Hi everyone. No funny business this time.

First of all, I went to the Newgrounds meetup in Melbourne on the 17th and it was fucking sick. It was nice meeting some of you guys, even if a worrying amount of people now know what I look like. I've become a lot more private since the incident in 2022 but I'm glad I came.

With that out of the way, I had another MRI scan last week which I've just got the results for today and they're worrying to say the least.

Some of you might remember the end of last year when I was diagnosed with Optic Neuritis (swelling of the optic nerve that left me blind in one eye). ON is usually an early sign of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and is especially rare in men, but none of the blood tests I took brought up anything weird at the time and I don't have a family history of the disease so we just let that one slide under the assumption I was an extremely rare case.

Which brings us to the present. Last week's scan revealed I still have swollen nerves, which is weird because I can see out of both eyes just fine (for now), but I do occasionally get headaches behind my left eye. The part we're particularly worried about now is signs of demyelination of my corpus callosum. In layman's terms, the two halves of my brain are disconnecting. This could be for a number of reasons. It would be weird if I were diagnosed with MS now considering it's usually genetic but I've had shittier luck before I guess. I don't have a prognosis so I'll hold off on announcing that I'm dying for now, but something has gone horribly wrong in my head (again). Unfortunately I was not sent images from the scan but here are the notes.

So yeah. Turns out I'm a lot more fucked in the head than I thought. Truly the inside of my skull is a bottomless void of suffering and nightmares. I'll be getting another MRI done on my spine so we'll see what that looks like.

Until then, uhh... fuck.

UPDATE 25/08/2024: owgh me 'ead

You can see a few areas in these images where there's a little black/white spot buried deep in my head. That's a brain lesion (FUCK). There's probably more but that one is the most noticeable/consistent and the one that caused the most worry. These are low quality pics and I'm not a doctor (obviously) so there's probably a few things I'm missing. Hopefully they don't find more.

Hi guys. This is the obligatory "yes I'm working on it" post for a fifth chapter of BE. I want to say by the end of this one, the comic will have finally eclipsed Death Clown in terms of page count. We'll see.

Progress has been slow since July was mostly dedicated to art fight. I started working on a 7th page (not including cover art) the other day. I've already had a few rounds of spending a full day on a single panel only to finish and realise "that doesn't work, I'll have to start over tomorrow" so we're well and truly back in business. I would've liked for it to get done faster but there's a lot twisting my nuts right now psychologically. Being 25 with no future gives you a lot of time to reflect, I guess.

People that know me well enough know I have more mental illnesses than a twitter bio. I try not to talk about it much anymore but I feel like I've accidentally made things harder for myself that way. When your brain doesn't process information the same way most people's do and has unusually strong/weak reactions to inconvenience/stress, you kinda have to tell your friends/coworkers/boss/agent/provider/etc what the hell your problem is. I don't know what looks more professional at this point. Would they be more forgiving if they knew I had spaghetti-code brain or would they just drop me faster?

I know a lot of these things are solvable, but I'm still trying to find where "you'll be fine, see a shrink" ends and "this is something you have to live with" begins. I'm not sure if I'll ever have stability but I'll be sure to use the anguish of not having it as motivation at the gym so I can one day punch a hole through the Earth.

All that to say, a bit of frustration helps me work on BE, but not when it makes me lightheaded. The usual cures aren't helping so I'm just gonna have to wait this one out. Maybe next week will be more productive.

Wish I had a more positive note to end this one on.

I beat Doom Eternal on Nightmare at the end of July. It wasn't that bad.

Great news Bury Everyone readers!

Art fight is nearly over and when I'm not brutalising my fellow illustrators, I've been playing Doom Eternal for the first time on PC and after a week of adjusting to mouse and keyboard I just beat the game on Ultra-Violence difficulty. This means the fun part is over and August will be filled with sleepless nights and pinched nerves as I try to beat it on Nightmare! FUUUCK!!!!!

Also I'm starting on chapter 5.

If you've been following my recent art (ignore the shitty Mildew doodles) you'll notice some changes in my line weight. I've been playing with G pen settings lately. I really like how it looks but it feels slow and cumbersome to draw like that. For people that don't know, I draw with 0 stabilisation because I like rough look and it feels like pencil and paper. Unfortunately I've been doing it for so long that SOMEHOW 0 stabilisation doesn't feel like enough. I'm not sure how that's possible. Maybe I need to do a bunch of coke or something.

That's all really. Just a quick announcement to say I'm working on the series again. Makes me glad I did all the scripts for this arc ahead of time. Hopefully I'll be posting WIPS in August.

Good afternoon ass biscuits.

What you're looking at above this text is the new archive page. It was inspired by a mock-up done by @gabb0sketches to make things a bit more visual. His used full cover art, which looked incredible but I'm thinking of the future. Assuming I finish it and nothing gets in the way (external or internal), BE could easily be at least 50 issues long. To save time scrolling (and prevent loading times from tanking) I went with thumbnails. I want to make the website more visually interesting in general. Right now it looks like a template but it's functional at least. I'll keep working on it.

