Sunday Digest ~ Vol XIX

[4 new Swords episodes and a Stars episode]

Product Updates

• We have our first GOD OF PATREON! Please pay special reverence to sydrah2 when you see them interacting in the community!

• The Everstabbed campaign has ended - I helped a little to nudge it over the finish line in the last 8 minutes, but its still better to be paid in plushies than not at all. Wink!

Life Updates

• I am on holiday, with a beer in hand

• Watched the finale of Lower Decks; watching Bleach Season 3 and... I guess that's it? Nothing left to keep up with!

• Here's my Steam Wishlist if you want to get me a Christmas present while everything is on sale?? But also no pressure, I have a lot to play already.

Social Updates

• BlueSky is starting to slow down, but I'm also posting more non-comic stuff as well. 21.3k > 21.9k

• I got an unexpected boost of about 1000 Stars fans on Webtoon when I explained a joke that I had posted on BlueSky and someone reposted to Reddit

Swordscomic New Years To-Do List

No rest for the wickedly-behind-on-everything! This is just all the stuff I should get done, so you know what I'm focusing on for the rest of the year. What I do, in fact, get done is another question.

Comics
- 2 more Swor'nament Episodes (P57, P58)
- Christmas Episode (#876)
- Guest episode for /r/comics Secret Santa
- Regularly scheduled Time Knife update (#878)
- January backlog of STARS episodes
- January backlog of The Adventures of West Sprout episodes

Art
- Complete outstanding commissions
- Refresh www.mjwills.com

Merch
- Printing more Quest Sprout comic books in January
- Start work on a second Swords book
- Decide on a release date for the next Makeship plushie

Cut the Deck
- Cut the Deck will, Kargob willing, start shipping sometime in the next few weeks. If you are in New Zealand please consider preordering because we are bundling NZ orders together on a palette to help reduce shipping. This includes solo dice orders. Everyone else will receive their copies straight from the USA.
- Start making video content for Cut the Deck and a lot of it
- Launch support website for Cut the Deck

Patreon
- Design and order Q1 Sticker Club rewards (probably some Stars stuff this time, I've been getting asked for it)
- Update banners, icons and reward video
- Update physical reward offerings for Royal Tier/God Tier Supporters
- Make the next Lore Chart (there weren't actually a lot of named Smartsword runes throughout the comics so I might have to do a different one)
- Make a backlog of Content Calendar rewards
- Make a Map Of Hiltshire

Main Website
- Make sure that, at a minimum, characters who appear 10 times have an icon and 300+ word description in the Archive
- Include Cut the Deck card information on each relevant character and sword
- Remove any outdated ads/calls to action

Webtoon/Tapas/Fables/GlobalComix
- Make sure all webcomic platforms are up to date
- Remove any outdated ads/calls to action
- Update episode titles and descriptions on Fables

Other Social Media
- Refresh icons and banners
- Remove any outdated ads/calls to action
- Tidy the Swords Discord server
- Tidy the Stars Discord server

Admin
- Create a list of conventions in New Zealand and Australia throughout 2025
- Get all 4 email addresses to <50 emails
- Clear Instagram/Ko-Fi inboxes

This list will get updated when I think of 30 more things that need doing! Tee hee!

As a little closing reminder, you can gift other people Patreon memberships now, if there's anyone in the Swords community who you'd love to do something nice for this Christmas.

Let's all have a quiet and positive remainder of the year!

Thanks!