A Necessary Change

Like most posts I’ve made recently, I’ve stewed on this idea for weeks and weeks before coming forth with my thoughts. Along with the post about my Bombshell series, this was one I was kind of dreading making. Because I know for some of you, this is gonna piss you guys off. Anyways, I don’t wanna beat around the bush and mix my words up, so I will say this now:

After this month (June), I am cutting Hero Tier and Expansion Gauntlet from my page

When I first began this page in April, I didn’t know what direction I wanted to go in. I came off of a really great month with dozens of great images that I made on a whim, so I thought “hey, you can totally make a business from this!” So as such when I designed the tiers, I ended up making one where people could have added input and actually see what they wanted to see. And it was a great idea! Or so I thought.

Cut to now, where I’m still struggling with both Bernadette and Asterid…because quite frankly I never would have chosen them on my own. If I had a choice, I would have picked say…Penny over Bernadette and I would have chosen someone else for the butt morph treatment. Which in lies the problem: I have never been good at doing stuff I didn’t want to do. This is a problem that actually extends into my life as well (might explain why I hate school homework so much…), and it’s something I’m actively working to rectify. But for a page that was originally designed as an extension to my previous work? I’m disappointed that I didn’t realize this would be so hard sooner.

Deviantart and the fetish has been a way for me to make WHATEVER weird fantasies and dreams I have about inflation come true. So being told what to make….it’s hard as shit to be honest. And I hate that I keep having to go back on my ideas time after time.

So, what’s the deal going forward? I know a lot of you are hero tier subscribers and joined ONLY because they wanted to see me morph their ideas (there is no shame in admitting that, the lack of me making those two previous expansion gauntlet images definitely doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence). Well, for starters I will be taking down the hero tier option before July begins and you all get charged for the month. I don’t know what that will mean for you current subscribers, but just know I wanna make it so that tier option is gone by next month.

This also means…for now at least…I’m getting rid of expansion gauntlet and that whole deal. Again, it’s ok to be angry and what not. I would be to if I payed 10 dollars this month only to get the door slammed in my face next month

So what about the images I have going now? And the gauntlet pic for June? Well that’s easy, I am gonna make them because people PAID FOR THEM. I can’t just ignore the fact that I got a ton of income in the first few months because of people throwing their hat in the ring for ideas. As hard as it is for me to figure out some of these requests, I gotta make them. It’s a matter of my own principle.

I want patreon to be an extension of Deviantart, where people support me out if good faith and believing in the morphs I make, a casual approach as opposed to a business driven one. I want this to be a small area where people can support me and what I chose to make on their own whim, being allowed to see work early before everyone. And if they can wait a month for each new batch of work to make it to the public…they can choose to drop this and just wait on deviantart.

I will be taking a big loss in profit from this new approach, but I think it’s a necessary change to ensure I can keep this going as long as possible. I want to put my full heart and soul into what I make, and I think this is the best way to do it.

If you have any questions, let me know down below or through a private message. Otherwise, I hope you all can understand where I am coming from here and will still respect the work I have done. Thank you all.

-Drew