#thank you to all my patrons for pledging

[toodrunktofindaurl]

My entire n/s/f/w imodna comic is now up for free! read here! ♥

[tendermiasma]

My contract with Powerhouse ends in September,

so I'm looking for work!

✨My Patreon (18+) will be my only guaranteed income for an unknown amount of time. I'll be posting more and expanding to include exclusive sfw art (BG3, Elden Ring, Vampire Hunter D, occasional tutorial/breakdowns etc) as much as I can.

If you've been eyeing it, it's a great time to join! I'm so grateful to all my patrons.

✨You do not have to pay for every post even though it's per-creation. It can function just like a monthly sub.

Most people set their pledge cap to $4 so they're only billed for the first post of each month and none for the subsequent posts (you'll still get to see all of them). Any higher pledge cap or tier is purely optional.

Thank you always for your support xx

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

Just a Kiss: 13

Next - Previous - Beginning

Fic written by emmagrant01, which you can read here. This 5+1 fic does have a NSFW ending, which will be limited to Patreon. But the comic and fic itself can be enjoyed in its SFW version which will be posted in full on Tumblr and Twitter. $1 Patrons will be a page ahead and all other patrons will be two pages ahead. This comic will update Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please enjoy!

Patreon support helps me make comics like these. So a huge thank you those who pledge! If you’d like to continue seeing such work, please consider supporting!

Read more comics on my website! Support my work on Patreon, where you can read ahead!

[dovesndecay]

It's June! It's Pride! It's (my) Birthday!

The Introduction Spiel:

Hi, I'm Reyah! (any pronouns! no really, go for it!) On June 21st, I'm turning 32, an exciting and mysterious age to be!! (So I've heard)

Warning: This is a post asking for financial help, and if there's one thing I would ask is that if you read the whole thing: please reblog.

I'm a multiply-disabled queer person of color, a writer, artist, and photographer. I live with three of my best-good-pal-friends, (@renthony, @kryptidkhaos, and @natalieironside) and our collective army of pets.

We all know it's damned hard to be all these things at the same time under the capitalistic hellscape we're living under, and we/I am always in need of a lot of help with the existing.

I ended the month of May with some smaller bills left still to pay, but am thankful to say that June already had fewer bills than usual due, and the amount I need to start the summer off right is actually less than I was afraid it would be! Woohoo!

What I Make

I mentioned my artistic endeavors, let me show you them!!

Writing

I write less often than I'd like, but I share poetry and shorts, when I have them, on my Patreon!

You must be over 18 to pledge, as I have, can, and will again share Adult Content occasionally. Patrons pledging at least $1/month get access to all content. But most posts becomes free to access eventually. :)

When I do longer form content, I primarily write fantasy with a focus on queer brown characters with disabilities, mental illnesses, and disordered attachments. Because therapy is expensive, and writing is free.

Photography

I do wildlife and landscape photography, primarily, but you can also check out my portrait and event work on my website! You can purchase PRINTS HERE.

And because it's my birthday, I'm offering a 32% discount code for all my prints! The code is good from June 1st to July 1st!

A Note, if you purchase a print: first off: thank you. (please feel free to send a photo of wherever you display it!!!) secondly: this will not go towards the received totals on my financial need because Pixels doesn't pay out until nearly 2 months after the purchase. Funds made from sales will go towards future needs.

CODE: PDHHTR

Artwork

I've been exploring art, both analog and digital, a lot more lately, and have shared both process photos and final drafts on Patreon! Here are just a few examples:

I admittedly don't post on patreon as much as I wish I had the energy to, but I try to make at least one thing a month, provided I have the spoons and time.

Creativity is, like, a level 5 spell slot when you're disabled and impoverished, and I appear to have exactly One (1) of those available at any given time.

The Needs:

The Bills: $1,100

Yeah, we had to get here eventually. Since this post is already pretty long, I'm putting the rest under a cut.

More than half of this, as always, is just for the car payment and insurance that keeps the regular day-job-haver getting to said job, and all our medical appointments, errands, etc.

I still owe around $13,000 total on Johnny Car, but I think we all know that's just not a real number.

