3/24/2026 Hi Everyone. This is a message directly from Oni.I’m very sorry for my absence. This message is for everyone whom I have hurt and disappointed. I truly am so sorry. For making you wait, for all the hurt and disappointment, and all the confusion. Everything you feel is justified and I know that I deserve it.Please know that this is not an excuse of any kind, it is simply a long overdue statement and update for all the folks who have been waiting. I DO NOT expect any forgiveness, I just want to clear things up. Please note I have no plan to return to the community but now that I am finally well enough again (mentally, physically and stability) that I have the courage and capacity to work on this for you all and my plan to do so as quickly as possible.It is my deepest regret that I wasn’t strong enough to deal with my personal problems and make things right with the shop as well. I should have done better by all of you. It was never my intention to harm anyone because I loved this community dearly, and I am sorry that my ongoing in-action has caused problems for anyone. This whole situation has given me immense ongoing guilt and pain. I kept making things worse by running from all of my problems, and I don’t want to run anymore.Now that my mental and physical health are seeing enough improvement, I am going to do the right thing and take action. I am holding a stable job again after a period of constantly failing and falling apart. Now that I can, I want to make this right and I want to do it as soon as I can, and I have the means to do it now that I am well.I want to finalize as many refunds as possible by the end of the year. The current plan is to pay the overdue Shop bills that will finally allow me back into the shop records (I am locked out until then)- and then finally I will be able to review the full extent of what I need to do. I should be able to do this by the end of the month (March).Once I have access to the records again, I will be making a thorough spreadsheet, and I will be making it publicly available, so that everyone can see the progress on refunds as I work on catching up. Refunds will happen in order from oldest to newest orders, and I will be making posts on CARRD continually until everything is fully resolved.Until then, please wait just a bit longer as I go through everything as quickly as I possibly can. It took me so long to get mentally healthy and stable, but I will make it right. I did not fight this demon when I should have, and I let it overwhelm me instead. No more running.Thank you for continuing to contact my partner for now. I am mentally well enough to work on this finally but not to handle direct interactions yet in addition, so he will handle that for me to keep the mental load from being too much for me.With My Deepest Regret and Respect, sincerely Oni.