Hello again! It's Chester!

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As you may know, I share a birthday with my comic, and every year I write one of these birthday messages to my readers.

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To be honest, this year, I don't know where to begin. 

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In 2025 I've accomplished things that some artists don't achieve in their entire lives. Not only were we able to produce and put out our first stuffed toy, but I've finally begun to earn enough from my webcomic to move into my own place.

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I'm happy now. I'm an adult-- I've been an adult, but now I feel like one too. I've sorted out enough things in my life that my therapist says we're done, and that I don't need her anymore. Who the fuck gets dismissed by their therapist?

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I'm glad that my life is starting. This month, I'll be moving into my new apartment and adopting a new cat. Objectified will continue to be my full time job, my baby, and the thing I dread explaining to people I go on dates with.

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It's a part of me now, metaphorically and literally (if you saw my tattoo). I'd go as far as to say it was a part of me even before I started working on it, and that it was something that I had to let take over my life and learn how to love.

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Often now I reach and get to finalize parts of the story that make me go "holy shit, finally". Episode 100 is a big one. A weight was lifted off my shoulders that has been sitting on me for half a decade now. One of many.

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I consider my grandest achievement so far to be coming forward about what happened to me. I can't begin to describe the thousands of hours I spent agonizing over it. The support you've poured into me has saved my life.

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I hope that we can continue to climb upwards, and that you will follow me onto the next things. I've seen like, three or four "generations" of fans come and go, make their memes and obsess over their character and then they grow up and they're gone. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don't. As time passes I've started to forget things as well. My team mates are starting to get engaged and raise children. My point is, it's starting to have been quite a long time.

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I think what I want to do is just this. Objects. I want the world to let loose and enjoy them the way I do. I want someone to realize that this is their raison d'être the same way I did.

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But I digress. Thank you once again for all of your support. Hopefully this year shines even brighter for us. I'll be working hard.

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Happy 4th birthday, Objectified!

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