An update from while I’m on break! I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I’m really feeling more of my energy coming back, and I’m getting ready to get back to work. I’ve had a decent rest despite all the work of late, and that’s good.
The bad news is that I may have a hole. In my eardrum. I’m pretty sure there’s a perforation there, and that sucks. It’s not infected or anything, but it does hurt a bit, and it’ll take a long time to heal. Here’s hoping it’s nothing worse, but I hate stuff like that.
Just a few nicks and dings you can’t avoid sometimes, but cuts on the flesh heal a lot faster than the internal stuff, sadly. I suspect it was from using earplugs which is crazy, but the vacuum can apparently just burst an eardrum if you’re not careful. The more you know?
What a bummer there, but as debilitating-incidents go, it’s pretty low on the pirateaba incident meter. I finally caught COVID during a trip to Iceland (did I ever write about that? I forget), and that was the nastiest illness I’ve had in like ten years due to a fever and stuff. So here’s hoping in a month or two this is all healed and I don’t even recall the issue.
Onto the comic! This is what I’d call a ‘common’ scene in Ailendamus for a given value; mysterious trainers showing up and improving an already-impressive kingdom. Enuryn, as always, does great work, and I hope it captures the nuance of the fight…even if all of the [Knights] were definitely taking it too easy, aside from maybe our Hydra Knight.
I re-listened to Huntsong and Ghostsong over my break, which you’d think would be hard, but Andrea’s performance and time has really helped me ‘forget’ how it felt to read. I feel even readier to write the final installment in the Singer of Terandria series, but it’ll be a battle—whenever that moment comes, I’ll let you know, but I do think the audiobook is just a wonderful experience.
That’s all from me for now. Stay safe with your eardrums and hope you’re doing well; I’ll be back to work for Christmas before my huge break in January. Hoping for exciting and fun stuff this month, but we shall see.
—pirateaba
PS: Colors are down on the site and I’m aware of other bugs we’re having the webdevs fix. Thanks for your understanding!
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