Hey all. Sorry this isn’t an update, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to change soon, and I wish I could offer something more than just this pic.

Truth be told, ever since starting the webcomic, especially since the hiatus, I’ve always felt some level of guilt whenever I’ve drawn Pivot or Socket, as I felt like it should’ve been energy I saved for the webcomic. Hence, I rarely drew them outside of this comic, which I don’t think is a healthy way to handle your own creations.

This experience, while educational, has also really hammered into me how much webcomics are a blindspot for me. Managing them, from backgrounds, layout, dialog, to scriptwriting, is arduous and just stopped being enjoyable long before the hiatus started. The website layout and theme has also sucked since day one, which doesn’t make the process of reading or uploading very enjoyable. Maybe it would have been better to play to my strengths and just do an occasional animation involving the cast here and there to tell the stories I wanted. Maybe I should’ve asked for help, but the process of scouting reliable assistance can be just as much if not more work than just doing it myself.

And what’s more, that wouldn’t solve how frustrating my old writing has been to work around, and my pain points with comic design. I’ve written myself into a corner, and some plot points that I made when first starting out keep being brought up or prevent me from advancing the plot in a reasonable way. There’s a mess of holes and a tangle of threads. I’ve thought about, once again, scrapping the whole comic and starting over, and doing it cleaner, and in a way that doesn’t make me cringe as much. At this point that seems like a more reasonable way forward, but that’d also be so much work that I don’t want to bank on being worthwhile, nor does any part of me want to start.

Comics just aren’t usually fun for me to make. They’re not a media I typically like working in. I don’t know if I’m going to come out of this hiatus, to be honest.

I wish I had something a bit more encouraging to say for this holiday season. I appreciate all the readership you guys have given me; I managed to get fairly far, all things considered, at 152 updates. That I feel is something to be proud of, even if it stopped going in a direction I wanted. I hope that getting all this off my chest well help me feel a bit better about drawing these two again.

Thank you all for sticking with me. If you’re looking for the discord link, it’s on the previous update still.

-Zedrin

So, I’ve been trying to grapple with how to proceed here. This is getting posted to the comic itself, so it’ll appear when going to “newest page.” Assessing it, I really need to take a break.

I’ve hit a point of massive writer’s block. I know what I want to happen next, but I have no idea how to get there. What’s next story-wise is also kinda big so I have a lot planned for it, but the spot right now is clunky for me, at best.

I’ve also hit a form of deep-rooted burnout, not the obvious kind that can be solved with just a week off. So, in the interest of actually keeping things moving, I paradoxically need to put the comic updates on a hiatus for a bit.

I don’t know when things will come back, but I’ll be using the time to get some very much-needed tools prepared. (E.g., I’ve been finally getting back to working on 3D stuff, which I plan to use to assist my backgrounds. My backgrounds are one of my biggest weaknesses in art, and they’ve never matched the theme I wanted for this comic.) I’ll also be using the time to work on something huge for the next phase.

In the meantime, I have a Discord server, with a channel dedicated to the webcomic. It’s otherwise art and game oriented. If you’d like to join, click this link. Please observe the rules.

Additionally, if you want to subscribe to email announcements so you’ll be notified when the comic returns, I have a mailing list that notifies you on an update. You can sign up here:

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Thanks for sticking with me, everyone.

Collet and Gladys: BIG EXCITE

Socket: BIG EXCITE BUT ALSO PANICK

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Hey guys, May 28th as I’m writing this, won’t be an update on the 30th. I’ve hit some massive blocks art-wise and writer wise.

Plan is to release the next update on June 6th, but at worst it’ll come June 13th. Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter for an email when the next update drops.

Update 151!

Gladys has some ideas for living arrangements.

Look at how small this room is

this poor dog has to sit on a stool

Pivot ready to commit a violence (in minecraft)

Unrelated, for Easter only my store is having a 15% off sale! https://crowdmade.com/collections/zedrin

Rent sucks.

SPEAKING OF MONEY! I got some limited stuff available in my shop! Go check it out here.

Socket’s home, revealed!

…oh.

oh that’s not what ya’ll expected at all.

It’s cozy, at least…?

Hey all, adding in this note 3/10, I’m bloody exhausted so there’s not gonna be an update this coming week. It’ll be pushed back to next.

I’m sure her apartment can’t be THAT bad.

Just a friendly little reminder, if you like the comic and want to support it, but don’t wanna pledge to my Patreon, consider buying me a Ko-fi!

Also, for next update, and the next few updates, I may be trying a different method, and return to making my comics in my animation software. This might speed things up significantly for me, and allow me to work on animation assets simultaneously, so we’ll see how that goes. The first chapter of the comic (when it was single panels) was actually done in Flash.