My surgery went fantastic and I'm healing right on track, which means I can finally sit up and draw again—and I have been! Working on commissions some and personal stuff some, just whatever. It's fun. <3

So! Since I'm sure someone out there is curious, yes, I'll be posting here again soon. Like later today or tomorrow or some such. I'm also going to be streaming art and stuff as I'm able, which mostly means any time I'm not sick or drunk or on a fuckin date. Yes, this includes backlog stuff. No, don't ask where yours is—when I need a refresher on the details I will ask you, I promise, and when I've done enough backlog that I don't remember whose orders remain, I will post a journal so you all know when to speak up and politely ask me if yours is next. Now is not that time, and my notes are remaining closed. Seriously, I was NOT treated well and was fuckin' harrassed and coming back here AGAIN is taking a LOT of willpower on my part because it's anxiety-inducing as hell.

Look y'all, I'm not vanishing. I'm not gonna disappear with anyone's order undone. So so many people have given me every reason to throw my hands up, say fuck it, and just evaporate, but I'm not gonna. So don't panic wondering where your art is at; it's right here. Stressing me out over it is just likely to make me an anxious wreck again and that hurts all of us, including other people besides just whoever is haranguing me. Including others I owe art to! Shocking, I know. Even besides that, I have learned a LITTLE self-respect. Not much, just enough to know that I don't deserve to be stepped and spat on, anymore.

THE POINT: I'm back again, I'm gonna take commissions and do personal work and do backlog and all I ask is that nobody badger me about anything.

For real, I'm tired of having to hide all the time and extra super tired of feeling guilty over it.

Love y'all, hope you're happy to see me back,

Glitch

Just hopping on here for a minute to post this journal and let everyone know I haven't run off or something. Half of it is that I've been trying very hard to disconnect from the stresses and harassment that keep making me hide away in the first place, in the hope that I can "grow a thicker skin" if I'm not having to suffer that anxiety for a while. Like... when I come back here to do backlog, I just wanna actually work through some backlog, you know? I really... really don't need six people at once hopping on me the moment they see a completed piece, screaming "where's mine?!"

I'm not that tough when it comes to this. I'm really not. I clearly can't just "push through" like everyone else seems to, and there are a lot of reasons why. I'm in therapy to try and fix them. So what I'm gonna have to do is disable notes on here until I think I can handle them. If I'm gonna stay stable long enough to actually get anything done that I owe it's pretty much necessary at this point, because most folk don't seem to pay attention when I say "I have a big list, I'll get to yours when I can!"

I'm sorry I have to do this, and have tried everything to avoid it, but I'm really tired of being pushed into a corner where I freak out and can't do what I need to. That includes the art I owe many of you. If I'm always in a panic attack when I'm back for two days, then everyone just has to wait longer while I pull myself together for the hundredth time. It has to stop, and I can't see any other way to stop being mortally terrified to even open this website.

The other half of my absence has been me spending the last month and a half seeing a dozen doctors for two dozen tests and communicating with a hospital service in Thailand--I'm having a surgery on August 1st, departing here on the 28th or 29th. I won't be home until the 16th-19th, and even then I'll be recovering for the rest of the month. I won't be able to sit up normally during that whole time, so I won't be at my computer at all. Which sucks cuz I'm gonna miss talking to my friends on my birthday, but it's all for the best, ultimately.

TL;DR: I am disabling my notes for a while so I can do backlog without getting harassed. I dunno how fast I'll be working because I'm also doing another job behind the scenes over here--I'll tell you about that sometime when I have something worth showing (which might be months away, but the vore crowd will be heavily pleased). I'm also gonna be gone completely for a month from the 28th.

Love you guys,

Glitch

Just looking for opinions--I dunno if people prefer having my personal art separated from my professional or if it's just a hassle.

Lemme know in the comments!

P.S.: probably gonna do a stream sometime soon, maybe tonight? Maybe soon??

Alright, gonna do the thing I said last night on Twitter cuz people seem interested:
Starting stream up now! Doing grimdark (and strangely sexy) monster headshots for $15 each. In full color, obv <3

Come on down and get one! picarto.tv/Glitchworks

Working on backlogged orders, hollaaaa
come around if you wanna watch, or if you have an order to be worked on or what have you
I'm doing these in no particular order, so I dunno whose will be done today. You'll have to come and see, I guess??

