Actually got quite a bit done this week!
Report Summary:
- commission progress
- adoptable progress
- writing progress
- new YCH offers

Business:
- Regular commission prices: I've lowered the prices for pretty much everything so if you're interested in commissioning me, please take a look! The main prices now go from 20 to 100 USD.
- Pride YCH icons: Still 3 USD until July 7th. Get them while you can, after that they go back to 5 USD.
- New offer: Pool Pinup YCH; it's a bit simple but it was kind of a spur of the moment thing. 20 USD, with 5 USD add-ons!
- Sticker sale: Last 2 still available!
- Shibari commissions: Still available!
- Barbie (And Ken!) mugshot meme YCH: You can now change the hand position for character A.
- July's special offers: Live! Any commission that fulfills any one of these conditions is eligible for 20% off base price. Subscribers get an additional 5%-50% off depending on tier, so please be sure to wait for confirmation on price before sending the money.
- Completely forgot to make an announcement here: Magical Girl Commissions are still available.
- Tentacle Drive: Still working on the milestone images, but until further notice, planned for August!
- Knot A Problem: Finally published for real! You can get it here on Smashwords for 3 USD. I'm hoping to get another installment out sometime this year so wish me luck! (And hopefully I can get a cover for that by the same artist.)

Goals:
- 39/1000 USD per month from subscriptions.
- 1484/2000 USD earned for my art raffle goal! The prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters. You can enter the raffle by buying any of my work: Commissions, stickers, adopts, etc.

Raffle Updates:
- Realized it would conflict with the tentacle drive, so the subscriber raffle has been moved to September 1. The prizes are a custom cel-shaded image (simple background, maximum 2 characters) OR a custom flat color image (simple background, maximum 3 characters.)

Finished Works:
Previews: will be publicly posted after July 15.
- Flash sale sketch (OC TF comic) for Ratchet
- Madoka soul gem sticker

Subscriber Exclusive: staying here on subscribestar.
- None this week.

Public: Posted this week.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for valorousOwl. I messed up a layer on Notha's goggles so she went to jail twice.
- Milf vampire OC sketch for PEnfys.
- Zarbon (OC) for CurseOfBoredom.
- Pool Pinup YCH example. I didn't expect to be so possessed by the spirit of poolside relaxation but here you go.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Sketch commission (OC comic) for PEnfys: Having some trouble with the last panel.
- Sketch commission (single) for Dante: No progress this week.
- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: Thumbnailing the second one. This is the second out of three.
- Flash sale sketch (trollsona) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for corrupted.stars: Not started yet.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for chelcat: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for SyntacticalDoodles: I've sketched out Sepulchure because he's a bit complicated, but this should be done in a couple more days.
- Barbie and Ken YCHs (OCs) for 7yd1a: Got the sketch for one half down!
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: On hold until the freebie is done.
- Pride Icon YCH (OC) for fangirlAnxiety: Not started yet but I plan to get this done today.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for GothicGuttz: Not started yet.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for bpdfishprince: Just got this so I'll get started on Monday.
- Witch commission for doot: Thumbnailed!
- Monochrome commission for King Mordred and JustAPolitoed: Just got this so I'll get started on Monday.

Other Art WIPs:
- Muse freebie (flat color) for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: TBD
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD
- Next puella adopt (21 - Wolf-walker): No progress this week.
- Chromian adopts: Finally drafted! Just three of them for now, the ones I saw in the dream. I might post them with some of the info I remember from the dream soon.
- Beta trolls and flowers stickers: Adjusted some details on Sollux and gotten started on Karkat. I'm sketching these out before I get any color in there.
- Soul gems and flowers stickers: I've finished Madoka's sticker! Next I'm working on Kyoko's.
- Khvorost in shibari: No progress this week.
- DragonFable major arcana: No progress this week.
- Eridan AU painting: Actually shelfing this until further notice; I have a lot on my plate.
- Karkat and Aradia AU painting: Ditto for this one.
- Tentacle Drive milestone art: All thumbnails done! I'll actually get started on the art on Monday.
- Magical Girl Sketches: Surprising myself, I started working on these again. The last ten or so should start cropping up soon, but probably not with any regularity like last month. The sketches already up are up for adoption, though; they're Offer To Adopt until I finish the set, upon which I'll start trying to figure out prices.

