Pausing $25 and $50 tiers, and moving all mail stuff to $15 (Patreon)

Hey all, I need to give myself time to catch up on pinups for the $25 tier and sketch comms for the $50 tier, so I've unpublished those tiers so nobody can rejoin them, and I'll reach out to anybody still on them toward the end of the month if they don't edit their pledges. I wrote some thoughts down on changes I wanna make after a bunch of hard thinking, so sorry it ran a little long! TLDR; 

• $2 and $5 tiers are unchanged, 
• $10 tier is just priority comm slots and 10% discount but it also applies to adopts as well as comms now, 
• and $15 tier is where all mail benefits are now: stickers, miniprints, and anything else I can think of each month. 
• $25 tier is gone but its benefits have been moved down to $15, 
• and $50 tier is gone for now, at least until I catch up on sketches.

I'm really sorry to everybody who's been waiting on pinups to get made from polls, or waiting for me to continue streaming to work on sketch slots, I know I'll have an easier time focusing on finishing them without any more coming in. Also, we finally got a 2nd computer back in the office so my partner and i aren't sharing one PC for work, so I can actually get going on streams a lot more comfortably again; also also, I'm a lot more stable now than at the beginning of the year, so i can make up the money from those pledges elsewhere with my Etsy, Payhip, and adopts.

Regarding other tier updates:  $2 and $5 are unchanged, but I've simplified the $10 tier (and expanded the discount benefit), and added a $15 tier for mail.

The 🍕 Pizza tier for $10 is now just for priority commission slots, and the 10% discount off commissions has been expanded to include adopts if they have a flat price or autobuy price - more details at the bottom about discounts. Basically it's just the digital version of this now, I won't be offering mail benefits on this tier anymore - I've recorded everybody who's been on on the $10 tier who I owe stickers to, and I'll take care of them along with the new $15 tier below.

The 🥡 Doggy Bag tier for $15 is where I'm gonna put all of the mail stuff now - I'll have at least one sticker each month (almost done with two for April!) and I'll include miniprints whenever I finish them as I catch up on winners and runners-up from past pinup polls!

My reasoning about the mail changes: unfortunately Patreon made it a headache to have a digital vs traditional version of tiers where I wanted to have mail benefits but also wanted to give people the choice if they wanted mail or not, so I'm just consolidating it into one for people who know they want at least a sticker each month along with potential extras like more stickers or miniprints each month I finish a pinup from among poll choices. Also, postage prices have gone up a little and I've gotten a more realistic idea of the costs that go into printing and mailing stickers, so bumping it up to $15 makes sure I'm not losing money on this tier.

Regarding the 10% discount on adopts, a little example breakdown - So if an adopt is going to go to auction and I shared it early on my Discord for patrons to get a first look, or if it's already up for auction, and say it has an autobuy price of $300, a Pizza tier patron can let me know they'd like to go for the autobuy and they can get $30 off to make it $270, and still get all the extras that might come with the autobuy price. Similarly, if an adopt has a flat price of $80, a Pizza patron can claim it for $72.

But yeah, I did some hard thinking and wanted to trust my gut and put a pause on things that have been building up now that I have the option to - I've been making huge pushes to clear out my queues of owed stuff while also resting as much as I feel the need to, and Patreon pinups & sketches were the last place where I needed to decide what to do... I already feel a lot better making my mind up to focus on what I've got on my plate and simplify things some more going forward. I'll keep working the hardest I can to get everything drawn!