Thanks to my backers for their January Support. I didn't post much, which is part of the reason I suspended February charges. Still, I very much appreciate your support! All of you! And your generosity is never taken for granted...to the point where some of you have taken to reverse fin-domming me. Lol. Love you all.

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So the holidays are over, and that's a relief. At first, I thought it had all just caught up with me like getting hit by a freight train. After New Year's I was so exhausted I could barely function. But when it persisted through the month and got in the way of nearly all aspects of my life, I had to reach out to my various doctors and get to the bottom of it. It was hard not to get depressed during that time. I know depression can only add to that sort of thing, but it's hard to stay positive when you can barely stay awake no matter how much you sleep.

When I started...'this', my new pen name, my experiment. I never intended to be this open about my health shit. I've learned from experience it doesn't do well to treat online journals like an actual journal, and people get tired of hearing from the chronically ill. But when you run any kind of business, and you fail to meet deadlines personal or otherwise, you at least need to explain why. That's how being so open about all this stuff slowly leaked into my update posts over time. I felt I owed it to my backers and fans to be transparent as to exactly why certain content got delayed or slowed. Still, I don't love talking about this stuff.

For now, I'll just say that some meds have been changed, and fingers crossed it's a stable combination long term.

Onto workloads. I've got some comms in rotation. I've been testing out this 'stage rotation' kind of system at present, where I have a set workload and cycle from one piece to another between stages. For instance, I'll sketch one piece, then move to the next piece and sketch it. Once I get to the end of the workload I shift back to the first piece and line it, and so on until each piece is completed. Even discounting the health hiccup though, I realize doing things that way sort of creates a period where there really isn't much to show. I've been supplementing that period with showing lots of WIPs...but it doesn't really feel quite the same as having completed pieces to post every few days. I don't know if that's better or worse, to be honest. Backer feedback would help I guess?

Those on the public-only side of things, I've really been slacking. It's a bad habit of mine to let art from the Patreon build up, which only makes me less likely to do all the 'writing descriptions and tags' portion to post it. Even using postybirb takes a while at this point, and I still don't even have the most amazing grasp of tags to begin with. They differ somewhat from site to site, so I'm unsure if I'm maximizing my searchability on most of my pages. So instead of dropping about a month after the patreon and substar releases, I end up dropping the art publically like...two months after. Unless it's a commission that the client wants to be posted publically on completion of course.

I just dropped a new print on my personal merch site, which is pretty nearly done. So if you liked the Amelia pin-up I dropped recently called 'A Festival of Lights', consider picking up a print. I've started adding exclusive deals to my personal merch site, and have been considering a few more deals to throw in to sort of shift shoppers over there. I still have some work to do on the Etsy side of things, basically adding info to all the sheets and descriptions mentioning the uncensored merch store. Clerical work is always the 'boring' part of things, but it needs doing if I want to generate more passive income.

Here's the Amelia Print, a Wasted Merch Store Exclusive!

https://wastedtimemerchshop.company.site/products/a-festival-of-lights-ft-amelia-pteratopolis

I'm overdue on asks, and writing. I've still got editing to look over, even if all the editing isn't done on the next chapter. I'm sorry, it's taking forever I know...hell the whole Val story is taking forever. And here I planned to not only have that one done by the time Z2 came out, but two other fics in the Bellhunterverse series. Z2 was meant to mark my exit, as I wasn't planning on incorporating it at all even before I knew it was going to have a degenerate Kaa hypnosis snake in it. I was plotting to be on original stuff by then, but you can only ever plan for what you can reasonably expect. It took surprisingly long for Z2 to drop too, I had so much time...and where did it all go? Ugh. Regardless I don't expect Z2 to be any better than the shorts, so I was preemptively plotting not to utilize any lore from it. Dawn bias aside, I don't really have any faith that Disney in its current state will make a good Zootopia Sequel.

Don't get it twisted, I haven't turned my back on my Zoot stuff, I'm still happy with my work and want to complete my remaining stories. I just had planned for the remaining three to be an ending for my time spent in the universe. A nice, logical end to the BellHunterverse. Granted at this point I may just forgo the Finnzelle story entirely to allow me to wrap things up with 'The Bellwether Legacy" after Vulpes wraps.

