one last clue...and some patreon answers/housekeeping!! (Patreon)

hello lovelies!!!

THE SONIC THING-SURPRISE IS ALMOST UPON US - you'll know tomorrow.

here's one last clue ... and if you haven't already figured out, there's a ton of original artwork involved in said sonic surprise...this detail is from a piece of artwork by one of the patrons here (félix marquéz, from spain, i coerced him into getting involved...sorry felix).

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SOME BASIC HOUSEKEEPING!!

1) 

a number of you asked about getting charged for the "new years blog"...that's not a mistake! that blog was the blog associated with the 12-days-of-AFP-ness...which was the accumulated archival stuff that got released over december. you didn't get charged in january because a bunch of patrons had requested i "thing" it in january, which means you don't get charged til february. we're always a month behind here on patreon...which is a good thing, it's what makes it possible for people to drop out or top up or otherwise change their minds about things over the course of the month. so anyway: do not be alarmed. AND...if you're a new patron, scroll through the 12 pieces of archival goodness, there's a lot of great stuff there! here's the link:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/long-new-years-4102625

2) 

you may also have noticed that the patron numbers soared past 7,000 this morning then got bumped back to closer 6,700.  this is NOT because 300 decided to mutiny and dramatically leave us. it's because patreon does standard "clean-out" at the beginning of every month and dumps the patrons whose credit cards are not accepted. SO...we can look at it another way: a little less than 5% of patreon supporters this year had bunk credit cards. i'm not sure what that says about the state of things. 

3)

and speaking of the state of things, i did get a complaint via twitter from someone who left due to my support of bernie sanders, to which i had to say: whatever, dude, i'm an artist and i love bernie sanders. not all here need to feel my love of the bern. but to support me and not expect me to have feelings and political views...forget it. never gonna happen. do y'all know who i am? it's part of the package, yo.

if you want to hang out with an artist who isnt going to have an opinion about the bern, abortion, gun control, and other stuff...go hang out with...i dunno who. an artist who doesn't do that. 

4)

i love you. thank you for being here. i'm really grateful.

that's all.

xxx

afp