Hiatus: End! (Somewhat)
Aug. 17th, 2025 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedesSo. I feel the need to address my absence.
Initially, my plan was to not post on Dreamwidth until my current pet project was completed. It is a small visual novel, titled "Peony in Bloom", which was planned to release during February for this year's Aro Jam!
As you can tell. It is no longer February. And the game is still not out.
This is a two-person project. I was in charge of the art assets, and my partner was left in charge of the coding. I will be extremely frank: the art assets, and everything else I was in charge of, were 100% completed in time for an end-of-February release. The coding was not. And the coding is still not. It's, of course, hard to not be frustrated, but my partner is disabled, so I can't be too harsh.
I was, at first, stubbornly clinging onto the idea that my next post to Dreamwidth would be the Peony in Bloom devlog. But I've recently given up on that.
A second factor contributing to my absence is that I recently got my first job! I'm a barista at a popular chain coffee place! Which now means I get to feel the full brunt of Capitalism at its finest.
I am so tired now. All the time. It feels like I am in a constant cycle of preparing for work, working, then recovering from work, with no time for anything creative in between. I haven't written or drawn anything in a long time, and I don't even really want to, either. I'm too tired to even have the desire to do anything, and I feel like I never have enough days off to recover, even making liberal use of my sick days.
So, yeah. Trying to do just about anything right now is exhausting. That's why there's "somewhat" in the title. I hope that I'll be able to be more active, but I also may be too tired to update for weeks, or maybe even months, at a time.
In the meantime, I'll be looking through my Tumblr post backlog and seeing if there's anything I could crosspost on here. I'll hopefully see you around!
Initially, my plan was to not post on Dreamwidth until my current pet project was completed. It is a small visual novel, titled "Peony in Bloom", which was planned to release during February for this year's Aro Jam!
As you can tell. It is no longer February. And the game is still not out.
This is a two-person project. I was in charge of the art assets, and my partner was left in charge of the coding. I will be extremely frank: the art assets, and everything else I was in charge of, were 100% completed in time for an end-of-February release. The coding was not. And the coding is still not. It's, of course, hard to not be frustrated, but my partner is disabled, so I can't be too harsh.
I was, at first, stubbornly clinging onto the idea that my next post to Dreamwidth would be the Peony in Bloom devlog. But I've recently given up on that.
A second factor contributing to my absence is that I recently got my first job! I'm a barista at a popular chain coffee place! Which now means I get to feel the full brunt of Capitalism at its finest.
I am so tired now. All the time. It feels like I am in a constant cycle of preparing for work, working, then recovering from work, with no time for anything creative in between. I haven't written or drawn anything in a long time, and I don't even really want to, either. I'm too tired to even have the desire to do anything, and I feel like I never have enough days off to recover, even making liberal use of my sick days.
So, yeah. Trying to do just about anything right now is exhausting. That's why there's "somewhat" in the title. I hope that I'll be able to be more active, but I also may be too tired to update for weeks, or maybe even months, at a time.
In the meantime, I'll be looking through my Tumblr post backlog and seeing if there's anything I could crosspost on here. I'll hopefully see you around!
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Date: 2025-08-18 05:42 pm (UTC)He wants to do it himself. He's stubborn like I am in that way, lol! He wants to prove to himself that he can do it.
Besides, it was conceived as a project for us to do together ("partner" here is being used to mean both "partner in this project" and "romantic partner", since we're both!), and I'm very much a control freak regarding my ideas (it was a miracle that I let even the person I trust most in the world on board), so getting someone else on is something that neither of us are particularly interested in.
And thank you for the reminder!! It's hard to remember that my job isn't everything, but my creative pursuits are what keep me going!