So, yesterday, I've began to receive several Notes asking questions regarding how long it's taking to finish their requests. So to give you a better understanding of what's going on as well as what it's going to mean going forward in terms of my future art...or lack thereof, I thought I might as well go ahead and explain the situation.


What's Going On

Honestly, my laptop always weird issues where entire applications would just suddenly have their windows go completely white and have to be restarted through Task Manager, as well as GIMP itself crashing on occasion and causing the entire screen to go black for a moment of time before the computer recovered, and as the years went on, these issues became more and more frequent. Now, you might be thinking that, given the nature of the crashes and how they were all linked to graphics, I would've picked up on the fact that there was something wrong with my laptop's GPU and would've gotten it inspected. The thing is, however, while I kinda figured out it was a problem with my laptop's Nvidia GeForce GTX-1650 early on, being the busy person that I am both with IRL Jobs and with art, along with the fact that the crashes were mostly managable, I just decided to not worry about it that much and just deal with these head-on...until recently.

Since the beginning of this month, I've begun to experience several episodes where this computer would spontaneously slow down for no apparent reason, with these lag episodes lasting for at least a few hours in terms of overall length if not even longer at times. Initially, I suspected that they were nothing more than just a result of some process eating up resources, so I began to carefully scan the computer for Malware. When I found that it was completely clean with nothing even remotely suspicious running on it, I began to suspect something else was happening, with me turning to an application I use routinely being the problem here. I only figured out that it was a hardware problem when, during one incident where it slowed down to the point of being completely unusable, I decided to restart the computer entirely, only for it to be just as slow after the restart, confirming that, in other words, my laptop's GPU was now failing entirely with it now progressing way beyond just mere crashes and graphical problems.


What will This Mean Going Foward?

Other than the fact that I'll probably not be uploading any new art, stories, and other such content anytime soon (With the Spamton Pics only being squeezed out because the person who requested them was rather adament about me getting them out there despite these issues), I will be closing requests indefinitely (or at leat until I get my laptop fixed), with all current requests being placed permanently on hold to the nature of the problem. Despite being unable to upload any new content, however, I will still be active on all accounts from my Desktop (Which is only used for work and gaming with it not even having GIMP installed on it) so that I won't have to entirely cut all contact due to the ongoing issues. I apologize for any inconvenience that these problems may have caused for those who have made requests as well as those who were looking to make one.


Mini-Update - I have managed to get all of my work, including finished work that I haven't uploaded yet, off my laptop's SSD and on to the Hard Drive of my Desktop where they will be until my laptop is back to being fully functional. Though I will not be able to finish any new pics on my Desktop (for reasons I listed above), I will be uploading all my finished content to FA over the next few weeks, with each of these finished pics being Personal ones rather than anything pertaining to Requests. Please note that, due to some of these pics being finished at a way earlier date (the earliest ones being finished an entire year ago in fact), the quality of this artwork will vary drastically. Even still, I hope you will all enjoy at least getting to see some things that I've never attempted to show before.