Lots of Upcoming Changes

This journal has been a loooooooong time coming, nearly a year actually.

As a lot of my followers already know, I've been intending to get some time to work on some of my own long stories once again, this was something I had actually tried to go back to do all the way back at the start of 2021, but it simply didn't pan out.
There's a lot I gotta inform you about, so I'll first make a summarization of the points then go into more details about them:

-I'll be increasing the prices of stream commissions starting from May, from 40 USD to 50 USD per character. 
-The reward system will be revamped, and all current Rewards will become Stream rewards with the same price of 50 USD. Also starting from May. 
-I'm moving abroad, for at least a couple years. 
-I'll be working on some of my own stories going forward, Stream Batches would keep their usual schedule unless I really needed to put some time into a personal comic. 
-I'm taking this week off.

I've got to get the most painful thing out of the way first, I increased prices last year, while of course one of the main intentions was to simply get paid more for the amount of time I was putting into the pictures, another main intention was to try and make the batches slow down a bit to a more comfortable speed, specially in regards to slot claiming. Lots of people who commission and have tried to commission me know the slots on my batches tend to run out extremely fast, specially on FFA batches, the ones with open topics.
Starting from May though, I'll be increasing the prices to 50 USD per character, not only to try and repeat the same thing but also because I have indeed been putting more and more time on these streams over the years, which is what leads into the fourth point.

Second Point, this will be a pretty straight forward change, also to take place in May, as of right now there's three type of Rewards: Coloured, Black and White and Stream Rewards. All of them going for different prices. Starting from May all three categories will become Stream Rewards, going by the same price of 50 USD, but don't expect new reward slots to become available anytime soon, those who currently have their reward slot will choose to either keep it as a Stream Reward or drop it.

Third point, I intend to move back to my homeland sometime in late May or early June, this is something I decided back in July, and have been doing little steps towards ever since, I can go into more details about the reasons if you want to know, but to summarize it is a combination of tax purposes, medical treatments and simple wanderlust. I intend to stay in my homeland for 2 years, this may be subject to change, and extend or shorten, but it would be definitely at leat a year. While I'll need a couple weeks to adapt and settle all the necessary paperwork once I'm back though things shouldn't change when it comes to the work schedule you've all gotten used to by now. After these 2 years I intend on doing some further traveling, but that is something I'll get to once time has passed.

Fourth Point, but something I've mentioned several times ever since late 2020, I intend on putting some time towards some of my own, longer comics again, ever since I started doing stream batches in 2019 it has worked extremely well for me, but things like my comic IISY, which was already hardly ever updated back then, had to simply be put into an indefinite suspension. Back in late 2020 I even took some time off batches to clear the list of normal commissions, but it wasn't until a few months ago when I finally managed to clear that out, and ever since in between stream batches I've had to be working on rewards. This is why starting from May I'll be changing the reward system, moving all of them to the stream reward category, so in the second half of the year, once I've cleared out the current rewards that keep on piling month by month, I'll be able to start working on my own comics in between stream batches, it'll take time, as all things do, But I'll at least be able to put some time into instead of none at all, often it happens that reward holders have to wait for months in order to get the ones they claimed, since other things jump in front of my agenda, on top of the stream batches. As I said before my personal stories shouldn't affect the stream batches, unless maybe I was about to finish one and really wanted to crunch it out to release it, in which case of course I'll let people know. I've had one story fully planned since 2020, with many others popping up with various degrees of planning ever since, and a very long one I wanted to start working on all the way back in 2013, so as you can this whole plan has been long, looooong overdue.

This I guess is the simplest point, I've been crunching pretty much since mid 2020, never really taking some time for myself, weeks off I've taken where only if I had to do things such as entertaining a guest or moving to a different apartment. And things will be quite shaky once we get to the middle of the year, the next Batch, AGW 2.9, will take place on March 5th.  I'll still be working on some things here and there this week, including the announcement pic for said AGW, but in case you're wondering why I've decided to take this week off in particular, I can summarize in two words: Foul Tarnished.

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And that's it, as I said it's a lot to cover, know if you join my discord you can see a schedule of the upcoming Stream Batches, which of course goes into unknown territory after mid May. But it'll be a handy way to know what I'll be working on in the near future.