In regards to my previous post:

I was in the middle of animating when I got a BSOD outta nowhere saying a critical failure had occurred and a repair was being attempted. Comp restarted, but couldn't find a boot drive. I took the SSD from the comp and hooked up to my laptop to scan it and sure enough, it was toast. A repair was attempted, but to no avail. There's upwards of three years worth of work stored in that SSD.

First things first, the commissions page is obviously going down since I can no longer take any.

I'm still leaving up my Patreon/Subscribestar/Ko-Fi because it's too much effort to shut 'em down and fuck it, why not? No one cares. I can't get subscriptions, I can't get engagement. Two people have subscribed to my patreon since I opened it and they both cut 'n run less than a day after joining, leaving me with less than $4 after two years of work. I was being ignored when I tried, I'll be ignored now that I can't. What difference does it make?

It's up in the air whether I'll be able to recover anything and even more so getting the computer back together. It looks like I'm gonna end up having to pay $900 to California because I couldn't afford health insurance last year and with my auto insurance payment, that's all my savings gone. Maybe my warehouse income will be able to keep up. I don't know. If I get evicted, that's it. In the space of one week, three years of constant struggle just to keep from drowning...all of it wiped out... Fuck.

Please give me money. It's that simple. I'm literally begging to any one who reads this, donate to my Ko-Fi. I've been fighting on my own this entire fucking time and I can't do it anymore. Help me. Please. I can't do this on my own anymore. Honestly, I think I just wanna know if anyone thinks I'm worth saving. Guess I'll find out.

So a lot of updates I intended to initiate at the beginning of the year got pushed back that I've only now been able to complete. Lets go through them:

I'm now opening commissions for animations!

I honestly didn't see the point for the longest time in providing pricing for animations as they are an incredibly large investment to price for, but I've reconsidered since the only commission I've been given was for an animation! I've now updated my commission info with this option and updated contact info as well.

Monthly Platform Content:

I've updated both my Patreon and Subscribestar-Adult platforms considerably since I first opened them. There is now a free membership available for both with access to my collection of previously released material all at one convenient location.

For paid memberships, there's early releases of new material such as wips, but more importantly, I've committed to a much more consistent schedule. I am now creating nsfw animated loops that will be released a month early on both platforms for those who subscribe to the $2 'Pillar of the Community' or higher tiers. The current loop is available for viewing right now at Patreon and Subscribestar-Adult. This is alongside the projects that are still in-progress and will be updated regularly.

So my situation took a turn for the drastic very early on this year in financial terms, so I've been a bit stressed ngl. I don't know what other people do to get these platforms to work for them (because they don't give me straight answers when I ask), but I can say I've posted consistently every single week with new content ever since I started them. Subscribing to me doesn't just keep you up to date with the latest I have to offer, its an investment that will allow me to go even further. I have a lot of projects I'm ready to work on, but I can't do it alone. Give me a chance, and I will knock your socks off!

First things first: A shoutout to @EyeSores for being the one that put us to 400 fans! Congratulations and thank you!

So first things first: I started a Patreon!

It's under review...

UPDATE: It's been approved, so I have a Patreon now too!

However I also started a Subscribestar and Ko-Fi, which are now fully open. Ko-fi offers one-time donations, so if you don't want to commit to a subscription, you can go there to offer support as I'm basically making it a tip jar for the time being. Subscribestar seems to be largely identical to Patreon in functionality, with tiered subscriptions for support that offer different perks. As of right now, I don't have the financial stability to offer much more beyond WIPs, updates and early access to completed projects, but if enough support is provided, I can expand.

One perk I intend to offer is alternate variations of my animations and right now, if you sign up for the $10 tier on my Subscribestar, you get access to an alt version of my last animation:

So this is the big leap for me. It means they'll be some big changes one way or the other, but support from you folks who value my work will be the determining factor on if I'm able to continue making it.

RIght now, I have one animation to finish up:

After this, I'll begin my next projects with these platforms in mind.

Things were pretty dire last we spoke and that hasn't changed too much, except for two key moments. One was my tax return, which has allowed me a lifeline and my 'promotion' at work from seasonal to regular employee. This promotion gives me access to options with the company that mean that if this last ditch effort to get some income through my art falls through, I can drop it entirely to focus on my current employment options, which I'd have to do. I don't want to, but I can breathe much easier now knowing I can if it comes to it.

