i've been struggling with varying forms of hand pain all month, and most of last month as well, making it difficult for me to draw, and forcing me to take many days entirely off, as well as wearing braces and heat pads and things.

i believe it's a result of how hard i pushed myself to do so many, so detailed mermay commissions. those were supposed to be way rougher but i tried too hard to make them pretty, and i worked myself for too many hours each day to try and get them done within the month.
trying to do as many coms as i can in a limited time frame is very taxing to begin with, and selling them at a discount on top of that was just stupid. i pushed myself EXTRA hard for LESS money, ensuring an injury that didn't even get me enough to be worth the pain/damage.

i certainly don't want to risk losing the ability to draw entirely, so i'm not going to do any more themed month-long sales. my prices are already very low anyway. i may open for themed commissions sometimes, but rather than being discounted it will be normal prices and i just won't take any orders that aren't that theme. and no more than 4 slots per month. if you want even cheaper art, you're going to have to go for my 'minimum effort' option, since that's the only way for it to be fair to me.