Happy New Year!

Happy new year, one and all. I hope you have come out of 2025 in one piece, and step into 2026 with some measure of hope.

What a year it has been. I am not sad to see the back of it, and most certainly look forward to the year ahead.

What does the coming year hold? If only I knew. That said, the broad strokes are not entirely opaque;

My time as a carer are at a definitive middle. While their condition improves overall, there are the occasional backslides one would expect, and similarly they still require care, attention, and love (as do we all). While this means I will not be able to return to development work in full capacity, it does mean I may be able to return in a small capacity and get the ball rolling once again. Truth be told I am going a little stir crazy and getting back into it may help alleviate that.

This is not to say I will be returning to monthly updates and progress, as I cannot and will not commit to anything consistent, but you might start seeing me post more little updates, experiments, and development work not necessarily directly relating to Hypno.exe as I slowly get back in the proverbial saddle. Hypno.exe, ButtplugUE, that big scope-creep project I have in mind, sundry UE plugins, my home server, making the discord more of a community than just a big room with people awkwardly standing around not talking to one another, there are a million things I want to do and this mortal flesh will only last so long, and the time shall pass regardless.

If there is any one thing I can take away from this year gone by, it is that the human mind is capable of incredible adaptation to new circumstances. As hypnokinksters you may be more aware of this than most, but the mind is incredibly adept at survival, one way or another, and you can be dreading an impending even, but then blink and it is behind you, having already adapted to your new circumstances. You can adapt to bad times and survive, but must also take care to unlearn your survival mode as you return to a life less inhospitable, and for me the bad times will not have a definitive end, merely a slow slide towards normality and as such I will need to be mindful to not stay locked into adapted behaviors which will hinder growth and happiness after the need for them has passed.

With time, luck, and love, I see this year ahead as being one I can look forward to, and I hope you all will as well, in whatever way you can.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you continued support and good will. It carries me through my days in a much better way than I would be without.

All of the best, and much love,

d/Dev