At first i knew what i wanted to type all out here. It was all businessy stuff, a side-effect of how i get when i start talking terms in my proffesional mode.

but then i thought back and this year i've just been so... so happy! living with  guardiandrake has been the best year of my life so far. Though i'm faced

with new problems i've never really had to tackle before, i don't feel like i have to do them alone anymore.

now the business~

- I'm going to be adjusting my prices~! commissioners for the last month have already been given my reduced rates and i'll be making a more concise graphic

for the new year. With the oncoming, inevitable changes to the economy of the every-worker i don't feel like it would be responsible of me to be in the triple

digits.

For now.

- Sales! Either i need to stop feeling guilty about reposting sale fliers or create a theme sale every month~ I've been weighing in if i should move this to a

subscription service like subscribe star.

-My YCH's may be too specific to really capture an audience and i may not be doing those again for a while. May need to do some polling and ask all of you

sweeties what you look for in a YCH.

-Speaking of polls i'll be asking around and here what sources of my art you'd like to see when im posting to chatgroups in telegram and Discord if there is

a prefference for FA, Weasyl, Bluesky, raw or any other gallerys i set up in the future.

-My Merch store is coming!!! soon!!! it will!!!! it has to!!!!! i'll be utilizing Ko-Fi's store capabilities at first and slowly branch out to other, non-etsy storefronts

untill i can figure out how to run it from my own website.

-The big end goal is to have some sort of place i can point to and say "here i am" and have it run securely without having to anticipate with every post that

my account will be banned for whatever reason non-participants say so, and even tripply so for places that hold transactions ! I've been using Pay-pal alot

as i already had one and invoicing is secure for both parties should anything happen,however the fees are bad and could get much worse. it's already

taken a couple commisions worth out with it's fees but i know not everyone is geared up to just write me a cheque and mail it to my PO Box so i will be

looking around for alternate payment processors that play nice (not a small feat).

-Finally if everything goes well i may offer different types of work in the future~ Vector designs and 3D models (Rigging is still just a bit beyond me so they will be static models for now... for now)

I think that's everything! See you all in 2025! I hope we all make it ♥