Delay Notice (Patreon)

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*sigh*

Sorry folks, but I've just had a fucking terrible day from hell. I got at least a decent bit done on Friday and Saturday, though not as much as I'd hoped. But Sunday was a 100% complete and utter disaster. Not only did I suffer one of the worst episodes of food poisoning (from food that should have been perfectly safe, purchase from a local Deli the same day) I've experienced in years...but I also got slammed by a major wave of frustration and depression. Specifically, because the Fanfiction I've been working on for my other patreon has suffered repeated attacks by the Ao3 Policy team, for no apparent reason. Despite my doing everything in my power to comply with their demands to remove any mention of Patreon (despite it being common on the site, including with some of their most popular works), they STILL just hid all of my works. Despite those works now complying with everything they demanded.

Between the food poisoning and the fact that AO3 just, essentially, cruelly murdered any chance that I could get away from the day job work that is slowly devastating my health and sanity...suffice it to say I've had a REALLY bad day. And in less than twelve hours, I get to go have a root canal to add to the fucking misery. Oh, and then I have to work at that day job, too. Frankly, all I really want to do right now is curl up in a ball and pretend the world will go away if I wish hard enough.

I was already fairly sure that Build 23 was going to be a day or two late. I horribly underestimated just how big I'd let it grow. Depending on how you count, it has either 25 or 29 entirely new scenes, some overhauls to early content, and over 160 new renders (I added a few since the last count, in order to make some scenes more repeatable). Now...it's going to be at least 2 days late. Period. Possibly up to 4 or 5. I hate that. I've only had a delay that long once before, ever. And that was the year I tried to make a full game build in December and caught the flu on top of that. Unfortunately, right now, about the only reason I'm functional enough to even write this notice up is because I took a bunch of meds (Including a Xanax, which I have a prescription for emergency use only, the fact I took one at all, after six months of not touching the things, says a lot about my current mental state. None of it good.).

Sorry again everyone. I'll...get back to you on the 31st, with a better timeline on the delay. As the programming is already completely done, and about 9 of the scenes got written before all this hit me, the delay should still be manageable. I will probably me limiting the short story rewards next month to just one instead of the usual two in an attempt to prevent things from snowballing. But...I'll think about that later and get back to you all on the 31st. Right now, trying to figure out how to salvage this is just making me experience anxiety attacks even despite the Xanax.