(This month's newsletter, tl;dr at bottom as always)

Hi all!

Been staying busy since last month's update! There's only about 15 slots left to go in the backlog, down from 25 a month ago. That's actually the total sum of everything in the queue rn, only 15 things to do. Would have made even more progress but had a couple setbacks, namely the AC breaking *again* and spending the last 2 weeks working in 90+ degree heat, which is less than ideal to say the least. Struggling through that kind of pushed me back into a state of chronic exhaustion (something I was dealing with for all of last year). Safe to say my productivity took a hit there, but the landlord finally sent someone to fix it, and all things considered I still managed to get a lot done since last update, as much or even more than usual tbh. Not bad progress at all, in spite of things.

Still, shaving off this last bit is gonna take some effort, I've got something like 3 comic pages left to draw, a sequence with 5 or 6 alts, another sequence with 2 alts, a full two page sequence, and a sheet of character emotes, a few rendered pics... yeah several big projects to go (and a couple regular sized ones for good measure). I'm estimating 150-160 hours of work (not that these are ever accurate lol). But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for sure, and am no longer feeling crushed underneath the pressure. It's all very doable. In fact, for the last couple days it's been one thing completed per day, so feeling the weight really starting to lift.

The status on my shoulder problem is that it has neither gotten better nor worse in the past month, so I just need to stay mindful and remember to keep stretching and I think I can keep up the pace.

Anyway, as I mentioned in the previous update, I need to return to a fixed schedule monthly schedule of doing a handful of in-stream comms (+ patreon stuff) at the beginning of every month, or I am going to be completely broke and stressed out. This allows for 2-3 weeks of work on backlog once those are squared away, taking up the remainder of the month.

So, will revert to this schedule for October:
Week 1-2: Monthly in stream comms + patreon stuff
Week 3-4: Backlog


This means I'll be opening a couple slots, probably around 5, either tomorrow or wednesday. I've still got a couple things to wrap up from the last batch which I'm working on right now.


tl;dr:

-progress has been steady in spite of a few setbacks
-shaved off another 10 slots from the queue, putting the total at 15 left to do
-half of these are kinda big projects, (pray for me)
-feeling optimistic though!
-shoulder health has been fairly stable, so think I'll be able to keep up the pace
-will be returning to the schedule I outlined earlier this year, 1-2 weeks of monthly in-stream comms to pay bills, 2-3 weeks of backlog projects
-october comm slots opening tomorrow or wednesday, depending on how much i can wrap up tonight
-still doing a monthly nsfw pic on patreon. WIPs and sfw art for free members, nsfw access for $3+, and $5+ to suggest characters, will be increasing the output over there once the backlog's taken care of


Think that's everything? As always big, huge, colossal thanks to everyone for bearing with all the delays as I sort out the backlog situation and an equal sized thanks to everyone supporting the patreon.

hugs, kisses, squeezes
-smokes/sven