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Let's frontload this with work. I'm back on task, at least to the best of my abilities. I just transitioned into my writing and recording 'block' from my 'commission' weeks. I've done a bit of writing, but I'm expecting to roll into it more aggressively as I start to feel better. I've kinda got notes all over the place for several 'one-shots', plus I've got a chapter of 'The Family Vulpes' that needs final revisions, and another one that's ready to release, I keep forgetting to make the thumbnail. That will be part of the priorities over the next few days.

I'm also planning to do a test narration of the first chapter of Rehab, after tweaking it, of course. Don't worry, I'm not planning to go all George Lucas on it or anything. A few little tweaks here and there, and an adjustment for some accidental errors/retcons I made. The kind you make before realizing this was going to be some weird trilogy and needed a bit more consistency for the sake of the later installments. The audio will only be available on Patreon, at least until I get feedback and maybe whip up a rough animatic for the first chapter to accompany it. For both our sakes —or rather, so I don't die of shame and embarrassment, plus YouTube guidelines —I won't be doing a read of the NSFW content. At least never publicly. The idea alone makes me cringe just typing this.

I'm not going to screw myself over by mentioning any other things I might get done in that timeframe, so just fingers crossed I've got surprises for you. After those 2 weeks, we move on to the study weeks, so more practice stuff awaits.

Now on to the speed bumps in the road. Recently, I put a 'Helluva' lot of effort into some Hellhound stickers. (Get it?). I was late dropping them because I had a sinus infection for about three weeks, and then decided to cram Queen Bee into the set at the last minute—another summer set released in the fall. The main release was on Etsy, and I'm in the process of phasing out my overpriced webstore for some cheaper alternative if I can find it. The Hellhound set got pinged twice for breaking Etsy policy. The second time, the page was free of any NSFW imagery, but it's clear someone was keeping an eye out for the listing to flag it again. That came with a warning. One more screw up, and my Etsy gets nuked. So, with a heavy heart, I'm forced to cut back my Etsy content to strictly SFW sales.

The Etsy sales had been sagging since the policy change last year, with only occasional surges. So that passive income has completely wilted, and it's pretty much at death's door. I will sanitize everything to the best of my abilities, but something will still get dinged because I've clearly got eyes on me, and that'll be the end of it. I can sell some straight from Patreon. Still, I recognize there's pressure on every site that sells merch from the payment processor duopoly to heavily discourage selling anything, even 'adult content' adjacent. Patreon and OnlyFans seem to have leeway only because of the sheer size of their profit margins, and they are large enough to stoke backlash should they try to regulate them shotgun-style.

I'm looking into whatever alternatives I can find in the meantime. Right now, Spicerack seems promising, and I'll also add a few select products to the Patreon to see how that goes. The rules seem like they'll allow for my stickers and prints, but I'm not confident.

Lastly, this weekend, I ended up going to the hospital due to my blood oxygen hovering between 90 and 87 consistently. Since I had to move up here, my health issues have worsened. I went from a POTS diagnosis to needing a main line of oxygen while I slept, to now needing supplemental oxygen while trying to do daily activities. I'm not 500 pounds either, I'm a 6'1" 200-pound guy who's got a spare tire at most, but now I'm going to need a more in-depth sleep study to see if I have sleep apnea. Needless to say, living up here is not only killing my Mom, but it's killing me. That means some focus needs to shift to finding a new place to live at a lower altitude.

I've been dreading and dragging my feet about this because it was already tough to move last time, and we were homeless. It's only gotten worse in the housing market since then, especially for low-income families. To find a place in a safe area, that's relatively clean and not falling apart, is an obscenely tall order. And that's if I want to stay in the state, which I don't. I'd rather go back to New Hampshire, but my mother insists we temporarily move to a lower altitude in-state, and then try to move out of state from there. She thinks neither of us can go right into a big move, but the last thing I want to do is be even around the Denver area. I don't want to move, let alone know another move is ahead.

I don't know what to do at this point. I'm just tired of everything. Tired of the health setbacks, traumatized by moving. I'm a little lost, and I hope over the next few weeks I can pull myself back together and navigate this. At the end of the day, I really would hate to be on permanent oxygen or have to wear one of those big, clumsy O2 masks to sleep. Wearing the oxygen line is already bad enough. I want to improve my quality of life, and to do that, I need to leave Colorado.

That's about everything for the moment. No merch plug or anything this time around for obvious reasons. Thanks again to my backers, and thanks to my fans for their continued support. (Though the Fur aff journal will do it automatically.)

-Wasty