rubberlink

The end of this Patreon :_)

Added 2024-12-15 13:51:48 +0000 UTC

Hi all, hope you are well,

I have some info to share.

The TL DR:

I'm closing this Patreon at the end of this month, save all drawings you want while you still can!

I've set up a small discord sever, as a patron you should be receiving an invite soon if you have discord linked. If not, you can use this link: https://discord.gg/3nbuK9Kuct

The server will be public, and will have a backup gallery that I'll slowly fill, and I'll announce commission slots there before any other places. Don't expect me to chat much apart from that in there, I'm a mess regarding keeping track of messages ^^U

Also I'll be still active in other places:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rlinky.bsky.social

Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/rubberlink (they ban some of my drawings from time to time, so I might end up being banned myself.

Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/17965713

Twitter: I'm not happy with it and just upload small screenshots there

Instagram: gave up updating it, it turns down everything I upload.

Now the long version:

Ok, the reason to close this place is that due to a change in EU laws and how I believe they will interact with my country one, I would need to spend an amount of money in taxes and assistance that is bigger than what I'm earning, or risk to get a fine that would be definitely bigger than what I'm earning, so I'm giving up on this :_)

To be honest I'm going to miss this. It has been a pleasure to have this running for so long, and I really appreciate all your support, with a special mention to those that have been around for long, you know who you are, and I hope you know you have my honest gratitude :)

But apart from that, I have in general troubles managing my time. My life is demanding in terms of time devoted to my job, errands, support family when they have issues (which sadly has been frequent in the last couple of years), etc. So I have problems organizing the little time that I have for my hobbies, and thanks to you supporting here I've been able to keep drawing and (I hope!) improving, when probably without having to deliver something for you I would have spent months not drawing at all. I'm afraid that it will happen now, but I'll try to keep some routine ^^U

So what now? I'll be closing this at the last day of the month, so I encourage you to save any drawing you will like to keep a copy of. I'll slowly upload them to other places, but if you follow me in any other network you'll know already that I'm very irregular doing so and it could take ages until I upload everything ^^U

I've created a small discord server also to create a backup gallery. The main reason is that I don't trust any page anymore. Deviantart, where I started, has became a den of AI renders, we all know how twitter is going, and while I'm liking bluesky a lot, any day they could change their ToS. So I'll keep a discord "gallery" and also anounce commissions there sooner than in any other place.

If you have discord linked to patreon you should be getting an invite soon, if not, you can use this direct invite, if I set it well, it shouldn't expire: https://discord.gg/3nbuK9Kuct

...just something about the server, I've set a channel for general discussion, and I hope you have fun there, but don't expect me to chat much around there... I've tried in friend's servers, but I'm terrible trying to follow conversations in discord :_)