Writing Updates:
This week's preview is from Milk And Honey.

Series:
- Marzipan part 2: Milk And Honey: Adjusted some phrasing but haven't really added anything yet.
- God Will Understand part 1: No progress this week.
- Yakuza Magical Girl: Figured out a couple more story beats. I'm still outlining chapter 5; I plan to have at least 10 chapters outlined before I get back to drawing.
- Strange Saints and Odd Orders: No progress this week.

Standalone:
- Krampusnacht: No progress this week.

Other Writing:
- Nothing posted but I've been working on some fanfics here and there. It's Camp NaNo again so hopefully I can get some stuff out!

Not a great week for my writing. Art's going well, though!

Report Summary:
- Mahou May 19 and 20
- New sticker drafts (homestuck)
- Commission progress
- Personal art
- Free downloads
- Writing progress

Business:
- Reminder that I have shibari commissions open indefinitely!
- Cherub adopt still available now for slightly reduced price, but I'm no longer offering the ref sheets. Buyers can still get the color adjustment and color guide, but ref sheets will have to come separately.
- May's special offers for commission discounts are still Oviposition, Homestuck, and Aquatics (mermaids, kappas, fishfolk, etc.) You have until June 1 to make use of these discounts before I switch them out!
- The egg drive has been replaced with a tentacle drive instead, and the character who's getting tentacled is Karkat Vantas from homestuck. I'll be announcing when the drive is soon!
- Fixed up the adoptables on my buymeacoffee page
- Added ref sheet commissions (also 10% off until the 15th.)
- Still waiting for the cover of the Turnips of St. Judith, but the artist gave me an update! I can't show it yet but it's looking good!
- Commissioned a cover for Knot A Problem too, hopefully that's soon!
- Commissioned a cover for The Brotherhood of St. Bernard; I'm pretty excited to see this one!

Goals:
- 25/1200 USD per month from subscriptions.
- 730/2000 USD earned for my repeatable art raffle goal.

Raffle Updates:
- Starting August 1 and then every four months, I'll run a raffle for paying subscribers; the winner gets either a custom cel-shaded image (simple background, maximum 2 characters) or a custom flat color image (simple background, maximum 3 characters.)
- The repeatable raffle prize is a fully lined and shaded piece of custom art. All add-ons are available for free. Entry into the raffle is automatic after someone purchases something from me.

Finished Works:
The following will be posted after June 15. In the meantime, here's some previews!
- Finished the Terezi/Rose flash sale sketch for greensunJade. Relatively simple but I kept waffling on what I wanted to do with it. It turned out good, though!
- Finished the OC flash sale sketch for CurseOfBoredom of their OCs "J" and Afenah. I'm pretty proud of how the lines turned out here.
- Finished the OC flash sale sketch of Wren's OC Aggie. The angle kind of snuck up on me, but it looks good!

Subscriber Exclusive:
- Finished the sketch for "I do BEE looking for a name" from discord; the subject matter is snuff/electrocution so I'm not 100% comfortable sharing outside of subscribestar. All versions of this image will remain subscriber exclusive.

Publicly posted this week:
- Had to take a short break to recover from going to Cebu last week so I'm a little late on Mahou May sketches, but I posted 19 and 20. Themes were Healer and Vampire.
- Posted a new witch; this is Silas Sabine, the Party Witch, whose nature is Desperate To Please. He's a huge psilocybin joke and I made him for Maeror as a grief seed piñata.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- OC flat color commission for Shipyarn on discord has had a little lineart added but still a ways to go.
- Anonymous flash sale sketch hasn't been started yet.
- OC flash sale comic for Ratchet Akarui on discord in progress. I'm currently drafting out the proportions for the final panel.
- Flat color ref sheet for PEnfys has had some details added.
- Got a sketch commission from PEnfys of an OC comic so look out for that soon!
- Got a few sketch commissions from Dante Lord Of The Inferno on Discord too; I'm looking forward to these.

