Just wanted to make a separate journal to touch base with you guys and thank you for all the overwhelming response and feedback on my last journal, there were so many good comments that I agreed with and gave me the reassurance I was looking for despite the truth of the situation. To be quite honest with you, I'm feeling better about it now compared to a few days ago. You could say it was just one of those days where I had a lot of stuff troubling me, and coming online to the note about a base being traced was just kind of a nail on the coffin that really got me down with everything else going on in my personal life at this time. Normally I do just brush this stuff off and keep on going.

That being said, I'll continue to upload bases publicly for you all to use, but I think what I will be adding moving forward is a watermark that will be required to use from here on out. (Finally, right?) That may not stop the tracing or stealing, but at least it's something to help narrow down people who need to be reprimanded.

If I do make a move with Patreon, I'd only make patreon-exclusive bases, but still continue to release bases to the public. I'm also wondering that for the time being if you all would be interested in a public discord server dedicated to updates and discussion about my bases? I imagine it would be a great way to share what you all are working on and get the word out if you need help getting your adopts sold too. I'd be more than happy to share wips of stuff I have in the works as well. Let me know and I'll get right on setting that up!