Artwork stuff wise I'm still elbow-deep in commission work. I expected to be coloring some of the lined stuff I shared by now, but it can't be helped. All the while my commission/art idea list just keeps expanding. At least I'm keeping track of my ideas now, but still, I need more me's. Preferably healthier versions of me. I've also got art lessons to work on which I haven't even restarted...and 3d modeling, and animation...god, so much to do, and it feels like I've got no time to do it all. As far as I know, I've only got one life, one go around on planet Earth. Even if reincarnation is a thing it doesn't matter, it's not like I retain previous life knowledge. I've already lost enough time to far too much bullshit, and it's time for things to start coming up Milhouse damnit.

Anyway, I think that's about as deep in the weeds as I want to get for now. If I start giving timetables I'm only serving to shoot myself in the foot. Thanks to everyone, followers, long-time fans, and of course, once again, my dear backers for your continued support.

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My Patreon

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My Substar

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My Newgrounds

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-Wasty

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Been a hard month, a hard holiday season really. I kinda wanted this one to be special, at least better than last year was. But...stomach issues being what they are...things just didn't quite work out. Granted while this Christmas was at least marginally better than last year, the bar was set very, very low. But Halloween was kind of a bust as there...really wasn't much I could do. I don't really party, and I have no kids to take trick or treating. By the time Thanksgiving rolled around my stomach was totally shot, so I didn't cook or eat. And with Christmas, I didn't have the tree fully decorated until the 29th of December. I suppose that fits in with the obscure 12 days of Christmas tradition...but it wasn't ideal.

I'm still dealing with stomach issues, bleeding and the like. I have chronic gastritis, which I sort of knew I had, but just didn't have hard confirmation prior to an endoscopy a few weeks ago. Still, previous bouts of it have lasted...a few days tops. This is the first time I've suffered with one for near four months. I've played the 'food test' game, even going so far as to not eat for days. But it didn't help it ease or go away during that time. So I've got no idea what's causing my gastritis bouts. I also confirmed my lower bowel bleeding (Which I'm going to describe that vaguely as I don't want to talk about the area that's bleeding directly)...but I have to wait till February to meet with the Gastro and discuss what I can do about any of these issues that I haven't already tried. Needless to say...between that and the holidays I've been struggling to catch up on work more so than normal.

I had zero time to do asks for my blog, and so it fell by the wayside. I have no intention of abandoning it, it just was....well, the most 'outer-ring' on my workload priorities list. Out beyond the asteroid belt, but not beyond the Kuiper belt along with my writing. I am eager to get back to both though. I'm sure I'll get a nice ask dump out within the next month or two. And I'll definitely write this month. I also have a chapter still in the editing bay that I'm waiting for my editor to finish. (The holidays affected his schedule as well.)

The lion's share of the busy work for me currently has been all about commissions. For whatever reason, they really started rolling in within the last month. I've got a seven-project queue lined up right now, and I'm trying to work on at least two concurrently in order to get through them all at a steady clip. The issue is of course the health and the holiday season factors. But at least now with New Year's just a few hours away, I'll have one factor off the table. But I do still want to work on personal projects to post up, and the occasional merch drop along the way as well both for my own sanity, and so my supporters don't feel short-changed when supporting me. There are a number of stalled projects I want to get back to that have been waiting for new pages for so long there's going to be a quality gap with the newer entries.

And then there's my cube brush art program studies...which totally dropped off in October. I need to get back to it. I need to continue to improve my general skillset both for myself, as well as all of you. From a personal standpoint, I want my art to look as good as it looks in my head. From a business standpoint, I've never been a great networker, and so I want to lean hard into improving my art and expanding my range to help with that networking deficit. Obviously, I'm not looking to be rich or some super beloved popufur, but I want to at least live decently almost, if not entirely based on my work. It's what I love to do, and while it's a lofty goal, it's what I'm shooting for.

I want to get back to animating. I want to be making, printing and painting 3D models. I've got so much I'm so desperate to do, and it just feels like I've got so little time to accomplish it. Every health hiccup I run into acts as a traffic jam between me and that goal, and it can be so frustrating I just want to tear my hair out sometimes.

