**this game is really special to me, and on a day like today it’s extra special. It’s the first real snowfall here in my part of the world (Detroit), and every year on this day I put on the first level of the Scott Pilgrim game and rock out to Anamanaguchi’s Another Winter. The streets of Toronto (both in real life and as depicted in the game) are incredibly familiar, similar to the streets from my memories of Detroit, Grand Rapids, and every other Midwest town I’ve been to in my life. Winter is bittersweet for most of us but as I’ve gotten older, I appreciate it more and more.**
Ough... for starters, thank you all for your kind words and concerns. Yeah, I'm still kicking. I dunno about 'okay' necessarily, but I'd say I'm at least doing better? A lot has happened, though.
Went to college for a bit. Didn't really go that well, but at least I learned some stuff. Been struggling with my mental health a lot, though have been on antidepressants for a bit now which seem to be helping.
Chapters 3 & 4 were cool, but I won't like that they did burn out my passion for writing AW a little. Not forever, but it definitely made me second guess how I should go about stuff-- and pair that with unspoken hiatuses and guilt for providing a lack of updates... well, you kinda end up trapping yourself in a loop of perpetual self-loathing.
And as for Another Winter itself...
Hiatus
I certainly plan on continuing, even if I'm pretty worried that I've lost my touch and grasp on characterization... And also that I totally got my Chapter predictions wrong (predicted Flower King one Chapter early...), yet, I have GOT to get my Chapter 5 take out before Tricky Tony.
The good news, though, is that Post-Flowerfell should go quite smoothly for a while, given that Chapter 4 (which will be my Chapter 5) is going to be the Church, which is already fully fleshed out. Obviously I'm going to have a few of my own takes, and it will be far from a carbon copy-- but it will certainly help production time.
I'm not going to promise Weekly Chapter Updates (though I'll try to be more active on Tumblr moving forward) or anything like that this time around, since failing to meet those standards I set for myself is part of what contributed into that bad loop I was stuck in.
At the very least, I'll be shooting for 1-2 Chapter Updates a month (ignoring breaks, which I will likely end up taking to avoid burnout in the future). Of course, I might put out more chapters than that, but this is just a more lenient set of standards I'm setting for myself, since I do still have other stuff going on.
So, expect more updates soon, but there is one more matter I'd like to bring up.
GoFundMe
I want to ask for some help on the behalf of my partner. One of the biggest motivations to get over myself and try to commit to writing again was in an effort to help them; so that I could reach out to more people in hopes that they could get more support.
Their circumstances aren't as pressing currently, but they are still pretty bad, and I want to help them all I can. If you can't donate, that's perfectly fine, but even just sharing this around would be a big help.
I have put myself and my mother in some financial trouble, and I’m worr… Nugget Boi needs your support for Help Us Keep Our Home and Cove
