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3 years ago
Hyello! Good always everyone~
Lots of stuff has been happening at home and especially in my mind. I have some news on my situation and what I'll do in the future~ There will be a lot of decisions that I'd like you to give me feedback on, so that we can find a good result everyone can be happy with~
Disclaimer: nothing dire! everything's good!
To start off, this past month, as well as this one, I'm trying my best to clear everything up within my family, especially when it comes to my sexuality and gender identity. I fortunately have amazing friends and a kind sister that are super supportive of my current project (Project APOCALYPS) of living my own life better, especially with my body. Expect a full on coming out status update and some little changes to the profile soon, at least as soon as I finally come out to my mother. Now, with my psyche out of the way, let's focus on things that are more central to my future plans for my content.
I decided I'll drop out of university. I got into university just because I thought I could learn some interesting things that could broaden my knowledge to serve as more fuel for my art. It backfired completely. Lessons were boring and uncaring, exams were dreadful and stopped me from doing anything I held dear, I learned little to nothing new. Of course, I will never stop learning, as I want to improve myself further every day, but this is certainly not the way to do it, at least for my case. Of course, if I ever find courses that interest me, whether they be courses that give off certifications (like those my parent o-so-love) or those very interesting and fun courses on Skillshare (not sponsored yet), I will surely take those classes and learn all from them~ And without the dire need to pass some useless university exams, I can finally have the time to return to do things I lost along the way (like finally catching up on anime and finally continue learning Japanese!!)
Thanks to my motivational coach, who's super lovable all the time, I realized I wasn't taking seriously my work here, nor I was giving my art the centrality in my life I was saying it had. I was getting anxious about my work, especially for the future, and ended up procrastinating a lot in certain aspects. So, I starter reinventing myself, thinking more realistically on what I want to do and achieve, plan out things in an organic way, and overall getting pumped for the future instead of looking at if full of worries. So, I'll now share with you the changes and introductions I thought of, as well as my plans for this brighter future:
First of all, a change in commissions must be made. The prices were not descriptive of the amount of work and customer service I provided, nor there was any way for anyone to know exactly what kind of work I was truly providing, what the customer service would entail, and what were additional options. Additionally, thanks to the experience with March commissions, it was clear that many of the sheet's info were not easy to understand, or were completely misunderstood, so a change of the sheet itself will definitely be done. Here's what I was thinking:
https://sta.sh/06v1h5suk9m
Prices changed quite a bit, but the choices were made taking in consideration the perks and customer service I already provided, but wasn't clear I did provide. Additionally thanks to the asterisks and bonuses, commission info should be a lot clearer to read now. May expand or change stuff still, especially depending on the feedback I receive from you on this various changes~ Of course as I'll grow and learn to do more stuff, I will expand and rework this sheet to include all the things I can provide~
Onto more exciting stuff~ I'm planning on opening some accounts on membership platforms! I passed all yesterday analyzing and reading through Terms of Service to look for the best platform I could get in. These were my results:
https://sta.sh/01fsljsvllx3
As you can see, I'm thinking of opening up a Patreon, FANBOX, fantia and expanding my Gumroad (I was really, really impressed with this one, and super happy to learn what I can do here). Of course these are the ones that will work for me the best, I'm not saying that they won't work for someone else. Also, about the dubious characters: I had my fair share of comments (especially on some Pokémon and Little Nightmares content I've been doing) telling me that such content is "illegal" and that I shouldn't do this kind of content off of "children". I'll say this once so that I will hopefully never need to say it again: they are not real, they are imaginary characters. They do not have age, and concepts such as "underage" do not apply for them (that is why I labeled them "dubious"). As such, any type of content with them is legal. Plus, I don't and won't do explicit scenes with any character whatsoever. Each person has their own opinion and things they are not comfortable seeing. I have certain fetishes or characters I cannot even see, cause I literally have a gut reaction and risk vomiting (i.e. some of the stuff I do not do in commissions for example) or still dislike very much. However, I do not lament that fact in the comments of such content. I don't stick them to a cross. I just skip that content. I just like these characters because of the interactions they show and their designs, not because they are "minors". The fact they are "underage" at all never crosses my mind when making this content, because for me, it is not important. If you don't like it, I totally understand, but if so, just skip me and move onto better artists and pics~
*Ahem* After that little digression, let's focus on what will I do on the membership platforms. Will I move onto there, never to return to DA, Reddit, Twitter and FA? No, I would never do that. There will always be free content here and on the other sites for all to enjoy. Membership platforms, for me, are a way to create early access or bonus content, allow myself to live off my art alone and truly become independent (hopefully also going away from here, finding a nice home somewhere else) and thank people who support me. On that note though, it was pretty hard to think of the tier system... especially at this stage in which I have to start all of these things. Here's what I thought of for now, let me know what you think, what you think I could change/remove/add from each tier, and if you have some quirky ideas for the names~
https://sta.sh/026gbunulg3s
Lastly, here is a project for the further future: streaming. I would love to stream, doing art on stream, maybe play games, definitely do music etc. I yet have to think of a nice plan for streams and without me being at peace with my own body, but stubbornly wanting to show myself on stream, I'd have to wait until I change some stuff through the aforementioned project APOCALYPS. But anyway, I checked mainly two platforms and did something similar to what I did for membership platforms:
https://sta.sh/0iy64bfjpod
Will need to contact the support on all these sites for the dubious characters, but I'm positive because of my no-explicit policy.