Other Art WIPs:
- Next puella adopt has had no progress.
- Chromian adopts have had no progress.
- Started some new merch instead of the soul gem stickers; might still do those, but right now I'm doing more beta trolls, this time with some flowers. Might do soul gems with symbolic flowers later.
- Somehow woke up this morning and finished Somnarine's ref. That's a surprise to me if there was ever one!
- More Mahou May sketches soon; we're in the last bit now! Up next is Mechanic.
- Khvorost in soulthread shibari has had no progress.
- Thumbnailing some DragonFable major arcana because I couldn't get the idea to leave me alone. Probably won't be finished but at least I'll do the thumbnails. So far we have Falwynn as the Fool, Jaania as the Magician, and Hansa as the High Priestess. Next is Lady Celestia as the Empress.

Writing Updates:
I'll be posting public previews from now on! Since these are liable to change pretty intensely though, maybe I should stagger them and only post each story once a month?
This week's preview is from Krampusnacht.

Series:
- Milk and Honey still being worked on but I haven't really added anything new this week. Here's how it starts, though!
- Knot A Problem has been removed from my BMAC page because I'm getting some new art for it and BMAC doesn't allow the sale of adult content. I'll be posting it elsewhere and adding art, hopefully for pay-what-you-want. Subscribers will still get to see the stories in full before public posting!
- "March of Robots 2021" is now for free download, but if you want to donate a little for me, please do! I've also attached it to this post.
- God Will Understand hasn't had any work done this week but I've outlined it a bit.
- Magical Yakuza Girl is being plotted out. I decided to go a little more the usual way and actually write some ideas down before thumbnailing everything; that means outlines, outlines, outlines. At present I'm aiming for 5-10 chapters.

Standalone:
- Naughty Little Helpers, re-titled Krampusnacht, is being worked on again, and I'm about to get to the sex scene. With luck I'll have it written out before Christmas this year, and I'll have time to commission or draw a cover as well. Fingers crossed!

Unfortunately, due to BuyMeACoffee's policies on adult content, I can't safely link it on the site, so if you like my work, please send me a donation or subscribe here on subscribestar! I'm also still looking for options of where else to sell my writing.

Other writing:
- Posted another fanfic based on the Maeror Magica RP server.

IRL things are still messy, but finally slowing down. More importantly: I've revised art rates for 2023, and adjusted my TOS; general summary in my carrd. Taking payment entirely through BuyMeACoffee now.

Still about six entries queued, and I'm deeply sorry to everyone who hasn't heard from me on their commissions, but I promise I'm doing my best to catch up.

Meanwhile, I do still need financial assistance, so if you're interested in my work at all, I have a number of ready-to-go offers on BuyMeACoffee, including my adoptables, stories, and stickers, and you can subscribe there too for discounts now. Subscribestar is also still up.

Thank you for reading!

Commission Carrd: https://croutoncomms.carrd.co/#monthly-offer 

BMAC: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/croutonKnight 

Some leftover adoptables still for sale. DM me if interested! Subscribers get even further discounts.

WOLPERTINGERS:

Champagne Rose: 35 USD 
Toxic Waste: 35 USD 
Both: 50 USD (25% discount)

SEASONAL:

Reindeer: 20 USD 
Starfruit Bunny: 20 USD 
Both: 30 USD (25% discount)

PLANETARY LOWBLOODS (in collaboration with @lpsunnybunny)

Mercury Alchemist: 60 USD 
Ceres Cottagecore: 60 USD 
Both: 100 USD (15% discount)

MAGICAL GIRL #20: BLOOD OATH

Base Price: 50 USD 
w/ color guide: 60 USD 
w/ full ref sheet (commission): 150 USD