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This set would be made in another way, but I don't think Patreon wouldn't like that so I made it solo.

It would be a set about being overwhelmed. I'm feeling like that lately. More than usual actually.

Today I'll have to work around 18 hours of full work to probably finish what I have to do. And I had to waste some time to go to a hospital.

More often than not I have to explain my point of view, my limitations, etc. I'm not going to talk about the usual problems that comes with trying to listen to as many people as I can.

I've come to realize that no, I'm not wrong about my decisions and if someone tries to push me into something then I actually should probably just block them. But what I usually do is compromise, it's always like that.

So I'm here to talk about what problems I have right now that makes me do worse than what I could actually do. Basically venting and pointing how I'm thinking of solving that.

One of the first things are: People can't read. Period. Sometimes it's misunderstanding from another language, sometimes is just wishful thinking. What kills me with that is that usually people approach me with pitchforks and torches when they don't understand something.

Solution: I don't know. Probably limit what I say and block people more often.

Second thing: Requests. More and more it's getting closer to a commission. People who are here for longer remember that I stopped doing commissions for many reasons. It makes me miserable in many ways: Being pushed, too much specifications that makes it not worth the price, deadlines, complaints about stuff that can't be done (gross stuff) and not to mention that it takes from the time that I would have to make something for everyone.

I think this month I probably said the same thing to multiple people: "Imagine if everyone did like you do". Usually after I say that the person understand. So it's worth telling everyone this.

Solution: I might have to change the price for request or the rules at all. It was a hard decision when I stopped doing commissions, but after I did it, it felt way better. Another thing that I'm thinking about is to make an unlimited tier for requests, but the expected time to be made will go up infinitely if more people join and I'll present that. Basically every request would add a day to your wait time (it's an estimate time, probably could be less).

Third: The amount of characters that I have to make is so big and yet it's too much niched. Everyday I have to pick what I'm going to do and I have to pick FAST. I have to speed where I can so I can work with more time and make better sets. What I usually do is: I check the requests, try to make some of them while I work with other characters. If the request isn't problematic and it's with a reasonably popular character I can make it and maybe throw another character from the same anime. If the request is problematic or too obscure I make it so it has a spot together with other more popular picks.

Why I need to make at least a somewhat popular character everyday you may ask. The answer is simple: you want them. So this is what lead me to make niched characters and popular characters at the same time.

Then after I check the requests I check the SUGGESTIONS, which a lot of people get confused and think that it's a request. And there are so many options that I take more time picking from it than making a whole set.

Solution: We need a better way to get with the suggestions, probably limiting it more so I have less options. Also I need to make a bigger list of "To-do", but then here enters the problem with requests. It is starting to take a lot of my time, a lot of people asking me to test if I can make their characters.

I'm only listing these problems, but I swear over anything you want that there are other problems that makes me question my sanity and are probably worse than any of these, but I prefer to not talk about it.

Have a nice weekend everyone. Don't let this cast any shade on you.