Headless Bliss is in hiatus!

After eight years of pouring so much love and dedication into this comic (started in October 2014, but the idea came around 2012), and truly thinking I would finish it in one go until the end, it is with both sadness and excitement for the future that I take a break from this particular universe and storyline, and start working on an alternate version of Headless Bliss for publishing houses to take in and make book(s) out of.

((More info as to why I'm making this decision in this page's commentary.))

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Thank you so very much for following this comic, for witnessing these characters' journeys and hardships, and for any encouragement and feedbacks you've sent my way, I'm incredibly grateful for it all.

Until then :)

PS: a little reminder too that my other webcomic Pia & the Little Tiny Things is still ongoing and updating twice a week! It's not Headless Bliss, and lacks cannibals and demons, but there are bugs and many of them do enjoy a bit of cannibalism in their lives, and there are several horned bugs that can resemble tiny demons, so there you are!

This is a little teaser for things to come after the hiatus, and I swear it isn't to rub the hiatus in, and make it more difficult for you to accept it, but I couldn't NOT make a big page like this to wrap things up a bit...

Next update, next saturday, will be the last page before the hiatus begins. 

I wish you all the best,

until then.

I've really enjoyed the comments for this chapter, by the way!

There's been lovely feedback, great reactions and some theories going, which is all I want for HB really<3

And of course it comes right around the time that Headless Bliss will enter its hiatus phase ;)

Speaking of which, after this page, there are two more updates, and so two more weeks, before this chapter ends... which means this comic will be on its break very soon. 

It's going to be so bizarre not working on this any longer. But again, I'll be using that free time to make some portfolios and pitches for publishing houses so they publish a renewed version of Headless Bliss... so I'll still be drawing these characters I've grown so attached to, which cheers me right back up!

Have a lovely weekend.

The flower was still there and hidden all along :)

And just because it won't be explained in the comic: the eldress hid it from her clan of polypans to make it seem like it's possible to not fall in love with non-pans. She probably told them the story of Minuial's visits, but might have led them to believe that she since then has given up on her love and has no flower any longer. This lie, she hopes, might encourage them to try and resist their nature and stop falling in love so quickly.

The Eldress has several lies in hand like that, but believes it's for the better cause (which is their survival).

One more month of updates... ,,,;v;,,

For those who haven't seen my post from last update: Headless Bliss will go on hiatus in October, once this chapter's done.

Thank you very much for your encouraging words in regards to this situation, I'm both super happy that people really wanted for this to continue, and very sad to not give you what you want (what I want as well!)

I trust that life (and my own efforts) will give this story everything it deserves, and continue forward no matter.

See you next week! 

Ready for the big announcement? I know I'm not! :D

It's a sad one, mixed with a hopeful possibility of awesome, here goes:

I've made the decision to put Headless Bliss on a wibbly-wobbly hiatus. This will take effect once the current chapter is over (in about six pages), which means weekly updates will stop around the first half of October 2022.

What does the "wibbly-wobbly" mean? Simply that whenever I have the time and energy for it, I might draw a little page here and there. But it just won't be on any given date or deadline, if it ever happens.

Was this decision easy to make? Nope. I've been fighting off a hiatus for years now, always giving myself a little time to continue this story, because I just don't want to leave these characters alone.

Which is a good thing, because this leads to the "hopeful possibility of awesome": the time I'm trying to free up for myself here (by putting this webcomic on hiatus), is a time I want to use to submit a new, re-written version of Headless Bliss, to comic book publishers. 

I want to remaster, revamp, improve the story that is Headless Bliss, and I absolutely want to get a paid contract for it, so that in the end, I can boost my weakening financial situation, get a chance to rework Headless Bliss (so many things I've learned through the years that I want to improve on!), and have beautiful physical comic books to share with a larger audience!

That's my goal anyway :)

I'm still very sad to leave this webcomic with no promise on returning to it. I wish I could promise it, but there are just too many uncertainties right now. Even if I get that other new Headless Bliss published, I'll still be sad about leaving this one unfinished. I've put more than seven years (eight?) into it and so much of myself is in this, and I've promised myself to keep going until the end for so long...

But I've had my reality check, and I'm trying to make it so that this reality check works in our favor with this publishing house idea. I also have other projects I have in mind for publishing houses that I'd love to explore as well! And I need time for it. 

I've had such an amazing journey with webcomics as a whole, of course Go Get a Roomie! was the one that made it all possible, giving me a decent living wage to keep on webcomic'ing for years and years! Honestly, it's amazing that I've kept at it for so long without ever needing contracts on the side to keep it rolling (though there has been moments when doing commissions did help!)

Now I see times are changing for me, and I'm both scared and excited about it! 

If I want to keep making comic books for a living, I need to adapt and accept the changes and keep moving forward. I hope you'll keep moving forward with me and YOU KNOW I'm gonna spread the word if ever Headless Bliss 2.0 is published and printed!!

With all this said, and the hard part done, I thank you for reading this post, thank you so fucking much for following this story with me, I'm incredibly grateful to have been doing this for so long. I'll do my best to keep this story going, whatever form it takes.

I'll have an announcement to make soon for Headless Bliss... but I'm procrastinating it for next week :D

>>OH SNAP I accidentally updated the page way earlier than I was supposed to!! um well.. all right, have an early page then! :D 

HB is back from summer break, with more happy stuff to share, yay!

I warned you about the cliff hanger... now we'll just have to wait until I get back from vacation on the 30th of July to see the rest of the JOYOUS flashback that the Eldress has for us!

Minuial has a past of her own..!

Hey so Headless Bliss will go on a little summer break soon! One last page, next Saturday, will be updated before a three week break and it's gonna be a hell of a cliff hanger to wait three weeks for the next update but I hope you'll survive and I wish you a splendid week until then :)

Someone got themselves a new look :D

Trejas is up to something... getting himself killed? :D

What..?

All righty, here's the real start of the next chapter, here we go here!

Went back on the script for this one, prioritizing clarity over impact. It was basically just a matter of chronological order of events... hope these next few pages help put things in order for you :)

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A little interlude (or two) before we get onto the next chapter! 

Might've been confusing of me to proclaim that last page was the end of the chapter, when there's this page that's kinda in between that was left...