The rest of the funds would go toward paying the small subscriptions, for my various medications, and the regular attempts to whittle away slowly at the $4,300 worth of other debt.

($2,200 of back taxes, and $2,100 of credit card debt, and gods, do I mean slowly. Interest piles up so much faster than I can seem to whittle.)

If you're able and willing to help with paying the bills, direct donations can be made here:

PayPal | (link)

Venmo | (dovesndecay)

Cashapp | ($dovesndecay)

If you can, and only if you can.

The It Would Be Cools:

Since every dime that comes in goes primarily towards food and bills, there's little left afterward to be put towards other life necessities like clothes, toiletries, let alone things I just think would be nice/neat/nifty to have.

I have a High Priority wishlist. It's mostly art supplies, bulk toiletries, etc.

I'm woefully low on clothes, being short, fat, and trans, so very little of what I own actually feels good to wear so much as it simply covers my body. I have a wishlist of clothes that would be nice to have.

For everything that firmly lands under the "I just want it" category, I have an Enrichment list. It's mostly stuffies, but also games, room decor, hobby supplies, books, and stim toys.

Our household keeps a big wishlist for things we need, want, groceries, accessibility products, and everything in-between.

Okay, now what?

Well, now, I'm gonna ask that if you got to this point, and if you can't/don't want to do any of the things listed above, then please reblog this post.

The more people that reblog it, the more likely I'm able to pay my bills for one more month this year.

But if you don't, it's not like anyone's gonna know. I'm not omniscient, I swear.

Anyway, I don't expect anyone to do anything if you can't or even if you just don't wanna, but if you can and you're willing to, it means the world.

I didn't think this is where I'd be at 32. But I never really expected to get here at all in the end, and it's a lot nicer than I thought it would be. Mostly because I am surrounded by amazing people who have the capacity to be so much kinder than I will ever have the words to describe.

Thank you, and to all, a happy pride!

🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

[renthony]

hey!! i am genuinely curious about how the catholic church helped implement the hays code, would you be able to tell me more/do you have any good reading material about it? thanks so much!!

This has been sitting in my inbox for aaaaaages, because I want to do it justice! It's actually a big facet of my research project that I'm going to go into much, much, much more depth on, but here's the short(er) summary:

The foundational text of the Hays Code was written by two Catholics: a Jesuit priest named Father Daniel Lord, and a man named Martin Quigley, who was the editor of the Motion Picture Herald. They grounded their guidelines in Catholic morality and values, based on the idea that art could be a vehicle for evil by negatively influencing the actions of those who view it.

The original list of guidelines written by Lord and Quigley was adapted into the Production Code, popularly known as the "Hays Code" after William Hays, the president of the Production Code Administration that enforced it. As president of the PCA, William Hays appointed a staunch Catholic man called Joseph Breen to enforce the code. Breen enforced it aggressively, confiscating the original reels of films he deemed inappropriate and against the Code. Many lost films from this era are only "lost" because Joseph Breen personally had them destroyed. Some were rediscovered later, but many were completely purged from existence.

When Breen died in 1965, Variety magazine wrote, "More than any single individual, he shaped the moral stature of the American moral picture." He was a very, very big deal, and was directly responsible for censoring more films than I could even begin to list here.

In 1937, Olga J. Martin, Joseph Breen’s secretary, said, “To an impoverished country which had become religious and serious-minded, the sex attitudes of the post-war period became grotesquely unreal and antedated. The public at large wanted to forget its own derelictions of the ‘gay twenties.' The stage was set for the moral crusade.”

In 1936, once the Code was being fully enforced on filmmakers by Joseph Breen, a letter was issued by the office of Pope Pius XI that praised Breen's work, and encouraged all good Catholics to support film censorship.

The letter read in part, "From time to time, the Bishops will do well to recall to the motion picture industry that, amid the cares of their pastoral ministry, they are under obligation to interest themselves in every form of decent and healthy recreation because they are responsible before God for the moral welfare of their people even during their time of leisure. Their sacred calling constrains them to proclaim clearly and openly that unhealthy and impure entertainment destroys the moral fibre of a nation. They will likewise remind the motion picture industry that the demands which they make regard not only the Catholics but all who patronize the cinema."

