In a week and a half, we'll have been here for 3 months. Adjusting has been great, largely without incident, but as I've settled in, certain stressors and responsibilities have started weighing me down again. Particularly, my Figura commissions. In 2024, I took commissions to create and edit custom Minecraft player models using the Figura mod. I did about 7 or 8 commissions, a few of which were private. The actual process of making each one was pretty engaging, even fun, and I made a decent amount of money. But then, my wrist problems got severe enough I had to close... and then all of 2025 happened, so I stayed closed. Then, once we arrived, I just... never opened up comms again. I never felt ready. I'll share why below. But I still have people adding me on Discord, asking for comms! Despite the fact it says I'm closed on the landing page, I've had something like a dozen more potential clients DM me to ask about comms. I'm flattered. I appreciate the attention, and I'm very happy to

Hi! This one's a break from the usual important life updates. Just some thoughts I've had swimming around in our head for a while that I want to share. Was showing a game to a friend when we saw a scene involving characters' feelings about their heritage. It of course had me wondering about where we came from. So here's some backstory and feelings about our family tree. (CW: discussions of family and forced bonds, emotional abuse, the usual) Extended family Sunny and I have had a complicated relationship with our extended family for as long as we can remember, and it's been pointed out several times to me by friends how unusual it is. There's several moving parts to why we felt and feel the way we do, that I want to put down in writing. Ever since Sunny was little, there's been this kind of... bubble. Sunny was heavily incentivized to close themself off and only associate with their immediate birth family. Their friendships were looked down on by their birth parents, and they were disa