Hi all. I’ll keep this short, as I’m wont to do when I have an announcement.

I’m going to be taking (about) a week off. That means no MPA articles of any kind—no weekly recaps, no One Piece Every Day—until, at earliest, next Thursday when the next Call of The Night episode airs.

I do apologize to anyone disappointed by this turns of events, and usually I’d here go into a long spiel about why this is happening and be very apologetic. But frankly the reason this time is very simple; I have been having an extremely challenging past few days from a mental health point of view. I won’t go into details, but it’s been bad enough to be, you know, noteworthy, even as someone who’s struggled with mental illness my entire life. I’m recovering, and I’ll be fine in the long term, but I just need some time to rest and not think about tweaking paragraphs and staring at my metrics page and that sort of thing for a while.

As always, if you want to support me during my time away, you can do so via my Patreon or Ko-Fi, and if you’d like to socialize a little bit with some other MPA readers, you can do so via the site’s Discord server. Y’alls comments on here really make my heart light up with joy. Every single one of you is seen and appreciated, and I hope to see you again when the hiatus ends.