It's been a while and I feel some explanation is in order. I'll try to make this quick and simple.

For the last two, three years I've been struggling job-wise. Stuck in shitty jobs that only barely get me across the finish line every month. Been looking for new jobs for that entire time with no luck. Thousands of applications, handful of interviews, no word back. Stuck.

Because of that and not having any money to spend on anything outside of the raw basics, I've just been in a survival mode mindset all this time and as a side effect of that, I've kinda been dulled out in general, which affects me producing art and my interaction with people online. When I get the energy or a flash of inspiration I'll try and milk it for all it's worth and I was able to do my Sometober last year as planned but outside of that, I tend to fall off a cliff. All that combined with Twitter pulling an Any% self-termination speedrun and a lot of other social media and art websites having their own issues has left me somewhat adrift at sea.

I apologize to anyone who I've not been consistently communicative with or who I've seemed to not talk to at all. When I'm feeling flat like this I tend to shrink my socialization in a bit more so that I'm not spreading my flat mood to others. It's something I've been trying to work on as I work through my issues but it's not something I'm able to get over consistently just yet.

It'll get better as long as I keep trying, but I know I've been more or less a ghost for the last year and a half and I wanted to give a proper explanation as to why.

If you wanna connect, Discord is the most consistent place to find me: ninetails2000 You could also send me notes here if you want.

Thanks to anyone who's still around at this point and thank you to all of you who have interacted with me or checked in on me in all this time. It means the world to me to know that there are people out there looking out for me.