Anyway, lastly I've been keeping up with my Patreon posts pretty well, but have been lagging behind with public releases. For that I'm sorry... It takes a while to set up and correlate all my posts on the various platforms I'm on, especially when I let it build up. Even with Postybirb, I still spend a while typing up descriptions, getting my tags in order, double checking my spelling (And still typos get through), and often when I have the choice to use my time doing that or working on a project I tend to side on working on a project.

Anyway, if you're interested in keeping on top of my art close to, if not as soon as it's completed, consider joining my Patreon or Subscribestar. The one-dollar tier gives you access to finished art pieces almost as soon as they are done. However, at the five-dollar tier, you can join our discord and see the art pretty much as soon as it's done. As well as WIPs, voice chat access, a merch discount, access to polls, and so on...Even if you don't join, I still appreciate those of you who just like my work and are following me. For every kind comment and fave. Thank you all.

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-Wasty

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Lemme start out by saying...I think I've overextended myself with the holidays on the horizon. To be fair, I was operating at better health than normal...but that was before things started to deteriorate.

The thing is, I have been dealing with on and off again nausea since the tail end of September. I didn't give it all that much thought at the time. But around the middle of October, it shifted from just daily nausea to pain in my upper stomach and loss of appetite. I'm still dealing with that at present...though it's gotten better slowly. The key word there is 'slowly'. In the meantime, I've been put on heavy stomach meds to try and help whatever is going on clear up. I've also got some tests coming up, including a colonoscopy/endoscopy combo just after my birthday. Delightful. Not sure what is going on, and I'll keep my tongue bit until I have some confirmation. But that, coupled with holiday duties has really thrown a spanner in the works.

So here's what I'm staring down the barrel of in terms of workload. I've got 5 commissions lined up, I also have a Thanksgiving Sable Able sticker to draw. On top of that, I've got like 4 other non-comm pictures I want to color, A Christmas sticker I need to plot out, and I'd like to do some asks before the year is out. And on top of that, I've got writing to do. I'm probably forgetting something, and there was stuff on my '2024' hit list I will not be able to accomplish in time. I'm going to try and push some of the non-comm pics to after New Year's. This wouldn't be too bad if it weren't...you know...the holidays. And thanks to my health issues I've been unable to keep up with a lot of the housework and daily stuff, as well as festive things in general.

I'm feeling pretty burnt out. Deep fried with a capital emoji 'B'. Halloween was a disappointment, it looks like I won't be able to eat, let alone cook for Thanksgiving, and I have my doubts about Christmas at this point. I hate being exhausted, and I hate having my stomach be on a perpetual hair trigger as to whether or not I'll be in pain for hours. I just want to draw damnit. Well, draw and write.

I'm going to try and reassess things a little later this week, to try and smooth out the full workload into something that allows for some time leniency for unexpected rougher health days and Holiday activities with my Mom. I'll be in touch with all the 'Commission' seekers as soon as I get that fleshed out. That said, I'm glad I don't take payments until I get up to the commission in question.

Shorter one this time. It's nearly 5 am, I'm tired, and forcing myself to play catch up. Sorry if the typos are worse than usual. I'm using Grammarly to preview these but it doesn't catch everything.

Check the links below. We'll have a new Keychain listed soon. Get your Keychains while you can, because if the import fees become too expensive when the new administration comes in, I won't be able to make more anytime soon.

Thanks to my backers and fans...

My Merch Site (Under Construction)

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-Wasty

So, the short answer to the printer ordeal was that the rollers were burnt out. I couldn't get the ink stain fully off them, and I couldn't replace the part because the way the printer is designed is to be unopenable on the consumer side. Naturally, this meant it was time to order a new printer. Of course, this time I bought an extended warranty that's good for four years. Granted, it's one of those 'toss it and we'll refund you.' Wasteful yes, but I don't really have an alternative. I don't even want to throw this old one out, but it won't be useful to anyone with the roller marks.

It arrived this morning, although it was supposed to be delayed until Tuesday. I just finished setting it up and working out the kinks. Everything looks good and clean, so I'm announcing that all my stores are reopened!

