January Break(ish), Ipad Upgrade, Tier changes(IMPORTANT) and New... JOB? (Plz Read) (Patreon)

(Bear with me on this one y'all, lots happening at once xwx' if you wanna skip some, I have separated it in topics)

Puggy here folks, Happy new year everyone! 2024 is coming in with some changes, but I also wanted to thank ya for keeping up with me, for the support you all constantly send over, and for the undying patience for those rewards, thank you so much, and let's have an even better year ahead of us!

💅January break ⏰

As I have been doing for the past couple years, taking a break on January from Patreon work, "mostly", but the reasons are a little different this time.  But despite that, sending refunds for all my reward tiers (Winking Goblin, Greedy Imp and Royal Court) so we are good for this month, and we can resume our works by February.

✨New Ipad (thank you all 💖)

My main work device has been a 2nd-gen 10.5" 64gb iPad Pro, wich has been serving me well, but as I started to make bigger, more ellaborate pieces, it started being insufficient, but thankfully, with the support you all give me, I managed to get another iPad upgrade on December, I got a 11-inch M2 128gb iPad Pro, and it costed me pretty much a kidney, but I think I managed to have 'em take the bad one... I think ;p

But rly, thank you all so, so much for this, I couldn't have done it without all of you, and I hope to make even nicer stuff with it, this thing has been running like a dream.

The old one actually came as a nice (and honestly, overdue) upgrade for Guil, and I hope it helps him on his works.

💼 New (side)JOB?? 🐸

So... this have been in discussion for a few months now, and with the tier and schedule changes I am planning, might be not only doable but also help me with my patreon work, AND be rly towards a career path I wanted to pursue for over a decade.

I was gracefully offered a position by the moist folks over Full Frontal Frog as an Artist, and am rly excited to join, as I have been a fan and follower of 'em basically from day 0, and hope to be a good addition to the team~

I will be basically work 2 days a week for them, wich still makes me able to keep this patreon, wich means you won't be getting rid of me so easily ;3

⏳ Tier Changes and New Workload/Schedule 🎯

(these changes only refer to Puggy's tiers, Guil's won't be affected)

- Winking Goblin & Greedy Imp:

For a long while now I have been having trouble delivering consistently for both these tiers, and despite my efforts, the situation lingered, and over the years, what started as a way to have affordable and quick pictures by me, kept getting more and more complex, and without having to put these supporters on the short end of stuff, I sadly decided to terminate both these tiers, effective by February 2024, I am not sure when or IF I will reopen these, but it was for the better for now. 

To KEEP YOUR ACCESS TO OUR PATREON, if you wish, please consider joining on another tier as soon as possible.

All the due rewards will STILL be made if those affected wish so, ofc, no reward will be lost.
Alternatively, I will offer those affected with due rewards the option to convert those rewards into stream hours if they wish. (contact me over discord for more info)

- Royal Court (& Schedule):

Generally I have been having a good experience with this one, and will keep it, but with changes. Some people have started to pile up on some hours, and with my soon-to-be tighter schedule, I needed to take action before it became a worse problem, so, effective by February 2024, the Royal Court tier will be migrated to a smaller, but cheaper tier, that will now offer just 3h/month of stream, by doing this, I will be able to reorganize my schedule to accomodate evenly the new job at FFF, the recurring Royal Court rewards, and separate an equal part of my weekly work to dedicate into working on the rewards backlog.

For those afected by this change, In order to migrate you tier, please contact Puggy ASAP on discord, so we can do the proccess together, before January is over and the next billing takes place, after that, the OLD Royal Court will be deactivated and only the  NEW one will remain.

Naturally, those already holding a place at Royal Court will all be consulted first about this migration, but if after that, by any reason, we still have spots open on the New Royal Court by February, we can offer those to others interested, in order of priority as it follows: > Patrons affected by the Winking Goblin and Greedy Imp termination > former Royal Court Patrons and current Shiny Coin patrons.

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I think that's all the news I had to share for now, I am sorry for the long text and the inconvenience some of these news may be, but it's all being made to get a better balance of work, and to hopefully, finish this massive backlog that has been mocking me for so long.

Let's make 2024 our b*tch, y'all, stay tuned~