Good morning, afternoon, or evening, y'all! (depending on your time zone)

Things addressed below:
-Why we've been so quiet
-Our schedule for September
-Outstanding Patreon rewards & requests
-Outstanding stream commissions
-Outstanding queue commissions
-Mega Beach Party YCH
-Upcoming moodboard & egg adopts
-Upcoming bases
-Upcoming comm openings

Why we've been so quiet:

We had an incredibly rough July, that led into an exhausted and burnt out August. For anyone who may have missed updates back in July, we (M & B) spent the entire month caretaking for an elderly relative following 2 massive back-to-back spine surgeries. Neither of us are particularly trained in that arena or accustomed to it, so it was unimaginably draining, both physically and mentally. We fell out of our normal work pace, living almost exclusively in someone else's home (except for sleeping), and it's been very difficult to recover and get back into the normal swing of things.

On top of the already insurmountable recovery needed, we had an irrational number of issues arise in our home in August -- the A/C went out, there's an issue with a toilet part that needs replaced and has been hard to locate in the right size and shape for our specific model, and a smoke alarm that kept telling us there was a fire when there really was none. Plus, we hadn't gotten to any of our normal tidying in July, so the whole house needed a bit of a spruce up to get things back in order and leave us feeling like the world was "right" again.

All of this left us mentally and emotionally depleted, and it's made any extraneous communication nearly impossible. However, we're starting to feel like ourselves again. So, we do apologize for the lack of more consistent updates, but we knew it was important that we focus on our mental health for a few weeks so we could come back stronger than ever. It benefitted everyone in the end, and we truly appreciate how patient and understanding you've all been with us.

Our schedule for September:

Our tentative September schedule can be seen here. If we finish things sooner, we might have time to open a comm batch. If things take longer, we have some days off to play with as wiggle room. Regardless, we're ready for everything to be done. We'll update with new calendars on the queue and in our Discord server if anything changes.

Outstanding Patreon rewards & requests:

June rewards are all undersketched, and some have been lined. Color is in progress on the ones that have been lined. July and August will follow quickly behind, and September will be started at the beginning of October. We've come to realize that's just the easiest way for us to do it, so everyone has the full month to submit their prompts.

June & July requests are all lined and up next for color. August requests are over half lined, and remaining lines will be completed either tonight or tomorrow. The plan is to color them in quick succession with the other 2 months' worth.

Outstanding stream commissions:

June's stream is all lined and just awaiting color, which is near the very top of our color list. July's stream is about half lined, and the rest will be once the requests are lined. Color on that will be coming after request color. There was no August commission stream, but we do hope to bring it back this month.

Outstanding queue commissions:

All queue commissions have been undersketched. Lines, color, and shading (where applicable) will be completed alongside the outstanding Patreon rewards. There aren't very many, and we anticipate working through them mostly between June and July Patreon rewards.

Mega Beach Party YCH:

We have this scheduled to be worked through between Sept 19-25. We don't foresee any delays in that schedule, unless there are any payment plans that haven't been completed by the start date. Otherwise, we intend to move forward with it on the pre-established timeline. There are a few remaining and heavily discounted slots still up for grabs. You can check them out here. Patreon discounts do apply.

Upcoming moodboard & egg adopts:

We have ready a batch of 3 eggs (designed by Marimo-kun and purchased for Studio use) and 15 moodboards that we (M & B) curated by hand. We hope to post them for sale later this month, once the small backlog is mostly or completely eradicated.

While we won't be previewing the moodboards, we will give you a first look at their names:

⊛ campfire
⊛ chilling
⊛ concrete
⊛ daredevil
⊛ diva
⊛ hooked
⊛ horns
⊛ hush
⊛ lovesick
⊛ monopoly
⊛ peach
⊛ petticoat
⊛ ringmaster
⊛ sellout
⊛ venomous

Upcoming bases:

We have several things planned, but we've committed to sticking to 1 or 2 sets of triple linearts and some type of small scale utilitarian or situational base until we're all caught up. The Rubenesque body type from a poll we held earlier this year won by a landslide for our next large scale base (like Opulence), but that will come when things are 100% back to normal and we can put in the necessary time and energy (since those bases take literal days to complete). We're always open to new ideas for any base you might want to see though, so feel free to reach out with your thoughts!

Upcoming comm openings:

We deeply hope we can open comms sometime this month, but we're fully aware that it may have to wait until October, depending on how things go. As you can see on the calendar above, we don't have a comm opening scheduled in, because we don't want to plan for it and fail to deliver. But we are more than willing to change the schedule if the time for a full comm batch becomes available.

I think that's about all we have in the realm of updates. In closing, thank you to everyone who has been so sweet and patient with us. We didn't expect the kind of hit we took in the middle of this year, but we roll with the punches. Always! And y'all have proven that you roll with them alongside us too, which will always mean the absolute world to us! 💖