H--hello! It's been a while, ey? First of all, please don't get too excited! The Pokejob is still a thing, and I have no idea how much time I'll have in the near future to draw more pages. But things are currently at a bit of a standstill with various stages of approval and other corporate funtimes, so I wanted to finally put out this dang page and at least canonize another MG's design haha. I can't say how many more pages I'll be able to do in the near future, but I Would love to at least finish this sequence if possible. Even if I end up finding someone else to take over the art, I would definitely want to draw the rest of this part myself for Reasons oohoohoo.

I also got a few questions from various people around the one year hiatus anniversary, and I'm sorry for not posting any other updates in the meantime! Things have been chugging along on the Pokemon front at Various Speeds, and it hasn't felt like there's been much to update about. Dad did pass away in July last year, and so all of that is at least behind me now. (Please no condolences, as it was the end of a very traumatic five years and things are much better now. But I'm definitely glad I was on hiatus already for all of that going down.)

Hiveworks also went through... a lot... that you might or might not have seen on social media. I'm still with them for now for convenience, and they no longer owe me loan money. But the store is currently down and I have no idea when it will be back up, and I'll probably end up moving to hosting myself when I have the spoons to do so. It's just been a kinda background bonus fiasco for the last couple years, lol.

In general everything is okay atm, but a little bit up in the air in terms of how busy I'll be over the next several months. I may have time to draw more pages, or I may suddenly have no time at all ^^;; But in the meantime, here's some kind of loser with a bow at least!

Heyyyyy.

So uh remember how I mentioned that I'm doing some contract work for Pokemon? Well it's currently at a stage in the process where I'm able to work on it as much as I'm available to. After struggling over it mentally, I realized that I really should just take a formal hiatus from Webcomic Stuff in order to focus on this. It's seriously been an amazing opportunity and experience so far, and I want to make sure I do my absolute best on it. Everyone I've been working with is super cool and nice too, and I want to use my max power to help this project get approved and succeed >:0 Those who hang out in my vtuber streams know my tendency to ADHD hyperfixate, and right now that Hyperfixation is on a job that also happens to make me da money. What a concept! It's exciting stuff, and I realized I could be Enjoying It rather than constantly fighting myself about which thing to work on.

On a less fun but related note, dad's ALS has progressed to the point where he's finally on Hospice. I don't think it's going to be long now, which I promise is good for everyone at this stage unfortunately. I always assumed I'd be taking a bit of a hiatus once that happened to help my mom sort out a bunch of stuff, so in a way this is just starting that a little early.

I can't say exactly how long this hiatus will be, but it'll be a few months. I'll make sure Patreon billing is paused until we're back in action, for all you crazy generous and patient people who happen to be on that. I think in the end this will be good for SD too, where I can come back to drawing it on my own terms rather than in my perpetual burnout state I've been in for a while >< I also need to clear out my email inbox during this time, and I'm so sorry to anyone who's emailed me in the last... year... that I haven't gotten back to. It's one of the top of my To Do List items for this hiatus.

Thank you as always for your support, understanding, patience, and just generally being an amazing group of readers. SD will continue, even if other shit wilds out and I go Full Time Pokiemans and have to get someone else to do all the art >;0 But we're definitely not there yet haha. WE WILL RETURN.

This page penciled by Krekalie! You can check her out on vgen or bluesky!

This page penciled by Krekalie! You can check her out on vgen or bluesky!

This page penciled by Krekalie! You can check her out on vgen or bluesky!