Hi everyone! In light of coming out as genderfluid, I have a big announcement: I’m changing my name! You may remember me as WillWare, but from now on, I go by Sky ✨

*crickets*

What, is that not news? Okay, so maybe I’ve been putting off writing this post for a bit… *sigh* like a few months. But, as always, I wanted to do more than just say that I have a new name. In this post, I’d like to talk about why I changed my name, and what the future of my identity looks like.

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Mechakoopa Moat | P06-KTV-02G

Bolt across the drawbridge to Bowser’s castle while evading a flying wall of deadly Mechakoopa lasers! This short but intense course is best suited for players who like to learn from dying… a lot.

Here’s a belated treat for Mario’s 35th anniversary: an isometric maze built atop Mario’s running animation from SMB1! Use the pipes to travel between the different layers and make your way to the finish.

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try puyo puyo today!

Redraw of my winter pfp of Rivers!

Turns out drawing bigger helps way more than I thought it would, hehe~ ✨

As most of y'all know, I’ve been calling myself nonbinary for over two years now. Something that I haven’t been as open about… is that it was always meant to be temporary. Calling myself nonbinary was a promise to myself that I would eventually find something more specific, more descriptive, more me – that I would put in the work to figure out my gender identity once and for all.

As you can probably guess… it’s been a long road. I’ve had to shake off layers of alienation and guilt just to reach the core of my being – and when I got there, I was fumbling in the dark, trying desperately to find something stable. But everything was shifting and changing constantly, almost as though it did not want to be stable. That’s when I realized – that was the biggest clue I needed to find my answer:

I’m genderfluid. 💗🤍💜🖤💙

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Thruspace has a fabulous aesthetic, so I decided to record it for posterity. In the process, I did my best ever run of Endless Mode!

I love this kind of abstract aesthetic in puzzle games… Thruspace is particularly inspriational to me because of its progression – the further you go, the more it opens up, and you get to see more of the sky outside 🌅

Recently, I found one of my missing sketchbooks from 2011 – including a drawing of the last level of the game that I had completely forgotten about:

To think this game has been inspiring me so strongly for nearly a decade now!

(Also can you believe there’s no rips of the OST anywhere??)

It’s not exactly a secret that I was the quiet kid, growing up. I was homeschooled, I was fairly sheltered, and there weren’t a lot of other kids in my life – so most of my time was spent around adults. (Even when there were other kids, the reason was usually about the adults.) Add autism into the mix, and you have a very introspective child whose life happens around him, rather than through him. I mostly just sat in the corner and did my own thing, until somebody else reached out to me.

“My own thing,” of course, involved a lot of video games and Legos. But at some point, drawing was added to the mix.

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Redraw of my current Twitter avatar – my Animal Crossing OC, Rivers! I should properly introduce her here sometime.

Had big ADHD fun times the other day while trying to get dinner…

There’s a farmers market style place about five or ten minutes from where I live. Besides the usual produce etc., they also serve hot food like tamales on the cheap. My mom picked up some boudin from there once (yes, I live in Louisiana), so I figured, why not go try it?

I didn’t realize before I left, but I was spacey as hell, which makes driving twice as hard… and twice as dangerous. I could feel myself violently snap back to reality every time someone turned out in front of me, which happened way too often for being, again, a five to ten minute drive.

I made it there safely by some miracle, but while I was in line, I couldn’t stop thinking about how weird the drive was. This didn’t happen the last time I was here getting tamales, right?

Anyway, I got up to the counter and asked the lady working there for some tamales. She went to the back, opened the pot with tamales in it, and asked how many I wanted.

It started to dawn on me that something was wrong. Yet, I managed to ask for 3. She pulled them out of the pot and into a bag.

…I slowly remembered I was here for boudin. How did I get tamales???

I thought about correcting myself, pointing out that I meant to say boudin. But the tamales were already out of the pot, she was already ringing them up, and I didn’t want to explain how I could have possibly made such a huge mixup. So I rolled with it.

The drive home was a lot easier, which was probably for the best, since I was now twice as spacey – completely fixated on figuring out literally what just happened???

That night, I had tamales for dinner. They were good. But they were not boudin.

I still haven’t gone back yet for boudin.

I’m finally getting more comfortable with the idea of finishing college at some point…. if I don’t also have to work. I would have to completely switch out one for the other, which is not possible currently, but at least I can dream about it now!

I had about a year left, but it would probably end up being two, simply because the CS curriculum has to update as fast as the industry does; I was mostly doing C++ in college, which is less of a thing now. I’d have to catch up with Python or Javascript or whatever the kids do these days.

Besides, a second year means I could fit some electives in – art, higher math, music, psychology, improv??? Frankly, that’s the most exciting part! These are all things that I enjoy enough to want more formal training with, or never had any in the first place.

Despite knowing it would take extra time, I really would like to finish my degree! That’s a huge step up from this time last year. I’m finally starting to get past the amount of stress that just thinking about it would put on me.

The burnout? Not so much, still dealing with that.

But if I had to work on top of college, for two years, then I would either have to do part time and focus only on the classes I need to finish – skipping electives entirely – or I would explode into a bunch of tiny stress sprinkles. More importantly, it would probably be both.

And so, despite my stance changing from last year, the answer is roughly the same: “It’s not in the cards right now.”