patreon v2.0 fanclub edition official informational ! (Patreon)

good morning and happy belated groundhogs day my loves! today im officially explaining the big changes that were made to my patreon, what to expect from tiers, and more stuff! info about February plans, content, etc is going to be up shortly as well following this big message. read ahead if you care! or dont :9

first, let's talk about the biggest changes, new rewards, and what's happening with older rewards!

a big new feature of subbing to my patreon is now having access to discount codes for my gumroad! my gumroad is a free standing library where i will be uploading all of my photosets in a menu setting, so you can pick and chose what you'd like to have instead of having to navigate through my giant feed just to see some photos. i usually try my hardest to disclose the price of my content on there as well so you can see why i price things the way i do! 

please follow my gumroad for updates, email notifications of when i release a photoset pack, and more: https://candysqz.gumroad.com/  

the biggest and super exciting reward i've added is physical prints!!!! as you guys know ive been trying for like over a year to finish my shopify and get it up for you guys, between issues with volunteers and just general pricing issues i'm going to put a temporary hold on my shopify and merch until i get a bit more stable here, so for people who wanted physical stuff from me this is for you!

every month i'll be printing you 2 or 3 prints for signing, decorating, and if your tier includes it - kissing cosplay prints and hand mailing them to you from my p.o. box! there are two categories for prints, cute and loving. cute is more adorable and colorful where loving is going to be slightly more emotive, sensual, or impactful! basically if i do ecchi stuff it'll be in loving and my cutesy idoly stuff is going in cute.

i know this isnt everyones cup of tea but this is something i'm super passionate about, i'm an idol at heart and i really miss doing things like this to connect with people who like the stuff i post. it means a lot to me for people to be interested in it in the first place!

similar to my carrot sales from my ko-fi, there will be times where i send out other things and make it an optional thing for you guys as well!

besides the hand touched ones, there will also be tiers with automatic patreon provided mini prints - i currently only have one and am working on more! 

speaking of stuff thats still wip,

one thing many other cosplays do that i do not is giving out sets as tier rewards - i've tried similar things to this in the past but i've never done the menu method where i let you pick one from a list etc, 

this is still something i'm setting up and won't be done until march! i have to get all of my content together and photoset it up for you first. i'm sorry it's not done yet! i'm still working out a ton of kinks, issues, etc!

ill report more about this in my midmonth update!

even more speaking of tiers and rewards,

this has been a really big issue in my community for like, way way way too long, and i've been avoiding really addressing the big boobed elephant in the room.

basically, i'm not comfortable with being seen as an nsfw creator. i don't like when people leak stolen content from me alongside videos of people having actual sex or naked people just because i have a large chest and occasionally wear a bra or tank top for cosplay, i'm not really into the excessive sexualization of me where it cannot be turned off and on because of the body type i have. i'm not comfortable when people comment sexual stuff under just photos of me in cosplay that aren't ecchi or lewd at all. i am a younger cosplayer and i like to be seen as "cute" more than sexy. i have many years of my life left to be sexy and want to use my youth to be cute, maybe one day i'll change my mind but that's not really on my list right now. i am a very shy and conservative person irl. 

i don't really mind what you guys do with my content in your own personal lives, but i am just a cosplayer like all the other cosplayers. i've never done nude content online, the most extreme content i've ever done is putting things in my mouth and showing my bra lingerie - which is things you can get for free elsewhere online in surplus. i'm not even the type who feels comfortable going to the beach without a teeshirt and shorts on or hugging people, i don't really like being sexualized constantly and people admonishing my work if it isn't sexual. 

i love doing artistic and impactful lewd content but it isn't the only thing i want to do, it's fun to cosplay as characters who look like me. but a very big strain on my mental health is the rigid standard people have set for me where content i do that doesn't show off my body isn't good to people. 

this is one of the reasons i made my gumroad, so people don't come here and sub to a tier just for selfies and get upset i'm not naked in my selfies even though i have said everywhere i'm uncomfortable with that - but i also want to stop advertising in any way that i sell only sexual content so people stop talking about me on sexual websites. i don't want to call what i do nsfw - i feel like its too vague and sets a weird expectation that just traps me in an audience loop of people who want only sexual content, but my content won't be changing. i'll still be posting the same type of stuff here and nothing will really change but stuff that i feel makes me uncomfortable with being widespread will be sold in limited packs on gumroad only in the future.

i'm pretty traumatized from the events of last year and it's made me really afraid to post anything lewder on here, i'm sorry it's been dry if that was the reason you subbed. i'm really afraid of sexual attention only and want to create more of a community based on the things we all like and share together.

inaccessible older content - besides just videos, moving to a lower tier to see new content would now bar you from old content. this is something i'm still finding a solution for.

many other creators do a "time travel" tier that lets people see all of their older content from after a certain point. i'm thinking of doing this after i get all of my cosplays in packs on gumroad so people can still have the content anyways if theyre blocked from it by it being older tier locked without wanting to go to that tier but still having it hosted on here in it's original form. i'd also probably give out video passwords and stuff for that tier, i'm not really sure yet and am still thinking about it.

value based discounts - right now gumroad doesn't let me set up discounts that are percentage based so i have 1-3 dollars, 5 dollar, and 10 dollar discounts running until i get this fixed, it will be fixed! i promise i'm working on it asap as i'm uploading stuff there.

polls - lately tiers that can request stuff and tiers that can vote have been getting absolutely nothing and i feel so horrible about that. i decided as a way to connect with you guys and make this more of a social platform for us i'm going to start doing monthly q&as and polls, where i answer all questions the best i can from you guys. every month there will be either a poll or a q&a! eventually im going to answer the q&as either in a stream or in a video, but for the next month or two i'm focusing on getting cosplays out there to you first before adding things ive historically always fumbled with doing. im also going to actually start doing some requests, adding them to plans and polls, etc !! 

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there is probably so so so much more im forgetting to say - i'll touch on whatever topics i need to in the updates i give throughout the month. 

ask whatever questions you have in the comments ! month plans up shortly. i love you!