Happy Holidays! ❤ (+year's end rambling)

Hello my gemlins~ 💜

I hope all of you will be spending these last few days of the year with people you love and tons of good food!

I also hope you enjoy this artwork of the boys being all warm and cozy ✨

Finally, before I hop into the holidays myself, I'd like to say THANK YOU to all of you! I'm never sure if I say it enough, I also don't want to sound like a broken record, but your support genuinely is what keeps me going and I do appreciate you all a lot!

2022 was quite the mixed bag for me on many levels, it had some very high highs but also a few pretty low lows; not very balanced, quite exhausting, lol. But it did leave me with a desire to.... do more cool shit in the future. Which is basically my one and only resolution for the new year, haha. I don't have a lot of concrete plans, but 2022 did teach me that I'm tired of waiting, it's always a waste of time, so I want to make more of an effort to grab opportunities head-on, and also create my own opportunities. Both professionally and in my private life. That's super vague, I know but I don't really have the words yet to explain it better LOL;;;

Hopefully I've laid a good enough foundation this year, after a small period of rest I think I can start building on it more soon. 💜

A big milestone in 2022 was definitely the finale of #MUTED! 5 years of working on one comic, coming to an end.... Well, kinda. Since we're still in the middle of the spicy special comic, haha.

Finishing a longterm project like this felt amazing, but moving on to something new was also incredibly scary. Over time #MUTED had become a bit of a security blanket for me, so letting go of that was quite the loss on various levels :')) In a financial sense I do still feel that loss today. But I don't regret finishing it, it was the right decision to stick to my plans instead of dragging things out, it wouldn't have felt right.

I'm going into Shallow Sleep now with about 1/3 of my previous audience (here on Patreon! I absolutely can't gauge how many readers will be there for the public release o _o) and I cannot thank you all enough for sticking around and cheering me on as I venture into this next story that means so much to me. Shallow Sleep is very personal to me, even more so than #MUTED was, so the pressure and fear of public opinion is like tenfold what it used to be 😂 But a part of me trusts that I kinda know what I'm doing, that I'm better prepared this time and that my storytelling skills have improved, too. I can at least promise you that I'm going all out and doing my best 😤 And I hope you'll enjoy the ride~

All that said, I'm pumped for 2023, I have a good feeling going into it at least! 

I wish all of you all the best as we collectively say goodbye to 2022, and I hope you'll be here to spend 2023 hre with me as well, I'll work hard to make you want to stick around, hehe.

SEE YOU SOON, GEMLINS!

Love,
kan 💜