It’s been a minute, huh? While we’d planned on taking a break around FWA, a variety of things aligned and turned that into a much longer break than we’d intended.

Since we were staff at FWA this year, we spent quite a bit of time before the convention preparing, kept busy during the con, and spent about a week afterwards isolating and resting. While we avoided con crud (N95 masks still work), it still took us a bit to recover from being so damn busy. After the con, we started working on cleaning house a bit, since we moved in February and have not fully unpacked from that. We had guests over for most of the last two weeks—first Tiko, then Zordrak—so being a good host took priority. Now we need to get caught up on housework again, starting with two weeks of laundry that piled up and probably continuing with getting our room in some kind of shape.

All of that to say: We haven’t been doing much writing lately, but it’s not a result of a depressive spiral or other negative life event. It’s just been a whole lot of things, one after another, that have generally kept us from opening Obsidian. We probably (definitely) could have utilized our time and energy more effectively but, in our defense, at least we weren’t rotting in bed for most of the last two months.

The forecast for the next few months is a lot lighter. There are some Pride events we might go to, including a Pirates & Princesses themed party this weekend. We want to go to more furmeets, but those almost always happen on Saturdays and, on average, happen once a month. There’s one guest who might come over next month but, otherwise, we don’t have any specific obligations or commitments between now and taking Amtrak to BLFC in October. This means, barring unforeseeable circumstances, we’ll have time to get back into writing like we’ve intended to.

If you think we owe you some writing and we haven’t recently been in touch, please contact us via Signal, Telegram, or Discord. We’ll offer refunds to anyone who paid us for work that has been incomplete. To help keep ourselves accountable, we plan on getting back into streaming with at least one afternoon and one nighttime writing stream each week, likely starting with a stream on Piczel Thursday evening. We may resume streaming to Twitch as well, just since we like hanging out while playing games. However, we’re also going to make a habit of taking at least two hours each week for self-care since we’ve been neglecting that and spending some time treating ourselves is a tremendous boon to our well-being.

Here’s to hoping we can actually stick with it this time. We’re going to be gradually sliding back into those good habits, rather than diving head-first into them and burning ourselves out. We want this to become a sustainable way of doing things and we want to keep writing for a long time to come. Thank you for your support, whether that’s commissioning us or just reading and sharing our stories.

Signed, The Author