Changes by Patreon (Patreon)

I'm a rambler. Time to ramble.

Please consider sticking around in regardless of what I am about to say. I still need your support. I cannot stress that enough. Patreon represents the eventual freedom to draw whatever I want whenever I want which happens to line up with the kind of content you all like. The reason I am able to draw what you see here is because of the support I get and the more support I've been getting recently has a direct correlation to the additional art I've been able to draw.

I like what I do here and I would like to do it full time eventually. For now I have to address certain things.

First and foremost... I can't post the Lana/ Cane comic here which complicates what I'm actually able to do with what I had planned. The content is banned. I didn't know how to announce it because well... it really bummed me out and I didn't know how to broach the subject. The content thing actually happened weeks ago but I figured now is a good a time as any to post it. That doesn't necessarily mean the comic is cancelled but without this being the primary vector to post it I find it hard to justify it's existence when people here mainly stick around for the pinups and colored sketches. So far comics have always been reaaally tertiary. I would like your honest input. Although I always liked the idea of doing comics the reality is that doing them well requires an amount of time that would severely diminish my ability to do pinups and if you would prefer me do pinups with writeups instead I would gladly do that in place of comics since it fulfills the desires of multiple camps.

The next thing and arguably the main thing I should address is the fac that Patreon is making changes to billing. Patreon will start charging you $0.35 + 2.9% of your pledge.

$1 becomes $1.38

$5 becomes $5.50

$10 becomes $10.64

And so on.

I am not happy about this. This is not my doing. Reward tiers are no longer simple flat numbers I had advertised and there is no way I can opt out of this system. If I had the option to continue absorbing the cost I would. Patreon pages all across the board are already losing patrons because this essentially punishes people who support multiple pages as, if I understand the new policy correctly, you are going to be charged processing fees for every single pledge you make individually. They say it's because they want subscriptions/ payments to be based on when you pledge and not a one time fee when you pledge then and then an additional pledge at the beginning of every month but the more I read into it the harder time I have believing in their reasoning. You should be able to schedule all your payments to happen at one time so you only pay a one time processing fee at worst but this isn't an option. It's much like how we, people who run patreon pages, don't have the option to use funds from our own pages to support others. We still have to pay processing fees even though the site already has the money and it's going from one balance to another. Mysterious that.

I was happy with them taking the processing fees out of my end. I had no complaints. I do not see this as a win for me by being forced to see the fees being forced upon you.

Still... I will continue to use patreon. It has been a blessing for the most part but the rumblings I've been hearing has really been making me nervous. I wanted the page and indeed the content I make to grow over time but this has a lot of us shook as people rightfully refuse to support the website even it if it means no longer supporting the content creators they came here for.