[Important] Concerning COVID-19
Added 2020-03-27 19:36:12 +0000 UTCOkay, let me get this out first:
If you need to drop your Patreon pledge for more important things, please do. I support you 110% to do it. Your ability to get through all of this matters more than a contribution to me. I know I rely much on Patreon as income for what I'm doing but right now, this does not matter to me or to you.
In light of this, no one will get points next month to give a chance for those who needs to drop for now. After next month, we'll do a double-point month should the conditions get better.
If you want to know my situation in all of this, then I insist you read on.
Of course in the future, I will have to delete this so the backlog doesn't clog with random stuff and updates in favor of the content you always love.
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Now that's out of the way, time to explain what happened, what I've been, what I'm doing and what I plan to do in the near future.
- To no surprise, and to the sadness of it happening, and of course, best luck coming from one of the worst circumstances possible, FurryPinas 2020 is delayed.
This means two things:
1. It's really sad it's delayed, but they plan to continue it on Q3 of 2020. Theoretically 4 to 6 months' time. Plans and preparations are ruined. Better than getting canceled, honestly.
2. It's delayed. The paranoia of me worrying too much for making merch in these trying times is gone, with the benefit of having more time to work on merchandise in the future. Thank goodness.
- The plan for the rest of the month is actually working on FiaDH... but I ended up working on finish the Furrial Class List on the Furria Wiki exactly with the reason I'll be saying on the next bit.
All you need to know, that's literally what I'm doing the last two weeks, finding optimal ways to process what is currently to count 125 unique classes and easily be displayed in a neat manner. For the past two days, I've gone literally through a bag of notebooks of archives and silly child comics I made to add more classes and place them in a new Master Furrial Class Google Sheet.
Once everything is added, all I need to do now is the process, which should be simple to do.
- With the quarantine going on, I'm not working the best of my ability. I know I work at home... This shouldn't be a problem at all. But the more each day passes without going out I find myself getting a bit more tired each time.
Nowadays I find myself actually repeatedly being on the bed, resting/napping a lot or getting sidetrack extremely easily. I don't even get the drive to even draw and just type and type and type. Not because of sickness, but from the lack of going outside...
I work usually at night and even then I go outside to take a breath of fresh air and admire my nightly surroundings as the sun goes up after a walk to a nearby 7-Eleven. A bit surprising from who's mainly an introvert. This is definitely not happening during a quarantine where I can't even go outside at night at all.
Definitely, after all of this, I and some friends are going bowling and getting something good for us to eat cause a birthday celebration is definitely canceled in between all of this.
I'm someone who hates having no progress and I'm a guy who looks up to things so any progress is still progress! Oh yeah, I do plan to keep my work hours short to be consistent at least during the quarantine. (Like, only 3-4 hours compared to 8.)
- As for finances and supplies, not to worry, I'm with family. We stocked up to last for a good time with some snacks too in-between. Besides, we can still go outside to restock at specific times! I've been contributing, to keep the family going too! (However, we're technically feeding two families around here cause my sister and their family are at my place, which ends up actually gonna be a challenge. I was expecting them not to show up honestly. =3=;)
Hopefully, all of this clears up soon cause I implore you that we as humans survived through plagues before. I do hope this will ease all of you of your worries about your pledge and me.
As long as you and I survive, it's all good. Besides, on your half, living to see my work doing great stuff is honestly pretty cool. As for my half, you living and pledging is helping me do stuff I want than to conform to a job which is cool for both of us!
See you all soon on the next post or update or in KaieraCafé or stuff!