ANNOUNCEMENT - MOVING FORWARD, REBRAND AND ANIMATION PLANS

Hey everyone, Squealy here.

It's been a while since I've posted anything properly now, to which I can only really apologise. Between a number of things in my life at the moment, the main thing that has happened in the last month was that my computer's hard drive died.

Unfortunately I had not backed up my work in quite some time, and so about 2 years worth of work, and anything that either wasn't posted online or backed up to the cloud or other storage devices has been lost. This includes the bases for the YCH projects I have been using for the past year. I did send the drive to a Data Recovery service to see if they could save the drive, and while they were able to diagnose the issue, the price that they quoted me juse to have them explore their options to get the drive into a state where data could be imaged from the drive was not only prohibitively expensive, but also non-refundable. On top of an extra charge to copy the data if it could be salvaged, I could have risked blowing a load of money only to learn that the recovery was a failure. As such I could not go through with it, and while I have the drive itself back, all the data from 2023 to now is inaccessible for the foreseeable future.

While this has caused me a great pain and sadness, the best course of action right now is to hold my head up and start from scratch. I have wanted to return to making more short form and quick animations with characters I've wanted to work with for a while now, however with everything I usually end up putting onto myself, I kept digging myself into an inescapable hole where I both couldn't find the time, nor the drive to do such projects.

So I'm starting fresh, with a rebrand. From henceforth this Patreon will now be known as...

"STUFF N' GRO STUDIO".

My focus will still be primarily on hyper content like I've always done; expansions, inflations by various means, the occasional bit of vore, messy stuff. Of course the biggest struggle has always been consistency for me, so this time I have backup.

Collaborating and helping me out will be my partner Muzu. I've always struggled to maintain a fairly regular presence on this page, and so Muzu will primarily be here to help manage my schedule, keep me on track, as well as to manage regularly posting updates for coming projects, plus helping out with animation and providing some voice work. Also helping me will be friend and collaborator Creature D. Decauwer, who is here to help with some additional animation touch-ups as well as sound editing for finished pieces to give them some pop.

We have some animation already in the works and will be releasing a completed one tomorrow (featuring a certain digital jester) so keep your eyes peeled for that. Tiers are going to be a lot simpler going forward too as not to overwhelm myself as I had done previously. We're gonna have early access, work-in-progress access, polling and animation files to download and dissect.

We are planning to starting with a clean slate, so older posts will be grouped into a collection for content between the beginning of this page in 2020 to now.

Of course, I understand at the moment that this most likely comes across as a very sudden change to what you are all probably used to from me, to which I can only hope that you will stick around moving into the future.

Billing for this month of June has been paused and will resume next month. Any patrons who wish to stick around as we move forward, please go ahead and update your pledges to what suits you. If not, then thank you for your support over the years, sad to see you go.

This isn't the end of SquealyDealy, I'm still me, I'm still the primary driving force and my other pages (Twitter, Twitch, Itaku etc.) will still remain as SquealyDealy, but Stuff N'Gro is a collaborative effort between myself, Muzu, Creature and whomever else may help in the future, and shall be our collaborative representation moving forward. Thank you for your understanding, and I hope you look forward to what comes next.

Yours truly,

Squealy.