It's been a slow week. :') Also I'm not at home as of posting this, but I'll be headed home tomorrow and will hopefully get back to drawing by Monday!

Report summary:
- commission progress
- adoptable progress
- writing progress

Business:
- The sketch sale ended, thank you to the people who bought a few slots! I'm getting to your commissions as quick as I can.

Goals:
- 456/2000 USD earned for my second art raffle goal; the prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to five characters.
- 29/400 for my subscriber goal.

Finished Works:
Previews: Will be publicly posted after October 15.
- Selnia shibari for shafujipin

Subscriber Exclusive: Staying here on subscribestar.
- Aicarom TF (partial lines)
- Elysian/Shipyarn cel-shade (draft)
- DnDEeveelution adopts (partial draft)
- Selnia shibari (flats)

Public: Posted this week.
- Nothing new this week.

Art WIPs:
Commissions: Focusing mostly on the stuff that has deadlines in October, but I'm picking away at the larger projects too. This week's progress as follows:
- Flash sale sketches (11/41) for Raynie: No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for greycait: No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for Aicarom: Lined the first part! Now to line the second and third.
- Full Sequence TF for Raynie: No progress this week.
- Lined painting commission for doot:  No progress this week.
- Flat Color for Syntax:  No progress this week.
- Shibari YCH for waffle_bunneh: No progress this week.
- Sketch for Shafujipin: No progress this week.
- Monochrome for Shafujipin: No progress this week.
- Cel-shade painting for Elysian/Shipyarn: Finished the logo, working on the figures that'll be in the image now.
- Ref sheet for -|- : No progress this week.
- Flash sketch for PEnfys: No progress this week.

Other Art WIPs: These are still low priority but I'm keeping track of them.
- Raffle prize for arsenicyanide: No progress this week.
- DnDEeveeulition Adoptables: Remember when I planned to do magical girl eevees? Ran out of ideas for that and the style wasn't very fun for me so I switched gears to DnD classes.

Writing Updates:

- Posted this fic here.
- Added another 100 words to For Queen And Colony (part 3 of Marzipan)
- Added another 200 words to Krampusnacht

Commissions are officially closed for the month while I try to clear out my queue, but I think I'll open up with a sale when I finish everything!

Also I may not have announced it last time, but all my current commissions are going to be delayed by probably another month added to the time I'll need to take off to rest. This means most commissions are moved to finishing September or later.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience!

Report summary:
- current commission progress
- writing progress
- new subscriber! Hello!
- finished part 2 of Marzipan: Milk And Honey

Business:
- Part 2 of Marzipan is done, I just need to get a cover for it! Cover art will be done by DigitalPopsicle like last time.

Goals:
- 62/2000 USD earned for my second art raffle goal; the prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters.
- 40/400 for my subscriber goal.

Raffle Updates:
- The August 1 raffle has been moved to January 15 of 2024.

Finished Works:
Previews: Will be publicly posted after August 15.
- None this week.

Subscriber Exclusive: Staying here on subscribestar.
- Playing Doctor WIPs (anonymous)
- Ratchet's Grimace Shake sketch WIP
- Thumbnails for shafujipin
- Rough draft for Ratchet
- Thumbnail for Syntax
- Thumbnail for Doot

Public: Posted this week.
- This extremely quick doodle of Remthalas. He's so cute, though.

Art WIPs:
Commission and Subscriber WIPs:
I'm trying to focus on doing thumbnails for things I haven't started yet, since they're relatively easy and I'm a bit burnt out. Next week, I'll focus on the oldest things in the queue, to try and get them done as fast as possible.

- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Flash sale sketch (trollsona) for Ratchet: On hold.
- Flash sale sketches for shafujipin: I've thumbnailed one of them!
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: On hold.
- Monochrome commission (Aethy): Lined all three girls, just need to do the details on the central figure + the surrounding props now, and then it's on to shading.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for chelcat (furaffinity): No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for greycait: No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for Aicarom: No progress this week.
- Full Sequence TF for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Lined painting commission for doot: Thumbnailed.
- Grimace Shake Sketch YCH (OC) for Ratchet: Adjusted the bodytype for Ratchet.
- Flat Color (OC/Miraak) for Syntax: Thumbnailed.
- Barbie Mugshot YCH (Mungojerrie/Rumpleteazer) for StatisticalCats: No progress this week.
- Barbie Mugshot YCH (Jerrica Benton/Eric Raymond) for overlord_mordax: No progress this week.
- Shibari YCH (Selnia from Ladies vs Butlers) for shafujipin: Roughly drafted.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: Rough draft down, gotta refine it now.
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD

Other Art WIPs:
Due to the volume of commissions I've gotten, these are on hold until further notice. I might do a few surprises here and there, but don't count on them.
- Drafted Khvorost in soulthread shibari at long last lol

Writing Updates:
Series:
- Finished Milk and Honey at about 6k words! You can read the preview here. I'll let everyone know when the full work is up for grabs on smashwords!
- Currently working on For Queen And Colony, part 3 of Marzipan.
- Added 300 words to God Will Understand''s prologue

Standalone:
- On hold

Other Writing:
- Wrote another 600 words of Devilfish chapter 4.
- Published Devilfish chapter 3.
- Published chapter 15 of An Unfortunate Honor somehow?? Mind the tags.

