[URGENT] Restructuring & Substar

Hi everyone! I've got VERY IMPORTANT NEWS!

You may or may not have heard, but Patreon recently updated their guidelines on adult content (again, lol,). They're very vague/unclear and it seems as though the majority of my art will no longer be allowed. 

I have now completely backed up all my work to my subscribestar 

If you're able to, I'd ask you to please make the switch over there sooner rather than later! Since you've all already been charged for this month, I think the best way to do this would be to cancel your subscription here at the end of March, and sign up on subscribestar at the beginning of April. My substar uses a system where it charges you upon signing up and then bills you again at the same time you subscribed each month (so if you sign up on the 1st, every month on the 1st, or if you signed up on the 12th every month on the 12th, etc). 

Other than encouraging you all to make the switch, I've got some info about how I'm going to be structuring my tiers differently going forward (I was planning this before the patreon announcement even came out):

$1 Sketchbook Tier

I'm going to be discontinuing this tier! There aren't that many of you pledged to just this tier, and I tend to draw a lot more NSFW than I do SFW these days, so I get a little stressed about making sure I fill out a PDF's worth of sketchbook content for this tier, haha. 

Instead, I will be making my monthly sketchbook PDF free!

I plan to do this through a monthly newsletter- anyone can sign up (I'll be making a google form or some equivalent, you won't need a patreon/substar/whatever account, just an email address) and I'll send out a once-a-month email with general updates about what I'm up to and the attached sketchbook PDF. 

This frees me up to share more of my SFW sketches on social media without feeling like I need to keep them 'exclusive', and it'll give me a way to stay in touch with everyone that isn't dependent on social media! I still need to work out the details on how I'll work this, but I'll let you all know in a free post here/on substar and on my social medias once I have it set up. 

I was planning to also make this newsletter/sketchbook as a free post here each month, but I'll do that at substar instead now. 

I haven't uploaded my old SFW sketchbooks to substar. They're the only thing I haven't backed up, if you haven't already, download and save them now! I might make 'best of' PDFs available at low cost on itchio for the past year's sketchbooks at some point, but I don't plan on making the full ones available anywhere else- think of them as the special perk you got for supporting me here <3

$3 Comics Tier

I'll continue updating this tier here as well as on substar. No changes to this tier, and they'll get updated at the same time. I'll keep uploading Sparks pages here as long as I feasibly can.

$5 NSFW Tier

I'll keep updating this tier here on Patreon as long as my account is still here, but I'll be cutting anything that seems risky or against their new guidelines (dragon stuff, monsters, anything besides cute pin ups/nudes really.) My full uncut PDFs will be uploaded to substar only, beginning this month. I'm sorry! It sucks. I'm not happy about it!

New- $10 Suggestions Tier- Substar only

I've always wanted some way for you all to get to suggest ideas you'd like to see me draw (Some of you might remember when I started a suggestion box, but I didn't organize it very well hah...) Over on substar I have a $10 tier just for this! On the first week of each month I'll post an anonymous google form to leave your ideas in, and I'll pick my top ten to turn into a poll. During the second week of the month the $5 and $10 tiers will be able to vote, and I'll draw the winner during the second half of the month as a substar-exclusive image. 

Tbh I've copied this set up from other NSFW artists I follow, it seems like a really smart way to run it and something I'll be able to keep up with easily! Obviously we're in the middle of March now so I'm not running this set up this month, I'll start it up for the first time in April. 

Ok... (barfs)

If you read all of that thank you :') This could not be happening at a worse time for me financially so I'm stressing out big time!! As many of you know I'm imminently moving/restarting my life from scratch/etc so... aaaaah... I'm so frustrated as I felt like I was really hitting my stride with Patreon and I was so excited to make the above tier changes here. But it is what it is, all I can ask is that you make the move over to substar with me and continue supporting me as you have been! 

If Patreon does delete my account out of the blue (as they have with other NSFW artists) I've downloaded a spreadsheet with the majority of your emails, so I'll be able to contact you at least and let you know what's going on haha.. but I'm trying to get out ahead of that possibility! <3