Here is how things will work from now on.
Unjust Depths: When inspiration strikes I will be working at my own pace up to the end "The Past Will Come Back As A Tidal Wave". When I have enough stuff prepared I will serialize it weekly as a kind of "season" of Unjust Depths. Once we get to the end of Arc 3, I will do the same work on the Intermission and then Arc 4, and so on. Basically, I don't see much of a point in releasing like, one chapter every whenever with months of nothing in between. I'll make a few and then I'll serialize them. I'll work on Unjust Depths when I want to. Honestly part of me is conflicted because I wish I could just delete a bunch of Arc 3 and start over, but that also includes parts people like a lot, so I'm just going to live with the mess I've made as best as I can for now.
New Project: I started writing and have gotten a few chapters into a project with a fantasy aesthetic set partly in a fictionalized pannonian plain. I haven't always been the biggest fan of fantasy and I wanted to make a fantasy that I myself would really like to read, with themes and aesthetics I care about and enjoy but still rooted in an evident context that I felt is missing from a lot of pop fantasy-- the same thing that happened with Unjust Depths essentially. I've been more energized with this project and I've been having fun writing it. What I'll try to do with it is kind of release it like, "Light Novel" style-- I'll write volumes of 7-8 chapters and put out an epub when I'm done. A select group of beta readers will read it with me to help me catch problems and to keep me motivated. Probably this one will not be serialized but maybe I can be convinced to make a web version if people really prefer that.
Anthology: In general, I want to be open to working on more and different writing projects. I might try to write a few more one-volume weird fiction works in different genres. Unjust Depths became kind of a cage for my creativity and over the course of working on it I've developed interests in other things that I want to satisfy. Anything I make I will probably release as simple epubs on the website. Or maybe even here even! I don't know. I'm still thinking about it. (By the way I've had people volunteer to make covers or whatever for my things-- I don't want to work with anyone unless we are friends and I trust you. I appreciate wanting to help me in this capacity but I know too many ways that having volunteer labor can fall apart and leave me in a bad situation. Not to mention that you should be working for proper compensation for your labor, not doing things for free for a stubborn grumpy bitch online. Please stop.)
Emergency Protocol: This is not a joke, but I also don't want to alarm anyone. I'm getting older, and my health hasn't been the best. Last year, I had several health problems that really limited how much I could work. I am still struggling to get spun up again. The world is a chaotic place that is only growing more so. I am realistic about how difficult the next few years will be for me, and I know many, many people will have it far, far more difficult than I will. I wanted to put this here just to acknowledge that. If my health takes a turn for the worse, and I feel that I may not have another chance, I will use what time I have left to work on a truncated version of Unjust Depths so people can see the progression of events and characters that I had planned and get an ending to the story. I believe that in a week or two if I just focused on it before my death, I can possibly complete this. Again, I want to reiterate that I'm not currently in any danger that I know of, but I've been struggling a lot and I wanted to say this for myself and also for anyone invested in my work. You'll get something.
I have been pretty depressed and my mind has been disordered in a lot of ways. Don't expect too much out of me in 2025. It's already going wrong.
By the way it's my birthday tomorrow. I'm turning thirty-six years old. I hate it here (here referring to being thirty six years old, but other things too).