Thank you all for reading through this, let me know your thoughts on this stuff and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities~
Lots of stuff has been happening at home and especially in my mind. I have some news on my situation and what I'll do in the future~ There will be a lot of decisions that I'd like you to give me feedback on, so that we can find a good result everyone can be happy with~
Disclaimer: nothing dire! everything's good!
To start off, this past month, as well as this one, I'm trying my best to clear everything up within my family, especially when it comes to my sexuality and gender identity. I fortunately have amazing friends and a kind sister that are super supportive of my current project (Project APOCALYPS) of living my own life better, especially with my body. Expect a full on coming out status update and some little changes to the profile soon, at least as soon as I finally come out to my mother. Now, with my psyche out of the way, let's focus on things that are more central to my future plans for my content.
I decided I'll drop out of university. I got into university just because I thought I could learn some interesting things that could broaden my knowledge to serve as more fuel for my art. It backfired completely. Lessons were boring and uncaring, exams were dreadful and stopped me from doing anything I held dear, I learned little to nothing new. Of course, I will never stop learning, as I want to improve myself further every day, but this is certainly not the way to do it, at least for my case. Of course, if I ever find courses that interest me, whether they be courses that give off certifications (like those my parent o-so-love) or those very interesting and fun courses on Skillshare (not sponsored yet), I will surely take those classes and learn all from them~ And without the dire need to pass some useless university exams, I can finally have the time to return to do things I lost along the way (like finally catching up on anime and finally continue learning Japanese!!)
Thanks to my motivational coach, who's super lovable all the time, I realized I wasn't taking seriously my work here, nor I was giving my art the centrality in my life I was saying it had. I was getting anxious about my work, especially for the future, and ended up procrastinating a lot in certain aspects. So, I starter reinventing myself, thinking more realistically on what I want to do and achieve, plan out things in an organic way, and overall getting pumped for the future instead of looking at if full of worries. So, I'll now share with you the changes and introductions I thought of, as well as my plans for this brighter future:
First of all, a change in commissions must be made. The prices were not descriptive of the amount of work and customer service I provided, nor there was any way for anyone to know exactly what kind of work I was truly providing, what the customer service would entail, and what were additional options. Additionally, thanks to the experience with March commissions, it was clear that many of the sheet's info were not easy to understand, or were completely misunderstood, so a change of the sheet itself will definitely be done. Here's what I was thinking:
https://sta.sh/06v1h5suk9m
Prices changed quite a bit, but the choices were made taking in consideration the perks and customer service I already provided, but wasn't clear I did provide. Additionally thanks to the asterisks and bonuses, commission info should be a lot clearer to read now. May expand or change stuff still, especially depending on the feedback I receive from you on this various changes~ Of course as I'll grow and learn to do more stuff, I will expand and rework this sheet to include all the things I can provide~
Onto more exciting stuff~ I'm planning on opening some accounts on membership platforms! I passed all yesterday analyzing and reading through Terms of Service to look for the best platform I could get in. These were my results:
https://sta.sh/01fsljsvllx3
As you can see, I'm thinking of opening up a Patreon, FANBOX, fantia and expanding my Gumroad (I was really, really impressed with this one, and super happy to learn what I can do here). Of course these are the ones that will work for me the best, I'm not saying that they won't work for someone else. Also, about the dubious characters: I had my fair share of comments (especially on some Pokémon and Little Nightmares content I've been doing) telling me that such content is "illegal" and that I shouldn't do this kind of content off of "children". I'll say this once so that I will hopefully never need to say it again: they are not real, they are imaginary characters. They do not have age, and concepts such as "underage" do not apply for them (that is why I labeled them "dubious"). As such, any type of content with them is legal. Plus, I don't and won't do explicit scenes with any character whatsoever. Each person has their own opinion and things they are not comfortable seeing. I have certain fetishes or characters I cannot even see, cause I literally have a gut reaction and risk vomiting (i.e. some of the stuff I do not do in commissions for example) or still dislike very much. However, I do not lament that fact in the comments of such content. I don't stick them to a cross. I just skip that content. I just like these characters because of the interactions they show and their designs, not because they are "minors". The fact they are "underage" at all never crosses my mind when making this content, because for me, it is not important. If you don't like it, I totally understand, but if so, just skip me and move onto better artists and pics~
*Ahem* After that little digression, let's focus on what will I do on the membership platforms. Will I move onto there, never to return to DA, Reddit, Twitter and FA? No, I would never do that. There will always be free content here and on the other sites for all to enjoy. Membership platforms, for me, are a way to create early access or bonus content, allow myself to live off my art alone and truly become independent (hopefully also going away from here, finding a nice home somewhere else) and thank people who support me. On that note though, it was pretty hard to think of the tier system... especially at this stage in which I have to start all of these things. Here's what I thought of for now, let me know what you think, what you think I could change/remove/add from each tier, and if you have some quirky ideas for the names~
https://sta.sh/026gbunulg3s
Lastly, here is a project for the further future: streaming. I would love to stream, doing art on stream, maybe play games, definitely do music etc. I yet have to think of a nice plan for streams and without me being at peace with my own body, but stubbornly wanting to show myself on stream, I'd have to wait until I change some stuff through the aforementioned project APOCALYPS. But anyway, I checked mainly two platforms and did something similar to what I did for membership platforms:
https://sta.sh/0iy64bfjpod
Will need to contact the support on all these sites for the dubious characters, but I'm positive because of my no-explicit policy.
Thank you all for reading through this, let me know your thoughts on this stuff and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities~
