updates (Patreon)

Note: I'm currently sick atm, so I'm struggling to get anything done. More sick then the usual all the time sick, cold or flu, or something. Shrugs. I tryin.

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Long Journal incoming with large updates, including Patreon.

Alright, so it's a long time coming, I think, or maybe not so long. Things are still going on, and 3 months have turned into several years. Opportunities, health, and everything has changed. For everyone on my discord, it's been updated much more then journal places on FA, IB, and Pat. And I had decided some time ago, but haven't gotten around to enacting it, or changing the Patreon, but it's sorely overdue. I can't stream anymore, not proper, my net's often just barely above some dial up speed because I'm running off crap net since someone else keeps destroying the hotspot. So I can't schedule streams, I can't Twitch, a LOT of things. I can VC to a degree, on certain days, but since I've not kept up on public things, it's not a big thing since I can't keep it consistent.

It's been back and forth on the verge of some points where I would take the chances of talking about leaving and living in my car and not, though I am classified by the state as homeless. The camper has it's own issues, but I don't own it, and I really don't care for it, but I think that's partially got to do with the entire situation of who I'm living with. I've still been trying to get disability, but to do that, I most likely have to have a proper diagnosis, and though I've had a LOT of tests, and they have found some oddities they didn't expect and asked if I knew I had these issues, some I knew, some I didn't, they haven't found a proper cause for the decline, though they have said stress is probably heavily aggravating it. I'm going to attempt to get a disability lawyer, even without that, but we'll see how that goes, since they're starting to threaten to take my food stamps since I don't have proof I'm not an able bodied adult without dependants. (Which, I do have dependents, but it's a complicated situation. I'm still taking care of my kids, as much as I can, because someone else isn't, but I have to be careful about not offending certain people. I do at least still have ONE long term person that is here physically that is supportive, which is Esmeralda's teacher, who she is very lucky to have back, though for how long, don't know.) I want to get back to having a place for my kids to stay with me again. I want to fix things. I am limited, and lately I've just been getting madder and madder at the entire thing, though I still feel part of the situation, is my fault. It's also because of how other people act and what they do, but it also is how I am acting too. I've had a lot of people tell me it's not my fault, or I'm doing the best I can with what I've been fed, but I'm still saying it's a good portion my fault. It's my life. I've done things that have effected people, and they have done things to me, too. If I keep saying nothing or little is my fault, it's not a good example for my kids and etc. Though it's still a whole complicated mess I'm not gonna get into details about it, here, though I will say, I'm living and ward of someone who isn't the.... well, yeah, anyway. My kids cannot stay overnight because of this, but I do take them food, sew their things, and buy them things they need as much as I can, because they're in the area. When they're sick, during the day they typically stay with me and I take them to the doctors and such. I'm doing the best I can, though it's not anywhere near as much as I want to do.

Anyhoo, onto the work stuff. Patreon I can't keep up with properly, the goals, the promises, the rewards. But it is a LARGE portion of income, even though it don't seem like much. It's something I can count on at least every month to a degree to pay one or maybe two bills, though I have several. I would love to expand it, make it bigger, and do better, but I can't. So the changes that will be happening, are as follows, or what will be the new/current things (will be for BOTH the Patreons, SFW and NSFW):

Currently, due to health issues, backlog, and circumstances, everything is posted for free. 

Due to current living and family circumstances, I'm not able to stream, at all. I don't know when this will change, but I do want it to change. I can't forsee it changing anytime soon, though.

There will no longer be requests available on Patreon. I haven't been able to keep up with it. I DO have a 'Drawing Ideas/Request' channel on Discord, that is available for me and other artists on my discord (there are quite a few, actually) to use, that is allowed for anyone to post in. Long as it's not like, a whole bunch of just a person wanting a bunch of stuff with their OC or what not. Common courtesy, you know? Wing it interactions won't be a thing either. I didn't get very far on that one anyway. That being said, there won't be voting, either. The discord channel has it so anyone can vote on those, anyhoo.

Does this mean all the requests from previous are going to be dropped? No, they won't. I have several admin's/mods who are slowly working with me to compile the things together so I can have a list. I just can't justify having the list grow exponentially when I won't be able to keep up with it. So it's growth has to stop, but I am keeping what is on there up until April 2023.

So basically, commissions will remain open. YCH will still be made. But Patreon (and Ko-fi now, getting posted to.) Are going to be basically tip accounts. Everything is still going to be posted for free, and requests/ideas are going to be just on the discord, with basically almost anyone who wants access to it, can. I hope I'll still get the same support on Patreon and stuff, but I know I probably won't, since I can't provide what I kept saying I was going to, and there aren't really big rewards or anything like that on there, anymore. I still will be actively posting to FA, IB, Patreon, Kofi, and Discord. Discord always gets everything first, though, just because that's what I'm on most of the time, and the basic 'hub' of communication for everything and where I keep track of things with admins and mods. So yes, please do stay on Patreon and/or Kofi, I still get paid from it, but do not expect promises on specific content requests. I do occasionally use discord to do requests and raffles and etc.

So yeah. Hopefully you're still here, putting up with my absurd amount of crap, and if you are, I greatly appreciate it, because I will be the first to start admiting and saying I have made many MANY mistakes, bad decisions, and wronged a lot of people. In my opinion. That being said, hopefully, as I keep saying, over and over, things will change soon, though I don't know how or what, but overall, I still do want, a place of my own, calmer situations, doing positive things, being able to keep up with my work (here) and learning with my kids and others. Lots of repetitive blah blah.