Hey there! This is probably going to be a long one. I don't really have a script here, so I'm gonna just kind of word vomit here, about where I am in life, and what it may entail for my current art situation.



To make a long story short, years ago I fled from my family home off to another state to escape my family's abuse and control freak tendencies. I stayed in another state with some close friends for years, and we got a stable living arrangement, but I still wasn't happy. My relationship had fallen through and my career opportunities really hadn't moved forward at all. For years I stagnated, and I guess the anxiety that came with that urged me to make another radical change in my life.

I let my folks talk me into coming back home. They offered me a room and to pay whatever bills I had in exchange for whatever help I had to offer around the house(s), at least until I found a job. I have a degree I've been sitting on all of this time because it's so hard to break into STEM careers, and... it's still proving difficult. Despite there apparently being sooo many opportunities around here, every dang company wants people with years of experience and I can't even get my foot in the door. Fast forward a month and a half, and what little savings I had are gone, and the family that said they'd cover my expenses are now urging me to at least settle for getting some menial part-time job, so... yay, they're dodging half of what they said they'd do for me.

Now, I find myself in an awkward situation. One way or another in the coming weeks I need to start making money. I've taken commissions in the past, but there is no way I can take on enough of them to get the money that I need for my bills. A patreon sure sounds nice but I don't think I could consistently deliver on whatever sort of promises that I could make on there, especially since I'm heading into turbulent times as I try to find a new job and adjust to it.

The long and short of it is I'm probably going to need to devote a lot of my time to finding a new job again, and all I can do is hope that it isn't miserable and I have enough time in my day to at least get this sequence done. It's really helped to kick-start my art drive again, and I'm so pleased to see the amount of support for it. I'm going to keep trying to deliver on it every day, and I pray that whatever job I end up getting, that it'll leave me the time and energy to keep devoting myself to my art. I can't be certain what the near future will hold, but I'm going to try my hardest to keep this series floating.

I thank all of you for the recent support, it's really put some light back into my life. Thank you all so much.