too!
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Mc
Minecraft, yes random turn of topic, but LetoHub (my discord server) now offers Minecraft Multiplayer server!
I decided to start hosting a dedicated minecraft server for meeting, building, roleplaying and sharing experienes with my community so we can bond closer than ever before, because I do want to get to know my community more, but messaging over 80,000+ individual people doesn't seem like the most efficient way, as I wouldn't have time to do literally anything else.
But this community, our community, is literally the reason why I am here, you guys are the reason why I exist and get to do what I love, without you guys, there are no LetoDoesArt, only Leto, perhaps not even that.
But let's not dive into that!
This minecraft server called LetoHub (whitelisted) is a modded server with goals to make it roleplay friendly, immersive and with new transport features such as cars, planes and helicopters with QoL datapacks as well as optimization mods to help run the server better with Distant Horizons for super far render distance.
Cool feature that I recently added to this mc server (still in beta for testing and development) also includes real-time seasons, which means when it's time to snow in real life; December through March, it'll snow in-game!
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Projects!
So yeah, as you can see, I have been extremely busy with all sort of things, but don't worry! This doesn't mean I am quitting drawing, I mean my name "LetoDoesArt" contains the word "art" for a reason, and I still want that to be my main focus.
But to continue being a full-time artist, the most important thing isn't because of the "art", the most important thing is to build a strong and healthy community that are there for you, and in return, you are there for them, whether its through art or through interractions.
And that's what I have been focusing on at the moment, I am nursing my community because you all are helping me out in incredible ways, and I can't thank you guys enough!
Art doesn't justify the amount of support you guys have given me over all these years, so this is why I am trying to stretch even more beyond art, to build the best community there is!
-Hopefully haha, I don't want to toot my own trumpet, but at least I hope I am doing something right?
Projects - the future of my art
So regarding future projects, I am trying to make it so my community such as discord server, mc server, other FiveM server runs itself basically, with minimal moderation and more interraction.
Once I hopefully managed that, I will dive back into creating a lot of more new contents.
I mean despite all this, I haven't run out of ideas, actually far from it,
I got literally thousands of brainstormed sketches in the works, which I will bring out with time, a lot of you guys have been asking where my otter character "Arin" is, so he will be visiting more frequently, hehe.
Regarding my halloween drawings, I was planning to finish a couple by Halloween but got super busy, so I will still finish them with time and post soon!
Commissions, Personal Comics such as Wireless, 4th Wall part 2 and general projects, I will finish as well throughout december out next year, with new animations and comics to be posted!
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End of this post, I love you all and thank you again for your incredible support, I could not have done this without you.
I love you all 💙💙💙
-Leto
Comments
YoyoFox
I'm glad you are doing well 🤗 *hugs tightly*
Myth
Glad to see ya oki Leto
River A. Oakley
It’s seriously amazing to see you so active like this again!! I know life may still have its struggles, but it makes me so happy to see you happy! Can’t wait till I can finally meet up with you in Canada!! 🧡
VulpisPomf
That's good, at least. Giving a tiny pray for ya.
Leto
As much as depression screws with us, it shouldn't stop us from screwing with it. Great memories can often overpower those feelings. It's easier said than done but with time, anything is possible, took dozens of tries for apes to learn how to fly, took a dozen more to learn how to go to space. Together, we're incredible unstoppable.
Alto
Nothing to be sorry about. You, your art, and this community have brought me tons of joy, I hope all of us can do the same for you ^.^
Mel0n
It's not to stressful but yeee thx :)
HOOXZ
As someone struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, your story is incredibly empowering Leto. Thank you for not choosing to give up and continuing to be a greater person.
Leto
Oh my god, I'm so sorry about that but I am glad you're also doing better! Let's improve together! 💙💙
Leto
Short story long- To some degree, mostly focusing on staying distracted but so far, it's going better now compared to what happened in August.
Leto
Hey it's all good! Take your time, hoping work isn't too stressful for ya! 💙
Leto
Omg I am so grateful to hear that! Hoping to become even better in the future! 💙💙
Leto
Aaa thank you! And yessss hoping to meet "Rico" again next weekend! Haha And yes I love snow, also will be adding christmas decoration mod this december. And yeah the more responsibility I have, the more time I can focus on that and keep myself distracted 💙 I do give myself some time as well so no worries! I will try to improve as best as I can!
