My veteran watchers might already know that of the end of each year, I will send out a Christmas/New Year's card to every Patron! I will keep this tradition alive this year as well and send everyone a card. High tier Patrons will also receive a sticker of their choice as a special extra thank you ♥
Here's how it works:
1. Become/Be a Patron! The amount you pledge doesn’t matter, so even every 1$ Patron will receive a card! Deadline is December 7th so the cards will have roughly two weeks to arrive, even if you're late to pledge.
2. Wait until I send you the form via Patreon messages and fill it out with your address and card of your choice. I already sent every active Patron a message by the way, but I will make sure to send every new Patron a notification as well. So make sure to check your private messages and respond in time!
Card #5 won't get reprinted and is first come, first serve, so act fast if this is your favorite!
Every Patron of the 10$+ tier will also receive a sticker of their choice. So if you're a high tier member, don't forget to tell me which sticker you would like to receive as well!
Make sure to include EVERYTHING important and that your address needs to be in INTERNATIONAL format so the card will be able to reach you. I live in Germany, so the card might need to cross borders and even travel overseas. This means it's really important that you get your address right since or the card will not arrive! When in doubt, feel free to look up the international format of your address, however it's usually enough to fill out the form I have prepared. Also, I never keep any of the addresses from the previous years, so I you will have to fill out the form again each year in order to get a card!
3. Wait for your card. I will send them out as soon as I can. I’ll make a post to let you know when the cards are on their way, so I hope they will make it in time to each and every one of you ♥
4. Any open questions? Just ask me via message or comment right here and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Finally, here are the links to all cards in order if you want to get a better view first:
Card 1 | Card 2 | Card 3 | Card 4 | Card 5
Thank you to everyone for this wonderful year ♥
Update: ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT!! Card #5 and #6 are all gone, so only cards 1-4 are still available. Thank you! >u< 2022 is close and to celebrate, I will send out a Christmas/New Year's card to every Patron just like the years before! Would you like to receive one, too?
Here's how it works:
1. Become/Be a Patron! The amount you pledge doesn’t matter, so even every 1$ Patron will receive a card! Deadline is December 7th so the cards will have roughly two weeks to arrive, even if you're late to pledge. I am also working on sending out stickers to all 10+$ Patrons just like last year, but I can't make any promises yet~
2. Wait until I send you the form via Patreon messages and fill it out with your address and card of your choice. Yes, the cards from the previous year are also possible if you prefer to get one of those! HOWEVER!! I decided to send out the final cards of the oldest two variants! I have only a few cards left and I won't restock them. They will be sent out at a first come first serve basis. I'll update if the cards go out of stock.
Make sure to include EVERYTHING important and that your address needs to be in INTERNATIONAL format so the card will be able to reach you. I live in Germany, so the card might need to cross borders and even travel overseas. This means it's really important that you get your address right since or the card will not arrive! When in doubt, feel free to look up the international format of your address, however it's usually enough to fill out the form I have prepared. Also, I never keep any of the addresses from the previous years, so I you will have to fill out the form again each year in order to get a card! Messages to existing Patrons have already been sent, so please check your messages in time!
3. Wait for your card. I will send them out as soon as I can. I’ll make a post to let you know when the cards are on their way, so I hope they will make it in time to each and every one of you ♥
4. Any open questions? Just ask me via message or comment right here and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Link to my Patreon
Finally, here are the links to all cards in order if you want to get a better view first:
Card 1 | Card 2 | Card 3 | Card 4 | Card 5 | Card 6
Thanks again to all of your for your continued support. Not gonna lie, November arrived before I my brain could even register and next month it's gonna be Christmas already! It feels like time is going at high speeds! Mentally I'm still stuck in spring of last year. But I'm always looking forward to Christmas and New Year's, and most importantly to see my family again. Let’s do our best to make 2022 an awesome year!
General FAQ
~Copied from my Tumblr post, so all links refer to Tumblr posts as those are the ones I update the most and therefore are usually the most complete. The original FAQ post can be found here~
First of all, a link to the post covering all my social medias
For Character info, please read the following posts:
General questions:
Q: Hi. How are you?
A: Hi! I'm fine, thanks!
Q: Do you currently accept requests / art trades / collabs / commissions / etc.?
A: Unfortunately I'm unable to take requests unless I'm explicitely stating that I'm open for requests, e.g. for a drawing challenge. Art Trades and Collabs are currently also not possible (even though I'd really love to), sorry. As for commissions, those are currently open to Patrons only. Regardless of a tier you can always ask for a commission though, so even the 1$ tier will do. So as long as you're a Patron, you can get a commission (along with free sketches, requests and commission discounts!)
Q: Can I repost your artwork on my social media/s? I promise to give credit!
A: No. I don't like to see my artworks reposted, even with credit. Asking for permission won't change this. I've often seen people being lazy and not giving proper credit at all despite claiming otherwise. I won't discuss this either, so I will report anyone who reposts my artwork without any further notice. The only exception to this are commissioned and requested artworks, which can be posted by the person who commissioned/requested the artwork with given credit.
Q: Do you rp?
A: No, sorry. It's not like I don't like to rp, I just don't have the energy to keep an rp going with people other than my closest friends. That being said, I do enjoy a casual chitchat, so feel free to send me messages!
Q: Can I dub your comic?
A: Yes, you can, but once again: give credit! In this case, I'd also kindly ask you to not only include my name, but also a working link towards the first page of the comic itself. I also usually do not allow comic dubs of mine to get monetized, so please keep that in mind.
Q: Can I translate your comic?
