fire update (Patreon)

So the fires are still burning, but so far my parents' neighborhood and house have survived. A lot of other people weren't as fortunate, but it was still one of the the worst weeks and a half of my life, constantly monitoring the tiny bits of unsure news trickling out of a large-but-very-rural town, mostly from Twitter and Facebook and actual regular people, not reporters or fire personel, giving out information as they could. The mental fear and exhaustion from that was overwhelming, and I'm already not doing so well mentally.

I'll try really hard to update something soon, now that things are slightly less awful.