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Hyvää Joulua!
          Happy holidays to anyone celebrating and hope you have a great new year!

I won a writing contest.
          I did not expect this but I am very happy right now

every once in a while I realize how insane it is that I'm on the last two chapters of TLR (prior to Hiatus)
          absolutely crazy, felt like i'd never get here. and now look at me.

Wondering if I should make an intermission chapter.
          Not much longer till its hiatus, so seems to make sense.
          
          Any questions, comments, or requests are accepted in the replies below.
          if I get enough (three or more) i'll make one.

Nice place 

If my estimates on my length of work are right
          The Gilded Cage will be back sometime early next year.
          figured i'd throw that out somewhere. want to get to a breaking point in TLR first.

Have gotten another laptop to work on, but due to the time gap between working on TLR there will be some differences in coloring and style in the next TLR chapter, due to the break and differences between computers.
          
          I am trying to make daily progress, however

To the silent and unseen readers,
          
          I appreciate the follows and I appreciate the votes
          
          But I really wish I knew what you thought of my work. One notification doesn't say much. its very disheartening for the time I spend on my books.
          
          Trust me when I say your choice of silence is 10000000000000x worse than anything 'awkward' you could ever say. 

Due to technical issues (no laptop) I cannot work on ANY of my projects for the foreseeable future. 
          
          Know I'm not exactly regular but just thought it deserved a heads up.
          
          Trust me I'm already feeling miserable about it.

really haven't been making much progress with anything
          havent been motivated or worked on anything in days
          know I should just do it because that's better than relying on emotion.
          but its still really annoying to deal with.