Hey everyone! n.n

So, as those of you on my Discord already know, I've been thinking about the recent stream stuff, what I've been doing right and what I've been doing wrong, and I’m going to be making a few changes.

First of all, for the moment, I'm putting Various Happenings off to the side for a little bit again.

I love my projects and I want to move forward, so bad... But I have to pace myself properly and that means setting things aside for just a little while longer.

I can't overdo my work because I'll burn out or hurt myself, and I need to finish all the stuff I took on for my dental work last September and October, so I can, first, take more paying work so that I can help Dicy and Tigre when their little girl shows up, which is very soon; and second, get all the work I have owed out to the people waiting for it!

So yeah, right now it's going to be just MWF streams for me, and that's going to be focusing on work. Hopefully VH won’t have to wait much further beyond mid-March, but we’ll see what happens.

Second, the voting for side work during the streams has been very popular and I appreciate that you all have been very enthusiastic about it! (If you’re not on my Discord, you should be, we vote for fun stuff for me to do during stream!)

But also, I get carried away and I can’t afford to do that. XD

So, here is going to be the stream format for the foreseeable future:

• Stream Posting & Voting: The voting will be included in the stream posting so you can vote there and it won't get lost in the chatter in the stream channel.
• Opening & Doots: Fifteen to twenty minutes of little doodles to warm up my arm.
• Commissions: Taking the people who readied up and working on commissions. I hope to get three to four characters worth done per day.
• Voted Item & Closing: The last two hours of the stream will be dedicated to the voted item.

I'm going to try to start between 12pm and 2pm EST and end between 6pm and 8pm EST. Variables depend on my health, things coming up, and other factors but I'm going to try to make it a consistent 8 hours like I used to.

Third, once everything on the commission list is done, I'm going to be updating my commission info on the site! Once that’s finished, that will be your go-to for all the information on how to commission me and what my rules are!

Now, based on the feedback I’ve gotten so far, I’m probably going to be doing Sketch on the Spot (SotS) streams once or twice a week (M+F or W+F) as my main thing. These will be for black & white sketches, and then if someone wants to pay for color, I can do those off stream or in a big backlog stream. That means y’all will ask me to be on the list and then during the SotS stream, I’ll call people on the list and we’ll do the sketches, just like it used to be.

This does not mean that I won’t be taking BIGGER pieces now and again, but just that I’ll be pickier about it and be taking them irregularly at a lower volume. I might go back to using google forms for that, just in case!

Once I'm more stable and secure in my monthly income, I can lean back on having streams for projects (Various Happenings and/or Clara Cosmos streams) and working more towards putting those out regularly.

I've always had problems pacing myself in the past, I know, and I just need to make sure I have enough time off to not hurt myself, and balance properly between making money and doing things I'm passionate about.

It's a struggle, and there's no surefire handbook, so even after over a decade of doing this stuff, I'm still struggling. But that's okay.

As for other business things, I also need to look up a printer that can print card stock and stickers for future art merch, as well as seeing about replacing my drawing monitor (which is wearing out waaaaaaaaay too fast currently and contributing to my current damage to my arm.) So expect those expenses to show up on the counters fairly soon.

That's the current situation. Even if I’m going to be focusing on work for a bit, Various Happenings – Chapter 6 is in production currently, and I hope once I clear out my list, I can blitz out the first episode for you all fairly quickly!

My hope is still to manage the whole of Chapter 6 this year (and perhaps even more) and a couple of other things, so we’ll see what happens!

Thanks again for your patience. I know y’all probably get tired of hearing it, but it means a lot to me. Life is difficult, more often than not, and it’s good to know y’all have my back! n.n!

I’ll see you all next week after another inoculation. XD

Be safe, everyone!

~Spooky

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