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I know I said this update was gonna be the end of the chapter, but I was wrong. I decided while working I wanted to add in a sequence that had gotten scrapped for a previous chapter, but could be re-worked here. So, December, I guess, will see the end of Chapter 7

I also got really terrible news while working on this batch- my six year old dog has lymphoma, which is an incurable cancer. I've also been slowly overcoming hurdles and setbacks to begin a day job to help pay for those costs. Other home-owner type struggles have made this month a rough one, so some of my own discomfort and worry has been seeping into the pages lol

I've been vocal with my partner about how........ hard....... this chapter has been to get through. When I started thinking about blbl and making it, it was supposed to be something self indulgent, fun to draw and write. Not too much heavy stuff, though with adult themes and lives it inevitably crops up in the writing. Overall, it still is very much that! The problem is that I also find emotionally beating up my characters to be self-indulgent, and a little cathartic. Dakota is a big ball of my early 20s experiences and revisiting that isn't always easy. Not to mention I'm literally always working "against" my past self who had no experience when they started making a comic. Now I have three and a half years of it and have to untangle this little puzzle I left myself. I really enjoy the approach, but when its dealing with stuff that hits close to home like this, it becomes a more sensitive activity.

I'm super happy to be getting through this part of the story and shedding a little more light on Dakota, and why he's *really* been keeping his distance with Khuba. Artistically its been tons of fun to draw more emotionally dynamic scenes and play around with visually imparting a variety of physical feelings. But I am SO READY to get back to drawing the sex parts. Next chapter's gonna be great for that :3