Where Have They Been?

So...it's been a while. And I don't really have good news to share, but it's been so long that I felt like saying NOTHING wasn't an option.

So, the worst of the bad news first: Indistinguishable will be losing its web hosting in May, and I don't have the money to afford a new host right away. I'm going to work on uploading the rest of the archive to Fables and Webtoon, but doing so does mean losing a lot of the stuff like blog posts, comments, and stuff like that. If I can get a good backup of the entire site before that happens, I will try to have it back up as soon as I can find affordable hosting, but the comic is still in hiatus, so...I can't commit to spending that much money on it right now.

The past few months have been so extremely chaotic on my end, that I genuinely don't know where to start explaining why the hiatus has gone on so long. Since the end of Chapter 06, I have lost my job, and still not found a new one. Normally, this would be a massive boon for my creative energy, with all that extra free time, and it has been! Just...in a different direction.

Let me tell you about a little movie called K-pop Demon Hunters...

Actually, let's not go down that rabbit hole. If you've seen the movie, you probably get it. I'm deep in those trenches still. If you've been following my social media at all, you know that that's pretty much all I've been doing for months now, is writing polytrix fanfiction. Writing it reignited my love of writing in a way that I had nearly forgotten. Just putting words down is an electrifying feeling. But yeah. That's where I've been. In the polytrix trenches. I've met two new partners that I've started dating in the past few months through the community as well, so...it's always going to be where a big part of me lives.

Indistinguishable, as much as I love its characters and story...has been a labor to create. On the technical side, I spent far too much time on each update, battling my computer and the 3d software I use more than expressing any creative energy. It was exhausting, more than I can express.

Notice how I used the past tense there?

Yeah, the 3d comic is over. Same with Virtuex Guardians, though I don't think anyone is too broken up by that. I think 3d/Daz comics have their purpose, and I made use of the software for many years, spending oh so much money on assets for it. But the software is ill-suited for what I wanted to do with the story, and I had to constrain and alter my vision multiple times in order to make it work on a technical level.

I have no intentions of ending the story, though. Just changing the format. Writing again has been just an incredible feeling, and I'm embracing it. To that end, my current plan is to work on rewriting Indistinguishable as a novel (or series of novels) and publishing it. This will give me the opportunity to rewrite and expand on some of the early bits of the story, a project I'd been wanting to undertake for a while now. I don't have a timeframe for when I'll be starting on this, much less on when it'll actually come out, but that is my current plan.

The comic as it exists now will remain publicly archived in some form or another. If you'd like to know what I'm doing, or get notified of future Indistinguishable updates, be sure to follow my Bluesky, and if you'd like to see what I've been writing, it's all on my AO3.

Thanks for sticking around for so long, and I'm sorry that I don't have better news for you all <3 I'm so thankful for those of you who have stuck around! I wish Jade and Claire were coming back to you under better circumstances. However, I don't see this as an ending, but as the beginning of an even bigger and better chapter in their story!