Looking back on this year, I've seen so much change for me, and this project. With all the forces at play in my life right now, I'm reminded of some of the reasons I began writing Hearts Faster Than Light, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to reflect on it a little bit with you all.

There are times when I have felt lost, where it feels like the world is against me. Times in my life where I have left everything behind to carve out a future for myself. In times like these, just like our hero, Dawn, I am guided by the people in my life who truly care for me. If I have any chance at a future, if I want to hold on to hope, the love and care of friends, chosen family, and all the kind people who move through my life is where I will find it.

But people aren't always who you think they are. No matter how close you feel to someone, you will never know them in their totality. When people change, or show me a side of themselves I never saw, I would realize how untethered I am in this life. I would see how delicate this life was that I built, as it buckles and breaks around me.

I would ask myself, did I leave behind old problems, only to find new ones? Have I stepped sideways into a life without hope, just with a change of scenery? But I always press onward and held onto a vision of a happy future for myself. I held onto the people I love, even as they change and show me new and sometimes frightening sides of themselves, because again, that love is where my hope lies.


I know that at times life will let me down. I will be hurt, hell, I know I will mess up with the people I care about. But my faith in love will never wane. I know that no matter how far or hard I fall, someone will be there to pick me up again.



So when I look ahead to 2024, and I think about where this hope, this faith in love has got me, I am reminded of Hearts Faster Than Light, and how I hope to share these feelings with you through my art. If you are afraid of what the future holds for you, I'm asking you to please, listen to your heart, and follow it with all your strength.


It may feel impossible, it may feel like its not nearly enough, but it's what we got.
From my heart to yours, across space and time, I wish for you to find happiness in 2024. <3


(also look forward to the next chapter in the first week of the new year :3 )