News concerning the rewrite

Heya all,

This post will be a bit of a rollercoaster ride, as I will be covering some of the things that have been happening in my life in the last couple of months since the last update and how the rewrite as a whole is looking. Part of the text will also be about health-related (and other) issues I have been dealing with since, unlike a lot of other people, I like to keep things transparent between myself and people who care about my creations - This means that in this post you will find a summary of just what exactly has been plaguing me and making my life a bit harder than it probably needed to be.

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The following text contains health-related issues. If you do not wish to read such details, please consider skipping the rest of this text!

So let's start with the first issue: Money!

In the last year, I have been somewhat struggling when it comes to getting enough money to go by since Covid hit the country I live in pretty hard and quite a few businesses kicked the bucket. While this did not directly affect me as I work as a web developer, it did sabotage about 5 different jobs I was supposed to be doing. This put me in a really bad situation financially (also the reason why I had so much time to work on FA, to begin with) and it took multiple months to stabilize my finances - In this regard, I would like to once more thank all my Patrons since they helped me IMMENSELY to overcome this very difficult time in my life.

As the situation started to turn for the better, the beast struck: Both me and my girlfriend managed to contract Covid; and while we aren't in any of the risk groups, it still had quite the effect on us in regards to stomach issues, brain fog and unusual tiredness that lasted for multiple months.

Just when these issues were starting to improve, I managed to develop a very bad case of hemorrhoids from my work due to all the lockdowns previously, since I had very little movement in general.

This situation quickly spiraled out of hand as I didn't pay enough attention to it at the start - A major error on my end. Over time, I developed spontaneous tremors through the nights linked to the untreated hemorrhoids, which eventually grew into a full-blown internal infection that began to make me experience multiple episodes of rapid breathing and increased heartbeat throughout the night.

I swiftly scheduled a doctor visit over the phone and was suggested a very effective disinfectant and healing-acceleration gel that I have been applying ever since. This was about a week ago and since then, all the previously described symptoms massively improved and some even entirely disappeared. When I finally visited the doctor, she sent me to a hospital to do a full examination on my heart in case some of the infection left any damage on it - Luckily, all the tests came out perfectly fine and no issues were found.

Since then, the issues have been further improving, so I am hopefully on the path to full recovery soon - Assuming all goes well!

To top these issues of, the house we live in had been scheduled for installation of a full-blown layer of outside isolation. This resulted in multiple months of almost non-stop drilling from 8 in the morning to 5-6 in the evening almost every day (Saturday and holidays included...). This resulted in both and my girlfriend getting horrible sleep as we are both night owls - Not to mention the effect of the whole house quite literally shaking and the drilling reverberating through the walls to the point when we had to shout at each other to hear what other was saying - Which resulted in massive stress build-up and great uneasiness in the whole flat when all those things were happening (along with all previously mentioned issues).

As for the impact of all these issues on the rewrite... Well, I would like to take this opportunity to deeply apologize to all users of FA, but due to the previously mentioned series of very unfortunate incidents in my life, the rewrite has been going at a snail's pace so I don't have really much to show for it.

I will do my best to deliver at least some kind of a preview of the new rewrite to you by Christmas, but I don't want to promise anything right now, since I am not 100% certain all these issues are resolved already; and while I REALLY hope they are, I don't wish to promise miracles I won't be able to deliver.

Happy post-Halloween to ya'all,

Elvanos