Okay, so I gotta lotta things cleared out at the start of the year, the latest of which is this animation:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/project/5393820

Which I'm using to gauge interest in being financially supported for making animations. Both here and in this post, I ask people to let me know if they would offer financial support if I opened a support platform such as Patreon or Subscribestar.

Everything on the backburner is cleared out until I can determine if moving forward with a support platform is worth the effort. So if you enjoy my work enough to support me, please let me know here in the comments, in DMs or on Twitter.

Still only just scraping by, so new content's going to be...well, it'll happens when it happens if it happens at all. I've made my peace. In the meantime...

Tom's art updoot justified one of my own. A few pieces had alts placed in the comments

Anyway, such pieces have now been upgraded to equal status and thus, equal resolution to their original counterparts. The stacked layer icon on the thumbs will show which one's have alts. Enjoy!

Whelp, I'm done.

Chair's been broken for a while, but now it's to the point where I can't work on art for more than a few minutes before my back starts screaming and I don't have the money to replace it. So now it's over.

I've had commissions open since the beginning of the year and in all that time, I've had one single person contact me who backed out cause they didn't use Paypal. I won't say I get it, but it does suck to feel like you're being ghosted. I won't say my art's the cream of the crop, but I'd say it gets a decent amount of views/faves. I see people posting commission work all the time that I'd say I'm at least on par with and their price tags are a lot higher than mine are!

It bums me out because I like making art. I love drawing and I love animating. I made as much as I could back in the day, but I also had to eat, so instead of doing what I loved, I broke my back on multiple labor jobs just so I could keep my head above water and ten years of that accomplished savings amounting to six months of living expenses. So I decided to do this because it didn't matter. Either path was just staving off the inevitable, but I wanted to look back on my life and say at least I was able to do something I enjoy. I just wanted to be happy for once and I was happy doing this. Just wish it could've lasted longer.

Look, the 'tl;dr' take-away from this is pretty much, if you want to see more art from me, commission me. I just flat out need the money. I'll prolly keep shitposting in BBS and I got some old finished pieces I might add to the gallery at some point, but if I suddenly go dark, this post should make it pretty unambiguous what happened. Assuming anyone even notices...

Holy shit! 300 solid ass follow'ns?! Damn! That's...kinda jaw-dropping honestly. I'm don't know how to thank y'all other than...y'know...thank you!

Times have been tough as my previous post noted, but I aint homeless yet. Lost the comp, so I gotta make due with an emergency backup laptop that's finicky and runs like ass. Need funds to bring me back from the brink, so as always, please feel free to contact me for commissions.

In the meantime, I still got projects in the works and I'll give another status update soon with samples of what I'm working. Gonna keep it out of this semi-celebratory post so this can be E for everybody and you know how I do!

So thanks again for the support! I'll do my best not to let y'all down!

Whelp, I'm screwed!

This weekend's been absolute dogshit! My computer died and the engine light flew on for my car. At minimum, I'm looking at having to buy either a replacement mobo or power supply, if not both. If the car light's not a false positive...I don't even wanna think about it. My job doesn't earn me nearly enough to cover a worst case scenario of this.

I've had commissions open for 'bout half a year now with no bites whatsoever. Not even scammers. That's certainly a punch to the old ego I'll admit, but pride is a luxury I can't afford right now. I need to be commissioned right now. I need it or I'm fucked, so consider this to be me, on my hands and knees, begging.

My commission details can be found:

*HERE*

My commission email is:

narratorway (at) gmail (dot) com

Or you can DM me through the sites listed in my commission deets.

Not going to lie, shit sucks right now. I'll never forget it if you can help me make it suck less.

I have updated my commission info to allow NSFW requests!

With the completion of my current animated project, I decided the next thing to tackle was updating my commission info to include adult content. That's right, I'm going sicko mode! I have 10 slots available!

I guess this could be viewed as a New Years Resolution. Gonna try and be more active about what I work on as I focus more and more on animations, which can involve long turn around times and so a lotta dead air in the interim. So what's on the docket?

Finished the animation I've been working on! Now it's time for a lil break from animating and get some art practice in.

This is a more long term project that will most likely take the entire year to complete, but it'll be something I can fit into the space between completed works.

The rest of my time will be filled with illustrations, but I'm also likely to be forced to go back into the labor force real soon, which will cut into production time obviously. Unfortunate, but I've tried the commission angle and I'm getting no bites whatsoever. I'm STILL open for them though for the time being!

Sooooo yeah. This is where everything's at as of this moment! Exciting, terrifying and all that good jazz!