Stream is here: https://picarto.tv/Glitchworks

COME SEE

Long story short: my girlfriend has had a lot of trouble working for quite some time now due to gallbladder disease, while I've simultaneously been wrestling with depression ever since my insurance change caused me to have to switch psychiatrists, got me waitlisted for months, and ran me completely out of medication. So we're broke enough that we might not be able to make rent this month.

Regarding Commissions: I won't be accepting any new ones if I can help it at all. I have more than enough backlog that I desperately do not want to add to. I am trying to shift my focus, for the time being, to Patreon and Ko-Fi to make ends meet without deepening my current art debt. Sepia, my girlfriend, also posts to the Patreon decently often, as we share it. The information on it is out-of-date, but I plan to resolve that tonight. As for the backlogged commissions: I want to get started on those as soon as I can, but we're financially unstable and very at-risk. My mental health concerns have finally been addressed as of about a week ago, and as long as Sepia and I can get safe financially, I'll do dedicated backlog streams on every Friday, just to work on what I owe. I just can't responsibly do that yet and I'm very sorry.

Regarding my current project: It's called "Dungeoneer," is vore-centric, and it is going to be funded via Ko-fi donations and Patreon pledges. The content of the project will NOT be paywalled, and will be posted publicly for everyone to enjoy, while voting polls will be held on Twitter to determine the protagonist's next action, Choose-Your-Adventure style.

Donating via Ko-fi will, if you say you want to enter, get you entered into a lot-drawing, one lot for each coffee you donate. The winner of each drawing will get one of their characters (of their choice) "monsterized" and featured as the next enemy Almadasta faces, to eat or be eaten, depending on the actions chosen by Twitter voters.

Patreon patrons will get access to the full-res files for each image, as well as access to any Secret Fanservice Art of the Dungeoneer characters. For literally just a $1 pledge (I'm a little desperate).

That's all. Hope it answers any questions anyone has had. Here's hoping I can feasibly start those streams up soon.

~Glitch

P.S.: Please, please don't ask about the stuff I owe you. It just makes my anxiety go wild and makes it even harder to get my shit together so I can actually fix the problem. I haven't forgotten I owe stuff--how could I? Just wait until I come to you. Please.

Firstly, I'd like to announce that commissions are reopening! As our new policies state, I will typically be accepting only one active commission at a time, then completing it before moving to the next. This means only one person will have been invoiced for payment at a time, which is done as an effort to avoid creating a queue or a backlog--I have enough backlog already.

Orders that have been submitted but not chosen as the current actively-worked-on commission will be stored and kept, and the submitters of those orders will be informed that I will contact them when their order is up to be the next active commission! The commissioner will not be invoiced for payment until they agree to the price quote offered at that time, thereby relieving them of the stress of being queued and waiting on a prepaid order while others are still ahead of them in line.

The price catalog hasn't changed too much; commission types have been cut down from the morass that they were before and simplified into only four (4) tiers. Mostly because nobody really ordered the other options, anyway. Sketch and Lineart tiers were combined into the "Light" tier, due to the fact that the quality of my sketches has become essentially equal to that of my lineart, so pricing them separately became a bit silly. The price of a Full Render (now simply called "Full") has also increased slightly, due to it being too low to justify the time I have to put into a work of that tier.

To learn more about our updated policies, please look through the information linked below, and please please submit some order forms! I'm eager to get back to work after the events I will relate below the links here...

Glitchworks Commission Prices Catalog
Glitchworks Content Preferences and Restrictions
Glitchworks Guidelines and Terms of Service
Glitchworks Art Commission Order Form

We also have a Ko-fi for accepting tips now, too, for anyone who wants to give: https://ko-fi.com/glitchworks

Why This Took So Long

It has been a half-month since my last journal because, the day after posting it, I got sick. The sickness worsened for three days, and at that point I finally went to the hospital--I didn't want to see a doctor because I currently have no insurance. I turned 26 this summer, so my parents' coverage stopped applying to me, and due to various personal reasons I hadn't yet been able to find a new insurance to suit my needs.

