#prognosis not good!!

[mutualcombat]

adriannu's inner monolgue probably: i hope i see a frog today

[facets-and-rainbows]

Update from Kazue Katoh's Twitter

The Blue Exorcist hiatus will be extended for another month (through the November issue)

[Drawing of Katoh apologizing] Sorry for all the delays!

As Blue Exorcist celebrates its 15th anniversary, I'm taking my first ever unplanned three-month break from publishing it. I think it's about time to share more information on the situation with my readers...It's a personal matter but I'd like to tell you.

I was actually diagnosed with an illness at my regular checkup in March, and I've spent the last few months working in between hospital visits.

I've finished surgery, which went well, and I've been discharged for the time being, but I needed extra time for post-op treatment so I'm going to have to extend the hiatus.

It's ended up as a long 3-month wait, and I'm sorry about that!

I'll be keeping my exact diagnosis private for now, but in my case it shouldn't be life-threatening with proper treatment.

I'm currently back to work and feeling good, so don't worry too much!

[Drawing of Katoh in a hospital bed] I actually got excited for my first hospitalization, and my first surgery, and my first general anesthesia, and my first catheter... Maybe it's a manga artist thing. I had my catheter removed by a nurse who apparently reads Blue Exorcist, haha, nothing can scare me anymore (*Catheter=a tube that goes directly in the urethra) (Nurse: Take a deep breath and I'll take it out when you exhale...)

[Drawing of Katoh at the gym] I got back to the gym 3 days after I was discharged from the hospital! They said exercise will be good for my recovery.

The current plan is:

Next month: There will be no Blue Exorcist chapter in the November issue of Jump SQ (which comes out in October), but I'm drawing a new poster for it!

The month after next: Blue Exorcist is scheduled to return in the December issue of Jump SQ (which comes out in November.)

At any rate, I'll be continuing treatment alongside work for a while, so there may be times when that impacts my work and makes you all worry...Apologies in advance! My soul couldn't rest if I died before finishing Blue Exorcist, so I'm hoping to stick around and keep drawing it while I continue my treatment.

All this has just been spurring on my inconsistency as an author, but I hope you'll stick with Blue Exorcist going forward!

Kazue Katoh, Sept 4, 2024

[Drawing of Katoh making a determined little fist] And take care of yourselves too! Get your annual checkups!

[shanastoryteller]

see something say something ch 17 progress report: 10k

[darkwood-sleddog]

1.) i hate ticks bc annoying but also because sigurd has (non symptomatic) anaplasmosis and cost me upwards of $500 usd at the vet today when i thought i was going for a regular check up

2.) the good news is that sigurd is the best boy and is basically a celebrity at our veterinary office. when they take him in the back (and they had to take him in the back four separate times because he clotted too fast on the initial blood test...) i can hear them talking about him "he's the BEST", "He's so beautiful," "is this SIGURD??" "he's just one of those dogs you think about sometimes".

[bigmammallama5]

Got all my soda pots sanded today, which made the brain happy. Just gotta scrub them next before I can shoot them but I might try to start catching up on Drawtober tomorrow since I’m not hurting as much.

[wingsofhcpe]

extremely exhausted. probably coming down with a cold. and unable to fall asleep because I'm thinking about the stray cat I've been taking care of for 5 years who's in the hospital and probably won't make it.

[lokh]

scribbled a beard on a selfie and instead of going 'gross' i immediately went DUDE i wish

[doctor-roman]

Some Tango pics my parents sent today

[edgepunk]

oof

[stahl-tier]

mirror mirror on the wall will I be able to get any sleep at all

[rulesforthedance]

When we first found Ronin's heart problem (took him to the vet because he'd swelled up with fluid, ultrasound revealed his heart wasn't beating with as much force as it should), he went a couple months not really climbing. I guess it was difficult and uncomfortable to do it while swollen, and he probably just wasn't feeling great in general. These last several weeks, it's made me really happy to see him climbing all over his rigging again.

Also, look at this big irregular patch of shed he's preparing! (the darker/cooler brown is what's getting ready to shed)

[transgenderboobs]

in case anyone is wondering if i will ever be normal about the magnus archives, today i heard a song that made me think of the podcast and almost burst into tears, so.

[chatpileroan]

some sort of divine hand guiding my all purpose bunny hat into showing up a month early on the day my mother finds out and tells us that she has cancer a second time because the good news is it made her laugh very hard

[marklikely]

starting to think exotic animal vets are a complete fucking scam

[bobthedragon2]

so apparently my dad has cancer and I have no idea what to do with this information other than put together furniture and maybe never sleep again so let me know if anyone wants me to have a breakdown in ikea or something idk

[maraeffect]

i had such a cutie fun day with my partner today wahhhh 🥹💖 i Extremely Needed It and it felt like a lil vacation bc we road tripped kinda. like the tattoo i was gifted was 2 hours away so we just like drove a couple states over, got some snacks, i got a cute tattoo, and on the way home we tried gambling for the first time with penny slots!! we both NEVER wanna go again bc it literally just pisses your money away. but we're adults and haven't ever tried it!!! i won $20 (: it was so fun to like make fun of all the stupid machine names and be able to check off a bucket list item 🥺💖

anyway i think the dash could always use more wholesome stuff, so i wanted to share 🥹