Here's Gabbo's original design (made pre-chapter 4):

Despite everything else I have to do this month (art fight, concept art, taking a day off to watch all 5 bayformers films with the boys, etc), I'm already feeling the itch to start on #5. For some reason I won't allow myself to have a break. I wish I was like that with more things. I wish I had business autism rather than the webcomic strain. I'm not sure if I'd be rich or have a string of bankruptcies on my wikipedia page (probably the latter).

Because I don't say it enough, thanks for all the support on Bury Everyone. You guys are the real heroes here. I won't say "I love you guys" because that would be fucking weird, I don't even know who you people are and you're probably not right in the head if you're supporting my work, but it does mean a lot to me.

Now fuck off.

Hello.

Well that's chapter 4 done! Haven't had one over 25 pages in a while. I'm actually pretty exhausted after drawing that one. Somehow this was more exhausting than chapter 1, despite my eyes failing me towards the end. It's weird. When I draw the monster fighting parts, I want to write humans. When I'm writing humans, I want to draw monsters. It's a tale of two halves I guess.

No idea when I'll be able to start on #5 but it most likely won't be until late July with my new responsibilities (and art fight) but I'm pretty excited for these next few chapters. It feels like I'm finally making progress, even if by the end I'm fucking tired and don't want to look at these characters anymore lol. Until then I'm gonna show my other characters some love and maybe go for some more walks. GOD I've been needing it.

No these aren't Epper's parents that would be way too corny

I told you it was rough.

If you actually liked that bit of the chapter then congratulations. You have a stronger stomach than me. Believe it or not I don't want BE to be the shit-all-over-Epper show. When writing the scripts for the next few chapters I was going to split the flashback into parts but I was getting really sick of putting them at the start of every chapter so when I did revisions I put them all at the start of 4 so I can give myself a break. I think it was the right idea in the long-run so I'm not slamming the breaks on at the start of every episode but I think something was sacrificed in the process...

Me.

Fuck you, kid.

Like I said on the post, Part 2 will most likely be done in July, early or late depending on other commitments. I'm drawing page 23 right now as I write this. I'm hoping to follow up the most depressing point of the series so far with one of the silliest to balance it out. It's nice to have Voca back. The final product will be somewhere between 30 - 40 pages.

As for the mentorship thing I brought up in the last news post, I don't think that's the right word for it but it's what my provider has been calling it. He read Bury Everyone so far and said it was sick (weirdo). I'll be doing some designs for him over the week. Might even get a job out of this if I'm lucky.

Here's Epper looking surprised as usual.

That's it for now, see you in the next one.

Hey girls.

I'm writing this to say I've been working more on Bury Everyone #4. I'm now up to 16 pages and might have something to show Newgrounds before long Unfortunately it's looking to be a long one and will probably have to be split into parts anyway. I keep repeating myself but it's been a difficult chapter to draw, at least mentally. I miss when this series was about saying "fuck" and "shit" while fighting monsters. I've been making nightly progress on pages, my aim is to get as much done as possible before art fight.

The first 10 pages have been translated to spanish by @gabb0sketches, as usual. I'm gonna sit on them for a bit longer though, I want to finish this "act" before I show anything off.

Also some real life news, my job provider keeps throwing around the idea of setting me up with a mentor. I have no idea what such a thing would entail and I'm hoping for minimal interference. The meeting is this afternoon (it's 3am as I write this) and I'm shitting my pants. Seriously, if I start acting out of character after this, send help.

Also, I finally have a proper transparent version of the title text. It was seriously an image with a black background that I had set to add or glow dodge in blending up until now because I didn't know how to convert brightness to opacity. Forgive me, I'm fucking stupid. At least that'll come in handy when I start commissioning cover art.

Good morning motherfuckers.

I hope you're enjoying Bury Everyone so far. As I write this I'm working on the 4th chapter and the start of a new arc. What I started out thinking would be only 3 chapters ended up becoming 4, and now could easily be 5. At least I'll be busy for the rest of the year I guess. Progress has been a little slow. I've done 6 pages so far and by Crust, are they depressing. Probably the hardest thing I've ever had to draw for any project. Unfortunately for me, I'm no longer in charge. The story is. If you have your own series, you know what I mean.

Without giving too much away, chapter 3 ended with a reluctant Epper starting to realise the extent of the power she's been endowed with since being impaled, so now it's time to do some good with it (hopefully).

Also, just for fun I sketched a shitty little map of the island they're on and the locations visited so far. Don't get too invested in it so far since things will probably change before the end of the series but we'll see.

That's all for now. Peace out, bitches.

Start reading: Buryeveryone.au

Leer ahora: Buryeveryone.au/esp

Salutations, people that live inside my computer.

The english version of Bury Everyone now has a mostly functioning website. You can now read all 3 chapters so far at buryeveryone.au. Finally you can read chapter 1 all at once instead of in multiple parts.

I was actually a little worried that I wouldn't be able to get that specific domain. If you know anything about Australia's graphic/mature content laws, you'll know they're very inconsistent and ultimately arbitrary so while the chances of some influential dickhead finding BE and wanting it off the internet are extremely slim, it's still a possibility (fuck you if you're that guy). Fortunately auDA's response was "that's none of our business" so for now it stays.

Now I just have to copy everything for Gabbo's spanish translation.

I'll start chapter 4 when I finish my commissions. New chapters will still come out on Newgrounds but it helps to have them in isolation.