Hey everybody,

I've been meaning to get around to writing this for some time. It's funny how writer's block (and working perhaps too many hours on a weird schedule) can stall even non-creative writing.

In case y'all haven't heard, I'm stepping down from most of my mod roles in this sub due to the time crunch I'll be dealing with when I start grad school in a couple of weeks. Between starting school again, working enough to keep myself fed and sheltered, studying Mandarin (我说汉语很很好！), and wanting to work on independent projects, I simply don't have the time to serve here in my current capacities, as much as I would like to say otherwise.

That said, I'm still going to remain a member of this community, staying in an advisory role on the mod team (read: some decisions are really tough to make and need more people to weigh in) and haunting Discord from time to time. I'm also declaiming as the Ashad/Hashas as I certainly won't have the time or energy to run a politically active state in Dawn. Depending on the intensity of my workload during the semester, I might set up a more isolated claim in the coming months.

As I said, I still intend to remain involved with this community; just don't be surprised if I disappear for a couple of days at a time (including next week when I go on a five-day road trip). I'll also post occasionally to detail the history of Ershutisharu from the March upon Asru-Kastava up to our present period, but I've decided it would be better to open up my land to new claims now than to take up space while I'm really just writing history.

Y'all are great people in general and hands-down one of the best internet communities I've ever had the privilege of participating in. Here's hoping my world will calm down somewhat and I'll be able to participate in a greater capacity. I do have big (albeit more realistic) plans should the opportunity arise.