Update - life is tough but we're tougher!!

Hello lovely people on my computer <3

As Im sure you noticed, the Patreon fields have been really barren lately, and I've fallen terribly behind on my due work. Im here to give you a full transparency account of what happened for those who were interested/concerned, and explain my plan on how I'm gonna try to fix this big mess :)

What's been going on

The recent US election completely threw my life into chaos. Even though I'm Canadian, I immediately rushed to make sure to establish a support network with genderqueer friends in the area. There's still plenty (read: WAY TOO MUCH) work to be done, but my hope is that we'll be able to offer shelter, medicine and safety for people who might need to flee the US soon.

As part of these efforts, I moved into a bigger place with a friend who needed emergency housing, and the move went VERY WRONG at every possible turn... My phone and wallet got stolen (preventing me access to most of my accounts and from doing bureaucracy while I substituted the document) and we immediately got into a tense, confrontational situation with some neighbors who seemed to very much not like queer people. Luckily, all of these situations have been defused or solved and now everything is stable and safe - even though I feel like I got 5 years older in the span of a few months!

This whole journey has made me reflect a lot on the kind of person I am and I want to become. I realized I'm missing a lot of essential life skills that would make me useful during an emergency, that my income is too low to help the people I love, and that I've relied too much on institutions that are crumbling in front of my eyes.

For this reason, I've made the difficult decision to stop pursuing art as my career and I've enrolled in a local nursing school. Don't worry!! I'll keep drawing and posting lewd stuff as long as I live - it might just be in a different shape or form!

I'm sure you might be concerned now about the lackluster activity on Patreon becoming even lesser with this change in my life - but I have a plan I'd like to show you all that should allow us to get the best of both worlds :)

The plan

I think one of the reasons I've been so awful at posting stuff here has been because of arbitrary restrictions I've placed on myself: I wanted my art to be always fully rendered, always an interesting and new scenario with poses and angles I hadn't drawn before, always in the same format and without content that might be too "weird" for the mainstream public

I think I started loathing this sort of approach - it made me feel like an employee at my own job - and I want to get rid of all that.

I'm also going to focus way more on streaming, as that's been the most time-efficient and relaxing way of making progress on my art by a long shot. Besides, I love hanging out with you cool peeps too much :)

So here's whats on my calendar for the next couple months:

• Finishing up my queue of commissions and patreon rewards - I will be remaking my Trello board to have more transparent access to my progress.

• Finish up and release No Rest for The Witches - we're about 75% done with the re-build of the game and working on the final cutscene and gameplay tweaks

• Focus on weird, fun, self-indulgent art - expect to see me unfiltered, horny and raw for the first time in a while :)

• Post more sketches and monochrome work even if I have no intention of finishing it or releasing it to the public

And for longer term plans, here's what you can expect:

• A completely new commission schedule and pricing, based on hours of work and not drawings and to be streamed from start to finish

• Return of Patreon YCHs and polls!!

• More animation in collaboration with talented upcoming artists and voice actors to lift up their buisiness!

• More games - but smaller, weirder, and with less ambition to break into the game industry and more willingness to get off us weirdos :)

And that's pretty much it! Stay tuned for a few fun treats for this month, and thank you for sticking by, giving me a chance, or just reading - it means the world to me <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I love you all so much!!!

Lyn