Once in the hospital, several tests were run. My white cell count was way too high and, as the CT scan revealed, this is because I had appendicitis due to a fecolith (it's gross, I know, I'm sorry) getting jammed in the opening into the appendix. Once they got me into surgery, the doctors found out something the CT scan hadn't shown: my appendix had ruptured. Worse than that, it may have been ruptured for longer than most people survive that condition, indicated by the appendix being dead and gangrenous. The doctors told us the organ was black when they found it. Apparently, my luck was that my omentum had somehow sealed down around the site, which is the only reason I didn't become fully septic.

(More grossness in this line, I apologize) The dead, ruptured appendix wasn't just spilling infection into me, either; it was spilling a large amount of stool out from my bowel. My omentum had contained that, too, but when the laparoscopic procedure was performed, the incisions and insertions broke the seal, letting all those dangerous fluids loose into my abdomen to coat my internal organs. In another rare stroke of luck, the doctors managed to actually complete the surgery and drainage laparoscopically, never needing to switch to open surgery nor install an abdominal drain. Even so, they couldn't suck all of the filth out of there, and I was left with an uncommon amount of swelling and a very queasy internal sloshing feeling around my guts rather than within them that was both painful and nauseating. I was told that it was safe to lie on my sides in the hospital, but due to that... mess inside me, I couldn't, and as an asthmatic with crooked nasal passages, I can tell you that sleeping on my back is very difficult and uncomfortable, due primarily to inhibited breathing.

I was in the hospital an entire week--most appendectomies get to go home almost immediately--and I barely slept properly the entire time. The nurse care was... sub-par, to say the least, but that's something I don't need to get into here. I applied for Medicaid through a representative while in the hospital, and I'm hoping so hard that it goes through, or else I'm stuck with some very, very ugly bills. Currently I'm looking at ~$6,000 USD, and that's just for labs, scans, and anesthesia; the bills for the surgical procedures and the hospital stay haven't arrived yet, but I'm certainly afraid of them.

I almost died, and now that I'm back on my feet (for 3 hours or less at a time, since my insides haven't totally patched themselves up yet) I'm wanting to start taking commissions again. Even if this state's Medicaid does come through for me and cover part of the cost, there will still remain a large sum to be paid, and I have to prepare for that, as well as start paying the regular bills of life again. This is going to be very hard. The fact that I nearly died still feels... strange to me. I can't fully wrap my head around it, but if I think too hard about it I just get scared that it could happen again and I might be less lucky. Not appendicitis, that's obviously off the table, but just... life suddenly seems both more fragile and more valuable. I dunno, saying this feels almost too dramatic. I'll leave it at this.

I've been at the computer for almost 12 hours now trying to get all my updated commission info in order and it has taken a toll; my abdomen is hurting pretty bad and I definitely need to lie down. But I accomplished my goal, and I am finally open for commissions again. Moreover, I admitted to myself that hey, maybe I simply can't handle a queue and that's why I fall behind. So, as I've mentioned above, no more queuing, just one order at a time. Manageable!

Thank you to anyone who took the time to read through this,
and hey: Go look at my commission info up there! Fill out an order on that Google Form! It's time for me to get back into the art business. <3

~Glitch

For everyone who I owe commissions to: it is likely that I will be doing little-to-no backlog work until January. My partner and I are broke, but we have a lot of medical bills (especially since my insurance lapsed in August), on top of our normal rent and my late student loans and everything else, so I'll have to open up for new commissions yet again while most or all of you won't see anything you deserve just yet. I'm sorry, I know it's unpleasant to see someone do that kind of thing over and over while they still owe you, and I do hope to rectify things, one way or another. In light of my extreme dereliction, I do have a plan to help deal with my backlog, as well: I will give refunds as I'm able to those who specifically ask for them, provided I have not made significant progress on their order (though if I really love your order's details a lot I might beg a little to keep it). "As I'm able" means that I have to have enough to cover any upcoming expenses, then enough excess to pay the refund amount, which would be equal to the amount originally paid. To provide that amount value to me, just find me the order receipt ID number on PayPal and I'll search it up. Do not use the refund request button, as I will send the money when I have it; it is unnecessary to use that function, and I would greatly prefer you didn't, please! For now, please don't make your requests for refunds just yet! As I said, we're flat broke, and we'll have to actually get some money back and bills paid before this undertaking. Expect an update around the New Year, when the issue and plan can be further addressed.

