As of typing this it is after sundown on the day of the solstice, meaning Yule has officially started, and I promised my family I would participate in the tradition, which means no more of what I would classify as "work" until after the new year, which means I won't be chipping away at any more of the waiting list. I'm still willing to hear requests and add onto it but I won't be working on any of them until Yule is over. I'll still be posting some stuff on Patreon because I don't consider that "work," that's where I put the stuff I draw for myself leisurely and if anyone wants to tip me for early access to it they're allowed to. And if accepting money for it makes it work then that excuse still works since technically I won't be collecting it until Yule's over anyway. I'll also be posting the commissions I've already finished since the last update, probably about a couple of them a day, because I'm not going to do what I was originally planning anymore; wait until the waiting list was cleared before posting a big dump of them. It didn't really help with the problem I tried that in order to solve, which apparently was never really the problem I thought it was.


Pretty much the whole time I've been taking commissions I would always have more people asking than I had slots, so I was always telling people to wait, which I never liked doing, I hate telling people to wait. I'd been told that one of the problems was my prices not being high enough, because that's how supply and demand work, that makes sense. So I did about a year ago, that didn't change that, instead of raising them again though I considered if maybe they were filling so fast because I had less slots than I was "supposed to" (in quotes because obviously there's no "standard" but I wondered if there was an average and if that average was the average for a reason). When I set my current prices I asked anyone who frequently commissions me if there are other artists they go to a lot, and used the resulting list as my reference. Because I still had said list I went back to them to ask directly how many slots they have or if they don't have slots what they do use, and most of the answers I got was "X amount of slots plus a waiting list." YDBunny in particular showed me a form with ten slots and like fifty people on a waiting list, and that just lifted a huge weight right off my shoulders. I always thought I was struggling to stay "caught up," turns out that's just how most artists do it, telling people to wait is just part of the business side of art, and the people who frequently commission me are probably used to it


So yeah, unlike all the other commission updates I give where I apologize for telling people to wait, this time I don't think I will. If it's just the nature of the beast then I guess it's not something to be too sorry about. I guess I can apologize for the fact that that's the nature of the beast, since I would change that if I could, I just can't, and now that I know that I can feel much better about not trying to