goodbye and thank you <3

hello everyone :)

i feel like this post has been a long time coming. i am officially retiring from making cc. it was a hobby i picked up in high school that spiraled into something i really didn't expect once i was invited into the 21st birthday collab. and don't get me wrong! i am so grateful for that opportunity, but i do think once i started making cc consistently, i was eventually in this mindset where i felt like i "couldn't" stop, if that makes sense

additionally, as a lot of you know, i am chronically ill and unemployed, so making cc was the way i was generating income. however, when people are paying for a product, you are expected to be able to give them that product -- and with my physical and mental health steadily worsening, i don't believe i can, in good faith, offer early access anymore

as a lot of you know, i stopped doing early access a couple times in my time making cc. i know people have said that a lot of people create cc just for the money, but that has never been the case for me. i've loved creating cc/content, and being able to reward people with early access if they wanted to support me a bit monetarily was a good bonus. however, as i said before, i no longer believe i can sustain offering early access like i used to

and i suppose you could say that i could just stop doing early access, and you'd be right, however the way patreon is formatted makes this incredibly hard. there is no way for me to delete tiers and "force" people to stop paying. i can unpublish tiers, which would prevent people from joining tiers, but people would need to consciously remove their subscriptions, and when i announced my hiatus back in june 2023, i noticed some people didn't do this. i could just keep pausing patreon pledges every month, but that's definitely a very long-term thing that i don't know if i could regularly keep up to date with

also a factor is the way the sims community atmosphere has changed. 2020-2022, back when i was producing cc the most, the sims community was VERY different to how it is now. however i have noticed a shift in the energies of the community that i no longer feel comfortable with

i don't want to continue forcing myself to make cc with this constant negative energy surrounding me, regardless of how much i actually love creating. my mental health is incredibly poor right now, it has been for over a year and a half, and i'm currently in the process of finalizing some major life decisions that i need to put my full energy into -- and try to heal and grow as a person.

all of my cc can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MA83XwDnrMkhGdkhnyHl87bligNxlnjy?usp=sharing

to respect my patrons and the people who have pledged to get early access to my sylph tattoo, i will not be adding the tattoo to this folder until the 22nd.

i will be unpublishing my patreon page in the next few days, so please, grab this link and feel free to share it. as of right now, all of my cc is full public use, you're able to do anything and everything you want with it, credit or not.

thank you all again :)