So, here’s the second part of our Christmas special. Enjoy:

If you enjoy the comic, but not my incoherent ramblings, I suspect that the FoM website would be the appropriate venue for you to sate your comic cravings without the added commentary.

I promised you an explanation for my brevity yesterday, and I intend to deliver that explanation.

I am leaving the verdant land of Arcadia. Hold your goddamn horses for just a second, I am not leaving for good. I am going to be commuting to another plane. My outreach programme has put me in contact with some of my my long lost kin: a neurotic and slightly insane crew of excitable creatives that desperately try to straddle the the divide between commercial success and unbridled fun. These mythical creatures inhabit a nearby ethereal pocket-dimension, and they have invited me to join them there.

I have never put much stock in sleep as a viable investment of my time, but I am aware of the strains that my corporeal form endures after the thirty-sixth hour, as well as the descending cardiac roller coaster of caffeine. Yesterday i needed to prevent the moronic zombie state that comes with extended wake. I have noticed that people tend to react unfavorably when i try to communicate through that haze while nodding periodically like I’m agreeing to some unheard argument. I need my wits about me today, as I have some serious shit to do.

I have been conspiring to redesign Arcadia for some time now, as i feel it is no longer representative – or even tolerable. In this, as in mostly everything i do as a private project, I’ve created a fuck ton of imaginary barriers between myself and it’s completion. As usual I started by grinding the skills i perceived as a prerequisite to even understanding the task. This unfolded into nitpicking on every front. At this point I’ve lifted the task to an insurmountable level, and i have so many ideas and problems that my mind would crumble in on itself if I ever sat down to wrangle them. I have decided to throw them all out and start over, with a fresh mindset. This will happen as soon as I find a suitable gap in my schedule.

Come back next Monday for the third, and last, chapter of our holiday variation.

- SF