Chapter 6, page 19

 9th Mar 2020

News for March 9, 2020

I'm taking a sanity break! I know I took a week off about a month ago, but it wasn't very restful, and mostly served as a sharp reminder of the weeks of advance buffer I lost when my computer broke down last year. I've been drawing three pages per weekend for months now, and that... isn't that bad! But it can be anxiety-inducing when they're the pages I'll be posting in the very same week. I need to rebuild that breathing space, to make sure the pages I'm producing at a given weekend are scheduled far ahead and therefore not an emergency. That's a recipe for low-key baiting my anxiety and that's not a hole I'm eager to fall back into.

So the plan now is to take a month off to handle the new chapter, and hopefully draw at least most of it before resuming website updates. This entire arc is going to be a lot, with intrigue, revelations, setup, action and romance, and I'm going to need to tie everything together real tight for the future, so that's also a bunch of scripting ahead. And lastly... I must give this website a face-lift! IT IS UGLY AND BASIC AND I DISLIKE IT. Does it function as it should? It does and I'm glad. But it needs sprucing up, and that's probably going to take more focus than the scripting, let's be real.

For the sake of having a goal, let us establish April 20, 2020 as the date for this comic's glorious return. I briefly considered scheduling it for April 13, but it felt like a bad omen, for reasons; and April 6 is too soon. Until then, I will be as always uploading pages to my Patreon as they are finished-- but starting now they'll be available to all patrons regardless of tier! Since my exclusive update tier has zero patrons anyway.

See you all in April 20!


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Chapter 16 is on the way!

 6th Mar 2023

After almost exactly a year of downtime, I'm finally ready to pick the comic back up!

A lot has happened since the last update-- we moved out, I caught covid again, there was a lot of paperwork and stress. But then I figured, if I didn't resume this work, the comic would just languish and fade like my previous efforts, and I just didn't want that to happen.

So I'm proud to announce I'm back on my bullshit, and chapter 16 - the beginning of an arc I'm very excited about - will start on March 20th! Stay tuned!

Some personal news

 18th Mar 2022

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't had much to write about since chapter 15 began. Having finished all the page work for chapter 15 in early February, I'd hoped to use this time to work on assets and pre-planning for the upcoming arc. Unfortunately, my father fell very ill at that time, was hospitalized, and after weeks of struggle he has passed away.

I'd intended to write more, make this a proper formal announcement, but there's no good way to say "my father is dead so the schedule is up in the air". It is what it is. I'm fine, I'm calm, other family members are coping with varying degrees of success. Witnessing other people's grief is the hardest part so far. I expect things will settle into a new normal, but I can't even fathom what that normal will look or feel like when that happens. I also haven't had the heart to ask mom about what the financial landscape will look like without dad, but I expect things will be tight for a while. I don't want to shill my patreon when updates are so uncertain, but I do have a Kofi I made and then never used, so if anyone wants to send a little tip, it'll be a big help. Thanks for the support as always, and for following this little tale of mine.

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Chapter 15 begins!

 24th Jan 2022

Alright, I'm back! Good thing I made no promises, because the delay was crazier than expected. Among several other things that happened, work decided to go back to on-site, and then I proceeded to catch the new strain of covid two days before they figured out it was a bad idea and had us go back to remote working. So that's where January went, basically.

But!! We're starting the new chapter today! I hope you guys enjoy it, it's certainly been a lot of work!