Basically, this letter was a reminder from the Papal authority that bishops and priests are supposed to stop people from engaging with "lewd" or "obscene" art. That meant supporting things like the Hays Code.

So, to summarize: the original text of the Hays Code was written by two Catholics, including a priest. The biggest and most aggressive censor under the Code was a Catholic man, who had the full support and approval of the Pope at the time. Good Catholics were called en-masse to support the Hays Code, because it was intentionally written to line up with Catholic teachings.

There's a lot more to say on the subject, and if you're interested in reading more on your own, I recommend the book "Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934," by Thomas Doherty. There are plenty other sources I can recommend on request, but that's a solid place to start.

(And if I can toot my own horn, I'm intending to do a video lecture series all about American film censorship and the Hays Code. Pledging to my Patreon helps keep me fed and housed while I do all this damn research.)

[theabigailthorn]

Thanks to all my patrons for supporting me!

Turns out when you actually do your own research and writing [AHEM!] it takes time to make good content. These awesome names and plenty of generous people like them help make that happen. Their pledges give me the time to research the show PROPERLY and also go towards paying the crew, who make the show look spectacular.

If you can, and you wanna support what I do, sign up and join them :)

[idrellegames]

Hi friends, 

New Episode 3 content is available to play on Wayfarer’s alpha build!

Overview

Part 3 Route 1 includes a new playable route. 

Because Episode 3 is still in development, not all routes are accessible at this time. To play the new content, you must have reached one of Aeran or Veyer's endings in Episode 2, then choose Path 1 when you reach Diradan Tower. 

80,000 words of content.

Story Features

This update picks up where the last Episode 3 update left off and includes:

A fight with some ivy

Creepy libraries

Sudden and unnecessary explosions

Weird things that go bump in the dark

Resolving a mystery with more mysteries

Elven eyesight

A new flashback sequence starring your favourite mentor

A huge thank you to my patrons for their unending support. Wayfarer would not be possible without you!

Episode 3 will remain a Patreon exclusive until Episode 4 is developed and released. You can play it by supporting me (Recruit tier and above) at patreon.com/idrellegames.

→ NOTE: Because Patreon charges on the 1st of the month, you may want to wait until May 1st to pledge so you aren't charged back-to-back. Additionally, the alpha password changes on the 1st of the month, so if you pledge for April and then de-pledge for May, you will lose alpha access when your benefits are up.

[thewhalesheart]

My Patreon is now live!!

Read three pages ahead for $5/month, or access my entire backlog (currently eight pages ahead!) for $10/month!

The first three pages of chapter four are already up for $5 patrons!

Pledging to the Cormorant tier or higher gives you access to Discord livestreams where I will stream my comic process

All paid supporters have the choice to submit their cat OCs to the Discord server for cameo opportunities!

Thank you!!!

✦ 🐋 ✦ 🫀 ✦ 🐚 ✦

[unu-nunu-art]

HUGE NEWS!!

My Secret Shop is officially open!!

Here's the catalogue!

This is my very first online shop, so I hope everything works as intended >u<

Are you interested? :D

The info post can be found here!!

++++++++++

Also!! Yearly Postcard Send-Out is back!!

Even if you are not interested in the shop, you can still receive a postcard as it is tradition at this point. It's always so much fun to prep all these for everyone ^u^

2024 is coming to a close and to celebrate, I will send out a Christmas/New Year's card to every Patron just like the years before! Would you like to receive one, too?

Here's how it works:

1. Become/Be a Patron! The amount you pledge doesn’t matter, so even every 1$ Patron will receive a card! Deadline is December 7th so the cards will have roughly two weeks to arrive, even if you're late to pledge. Moreover, Patrons of the 10$ tier and up will also receive a sticker of their choice!

2. Check this post and fill out the form. Yes, the cards from the previous year are also possible if you prefer, just like the stickers of the past year!

3.  Wait for your card. That's all. Easy, right? I will send them out as soon as I can ♥

4. Any open questions? Just comment and let me know!

Link to my Patreon

Lastly, I want to thank every single one of you for you support and faith in me. I never would have come this far and made so much progress without you. Thank you for this wonderful year everyone ♥

[titanrpg]

you got a minute? I need a favor

Hey everyone, it's Lex. Happy New Year to you and yours!