First and foremost I'll be linking my Merch site. This place is currently home to all of my prints, including those that were 'too hot' for Etsy. That said, the site is adults only! I'll be adding my sticker stock later this week.

My Merch Site.

https://wastedtimemerchshop.company.site/

And next is my Etsy store, home to my current slate of 'acceptable' stickers, prints, and for the first time, keychains! Check at the "Ewe Head Emote Keychain!" And coming soon, My Logo as a keychain!

My Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/WastedTimesArtShoppe

-WT

Yeah, so small snafu. I had my grand opening for my own print store pretty much yesterday. Someone placed an order, which was fine, but my printer is having 'quality issues'. I've run all the cleaning cycles, and changed the inks out, but nothing has fixed the issue. It might be the fact I'm using budget ink, so I've ordered some replacement on brand ink. However, if that proves not to fix anything I'll have to just get a new printer.

So, until the issue is resolved one way or the other, I've taken my store offline, and set my Etsy storefront to vacation mode. This is a really terrible, awful time to have to do this, but it can't be helped.

I'll update as the situation develops.

-WT

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Let's start by talking about merch and commissions. Oh yes, it's that time...I've got a lot to discuss in that department.

Firstly, I've got a merch website now. It's a fairly basic setup, and I'm still 'stocking' items. But at the very least it will act as a backup for my Etsy store, as well as having my content that's 'too hot' for Etsy hosted and sold there. So check up on it from time to time for exclusives. I'll link it here.

https://wastedtimemerchshop.company.site

Secondly, let's talk physical merch. After a long wait, I've finally got some keychains to offer you. This is the first batch of tentative keychains, and I've only got a small stock as I'm not expecting them to fly off the shelves. But you're welcome to prove me wrong. So feel free to check out my "Secretary Ewe Keychain" listing linked below. These won't be listed on my website in order to avoid selling more stock than I have between both retailers.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1806370423/

My plan for keychains in the immediate future is to drop a limited run of some Logo keychains before the year is out, as well as have some tentative sketches for future keychains to hopefully release at the start of the year. The reason for the logo keychain was due to a request from Patreons, but again it's not an item I expect to fly off the shelves. That said, I'm open to suggestions for Keychain ideas. I'm keeping them SFW, but they can border on risque. Mostly keeping it to either heads or bust up shots considering the size of the acrylic charms. But perhaps under certain circumstances, we can do a full-body one. More than likely though I want to save that for standees. But by all means, feel free to make some suggestions.

Lastly, stickers. So far I've been keeping up with my planned release schedule despite my feeling lousy on multiple fronts. I'm 2/3rds of the way done with my Reptile Girls sheet, and I'm 1/2 of the way done with my office cuties releases. I also want to snake in my Mismagius girl as a stand-alone sticker release for Halloween, but I refuse to get ahead of myself. Either way, after that I'll be taking a break until the Christmas run-up in terms of merch.

Also, commissions are still open guys! I've only got one in the works, and another client on standby, so consider picking up a comm! I made the first half of my commission's sale sheet my featured art on Furaffinity, but I'll probably do a takedown and repost soon for those who don't see this.

Okay, so now for an outline of work ahead. Aside from the stickers I'm currently working on a full-color pin-up. This isn't counting a full-color species swap pic of Dawn and Vern that's live on Patreon and Substar, and will be released publically eventually. Furthermore, I'm aiming to return to some long-term projects that have been floating in limbo for a while. One I've got my eye on in an effort to pick up the pace in comic production is a clean, colorized version of the 'Ellie's Dream' comic I did in 2021.

Turning to fics, I've got a chapter of The Family Vulpes fully written and waiting in the edition bay, and I intend to start the next chapter...ideally this week, fingers crossed. That said I'll have to poke my editor to get started again, as I've already done a payment sketch well above the usual bar. Again, you see that publically in due time.

The last thing related to work is my art studies, which admittedly I've fallen behind on. I need to pick it back up before I start losing progress in my 'daily practice' routines. But it's kinda rough balancing all of this stuff as well as the time of year it is now, so I've been forced to adapt to the best of my ability, which means daily exercise is often not an option.

