Hi, everyone—I was really hoping to avoid this after having to close MYO submissions and design updates last week, but I just can't keep up with the rate they've been coming in right now.

For those unaware, as a result of flying to my parents' house to say goodbye to my childhood cat last week, I caught covid for the first time. It's really been a bad week. Thanks to being up-to-date on vaccinations, and starting paxlovid within the first 24 hours of developing symptoms, I'm not in any danger, but I'm feeling pretty sick, and have a very limited amount of energy to put towards Succubuns work.  

This month, I still need to update the current event each week, judge the Create-an-Imp contest and put the finalists up for voting, select and onboard new GAs, and finish preparing the September event (...to the best of my abilities), and I worry that I won't be able to get everything done on time if I spend hours on approvals every day. The only other person qualified to do approvals to site standards is Yves, who fortunately did not catch covid from me, but currently has their hands full with taking care of me and doing their actual job.

I'll chip away at the designs currently in the queue over the next few days, and will re-evaluate how I'm feeling and hopefully reopen the queue again on Monday. I don't like preventing people from submitting their buns, but I think it will be easier for me to rest and get other important work done without worrying about dozens of submissions piling up every day. 

Sorry to everyone who will be inconvenienced by this; I wish I could go back to work at full steam this week, too.

- Luca