Ch 6 pg 24

 

 

 

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250!!!:

It's official! This is page 250!! 250 !!

I can hardly believe it myself. When I reached this page number about a couple months ago, it was pretty exciting honestly because I've never reached this far into any other comic I've done in the past. 

Though, I am also blatantly aware that I'm not even half way there yet and it's also taken me 7 years to get to this point. As much as I'd love to speed things up, I just can't afford to do so at this time. I still need to obtain numerous commissions to cover at least some basic financial burdens on a monthly basis. The goal still stands that one day, I hope Patreon can cover this basic amount so that way, all I'll need is just 1-2x commissions a month for my own personal sanity and a bit of that safety net and the rest of the time, I can dedicate to Parallel Rift and Triune and all the wonders that apply to it, including Patreon. It would be nice if I didn't require money at all for these things, but since I couldn't make it to table at a con this year to push my art out there a wee bit more, I'll keep fiddling with things as best as I can.

250....

The number still honestly astonishes me. The longest I kept a comic going in the past was maybe around 50 or so pages so to get this far and still desire to do more with this story, I'd say I'm doing well in my choice. My motivation rarely wanes when it comes to Parallel Rift and I do believe, when taking on such a huge project, that aspect is immensely important. Here's to another 250...but hopefully in a bit less time than 7 years yeah?

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Ch 6 pg 23

 

 

 

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Happy Pride!:

I managed to finish the Pride Illustration I had begun for PR last year and I have to admit, it looks pretty wonderful, if I do say so myself. It's bright. It's detailed. It's a beautiful summers day to share your pride!

View full image on Aminirus' Bluesky LINK

Overall, I am slowly catching up with the pages I missed doing a few months back, so I'm building a decent buffer again. I know I'll finish up this book/arc long before it actually is fully posted even to Patreon, but that's alright. I do look forward to how the story will progress after this segment and I hope many of you will be here for the ride. Of course, as mentioned before, I will be taking a step backwards for a wee bit to edit the first few segments, polish it up a bit in terms of text and happenings, and hopefully clear out some of the garbage at that messy chapter 1 intro. I'll get there. It's in the works and planned out, just have to actually do the cleaning up and setting it up.

Postcards for this month have also been ordered and will be sent out as soon as they arrive to the patrons who have the Mail Club tier. 

I do personally like this page as well, as it's one of the few times you can see BOTH of Fiacre's fangs out at once! It's definitely an intimidating appearance I'm sure. It would be for me if I had to face that, if I'm being honest. 

Going forward, as I clear out other things for this month as well, I do hope to try out a few other things for PR too and if permitted in the future, be able to focus on way more PR work rather than having to rely heavily on commissions still as well. Bit by bit. I'm slowly getting there. I do hope that in the coming future, I can have the guidance I need in order to figure out how I should proceed in order to reach this goal as I do and have been feeling more stuck about it than I have in the past. The main goal is to only require 1-2 commissions a month, leaving me with plenty of time to be able to do the PR and Patreon work I'd like to do. OR, if there's a way to go about it, have more support geared toward PR so that way I can still lessen my commission list and place Patreon and PR as a top priority. Along with my other comic Triune. When I'm ready, one of these days, that comic will go public too, but for now, it will remain entirely on Patreon. It's hard to say where the future will go, but will keep going along as I am either way. Thanks to the support thus far, I have been able to save a lot more and make progress on the finances I've lost with the chaos of last year. The chaos still is present in areas regarding my mum, so having the finances again for emergency cases, especially with overdue bills and pet care (for my mum, not me), that would be nice at least. We're still working things out to get her financially stable again as well, but some things are just out of our hands. There surely has to be a way though. Surely, yeah?

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Ch 6 pg 22

 

 

 

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Chaotic Busy Now:

I've hit the stage right now where it's half way through the month and I'm not half way through the commissions, so there's a mild mental panic. I hope to change that this week, but it does make me feel a tad uneasy. The number of commissions was even 2 less than prior months, so it seems I'll need to lessen that even further. July naturally means less paid work as well as I do like to participate in Art Fight and all that tends to be free, fanart trades, but I don't like leaving people hanging for those. I ended up with around 11 last year, 9 I think, if I remember correctly, were defenses and I only managed 2 attacks myself last year, so I do also wanna see if I can do a bit better with those numbers. Hold steady at least around 12 or something. We'll see how it goes.

On the upside for that, I am largely prepared for the drop in commissions for July for this event as thanks to so many generous clients this month, I made nearly double for the amount I need on a monthly basis! That's a whole extra month saved up in case something slows down too much! I'm prepared at least so that is a small ease. 

