First off I want to say a happy new year to all of you, and I truly hope that 2024 is a good one for everyone! Last year certainly offered a fair share of challenges and hardships for people, and I can only ask that this year is smooth sailing.

Secondly, I want to dedicate this post to announcing a change in how I will handle my writing moving forward. Over the last two years I have received immense support, love, and been around such amazing people. I have known such kindness before the fandom, and as a result I offered to write gift stories for those I love. That still stands today, but that number has grown and grown.

I am afraid I cannot keep up, and believe I have put myself in a position where I have over promised and let people down. I will own that, and I will apologize for that. I will treat this as a learning curve because I don't want to let my friends down or hurt them, they don't deserve it. I'll admit I felt if I offered a gift story and wrote one, that was my way of articulating my appreciation. However given I started this year with my first full time job, the people I lost, and unstable circumstances I couldn't deliver most of what I promised. Thus I will be undoing any gift story I promised that is not complete or started, because I just can't deliver it, and that is my fault. So much happened in my personal life that pushed me in a corner, and at the time I wrote for those who helped me in my time of need as appreciation. If I could write for everyone, god forbid I would in a heartbeat, instantly! Heck, I'm learning to draw to expand my ability to do gifts. Words cannot convey my self-frustration and guilt for doing this, but I just can't start the new year with this guilt.

Therefore, unless I do commissions, I will priortise trades and my own content as opposed to gifts. This is not a decision I take lightly, nor one I wished to make, but I never want to hurt anyone. It is for the sake of my mental health and for the respect of my friends. So, the gift stories will be extremely limited moving forward, but no longer a constant in my gallery. I accept full responsibility, but this is for the best for my healths sake because I have deteriorated and been broken for months, and I just need to find another way to show my appreciation and hope that my conversations are enough.

I love you all, lupus x
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