Okay, now for life stuff that poses a risk of disrupting workflow. I've got my own health issues still, obviously, and my Mom has hers. Naturally, since I'm her caretaker that means her health issues are just more work for me, not that I necessarily mind. The real issue is her stubbornness when it comes to her self-care responsibilities. But there's only so much I can plead or argue when she's technically mentally fit enough to refuse medical care, as well as doctors and ER visits. Needless to say, it doesn't make anything less stressful for me. To top it all off we can't even really discuss these things without getting into an argument, and thus I have very little outlet to vent my frustration. Thankfully I do have some close, personal friends to confide in which helps a lot. I won't name-drop here, but you guys know who you are.

I'm prepping some stuff on the side to try and deal with/mitigate that stress, but even so, it makes the holiday season all the more glum and stressful. I used to look forward to Halloween and Christmas, but now I'm simply dreading it. I just can't see any real way to get in the holiday spirit. All the usual traditions like watching spooky movies and eating festive foods feel like it won't be enough, and I can't really find anything 'unique' to do in my area that will make this Halloween or Christmas more memorable. I know that's a first-world problem, but I generally love the holiday season. I want to enjoy it. But I just don't think it's gonna be a stellar season this year.

Anyway, I think that's all for now. Please check out my new site, as well as my Etsy store. The Etsy store recently got four new sticker sets in the past two weeks, so if you like Aggretsuko characters, Bratty from Undertale, or Zorayas from Elden Ring, those stickers might be for you! And in the next few weeks you'll see Inui, Fenneko, and my Lapras gal Pearl joining the lineup. As well as (fingers crossed) My Misgmagius gal Winifred.

My Merch Site (Under Construction)

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My Patreon

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-Wasty

Hey, I'm actually going to briefly sidebar the 'thank you's' just this once to do a promotion I promised for Vulpinator/Toonophile for his fanfics and writing comms. He's a very talented writer, even if I'm not into his NSFW content all that much, his writing style is great. So if you like a writing style with a focus on frilly undergarments, as well as plenty of other options, please check him out. He's also got a character discount list, as in a list of characters that will get you a discount if you want the fic to involve them.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10555959

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10555962

Also, thanks for being a long-time Patreon Member Vulp! And I wish you the best of luck with your comms. That said, I'd also like to thank the rest of my Patreon and Substar pledgers. Thank you to my Acoylotes, Parishioners, and Donators. Your continued support is always appreciated. Very, very much so. Much love to you all.

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Okay, we've got what feels like a lot on tap this month. Between the art studies, commissions, writing, research, and the holiday lead up it feels a little overwhelming in the moment. Practice sessions are slipping a bit, and I'm doing my best to continue to make time for them because I genuinely want to improve. But I have a lot of spinning plates in the air and I'm starting to feel like any second now I'm going to drop all of them at once and somehow manage to poke an eye out with one of the sticks.

Let's start with the necessary research I need to do this month. Priority one is to dig up a fairly simple website/webstore builder so I can actually have a safe zone to hock my adult merch. This includes the stuff that's still on Etsy, and stuff that was long since removed. I've got a lead on that I'll be looking into shortly.

Next, Keychain and Standee production. Another area where I have some leads. I've just about given up on making them myself. If not for the difficulty getting them sturdy and to look how I want, then merely for the lack of free time to craft them.

Last, I want to dip my toes back into actual animation soon. Nothing special yet, just little looping cycle stuff. Another thing I'm hoping to start soon.

Now onto actual, tangible stuff. I've got 2 different sets of stickers at the line art stage. One celebrates the end of the summer, and the second set that's Aggretsuko specific to celebrate the autumn overall. These will be different than my previous sets however. The reason? I'll be dropping them one sticker at a time roughly a week at a time over the next few months. Why am I doing this? While I'm still stuck on Etsy, it's easier and safer to upload each character sticker as a separate listing. That way, if one gets TOS sniped, they won't all get TOS sniped in one shot.

On top of that, while commissions are still open, I've got 3 in progress and 1 in a floating reservation. Two are about half done, with one yet to be started. That's of course not even counting personal projects which feel like just a chaotic, disorganized mess. A million things to draw, to write, and thinking up new things every day. While my health had improved somewhat, I still feel like I don't have enough hands, enough of me, or enough time to get it all out.

