Shocktress

Did you like LENS?

As a general question,because if I can find another way to seamlessly link short updates/tryons etc videos to just play loop here I would do it in a second if you guys liked it.

LENS fellowship was the most popular "tier" thing, prob because least $ ... but you know.

I was told by Multiple peeps, that I updated more content than any other creator/artist that they followed. I was also told I was short changing myself with tiers. But It's not epic stuff constantly, so when you guys are openly honest it helps. Kinda why I'm asking about the LENS stuff now.

Honestly? there is so much stress off my back and time to fix everything with the LENS feature GONE, the flaws/bugs made me spend HOURS to make videos. but 🤘 I was lucky this year: summer is supposed to be my time to do that but the pressure to upkeep content is a special unfit place. Since my health has been good enough and summer has not been hot in my area this year it was not miserable!

So a nce easy way to share videos without paying patreon a subscription fee would be worth it to me if it's worth it to you ❤️ I just gotta find a way and roll with it, especially if you guys like it.

Please speak up if Patreon booted you

So when patroen ended LENS they appearantly triggered people to not be supporting and cannot see posts.

so they have the billing issues and the BLOCK issues and now this stunt of removing LENS which might have caused complications and ended supporter viewing altogether.

I have to demand that patreon reinstate supporter status at the level they were supporting now. If yours was removed and you can't see posts like you could? let me know asap

Missed comment reply chance

So, I spend HOURS finding and making reply videos to comments, and got distracted with chores for someone else and it completely ATE the day, yes, on saturday (i was supposed to have migrain shots today too). From driving to docs to making 5 meals to discussing work/process flow diagrams for someone else's project…by the time I got rid of the biggest kidney stone this year (15 min ago) I had time for ONE reply vid. kinda salty.

LENS are neat but patreon made them miserable.

I'm uploading them all again , as close to same order as possible.

I know 3 of you put in some words, either about my merch dress, or the black fishnet or just thanking for the videos.... please dig into it again if you can!

LENS up

small bundle , 2017-2020 era mostly Foxy but you know, next bundle could lack foxy

LENS appreciation soon

sorry, been up for 29 hrs now, going bed before i hit 30 again.

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old LENS need a callback and I need to use the function before they drstroy my favorite feature here 😞

Paetroenne kills LENS 10th of August

They sent a "reminder" today. Short notice, they never posted anywhere or emailed in a way I could see.

I never saw a date, we all just KNEW because of the constant crashing and making the function so unbearable that it would be obnoxious to use.

again, how do they suggest we deal after they destroy our options yet charge us the same amount? push it off onto another site: THIS TIME (in the emails to creators) they recommend Discord...the whole purpose is almost out the window, patreon uses every other site's functions to get money now.

Fanhouse crashed and burned,I'm exhausted from this stuff. I'm mad, I'm stuck.

and they complain about not having much out there that's comperable to LENS so they don't bother when THEY'RE DELETING IT, it's right freaking THERE. Like purposfully destoying your car and saying it'stoo hard to afford a car now, like literally just to not have a responsability. I'm temped to push a hex, but I need specific targets.

heads up patrreon buggy

news is that patreon is flagging supporters

and they bounce them out and force unsupport/unfollow etc.

its not the first time this happened

Fix Progress again

I STARTED to repair a purple leotard that no one has actually seen yet, had to stop and keep going last night.

Pattern is home made from scratch and bare basics. I won't use outside sources, they will just need so much editting for my size and shape that it's LESS work to use my own methods.

I hate this fabric, its weak pleather, not the stretchy stuff persay, but I've had this color for more than 10years for my partner and she just was never able to do what I was planning to do for her. Color is my perfect purple, and I have no more left to do anything but segment repairs.

it damaged by getting stretched, it fits nicely otherwise but this stuff shreds itself with the slightest bit outside its range. simce it doesn't stretch much , remember it will buckle at gut when sitting, crunching , all that.

pour some salt for me , i been up since yesterday and its almost noon. it's not great on one cup especially, but after doing weird fixes to a temp thing, it's done for now. I'll update with a pic of it on the floor by itself later k? with all weird repairs 💜🙏

LENS are up: Black Leotard

Legend of the Black Leotard over 2 generations 😅😈

mostly foxy, with half cup demongirl

Fanhouse nuked

not like most people were into it, the site and person making it was some special type of garbage.

patreon keeps messing up so seriously we need options.

