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

Welcome readers to the long-awaited new year. Now that I’m writing this post I’m beginning to think that title might be a little click-baity so I’ll start by saying that the Azyr Weekly is not going anywhere. Far from it; the Weekly will continue to plague your timelines for some time to come. Instead I wanted to write a little retrospective about the year that’s been. Tears have been shed. Battles won and lost. A whole new edition released. And the Azyr Weekly has been there through it all.

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