Patreon is getting rid of it’s best feature.

The ability to pay per comic page/per piece of content got removed, it’s only monthly payments from here on out. With this they also removed the bundled payments, which reduced the impact of flat transaction fees that paypal and credit card companies charge, so more money landed in creators hands rather than monopolistic payment processors.

The bundled payment were better for monthly payments too. You could donate 1$ each, to three creators, and the bundled 3$ payment would incur the flat fee only once.

This is bad for patrons and bad for creators, plus people who have disabilites, have other health problems, or simply take a long time to finish a piece of content and don’t want to charge patrons for months where nothing was produced.

This also renders my other Patreon a bit moot for now: Patreon.com/cw/pa
So you might want to sub to just one, if you are subbed to both currently. If I ever realize my pie in the sky dreams I will use one of the Patreons for the comic and the other one for a videogame.

We still get the ability to pause our campaigns, but I’m a bit wary of it because pausing too long may mean Patreon might at some point un-publish the page because of inactivity, which can lead creators to losing their founder’s benefits. (5% fee instead of 10%) I’m a bit paranoid about that so I will likely not do it.

But that means getting paid for nothing.

My wrist is recovering after I broke it, but still painful when doing too much. Got a host of other health issues as well, but maybe this will push me to release at least something every month.

I think I pretty much settled on using AI in some capacity, but I do want to use it more collaboratively, rather than just prooompting. To that end I want to create a small drawing app that will enable this collaborative approach.

Now that clankers are getting so good I might make Claude do it, and getting some Patreon income again would help me pay for that sub, so I could start and see if it’s feasible.

I’d also have to turn to AI to fix my website which is in a state of disrepair right now. The webcomic plugin and theme for WordPress I’m using is no longer being maintained.

I can’t even upload a comic right now without errors and I can’t fix the website on my own. There’s no way in hell I will ever write PHP code, it disagrees with my brain like nothing else, so AI would be kind of a savior here. Once the plugin is fixed I could upload it for others to use as well, or I could completely redesign the website, without having to use WordPress at all.

So yeah, fair warning: Will be using AI in the future, and if I continue on AHS, or another comic it will probably be the horniest most degenerate thing possible. (Will talk on that later)

If you don’t want to support that, there’s still some time to unsubscribe from my Patreon before the changes go into effect.

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I’m still alive but..

Sorry for not updating in so long but I kinda don’t want to write posts that are bad news?

Thanks for the comments on the last one, even if I don’t reply I read them all, and they helped.

Health-wise: Blood pressure is improving, not as much as I hoped, but I’m no longer feeling like I’m about to die any second. Still gotta improve my diet, but I am so lazy… Any tips on healthy food and snacks for a picky eater? Preferably easy to make and cheap.

But here’s the bad news: I seriously hurt my wrist months ago because of a bad fall in winter. A bit confusing: First they tell me it’s a fracture, they pointed out some sort of crater at the top of my wrist bones on the x-ray. Now the MRI results are in and apparently it’s not a fracture? But there’s still extensive soft tissue damage I guess… There’s this thick tissue / swelling at the top of my wrist, limiting my mobility. It still hurts whenever I move it too much.

So the plan is physical therapy, and if it doesn’t improve in a few months, surgery might be necessary.

Uh anyway….. How do you guys feel about AI Art? Asking for a friend…….

Also: I did private some of the AHS pages I’m a bit uncomfortable with. Some people pointed out Mina looked younger than she is supposed to be. Kinda my fault in multiple ways. She has a pretty flat chest to begin with… that is just part of her character, but then it gets further reduced to nothing because of the demon. Then I have this tendency slightly draw the heads too big which makes the bodies look too small…

Anyway, I do need to think about solutions to this. Because the Internet is getting more censored every day. Governments implementing restrictions and Payment processors are breathing down Patreon’s neck. I bet they don’t care about explanations like: A demon stole Mina’s tiddies guys! They might come back! Or the demon might change her body further to be more TOS compliant, it’s ok guys!

That’s a big reason besides all my health problems that makes me less motivated in drawing anymore. Just the fact that certain body types are basically illegal?

Let’s say my health problems magically go away. Would I continue AHS as is? Would I rework it? If I chose to rework / update earlier chapters, why not start over completely? Same characters, similar story, but told in a way I would want to do it today. Or go with that futuristic setting I have, where Mina ends up there after being on ice for a few hundred years.

That’s it for now, suggestions welcome.

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I have slowly killed myself

Because of problems with my wrists that made me unable to draw, or do all the other things I enjoy doing in life without pain, and problems with my legs and other parts of my body that also lowered my quality of life by making it painful to walk and stand up for too long, I have coped by essentially killing myself by overeating a lot over the past 7 years.

It’s not a conscious decision mind you, but I just simply went for food when I had nothing better to do. Technically I had better things to do, but I couldn’t do them without pain and without damaging my wrists or legs even more, so eating food while watching videos it was.

And now, I’m really feeling it, sitting here with a blood pressure reading of 190/119, trying to relax to get it to go back down again.

They say that your internal organs can be damaged by blood pressure this high, including your kidneys and brain, and honestly, I think that already happened. It’s either that or the brain fog is caused by covid, which I happened to contract around the same time as my health was really starting to decline, maybe it’s a mix of both.

When coming up with scenarios for comics or games I always had a little movie with my characters as actors playing in my head. Back then you could sit me down in an empty room and I would not get bored because I could just entertain myself with my mind theater, but nowadays these images in my head are like a degraded VHS with opacity set to 20% rather than the HD quality they used to be. This alone makes it difficult to care about my life… It’s like a part of my soul already died.

At this point my life is fucked and likely impossible to unfuck, due too many factors such as permanent damage to my body and mind, mental problems, financial problems, lack of mobility, doctors hating me and not taking me seriously for some reason, among other things.

So, if you’ve been asking yourself where I’ve been, there you go.

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Question about AHS

Okay so I have a quick question for you guys.

How lewd do you think the comic will eventually become in the future? (If I actually manage to continue it that is.)

Do you think there’s going to be a bit of nudity here and there? Sex? Really graphic stuff? Porn? Something weirder maybe? Something beyond even that?

I’m just wondering where people think the story is going to go, because I’ve seen all kinds of differing views on this topic in the comments over the years.

Also, if you’re expecting something more normal and the comic becomes straight up porn would that upset you? Conversely if you were expecting porn and it doesn’t materialize? Or maybe you expect pure yuri, but then there’s an eldritch abomination with a million dicks?

Anyway yeah, just really interested in where people think this is going.

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