ZeroFangirl-Mu

WELL...

It happened again! Another year as a Mega Man X fan, whad'ya know? And the thing about this year??

Mega Man X has been around for 30 Years now!! WHAT?????

I feel so old…

And I feel REALLY bad for not having Favorited more Mega Man X fan art during my time these years as a dA member.

Well, as it’s the 30th year of Mega Man X this year, I will definitely NEED to change that!!! So, I'll Fave more MMX fan art this year in addition to other robot fan art that I come across. However, my current super-obsession with the Lamborghini Twins might show up as well, though. Soooo, just a little heads-up about that, LOL!

Time to get serious!... with the Faving of art MMX art here, I mean. But there will be Lambros, too.

In the meantime, my sis and I will celebrate our Mega Man X FAnniversary today by watching some Mega Man X videos on Youtube tonight. It happens to fall on our weekly Transformers night this time, but we'll definitely mix it up with plenty of Mega Man X, haha.

Otherwise... WHAT AM I FAN-GIRLING FFFOOORRRRGHHH???!!!1?!1!?!!!1!

Anyway, LOL, I hope to continue being a fan of Mega Man X (and Zero!) for the NEXT FFOOORRRGGHHH-TEEN (14) YEARS!

~ZeroFangirl-Mu ♥️

Hello everyBottie,

Wow… so it’s been 12 whole years since I first joined this lovely art site. I always know the date comes up, and it STILL sneaks up on me. I haven’t posted a new journal with proper updates since this February during my FAnniversary of Mega Man X and Zero. So I think it’s time I owe you all an update.

Some of you already know, but for those who don’t, my mom passed away August 29, exactly one month after her 71st birthday, after 5 long years battling cancer. Ever since then, my sister, my Dad and I have been trying to manage out lives without her. Sometimes a memory of Mom makes us smile, and other times it makes us cry. But the three of us make sure to spend quality time together, and as I’ve become the family cook now, I enjoy making delicious meals that Mom taught me to make before, so that I can continue to have our family eat good home cooked meals together. My sister’s been wanting to cook more too, so we’re looking at recipes, although nothing that uses the oven since currently our oven stopped working in October. We are also in the process of taking care of certain things and making preparations for the event that if something happens to our Dad unexpectedly, and he leaves this world, my sis and I will have to take over the household bills and many more responsibilities. Its hard, because it’s not something we want to talk about or even think about, and it’s overwhelming and devastating to think about, but we have to be as ready for it as we possibly can be.

In terms of my art, 🎨✏️ I’ve made some sketches this year of some favorite ❤️ro-boyz❤️ that I’ve been wanting to upload here, but just haven’t gotten around to finishing them while dealing with all this heavy anxiety-increasing “real-life stuff”. I miss signing into here and commenting on art… Its so easy to do, yet I haven’t been doing it. I should resolve to do that more often next year, because it really does give me joy to find nice art of my favorite robots and tell people why I think their art is awesome. I always say I’ll sign in more, and then I don’t. I really apologize for that. There are good people I know on here that I do want to stay in contact with, and so I’ll slowly be catching up this month.

As usual, I keep saying this, but, I will NEVER change my username for this site. It will always be ZeroFangirl-Mu here on DeviantArt, haha, even if I am obsessed with Transformers and other giant robots now.

