💖Plans + Updates💖

I HAVE RETURNED! Triumphant! Ish. With a little update, even!

First, thank you all so much for letting me have some down time. I desperately needed it. I had a nice break, though I admit I got back to work on channel stuff much earlier than I probably should have! Which leads me to my next point:

Some things will be changing around here!

...well, okay. Not many things, just the one thing, really. But change is scary! D:) It requires some gravitas!

Given the current direction of the channel, I’ve decided to suspend quarterly themed events for the foreseeable future. No Monster Girl Mayhem, etc.

Will this change be permanent? Maybe.

Will I still do Februdere because I’m stubborn? I mean, probably. I’m generally unable to get off my bullshit. We know this.

I’d say I did some soul searching during my break to come to this decision, but that isn’t what happened, really. Mostly, I rested between day job stuff and played a lot of viddy games. (Darkest Dungeon II, primarily. WHERE IS MY HOUNDMASTER? DAMN YOU, RED HOOK.)

But, there was a point where I started crunching numbers and making a to-do list, found myself staring out the window at some clouds rolling by, and finally muttered into the ether, “Well. Fuck.”

I'm just doing too much to keep up with and I need to learn to let myself stop doing some of it so I don't completely crash and burn.

Creatively, I’m finding making longer audios more rewarding lately. Though of course they’re far more labor intensive, they're also more satisfying at this point. I also want to keep making Patreon exclusives, so I'm not giving that up. Shorts are a fun challenge, and I love those, too!

If I want to keep doing those things for a long time, make room to experiment with new content (or return to old experiments like animated audios!) and also do that whole ~self-care~ thing: I have to reduce my output somehow. Even if the overachiever in me doesn't want to!

Events, as much as I love them, and as much as I'll miss them, are the best thing to cut right now. When I looked at the list of scripts I've tagged for the next several -- scripts I was excited about when I initially found them! -- and felt only dread at juggling the workload, I knew for certain it was time to let them go. If not permanently, at least temporarily.

For the record: I don't intend for this to be a prelude to a slow fade from content creation. Obviously, I can't tell the future, and I am still at the mercy of the Almighty Platforms. They can cut the knees out from under me at any time.

But you all mean a lot to me, this work means a lot to me, and I want to do this for as long as humanly possible.

(I'd also like to maybe someday point at a nice house and say, "Making silly noises on the internet bought that :3" but that's a dream for another day!)

So...though events may be going away, I'm afraid you're stuck with me!

Welp! That's the announcement! Plan. Plot? Whatever. From here on out:

• 1 main channel audio per week

• Likely at least 1 long audio posted to main channel per month

• 2 monthly Patreon exclusives

• 1 short per week...or whenever

• Hopefully a lot more naps for me behind the scenes. ^^

Thank you, as always, for being here. I'm off to have a sandwich and upload a video.

xoxo,

Vel