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Many incredible artists have created fanart of various scenes in the sunshine au. I've collected all the fanart pieces I could find (with artist permission) into an Ao3 work so that all the fanart for the sunshine au is in one place.

It's up on Ao3 here, and all sunshine au fanart (including pieces where I wasn't able to get a hold of the artist/the artist didn't want it reposted) is on my blog under the tag "sunshine au fanart".

Please go check it out the collection on Ao3 and the rest of the artists' work! And if there's any art out there that I missed, please let me know! I love seeing all the incredible art people do of my au!

Artists below the cut

Now the actual amount of time I'm spending at work will go back down closer to what it was last Fall. Basically how my schedule works going forward is I have to meet a certain number of hours, but I get to pick and choose what those hours are. (It's actually a bit more complicated than this, but this is the ten second summary).

It's such a relief to have actual free time back. I'm missed my hobbies. I've been working through my drafts and I think I'm finally getting my writing mojo back!

I've been working pretty much non stop and it has left me no time/energy to write. I had to prioritize my mental health at the expense of cutting back on a lot of the hobbies I enjoy.

Good news, in February the numbers of hours I'm working should go down and I'll be able to start writing at a regular pace again.

Until then , I will be sporadically working on my writing when I can. I'll post another status update on February 3rd once I'm more sure of what my schedule will be like.

So yeah, unfortunately the next update of BDAD will be delayed until later in the week.

Between Daylight and Darkness is by far my longest project, regular progress with this story is one of my top priorities. It will be updated every four weeks on Tuesday, next update date March 17.

I've also got this year's Halloween special planned out, it's going to be Halloween in the timeline of the main sunshine au (I did an au of an au of sorts Halloween fic a while back). And I don't want to fall into the same trap with Halloween stories that I have in the past, where I run out of time and end up scrambling. So I'm going to start drafting and working on this story now and post it in October.

For those of you interested, I've also started writing for Haunted Hotel. The stories I have planned are much shorter and fully planned out, so any Haunted Hotel fics will be posted as finished, with no set update schedule.

Lastly, Algea, my Owl House fic. This fic is just as much of a long term project as BDAD, and the way I prefer to tackle long term projects is to chip away at them with regular updates, a marathon and not a sprint. But I've fallen behind on drafting for this fic, and my focus got pulled to other projects. With all the other fics I've got planned doing regularly scheduled updates on two fics would be too much. So I've decided to put this fic on hiatus until November of this year, when the Halloween special is finished and hopefully my Haunted Hotel fics are finished or fully drafted. I'll still draft and edit this fic in the mean time, but there will be no updates until November.

After months of experimenting and trying different recipes I've finally developed the formula for the perfect hot chocolate. As in it is so chocolatey your spoon will be standing up straight. Because this is too good not to be shared I'll list it below.

2/3 cup whole milk

3 heaping tbsp semi sweet chocolate chips

2 tsp dutch process cocoa powder

1 tsp sugar

1/8 tsp vanilla

small pinch salt

Heat in a saucepan over medium low heat, whisking until chocolate is melted and mixture is homogeneous. Serve in an espresso cup topped with whipped cream or a single marshmallow.

Serves one.