Today, I have a huge announcement about Titanomachy RPG and its future. This month marks 3 years since I joined TTRPG Twitter. I've met so many incredible people and learned so much from y'all. Your support has allowed me to take one HUGE step in my life. 

I recently moved to Maryland from Florida to get some basic human rights. I also left my job of 7 years to try and live unburdened by selling hours of my life to some random rich guy. And now, I'm taking Titanomachy RPG full-time.

Here I am, already having taken the leap. I have some money saved up, yes, but ultimately I am trusting in the generosity of others to help me build out a life I can truly love.

So yes, this is a Patreon announcement. And there's a link to Caltrop Core below (if you want to make a one-time contribution). But before anyone exits this email, I want to talk about all the cool stuff everyone can expect from me, regardless of Patreon status or donor status. I have a lot of exciting things coming in 2024, like:

a NEW open license d12 system called DODECA!

physical copies of my games becoming available via Indie Press Revolution, starting with NIGHTHAWKS!

more consistent game & system releases

seeing more of my work in some upcoming Evil Hat projects (look for me in the Girl by Moonlight stretch goal zines)

prints of "prayer to curse ron desantis", bunny girl osr posters, and perhaps shirts/hats/merch?

ttrpg workshops IRL in the Maryland area

and much much much much more!!

Now, here's the link to my Patreon before I forget: https://www.patreon.com/TitanRPG

I have an AWESOME founding patron bonus. There are 3 tiers of membership, and no matter which you choose to join today, you'll get a pre-release PDF of GOLDEN BEETLE PLAYGROUND, my Medabots-inspired TTRPG built on Caltrop Core EX.

This bonus is ONLY for people who join this month. After January, I'll take it down to work on the game further (and eventually do a full release later this year). 

For tiers 2 and 3, I'll be releasing one short RPG every single month. These games will remain Patreon exclusives until I can put proper polish on them (or the patrons vote to release their favorites).

There's a bunch more goodies and details on my actual Patreon page. Click that link to see!

Eventually, I'll be putting merch up on that page, so even if you can't support with a monthly pledge, you'll be seeing posters, shirts, hats, all that very soon!

These days, I'm on tumblr every so often, but no other social media. Patreon will be my dedicated page for updates, game mechanics, design discussions, everything! Even if you join at the $3/month tier, I want to provide a ton of value, starting with GOLDEN BEETLE PLAYGROUND!

Click here to see the three membership tiers and support a trans game designer today!

Thank you for your support over the past 3 years. I hope to remain worth of it for many more years to come.

All my love,

Lex Kim Bobrow

Publisher, Titanomachy RPG

P.S. Here's the link again. Take a moment to check out the page please, and if you can't contribute, please tell your friends! I've lost touch with so many people after leaving Twitter, so any help in getting the word out is 10000000% appreciated!!

P.P.S. If you could reblog this post ASAP, I'd really really appreciate it. Thank you!!!

[regal-bones]

Hello, if you like my stuff please consider funding me on Patreon :} I rely on the kindness of my followers to make artwork, and there’s a lot of exclusive stuff over there you’ll get in return!

If you really really like my artwork, please consider claiming a Crown Piece slot. These slots are limited with 20 left - if all 50 are claimed I am quite comfortably employed by my patrons as that amount will completely cover my monthly expenses like rent, food, and bills!

I’ve lost about £150 in pledges over the last six months - a lot of this I am assuming are people who followed me when my Twitter blew up, and eventually dropped off, as well as people who can’t afford it as the cost of living increases. I’m trying really really hard to get back to where I was in January so I can stay focused on my work! Thank you, and I’m sorry I’m always posting about this but it’s my job! If you wanna give me a raise, it would mean the world :}

You can check out my patreon at this link here !! Thank you so much for reading, and I really hope you consider helping me out ❤️

(also here’s a little sprout to tempt you! There’s a lot more sprites over there of our protagonist, as well as some environment stuff I’ve been working on this past week!)

