Bi-Weekly Report #20

Starting to think time is a sine wave and for every period that feels like a productive chain of months within the span of a few days there is an equal and opposite chain where I wake up every day, blink, and then it's almost midnight and I'm not sure where the time went. That said, I know I did shit. What did I do??? I don't recall the specifics! That's partly what these are for! My short term memory is kinda garbage, but the timestamps and such on my work sure ain't. Thanks, timestamps and such!!

ANIMATION

• The KTC has declared that I need to get back to work on Rouge. So I started that! I didn't get very far though before succumbing to feeling like total garbage that night. It's been a few straight days of that, honestly, but I did better last night for the other project. I'll give Rouge another chance this week, barring Committee protest or redirection.

• The Haunted House Orgy work continues and will for a good hot while. The corner group's animation for their first loop is finished, and I'm in the process of cleanup and base fills for those so we can move on to proper fills and maybe finish at least one little part of this beast finally. Oh dear. Good progress, regardless!

• I started roughing out a Tenla dick-sucking POV because her biggest fan basically saved our ass on rent this month. It's hot. It'd be even hotter if it wasn't four keyframes and she had hair probably.

WRITING

Chapter 12 revisions continue, in their silly little spurts. I've honestly been adding to it more than revising, it seems, because it wasn't long enough apparently. This thing's gonna be as long as one of the Kitty Treetz by the time I'm done with it, but I'm still extremely averse to splitting it anywhere. There's just not a point that doesn't feel like a total momentum-killer. Like, yeah, you could pause the roller coaster at the top of a hill until someone say's they're ready to go down it, but it kinda kills the pacing of the whole ride a bit, doesn't it?

Anyway the added bits are really nice. I don't think anyone will mind unless they sit down to read this thing while in a hurry, and even then, like... you made that silly choice. You're here with the lesbians in the woods now, and they'll never let you go before the proper time.

COMMISSIONS

Okay, record of past events! Don't let me down!

*looks back*

... oh, fuck me. I just remembered where all that time and energy went, and why Tenla's biggest fan was our biggest sugar daddy to boot.

Okay.

We'll get to that in a sec. Good news first!

Completed:

• PWYW x3 (including my first animated one!)

• Ottercat Definitely Not Drowning Crysis (I am finally free!)

In Progress:

• Haunted House YCH (See Animation section)

• Lourdes Trading Card for Nikki
  I wound up bumping this one up in front of the YCH as a thing I knew I could knock out pretty quick and just wanted done. Sometimes something just bugs me because it's simple and it's been on my queue amidst much more complicated things and I just get a little stir-crazy over it because it could just be done. I could just do it. So I did. Am? I plan to finish it tomorrow.

• Sweater Trio YCH Results
  Planning to dig into this proper come Thursday, ideally.

• Rabbit Ass
  This is now officially queued up for idle / midweek work now, taking the place of the Ottercat + Crysis comic as my present chisel-at overdue project from the before times where this was a more supplemental gig.

Queued:

• Photobomb piece for Kaz

• Foxgirl Jo for Aist

• Animated Paizuri for Rowlet

• A ref sheet!!!????? Yup!

• PWYW x2

Paused:

• Talonpaw surprise partner AF

OKAY LET'S... ADDRESS THIS FUCKING ELEPHANT I SUCCESSFULLY FORGOT ABOUT FOR A COUPLE DAYS.

I woke up the day after starting Talonpaw's piece to a Paypal Chargeback and a Paypal account sitting at -$220 and rent due in two days. Wow! Okay!

This really hit out of left field. I'd kept the commissioner posted on the timeline and movement of the queue from inception, and received nothing but kind words of patience and support. It was only in the last week or so, where I'd given a hard plan and timeline to begin work and told him where he could watch the work get done, where he'd stopped responding. I initially thought he'd seen the first session and just been so upset by what I thought was some pretty sick work that he went straight for the refund without a word for some reason.

This is not what happened.

First, his Paypal claim was that he had received a faulty or unsatisfactory product. He had not received shit. Bit sus.

Second, a glance at his FA page revealed several other artists all posting similar experiences within the last few hours. By the end of the day, this had escalated to several pages' worth of comments, multiple callout journals, a Discord server for scammed artists to get support, and the commissioner's account being locked down for review and subsequently banned.

Consequently, I'm not sure where I'm at with this one. I've disputed the claim on Paypal, mainly because I wanted to contribute to the slew of people saying "hey he did this in bulk regardless of status or satisfaction," but at this point the deficit's been covered by a generous supporter (thank you again) and I can't say I super want to finish work for a scummy ghost. Reportedly, he'd been spending his college fund on furry art and his parents found out, so he's frantically trying to reclaim the money or some shit. Fuck him, regardless. I saw someone saying he charged them back for a grand and a half.

So that's the bad news for me.

The bad news for everyone else is that Kaz convinced me to raise my PWYW time chonk rates, a thing that was easy to do considering these are at present a huge part of my commission income thanks to their rapid turnaround and steady scope. It's nothing heinous, but it's certainly helping with the bills, and should seem more reasonable the next time I decide to make one of these things wiggle or whatever.

Commission Me Here | Here's the Queue

AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT!

Gamedev is in the corner this week. I probably poked at some little details or what have you, but even if I get through the profile creation UI work there won't be much exciting to show for it for a bit, and it's really not my focus at the moment compared to just continuing to claw my way towards a functional work output and stable income.

Also, I've been posting weekly schedules in the Ketirz channel in Discord! That seems to please a certain crowd, even if things don't always go to plan. I've noticed a concerning pattern that the second financial stress even alleviates, I tend to wipe out for a couple days. This suggests to me that I am just... perpetually stressed out?? Low-key?? And now I am functioning off of that. So that's probably not great. Thank fuck for anxiety meds, I guess, or I'd probably be dead by now. Maybe that explains all the headaches and the sleeping like 10+ hours a day and still feeling exhausted too. I'm not sure what to do about it though besides keep pushing on until shit levels out. I'm trying.

But hey, that's a bummer, and last time I ended one of these on a bummer it's all anyone took from it, so uh

Phasmophobia! I've been studying up. Practicing. I had a session with a friend where I got real sick of dying as much as I was, and figured the next logical step after "can usually identify the piece of shit murder-ghost" was "can usually survive the piece of shit murder-ghost." So I played alone. Quite a bit, actually. I'm almost level 20 all of a sudden and while I cannot say I am good I do in fact now feel at least competent. Which is good, because the weekly missions involved hanging out in Bleasdale Farmhouse and I fucking hate that place.

I also tried the Anode Heart demo finally. If you're interested in a weird sort of melding of the Mons Poké and Digi that also comes with a pretty fun little card game, that shit rules. I cannot afford it right now but the demo's pretty hefty and even has Steam achievements if you wanna check it out for yourself. I recommend it!

Trying to keep up with things. Trying to keep targets locked. Trying to clear out the ancient backlog so I can have that time back for other things like Contest and Hare Moon. Workin'. Kisses.

• Sera