Ruby's Workout Public Posting Poll Response (Patreon)

First of, i want to thank you all that have participated and gave your feedback upon the situation, i truly appreciate and read through all of what you had to say c: It really is amazing to hear all the support and understanding for this kind of situation. With this said, i will try to respond to the comments you guys offered in a conglomerate post here. I appreciate the concern to what some of you have mentioned of me trying to find better outcomes of providing a certain kind of exclusivity/early access, however in this case, i was more concerned of the fact that i may seem like i was going back on my word than anything to you guys. I always take it too personal whenever I promise 1 thing but end up either never doing it or going back on my word such as how project, sets, etc. will be made and or posted.

In addition to this, it was more of a personal production choice of keeping comics and projects hidden from public due to past experiences of me making incomplete works as such and then receiving waves of messages on "are you going to continue/finish? x comic?" which is why i thought that maybe linking this as a "reward" would be a plausible benefit but seems to have caused more inconvenience than anything. I totally agree with what most of you have said as well in that it will alleviate the leaks and the toll of responsibility on trying to cover websites that have been posting it. it seemed like an inevitable and perpetual fate that i never want to bother with again to be honest so i'm with you guys on that. On the topic to exclusivity/early access, i try to use the word "exclusive" very lightly when it comes to my work, especially when i first started Patreon. I never liked the idea of making my works solely behind a paywall, but as time went on, a bear of guilt came over me on you guys providing your hard earned money for something that is essentially free so i tried creating either counterintuitive or on-the-spot decisions.

But of course as mentioned previously, i thought the personal production choice of making long term projects "exclusive" would suffice. It definitely provides a positive outcome when it comes to short picture sets, however for this comic or potential future comics, it's been more of a bind on me. I feel you all already know this but it's worth re-emphasizing in why i tried to put a disclaimer on my profile that "supporting me is solely just supporting what i love to do" and nothing more. Of course i can't express the gratitude to you guys on how you've been ardent with my idea on that so thankyou. So hopefully through this post, you can see why i might be making a mountain out of a molehill as to why this is an important thing to me. Not solely just because of the patron exclusivity, but more so in respect to you guys.

I know i'm not the most distinct or coherent talker out there in explaining what i mean but hopefully this post was transparent enough to explain my intentions, goal, and objective. As to posting this comic publicly (or even potential future comics) my plan is to, as you all know, post the 9 pages first publicly of course, and then every 3 new pages made here, 3 more pages get posted publicly. ex: once i finish page 18, pages 10, 11, and 12 will be posted publicly. This way there is an order/schedule on posting publicly, hopefully will mediate certain leaks (of course i don't expect it to completely go away), and kind of provides a bit more return on your investment as well as appeasing to my goal of regulating projects without having to hide too much from the public so i could share my works with everyone c: hopeful for this solution but it sounds solid so far in all objectives i wanted to cover. Again, i've said it many times that i know i'm not the clearest in explaining things so if there is any sort of concern, misunderstanding, interest, problems, something i may have missed out on, let me know and i'll try to answer to the best of my abilities.

thankyou for reading :D