As for my fic content, I just dropped a minific on Patreon and Substar that goes with a picture set. Both of these will drop in about 2 weeks or so for public consumption. I have another chapter of The Family Vulpes in the editing bay and will start writing the chapter after that one closer to the end of the month. Slow going, I know, and I'm sorry but there's just so much to do. Again, I'm balancing plates.

The only other project I can update right now is Savage Love. I'm not done with it, of course, it's merely on the back burner. I'd like to do more with it before the holiday season ends, but we'll see. Everything else is on hiatus until further notice.

Now for a brief, surface life update. At least as brief as is relevant. My health has improved a bit. I'm trying to walk every day now, and thankfully I live in the perfect place for that sort of thing. My Mom's still not in great shape, so that remains a job in and of itself. And of course, with the holidays coming up, it makes for a lot of life distractions.

So I think that's about all I have to update everyone on at the moment. Just trying to keep my head above water and wishing I still had two more months to go before September. Thanks to all my pledgers and backers again, and a thank you to my fans and followers as well!

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-Wasty

Back to the grind.

I'd like to thank my Patreon and Subscribstar supporters for as long as I continue to have them. Lord knows the credit companies will be coming down on those platforms increasingly over the next few months in the same way they're presumably doing to Etsy now. Still, it's deeply appreciated. Whether you're an old hand or a new member, your support means the world to me.

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Eric Johnson

Let's start out with a deeper explanation of where I've been for the past few weeks. As I said in "Where the heck are you?", I was on a bit of a forced vacation. Really I needed it, both for the purely social contact, and my own mental health. Honestly, I should have announced it before it happened as it wasn't a 'surprise visit'. But I spent the week before the 13th making sure the house was as spic and span as I could get it, which ended up getting in the way of some pending stuff I wanted to get out right before KarakuriCentral arrived. I have a full-color pic I was writing a mini story for, and I didn't have time to finish it. I'll be clearing that out in the next few days. It'll be going up 'as is', so there will be no editing but my own. I'd rather Kara edit my bigger projects than spare time on this one.

I've also got a few sketchbook things I'll be tossing up on Patreon that were done during the vacation. A lot of which was just getting down character designs for some long-standing OCs I had ideas for (Mostly Pokegals), as well as some cell-shaded stuff that is nearly finished. One is a commission from Kara that I'm waiting on final approval on before it goes up on Patreon and Substar. The other is at the flats stage, and is an original thing you've already all seen the sketch of. These all go up on Patreon and Substar a month before public release, so if you're interested in 'in-progress updates' and early releases, consider becoming a member. The five-dollar tier includes Discord access which gets the most 'play-by-play' of WIP and other projects in progress. So please consider it.

Before moving on, I will say I had a great time on my forced vacation, and I miss Kara already. He's a great guy, and it was nice to get away from everything...well, maybe not fully, but mostly. Some things in life you...just can't get away from fully.

Next, Etsy. Big shock, Etsy rolled out new, more restrictive rules on 'adult art'. It went into effect today, and I've already seen some work delisted. It seems...unless I've read this wrong, nudity is still okay, but not sexually suggestive posing? That's vague enough to get everything ripped down. I'm just going to leave what is up...well, up. At least until Etsy takes it down.

As for where to go? Well, I'll still sell clean stuff on Etsy. Kofi seems to let you sell adult merch, so I'll probably move the adult stuff there. Also, I'm going to fall back on private sales like I had done previously. By that I mean I'll be offering my prints and stickers on my art pages. You can DM me and we can set up a 'vaguely labeled' PayPal transaction. Of course, this means I won't get nearly as much engagement, and I'll have to go back to calculating shipping on my own. But that's the way it is I guess...until this crusade by payment providers ends, or a new NSFW-friendly payment provider manages to break through the duopoly and gain a foothold, I'm just going to be skittering from safe haven to safe haven like a roach caught in the light and waiting for whatever new site to get popular enough for Payment Processors to crack down on it and fleeing to the next niche site.

