Hey everyone. As you all have noticed by now, it's been over three years since I last updated the comic. Like so many webcomics, life just got in the way and keeping going wasn't sustainable anymore. To be more blunt, I burned out. I used to live and breathe making this comic, and after years of fighting to keep up, I just couldn't anymore. As I mentioned in my last few posts on here, I got sick. Bedbound for two months, barely able to keep myself fed, constantly in pain and exhausted sick. When I finally recovered enough to start working again, the idea of going back to making the Weave was enough to make me cry. I had pushed so hard and so long to make this comic that there just wasn't anything left in the tank.
And then, I got lucky. Despite it being 10 months into a global pandemic, I found a new job that let me keep making art while actually paying me enough to not only keep a roof over my head, but to rest and recover from working myself deeper and deeper into the hole I had dug myself. But if I was going to do that, I had to let go. I had to let the Weave end.
It was the last thing I wanted. It was something I had told myself over and over again that, I would never do, that I would keep fighting to tell this story until it was truly finished, but I just couldn't. And I was so, so ashamed of it. I know a lot of you have wondered where I went, and why I never posted anymore, and the answer is simple: I was embarrassed. I felt like I was letting myself down, and that I had lost my entire identity. Without the Weave, who was I? Even more so, I felt like I had let all of you down. Every one of you who read my comic meant the world to me, and here I was, giving up. Disappointing you. I couldn't handle that, and with every day that passed, my silence just grew louder. I was more and more paralyzed by the fact that I couldn't admit to all of you that I had needed to move on, and that my heart just wasn't in comics anymore. So the silence grew, and eventually years passed.
I don't want to stay silent anymore. I don't want to keep feeling a pit of anxiety in my stomach whenever I think about posting. I want to forgive myself, and move on, and make new things. So, here it is: The Weave, as it was, is over. I don't plan on making any new pages. I want to finish the story eventually, but I don't know when that will be or what it'll look like, but I want to be able to look back on the Weave and feel proud of what I've made, even if it didn't turn out how I wanted. I want to keep telling stories and making art, but at my own pace and in a way that is sustainable and makes me happy. I don't know what's next, but I'm so grateful to everyone of you for having been part of my journey.
Thank you, everyone.
You can follow me and my work going forward at:
https://bsky.app/profile/businesskitty.bsky.social
https://www.tumblr.com/businesskitty