Where I'm at (and where we're going!) (Patreon)

Hey yall, got another update! It's been a while since I've really cleared up what's been happening, because it was a lot, both to experience and go through, and also to summarize here. I'll do my best, though -- tldr, I'm getting better, learning to make peace with my current situations, work IS being done, and I'll be sharing with yall as soon as I can, and I'm planning some stuff out for the future.

Let's tackle these one at a time... gonna start with business things first:

Creator Crownie comics, with the last two pages (late ones for last month and the final pages for this month) are being completed and are almost done! To those lucky 10 Creator Crownies, I should have gotten to yall sharing what's been done, and I will be looking to get to the last few when the work is ready. I'm very excited to have it all complete, compiled, and ready to share across the many sites :D

In light of my many considerations of the future for this specific reward -- tweaking around prices and/or the amount of slots -- I'm greatly appreciative of the feedback from the Creator Crownies on where to go from here. As this term is ready to come to a close, I'm entering in a bit more of an interesting transitionary phase of figuring out where this reward will sit along my ongoing life/work balance battles, finding ways to reward yall for your ongoing support while also leaving myself open for other personal projects and creative endeavors. The response to my proposals have been far more supportive and encouraging than I expected, and I'm grateful for the continued interest in these big commissions and the fun story ideas I get to work on :D Looking to iron the details out and finalizing plans before making any public announcements, but hopefully we'll reach an agreement very soon!

I have been meaning to get onto the more relaxing personal works I said I would earlier this month, it's just been a pretty big lotta stuff to work on, and it's not just artwork. My hours at my day job had been pretty relentless in the last few weeks, though mercifully we're easing up pretty dramatically coming towards Thanksgiving, so that should be a good period to catch up on things. As for other personal news, my great uncle was finally transferred to acute rehab to begin physical therapy as part of his recovery from GBS -- here's to hoping he heals up sooner than later.

And biggest problem of all to me... cat. I apologize for the sudden dump last week regarding her; I was in a place where I was struggling to even think about her without crying, let alone be comprehensive about it, but basically... yeah. I don't know what happened, I tried my best to find her, I consulted my family to help... no dice. It's been rough. I had very awkward but ultimately still necessary talks with my family and my therapist on -- should I assume that Mindy is gone for good -- how to move on. She's been family and grew up with me, my parents, my sister for almost 14 years... it just feels so fundamentally wrong without her around, especially since I never got to say goodbye. It'll definitely make this upcoming Thanksgiving weekend we were scheduled to meet again pretty different.

Fortunately my family's been doing their best to convince me that what happened to her wasn't my fault, and that we should be able to grow past this... it's gonna take a while, but I feel confident I can at least occupy myself with the necessary productive change needed to heal.

A few nights ago, me and my IRL DnD circle moved to a new board game store in Burbank for DnD nights, and of all the crazy cool stuff they had there, they also have -- of all things -- a cat rescue in the same building??? It was kind of a braintrip seeing cats looking for new homes, and it was honestly the first time I've seen a cat ever since Mindy went missing that I didn't feel the urge to cry. Maybe this is fate? Hm. I'd first like to be able to sleep comfortably in my own house and maybe discuss with my family again on Thanksgiving before making a decision to adopt again... at the very least I wanna show my sister this store, it's badass.

But yeah, that's all for now, a lotta things still in progress, but here's to things looking brighter soon. More work and news about it to come. Thank you all :)