Moving AND MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Happy Holidays, faithful Funland Attendees! I hope your year so far has been productive and soulful. I know I can look back and see that some of the toil I've been working has yielded... yet another move. Work or play, Funland never can find somewhere to stay.

Since begging for money early this year to get back down where I used to live, I've pulled late nights, stole time, and time mis-managed my way to being relatively confident in my demand and workload. I've been crawling and by now I'm attempting to walk. ...and also my time has run out living with family, so I've been prepping for this anyway.

I've got news:

1) I'm going to take a week off work. Normally I don't let myself go 3 days without updating *someone*, whether patrons or a client. However, I'm more than stressed at the moment, and I've not been working at a decent pace. Worrying about the post-move issues I've got to take care of has me counting pennies and sleeping terribly. My neck hurts the most it has all ear and even IcyHot isn't working, so I'm having to lay down with ice packs. Once I'm settled into my new ROOM, with DOOR, with a KNOB, which is a first for this year, I'll be cleaning and hauling and helping and cooking and - I want to have space and time. It's very clear I'm a wee bit time blind so I want to wake up and go to sleep a few times without the guilt or fear of not pushing an update. This is the first time I've ever considered putting my foot down and forcing rest upon myself. Even after the 4-day bus move I was still doing a patreon stream same weekend, and played catch up. Now? IM CAUGHT UP. My workload is recent and the clients all know what theyre getting.

2) Once next Tuesday rolls around, I'm going to go 5-6 days on Patron Backlog, mainly one Stockholder, and also the Year-End Sponsor ($30) tier project. The September flats weren't finished and I recognize that, however to make it up, I'll perform like last year and make a huge Xmas themed joint, because honestly I love collecting y'all together in a scene for that. Much love to Myxine.

3) I think the biggest part of this whole annoucement is that MY COMMISSION SLOTS ARE NO LONGER PERMANENTLY OPEN. That's right, and let me say it a different way: THEY ARE CLOSING. Having a rolling queue, no announcements, no 'hey guys im offering x so I can build y month's workload,' it's not creating any demand and I feel a bit more carried by the wind than in control of it. My current batch of comms looks like it can carry me into December, and thus, expect slots to open around the end of November. YHC's are on the table, and I'd like to work into my week an in-stream Inks-Only stream that would give me occasional funds for one-session work. This leads to...

4) I will be posting a new commission price list! I dont believe there's any more holding off this price change - the file says "2020 prices.png" and it's almost 2022. I feel like the bumps are reasonable, I've ironed out the lowest tier and have examples, AND, super special surpise - I'm bringing back the Full Monty tier. Paintings are back on the menu, and Im charging appropriately, and limitng how many I'm willing to have in the queue. One's already there. It's carrying me into this move.

5) I'm tentative on saying anything concrete, but I'm moving the gears again on my comic, now titled "Last\\Night." At this moment I've got writing swimming around my hard drives. I want to hammer that out, as well as the layouts, before I start releasing anything on Patreon. I've got a pipeline and a schedule. By moving, I'm trying to commit to working that schedule and actually producing pages. The rest of this year has the opporunity for me to bounce ideas off my roommates and pull the first arc together. Long been outlined, but not visually set or detailes forged. 16 chapters, plus some change. Expect low down, dirty, wretched monsters being hunted and the people who do that as something you can read about in 2022.

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I'm moving back into the place where I started my rolling queue, 3 years ago. My journey since leaving there has been  harrowing, humbling, and it's displaced me as far as Idaho. I'm coming back to friends and a support network, an area of a city I can walk around in and am even close to groceries. Closer than that is a primary care facility I've chosen with my... free healthcare for being so poor.... like literally a walk down the street and I'm there. Being with family has been amenity abundant but hard going for the lack of people or noise or hugs, as family's work has kicked up and they cant be here much at all, not like earlier in the year when I first moved back. I'm expecting stress but I'm also trying to trudge back to being active.

Thank you, Funland, for believing in me, giving me work, and supporting my career thus far. Have a great day and a better tomorrow~