Back in my day when you saw a blog post titled "Life Update" it meant OP was going on an indefinite hiatus. This is not that.
In January I got a job and moved back to Japan. It's actually hilarious to me how I used to think, no matter how much you related to Yuzubara, it was impossible to be truly like them while stanning them because obsessing over characters is antithetical to what they are: Workaholics. I guess I'm proud to say I have become as much of a workaholic as my beloveds. Realistically, I have plenty of time to draw about as much as I did in 2020 while taking university classes from my bedroom. But here's the thing: I'm enyojing working and being in the office about as much as I enjoy drawing Yuzubara and that feels insane to me. Even when I was enjoying being a student once I got out of K12, I never enjoyed studying so I always assumed I didn't enjoy putting much work into things (tbh, I always half-ass my Yuzubara drawings too). Nope, it turns out I was just made to work in an office setting. I'm absolutely thriving not only doing the actual work I'm given (which is making data analysis programs, super satisfying work) but I'm also killing it at office politics? I'm simultaneously getting stellar feedback from my superiors and beefing with my peers and coming out on top. The Yuzubara Emissary is enjoying thinly veiled verbal fights in the office... this is my final form.
But I still tell myself Yuzubara stories to sleep and keep randomly having drawing ideas. Not to mention my Welcome Back Dear Moment MV has been a WIP for over a year and it weighs on my Yuzubara heart to still not having shared that vision with the world.
Ultimately, my point is that Yuzubara still continues to plague my brain, I'm constantly thinking about new scenarios I want to explore with them and new kink realism I want to depict them in. It's just that I have become too much like what I stan and that made my art output plummet. It's been 3 months since I started working and in that time I finished only 1 drawing and I didn't feel the urgency upload it.
I really want to try finishing my WBDM video this year though... So please look forward to my future Yuzubaras but maybe like, check back once every 3 months lol. 2024 truly was a godly year for Yuzubara output with 170+ drawings and I don't think I will match that ever again but honestly, I think it's better that I don't match it. Yuzubara would want me to further my career.
Until I feel like updating the Citrus Fields again,
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~ Yuzubara Emissary
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