October-November 2024 Status Update

Hey everyone. As always, the moment I think things have finally calmed down something inevitably happens, and the past two months have been incredibly stressful for a variety of reasons. Nevertheless, I try to carry on.

Near the end of September there were news that Discord might get banned here. Sure enough, that's exactly what ended up happening around the start of October, forcing me to hastly move all my contacts to other messengers. So if I stopped responding to you there, that's why. After that there have been rumours that Google might either pull out or also get blocked there, so that meant having to make backup Emails. After that Hipolink started having issues with PayPal, just like Boosty did at the start of the year, meaning that payments via PayPal are basically gone now, unless you're willing to jump through hoops. At the very least card payments are working fine, although convincing new people to pay via card is gonna be difficult for obvious reasons. Then for a moment I was worried something might be wrong with my desktop. And then there's all the escalations happening worldwide in the past few weeks...

Needless to say, all this (along with some things that are too personal for me to share) has made me incredibly stressed, to the point where it actually affected my health. I've been having chest pains and shortness of breath for the past week or so, but after having that checked they didn't seem to find anything yet. Hopefully it's just anxiety and not an actual serious condition. The fact that I started drinking again probably doesn't help.

Due to all that I haven't been able to draw at all, but now that I've calmed down somewhat I'm trying to get back in shape. And since I've ran out of money that I was able to save up during previous months, I'm gonna hope that card payments will work fine and that I'll be able to convince people to give that payment method a chance. Until then, I'll try to stay afloat somehow and get back to drawing.