[glove23]

oh my yorb buckle up adventurers I feel like I've cracked the case

so we are trying to figure out all this spus tongue business and what kalina was trying to tell people by saying RAGH BARKROCK and "it's the only name I can say" and as far as we can tell, the bad kids think that connection is Lydia and Bakur

me however 🤡 in my clown shoes

it's not an obvious connection so I think it makes sense for the outer circle of spy's tongue.

so this starts with fig and porter and Zara telling her Cassandra can't be who she's pledged to, that they don't fit her, and it made me think, well what other gods do either of them have a connection to besides their own patrons? zaras is a celestial and porter is an oath of the ancestors paladin...

and then I remembered how Kalina was spotted talking to Porter and Jace at the end of Freshman Year.

spotted by Ragh.

AND THEN EVERYTHING JUST SEEMED TO FALL INTO PLACE

A TIMELINE

FRESHMAN YEAR

• Ragh sees Kalina talking to Porter and Jace

SOPHOMORE YEAR

• Kalina learns Ragh saw her talking to Porter and Jace

• Kalina attacks Lydia Barkrock and kills her (clone) destroying their house in the process

JUNIOR YEAR

• Kalina says Ragh's name

• "It's the only name I can say."

• Spys Tongue Curse

• Connected just outside the circle

• Rage shards at destroyed Barkrock Residence

• Lydia having Bakur, a servent of Ankarna, this rage god, in her gem, someone Kalina is connected to and theoretically made this curse to prevent from speaking about

• Ragh saw Kalina talking to JACE and PORTER

so obviously I'm thinking either Porter or Jace is involved (probably both) with Kalina/Ankarna and so here's more reasoning

PORTER

- heavy emphasis that rage is the only way to be a barbarian

- oath of ancestors paladin "a commitment to those who came before you to carry on their ideals and wishes into the future"

- trying to keep gorgug from artificing

- telling fig she can't be Cassandra's paladin but doesn't give anyone else as a suggestion (and as many people have said, Ankarna is such fig bait)

- more interested in Fig this year because of Ankarna's curse on the armor of pride???

and then

JACE

- sorcery teacher, lots of free time

- makes maizie principal because he is less capable than a literal teenager?

- gives Riz a stipend for "keeping auegfort running"?

- didn't really do a whole lot when Grix was netting the whole student population?

- generally sus ?

stellar contribution from @puglebug

ANYWAYS I think Porter and/or Jace are very involved in all of this and Fig's theory that Porter is bad is gonna be proven right, now that's she started to like him, for maximum painful impact. thanks for coming to my riz talk like and subscr-

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

The Future of Beyond The Mist: Beginnings

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, Beyond The Mist: Beginnings did not meet its funding goal. I want to offer a big, heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who pledged and cheered the game on. Your support means the world to me!

So, where do we stand now? The game cannot be turned into a visual novel without funding, thus that format is now out of the picture. That does not mean, however, that this is the end of the story!

This story is dear to me, and I will tell it no matter what. What this means is that I will release the game in a purely interactive fiction format.

No images besides a static background and the cover art, but the structure of the writing will remain the same, with all the choices and branching I've already showcased!

There are benefits to this approach: since I won't have to implement art, the game will be completed much faster! I also won't have to work around art limitations and compromise the storytelling to fit budgets and the like.

I will continue to update everyone on the progress I make both on my itch.io as well as my Tumblr account, so be sure to subscribe to either of these to continue following the development!

I will also be providing early viewing access of the BtM alpha build every month for my Ko-Fi and Patreon patrons.

So the development of this project remains very much alive! Thank you again to everyone who pledged, and I hope to have the full game ready for you all soon!

Cheers,

Morgan

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

Just a Kiss: 9

Next - Previous - Beginning

Fic written by emmagrant01, which you can read here. This 5+1 fic does have a NSFW ending, which will be limited to Patreon. But the comic and fic itself can be enjoyed in its SFW version which will be posted in full on Tumblr and Twitter. $1 Patrons will be a page ahead and all other patrons will be two pages ahead. This comic will update Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please enjoy!

Patreon support helps me make comics like these. So a huge thank you those who pledge! If you’d like to continue seeing such work, please consider supporting!

