First Big Goal Reached!! Updates and plans

Oh snap, we've reached the first goal set! That was so much quicker than I expected, thank you all so much for the support!
Welcome everyone who's joined recently, I'm glad to have you all around c:

As said in the goal, this is around the time I feel like starting some monthly reward will be worth it. Likely a R34 pinup vote sorta thing. More details will be below!

Before that though I really wanna reiterate what I said in the last update: there's no pressure to stay in a certain tier or anything like that. Feel free to adjust y'all's pledges in these early days to get the most Maj for your buck and if the amount falls back below the goal I'll still count it as bein' Done & Reached =w= b

'K, so for the R34 polls I have a few notes. First off the bad news: I probably won't be able to start doing them this month, and maayybe April as well. Got a lot coming up IRL (another move, yay,) and I need to focus on clearing my queue as my arm recovers. Gonna aim for May as the first fanart poll! That'll give me time to mull over the nitty gritty at least.

Speaking of the nitty gritty, I got a question. Would you like me to set up some sort of suggestion box for characters you'd like to see drawn? I can pick 3 from that pool every month and put up a poll to decide the winner, or if not, I can just pick 3 from my mind and that's totally fine by me. I have a LOT of ideas pent up >8)

Next up, they'll probably be on the simpler end of things to keep the pressure low for myself. More than a sketch surely, but I probably won't focus too hard on the BG. Just the chosen model of the month ;)
(Also considering making them briefly exclusive to patrons here. I really want to maintain public/private parity for most things I post, so just having one thing I can shill as an incentive per month sounds like a nice balance. I know a lot of people have them on a 1 month delay so in September the August pinup gets posted publicly, etc. Still thinkin' about it though!)

Lastly, I did also mention in the goal I'd look into simple merch. That's still in the plans but believe me I wanna start REAL small lol. I love stickers so I'll probably start thinking of a few funky designs! Does anyone know if Patreon's built-in merch support is any good?

To keep the stress down for myself, I'll say I just wanna focus on one of these avenues at a time so the stickers may end up on the backburner for a bit. Apologies, but avoiding burnout is absolutely my #1 goal above all else ;;;'

Aight, I think I've rambled enough and covered everything. It's high time for me to do less typin' and more drawin'! Thank you all again for sticking around- I'm still honestly speechless and so thankful that you guys dig my stuff enough to support me to this degree. Not to get too sappy but impostor syndrome is some real shit & it's so validating to know my work has some appeal ;u;

Be well, take care, happy Monday, more art soon <3
MAJ