2 of you here were also on the fanhouse! so I'm gonna try and wear a quick Foxy Friday in honor of you and further treat foxy fans. You guys HERE have been awsome. I restrict tiers and all that to lower numbers because you are what I need most!

give me a few hours, just need to put on, film, take off, cut video, share....

oh but I'm waiting for car inspection: just got a 50$ ticket for past due sticker....also: WHILE car still not repaired from school bus damage, else it wouldnt be there to ticket. 🙏

Summer heat= summer halt

as most of you guys know, I can't function in summer. We live in a hot apartment, it's 90F here in Boston USA, AC costs so much and with the noise and my tinitus issues, lack of sleep etc, I melt on the floor in my live stream setup.

Sometimes if it cools down to 75-80F I can stream, at night. But only because The makeup melts off and it's easier to clean 😏

Seriously I have to kinda do all the chores/travel/cooking/store runs/etc, so it runs me down, esp humid days.

So yeah, another yearly reminder that you might see more progress ,parts, etc than me wearing the stuff!

Social sites?

my SPILL is created, it's new!

Twitter is actively discouraging any shares to other social sites.

This one, little different:

disigned by GOOD people who encourage progress, ethics, diversity, creativity and well being all around.

Find me there if you can't take the twitts.

I'm just posting this everywhere.

also my linktree! https://linktr.ee/shocktress

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Orb Fractals cleaned

I'm gonna order magnets again, because I think it's better. They have the tiny N52s now, I just have to make new cuffs and glue magnets on.

Here's the progress of one:

Fixing has re-started

now on Fusion today/tonight.

You can see from the photo what is still ok and what was black material stained, most are stained, one was lost at dragoncon like 2013.

These need scraping. Here's one done, of 6. It took 5-10min and was a less stained fractal.

These are all hand made from clay from swirling 3 colors, the orange was custom mixed from yellow/red. Then they HAD magnets, but storing was annoying so they all got glued on, which enabled the staining in storage from 2013 to 2018. So, also next is new pair of black cuffs.

Swimsuit fixed around black detail, I'm painting bolts tonight, also resin cast,not metal.

more later!

LENS up for ORIGINAL CHARACTER LOVERS!

Since a coyple peeps missed out on vids and events or shares of MY characters, see LENS for a few that I kept on my phone for occassions like this.

Again, ALL music by me (unless it's like, background speakers)

fukton of work over the years to make all 3 things that go into a video, which is actually 4th thing. But there's something about characters that are yourself and you can just be unique in the same reality as everyone else.

Let me know who you would like to see more or have some live stream time. They are all important enough to me to give repair time

and I have serious repairs (15 fixes just on Fusion alone) drags you down when you wanna go forward, but again, worth it.

Live Jam was good

A few of you made it, but VERY sorry it was late.

Technically my first music stream with Fusion, it was LOADED. I was setting up for hours today, after cleaning hours yeaterday, I didn't even find my tail and armlets until today when I had given up looking for 2 hours last night (I decided to sew something with pins real quick and some small shoebox container next yo me and the Xmas outfits was in the way, guess what was inside)

So yeah, great show.

I took instax polaroids to share! small but fun.

its 6am, i need to bed k

live!

sorry very late stream.

midnight strim

i spent ALL day rigging my mouse/keyboard and the new monitor.

I might do another monday 🙏

make up for lost time: Weekend stream plan

Yup, trying it again.

No migraine (for NOW), no sliced fingers, hurt back, dizzyness (for NOW) , faint and crumbling so let's try this weekend.

if no saturday,

then sunday.

else next week.

Nothing special, no new theme, just like last attempt. But gonna try to fix a giant collar. Gonna mix what i can however whenever.

Also, Patreon messing us stuff again, causing more work for ME to fix. I'm gonna fix their layout plan display later, but for now: for Patreon's "free trial as a founder" I can upload up to 2min videos becase they made the LENS thing such a problem in the past 3-4 years that they trashing it for this function....as I said 2-3 years ago. For now, I might NOT do 2 min vids, but still LENS and posting shorter vids at certain tiers. I will miss VINE even harder now.

also , 10$ playstation gift card giveaway on stream. I reserved 2, because they were given to me like 2 years ago and I can't use them now, PSN has been a hassle and they make it hard to cancel and pick up later. So one is reserved for a supporter raffle here, and extra card for anyone in the stream chat (Twitch).

