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To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure.

As the saying goes, "Never say never", but it would be pretty poetic if our final prompt was the one I posted on our seven year anniversary, don't you think?

As I mentioned in our “End of an Era” post, there have been many factors that ultimately made me decide to wind things down here, but in light of almost all the major horrible global events this year, on a personal level I’ve been feeling pretty burnt out. Before crap really hit the fan, I was just starting to piece together an idea for one final hurrah for the blog / community, but 2020 happened and Terrible Global Events definitely left an impact on me. (Also the tumblr update around that time completely busted my dashboard, so I couldn’t even do my quick art queue-ing that I typically do for GHQ. Even after xkit found a fix for it, I never really got that energy back, which is another reason why things have been pretty dead here).

All in all, I guess it comes down to a of lack of time and energy. I don’t like sharing too many personal things on this blog because this isn’t a personal blog and frankly I’m a private person, but I’m currently working three jobs so that also doesn’t leave me with much time for this blog, let alone myself.

Re: the question of the “Body horror” tag on posts.

Not all fusions are labeled this way (sometimes we add that tag on regular gem posts too). Steven Universe did depict a variety of designs with their fusions, so typically gems / fusions sharing similar features don’t need the warning tag since it’s not new and people who are familiar with the show shouldn’t be too surprised by it (though there are exceptions to this norm). Ultimately, the “Body Horror” warning tag is used at our discretion or when people specifically ask for something to be tagged, so occasionally we use that as a blanket tag.