Leto
Thank you! I am also excited about this community's future 💙
Leto
Fully understood, and together we will get through this, struggles in most cases are often temporary, a challenge in life, to help us become stronger. Things might have been a bit easier probably back 200,000 years ago, where our earlier ancestors spent more muscles than brain. Compared to what we do nowadays anyways, it's why emotions nowadays ia bit more challenging, because we feel more connected to things, whether it's undetected, or detected connections.
Helix
It makes me feel so happy to know that you’re doing better Leto. I’ve been following your art since like 2015-2016 which was a time when I wasn’t doing the best mentally my self. More recently this community has been getting stronger, especially with the addition of the voice chats in the Leto hub server. I’ve been enjoying hanging out with you and everyone in there so much, to the point I’ve been neglecting getting sleep a little bit (heh). But it’s been so worth it to hang out with everyone. So I wanna say thank you as well for what you’ve done for all of us. We all love ya Leto ❤️
VulpisPomf
*brain derps* Long story short- So things are getting Better?
Mel0n
Glad to see to your doing aight also sorry I'm not that active on discord I'm busy with work and stuff most of the time
Ari
That all sounds great and I'm so happy to hear everything that makes you feel positive 🫂♥️ Also, can confirm the community is coming along nicely ^^ In the last couple of months we've grown to love you even more and it's been a blast to hang out with you and all my fellow friends on there ♥️ I really can't thank you enough for giving us a place where we keep finding more amazing people ♥️♥️♥️
Madiso
It’s always so good to hear life updates from you, Leto! ❤️ sounds like you’ve been doing a lot of stuff! Your whole trip to Niagara Falls sounds so amazing! It’s such a beautiful place and I hope to go one day (and hopefully meet Rico too LOL). And the Minecraft server sounds fun! I used to be in a roleplay server that added snow in the wintertime and it always made it so beautiful. You’ve given yourself a lot of responsibility so I hope you also have time for yourself to relax! Love you, Leto thank you for being you ❤️
Oscar
Leto, everything you have done and everything you have tell to us..We will always remember your ideas, your work, even if you'd already dissappear from this world, we will always keep reminded you for ourselves. For about psychiatrist issues, I also agree with you because I also talk with my psychiatrist and sometimes it didn't work 100% as you hoping for...it's just a bridge for you to keep walking/running in this cruel life..I also really wish that I could be able to talk with you in the future..but right now, I really feel the same as you feel which is just struggling, digging, (sometimes I scream for myself abruptly) but I must have to let it all go so I don't get overthinking..I just hoping for my best in the future and I don't want to get any trouble again in my life and also I always remember which people has already helped me and which people are bullying me..Again psychiatrist is not about to responsible your life..they just bridging you to help you get better in this life...I hope you will understand what I mean to you❤️.
BudZ2003
Thanks for letting us know what's going on! Glad you've been able to keep yourself busy too, that is just about the best thing you can do for yourself. I'm excited to see the community continue to grow and everyone here is happy that we get to be a part of it! We love you Leto :3
Leto
I'm glad! And I'm hoping many more friendships to be made for many years to come! 💙
Leto
Thank you, and that's fully understandable, I hope you're doing well!
Lef
Heheh, glad you're doing okay. Being busy helps, yea. And looks like it was a nice little trip ^^ I don't play minecraft and don't like using discord but its nice to see your updates here. ❤️
_DJ_
I just wanted to say that I am so thankful for the community you've built around yourself. I've met some amazing people that I'm so thankful to call my friends. Your community has been and remains to be a beacon of joy for me and I'm forever grateful for that!
Leto
It's comments like these I just wish I could hug all of you, but the amount of supporters that this community has, it'd probably take me days or weeks to give everyone a good hug!
_DJ_
We all love these updates! I'm so glad that you're feeling even a lil bit better. This entire community loves you, cares for you, and we'll always be here in times of need, and that'll never change. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
