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

I do not have a Christmas update unfortunately.

I’ve been super busy lately. I was feeling a lot of burnout when I went on hiatus from the last update, I needed to desperately get another project done (that’s going up on Newgrounds today too), and a friend came out to visit so I was busy with her for a while.

But, I still wanted to do something.

If you’re interested in getting these as stickers, they’re available on my Redbubble store!

IT WAS A JAPE ALL ALONG!

To be fair, it didn’t have as much impact here as I don’t have a way to totally and temporarily overhaul the site to allow for it, and WordPress isn’t as interactive as Tumblr. (Askblogs are largely a tumblr-centric thing)

But, for those who visited, I hope it was fun. That ends this cross-dimensional crossover

Happy April Fools everybody!

PV02 will be back with a new update tomorrow!

If you wanna see all the April Fools Day shenanigans you might’ve missed, you can check them out at https://potionsbycesil.tumblr.com/

Hey guys, I’m announcing the end of this comic. I want to start a new one, an askblog about another character of mine named Cesil! She’s an arachne.

You can follow along and send her questions at http://potionsbycesil.tumblr.com/

I’ll be leaving this site up for archive purposes for anyone who wants to still read the the comic, as well as for people to fruitlessly check back every now and then to see if it’ll ever start updating again (which it won’t, I’ll be MUCH too busy drawing Cesil).