Shadows hide you

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Hello all! I come to you today with a brief post about my hiatus, and what's happened in the nearly six months since then.

I first would like to apologize for pulling out of RatsSMP so suddenly, it was never the plan, but life circumstances demanded that I focus my attention elsewhere, and I no longer felt comfortable with my opening sequence. I secondly would like to apologize for mostly disappearing. Those who remained in the Discord server were able to make the transition over into the new era, but I left most of you in the dark, and that also was never the plan for the rebrand to my new username. It was meant to be a seamless transition sometime in the new year, username changes instead of new accounts, but I felt it more productive at the time to wipe the slate clean and start over. I managed to clear most of my follower count on Twitch, and restarted on new accounts across X, BlueSky, Tumblr, and TikTok. I don't fully regret this decision, but I do wish I had been more prudent in how I communicated all of this to my community, as so many of you were lost to the scattered skies.

I have rebranded under the username @reisaval across most platforms. I no longer go by Will. You are welcome to follow me under this new name, but things are quite different now. I, myself, am different. There have been good things, such as new and wonderful friends in my life who have been my rock throughout all of this, and I've gotten top surgery, the recovery of which went spectacularly. But with each rose, comes thorns, and I am now finding myself in quite a mess, as I obliterated my regular income with these decisions and the job market has been proving insufficient, and I have several medical bills from the surgery and tax season is upon us. I know it is unfair to ask, especially after vanishing for so long, but anything you can spare as a tip to my Ko-Fi would be immeasurably helpful, and I have also re-listed the older Rats Merch on my old shop in case anyone would like to pick that up.

I never wanted to ask for help in this way, but circumstances demand I reach out. I appreciate every one of you, and I'm so sorry that I have made these errors over the past few months. This was not the plan that I had in place for any of this.

The reason this horse won is A) this jockey, Sonny Leon, knew his horse incredibly well. He’s a late start stallion, which means he holds his pace until last possible second, then starts moving up when others stop running. Leon knew this and just got out of his way and let Rich Strike do his thing. B) most of the jockeys in the Kentucky Derby want an early start to get the best position, so they push them hard out of the gate. The problem with this is that those horses run out of gas very quickly, so it’s a huge gamble for which is going to hold the winning position for how long.

When the leads stopped running, AKA giving it their all, Leon saw his chance for this horse and let him do exactly what he always does: overtake anything and everything in the last furlong and throw caution to the wind.

https://roguish-lupine.tumblr.com/post/182589052577/dogs-machina-featuring-percival-de-rolo-iii link to the original on my page