2021 Recap + Reward Tweaks (Please Read!)

Happy New Year! 🥳🥳🥳

It's 2022!!! Here's a quick look back on some favorite works from 2021. Thanks for sticking around and keeping this clown car running for another whole year. 

I love you guys. I know, parasocial relationships or whatever, but, I really, sincerely feel so much love and appreciation for all of you little piglets. Even if you're just here to look at big anime titties or gags or whatever. You've given me so much. Thanks for making my year (and my life) so much brighter. ❤️

OK, enough gay stuff. News!

Reward Changes!

1. "Early lines/flats"

I'm revising this to a more general "early WIPs/scraps/etc" category. In practice, I seldom finish lineart before I start coloring, instead adding details, tweaks and fixes right up until I post (and sometimes after). Moreover, half of what I've been posting for $18 patrons hasn't even really been lines or flats at all, but scraps, edits or stuff that I just don't feel comfortable showing everyone (aka "weirds").

In other words, the actual rewards won't change; they'll just be better-labeled.

Also: going forward, these will be available to $12 patrons and up, not just $18 and up. I'm doing this mainly to compensate for another, less fun change that I'll explain in a minute.

2. Polls... Polls! POLLS!!!

POLLS??? POLLS!!!!! POOOLLLLLLLLSSS!!!!!!!

I'm just going to say it: I hate polls. I like drawing poll winners, but I hate polls. They've always been by far the biggest source of complaints from patrons: They're stale. They're clumsy. They're chaotic. They're frustrating. Also: thank you again for being so generous with your support, but they've gotten stupidly overcrowded. At this point, it's typical for them to have 50+ choices. It's kind of ridiculous.

Because of these and other reasons, starting in February, polls will be totally reworked.

First: character submissions will be retired as a reward. Instead, $18+ patrons will provide unlimited character suggestions, which I'll then winnow down to 10-12 choices for the actual poll.

Second, the new polls will include reference images for each character in the actual body of the post, so even if you don't know who everyone is, you can at least see what they look like before you vote.

Third, we'll be using Patreon's built-in polling now (not possible before due to the ludicrous number of options). In other words, all polls will look something like the Second Chance Polls we did in 2021.

Again: This change will take effect in February. I'm not doing it right away because I didn't want $12 patrons to feel like they got the rug pulled right after being charged for a new month. Jan Poll 1 is a Second Chance Poll, and January Poll 2 will work the same way as before, with $12 patrons submitting characters.

I know not everyone is going to be happy about this. That's okay. TBH though, I've personally just felt really bad about the way the polls work for a long time. It's just way overdue for a change. It's 2022 now, so... let's make a change! 🥳

tl;dr:

• $12+ patrons now get early scraps, WIPs for most works, and other stuff
• STARTING IN FEB, no more character submissions
• Instead, $18+ patrons provide unlimited character suggestions
• Polls overhauled: ref images, curated options, max of 10-12 characters, no more goofy "vote by faving comments" system

Thanks again, all. Let's have a great 2022! ✌️