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KC Newsletter! February 2026
In the middle of March
This issue: Web development, finally some good news
This month’s finances and what all got done!
We got one page in February and then radio silence; I’m very sorry, I’ll talk about it in the state of the author segment. The good news is I’m still writing a lot, and in February I managed a little over 14k words of prose.
Finances appear to have held steady, despite my absence. Thank y’all very much for being patient with me.
There isn’t a whole lot of fun shareable news this time, but here’s what I do have!
Remember forums? Maybe?
I didn’t accomplish too much of the supporter framework stuff I’d planned for February, but I did clean up the comic site and my author site a little bit, just some loose ends or text editing and making it easier for new folks to orient themselves. I also did something nobody asked for and set up a forum!
Discord has sort of been the hub for KC’s community for as long as there’s been one, and we’ve all kind of learned over time that’s: Not Ideal. Even if we assume the corporation we’re relying on is going to behave competently or responsibly with our indispensable resource (They Won’t), Discord is so insular in nature it’s honestly a terrible idea for a small fandom like this one. Every time some new development shakes us up I go “man I miss forums, I wish KC had a forum.”
Well, while working on some stuff I’m planning for later this year, I hit a point where I could either continue doing something the old way that I already know is insufficient, or try something new, and I decided to try the new thing! I’m not planning on like, promoting the forums or integrating them in with the rest of KC’s laundry list of links until the thing I made it for gets off the ground, and in fact I hadn’t intended to mention it anywhere publicly until then.
But when I posted about it in the server people responded really well! Everybody was really excited to set up forum signatures and avatars and all the goofy shit we used to have back then. I’m fully aware forums are a completely outdated concept, and it’s optimistic to think that a sub-group in an already tiny community will be enough to keep it alive, but I like to try things. But I’ve got the big boy hosting resources and domain names anyway, and it’s not going to be an issue either way if it sits dormant for a while. This also feels nice as an escape route in case Discord does make itself unusable one day, or any of our other hangouts explode.
I’ll probably talk more about my thoughts on forums vs discord here when I do the big public announcement, and until I start promoting it alongside the rest of the usual KC spaces it’ll probably be pretty slow, but if you’re here on the newsletter and you’re interested you can find it here. I’m still ironing out a lot of things, but it’s functional! Feel free to grab your username and set up a profile even if it’s just for nostalgia’s sake.
(If I recognize your credentials I’ll skip you ahead of the posting requirements for using the off-topic board; that rule is for strangers lol)
Finally some decent financial news
Lee found some part-time work to help float us during the months we don’t have shows! We’ve mostly been finishing in the red for a while and our credit cards are deeply fucked up, but as you can see with our cute new banner at the bottom of these letters we don’t lack a whole lot. Assuming this gig works out like it should, the amount we need to bring in to at least break even should be achievable.
Aside from the fact that I need a stable living situation to work this isn’t technically Kidd Commander stuff, but I feel like I’m constantly coming to you guys with Bad Money News so I wanted to share something positive for once. It remains to be seen exactly how much money this is going to be bringing in or how reliably, but we’re so close to stabilizing already that basically anything makes a big difference at this point. We are only that close because of y’all’s support for KC, which is responsible for keeping us housed most of the time, so thank you very much for keeping our deficit small enough for them to cover it without having to quit their plush work.
State of the artist
Hi so I said in the last couple letters things were Quiet And Fine but in point of fact I have been dealing with an absolutely ludicrous amount of social upheaval that triggered a really, really bad episode of uh. God I don’t even know how to explain it without getting too far into pathological shit. “Pining” has the wrong connotation, it’s like I’ve been stuck waiting around for people to call, that feeling where you’re just sitting around 15 minutes before you gotta be somewhere so there isn’t time to do anything. It’s been really bad for productivity.
I’m having trouble visualizing anything outside of the next five minutes, and because of that I haven’t been taking particularly good care of myself, physically, so even on days when I’ve felt like drawing my wrist stamina has been shit. It’s been bad! But by now I’ve mostly settled things with most of the parties involved and I’m hopeful I’ll level out soon. The only thing I still haven’t fully dealt with is having cut off my last family member, which sucks, but what can u do lol
To be clear: I’m not in any danger, and honestly most of this is more an issue of me being incredibly unregulated rather than any specific Thing that is happening. It’s just unfortunate all these unrelated things decided to converge when I’ve been flirting with burnout so much already. I was hoping I’d get it together sooner than this. I suppose it’s cool that this particular thing hasn’t happened in a long time, but man I am not used to it anymore.
The next update has been sitting half-inked for a while, they’re not difficult pages and should not have taken this long. I am going to try very hard to at least get them done before the end of March.
Thank you very much for understanding! See you soon.
-Aria
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