Baby, baby, baby ooooh (a.k.a. a very personal announcement)

Hello everyone!

I think the time has come to share some big news with you all.

Remember how I hinted a couple of times at some mysterious 'health problems' preventing me from meshing? At staring at the screen making me nauseous? How I disappeared in January and February, and mentioned while answering some tumblr asks that I might have to stop creating content altogether? Well, at last I'm ready to stop talking in riddles and just spill the beans. And the truth is very simple: I'm pregnant. Finishing the 2nd trimester, to be precise.

I'm extremely sorry to all the lovely people who were worried about me, thinking something really dangerous might be going on. I didn't want to write anything sooner, because, you know - anything can happen, especially in the early pregnancy stages, and I didn't want to jinx it. By now I feel like I should be on the safe side; technically speaking, I can't miscarry anymore, the baby can only be born prematurely, and with all the possibilities of modern medicine doctors shooooould already be capable of saving it if shit happened. And with every passing day I'm feeling more and more confident that everything will be fine till the very end.

That's all very happy news for me - but I'm afraid not so happy for everyone who enjoys my content. I guess you can all see where it's going, right?

I'm not 100% sure what will happen in the next months - I've never been pregnant before (and even if I had, every pregnancy is different, so it still wouldn't give me much), so I have zero idea how I'll feel and how it will affect my life. I can only tell you what I think will happen. I promised once to release at least one piece of cc per month, and I plan to keep this promise in May and June. However, from July on I'll go on a hiatus - and for an indefinite time. As we all know, I'm chaotic and unpredictable, so I might still spontaneously feel like making a bathing suit in July or sth - but August, and even more the following months, are absolutely out of the question.

I will not be closing my Patreon, for the simple reason that I think it's one of the best ways to share packages - and anyway, all my content is already here, and the thought of moving it all elsewhere isn't very tempting :P. But I'll be gone. From July or August on there will be no new releases. Please keep it in mind! Any pledges you make from that time on will be considered only baby shower gifts ;).

Of course, I will notify you again when the hiatus starts. Expect a short reminder in summer.

...will I come back? That is the biggest question of them all. If I were to give you an honest answer right now, then I'd say: probably not. It's a mix of different things: my incapability to stay excited about one topic for longer than 1,5-2 years, my rapidly waning interest in TS4, my wish to take a step away from virtual reality and to dedicate myself to more analog activities, a bunch of other, new hobbies which right now feel way more tempting, and most of all: my determination to be the best mom possible and to give the baby as much attention as I can. I just can't picture myself meshing instead of spending that time with my girl, or making rl stuff for my girl, or even watching my girl sleep. Just nope. I don't know, maybe in a year I'll feel very differently about it, but now that child is seriously the only thing on my mind. Anything else is just a nuisance ^^.

And now excuse me, I have some nifty knitting to do in here :D.

PS. Just in case, please be so lovely and don't share pieces of good advice with me, will you? I've already got more than enough of those ;). Thanks!