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Recent Emergency, New TF Comic Plans
11 months ago
Hey FA! My last journal was a while ago but it was actually for a positive reason, I had finally been focusing on catching up with and revamping all the things that had been put on hold because of the recent deaths in my family as well as the family and living arrangement related issues I'd had before that. It took a year but I got myself into a great position to launch my fresh start, and some of you may have noticed that if you saw that I had finally been able to open for commissions again not long ago.
And then a very serious situation came out of nowhere, involving a person I'd been friends with a long time who had apparently been doing some truly terrible things and manipulating people for potentially quite a while without myself or anyone knowing. It all blew up in a huge crisis that impacted me and a lot of other people they were connected to, and it totally upturned my life overnight. Since this involves so many other people, many of whom I haven't even met but only learned of as I got more information about how it all came to this, I have to be careful with what details I include in consideration of them, so I'm sorry for not being more descriptive and specific while talking about this, but I hope you'll all be understanding about that, and I'll do my best to relay the seriousness of what happened despite that limitation. I had been visiting the person at the time, to break away from my hectic hometown and its demands & distractions and focus on straightening out my life and revitalizing my art operations, so I was there when this happened. That person had driven me there for my visit, so I ended up stranded hundreds of miles from home, without anyone else I was familiar with to ask for help. I had to spend everything I had just gotten from commissions just to be able to make it back home, and I had to leave some of my belongings behind. This basically summarizes the situation but you can read an extended post about it pinned to my Twitter bio.
As I'm sure you can imagine, this has put me in a pretty bad situation in the immediate sense, and caused some upcoming problems I'll have to deal with too, like making arrangements to get the rest of my stuff back. That's why even though I've usually never needed to ask for donations, this is going to be pretty hard to recover from, so I've set up for donations on ko-fi and patreon which I'll link here or you can also find linked in my pinned tweet, for anyone who would like to help me out that way, which I appreciate immensely. Even if you don't donate though, I could also really use help spreading the word simply because Twitter has gotten worse and worse about showing tweets to my followers and many of them haven't seen any info about this, so if you can share the tweets too even that would be a huge help and I also really really appreciate that.
On top of the donations though, I also am rolling out an idea I had a while ago that I thought could help me make more TF comics. It's a system where people can make a one-time purchase of the comic to help fund it while I'm drawing it. I noticed a lot of people would subscribe to the patreon for one month at a time so they could see the comics as they came out, but this would allow people to buy just the comic they want without having to worry they'll forget to cancel a subscription, and it'll help me ensure I can actually have time to produce the work. I wanted to do a better rollout for it than this but it's sort of a critical situation and I think this could help me bounce back faster so I'm going for it.
I'm sorry to come back with bad news again like this, but the good thing is I'm still in a better position overall than I was a year ago so I can recover and move forward from this. Thank you all so much for reading this and supporting me, and here's hoping with the help that comes from this I can get back on my feet and get back to making more art for you all very soon!
Links:
Info tweet - https://x.com/mad_onyx/status/1858011802732474699
Patreon donations & comic orders - https://www.patreon.com/onyxaries/shop
Ko-fi donations - https://ko-fi.com/onyxaries
And then a very serious situation came out of nowhere, involving a person I'd been friends with a long time who had apparently been doing some truly terrible things and manipulating people for potentially quite a while without myself or anyone knowing. It all blew up in a huge crisis that impacted me and a lot of other people they were connected to, and it totally upturned my life overnight. Since this involves so many other people, many of whom I haven't even met but only learned of as I got more information about how it all came to this, I have to be careful with what details I include in consideration of them, so I'm sorry for not being more descriptive and specific while talking about this, but I hope you'll all be understanding about that, and I'll do my best to relay the seriousness of what happened despite that limitation. I had been visiting the person at the time, to break away from my hectic hometown and its demands & distractions and focus on straightening out my life and revitalizing my art operations, so I was there when this happened. That person had driven me there for my visit, so I ended up stranded hundreds of miles from home, without anyone else I was familiar with to ask for help. I had to spend everything I had just gotten from commissions just to be able to make it back home, and I had to leave some of my belongings behind. This basically summarizes the situation but you can read an extended post about it pinned to my Twitter bio.
As I'm sure you can imagine, this has put me in a pretty bad situation in the immediate sense, and caused some upcoming problems I'll have to deal with too, like making arrangements to get the rest of my stuff back. That's why even though I've usually never needed to ask for donations, this is going to be pretty hard to recover from, so I've set up for donations on ko-fi and patreon which I'll link here or you can also find linked in my pinned tweet, for anyone who would like to help me out that way, which I appreciate immensely. Even if you don't donate though, I could also really use help spreading the word simply because Twitter has gotten worse and worse about showing tweets to my followers and many of them haven't seen any info about this, so if you can share the tweets too even that would be a huge help and I also really really appreciate that.
On top of the donations though, I also am rolling out an idea I had a while ago that I thought could help me make more TF comics. It's a system where people can make a one-time purchase of the comic to help fund it while I'm drawing it. I noticed a lot of people would subscribe to the patreon for one month at a time so they could see the comics as they came out, but this would allow people to buy just the comic they want without having to worry they'll forget to cancel a subscription, and it'll help me ensure I can actually have time to produce the work. I wanted to do a better rollout for it than this but it's sort of a critical situation and I think this could help me bounce back faster so I'm going for it.
I'm sorry to come back with bad news again like this, but the good thing is I'm still in a better position overall than I was a year ago so I can recover and move forward from this. Thank you all so much for reading this and supporting me, and here's hoping with the help that comes from this I can get back on my feet and get back to making more art for you all very soon!
Links:
Info tweet - https://x.com/mad_onyx/status/1858011802732474699
Patreon donations & comic orders - https://www.patreon.com/onyxaries/shop
Ko-fi donations - https://ko-fi.com/onyxaries
Wishing you the best!
Anyway I wanted those of you who just commissioned to know what's going on so you'd understand any delays and why I haven't been able to reach out to all of you just yet, but I'm working on both finishing you guys' comms and on getting into a stable situation so I can get back to delivering them to you all.
And if you do decide to donate I will appreciate it so, so much, because this completely broke the cycle I had just gotten established of taking and delivering comms so I've been caught in between here with no way to cover expenses while I'm finishing comms. It's all a huge headache but eventually it'll be straightened out, it's just gonna be a rough ride for a short bit. Thank you so much for the kind sentiment too, having people to talk to about this also really helps me keep it together mentally.
Take care of yourself!