It's nice to have reoccurring income, something you can lean on a bit when commissions are scarce or you need downtime (Which with my health can be often). And I get the fear of minors easily being able to find your stuff and buy it, which believe me I don't want. But fuck, it's hard enough to make a living as is, and I stupidly chose to be a starving artist. As much as I love my work, I'd also love to be doing well enough with it to survive comfortably. But I suppose that's part of the goal of my art schooling, to get good enough to not only at least...sort of satisfy the insanely high standards I place upon myself, and to encourage more folks to seek out me and my work.

Incidentally, I'm also still working on balancing out my daily art school lessons to the best of my abilities. With Kara's visit here and gone, I'm hoping I'll be able to slip into a pretty regular schedule soon enough, so I can still give enough time to commissions, story work, and personal projects while studying and improving.

I guess to wrap up, I'll talk about the fact I'll be opening commissions soon. I'm preparing a revised cost sheet with a lovely selection of previews, catagories, rules, restrictions and so on. Something easier to access than Furaffinities 'Commission tab', along with being able to post it on multiple sites. I may see myself overwhelmed due to it...but I guess we'll see...as long as people are willing to wait on my queue, (Since I won't take payment until I get close to working on that person's piece), I should be able to handle it.

That's all for now. Once again, special thanks to all my awesome backers! And thank you to my general fans!

-WT

My Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/WastedTimesArtShoppe

My Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/wastedtimeee

My Substar

https://subscribestar.adult/wastedtimeee

My Newgrounds

https://wastedtimeee.newgrounds.com/

-Wasty

As always, I'm going to start out by thanking my Patreon and Subscribestar members...even if I don't have any substar followers yet. Again, not a huge concern as it's largely a backup plan. Still, thanks to all my backers who care enough to throw money at me. It's very much appreciated!

PARISHIONERS

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FOLLOWERS

EkhonACT9

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So...I'm looking to keep this short. I don't want to get lost in the weeds, especially since I'm coming up on an artistic... semi-sabbatical. Basically, come June, I'm gonna be taking a bulk of the time to...well, I'll be throwing myself at my Online Art School Courses full force. Granted this doesn't mean my art output will cease entirely. It's been reiterated to me again and again that while doing the course you have to take some time away from each lesson to draw for yourself. Basically, 2 hours of daily study, and one hour or more freeform work to unwind and prevent burnout. Naturally, I'm going to need a grace period to 'feel' this whole thing out and adjust accordingly. Eventually...Ideally, I'll be able to juggle both the studies and freeform stuff like commissions and so on. That said, I'm not sure how keen everyone will be to see 'practice work' that doesn't have ass and tits in it. But hey, if you want to, I'll be happy to share my journey on my patreon and substar. I'll even make that stuff viewable to free members if there's enough interest.

That said, as the title implies, I'm still a bit behind content output-wise. I'm still wrapping one final desktop commission (Bioshock 2 sea scene), as well as a 'Spring/Summer' cell-shaded desktop full of sheep ladies before I table my output. I did manage to craft, and extend the number of my May/Mother's Day stickers before the end of the month (It was supposed to just be Vanilla, but expanded to include Lanolin's Mother, The Conductor's Wife, and Longclaw the Owl), and finish and upload the Gus and Melly side fic...even if it's been in editing for a month...but hey, that's a win in my book. I did have a Bluey Print planned featuring Trixie and Chili, but I probably don't have time to get that out and honor my other responsibilities. At the very least I can get the sketch done, and maybe I can revisit it in the future.

So...that's the plan. Pretty much the outline for the whole of summer. Initially, I also wanted to head back to Denfur as a table seller...but with my health leading up to a month ago, my Mom's ongoing health, and making zero headway with keychains and standees, I think that opportunity is out the window until next year. Even if I got some stuff off the ground, I don't think I'd have enough of a 'diverse inventory' of merch to offer by August at the current rate. Let alone it's questionable as to whether I'd be able to leave my Mother home alone all day for three days back to back in her condition. So that's...two failed New Year's goals in one shot.

So yeah, that's all there is to really say. A mercifully short update that's easy to read for once. The only thing I can add is that my Newgrounds has art on it now. So there's that. Thanks again to my Patreon folks for their continued support and for providing me with a lifeline. And thanks to the fans in general for digging my stuff...

My Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/WastedTimesArtShoppe

My Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/wastedtimeee

My Substar

https://subscribestar.adult/wastedtimeee

-Wasty