This news also comes with changes to my way of business. I know, I just changed my ToS and everything else a few months ago, but believe it or not I'm actually doing this to simplify the process!The new ToS will be in plain English and the price catalog will be cut down to only what is necessary, so as to make things easier on everyone involved. From now on, as my new Terms of Service will state when I complete them, I'll only be taking orders at my selective discretion from something akin to application-style order forms, so that I may work on ideas that inspire me, resulting in a finer product. Unlike all times past, I will only ever accept one paid order at a time. If it is not completed within a month, a refund may be requested and will be given. No more queues or backlog.

There'll be a new Google Form ready soon and anyone can literally fill one out any time. I'll look them over and, if I decide to take the order, I'll let you know and give a price quote. Once payment is sent, I'll get to work. Should be done in a week, but if it isn't within a month, I'll send a refund if you ask. No more weird policies about stuff, and only one order at a time. It puts me at such a disadvantage to have queues and a backlog, so I won't be taking new orders until I finish the current paid one. Any other order forms submitted will be kept on file if I like the look of them, and the submitter will be notified that it's under consideration, but another order is currently on deck, and they may be contacted again in the near future for me to take their order on.

Here's the annoying part, everyone, and I am sorry: I'm not gonna be using PayPal anymore because it's policies are unsafe as shit and if I ever get caught out as drawing porn they can literally freeze my account and take all the money in it for violation. So I'm switching to Payza, and I honestly suggest you all do the same. Seriously. It's encrypted as fuck, has excellent buyer-seller mediation procedures, and its general use policies are sound on all fronts. It asks for slightly more information than paypal, but its security is incredible. The reason it asks for more info is actually it also allows for bitcoin transfer. Since most of the deep web drug hands (as well as a lot of cults and hate groups) trade in bitcoin, Payza keeps things on-site safer and cleaner by making sure they can report you if you, say, buy drugs or illegal weapons.

Thanks, guys. For everyone who has stuck with me: I hope I don't disappoint. For everyone who's fed up and leaving: I'm sorry I made so many mistakes. For everyone else: Wish me luck.

~Glitch

Details over here, on our commission account:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8366112/

So after years of just doing, frankly, a very bad job of self-management, I've finally admitted I'm bad at that part of my job. I may be just fine as an artist, but I can't manage myself to stay on-task or get my timetables straight to save my life. I work hard and try hard, I'm just not good at prioritizing my work over many other life events, and it has been an immense detriment to me and a grave unfairness to my commissioners.

Because of this my commission work is now under new management. I'm still the artist, obviously, but all business, queue, and time management is now arranged and finalized by someone with over 2 years of management, supervisory, and clerical experience.

I've done a poor job as a businesswoman and I apologize for that! I'll be on a 40-hour work week from now on, just like a "normal" job. Which is gonna be super weird. I haven't had a normal job since college oh no

Anyway, I have a new account opened up for commissions and Boss has posted a journal with information over here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8323186/
Upcoming backlog completions and standing offline orders are also posted on the linked Trello, so be sure to keep an eye on it if you're waiting on something!

If you want to order a commission slot for tonight's stream, check out our ToS to see if we're right for you, or take a look at our Trello to see what's in our upcoming queue, head on over.
And please give  glitchworks a follow, since that's where we're gonna put all the commissioned art I complete from here forward!

And all my art is gone! Which is on purpose. I just didn't like any of it, if I'm honest--I don't wanna sound vain, but I feel I've gotten so much better at my trade in my time away from here and coming back to see a lot of my older content was... jarring, to say the least. Growing up a bit means cleaning out the basement to go fresh, right? So I'll be starting over.

Twitter was a really fun ride, but some things happened in recent updates that have turned it into a bit of a graveyard. It's no longer a terribly safe place to try and conduct business from if I want to, you know, do my job for a living. My art job. The one I do? You know the one.

Commissions are OPEN. My prices and information, including Terms of Service, can be found here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8323186/

If you want a commission, please refer to this journal and its instructions!

Anyway hi, it's Glitch. Miss me?