Greetings, morsels!

Hey there!

I've been a little behind on commissions the past few weeks, and I apologize for any delays - Wanted to let anyone who is waiting on a comm from me know that I'm still working on it, it just may take a bit more time (And I know how hard it is to wait for commissions, trust me!!). I also wanted to give you all a little context as to where the delays are coming from.

There are a few reasons. First, I was just recently diagnosed with PCOS (I'm a woman IRL for anyone who doesn't know), and since my mother died from ovarian cancer when I was in high school, I need to watch it very closely and make some drastic changes to my health habits to minimize the risks, the most important being that I really need to lose some weight. I've been on a high dose of Zepbound which, to put it bluntly, is really fucking up my guts and making me feel Not Great™ all the time. I've also had to have a lot of recent doctor's appointments, not just for the PCOS, but for other chronic health issues as well (sciatica, etc.) So those have interrupted my schedule a bit. But I'm glad to say I have been losing weight, and hopefully on the other end of this I come out feeling better health-wise and also maybe feeling better about my self image--though health is my priority.

And then there's the other reason. The inspiration bug has hit, and I've had to take advantage of it and begin my own little personal project. It's not dominating my time, but I'm trying to put at least some time toward it throughout the week.
Some of you may know I'm very into D&D. I've been playing for well over a decade now, since around the time 5e came out, and I've been DMing for almost as long. Almost nine years ago, I started my first serious homebrew campaign--It started small at first, but over time I added so much to my homebrew world that it could easily be its own campaign setting. And that's what I'm setting out to do.
After almost nine years, my party is preparing for the final boss, and I've been getting sentimental about all the time and character I've put into my setting. So I've been working on compiling my campaign notes and writing out an actual setting book, akin to the Forgotten Realms' Sword Coast guide, Critical Role's guides to Tal'Dorei and Wildemount, the Delver's Guide to Beast World and so on. Now, I'm going to see how far my attention span takes me; I don't know how far I'll end up getting with it but my hope is to eventually publish it for free use online, or if enough people end up being interested, perhaps start a fundraising project to get it properly published. I'm also looking at turning the campaign I've been running into a playable module.
Up until now I've mostly been taking speech-to-text notes while I'm at work or working on commissions, but now I've got basically a full outline for the book and am starting to actually flesh out each chapter. That I obviously can't do while I'm doing other things, so I've been trying to devote either 1-2 hours after commissions each day to it or just designate a weekday to focusing on it.

I used to love writing, in fact, right after high school I was actively writing a fantasy book and devoting almost all my spare time to it, but then adult life and depression hit and I couldn't bring myself to write and actually enjoy writing for a very long time. Now that I have this urge, I need to take advantage of it.

Like I said, I'm not sure how far I'll actually go with this project, but we'll see how it unfolds, and if it does become something usable, I will definitely post about it here. I know it's not really related to my furry work, but if you do have any interest at all, please do let me know in a comment, it would very much help to motivate me!

So again, I do apologize for any commission delays. That being said, I AM still open for commissions and definitely need the work, my queue just may be a little longer than usual! I'm going to be taking the next few weeks to lock in and catch up.

Thank you all so much for your support and for reading to this point if you're still here c:

Lots of love,
~Grey