i'm still here (・_・)ノ

It's pretty obvious I didn't post anything in June. There's a couple reasons for that. The first is that the first half of June is hard for me. I lost my father very suddenly in 2021, so every year since then I experience a handful of shitty emotions around that time. I won't go too deep here, but anyone who's lost someone knows how grief can be an insidious thing. I generally feel very…