This weekend hurt, need recovery

I will be hurting for days

I'm sunburned,

knees,fingers,heels,BACK,hurts

just finished a town group effort YARD SALE

120 stairs this weekend carrying stuff. packing /unpacking cars.

Sold some stuff. gave away the 400$ chair to a guy with no money,cuz neighbor

Not done either.

Long story short, was kinda forced to help because none of the junk was mine but its sitting in our apt not paying rent, restricting me and my life, and partner couldn't do it. She needs help, but it put us into a situation where someone was going to hurt and I fon't like that, so I'm gonna be bitter and sore for about a week+. It hurts my back and ribs to breathe in so I dunno.

I'd rather hurt myself having fun or streaming, not this crap.

Sorry but yeah blah blah BAD weekend and bad week coming. Heart ultrasound soon, been waiting since Feb.

I have lazy outfit plans! its just sitting there waiting for me!!!!!

NO stream, migraine etc

I'm having a hard time yo, I'll try next week?

Both ear/sounds and migraine /eye stuff from Tuesday still buggin, so however long this lasts.

I havent even dragged out the 35 foot cables or cleaned up yet.

kidney pain went away for now, limited dizzy...i'm dragging hard. I dunno what to do, after tmrw it gets hot summer again.

Fusion kitty has no collar now, I gotta fix, so she out until I do ❤️

Might Stream jam Thurs or Fri night

NOT TODAY(thursday), its a super not good day. Felt good Mon/Turs, as usual some surprise around the corner.

Usually it'slater like 9pm, i'll try Friday.

I'm trying for 8pm but we know how that goes, half a decade of being late to my own streams will tell you that.

My character Choices are:

Basically the Default outfit variants. le Dark Demon girl pic shown is not default,its promo.

accident cut,Would have streamed today otherwise

Yeah I cut myself on a cheap knife while trying to get ride of a cardboard box that I could fit in, it's been in the way since last year. The knife buckled back and cut my finger. No stitches, just hurts and bled a lot, but that kinda stops all costume action especually for tight clothes and tinkering with music peices. it's my pinky so anytbing that just TAPS hurts.

I'll see about this week, it's a strange cooler day here for a week. Very salty about this one, it's my own fault I didn't ise box cutter, but this box is offensively big, doesn't fit through door to put in storage 👊

SEE LENS of knife, its public. I used it in past vids too, its clunky and even hurts to use on anything but thread or solid foam so yeah, garbage.

Reminder: GIFTED GEAR is appreciated!

You can see in LENS.

Pink underwear was a gift from KaxWolf in 2021. The Lavender is same style that a friend bought for me 2020.

after normal clothes get used for awhile, they go to cosplay bin. Pink pair video was actually first tryon! on foxy skin it's too snug.

also in LENS: moo gear. I actually have to go back and cut/make vids from the ~1 untouched video that I saved in like 2021. Moo gear is fun but I don't go too far with the joke/fandom.

In ER again for kidney stones

more later unless they need to do something drastic

I feel it's important to let you guys know

Patreon doing weird things

My goal is set high to make rent, but that was 3 years ago and I never changed it.

So,they ARE crashing the site,I just got thos a few hours ago. They say there are enhancements coming but that's always fluff and filler to keep people here until they make a very negative impact (pattern with ALL sites)

If they can keep things going better? I'm game, else I complain.

goals? what a small aspect to put effort into dismantling. And.... why? The effort is already done,they make it seem like going in to remove a single perfectly good ice cube from a freezer makes up for putting "planned" food in there.

Audio previews and free trials will not be enabled on my patreon, I assume people know what they're in dor especially with the title page/explaining about it being more support instead of "rewards"........ and omg especially when links in all these other sites nowdays that glue us together, I already show what I like to do/share, peeps know this frim the get go. If the preview means something else like a media player on wifi/LTE or datasaving or just some ez feature then ok.

but for F sake the app is HORRIBLE.

• anything they add is riddled with flunky bugs
• more and more movements are required to reach the same place when navigating as a creator.
• constant removed features (like replying to post comments with a photo)
• all the frustrations for half decade.

Patreon: a great idea, executed poorly. They seriously just don't care.

Either way, I'm spending the extra 5-6 times the amount of time to do the same thing I did before they started screwing it up, you guys might have a problem here or there,but it's a pain to go through as a creator, a few of you know this.

but

It's worth the effort if YOU guys like what you see and do. Wholesome Interactivity is valuable and has motivated me in the worst of times.

