News on Pause – Hiatus

For four years, on the dot in fact, the Azyr Weekly has been publishing the news once a week, every week. We are 47,000 words in, and with 231 articles published. As a person who is chronically prone to leaving projects half-completed this has been a noteworthy achievement! However as time has gone on things have started to slip. Articles have started being published later and later in the week, and over the past month I have even done the unthinkable and skipped a week or two!

The Azyr Weekly is a lot of things to me. It’s a creative outlet, a passion project, and a proof of concept – a monument built by the ego of a man convinced that he is funny but needs to know if others think the same. It is a lot of fun. However, as my strategic studies supervisor passed on to me in exchange for a cool NZ$10,000; “Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult”. War in this case being an analogy for satirical journalism centered around a miniature wargame. What started as quick little diversion each Tuesday has become a chore eked every Wednesday evening, asking friends to photoshop up a cover image since I was already in bed or messaging mates to check “What’s funny at the moment?”. I have not lost my dedication to the Weekly, but I have lost my spark. And that’s no fun for anyone.

Instead of slinking off, I thought I should do the mature thing and leave this notice. The news is on pause, but it is not over. The Editor is just taking a break, a step-back to recuperate. I cannot promise that I’ll be back and better than ever – I will most likely be back the same as before! But hopefully I’ll be back with my passion 100% returned and raring to go.

If you run a site or blog and need some humorous articles, Age of Sigmar or not, please feel free to reach out to @AzyrWeekly (or even my personal Twitter @DistractdSatrap if you’re feeling cheeky). You can also email me. And if you know James Workshop; please tell him that I’m sorry about all those emails I sent at 1am during 2021 and that I’d love it if he took me off his spam list.

Until we meet again!

Yours in news,

the Editor