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Working It Out
9 months ago
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Honestly. I don’t journal as much as I should.
I do want to provide an update on what’s going on with me. No, it’s not bad stuff. I mean, at least as far as my life is concerned. This world, as you know, has gone insane and I’ve been having a very difficult time processing it. I suppose that can be expected when your country gets threatened with getting invaded every day, but hey.
I’ve been working on Empire of Secrets for little over a year now. This VN ( https://sampsonwoof.itch.io/empire-of-secrets ) is just about complete (music and finishing touches are left) and I’ve started storyboarding for a second VN. I will finish the third Tale from Malaka - Unpopular Science, I promise. I won’t be working on anything else until it’s done and that means only a few more pieces of art to go.
While I’ve been enjoying the process of making a VN, I kept feeling… sad. I did some poking around in my brain and discovered what I was actually feeling was grief. Grief for the loss of normality. Grief for the loss of rational thinking. The characters in Empire of Secrets live in a rational world where things just work. Evil lurks in the shadows, but it doesn’t run the show (unlike this stupid timeline we’re on). I was hoping for a different election result last November and the VN would have tied in nicely because there’s a theme of democracy running through the storyline.
Well, now, in 2025, it just feels… lost.
Sometimes ideas come to me over time, but on rare occasions, they develop very quickly. ‘Laundry Day,’ which I will post here once I get up the nerve to, is one of the quickest and strongest ideas I’ve had in years. It deals with grief, loss and pain through characters that I hope you find interesting.
Also, I’m gonna be putting content warnings on it. The themes are pretty heavy (at least to me), but I really needed to work out this grief thing in my head.
You know what? It helped. It helped a lot, actually. I just finished the last of the artwork and I can say that I’m mentally better. Art as therapy. Who knew?
I do want to provide an update on what’s going on with me. No, it’s not bad stuff. I mean, at least as far as my life is concerned. This world, as you know, has gone insane and I’ve been having a very difficult time processing it. I suppose that can be expected when your country gets threatened with getting invaded every day, but hey.
I’ve been working on Empire of Secrets for little over a year now. This VN ( https://sampsonwoof.itch.io/empire-of-secrets ) is just about complete (music and finishing touches are left) and I’ve started storyboarding for a second VN. I will finish the third Tale from Malaka - Unpopular Science, I promise. I won’t be working on anything else until it’s done and that means only a few more pieces of art to go.
While I’ve been enjoying the process of making a VN, I kept feeling… sad. I did some poking around in my brain and discovered what I was actually feeling was grief. Grief for the loss of normality. Grief for the loss of rational thinking. The characters in Empire of Secrets live in a rational world where things just work. Evil lurks in the shadows, but it doesn’t run the show (unlike this stupid timeline we’re on). I was hoping for a different election result last November and the VN would have tied in nicely because there’s a theme of democracy running through the storyline.
Well, now, in 2025, it just feels… lost.
Sometimes ideas come to me over time, but on rare occasions, they develop very quickly. ‘Laundry Day,’ which I will post here once I get up the nerve to, is one of the quickest and strongest ideas I’ve had in years. It deals with grief, loss and pain through characters that I hope you find interesting.
Also, I’m gonna be putting content warnings on it. The themes are pretty heavy (at least to me), but I really needed to work out this grief thing in my head.
You know what? It helped. It helped a lot, actually. I just finished the last of the artwork and I can say that I’m mentally better. Art as therapy. Who knew?
(Edit saw the last bit that you feel better) ❤️🩹 but anywho 🫂