So Patreon didn't charge patrons for any of October's Updates, hence I lost all of October's Patreon income... Yippie~!

"How did it happen, and how does it affect an October patron like me?"

In the previous system, patrons got charged AFTER art was done, in the new system, patrons are charged BEFORE and DURING the creation of art each month.

When the switch happened on Oct. 26th, Patreon gave up on charging for October's work (setting a hybrid system for a month or two would be too much work?), and instead only charged for November's upcoming work.

This graph might help:

Due to this, October and November's rewards will be combined, and patrons will get more content than usual during this double-ish month, please don't expect the same amounts for future months.

Be reassured, you will only be charged once for October-November work, instead of the expected 2 charges.

When to expect rewards?

In this system I'm expected to wait until the end of November to send monthly rewards, but to not leave you guys hanging for October's art rewards, I'll send them in the next few days to all $5 (New Peek tier, gets U549's art), $15 & $30 Patrons (Prev. $2.5 and $5 tiers, get full October), and then early December I'll resend those rewards + all of November's bonus content for $5, $15 & $30 tier patrons.

Coillectors will get Coill reward emails in the next few days, with next balance update early December.

About November work, and the future.

November's work is essentially "bonus content", so I'd like to do something different with it, and might be less art than usual, but not less work since I'll make the most of the time in other ways!

The poll winner and some more characters will still be drawn as usual (although might not follow the 2-3 piece per character pattern anymore?), but I'd like to take this chance to experiment with style and piece concepts (break from usual patterns, try to have fun with it).

I also want to start reconsidering more major changes to what content I do on Patreon, since things still look dire despite my best efforts (lost 1/3rd of income in a few months... might just be the economy, or AI eating my lunch?).

To make as good a choice as possible, I want to spend some time in November investigating other creators' successful NSFW projects (art, games, comics or otherwise), so I can get a sense of what works nowadays to find out what I could change to make you all happier to continue supporting me.

Before starting any projects though, I want to try spending a month doing 1 picture a day, machine-gun style! In practice, it will probably be much less than 30 pics in a month, even if I keep things simple, but I want to see if quantity makes a difference.

Still learning how new system works, might need to change things again

I bet I'll find quirks on how this new system works that may force me to change things (will patrons that get charged right away understand I will send rewards next month?), so please bear with me during these times while I figure things out.

Thank you.