Slowly getting back in the swing of things. I'm thinking of not taking commissions for a month to try and clear the queue, but I'm not sure how sustainable that is rn.

Report summary:
- OC refs
- commission progress

Business:
- Nothing new this week.

Goals:
- 62/2000 USD earned for my second art raffle goal! The prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters.
- 39/400 for my subscriber goal.

Raffle Updates:
- The August 1 raffle has been moved to January 15 of 2024. The next few months are going to be pretty tough for me, so I hope to start the new year that way.

Finished Works:
Previews: Will be publicly posted after August 15.
- Flash Sale sketch for Doot

Subscriber Exclusive: Staying here on subscribestar.
- Aicarom mermaid thumbnails
- Jennifer playing doctor partial lineart

Public: Posted this week.
- Nikolai refs. This is technically a 'sona of mine so it's a little weird for me to have a nude ref up but there's also that degree of separation that helps a little, so why not. I hope to do some art with him in the future.
- Knoell refs. Completely overhauled his design so I had to do this. I didn't draw his weird long tongue this time but I assure you he can still do that.
- Marzi refs. My boy has stopped dyeing his hair that weird brown, and gotten some new clothes! They technically cover more skin but somehow *feel* more revealing.
- Barbie/Ken Mugshot YCH (OC) for  arellasmercy (discord)

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: No progress this week. Really sorry to Ratchet for this, I think I may have burned myself out on these.
- Flash sale sketch (trollsona) for Ratchet: On hold.
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: On hold.
- Monochrome commission(Aethy): Currently doing the lineart. Progress is slow but steady, and I hope to have this done before September.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for chelcat (furaffinity): No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for greycait: No progress this week.
- Full sequence TF for Aicarom: Did a couple of thumbnail tests. I wish I'd done more but this is at least something.
- Lined painting commission for doot: No progress this week.
- Grimace Shake Sketch YCH (OC) for Ratchet: No progress this week. I hope to get this done next week though, since the trend is pretty much over now.
- Flat Color (OC/Miraak) for Syntax: No progress this week.
- Barbie Mugshot YCH (Mungojerrie/Rumpleteazer) for StatisticalCats: No progress this week.
- Barbie Mugshot YCH (Jerrica Benton/Eric Raymond) for overlord_mordax: No progress this week.
- Full Sequence TF for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Shibari YCH ( Selnia Iori Flameheart from Ladies vs Butlers) for shafujipin: No progress this week.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD

Other Art WIPs: Due to the volume of commissions I've gotten, most of these are on hold until further notice.
- Eeveelution Magical Girl adoptables: Drafted 7/9.

Writing Updates:
Series:
- On hold

Standalone:
- On hold

Other Writing:
- Been tapping away at some fanfics while I take my break. Surprisingly, I updated Devilfish this week.

The 15th was this week, so all the new non-YCH commissions finished during this week will be posted next month, and I've put some of the backlog from this month into this post.
I have to slow down a little, but I'm not giving up!

Report Summary:
- Personal art
- YCHs still available
- Stickers still available
- Cover art and story updates
- Commission progress

Business:
- Pride month YCH icons still available! Only 5 USD!
- Sticker sale because I won't be reprinting these so get them while you can! Only 3 left as of this post.
- Shibari commissions open indefinitely! Shibari commissions are now only 15 USD, with add-ons for 5 USD each.
- Barbie (And Ken!) mugshot meme YCH still available!
- June's special offers are live! They are Domestic Kink, Mo Dao Zu Shi, and Reptiles. Any commission that fulfills any one of these conditions is eligible for 20% off base price. Subscribers get 5-20% off depending on tier, so please be sure to wait for confirmation on price before sending the money.
- Magical girl outfit commissions still available! Not necessarily girls or PMMM-only; really just fancy outfit commissions.
- Tentacle Drive: I've got a lot of commissions in the way at the moment, but I've already started thumbnailing, so I'm hoping to do this by either August or September. November at the latest!
- The Brotherhood of St. Bernard: Cover is done! I can't even begin to say how happy I am with it, look at their blessed snoots, look at how soft and peaceful they look; cervine_prince did above and beyond what I was expecting. 💖💖💖 You can read the story here.
- Knot A Problem: Cover is done! DigitalPopsicle worked really quickly on this, and the end result is beautiful too; Marzi looks so vivid! I'm having some trouble posting it on websites to pay for, but it's free here for subscribers Singer and higher.

