Giving love to those who had to drop patronage. (Patreon)

So, every now and then I check the exit polls for those who dropped patronage. It's mostly a morbid curiosity a lot of the time, but nowadays I don't feel so personally shit for not keeping up a good release rate. Now, I feel a much more encompassing existential dread.

Currently, 90% of exit polls are "My financial situation has changed." That's fucking terrifying. Even 2 years ago or 1 year ago during covid it wasn't this bad, but now... the cost of living and the state of politics in the world and... sheesh.

Maybe I'm just feeling a little doom and gloom rn, but I just wanted to reach out and say that everyone who has had to drop patronage because they couldn't afford it anymore. I appreciate you all so much. Thanks for supporting me while you could, and I'd never want you to keep supporting me when you couldn't afford it.

Cheers, Amelia (QuietValerie)

(Side note, if anyone's confused about the double name it's because one time I jokingly changed my discord name to Amelia when I was RPing as my characters letting discord folks talk to them and the name made me a little gooey inside so yeah that's what happened. Don't judge!)