#dbamc

There was more than only one factor that led me to the hiatus.

First of all: time. I graduated in 2019 from Language Arts course, but back in 2021 I started another course (Game Design), and I also got a job in 2022… So for the past 1 year and a half or so, I've been not only studying again, but working too, meaning that time has become scarce… And here I need to mention that DBAMC is not my only creative project, even though it is one of the only projects I ever managed to actually "put out there in the world", I guess… But with all the games I'd like to make, all the unfinished fanfictions in my AO3 (Including the DBAMC one!), all the other comics I still want to create (fancomics and original projects), drawings I still want to make, RPG campaings I'm playing (with sessions that I owe my friends), yada yada, DBAMC has become only one of thousands of things "in line", and yet another project that I keep thinking of and wishing to some day finish. Specially because the little free time I've got, at the end of the day, always ends up being consumed by playing Baldur's Gate or watching Youtube, simply because I'm too tired to produce actual content after a whole week of work (that's modern capitalism for you)…

All that aside, there are emotional factors related to it as well. (Sad Backstory Unlocked).

Jokes apart, I lost a dear relative around the time Legends Arceus was first around, and it was a difficult period for me, meaning I found it hard to keep up with the Pokémon franchise (and any other franchises to be fair). Pokémon released Legends, the Sinnoh remake, DLCs, and in the middle of all that I was still trying to successfully incorporate the characters from SwSh into my comics... I had no time and energy to look up the new content, couldn't play the games since I don't have a Switch, and just ended up stressed abouot not knowing the new content, thinking I should be working on it to keep up with the fandom for the sake of the comics - Now, I want to clarify, I created this problem myself, in my head, on my own (as one with anxiety does). No one from my followers ever pressured me to keep up with releases or anything, but I ended up turning it into a problem in my head and couldn't tackle it in a productive manner.

The fact that now ScaVio has also launched and I still haven't even touched anything from Legends or even the SwSh DLCs should explain how much I distanced myself from the new Pokémon content ever since, in part due to bad emotional associations with the loss I experienced, but also due to not liking how GameFreak / Nintendo have been managing the development of their games recently, AND also due to simple lack of time to go after anything other than "let me take a look at the new pokémon" (Tinkaton is my favorite Fairy Type ever, just in case anyone is interested).

Thing is, I couldn't keep up with the new content, as much as I love Pokémon and as much as I love all the content up to SwSh. The fact I couldn't keep up led to my anxiety acting up (plus emotional difficulties due to personal life stuff), leading to me deciding to take a break. Lack of time in general ended up becoming the main reason why the break hasn't ended yet, unfortunately.

So, all the context aside, am I gonna get back working on DBAMC content?

The short answer is: I don't know. I want to, but I don't know if I'll manage. I do want to do it, eventually.

I still have no idea when I'll be able to work on comics again, being 100% honest. But there are two things I can tell:

First, it's not gonna happen before July 2024, because that's when I'm expecting to finish my graduation project. I'll still have to finish one or maybe more disciplines after that, but the most difficult part should be over by the middle of next year... Still, this is not a promise DBAMC will be back after I finish college. I'm just saying that it will certainly not happen before that.

Second is that, whenever I manage to get back, I have decided that I will not incorporate newer content in the comics, at least not so soon. This has to do with the reasons cited above, of course, but also has to do with all the complicated "logistics" that adding new characters to comics turned out to be (incorporating Rose and Piers was a lot harder than I expected, since I had to re-write and change already written scripts and change the order of comics and etc... I won't be able to do that again with even newer characters).

All that said, I have at least ONE good thing to say: I've been revisiting my written content in AO3, wanting to get back writing some projects, and that includes the prequel I wrote to my DBAMC comics! I've been wanting to at least publish the last two chapters so that the story can be complete! So this is something I am planning to do in January, if everything works out. :)

I understand that it's definitely not the news any old follower of the blog expected... But it's what I can do for now...

If you read everything... Wow. Thank you!

No really, that’s not all, sorry, let me explain:

I’m dumb.

AND...

I got into college again! :D I started studying Video Game Design! So that’s one of the reasons why I’ve been gone for so long in fact! I was uh... very severly busy for a while there! haha! But hey, wow I’m enjoying that so much! I’m loving the course so far! Me and my group already made a first game (we’ll make one each semester on the first one or two years... Then on the last year we work on a larger one that is the graduation project) and wow that was wild, so much work but also such a great experience! ^^

The other reason why I was gone is because I’m dumb, really, like, I just stopped posting and then I started getting anxious about not posting and entered Avoidance Mode where I get like “I have to do this so bad that I won’t do it because it’s been to long and I messed up” - hard to explain. It’s as if.... as if I thought “oh wow, I haven’t spoken to Greg in a while, I should speak with him.... But hey he’s probably mad I haven’t spoken to him in such a long time so I won’t speak to him because I’m scared of his reaction” <- This same principle, but applied to like, more abstract things like posting on tumblr and such. I got into that mode.

OH. I forgot, I had also started working on a different personal project that was mostly taking over all my brain fuel so that also drove me away from the blog for a few months before I entered college! (Still want to get back to that project too, because after getting into college I stopped working on it as well - listen, I have trouble handling more than one thing at a time).

ANYWAY, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get back posting COMICS just yet, and I don’t know how long it will be until I get back to making them.... BUT I do wanna get back to some of the things that I left unfinished here: The story at AO3 about how they villains met, which I still have to finish, and the asks i left unanswered in my inbox for like a whole year (I’M. SO SORRY. THAT WAS LAME OF ME, SORRY).

I’m hoping I’ll be a bit more active from now on! But do consider that comics production is still halted for a... uh... unknown amount of time! Hope you all understand!