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did the LENS even post?

I put up like 5 LENS , but the system showednothing the whole time, so i wasnt able to see if comments etc were even there.

they don't give/send/HAVE notifications for comments on the videos. Sloppy system at best.

non-content post: bootleg LEGO set giveaway cuz I'm picky.

Normally I don't care about LEGO authenticity, really , megablocks was already was knock off and I still have a few of those (set apart from the rest). But I can't keep this one.

I posted in a few places and supporters get first dibs. Unopened and all so otherwise a proper set I guess!

I think because the word bootleg,knockoff and reported are in the twitter post is WHY it did not come up in the search for LEGO, I deleted LEGO and replaced with "elves" and it found my old post. Consider that in looking up my old stuff, but usually negative words are saved for replies to guys like edong muck.

Either way, I post these kinds of things in discord and twitter sometimes Tumblr. I prefer twitter cuz its ez, but I can drop them here too. Inlike to send people nice things that don't junk up the place.

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Will post /repost more LENS again tmrw!

Tired af, I did too much today and exhausted

I cut so much video to save on externals, old stuff is transferring on PC, I have no more storage so videos are all knocked down a level of quality, again.

my PC is pre usb 3 so even the fasted receieving storage will max at 20mb/sec....this to put on the newer pc from 2 yrs ago...it needs juice. So while I did hours of chores today like drag a 50 pound holiday tree down and jnto a box, go to open neurologist slot, install an AC unit , and clean out air filters....PC is still moving the giggys! last time this happened it literally caught fire so no transferring while i rest ❤️ some of you can tell i was up till 3am, fell asleep at 5? i had to get up at 8am, but was 1/2 awake, it's midnight again and I feel like I got no relax all day and barely ate in 2 days.

SO

LENS tmrw , treating self to sleep...and water

luv you guys big

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Down again, fixing to do

Sorry guys, Easter is next week and I feel I have done nothing even though I did so much recently.

I have some medical stuff to fix, but I feel I let you all down.

Honestly, ALL 2022 was harsh,Sept,November and Dec 2022 was painful and busy. 2023,Jan was impossible, Feb I was barely able to get myself together for one live stream, March I cleaned a few things up and started stuff …

but I hit a wall last Tuesday when I had to go to auto repair and between walking in cold,windy rain and some nasty "routine" ALARM at the shop … my ears have been ringing with any sound. All sound hurts, i'm dizzy, it might relate to jaw issues and the whole vascular thing,but that triggered it.

I have to investigate ALL these, asap.

But I did so much work in the meantime, like bunnysuit pattern improve and new leotards! I have better fingernails for my characters, I got more makeup for "normal skin" stuff. I have a couple gifts to open but I can't live so I'm just gonna do it. I'm very tired very fast into the day so I can barely help my partner for her needs. I get headaches from getting sad and soupy drippy.

You guys mean everything to me, nevermind even money, but to be there for you/me guys to remind me/you that we matter.

I'm supposed to be the tough one but I can't do it unless I get some medical help and fix stuff. I still have implants with no crowns/teeth...temporary crowns on 2 since summer 2019 😞 I need to take care of vericose veins in my leg before they rip and I bleed out. They still won't get me anywhere with the POTS (post osterial tachecardia syndrome) which I've suffered 20years, the "post covid" hit me but also during SARS , I'm still putting up since 2011-2019 getting sick every year to the point of gasping for air evwry morning for weeks. I need a genetics test for EDS to confirm stuff and simply know - which way to go.

I'm struggling and the pandemic destroyed us both at home just after things already started to crush us in 2019. I'm stuck with what I have and still what I need. April is FULL of doc appointments now. I can only update stuff here with what I did recently but didnt get to cut yet, which was fun, but I had to keep moving. So bare with, I still have the xmas tree up...I pulled an all nighter photoshoot the day before that nasty car repair trip/ alarm day, I was doing ok all things considered 😢

Thanks for reading guys, I'll be back soon somehow, it's all been fast and recent.

LENS wrap up soon

sorry i started LENS wrapup last night, i had to go to urgent care today.

Still in waiting room but I had to pass out hardcore last night right. I was in the middle of snagging a couple FARA winter inside vids to slice and post up. bare with, I'll get back to it