A Personal Update—and a New Beginning

Hello my loves and darling sins ❤️

I owe you a real update about where I have been and why things have been so unusually quiet around here.

Over the past several weeks, my living situation changed... very suddenly, and I found myself needing to prepare for an unexpected move on a much faster timeline than I ever anticipated.

Since then, much of my time and energy has gone into packing, sorting through years of accumulated belongings, making a truly absurd number of decisions, and trying to figure out what and where the next chapter of my life is going to be.

The good news is that I am safe, supported, and... actually kinda beginning to feel genuinely excited about what comes next.

I don't want to get too into it but suffice to say - I'll be having my own place. And that means, for the first time, I will have a home and studio that are completely my own.

Unfortunately, before I can reach the exciting part, I have to survive the packing, moving, paperwork, cleaning, organizing, and general chaos of rebuilding a household.

That is why the YouTube and Patreon have been so quiet.

I have been stressed, distracted, emotionally exhausted, and unable to record with anything resembling my usual consistency. I know many of you support me because you enjoy the audios I create, and I have not been producing them at the pace either you or I expected. I do not want to ignore that or pretend it does not matter.

I also do not want to make promises about an exact return date before I know what the move and settling-in process will require. Right now, my priority has to be getting safely established. The hope is within the next 31 days.

As disruptive as this chapter has been, it may ultimately make Guilty Pleasures more sustainable - and allow me to create more freely - than ever before.

Please know that I completely understand if anyone needs to pause, downgrade, or cancel their membership while things are quiet. You never need to feel guilty (that's my job) for making the choice that is right for you, and you will always be welcome back when I am creating regularly again. I'm sure I'll see you when I am, right?

For those who choose to stay, thank you and I hope you love what you're listening to. Your support has given me a little more stability during an exceptionally unstable time, even when I have been too overwhelmed to properly express how much that means to me.

I debated whether to include this final part, particularly since uploads have been inconsistent, but I ultimately decided it was okay to... uhm, make the option available without creating any expectation. And seriously, NO expectations here.

If you would like, I've making a "collection" on Throne of housewarming items.

Starting a household from scratch means realizing that I need an alarming number of very ordinary things—towels, kitchen basics, cleaning supplies, storage, dog necessities, and items to help turn a walk-in closet into a functional recording booth. While I have some now, my current roommate is taking some as we split ways and so I will... be in some need.

There is absolutely no expectation that anyone purchase anything. I can get these down the line.

AND FURTHER, being a patron is already support. Reading this update, being patient with me, or simply wishing me well is more than enough.

Housewarming and studio list: https://throne.com/guiltypleasuresva
(Throne also allows you to send me something that's NOT on my list but is instead on Amazon or a similar website so if there's something you'd like to send as a housewarming gift that isn't on the list, you can still send it!)

Thank you for giving me room to be a person while I navigate all of this.

I am frightened, overwhelmed, grateful, terrified, exhausted, and increasingly excited - sometimes all within the same five-minute period.

I am not gone. I'm not dead. I've not abandoned you.

I'm just... working with a delay while I build something new.

And hopefully, before too long, I will be whispering wonderful, sweet into your ears from a tiny recording studio that finally belongs to her.