It's been a while since I've made any sort of update. So hi. This year has been a bad year for me creatively. At the end of last year, I was swearing to myself that I would try and write and draw more. But then, around November, my computer broke down while having a small issue fixed., and the repair shop I took it to dragged out the process of repairing it for like three months, until they finally just gave me a refurbished better laptop to make it up to me. Once I got it back part way into this year, I just sort of never really got that creative drive back. I've done a few small projects here and there, and I've had so many ideas, but I never got around to working on anything major. The advent of AI art and writing did not help. I am ashamed to say I've had multiple phases of becoming addicted to it over the past year, especially in the realm of chatbots, something I'm still trying to break myself of. The instant gratification of having AI make my ideas into reality further cut