OJST (Sort of) - Quarantine Diary (Patreon)

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/quarantine-diary-day-5/

So, I'm not charging my patrons for this week's update. 

The reason being: Matt and I were just going to skip an update this week anyway, which would obviously mean I wouldn't be charging my patrons since there's no comic to charge for. 

But then, like, I  felt bad about not having a comic for OJST's readers, so instead I decided to re-use this story I drew just for my Exclusive Autobio Comics Tier patrons. It didn't feel right to then double charge those folks for re-using material they already got, so... here we go. Free update for everyone! (And if you want more of my autobio, you know where to find it)

We've only ever completely skipped an update once before-- it was either this last Christmas or the one before that. We put up a placeholder image on the site saying "be back next week!" or something and I didn't even bother to make a post about it here. As soon as the next comic was up, we deleted the placeholder from the archives. We never got any notes from folks about it, I wonder if anyone actually saw it.

There's an orange tint in the air from the California fires. It's kind of pretty, in an apocalyptic-sort of way. Matt and I are doing a bunch of file and coding prep work this week before we announce our sponsors for the next year, but also... dang, man. It's tempting to blame our exhaustion on the smokey air clogging up our lungs and slowing down our synapses, but I think we're also simultaneously Legitimately Out of Juice, regardless of environmental factors. Not in a bad way! Just a... We're-In-Our-Mid-To-Late-30s-And-We're-Tired way. But also: The-Air-is-Literally-Orange-and-Smells-Like-Burning way, too.

To my Exclusive Autobio Comics tier patrons who already read this week's comic and need some fresh visual storytelling to consume, here: Here is a stupid thing I made on Instagram. It's kind of like a comic. Except lower quality. I showed it to Matt with a big, proud smile (Expecting praise, maybe?) and he just shook his head slowly like he was mildly in pain and turned back to his computer without saying a word to me. 

Rude.