Big Patreon Updates!

Hello, friends.

You may have noticed that all of the Tiers have been rewritten, improved, or otherwise changed.

I have been mulling this over for a long while and finally sat down on Friday (at a very nice local library) to both simplify and improve the offering. After a couple of years of doing this, I think I've got an idea of what people who are so very kind enough to enable me to make more and more sexy smexy content seem to want.

So, I have modified some of the tiers that felt... lackluster and have proved to be a colossal failure on my part, and improved the ones that have done really well. Any changes will NOT be retroactive, and anything I've posted in the past will remain available as it currently stands.

Again, this whole thing, the crowdsourcing of creative labour, is still new and strange to me. So if any of the changes are a big dumpster fire NO for you, please let me know.

But, to summarize, biggest changes:

• 1. Sketches: I have kept all my self-initiated work public to Patreons before I go and publish them. But I feel that this no longer functions in the current format. Now, the smallest Patreon support will be exclusively for sketches, and updates on my goings-on. Which means I will be posting a lot more content on the process of how I make things.
• 2. Finished Illustrations: I have made it obvious that I will always make my self-initiated and commissioned work freely available at some point. I make all of these for people to enjoy. But, as of now-ish, if you want to see the finished illustrations months before anyone else, you'll have to join the "Sneaky Peaky" tier. But to make it more attractive, I'll also be throwing in views of other work I am getting on to. For example, a fantasy adventure comic me and an artist friend are working on. And maybe even the script to my Power Rangers comic. 
• 3. Chibi Commissions: I've added a new tier. Chibi commissions! Wooh. Kind of self-explanatory, that one.
• 4. Flash Fiction: I've been mulling this tier for a good while and have decided to keep it. Over February I got into the habit of writing short pieces of fiction prompted by photographs, roleplays or other material and it was really, really fun. As such, I'd like to offer people the chance to request written content in a more formal way.

Wait, there's more!

But that's not it.

There are a couple of things I am still working on that I want to add to Patreon, as well as to create some synergy with other platforms to give people more options. Personally, I do not trust a single platform and would rather join up with other folk to create our own website with content available to people. You know, as if it were 2007. But that is not something I can do now.

So, as I continue to review what Fascination Uniformed is for me and for you, here are some of the things you can expect this month:

Archive of Art, Stories and Captions: I know, I've been promising this one for a long time. But finally realized I was overthinking it. So, it will be a Dropbox link. It will have organized folders with all the work I've made publicly available, and perhaps some I've even forgotten to upload. This one will be a Patreon Tier at 5 of your local currency.

Videos and Timelapses: I've filmed myself drawing some things of the last year. Sometimes I talk, sometimes I don't. My main issue is that I am hopeless when it comes to video encoding, so the files always end up being HUGE and with crap quality. But maybe it is time to actually make use of these.

Merch: I am investigating whether to offer Pre-Orders for three bundles of prints, badges, and collected comic zines for people. This one I first need to test and see if people want. But, otherwise, I may open a RedBubble shop and see if people wanna get kinky prints for their walls. Dunno, it is an idea.

So... yeah. And, as usual, I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas about my plans. I sort of sprung this one out of the blue, but I just had to make it happen. Finally.

Enough of me rambling.