Delayed Sticker Poll Post + End of the Year Notice (TW serious life talk)

Hi everyone and happy new year! I hope you're all having a good New Year's eve to help kickstart 2026, wherever you might be.

I do come with some unfortunate news and some pretty personal and serious life talk. This post will contain mentions of some serious physical and mental health issues, so if you are sensitive to that, please do not read any further past the first point.

First off, I am going to have to delay the sticker poll post for December for an indefinite amount of time. I have been unable to draw any new designs and while I could offer re-runs from this year's selections, I genuinely have not had the energy to put together a proper show-post.

Second, I will need to be clearly honest with you. I have not had a good year, and I have been mentally struggling since sometime before the summer. I have a close family member who has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, the same condition that killed my dad, and have since been handling some of his finances since he is no longer able to work.

My memory issues have been acting up, I'm feeling incredibly stuck and alone, and reaching out for help is not exactly an option in most cases. I've started medication, but it could not work fast enough. My country is also increasingly fascist. I have been feeling stressed and passively suicidal for increasingly half a year.

January 3rd is the anniversary date of my father's death, which is a date that I get increasingly worse around. Normally, I try to take off January from patreon in order to take time for myself, but that is not something I can reasonably afford to do this year, which is why I'm making this post. I'd appreciate if this was kept here and not spread to other sites like tumblr/ect , as I'm making this purely for explaining to paying patrons.

I'm currently unable to do the amount of workload that I was able to do previously with art and writing. I still want to do these things, but I wanted to explain why posts here and elsewhere are increasingly getting more distant. I cannot afford to take pause Patreon for mental health breaks like how I could in previous years right now, so please take this as a warning to unpledge if a longer wait time for content is not something you'd like to wait on.

I apologize for such a unpleasant post, so to focus on the more positive things; im so very glad you've all supported me to now, I enjoyed writing the fanfics and fanart.

I hope you all have a Happy New Year for 2026 ~