Progress, maybe, on the costuming front. I was FINALLY contacted by Radioactimals regarding my paid suits. I was worried from their lack of response, remarks or reports on their Trello page. I still don't trust them entirely I know. I may just invest in a 3rd suit by another party just too make sure Ravenwood gets done. I'll think on that for a few days. I am really worried that I am running out of time to see them done. Que Sera Sera, on the results though, not much I can do about it I think. Just waiting now on the last of the Daphne Lage pics. I've given up hope on original picnic scene though. I know the artist's family are having significant personal problems. So I don't really care to ask for a refund at this point. It was ironic the first artist I actually commissioned in the disasterous Art-Love Bomb project never made it at all for the project. Maybe it was a sign that I should not have gone through with the rest. I doubt it would have made a difference. I was never gonna change anyone's mind about me. I would have just liked to see her interpretation of the Picnic scene idea. The one Lapres did was a bit rushed and ad-hoc to replace the one Terri Smith was supposed to do. Well, we'll see going forward. Milkcrown was supposed to do one as well. But that was altered at any rate. So I lost interest in that one. Many will say I was flushing money down a toilet. I don't necessarily think so. I always felt that going in, furry artist had about 1/3 to 1/2 failure rate on getting what you ask for, or getting anything at all. But still that's been way better than my experience with manga type artists. They typically have had a 75%+ failure rate. So I always new I was going to lose some money on that project, regardless of the success or failure of its intent. Maybe she should have just let me buy her the dang Copics?! Well thats it for now. Hoping for better follow through from Radioactimals going forward.

Important update here. FINALLY got a banner ad paid for and up in a day or two on e621 for MG. Its bigger but not as good as the one  RGibson collaborated with me on. But I wanted at this point to get up something, even if its quick and dirty. Hopefully it will get some response for the girl. I still hold out the seemingly vain hope of being able to get ad space on FA. I still believe FA has a better hope of turning results for improved Patreon performance. But this being a first attempt; maybe is like the failure of the first picnic picture I tried in the Love Bomb project? Will this be destined to wither and die in miserable failure; like the love that originally inspired it? Not being able to get an ad on FA would certainly mirror the pathetic success of my "childish crush"; which was abject failure and disgrace. COME ON FA!!! JUST TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY!! Curse the fact that DA doesn't have similar artist banner ads!