(TLDR; Taking a break until August 7. Next HMNIY August 14.)

I am officially designating this week as a break week. I have spent the past month trying and struggling to produce content, just staring at blank pages and canvases with nothing coming out. I have been, in my own mind, an unproductive mess of a person. I've talked in previous posts about my mental health taking a decline due to summer, but I should be working harder to overcome it and be productive. I have not been doing enough, I have not been trying my best like I should. I have no one to blame but myself for this, and I'm going to endeavor to try harder than ever before. I've been lingering in unemployment hell due to the virus situation, and I need to just start applying for everything and hoping that something sticks. I'm tired of being at home and not being able to contribute or help my friends financially. On top of everything else, we got the news on July 27th that my great-grandma had been diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic & liver cancer. They told us she had three months left to live. Three days later, on July 30th, my great-grandmother passed away in her sleep.

With all this happening, I am taking a break from August 2nd to August 7th. I am not going to try to force myself to work on my projects. I am not going to spend every night agonizing over the fact that I'm unemployed. I am going to take this week to slow down, center myself, focus on mental health, feel emotions as they come, and just get my shit together. I am just going to let myself live and take things as they come for this week. However, it's not a real break week if I don't make some goals and resolutions to come out on once it's over. I am going to make goals, I'm going to follow through, and I'm gonna be a badass when I come back.

Goals for when I come back:
-EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT. I am going to apply to everything I can possibly do. I will get a job. I will make money. I will be able to help my friends when they need it. I will be able to contribute to the household I live in. I will make a consistent schedule for content production based on the schedule of the job. Until I gain employment, I will do the following schedule for content production.
-The next chapter of HMNIY will be posted on August 14th, and then follow a weekly upload schedule with chapters being posted on Fridays. The next chapter of HMNIY is a bonus chapter from the view of Pot Pie!
-I will continue working on the 'Ask the Greencave Yinglets' series, as well as start another ask series where people can ask about the wider lore of HMNIY + the other enclaves. If there are questions, one from each category will be answered and posted on a weekly basis (Wednesdays). You can find the Ask the Greencave Yinglets here if you'd like to question Tacci, Nurln, Bekki, or even the younglets! -> https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36360284/
-I will dig deeper into the lore and cultures in HMNIY through either lore posts or Vignelets chapters, posting on a weekly basis (Mondays).

Thank y'all for supporting me, my silly stories, and my content in general, and thank you if you understand that this break will be good for me. I hope you'll look forward to future content, and thank you, thank you again! If you read all the way to the bottom, check out these other artists for fun content:
 valsalia made Yinglets, which continue to bring happiness into my life no matter what.
 koof1313 is a true friend, and has one of the most expressive art styles I've ever seen.
 sir.sergal is a fantastic friend and person, and along with constantly slinging hilarious ideas at me, has had one of the fastest artistic growths I've seen!
 destrustor and I don't talk much, but their dreams are interesting and they make good things, both Yinglet and not!