Well, long time no post. Usually this isn't something I'd make a public thing of, because I find the line between general announcement of personal things of this nature and accidental guilt-tripping or oversharing to be a thin one that I often think people cross over without realizing. But in this case, because it's something most (if not all of us at this point) have dealt with to some degree, I feel as though sharing it isn't oversharing, and is a reasonable explanation for my absence as well as a potential PSA.

Back in the spring, around the time I got less frequent in posting, I got really sick. I was COVID, but not like I'd had it before. Somehow, despite not leaving the house nearly as much as before, I managed to catch it and it was the worst I'd ever felt. I was down for over a month, unable to walk around, in pain and now have "long covid" issues. This is essentially why I fell off the planet of the earth every where. Between looking for a job, and having issues with breathing for months, it's been an exhausting time. I don't even know how it's come to be October - it's crazy to me that one minute it was spring and I was down for the count, and the next it's October and I'm still building up my stamina.

I found out from a friend who's a paramedic that apparently Covid spiked at that time and no one talked out it where I live. So I guess the PSA part about this is that we should all periodically be keeping an eye on covid news if we can find it because it's still bad enough to take us out in an instant apparently.

Anyway, I'm finally kinda feeling like myself, and would like to be back to drawing and posting and interacting more regularly. I'm trying to build up to being back and more productive versus the me that's existed the last five or more months. So hopefully, I'll be back with the backlog of drawings I have managed to do soon.

Like I said, I don't share this stuff generally because I never want it to be seen as garnering for sympathy or guilt tripping like "woah as me, please help!" because I have very strong feelings on that matter and I could write a much longer blurb on my worries of the rise of weaponized guilt on the internet these days. But I do share it because it's something that's actively still happening and can affect all of us and I want people to be aware because it fucked me up and I don't want it fucking other people up too.

Stay safe out there everyone. I hope to talk more soon :)