A: Only if you're confident in your language skills! If this question is followed by a phrase like "Sorry for my bad English", then that's a no. I am not a native English speaker myself, but I do put a lot of thought into dialogue and a lot of effort into my art and comics and I'd ask a translator to do the same. Please consider this, and only translate my comic if your are fluent in both English and the language you want to translate it into. Translations can be tricky, and I'd rather have no translation than a sluggish one. Overall I do allow translations though. Aside from that, the same rules apply (give proper credit along with a working link towards my original post of the first page of the comic, do not monetize my work).
About using my characters:
Q: Can I draw your character/s?
A: Yes, absolutely! Please credit me in the description, that would be amazing. As a general rule of thumb, I allow you to include my characters in any kind of your work as a long as you give credit.
Q: Can I include your character/s in a fanfic that I'm writing?
A: Yes, of course! Once again, I'd ask you to credit me but other than that there are no rules! I love to see (and read) other interpretations of my characters, even if it's not canon-compliant! Have fun!
Q: I am shipping your character/s with an other character...
A: Yes, that's okay! Please be aware though that there are currently no canon ships of my characters, so be mindful of other opinions and don't try to force me to canonize any kind of relationship that isn't established already.
Q: Can I rp as one of your character/s?
A: Yep, that's also fine!
Q: I'd like to make a ship child that includes your character/s. Can I?
A: Another clear yes! The same applies, giving credit would be super cool, the only exception to this would be Gauge as I consider her to be a child herself, so giving her children of her own would be kind of irritating.
Q: What's your opinion on NSFW related arts/fanfics/etc. featuring your character/s?
A: That's fine and heck, by all means share it with me if you want to! I don't mind any NSFW at all! Once again with the exception of Gauge, please keep the child out of NSFW related content.
That's all for now. I hope this FAQ helps to clear some confusion and helps everyone to find their answers more quickly then before. If things are changing or additions are made I will edit this post. Thank you! ♥
EDIT: 10 Days left! ALSO: Each Patron of the 10$ tier or higher will receive a free sticker! Just make sure to answer my message before December 7th!
2020 is finally coming to and end, and with the end of the year I am doing my yearly Christmas (or new Year’s) card sending to all Patrons of mine - and by that means ALL Patrons, even the ones in the 1$ tier! Some followers who stick with me for quite a while may already know this, but for new followers this might be a bit confusing, so I’ll sum everything up in this post.
Here's how it works:
Become a Patron if you’re not already! The amount you pledge doesn’t matter, so even every 1$ Patron will receive a card! Deadline is December 7th so the cards will have roughly two weeks to arrive. NEW! Every Patron in the 10$ tier or higher will receive a free sticker as well (see above)! –> Link to my Patreon
Wait until I send you the form via Patreon messages and fill it out with your address and card of your choice. Yes, the cards from the previous year are also possible if you prefer to get one of those!
Make sure to include EVERYTHING important and that your address needs to be in INTERNATIONAL format so the card will be able to reach you. I don't live in the United States, so it's really important that you get the address right or the card will not arrive! When in doubt, feel free to look up the international format of your address, however it's usually enough to fill out the form I have prepared. Also, I never keep any of the addresses from the previous years, so I you will have to fill out the form again each year in order to get a card!
Wait for your card. I will send them out as soon as I can. I’ll make a post to let you know when the cards are on their way, so I hope they will make it in time to each and every one of you ♥
Any open questions? Just ask me via message or comment right here and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Link to my Patreon
Finally, here are the links to all cards in order if you want to get a better view first:
Card 1 | Card 2 | Card 3 | Card 4 | Card 5
Thanks again to all of your for your continued support. It really means so much to me knowing that so many people supported me for so long, especially in these trying times. Let's look forward to the holidays and the end of this year, and let's do our best to make 2021 an awesome year!
Upcoming Things and Comic update Delay
So I really, REALLY don’t like doing this, but it seems like there’s not way around it. I’ll try to make it short and not too much into detail but I also wanna give everyone a short update on stuff. So here we go!
You might have noticed that the planned update of Somewhere Else still didn’t happen, which has multiple reasons which can mostly get nailed down by IRL stuff happened.
Anyway my buffer became once again shorter and shorter each month until I arrived at this point to being so far delayed that I cannot update anymore as intended. However, I still plan on updating this month, just a few days later than usual as the update is basically 90% complete. In exchange for that, there won’t be an update in November, so the next pages will drop in December instead.
In the following month I plan to work on other things instead, which include:
- The current ongoing prompt list over on @ask-glitch-and-squid that both my girlfriend and I are working on
- I FINALLY want to finish that final part of that Ask event that I started for Pale on his birthday, which was back in MAY! I just couldn’t finish things as I intended but I’d HATE to leave it unfinished so that’s gonna happen, even though it’s basically just ending the comic, so please don’t expect any major reveal or anything, I just. Wanna have an ending. The bean deserves it ;w;
- The Christmas/New Year’s card event will happen again, so this year’s new card needs to be decided on and - of course - drawn! Also printed and sent, so that will take a good amount of time.
- I also gotta work on commissions, requests, and work my part-time job as usual so that’s where most of my time will be spent on, but with all these things in between I just cannot update the comic anymore.
- Lastly, I just really want to see my family again who I haven’t seen since last Christmas, so I will spend the last week of October with my parents and my brother. While I’m looking forward to it, this means this is a whole week that I won’t be able to work on Somewhere Else at all, which is also the final nail in the coffin for the November update as I usually try to prepare most of the pages at the end of the month.
Anyway I hope y’all understand. As you can see I will still be doing things, so I hope you still look forward to everything I mentioned here! As mentioned, I am optimistic to update Somewhere Else in December again as I am eager to bring this small story (which I had been working on for almost 2 years now - wow!) to an end. That being said, there also might be a chance of me missing out on the January update because of Christmas, but once again I really REALLY want to work and finish this comic, so I will do my very best to finish everything in time!
Thank you so much for reading. Stay healthy and hydrated! ^u^