So, I don’t know if anyone even remembers me here, but it’s been eating me up for a while so I wanted to apologize just to get it off my chest.

Last December, I made this post to the forums. I had just caught COVID for the first time (and a particularly brutal variant at that, the XPV variant) while on vacation with my family and was completely miserable. A few people commented on it in support. After another day, my symptoms got significantly worse, so I stopped posting altogether, basically only logging in on my phone once or twice to collect things. I eventually recovered a few days after Christmas and suffered no long-term complications—but since then, I have not posted here at all.

The past few months IRL have been busy and somewhat difficult, so though I have admittedly been putting it off I probably wouldn’t have had much time to play anyhow. I won’t talk about that too much, but on the upside I graduated college and have gotten a degree out of my time away. But I’ve also felt incredibly guilty about not posting anything after that because if I were in the shoes of a reader, I would have thought that I died. I also never got to properly thank all the people who left things under my tree, which I feel awful about.

I’m deeply sorry if I led anyone to that conclusion. It was an incredibly shitty thing of me to do and I sincerely hope that I didn’t cause any upset over it. I’m obviously hoping that something like that infection never happens again—but if it does, I’ll make sure that I don’t leave people hanging even if I take a break. I’m also gonna see if I can view my old tree so I can follow up on the things I missed. I also want to apologize if I'm overthinking things here or causing a bother by making this post, as I tend to do, but this is something that's been really bugging me. I've wanted to do it for a while.

Thank you for reading. I'm logging off after I post this because it's very late here, but I'll be back tomorrow.

—Serena ♥️

Are you doing okay now? It's okay to feel desperate sometimes, you don't need to apologise for that! The pandemic times where difficult and affected everyone in different ways.

I am doing okay now, thank you. I appreciate how kind people have been to me on here, and I was just worried that I've been unkind in return. I hope everyone's been doing okay.