CW: Contains mention of hospitals, loss of a loved one.

TLDR: Father passed, I'm trying to figure out my life, and easing back into work. Thank you for your patience. This fucking sucks. Potential studio job.

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Hey all, it's been a bit (outside of my attempt to make some sales this "holiday" season with yesterdays black friday sales journal) and I appreciate everyone's patience. It's been a really rough while: My Dad passed away. He made it through small cell lung cancer over the summer and then through October his health started to decline and found himself in the Hospital at the start of November, unable to breath well, confused (lack of oxygen) and a hard time doing every day things. He was put on oxygen which helped, but after rounds of various meds/treatments, the Docs were out of options. He didn't want to be bedridden with poor quality of life so he requested to be put into a medically induced comma to allow him to pass peacefully and left us on Nov 14th. I miss him so much already and I know this will be a process that I have to learn to live with, so bear with me as things may be a bit scattered.

In regards to work, I started back up trying to work on the 21st but it's been, hard. I'm trying to be kind to myself but life goes on whether you want it to or not, and everyone still has to pay their bills. So here I am. The primary being finishing outstanding Patreon work, an outstanding badge, and VF Community Spotlight responsibilities. If time/energy allows, I'll take some coms in December but first dibs always go to patreons. I really need to recoup lost income from not being able to go to Howloween (which was already paid up to go) and flight costs, etc., but catchup comes first.

If you missed it, I do have sales on a lot of places right now. You can find the list at https://twitter.com/WildElements/status/1595861618659057665 or in the recent journals on this site since twitter is probably going the way of the dodo.

All in all, it's been a turbulent time. I also got a contact at a potential part time studio job right in the middle of everything, so that's another point of stress to handle.

I'm now easing back into work, re-organizing my life and trying to figure it out. I may be quieter than usual.