Important: Incoming Reduction in Total Pledges for the Patreon, Please Read and Help! (Patreon)

Alright, so, the important thing I needed to bring up is a bit of a sudden financial situation regarding the Patreon. I was informed a few weeks ago that one of the two $25/week patrons would have to drop out starting in September due to financial issues of their own. That was alright with me considering you all and your financial situations are top priority at the end of the day, and I would still be making a tolerable amount of money per week. 

Unfortunately, though, a few days ago the OTHER $25/week patron suddenly informed me they needed to drop out due to their own messed up financial situation for at least a few months, meaning a very abrupt loss of about $150-200 of earnings a month on my part starting next month, dropping the total pledge amount to $30-40 a week currently.

This not only drops the total pledge amount below the technical milestone I set that would dictate an update every two weeks ($50/week), but it also means I won't be earning nearly as much obviously, putting me in a very sudden and dangerous situation for the immediate future that has stressed me out quite a lot in the past 48 hours.

What this means is that I'll have to do several things starting next month to try and regain the lost income. For one thing, I will have to actively advertise the Patreon, which I've neglected to do since the comic started back up due to... well, wanting to configure the rewards to something better, as well as guilt at not fulfilling a lot of rewards I've promised and no real time to get to them still and not wanting to saddle more people into that situation. But you gotta do what you have to when you have to, so I'll be doing a pretty wide sweep of every place to try and get new patrons.

I will also probably have to open for commissions publicly for the first time in a long time, which I've also neglected due to so much time being required to produce the comic alone. But again, need to stem the sudden bleed when I have to. The Patreon is more important since commissions are probably more of a temporary thing since I have trouble sustaining that for long, again, due to comic time commitment.

Now, the important part for you current patrons is what you can do to help, which are a) advertising to others that the Patreon is active to anybody you'd think would be interested, and b) increasing your pledge if possible. 

I know a couple people reduced their pledges recently due to the previous pledge total being higher than normal, and I had zero problem with that, especially since I think some of those were deliberately set higher because of the last time the Patreon wasn't doing well (although this is technically the worst it'll be doing ever starting in September) and it was to help out during that time. But, well, things have taken a sudden sharp decline again, so if you're able to increase your pledges at all, even by the smallest amount, until maybe the Patreon can achieve a similar level to what it used to be, that would help me out extremely in this situation.

But, if you can't increase your pledge at all due to your own financial situation, that's fine, I also don't want you to make yourself suffer or stressed just to try and help me out more than you already are. Your help has always been extremely valuable to me no matter the amount, and whatever amount you have and can help now is more important than ever. In that case, like I said, getting any sort of word out there to fellow fans of the comic or whoever in the aether that you'd think would like to support me and the comic, that also helps out extremely, especially if it successfully gains us new patrons of any kind.

So yeah, that's about it for this. This crisis is incredibly sudden and extremely poorly-timed and very stress-inducing, so I need to write out all this stuff for you all and do a whole lot to try and stimulate interest to regain those unfortunately-lost pledges to get back in a safer position of earnings. Like I said, any way you guys can help out, I appreciate it, and I already super appreciate your continued support that you've already been giving me. Without you I'd be in an even worse and more hopeless situation, so thank you.

I'll still be trying to get the pages out every two weeks despite the lost milestone, luckily the next comic only being seven panels instead of 9-12 helps out on that, but yeah. Thanks for reading and supporting, guys.