Sunday Digest ~ Vol XXVI

[3 new Swords episodes, 7 new Stars episodes]

Cut the Deck is still on a boat!

Product Updates

• The Momma Sprout Jumbo Plushie is coming to Makeship soon! Just gotta sort out a release day! She's huge, I hope you have room for her! If you missed out on Quest Sprout the first 2 times, I'm working on a solution for that too.

• I've ordered more Quest Sprout comics, just waiting for stock to arrive.

• Swords turns 7 years old on March 5th.

• Quest Sprout's 5th birthday is on May 1st, I'm still organizing some special things to go along with it

Cut the Deck Updates

• We're polishing some of the PDF modules for the game, while we wait for the stock to arrive from the factory.

• I'm posting behind the scenes content in the new Cut the Deck chat - there's also a Cut the Deck room in the Swords Dis(w)cord

Life Updates

• My loud neighbours who keep setting off the fire alarms by smoking indoors seem to be moving out. I shouldn't get my hopes up too much, all they do is disappoint me. Maybe things will finally turn around though. I actually managed to get a good nights sleep for once.

• I'm not sure if it's the stress or the bad sleep or something else, but my body isn't in good shape right now. I felt a lot better when we weren't in the city over Christmas, so I hope it passes soon.

• Whitcoulls are selling those little red notebooks for 15 cents (95% off) so I purchased a dozen

• Just for fun, I took all the Rules Of Acquisition from Star Trek and reorganized them into a curated-order version

• Watching Dr. Stone as it airs. I was going to watch Conan the Barbarian but I got interrupted in the first minute and didn't go back to it. I've been listening to The Art Of War audiobooks in the background - even though I've read it before, it never hurts to get it all memorized.

Social Updates

• BlueSky 31k > 32k (might be time to stop tracking this weekly)

• This months top performing Reddit post was a repost of Bladies for Ladies on /r/dndmemes. I encourage anyone to share more comics on meme subreddits, it is always helpful.

Patreon Updates

• We've passed 1000 Patrons again this week! What a rollercoaster! We've shot all the way to 32nd place among webcomic artists, which puts me right behind my One True Nemesis (who used my art without asking one time)

• I've had a few people ask if its better to subscribe monthly or annually - the answer is, I don't mind either way. We ran the numbers and it doesn't tip the scales in Patreon's favour particularly hard to do it one way or the other. I will not give you less stuff in Sticker Club if you take advantage of the 10% discount either. Please do what works best for you.

• I will be posting Sticker Club letters out tomorrow and the day after unless the card game shows up.

Webcomic Tips

• I asked for feedback last time about new sections people might want in these Sunday Digests, and this was one of them.

• My tip this week is : If you can do a 4 panel webcomic every day for a month, your whole life will change and you will be a different person on the other end. You don't need to wait for anything.

I know the world is hard right now, so I'm just gonna work harder and if 10 comics a week is sustainable, I'll try to keep doing it. I know being responsible for other people's happiness is a bit of a Sisyphian Boulder-roller-thon, but someone who follows me on Threads told me this week that I contribute nothing to society, so how can I possibly aim to do less?

Please be kind and patient with one another.

That's it for now!