Happy new year!

I think saying that 2020 has been wild is kind of an understatement at this point. And 2020's effects will ripple through 2021 as well. There's been a lot of pain, fear and sadness, globally. And I won't make light of what is happening around the world. We're still not out of the woods, at least on my side of the pond. In fact, we're probably gearing up for a hard winter.

With that said, 2020 was also a once-in-a-lifetime event for me. This year I suddenly had more time and solitude than I'd ever had before. It was something I always kind of wanted but never expected to get. I live alone, I haven't been into my office since March 2020. There's a lot of empty space to fill all of a sudden. And as an introverted person, there's a huge amount of pressure and stress off of me to go out and socialize in my downtime. Left to my own devices, completely removed from social pressures and responsibilities, 2020 was kind of a glimpse into what my life would be like if the world just kind of stopped demanding things from me all of a sudden.

I'd always kind of fantasized about saving up money and then taking a year off somehow, just to focus on my art and creative output. And 2020 was probably the closest I ever came to living that life.

Because I was very privileged, I was given a really rare opportunity to put a lot more focus into my art than I ever have before. And between a global pandemic and my own personal health scare in August, I feel like 2020 for me was less about growth and more about comfort. Finding comfort in solitude, turning to comfortable things in uncertain times, and becoming comfortable with expressing myself in the way that I want. 2020 was the year I felt an enormous amount of pressure off my shoulders. All I had to do was focus on surviving and avoiding physical contact with people. Silly as it sounds, that's kind of my ideal life!

So while I will be eagerly looking forward to the end of this... I will definitely look back on 2020 with mixed feelings. Of course I didn't want there to be a pandemic and I still live with anxiety every day knowing that my loved ones could get sick. But as crazy as it might sound, 2020 was also a rare chance to narrow my focus to the very basics, in a way I could've never done before and may not ever get the chance to do again. While I won't miss covid and all the turmoil that has come with it, I feel like I will miss the gift of time and peace that I've been given once things start to return to normal. I'm glad I was able to get this opportunity... but obviously wish it could've been in better circumstances. I hope that's not completely insensitive to say.

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me up to this point. I'm so blown away by the fact that people are really out there willing to give me any money at all for my art. I can't express enough how much I appreciate you. Things have been slow to get moving as I come out of the holidays and we ramp things up at my day job. So into 2021 I'm planning to:

-Resume working on my comics, both nsfw and sfw, as much as I can.
-Keep making fandom content for as long as I like/as long as there is a platform for me to do so.
-And maybe less interesting to everyone but, I want to try and give my only "original" comic, Kukyo No Onna, a bit more focus as well. Planned around SU stuff, of course.

I hope everyone has as good of a year as they possibly can in these circumstances. Be gentle with yourselves. Take things day by day and try not to look too far ahead. Just keep moving forward. Thank you and take care <3