Hi everyone - so if I've posted this it means I'm finally stretched a little too thin for a little too long, to the point it is quite unsustainable for me.

TLDR: November Billing Cancelled. You will not be charged for next month. Tier reworks and price changes. All current subscribers grandfathered in at current price. Stalker Tier being removed, Yandere tier being temporarily put on hold - That's the short version.

We're gonna be reworking pretty much everything, detailed below. In penance for the change, and to make sure everyone has adequate time to read this and unsub and not feel ripped off, and give me time to play catchup, I will be suspending billing for another month again.. I hope that's.... Fair.

There's gonna be benefit changes pretty much top to bottom - if you're currently subbed you're gonna get grandfathered in at whatever price you're currently paying to the appropriate tier if there are price changes. You won't be able to go back if you switch out, but if you stay on whatever you're on now... Well, you'll stay on it.

The why: It doesn't really matter all that much. Just too many days spent in a depressed haze trying to figure out how to make the things I'm supposed to make, rather than veering passionately into whatever I feel like, and then when I do do that, feel like dirt for wasting my time not doing the things I'm supposed to be doing and still not fulfilling my obligations. 

Having failed at fulfilling obligations over and over again - we're just.... Changing the obligations <.<"

Much as I loathe to do it (and I do) - we'll be taking on the classical X tier X audio system, rather than the blanket "all my shit at tier 1 and finnicky stuff above that" system. Tier benefits will be as follows:

Fan: (Free)

Tsundere: $6 ---> $9

Dandere: $14.50 --> $17

Stalker - To Be Removed, please switch tiers (I am literally unable to delete a tier with active subs, you have to do this yourself)

Nemuidere:

Yandere - Temporarily closing, please switch tiers for the time being. I'll be finishing up all pending stalker requests and when I'm caught up it will reopen, whenever that is - This will be (probably) be the new tier. If not, either way, you'll hear about it when it goes live again - but hypothetically:

Trying to turn the stalker/yandere files consistent and substantial, I'll be opening an official commission sheet with figured out pricing and all that. All commissions will be public by default - basically me maintaining right to use and publish so the time spent isn't "wasted". It will be possible to get them private - that is, that they will never be heard by anyone but you and I. Please keep in mind this is not the same as personalised - You're very welcome to use your name if you like to hear your name, and if I publish it publicly I'll make sure to take your name out of that version. There'll be more details in the commission sheet when it goes live and the Yandere tier reopens.


All outstanding "stalker files" will still be completed and sent out when they're ready.

These will now be coming to a close as they currently exist. There will still be opportunity in future to get something similar once I've caught up with all outstanding ones. Please do submit your requests for October if you haven't done so already if you're currently, at either the Yandere or Stalker tier, and the credit/commission system will be worked out and announced when the tiers re-open at that later date.

I'm really sorry about all this. I've spent the better part of 4 years trying to avoid things ending up this way. I never really liked the general idea of placing a definitive value on what "we" do here. I suppose in part just because I find it very difficult to value what I do myself. The wishy washy "All the shit I make this month" digs into me more than it aught to, and just feels like it's both too much and never enough all at once, trying to keep up with the sub churn rate and freaking out about the "I haven't put out a file in 10+ days aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but i've gotta be making *this one* and i'mreallynotfeelingitrightnow", and other IRL and stupid people stuff..... It is not a decision I make lightly. 

I'm still very worried about this too, to be honest. For some reason the idea of putting a definitive number on things "X$ for X stuff" is also incredibly daunting, like I'll fall behind still and the world will burn - but at least maybe I'll only feel bad about it on the occasions I've failed to cross that very clear line in the sand, rather than the quagmire of guilt that constantly pervades me because "It's never enough anyway".

I'll be turning on "Holiday mode" here on Subscriberstar through November - you've seen me do this before if you're not new or you were back on Patreon - basically November won't be billed and you can consider November an extended October. This'll give me time to catch up a little, get my bearings - and to be honest i'm gonna be a bit busy IRL in November anyway so i'm just getting ahead of things before i get bogged down again. I won't be gone - we'll still be doing some bedtimes and i'll be chopping away at audios and stalkers, but it'll be a bit slower than normal until December - i think that's okay since none of you will be getting charged at the month ticking over <.<"

I suppose in a sense a fair answer is just "because I can." I've been (as far as I know) one of the cheaper, if not cheapest manwhore VA around - at least in terms of actual audio access, pretty much since patreon moved on beyond a mere donation platform. The vast majority of what I make are me top to bottom, no other writer or editor - so i'm the only boy in town making things the way I make em' (Although I am looking forward into playing with other peoples scripts again~).