Other than that, not much has been happening. I've had to watch my garden heavily this year to take care of the slugs that keep popping up and eating my stuff. Would be nice to have some things grow into maturity for once instead of struggling to reach that stage. Most things are growing decent but the slugs have taken a decent stab at my carrots, bok choy, and lemon balm this year. I've yet to be able to grow any bok choy to maturity because of these slugs. I finally have some close, but all their bottom leaves have been nibbled off. It's been ongoing battle it seems.

Anyway, busy week. Will try to check for things when I can but I do apologize for any heavy silence that may occur during this week on other socials.

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Ch 6 pg 21

 

 

 
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Almost...:

Over this past weekend, we had wanted to potentially adopt another dog. A beautiful mix and a very gentle lad, but it would seem one of our own dogs was not having it. We initially thought our dogs would be fine with another because they don't act aggressive toward my mum's dog when she comes around, but this one....it was rather sad and still stings a bit that we couldn't take it in and all I can hope is that pupper will find a good home soon. They definitely deserve it for being such an angel during the time they spent in our home.

I've gathered plenty of work this month and been going through it bit by bit. I currently still don't hold fears about missing anything so still should be all good. I'm already about half through the number of pages I have scheduled to complete this month so definitely on a roll with that at least. We are starting out this week a little on the busy side, but should be alright as far as I feel. Been working on Mail Club art as well and getting through that enough that I may finish it this week too. Hopefully at least. Otherwise, not much to generally mention as of this past week. It was largely quiet, had some rain, my garden is growing well....other than slugs trying to eat up things, and overall, ready for another week and to hopefully get things going even further!

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Ch 6 pg 20

 

 

 
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Another Good Month?:

Mayhaps at least?

Currently I'm at least standing in a decent spot. Much better than I did in previous months, especially at the way this year started. To the public, I'm about 2-3 months worth of pages ahead and about 1 month ahead for Patreon members in terms of buffer pages. So that at least is a good starting progress. Of course, as I was setting up the next section of pages, I came to the inevitable conclusion that this chapter was/is most definitely going to exceed the 50 pages count I had initially estimated. I'm not surprised but I do hope it makes the story that much better. The reason for this ended up being to slight changes in terms of flow and a few things I had neglected to cover and/or clarify within the thumbnails I initially did up. That's alright though. Personally, the new things should make it a wee bit better and the core of this chapter is still present anyway.

That being said, I am still working on covering the Mail Club finances for this month as well, but if all goes well, I think it should be pretty good by the end of this week. I did have some commissions come in for June as I had opened slots at the end of May, so that helped to jump start the funds necessary at least. One more little push in that area and it should be all good.

In other news, I had to lay down methods for ridding slugs from my vegetable garden. I noticed, that once again, my bok choy, lemon balm, carrots, and even the marigolds were being eaten. I had this issue this last year too and they had completely destroyed majority of my garden and many of the crops struggled for it. Thus, I'm taking some serious measures to protect things better and hopefully prevent this from happening for another round too. The other pets appear to be doing pretty well as of late. No major issues at least.

As I go forward, I do hope for another good and productive month. I do feel I've settled on my timing better now and if this keeps working out as I feel it should, things should be improving and I should be a bit more stable as time goes on.

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Ch 6 pg 19

 

 

 

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Much Better:

For once, this month was pretty sound in terms of work. I actually completed everything that was top necessary within the first 3 weeks, leaving this final week to complete any extras and for once, actually prepare for June. I even set up and did some pages early to try to catch up with the pages I've not managed to do from my schedule. If I can keep this up once more, I know I just may be able to pull ahead and be in quite a good spot. June is already shaping out to be a busy month and there's some Pride things I do want to complete as well to add to that list. I feel ready though. Less burdened than I may have in prior months, especially with all that has happened this past year. It feels good to find a rhythm again and focus, putting me closer to the goals I'd like to be in. In a few months time, I may even have answers toward I can no longer see with my art and skills and even improve things financially. It's largely what I feel is left, especially the financial aspect. If I can lessen that burden even just slightly, sell my art for the prices I know they should be at rather than way underpricing them, then instead of doing say, 5-8 smaller commissions to make up funds I need, I just do 1-2 and that covers all my fees for that month!

The only reason I could even push to sign up for a mentorship that seemed more appropriate to me was because of the generosity I've had lately and through my own hard work of keeping at those cheaper commissions. It does require a lot, but if I want to do better, I need to pick it up. I can't keep struggling or remaining in an unchanging comfort zone where I may lead myself to overworking when, especially as a creative and an introvert, I need that downtime just to recoup and prepare for another week.

Getting there at least, bit by bit.

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