Goals:
- 39/1200 USD per month from subscriptions.
- 1267/2000 USD earned for my art raffle goal! Remember, the prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters.

Raffle Updates:
- The regular subscriber raffle will be on August 1, so be sure to get in there if you want a chance to win free art! 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.
- OC flash sale sketch for SamagthraV2
- Sketch commission (trio) for Dante

Subscriber Exclusive: staying here on subscribestar.
- Nothing this week.

Public: Posted this week.
- A painting of ValorousOwl's Noctiluca that I did as a coloring exercise. He's giving "deadly siren on the rocks" and I love that for him.
- Bisexual/Genderfluid Pride YCH (Thallen, OC) for Cyraen.
- Pansexual Pride icon YCH (OC) for ArseniCyanide.
- Demisexual Pride icon YCH (sona) for ValorousOwl and RedRowanTree. I put a little more effort into this one because I know these two ngl, so I hope it's still consistent with the others.
- Asexual pride icon YCH for theloverofdragons (Luna, OC).
- Some more designs for the Maeror Magica server; this time including some props/weapons for a few characters that I did as practice.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Sketch commission (OC comic) for PEnfys: Thumbnailed; currently sketching details.
- Sketch commission (single) for Dante: Not started yet, but we've discussed the composition.
- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: I actually got commissioned for three of these, so they'll be coming out quite slowly. The first one is a continuation of a previous comic, the one where an OC gets turned into a sex toy and has been thumbnailed.
- Flash sale sketch (tealblood OC) for Ratchet: Not started yet. I plan to finish the comic first.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for acidlube: Not started yet.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for corrupted.stars: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCHs (OCs and DragonFable) for 7yd1a: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCHs (OCs) for theloverofdragons: Currently sketching out details for Quenelda. Luna's been sketched out!
- Barbie and Ken YCH (OCs) for Cococcino: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (OCs) for ArseniCyanide: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for valorousOwl: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for SyntacticalDoodles: Not started yet.
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: Not started yet.

Other Art WIPs:
- Next puella adopt (21 - Wolf-walker): No progress this week.
- Chromian adopts: No progress this week.
- Beta trolls and flowers stickers: No progress this week.
- Soul gems and flowers stickers: No progress this week.
- Khvorost in shibari: No progress this week.
- DragonFable major arcana: No progress this week.
- Eridan AU painting: No progress this week.
- Karkat and Aradia AU painting: No progress this week.
- Tentacle Drive milestone art: Still thumbnailing this. I'm a bit rusty on tentacles.
- Muse freebie (flat color) for Ratchet: Discussed what it's gonna be, so I'll probably get to thumbnailing soon.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: TBD
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD
- Magical girl sketches: On hold.

Writing Updates:
This week's preview is from the outline of God Will Understand.

Series:
- Marzipan part 2: Milk And Honey: No progress this week.
- God Will Understand part 1: Now has a title! "Urgent Request For An Exorcist".
- Yakuza Magical Girl: No progress this week.
- Strange Saints and Odd Orders: Finished St. Peregrine of Blackpowder. I don't have the money to look for cover artists right now but as soon as I do, I'll be looking for artists for the anthology and St. Alice of the Thicket. I think just one more should do it! The anthology itself is going to be pay-what-you-want. You can read the story here.

Standalone:
- Krampusnacht: No progress this week.

Other Writing:
- Finished another witch sheet so if you're in the Maeror server expect to see Tamlane at some point. I've also posted his witch's kiss and grief seed, and finished the last of Yasmina's familiars: Alice (the two hosts), Lorna (the lizards), and Dinah.

Turns out moving to Cebu is probably going to be a mid-2024 thing rather than a late 2023 thing.

Report Summary:
- Mahou May 7-12
- Commission progress and finished commissions
- Adopt progress
- No personal writing this week due to a fic exchange.
- Posting Day is in two days so anything finished between then and now will be posted after next month's Posting Day.
- Separated WIP and full image posts between subscription tiers. WIPs are now 3 USD and up, but full images are still 1 USD.

Business:
Business updates:
- Sale extension and 10% discount to base prices until May 15.

- Adjusted Bard and Muse Subscriber Benefits: Bards can now request a free sketch every month; Muses can request a free sketch every month AND a free flat color image every three months.

- 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 live! They are Oviposition, Homestuck, and Aquatics (mermaids, kappas, fishfolk, etc.) If you can't pay upfront, we can do a monthly 10% installment after 20% down payment.

- Still figuring out when I'll do the egg drive and how. Looking like it's gonna be an August event, since I have stuff lined up IRL for June.

