Plans for September - Burnout Recovery

TLDR at the bottom!

Howdy everyone!

To reiterate what I’ve mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been feeling exhausted and burnt out as of late and plan to spend this month recovering.

For the past few months, I’ve always felt like I’ve been on the back foot and working from behind to catch up, while also needing to release content with a similar scope to the previous month that I don’t always have the time to properly review or implement. Most of my time is spent working in a new medium (writing) that I’m not super familiar with as well, leading to me taking more time than I’d like putting an idea to paper than the medium I’m more used to (illustration). Both of those, coupled with the fact that I’ve prioritized this project over other creative endeavors, leading to me not having made any personal art outside of this project for nearly the whole length of this project, has left me a little burnt out creatively.

However, that’s not to say my passion for this project is no longer there. This is still a project I want to devote my time to and finish, but I need some time to both rest and express a few personal ideas that I've been wanting to work on that wouldn’t work in Everstone Daycare’s setting. As such, me, Spooky, and Tennet have reached a compromise on what we plan to do for this month.

I may have given off the vibe that I plan to take a break and not release content this month, which isn’t the case. We still plan to release content this month, though not necessarily all about Everstone Daycare.

Spooky is still going to continue working on art for the game during this month, including finishing art for the scenes that we were not able to do last month. With the freedom of not having to illustrate scenes of my own writing this month, he’s planning to brainstorm and work on more experimental ideas, and possibly work on existing art to clean them up or add more variations to existing sprites. There have been a few ideas he’s mentioned that he would like to work on, and we plan to post his continued work on this project on this Patreon.

I’m still planning to work with Tennet to create more music for the game, particularly trying to finish up the leitmotifs of the major characters. We’re at a bit of a snag trying to iron out what kind of music would most represent certain characters, but we still plan to continue working on this part of the project.

As for myself, I do also still plan to release something on this Patreon in the meantime. There’s a personal project of mine that I’ve been wanting to work on, that’s mostly been eclipsed by Patreon work and commission work before that. It’s an idea that I’ve been wanting to make something out of and had even planned to do at some point after Everstone Daycare. It will be fairly different tonally and will explore some themes that I’ve already done in my own old personal art. It will lean mostly on the DL side of ABDL, and the idea is raunchier than most things that have been in Everstone Daycare so far.

I’m not sure how much of it I will be able to complete in a single month, but I’ll likely just be happy that I’ve done something for myself. I hope this is something you will all continue to support me on, but it’s understandable if some of you are only here for the Pokemon content we’ve been doing so far and are intent on pausing or canceling your subscription until I’m back to doing that content. I’ll be returning to work on Everstone Daycare next month, hopefully revitalized and ready to finish up the content I had lined up for August.

Thank you all again for the support so far. I honestly feel blessed that I even have the opportunity to take a break for my own mental health at all without having to worry about surviving in the meantime. This wasn’t possible for me in the past, and I’m glad you’ve all given me this opportunity.

We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled (mostly) Everstone Daycare content next month. For now, I hope you all have a good day and support me in this new endeavor!

TLDR: I’m burnt out. Content won’t be stopping though and I will be spending the month recovering by working on a personal project that I will be posting here. Spooky and Tennet will continue work on Everstone Daycare material in the meantime as well. I hope you all continue to support me during this time, but I understand if you would like to rescind your subscription until I return to working on Everstone again.