Worst Friend, Worst Wife, Worst #Content #Creator :D (Patreon)

This was a day where I poured hours of brainwork and energy into an essay that... isn't worth posting. I mean, I guess it was worth it for me, personally, to articulate my thoughts to myself. But that's it. 

"That's ok," I told myself. "Just write about that other topic you've been thinking about!" But I used up all my brain juice on that last one and now I just wanna... wanna not think any more. Pack it up, I'm all thought out. 

Matt and I had a Business Meeting today. 

I really love those.

We are looking at some different options for handling our ads and that sounds like the most boring corporate thing but it actually felt really creative getting to stretch our problem-solving muscles in an unexpected way together. A situation that I had thought was a dead end wound up having some really surprising options for us and we only figured it out by bouncing off of each other. I fucking love that. I love working with Matt. I mean, not always. Sometimes it's hard. And sometimes it's electric. Most of the time it's in a comfortable zone between the two.  Pleasantly  functional.

We've gotten a lot of requests over the years to not display graphically sexual ads on the site. Specifically, the complaint is that folks wanna share the sex ed comics but the intense ads would frighten away the folks they wanna direct towards them. I respect that! I do! 

But: 

1) I love our ads. Matt designed most of them and I think they’re friggin’ gorgeous. And in a very small way, I see our beautiful, explicit ads as our tiny contribution to normalizing pornography consumption. Generally, when you see ads for porn they’re kinda… well, I mean, they’re kinda gross. I mean, sorry, to each their own, “Don’t Yuck My Yum” and all that. But, they are. So here we’ve got OUR porn ads and they’re still super explicit while also being beautiful! Because the two are not mutually exclusive! Yeah, go ahead and click on that pretty picture of graphic sex and try out a porn site! That's right, it's not dirty and gross, I'm glad we can all agree :D

2) We earn Actual Money from our ads. I love the idea of benevolently providing our sex education comics as a free resource to the world with no strings attached, but also OJST is the sole source of income for two people. Two people with a cat who depends on them to feed him the food that they buy from the money they earn through their website! 

BUT: Matt and I really do wanna facilitate people directing other folks to the site and having super graphic ads IS an active deterrent to a number of potential readers. 

SO WHAT TO DO, EH? 

Wait, I shouldn’t have told you about this because it’s too soon for me to share what we came up with :-/ I’m sorry, I didn’t set out to be a cock-tease-y jerk. I just started writing and then… Hm. Ok. Well. 

We came up with a possible alternative and I’m really excited about it. Like, genuinely excited. And I promise I’ll tell you about it when it has been developed enough to show off! Man, this is a terrible update. That’s twice now I’ve been like “I was gunna tell you something but then I changed my mind.” God, why do you people put up with me.

Ok, ok, here. Here is an illustration I did for GladRags to promote their brand new menstrual cup, XO Flo. I don’t take on commissions because I don’t have time but the owner is, like, one of my closest friends? But the thing is I told her I’d have it done on the 7th but then I got so wrapped up in preparing for our trip on the 9th that I just straight up fucking forgot all about it and then when I was trying to organize my To Do lists yesterday I realized my mistake and sent that over with a thousand apologies because I am the Literal Worst. It’s ok, she told me we’re still friends and the only reason she gave me a deadline was because I told her to and it was completely arbitrary anyway. 

Here’s the thing, though: God, I am so bad at coloring. So I took a pass at it and it was super off-putting so then I had to strong-arm poor Matt into making it look better when he already had had a full day of work and just wanted to be done. I am not only the worst friend, I am also the worst wife. Just: a real winner here, all around. But it was WORTH. IT. because I think his coloring job looks beautiful. People always assume that in addition to drawing OJST I must also color it, but nope, that is all Matt. I mean, the first year was me. But the last two have been him. 

Ok, ok, ok. Is this enough #Quality #Content? No. No, it probably is not. BUT IT’S WHAT YER GETTING. 

You’re welcome. 

(I'm sorry)