For those of you who are still here on dA Watching me, thank you for staying around, and I’m sorry that I haven’t been very active here much of the 2nd half for this year. I tend to realize how important this site is whenever this date rolls around. Take care, everyBottie, and hold on tightly to those you love.

~~~ZeroFangirl-Mu

Well FUCK.

Is it just me, or does time keep on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ into the future? (LOL LIKE THE SONG)

Nah, it’s the second thing.

13 years a Mega Man X fan! Now, ain’t that some shit?

I know that I didn’t “grow up” with the games. I only knew of it as a kid, from an old video game magazine my dad got when I was in grade school. I saw a few pages of what looked like Mega Man, but he looked taller. I didn’t give it much more thought to it beyond that though. I don’t even think I was aware that he was a robot character.

Fast-forward to 2010, I found out Zero was a character from the Mega Man X games, and that he looked cool, and that I JUST HAD TO get the games he was in.

And now I’m a Zero/X fan lol. But more importantly, I became a fan of sentient robot characters who had the ability to think and feel and angst and cry and love.

And it bridged the way for me to getting crazy about more robot characters who have unfair amounts of handsome-ness. (Ya girls know what I’mma talkin' about!)

SO, am I ever gonna STOP being a fan of all these robots? Uuuhhhhhhh, NOPE.

I especially WON'T stop being a fan of Mega Man X.

Around this time, I always think about how excited I was to start playing the games. Yes it got hard as HECK to get through some of the stages at times, but there was still something very fun about it! Finding the energy thingies, the sub tanks, new armor parts... all of that, plus getting to play as ZERO made it even MORE awesome!

Along with good game music to boot!

I just hope that sometime in the future, Capcom can actually give the Mega Man X fans an actual new game that would be NOT on mobile and actually CONTINUE the story that MMX8 had left us all wondering; "wha’ happen to Axl?!!!!"

With Mega Man X’s 30th Anniversary coming up at the end of this year, there BETTER be some form of Mega Man X console game or other media enjoyment for the fans who helped make Capcom what it is. Or, WAS?…

Guess we won't see anything with that until it truly IS the year of 20XX. 😂

Anyways… Despite this, I will continue to be a Mega Man X (and Zero) fan for the NEXT 13 years, and well beyond that! I really ought to finish some fun artwork and music I had planned to show my love for the series…

Thank you for reading my Journal about my 13th "Fanniversary" of Mega Man X!

~ ZeroFangirl-Mu

Hi everyBottie!

Well now, will you look at that? ELEVEN YEARS on this website! Oh.... MY.... WOW.

It doesn't FEEL like it's been that long, but it really has been that long. I don't believe it. This past year really zipped by, didn't it? Damn... I hardly signed in for the past few months, and I've only uploaded one single art piece this whole year...

The truth is, I've just been sad about some things... missing my old cats and dogs horribly, dealing with my mom's illness, COVID-19 changing many things including making me afraid to ever leave the house, no family trips to the beach for 3+ years, and not getting adequate sunlight, especially on these shortened winter daytimes... just to name a few. And being sad made me tired more than usual, and I guess one of the many things it affected was how much I wanted to draw. Or how much I actually enjoy drawing.

It's funny because, I've only been drawing robots all this time. I've been wanting to try and draw some of those other art tutorials dA's had, like the Rose, Wolf, Tiger and Unicorn tutorials. I thought maybe it could get me into drawing other things if not robots, but at least I'd keep drawing more often. But... BUT... I really, REALLY love drawing the robots. I'll have the DESIRE to draw them but not the energy, then when I do have energy, I end up not using it toward drawing. Frustrating, right?

It happens to all of us.

I think there's some hope, however. Because recently while it rained earlier last month (and it RARELY rains where I live), I sketched two Brave Police robots and it came out fairly nicely. I've drawn these two at least once before, but I feel these sketches look better than my earlier ones and it may actually be upload-worthy. Soooo, possibly a future upload? I have some Iron Leaguer art I meant to finish and upload here too. Ugh!... I dunno if I have ADHD or what, but I have a hard time finishing many things I start, in both my art AND my music. Just too many W.I.P.s... Such is the plight of us creatives!

I believe the important thing to remember is that none of us are superhuman. All we can do is try our darnedest best and give ourselves time and patience to come back to creating when we can. Because when we aren't feeling our best, it's hard. This constant low feeling is frustrating, and it doesn't help that some aches I've been having probably caused by this chronic sad make me feel older than I actually am.

I guess I'm taking this opportunity on my dAnniversary to say I'm here, I'm not dead (yet), I'm sad but I'm okay I think. Or will be. I hope. And I want to continue to enjoy drawing. Especially if I draw some cute video game robots, transforming robots, and anime robots.

I decided to put a very early drawing of mine as a cover image for this Journal. In fact, it's my very first Deviation, Zero, Both Versions! I would've put my latest art of Megatron, but it looks too dark against the title to read it, so it's also easier to read with a lighter background. But it reminded me about the time that I was very excited to join this website, and yes despite the many changes it has gone though, I can say that I am glad to still be on this website to share any art that I do with others who may like it.

Thanks for reading this wall o' text and for sticking with me along these years! Even if my activity here seems nonexistent, I still appreciate it. 🌷Hoping it wasn't too much of a downer, but it does explain why I haven't been on so much lately. I at least owe you guys that much. Here's to 11 more years of art and creativity!

May our creative flames keep going, even if they fade now and then... 🔥

~~~ZeroFangirl-Mu ❤️

Whoo!! Holy gee…

It’s my 12th FANNIVERSARY of Mega Man X today! I can't believe it... Every... FRIKKIN' time this date comes up, I can't believe it. Like, it's been THAT long already since I got into this fandom???

Apparently, it is.

Believe me, I still have a lot to offer in this fandom. Not only fan art, but some fan music too, if I can just get out of my funk and finish them. Stupid COVID-19 Pandemic, among other things, got me too sad to do even some of the things I love doing the most. I know it affected everyone. But I haven't stopped showing my love for the Mega Man X franchise altogether. I'll try not to let that happen. It's... just that I'm slow at it right now, that's all.

Sometimes it's just hard to deal with the day and I forget how to enjoy things.

But when this date comes up, I always think back to when I "discovered" Mega Man X... and the nostalgia returns, in both good ways and some bad ways... but mostly good ways.

And it's the good ways I have to focus on.

SO... Here's to the 12 years of my fanship (or fanhood??? ) of Mega Man X, weirdly because of seeing Zero from Mega Man Zero in a video game magazine, and wondering who the FRICK was that character, AND realizing he's a robot, hehe. Hopefully I will continue to be a fan for the next 12 years, if COVID or anything else doesn't end me before then...

~ZeroFangirl-Mu

PS: Aaaaaand in an attempt to end this Journal on a more positive note; Since my portrait of Axl, the 3rd in my series of four MMX Portraits, has been almost done for a while now, I think it's about time... I am planning on finishing it! I should have it up in my Gallery fairly soon!

~ZeroFangirl-Mu, again.