Plans at hand (Mid December) (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

These past days I've been a bit more sluggish on my works. In part because I also have been needing to focus on house stuff (making breakfast, attending the cats, answering the doorbell, etc.) And in other, if I'm being honest, I've been more in a gaming mood rather than drawing, so the works I've been tackling have been at a more sluggish pace sadly (Haven't been in the mood for streaming the comms, since some of them are meant to be private)

In any case, my plan at hand is trying to finish the commissions at hand in the following days.

I'm visiting a friend on the 24th-25th to celebrate Christmas with his family, and he will be visiting me on the 31st -1st to celebrate New Year.

However, I do plan to take from Dec 24th - Jan 1st as a "mini vacation", the main goal would be to just tackle the stuff I want, be it personal comics or focus o games, requests, etc.

I've been a lot in the mood of World Flipper (sadly is a mobile game, but seems like the servers will shut down sometime relatively soon, so part of me want to experience the Stories the most I can) And to a degree it involves certain engagement trying to do daily event and such

I really hope to finish the commissions by the 24th, in case I don't I'll likely be using 26th or so to work on those.

I will be posting some of the comms once I have at least 3-5 pieces to post/share.

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On a related matter, January (or better said, the end of December) likely will be far lighter to me on the art posting department, since I basically won't be having as much art to schedule ( unless I draw a f-ton of mini requests and/or in my mini vacation)

At least on the deviantArt side, since I want to schedule art (mainly most liked pieces) to post on other social media (using Postybirb for this)

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Speaking of deviantArt, I'm not sure if you all read my recent journal/post on dA, I had a couple of drawings removed from dA, these beings the request where Ryza and Klaudia from Atelier Ryza were Kissing naked (Ryza being transformed into a mermaid) and the other being the piece with the Mermaid Melody mermaids hypnotized.

As far as I knew, I was within the rules since Ryza and Klaudia were 20-21 in the second and third game, and the mermaid melody piece was censored...

This basically drives me to either censor pieces more or just put a teaser of the piece while I schedule it on other platforms)

I asked the dA staff A LOT of questions (took like 3 hours formulating and sorting all these questions, mainly asking stuff like 

Can I lewd a character if:

• She is under 18 in a game, but 18+ in subsequent series?
• She appears underage in a prologue or flashbacks?
• She is a loli dragon/elf? If not, would it work if I age their bodies?
• Have multiple ages? (Like Edea and Agnes from Bravely Default, where they are 18 and 21 in the american release but 16 and 19 in the Japanese version IIRC)
• Looks petite but is employed (Example: Aoba from New Game or Tatsumaki)?
• Are created with Adult Bodies (Like Angela from Library of Ruina Link or Android 21 from Dragon Ball)
• Have multiple instances/versions of the character (Like Star Fire from DC Comics)
• I'm using an alternate self, be it a canon entity from the future or some other timeline like Mikuru from Haruhi Suzumiya or Future Betty from Atomic Betty

You get the idea, I sent over 30 question with scenarios involving characters, censorship and how to appeal, since all the times I've appealed, it got denied. No explanation, no argument, just a "Fuck you, it violates our TOS" (Not in those words, but the sentiment is clearly there).

So yeah, seems like censoring a piece is not enough, so I'll just be cropping or putting a big black square to comply with a piece the best as possible.

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On the matter of Birthday Gifts, I'll be honest, I usually reserve it for my friends IF I have the time and energy, and usually to close ones. Doing something for every Patreon likely would take a lot of time, so best I can offer would be like some sort of token to all Patreons at the start of each year (for Patreons Level A, 2, 3 and 4) and that being a discount when upgrading or a quick doodle/sketch)

Keeping track of everyone's birthdays might be kind of hard (plus I would need to ask individually or open up a form, check said list every few days or a couple of weeks, likely create reminders, check if the Patreon is active on the date, etc...

So me handling a voucher when a Patreon meets certain requirements, and be more like "Redeem it by the end of the year" seems more affordable (Again this "voucher" being a quick/small sketch or a discount in a commission or upgrade)

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Again, I'm working on the commissions, at a sluggish pace for the time being >_>' but will get to it.

That said, I hope you all are having a good week.