Update

tl;dr at the bottom if you don't care about me compaining

I keep making these every month it feels like and its not a good look I'm aware of that. I wish I had like a good single excuse like a medical emergency or family issue or something but the truth is its a lot of little things that just build up into an ever present exhaustion. I'm barely sleeping, eating very poorly, and physically it just feels hard to keep going a lot of the time.

Each month it seems like I barely get the promised content out by the 30th/31st and then if I stop to catch my breath I'm back in the same position again by the next month's end. It's not a sustainable pattern and I can see the effect its having on patron and interaction numbers.

This has compounded by basically every member of the team going through their own drama at the same time. Many of the shaders just didn't respond to anything until last weekend, due to health and family issues they have. The lettering person was much the same apparently too busy with a different job to even answer emails. Flash and charoset are both suffering from health issues and have been sending scripts in later. And this isn't to reprimand anyone, I haven't been meeting my own deadlines either.

As the year ends it only gets more stressful as we have to begin planning the sequences and big comics for 2026, make sure we have a good bank of drafts and outlines to keep production '''on time''', set up the polls for December, multiple pinups still aren't done from last years also...

Sigh

Anyway, this is very much me just being honest because I don't really know what else to tell people with the way things are. It would be nice to go 'here's the plan and everything will be on track starting tomorrow' but it would be dishonest to tell you all that when I honestly don't know how long it will take to right the ship.

tl;dr
For the time being I'm going to do my best to get things out at least in the right months as I have been doing. If things need to change in 2026 I will let everyone know what the plan is at the end of December in our yearly wrap up. Of course I'm sorry things are at this point but I also know that the only way to actually prove that now is to actually force the train forward. Thank you as always for your patience and for sticking around if you choose to, or for considering returning at some point if you don't.