Mary the Tiny Notes

Where do I even start with this one? Thinking back to the start of 2025, I believed that this would be a great year, and for the most part it was. I got to see my family more, took a small step back from all the writing obligations I gave myself so I could get caught up on the ones I had been putting off, and even got to write a novel! Truly, the majority of the year was pretty fantastic with few things to complain about.

However, these last three months have made 2025 a year I’ll probably not look back on too fondly, regrettably.

I don’t know if I’ve said this before on my accounts, but I don’t like to go too much into detail when something in my personal life will affect my content creation. Typically, I push through and try to keep to my schedule as best I can for all of you who support me. And I want to thank everyone who has stuck by me during this drought of content and extended silence. Each and everyone of you allow me to do what I love, so I always strive to do my best to reciprocate that and meet your expectations. As such, I feel it is only right that you all know why I have been failing to meet my expectations for myself these past three months.

Few people know this already, but I’ve had to close taking commissions for the foreseeable future, to the point that I’ve issued refunds to all the commissioners who were in my queue except for the one I have been working on for about six months now. While part of this delay was caused by me focusing on writing my novel entry in Honeyfeed’s isekai web novel contest, familial complications made it difficult to get back into my normal writing routine again after recovering from the slight burnout I experienced to finish my novel on time. My step-mother had been hospitalized and needed surgery in mid-October, so I was out visiting her frequently until she was discharged (with a clean bill of health) and sent back home. However, less than a week after that, I was informed that my last remaining grandfather had passed away while visiting his sister abroad… That abroad part is important, as it added a whole new level of complications and delays getting his body back and funeral set-up.

From late October to near the end of November, I was busy helping and grieving with that side of my family, and it was during this time that I closed and canceled my commissions. I wanted to be able to focus on what I could get done before the end of the year, but I swear, 2025 just wanted to keep screwing with me. Just a few days before my grandfather’s funeral, I got logged out of my main DA account, and because I misunderstood what I was signing up for with their 2-Factor Authentication system, I wasn’t able to log back in, which obviously isn’t as urgent at the health of family members, but the timing made it all the worse. Without access to the main account I post my stories to, on top of everything else, my motivation tanked once again… and worst yet, I couldn’t make an announcement that it had happened. And due to delayed response times and getting responses too late in the day to act on them, it took until yesterday to get access to my DA account back… which I didn’t see the email notification because yesterday a family member of mine was admitted into the hospital after attempting to… opt out. They are getting the help they need now, so thankfully that didn’t end as terribly as it could have, but, and not to minimize what they are going through, it is another thing to make the end of this year total shit.

And so, yeah, that’s where I am now. Maybe if I had been more forthcoming with my circumstances, I wouldn’t have had to trauma-dump so much on all of you, but I felt like you all deserved to know what’s been going on in my life.

But, yeah, since I had separated my captions from my stories last year, I was at least able to keep up posting over on that account. And even though my web novel didn’t make it to the final round of judging, I’m glad that I entered that contest. Since this is probably be my annual open-letter/roadmap for what to expect in the coming year, and to not have this be totally depressing, I’ll outline what my plans for 2026 are going to be.

First of all, I’ll probably shift my writing to be multi-chapter entries in a longer-running series, turning the short stories that breached the 20k+ word counts into novella so I don’t have to rush them anymore. Think stories like “A Difficult Family”, “A Small Rehearsal”, and similar stories being released more like “Deep Dungeons Digest”, which I will also be returning to once the new season of Frieren starts up. Though, speaking of “A Difficult Family”, I hope to finish that within the first half of 2026 as well, I just have to figure out when I’ll have to work on 2026’s chapter of “Jade Responsibility”, and I’ll be collabing with several other authors for the Pokémon Day collaboration hosted by Fatedmeal once again.

I also plan on working getting another special project done before the end of 2026 since, as I’ve realized while writing this, December 24, 2026 will mark ten years of me posting content! It doesn’t feel like it has been that long, and I never thought I’d be where I am not when I started, so I believe I should try to do something special to celebrate it.

I’m hoping to get more stories to publish done, as well as offering them as rewards for my subscribers. While I haven’t been able to finish any new stories for the past few months, I have been trying to work on something that I could work on from my phone while out and on buses, just give me until after Christmas to sort my shit out and get it presentable.

As for my caption account, I feel good about the amount of content I’m putting out for now. Having a couple “dead” months where I only post once a week to allow me to prepare for events and holidays like Mother’s Day, Vore Day, and Halloween is a godsend. And despite me referring to it as my ‘second account’ it is the reason I can afford to not get a part-time or full-time job and focus on writing, so I’ll try to increase my uploads of experiment with new styles, maybe even gifs, in the future. I mainly just don’t like how the compression makes things look when I use gifs…

I’m trying to think of other changes I want to implement, but I can’t really think of anything else. Well, there is one other thing, but I don’t want to get hopes up in case I can’t get the resources I want to make it the best version of itself that it can be. On a completely unrelated note, if anyone knows a good place to get mods for Koikatsu Party that work with Koikatsu Sunshine EX BetterRepack R11, especially vore focused ones for models and fantasy/structure focused ones for CharaStudio, I’d be grateful if you let me know.

In any case, I hope you all a wonderful holiday season, whichever one you celebrate, and thank you all again for your continued support! Hopefully 2026 will go easier on me than 2025 did.

-NRawk

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