Read more comics on my website! Support my work on Patreon, where you can read ahead!

[nights-at-crystarium]

on authenticity

My mood in the recent months keeps going from bad to worse. Today I randomly fell into the rabbit hole of checking out other patreon artists, which always grounds me in reality and cheers me up, perhaps in a weird way. Essay incoming \o/

Authenticity is a blob of a word that sounds almost pretentious nowadays. It gets sneered at. You either sell your soul, or you don't earn with your art.

What's authentic, being true to yourself, will vary from person to person. It's like a sliding scale of suffering that you will tolerate in exchange for a coin, while convincing yourself that you have fun.

The harsh truth of modern world is that if your art pays for your living, you've already reached success, no matter how you may feel about the type of content you actually make for that money. Insert the meme furry nsfw art here. Or not furry. Or even sfw, but comms, lots of comms every month. Or merch. Anything that sells. Products first, art second.

Marrying passion and profession is virtually impossible, yet I'm doing it, only thanks to your support. I'm acutely aware that, even as I choose to be "real" and talk about an artist's money-making in a raw way, it's still patreon talk, and yes, I'll plug the link as well, so technically this entire post is an ad *fingerguns*

I just feel so privileged being able to create whatever the fuck I want, literally, I take no comms/requests/guidance on what and how should I draw/write, I post experimental, sometimes provocative stuff, and still make enough to survive. This sole fact should get me through the day, whatever other struggles I may be facing currently (I am. I don't wanna talk about it rn, instead I distract myself with this text), I should always remember the unique place in life I managed to carve for myself.

There are madmen (gender-neutral) who toss $10-20 at me every month. The majority "only" pledges $1, the notorious tier that gets treated as a tip jar with no rewards by many other creators. All of my rewards are the same at $1 and $20 (save for the one-time digital artbook download at $10, just to be perfectly clear), it's a conscious choice and a risk I continue taking because it's how I am. I used to split rewards between tiers in the past, before xiv, and it was a lot of busy work while it made me treat my art less as art and more as product. This pic goes into the cheap box, this pic goes into the expensive box. Every month. It's. Definitely not for every artist.

Logistic hell of splitting and delivering rewards, different posts with less comments per post, also my discord roles/channels would have to be split, nowadays it's just patron, whether you give me $1 or $20, there's no visual disparity, you're hanging out in the same cool kids' club, and collectively making happy noises on Fragments Fridays.

Could I be making more money if I got rid of the $1 tier? Yeah. But, mercifully, after 2 years I don't need to. I legit make enough currently, my only worry is to keep what I have. Patrons don't stay forever, 2-5 people would leave every month, about the same number would join (hence my patreon ads, I need to keep people reminded of it, even if it makes me feel guilty every damn time). I did Research (tm) in the past to find out that my "bleeding" numbers are below average, i.e. it's good, people generally tend to stick around.

I put a lot of emphasis on the $1 because I'm kinda proud of what I managed to accomplish while staying self-detrimentally humble. Literally doing an impossible thing in a world that keeps burning down. So yeah if you've been feeling bad for only giving me $1, what matters is that there's enough $1s to make a difference. Together you're creating a phenomenon, and you should be proud.

There are many stupid little principles, hills that I'll die on, that make up my authenticity. I chose to speak of it here and now in order to sorta sell myself, so it feels hypocritical x'D But if I don't shine a spotlight on this, who will. I'm old and jaded and increasingly terrified of how insincere the internet's becoming. Everything's fake, sugarcoated, polished for sale. My art's always been a scream of defiance against all that, now that I'm more or less established, I wanna scream louder. Thanks for hearing my screams. You can scream with me too if you want.

[adorkastock]

New Rowena 3 Pack up on Ko-Fi! 🎨✨

The third installment of our beloved Rowena is now available in my Ko-fi shop! ☕

If you want to vote on which new themed pack I post next you can join my Patreon. Patrons at all pledge levels get to vote in the themed pack polls and the winning pack goes up for $2.50+ Patrons a few weeks before it hits the shop.

This is the last themed pack for 2024. Thank you SO much for your support through this challenging year. ♥