3.12.4 28.12.2021

"We might use him one last time."

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This is the time when one's supposed to do some of the usual end of the year stuff, but I always had a problem with it. See, like other people born in the end of December, I struggle with all this holidays BS 'cause ultimately it kinda overshadows and negates my existence. My birthday (December 30) is never celebrated on it's own, it either exists as an afterthought to New Year (in Russia it's like what Christmas is for Western folks) or not at all. No party for me — everyone busy with New Year's preparations. No gifts for me — it's either "this one gift is for your birthday and New Year" or nothing at all. So I got used to ignoring my own birthday like everybody else around me did, and it turned all my holidays experience into something bitter and sad, and you know what? Fuck it. I exist too. Of course, I'll never have parties or gifts or whatever, but I don't need to keep mourning it. I can celebrate my life on my own.

So Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, best wishes, and thank you for reading my comic! I was hoping to finish drawing it by New Year, sadly I didn't quite make it due to some health problems (multiple autoimmune issues don't combine well with vaccine, what a surprise; also – the irony – I might have caught covid at vax site, I'll know soon). I'll probably be able to make 2 more pages in December (they're almost done, some coloring left and then lettering), and then the ending in January. If you want to read it as soon as it's done, you can subscribe to my patreon, it will be a nice gift for my birthday. Or you can throw a gift on my paypal, that's greatly appreciated too.

Thanks again, happy holidays, and there will be no hiatus for Noosphere, next page on January 4.