Heyo!

Sorry for going so quiet the last month and a half... Stuff happened. Let me explain briefly!

Right, and I mean RIGHT after I got Obesitober all set up, I had an appointment at the urologist. I have chronic kidney stones, and... Hey, I had another one. A big one too; I had been in pain with it for a couple months, nothing major but it was there. Well I went in, and they said I needed surgery basically ASAP for it before it shifted and I needed invasive surgery for the 3rd time this year. This was in the midst of some household drama too that I won't get into, so that basically killed the first week of October right there. I got some stories done, but not the full week. The next week and a half I was on pain meds anytime I wasn't at work, and too distracted by the surgery looming to be of any use to anyone. Surgery happened, and it went well enough so all was well there... Until the day after, where I was fixing something around the house and stabbed myself in the pointer finger on my left hand with a drill. Badly. I won't get into the gory details, but it was bad enough that it has been healing since mid-October and it is only now at a point where I can type enough to write full stories again. I couldn't type at all honestly for about 3 weeks, despite trying... Any length of writing was agonizingly painful. I tested it in one of my Discords a week and a half ago, writing a decent length RP post, and by the time that I was done with it, I went upstairs, parked myself on the couch, and just hurt for the rest of the day. So yeah... I'm finally back at writing strength, not hurting when I write or anything like that. Couple that with a mini-outbreak of COVID at my workplace, and... Yeah, the last month and a half has been fun to say the least. I've busied myself modifying avatars for VRChat, because that keeps me working on something and involves minimal use of my left hand, but I want to write again. And now I can.

Now, what does that mean for Obesitober? I have a few stories done, but nowhere near all of them. I'm going to be getting to work on them starting Monday and working through until I get through all of them. I had a whole thing planned for November, and December, and I have nixxed it so that I can get these done first. I apologize for the delay in things, life just decided to have the worst timing possible here. I've been open about all this on my Twitter, but I know not everyone reads Twitter here so I am making this update so that what happened last month is known. I'm also always, ALWAYS reachable by notes or on telegram (@Corgsdale) so there are no secrets. I don't like hiding what's going on, especially from those who paid for my time and I have yet to give it. So, yeah... That's been what's up in the land of me.

Also, I changed up my sona! I've been Sasuke for... 20 years now just about, and I wanted a change. I haven't felt connected to the draolf for about 5 years now, given that I have shifted my gender identity and sexuality as time has gone on to fit who I am, rather than who I thought I was supposed to be. Sasuke isn't going anywhere, the big draolf will always, ALWAYS be me... But Devon, the new corgsdale that I am now, is more me now. I'll write up something about all of that at another point, but if you see someone on Twitter or don't recognize the icon or anything... That's the new sona. That's Devon, and that's me from now on.

Thanks for your time!