Right, so.. I intended to make an announcement a few weeks (?) ago..
But then things happened and that announcement suddenly became kind of irrelevant..

So here's a more up to date announcement/statement... thing..


Due to extenuating circumstances that are far too complicated and frankly embarrassing to go into publicly..
Other than a certain someone in my life owes me a lot of fricking money because I decided to be helpful... I've gone from semi-financially stable, to effectively broke in the space of about a month.. And it's likely to be some time before this situation is corrected..

This means several things..


First and foremost.. As much as I'd rather not for probably another 6 months to even a year.. I need to reopen for new commissions, effective semi-immediately.. (Need to iron out a few things first..)


..Now before anyone gets the urge to strangle me, I've not forgotten about everything else I currently owe..
More recent things are in the pipe to get finished as soon as possible.. (hoping a month or less, but don't quote me on that..)

But then there is the really old stuff from when I had my little.. collapse.. some time back.. y'know, the thing that a lot of people are probably kind of mad at me for at this point..
That entire production queue effectively imploded on itself because.. well.. Let's be honest, I was an idiot and bit off more than I could chew during a not good portion of my life..

What am I doing about that? Well, my original plan was just to refund everyone involved and reset back to zero as it were..
That.. isn't even a remote possibility now any time soon because of recent events..

So after a lot of thought, I've realized I need to start putting out new content anyway.. I'll just slog through it and hope I don't drown/burn out..
The catch is, at this point I've lost a lot of the original files, particularly for the YCH's.. And I've definitely misplaced pretty much all of the original notes containing instructions... (These are pretty old..)
And even if that wasn't the case, the numerous multiple-slot YCH's would've been the death of me.. A mistake I'm never repeating..

As such, I'll be getting in touch with people on the list in batches.. They'll have two options.
A new or modified commission with updated details, all of which upgraded to full color process commissions free of charge.
Particularly old commissioners on the list will likely be offered additional bonuses on a case by case basis.

Either that or they can opt for a refund, which unfortunately will result in a rather long wait..

I plan on just.. biting the bullet and cranking out as much art as possible over the next while because frankly I've been a little creatively starved thanks to my life as of late.. So, barring anything utterly ridiculous happening, this should get things moving along relatively quickly.. Particularly if I can resolve the decidedly rather ridiculous YCH situation which has been the worst bottleneck..


So.. yeah.. that's the plan, so to speak..
I'm sure some people are going to be irritated about it, frankly.. I can't afford to worry about that at this point..
I want this resolved probably more than anyone else, and this is the best I can do.


Also, as tempting as it might be to contact me via note first regarding this, that will only slow things down..
I WILL get in touch with you on my own.. I just need to get things in order first.

(I'm also leaving comments enabled on this in good faith.. Please don't make me change my mind.. )