#'but it's bad.' ok but I'm still big on it

[miracletails]

Hey what's up with the sudden sigami rudeness :(

[deoidesign]

Hello! I just discovered your blog and I immediately became captivated by your webcomic, but I'm unsure where to read all of it. I know it's on Webtoons, but I can see it hasn't been updated for a while, and you still post about it.

Are your physical novels just prints of the webcomic? Are they a continuation? Is the story complete? Thanks in advance!

Hi there!

Glad you found me and are enjoying my comic!

It's only on webtoons, and the story is not complete yet! We're 2/3 of the way through right now. It's currently on hiatus, and it's scheduled to come back in about 2 months!

I'll explain why it's been so long if you're curious, but also for my followers who might also be wondering about it under the cut. Sorry, it's pretty much just me complaining haha

I took a month off I took 2 months to get the books printed I took a month to prepare my next comic and I took 2 months to write the rest of the series (I knew the character arcs I wanted, but not the time periods or mysteries!!!) I've been working on actual episodes since then

I had to take some time off because of some pretty extreme burnout due to the sheer amount of work it was to draw over 800 pages and write 6 complete stories in a year and a half... I was getting sick almost weekly due to the overwork, it was really really bad honestly. I was having to work 60+ hours every week just to keep up...

The nature of the comic itself is also difficult... Each of the arcs is a complete, self contained story which can be read (ideally) without context, and my arcs need to be about 10-13 episodes each... And since I have an exact number of episodes to work with, it's even harder.

It takes a ton of planning and a ton of refinement, and working week to week with no breaks I was forced to put out second or even first drafts, so I just wasn't happy with the work I was doing... And to do that for the rest of the series? I wouldn't be proud of the work I did.

Plus... To be entirely honest, webtoon has treated me quite badly IN MY OPINION... They deprioritized me before I launched (I had to beg for more promotion, I'm not exaggerating), they outright denied me the opportunity to even ask for a raise, I don't make any money on fast pass and they pay me less than my partner makes working at trader joes. My first editor left me completely hanging, my second editor (who I loved) was fired... And they told me I wouldn't get a third season before my first season even finished. So it was just repeatedly completely demoralizing.

I'm sorry it has taken so long, it'll have been 10 months by the time I come back. But I realized... I won't get promotion either way. I won't get more episodes either way. I won't get more money either way. So to finish everything, to make it feel good, to make it something I'm proud of, I chose to take longer to make it better.

I am fully aware I will lose a significant amount of my readership for this and it might genuinely affect my career moving forward. But it's what I had to do! So I'm sticking to my guns on it, and I'm confident long term it'll be worth it. It never could have been this good if I didn't take this much time.

[cartoonnerdygoat]

I'm so sorry to anyone following my blog. I got into a youtube series about personified political ideologies and there will be nothing else I'm capable of thinking about for the next few days.

I'm shipping political ideologies now. Send help.

[pharawee]

Remember when I said that I was fine watching My Stand-In last week? I almost didn't survive this episode. I'm genuinely so upset 🥴

Please someone tell me that was the worst of Ming's controlling stalker behaviour because I really want to like and watch this show but I don't think I can really enjoy myself if it goes on or gets even worse than this. 😭

In other news, at least I got two (2) blurry frames of Winner out of this:

(I can't even tell if that's really him. I only *think*t it might be Winner because why else show Joe's reflection like this 🤣)

[cradle-of-darkness]

COOKIES OF DARKNESS NATION WE ARE OFFICIALLY BACK 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

(long rambling in tags if u care)

[skullzy20]

the improvement is kind of insane

[twilightarcade]

to do list for my eyes Only

[obnoxiousarcade]

im thinking again

[mooodyblue]

if u see me pumping out fic after fic just assume my life is going into shambles

[eggmeralda]

I need a massive sudden hyperfixation shock to happen again

[filthyjanuary]

feeling sad :(

[astrxealis]

making myself suffer looking thru ffxiv stuff on tumblr when i could be playing ffxiv rn but i eternally love and miss ffxiv

[airbenderedacted]

I have college assignmrnts to do for tonig💥

[imwritesometimes]

trying out new recipes/baking techniques/decoration ideas means having 80 million tabs open in ur mobile browser 🙃

[esseastri]

sometimes, I think about how I used to use my Likes tab as a place to store drafts, and I would go through and reblog everything in my likes on a regular basis and I never had more than about 100 likes and now

there are

12,000 posts in my likes,

and my queue is always empty

and I have these moments where I panic because oh god what am I doing, I'm so behind, I'm failing at blogging

and then I remember that

I moved and

I got anti-depressants and a girlfriend and a cat and a best friend who I hang out with regularly and a job I loved and hobbies where I make things with my hands and a cozy little apartment with too many throw blankets and a view of the sky through the branches of trees and a well-stocked kitchen and two manuscripts I'm actively working on writing and

I remember that

I am better now. I am so much better now. Look how far I've come.

[greatprotector-if]

kicking my feet & twirling my hair thinking abt galen