 - Fixed up the adoptables on my buymeacoffee page

- Added ref sheet commissions (also 10% off until the 15th.)

Goals:
- 25/1200 USD from subscriptions.
- 616/2000 USD done 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 May 15. In the meantime, here's some previews!
- Finished anonymous's cel-shaded commission! Took nearly five months.
- Finished a flash sale sketch for PEnfys.
- Finished the witch pack commission for KasumiKadi! Somehow only took like 2 hours; I really enjoyed this one.

The following will remain subscriber exclusive:
- Finished another flash sale commission for Gam and decided all their commissions are staying on subscribestar (with permission).

Publicly posted this week:
- More Mahou May sketches! This week's sketches were Ninja, Pirate, Winter, Summer, Autumn, and Spring.
- Did a quick sketch of one of my OCs and slapped some color on there. Atsuko Fuji, a 200 year old magical girl who looks like she's in her 20s to 40s depending on how topped up her magic is that day.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- No new progress on the flat color commission for shipyarn.
- New flash sale commission for PEnfys being drafted; they're discussing how they want it to go.
- PEnfys's OC ref sheet hasn't started yet.
- Wren's OC sketch hasn't started yet.
- Wren's other flash sale sketch hasn't started yet.
- Thumbnailed Ratchet Akarui's sketch comic commission.
- Started a flash sale sketch for CurseOfBoredom of their fantroll Zarbon.
- CurseOfBoredom flash sale sketches for their other two OCs thumbnailed out.
- Sketch commission for GreensunJade not started yet.

Other Art WIPs:
- No update on the next Puella Magi adopt.
- Nothing new re: merch.
- Waiting for another update on The Turnips of St. Judith art.
- Haven't been working on Somnarine's ref this week.
- Still more Mahou May sketches to go! Next one is gonna be Necromancer.
- Started working on Chromian adopts.

Writing Updates:
No progress this week because of a fic exchange.

Hoo, it's been a busy week.

Report Summary:
- Finished commissions and some freebies
- Commission progress
- Some special offers
- Reminders about adopts

Business:
Business updates:
- 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 live! They are Oviposition, Homestuck, and Aquatics (mermaids, kappas, fishfolk, etc.)
- Still figuring out when I'll do the egg drive and how. I'm thinking June if I have the time, or August if I don't.
- Fixed up the adoptables on my buymeacoffee page and made my commission info a bit clearer there too. https://croutoncomms.carrd.co/
- Lowered base sketch prices, raised base everything else, and special offers over on buymeacoffee. If you can't pay upfront, we can do a monthly 10% installment after 20% down payment.

Goals:
- 25/1200 USD from subscriptions.
- 441/2000 USD done 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 May 15. In the meantime, here's some previews!
- Finished the flash sale sketch commission for Nuglette!
- Finished the flash sale sketch commission for 7yd1a too; this was a little trickier but they were online so I had an easy time being motivated.
- Finished Gam's Dirk-in-quicksand commission!
- Finished Gam's flash sale sketch commission too; I don't know the character but he's not having fun.
- Finished Madame Hardy's subscriber freebie! I made it match some older art, too.

Publicly posted this week:
- Forgot to post these pics of Tsukiko that I'd edited a while ago. I think the leotard is much cuter than the separate pieces she used to have.
- Did some Mahou May sketches; might clean them up into proper adopts in the future. Planning on doing a sketch a day, but I might miss a few days, probably. So far I have up to five, so that's a good start!
- WIP but spooky Kabuki troll I'm sharing.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Adding more details and bodyparts to anonymous's cel-shaded commission.
- Drafting a new flash sale commission for PEnfys of their OC.
- Drafting a flat color commission for shipyarn.

Other Art WIPs:
- No update on the next Puella Magi adopt.
- Nothing new re: merch.
- Artist for "The Turnips of St. Judith" got back to me! I can't show the image just yet, but they're making good progress!
- Haven't been working on Somnarine's ref this week.
- More Mahou May sketches to come; they've all got the same poses to save time but hopefully I can vary them up more later.

Writing Updates:
Series:
- Marzipan, focusing right now on Milk And Honey, has had no progress at the moment but hopefully will next week.
- No progress this week on Magical Yakuza Girl but I'm thinking of trying to be more faithful to the dream that inspired it; maybe that will fix it.
- God Will Understand has been broken up into three parts because I ended up thinking of three major sex scenes. I've outlined the overarching plot, but I need to outline the individual parts.

Standalone stories:
- Meanwhile, I've condensed the plot of Naughty Little Helpers to just being about Knoell getting fucked and transformed by Krampus. If I ever write someone getting fucked by Rudolph it'll have to be some other time.

Other writing:
- Camp NaNo project about gay middle aged space pirates still being vaguely entertained as a thought.
- Yasmina the Minigame Witch character sheet still on hold.