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‼️MAJOR UPDATES: Patreon rewards, Pethouse & scheduli...
3 years ago
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Thoughts, and various mad ramblings. I have a lot of news and changes to announce. I'll try to keep it short but bear with me; this could be a long one...
1a. Patreon has never been all that useful to me, but now that more than 2 people have become Patrons and SoFurry.com went down for more than a week (again...), I've decided to utilize it more. For starters, that old journal about me playing with AI art? Yeah, I'll post the usable stuff on there, for illustrative purposes. It won't even be Patron exclusive; anyone who wants to bookmark my Patreon page can see it. (https://www.patreon.com/Mantrid_Brizon) I'll also begin posting all of my serious stories (that means "not porn") on Patreon as well. To gain access to those stories, you will be required to Patron me, HOWEVER, I will not charge you for legitimate stories. The only stories I will require payments for will be Pethouse, because porn isn't my staple, and if you're going to make me write it then I need some shekels for my trouble. Does that make sense?
1b. Give me some time to start posting these free rewards. At the moment, I'm running around like a headless chicken. I'll also figure out more rewards to make it more useful as I go along.
2. Pethouse was originally started to be the erotic Tales of Morveria, but the truth of the matter is that while it was initially a joke title, merely removing the 'n' from "Penthouse Magazine," I actually really, really like it! I took a vote with the inner circle, my most beloved friends who hang out in my private Discord server, and the future of Pethouse is in. ALL erotic stories in ALL universes will now be part of Pethouse! Every erotic story from now until I return to dust will be "Pethouse #whatever: [title]". I'm debating whether or not to roll the older stories into it, but that would be a ton of work and would take time I might not have. (Details in #3!) The subtitles that I usually use to give a snippet of the story's contents will now tell you what universe that story takes place in, eg. "A Tales of Morveria Story"
3. Scheduling... Oh, boy... So, here's where things get weird for me. I wrote a ton of stories and saved a bunch of pictures and so I have a good backlog to use for the next several months. I work full-time, because to my understanding, only the artists can make fat stacks in this fandom, and I ain't that! The business account I've been working for the past two years recently changed hands, and the new company is demanding a lot of changes from their wage slaves. This includes: 11-hour shifts, potentially mandatory weekends, and quadruple the amount of manual labor. (Yay...) I'll try to keep up with my current posting schedule, but I also work afternoons, so instead of posting before I go to work, I'll likely have to post stuff when I come home from work. That means I'll be posting between 00:00 and 01:30 EST. (That's military-time for midnight to 1:30 AM.) In order to make the days line up, I suppose I'll have to shift everything a day early. Tuesdays posts would be on Monday, after the clock strikes midnight? Something like that. This change begins today... I don't know how long this'll last, so it could be temporary or it could be permanent, until I get fed up and quit. Here's the day schedule, for reference...
Monday: Wild-card ⯁
Tuesday: Artwork ♠
Wednesday: Story ♥
Thursday: Artwork ♠
Friday-Saturday-Sunday: Time off ♣
♠ = Artwork is only if there is any is available. I have a decent collection I've been building up, plus my OCs I've been coloring. If I have multiple versions of the same picture, they'll be posted together.
⯁ = This is a "whatever" day where I might post a short story, poetry, a Pethouse teaser, maybe some lore or maybe nothing.
♥ = I have enough backlogged stories to post one a week until the first week of March, and I'm still writing almost every day.
♣ = Everybody needs time off, though even on my off-days I'm still working behind-the-scenes, and I check my accounts once or twice a day.
1a. Patreon has never been all that useful to me, but now that more than 2 people have become Patrons and SoFurry.com went down for more than a week (again...), I've decided to utilize it more. For starters, that old journal about me playing with AI art? Yeah, I'll post the usable stuff on there, for illustrative purposes. It won't even be Patron exclusive; anyone who wants to bookmark my Patreon page can see it. (https://www.patreon.com/Mantrid_Brizon) I'll also begin posting all of my serious stories (that means "not porn") on Patreon as well. To gain access to those stories, you will be required to Patron me, HOWEVER, I will not charge you for legitimate stories. The only stories I will require payments for will be Pethouse, because porn isn't my staple, and if you're going to make me write it then I need some shekels for my trouble. Does that make sense?
1b. Give me some time to start posting these free rewards. At the moment, I'm running around like a headless chicken. I'll also figure out more rewards to make it more useful as I go along.
2. Pethouse was originally started to be the erotic Tales of Morveria, but the truth of the matter is that while it was initially a joke title, merely removing the 'n' from "Penthouse Magazine," I actually really, really like it! I took a vote with the inner circle, my most beloved friends who hang out in my private Discord server, and the future of Pethouse is in. ALL erotic stories in ALL universes will now be part of Pethouse! Every erotic story from now until I return to dust will be "Pethouse #whatever: [title]". I'm debating whether or not to roll the older stories into it, but that would be a ton of work and would take time I might not have. (Details in #3!) The subtitles that I usually use to give a snippet of the story's contents will now tell you what universe that story takes place in, eg. "A Tales of Morveria Story"
3. Scheduling... Oh, boy... So, here's where things get weird for me. I wrote a ton of stories and saved a bunch of pictures and so I have a good backlog to use for the next several months. I work full-time, because to my understanding, only the artists can make fat stacks in this fandom, and I ain't that! The business account I've been working for the past two years recently changed hands, and the new company is demanding a lot of changes from their wage slaves. This includes: 11-hour shifts, potentially mandatory weekends, and quadruple the amount of manual labor. (Yay...) I'll try to keep up with my current posting schedule, but I also work afternoons, so instead of posting before I go to work, I'll likely have to post stuff when I come home from work. That means I'll be posting between 00:00 and 01:30 EST. (That's military-time for midnight to 1:30 AM.) In order to make the days line up, I suppose I'll have to shift everything a day early. Tuesdays posts would be on Monday, after the clock strikes midnight? Something like that. This change begins today... I don't know how long this'll last, so it could be temporary or it could be permanent, until I get fed up and quit. Here's the day schedule, for reference...
Monday: Wild-card ⯁
Tuesday: Artwork ♠
Wednesday: Story ♥
Thursday: Artwork ♠
Friday-Saturday-Sunday: Time off ♣
♠ = Artwork is only if there is any is available. I have a decent collection I've been building up, plus my OCs I've been coloring. If I have multiple versions of the same picture, they'll be posted together.
⯁ = This is a "whatever" day where I might post a short story, poetry, a Pethouse teaser, maybe some lore or maybe nothing.
♥ = I have enough backlogged stories to post one a week until the first week of March, and I'm still writing almost every day.
♣ = Everybody needs time off, though even on my off-days I'm still working behind-the-scenes, and I check my accounts once or twice a day.