Folks've been trying to hammer into me for the past few years that I'm worth more than that.... Trying to hammer that home to myself too, in a very simple number-go-up kind of way. No longer $4 a minute, and no longer getting pretty much everything for $6. That price was actually originally set because it's the lowest Patreon would let me go before they threw out a warning about higher fees for transactions that were too small, so I put it right on the line. Either way - this'll either backfire and I'll flatline - or not - regardless, you're all grandfathered in at current rate - although the what of that current rate is changing somewhat. I'm still not the priciest boy in town, but it's a little more competitive. Shallow as it is, I've got ambitions to leave this island and that costs green. Whatever happens, thanks for your support till now (really really, it genuinely has been life changing) and I hope I can continue, if not improve at, getting you all blushies and messy and happy happy happy in the future <3

Buckle up because this is gonna be a long one. First things first:

Questions for the AMA will be closing this weekend, so if you wanted to ask anything, you'll soon lose your chance. Submit questions over here

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Nemuidere Tier has gone live, and the stalker tier has been hidden. This is a bit of a weird and luxury tier where I hop on stream when I go to bed and we fall asleep together, maybe read a little bedtime story, and otherwisely hear me ramble through the night and apparently, snore. Turned it on a few days ago and the financially irresponsible have allegedly been enjoying it thoroughly - so if you're into that sort of thing.... Enjoy. It's not every night, and there's no strict schedule (my sleepy hours change a lot so it's hard to put down) - but you can stare at the bedtime channel on discord longingly to get a feel for when it tends to happen.

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The event notification should've gone live on discord - but in case you missed it, there's gonna be a smutty livestream thing where Phono takes a gummy and we'll see what happens starting arouuuuuuuund 9PM my time. That's GMT+2. Should be around 2PM in NYC, give or take an hour. It's not strict, and these can go on a while.

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ART CONTEST!

This might deserve its own post, and I'll be shovelling it onto reddit as well, but rather than nab some stranger off of fiverr or something....

Sort of a not-a-contest contest, for those of you inclined to the visual arts~

Phono wants to update the social media pages - and figured maaaaybe the way to go about that, especially since he's had so much lovely fanart from all sorts of people turn up over the past few years - is to host a sort of bounty commission thing~

So - if you fancy yourself handy with a pen or brush or stick in the sand and want to help a boy out, and get a chance at some pocket money - read on!

There are currently and planned, 6 subscribestar tiers, and a big banner at the top of the page that i'm looking to potentially change out~ Probably reuse the banner over on youtube too~

So that's the:
Banner
Fan tier
Tsundere tier
Dandere tier
Nemuidere tier
Yandere tier
Waifu tier (inactive)

Each tier bounty will be sitting at 50 euros, with 100 for the banner because it's bigger bigger.

There's no strict requirements on what the tier pictures have to portray, but if you want a kickstart i've been imagining a version of you and I together, in the relevant theme. So maybe you beating on phono's chest in a typical tsundere baka baka baka way, or you getting all knifey in front of him yandere style, something with a cheerleading fan for fan, etc etc - but this is just a suggestion~

Ideally they stick with the colour themes on discord in some way, though it isn't 100% necessary. For reference that's orange for Tsundere, blue for Dandere, purple for Nemuidere, a blood red for Yandere, with waifu undecided (and possibly never going to launch, but we'll see).

The banner also doesn't have any particular requirements, but in some way should represent "Phonobabble" - either by just being fancy lettering with the name on it, and/or sick references to fun files and other suchness. This'll be intended for Subscribestar and Youtube and anywhere else we end up moving that uses a banner. Doesn't have to necessarily include socials on it, and if I want em I can always add them in post too.

Please keep in mind that that being picked doesn't necessarily point to something being my favourite, as much as what I feel works best for the application. There will also be considerations in what works well together - I'm not going to look over something i think is a perfect fit because it clashes with other winners, but i will be taking into account how.... Compatible they are with eachother. If i like two things just as much for one category, but one of them meshes way better in style with all the other winners, i'll tiebreak it in its favour that way.

Please don't feel intimidated to partake if you want to, but think you aren't skilled enough or don't stand a chance. More isn't necessarily better, neither is more complicated or more time. Some simple chibi scribble that took you a few minutes could end up being too cute not to use, potentially.

Submissions DO NOT HAVE TO BE digitally made. Pen/pencil/paper submissions are okay too - for reference the current banner and penguin icons were entirely drawn and coloured in on paper, the artist just took pictures of them with their phone, and I think they work wonderfully. You'll probably have an easier time doing it digitally than physically, but it's not a requirement. Just make sure you're able to capture the quality of your work either with a good photo or scanning it - though being able to have it as a transparent PNG would be a plus. I would recommend making these at the highest resolution you're comfortable with - they can always be scaled down if needed.

In theme with that, there will be a very small extra cash bonus if you happen to submit an entire set and it wins in every category, bringing the total sum from 400 to 450 Euro

Intending to pay this out on Paypal, though I'll use whatever means end up necessary to get you the money, even if it means buying and mailing gift cards. Money in equivalent currency in Euros, minus whatever freaky taxes or transfer fees are going to be eaten in doing it.

If you have the free time and will and **want** to, you can submit as many entries as you like - Submissions do not have to be original creations for this contest, but they do have to be yours, and we're looking for stuff you've made, not AI generated~

This is going to run from now, on throughout October, with submissions closing on the 1st of November, winners will be contacted and announced after a week or so.

And you can submit anything you want in over on this google form here