Just checking in to let y'all know I'm going to be taking a short semi-hiatus until the end of February/beginning of March.

January/February are always a shit time for my mental health and this year, I had some stuff happen in my personal life that's made my mental health kind of tank and sapped pretty much all of my creative energy. Calling it a "semi" hiatus because there's the chance I'll get an idea and draw it out or finish one of my multitude of WIPs that I have on my tablet/in my writing folder -- or I might schedule some of my backlog to be posted -- but mostly, I'm delaying/cancelling(?) February's short story. My total lack of creative energies has meant that I haven't had a single idea for the story yet, despite having a vague idea of a theme I wanted to try for (Valentine's Day!).

Since having my own personal deadlines adds to a sort of mental pressure that I'm sure isn't helping with the bullshit going on in my head, I'm kind of letting myself say "we'll work on that when we feel better". Which means there might not be a story for February. Which makes me feel like shit because I only just started this Monthly Short Story idea and I'm already skipping a month.

I will try to do a fun pin-up or something for Valentine's day and maybe make March's story extra special in some way (extra illustrations?) to make up for it.

Anyway, thanks so much for your support and for your patience. It really means a lot to me that people enjoy the things I create enough to give me money for it.

-Roz/Dorian Caine