✦ Post schedule for the rest of September! NSFW returns.. ✦

✦ Night Class work streams will resume this weekend! I'm going to re-ink the first few pages that haven't been touched since 2024, and I'm going to start coloring! My goal is to have Night Class 2.0 debut on Webtoon & Tapas around Halloween!!!!!!! (YAY)

✦ Sticker club Sept reward sticker will be worked on in the next few days~ that will also be streamed!

✦ My patreon is now officially 18+ so I'm going to be resuming NSFW content near the end of the month. It'll most likely be Shiloh x Quinn content, or pinups of the girlies if I'm up for it.

I want to pivot to posting sketches instead of trying to send-off a polished NSFW piece each month. This way I can post multiple drawings together, or even doodle out some scenes.

Anatomy is so hard. I haven't worked on NSFW in forever, and you can tell in older posts how strict I was with the anatomy/following references. I want to get better at gestures, pulling poses from my mental library instead of relying on references so heavily, and making things not feel so stiff. This is going to be my NSFW era, hahaha.

✦ New Merch will be dropping towards the end of the month!
Tiers $1 - $5 will get a 5% off discount code & Tiers $10+ will get a 10% off discount code!
I'll be doing crewnecks and t-shirts. Preorders will be open for 1.5 weeks. Orders arrive somewhere between 6-8ish weeks. (8-ish weeks is the estimate for international orders)

It's about 3 weeks max for production, a week or so to ship to the warehouse, and from there they usually start shipping 1 to 2(max) weeks after everything arrives, if they're busy.

The company that does fulfillment for me, White Squirrel, is a very small team and they also handle a lot of artists' webstores at once (like maobabie for example) They also fulfill the sticker club orders, so I thank you guys so much for being patient about delays!!!

✦ I'M HAPPY TO BE BACK TO NORMAL PATREON POSTING!
Overwatch asked me if I wanted to do another comic for them and I declined so I can work on Night Class, it's Serious...

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✦ This next part is just mushy feelings, so you don't have to read if you were just here for the schedule update!!! ✦
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Thank you everyone for the support, especially if you've been here for a while!
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to express how grateful I am in a tolerable amount of words, so bare with me LOL.

To rip the band-aid of vulnerability off, I want to be financially transparent. I've lived in a NYC borough by myself since 2018, and I'm completely independent. The way I've managed to stay in this apartment has been through your support here on Patreon, Twitch sub support and sales from the apparel store. I can't thank you enough for keeping a roof over my head!!!

The past 2-3 years have been brutal because of Freelance Jobs that took too much of me and paid me too little, on top of the Twitter Algorithm Changes. I do not have twitter blue, my account is just verified, so I'm not paying El*n any money to boost posts or anything. I know it might sound rich, but followers do not equal sales or $ at all. (I've had this twitter account since like 2013 or something, so I doubt half of those people are even active lmao)

Before the twitter algo changes, the average amount of pre-order sales for drops were about 400 orders or so, but because the reach has been so bad (only 10-15% of my followers see my posts on average now) my apparel store has taken such a big hit. My apparel drops since have only made like MAYBE 1/5th the sales compared to pre-twitter-take-over designs. So I really mean it that you guys have helped keep me afloat throughout all of this!!

We're even in a recession and you guys are still here. That's crazy ;; thank you.

I spent the last 2-ish years reworking Night Class in between jobs + This Bitch of a Life, and I now feel confident that I can walk away from freelance, like I did in 2020, to get Patreon back to consistent monthly content.

I still struggle with some burn out, some weeks are better than others, but it isn't nearly as bad compared to last year alone. I really want to commit to consistent Night Class updates, and I'll do my best to have NSFW each month too.

Thank you for being so patient with me as I try to get my life together.
I appreciate you so much!

♥ Manda