Last night, while I was parked outside of my house, I witnessed four people exit a car, putting on masks, with guns. They saw me in my car, but walked past me. A few minutes later, as I'm about to exit, they started shooting. So I drove off, told my family to lock up the house, and parked nearby. My friend told me to not go back. Honestly, I knew a place where I could spend the night. Leaving my family seemed like the smartest thing to do since they didn't see them or know my connection to them.
My family was worried so I returned about 2 hours later and left my art bag, my gym bag, and my jacket in the car. I thought that it would be too much weight to carry my art bag, just in case I needed to run or something. Not like I could outrun bullets, but they weren't close by or in sight, and I doubt they were some kind of extreme, talented marksmen.
So by now I think you know exactly where this is going.
When I woke up, my trunk was open. When I approached my car, the bag containing my artwork, as well as my gym bag and my license plate, were gone. The first car that I saw last night was still there, abandoned, and an officer showed up with a tow truck. I told him what happened and he made a report for me to carry in case I got pulled over.
I spent all of this morning retrieving my license plate after an officer called me and told me it was found connected to a completely different car in another county nearly 20 miles from my house. So at least I can drive freely.

As for me, yeah, that's pretty wild and I don't really know if I feel safe outside of my own house. Not gonna lie, I'm incredibly mad right now. I didn't lose anything expensive, but I feel unsafe. I feel worried about my family. My nephew and his friends play outside every day and now I'm worrying for his safety too. I also feel a massive lack of privacy now. I feel like my identity is in danger. Some of my most private drawings are gone as well. And when I say private, I don't even just mean nsfw content. Things that have no connection to this community that I had plans for in the distant future. Sigh~

My plate was the only thing recovered. My old drawings are gone. I was actually gonna upload the 2013, proto-version of 'A Foul Encounter'–as well as my earliest drawings of Viktor and Clayton– to Patreon, but that clearly can't happen anymore.
Well, to everyone who purchased a commission, you don't have to worry about your purchases. I'll just have to redraw everything. After going most of last year dead silent before gaining a ton of momentum towards the end, I planned on uploading something at least once every month. I still plan to. I actually despise having to redraw things completely, but when I do, it always turns out even better than the original.

I want to apologize to  NotRiceBowl who's project was completely past the pencil faze (I was only able to get their first page scanned) and  LionLewds who's slightly larger commission was over halfway finished (but didn't get scanned at all). I also want to apologize to the incredibly patient  wummygummywormy who purchased one of my largest commissions(the first two pages of your large comic were scanned successfully, as you already know, but every other sketch I had for it is gone). And I want to apologize to every other order who's commission unfortunately didn't get past the basic stencil-pose stage.
In addition, they took my Avarice commission. I have 3/5 of those pages scanned, and they're already well into the editing process. The fourth page only has one panel scanned. The final page is completely gone, which is an absolute travesty because it had a great ending and a nicely done Brutus expression that I don't know if I can replicate.

Other than that, the personal works I procrastinated on are gone. I had plenty of ideas that would've had a continuity to them. I'll replicate the most important ones. I previously scanned and uploaded some of the sketches that had the continuity to Patreon. None of them had an ending anyway, so at least that's a nice motivator.

I was set to open for commissions again after finishing the next planned upload, which was very military inspired. I was going to upload and open midway through the month because I thought it wouldn't be that honorable to upload it too close to the US memorial day.
I might not be able to open, but even if I do, I won't be able to accept any ideas for comics, since they obviously require the most work.

I don't really know what else to tell any of you. I'm just trying to calm down right now.