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Rewards, Polls, Coronavirus, Update on pretty much everything!
🕑 Added 2020-03-23 08:55:33 +0000 UTCGood morning!
How are you all?
I would like to have a catch-up, since so much has been happening.
Coronavirus
We've been quarantined for almost two weeks now. I don't think you need to hear anything about the coronavirus from me. All I can say is: Please take it seriously! Protect the old and sick. This will most likely take a lot longer than governments would like to admit. So let's be mindful of our actions and make the best out of our situations.
Redeemer and I are doing fine. Sadly, Redeemer has respiratory problems, so she's part of the risk group. I've made sure she stays safe. Thankfully, pets aren't known to catch it. Either way we are making sure Saffron stays fit and healthy.
Which brings me to my next point: Stay fit and healthy! If you are quarantined, you will spend more time indoors than you ever have, and this is the point when you have to stay active the most.
I recommend looking up indoor workouts, such as the Walk at Home videos by Leslie Sansone or if you are more advanced and don't mind a bit of weight lifting: Jillian Michaels. I've been doing their workouts for years and couldn't do without them as I'm generally tied to my chair too much.
Stay safe, stay healthy, make the best out of your situation! For some people the side effect of being quarantined is having a lot of freetime out of nowhere. So make sure you pick up something that you enjoy.
Speaking of free time!
Play with us and watch our Streams!
I've announced already that we have arranged some community streaming! Recently we've also been playing some Broforce and UNO. If you can't join, at least give our streams a watch! For this, it's important that you connect to Discord!
Also regarding, Discord...
Connect your Discord Account!
This is super important and while I'm sure most of you are sick of me talking about this, I need to stress this again: Rewards are going to be uploaded to Discord! While, yes you will be sent dms with direct links to your rewards, if you want to have access to the entire history of your tier rewards, you will need to join our community, as it will move there very soon! This is the point where I sadly have to stress that you shouldn't leave your patronage declined for too long. On why I need to make this change, please refer to the dm I sent you earlier this month.
On the topic of rewards...
Patreon and the bright future of rewards!
One thing is clear: Rewards are rolling in smoothly and next month might have a surprise or two for you guys. While I'm shadowbanned on Twitter and Newgrounds has an awful algorithm that works against NSFW artists, Pixiv doesn't do any of that and I've gained a rapidly increasing following there and many (high) daily ranking placements. While I don't care about numbers and I don't think quality of such subjective things as art can be measured in numbers, I still believe these achievements are a great motivating factor for me as an artist and they are the fruit of your direct support. It is very much thanks to all the rewards I draw for you and the diversity of characters and themes that help me on my artist journey, and all these things would be completely impossible without you.
Recently, I have talked about how hearts don't work on the website (on both desktop and mobile) and only save on the app. And while I have reported it directly to Patreon and I've gotten a mail back saying they have successfully reproduced this issue and they're actively working on fixing it, they haven't been able to do that just yet.
I have been thinking about how we can take our polls some where else perhaps, especially because I'm looking into combining Patreon with other similar platforms all on our Discord. This is an organizational headache that I'll have to deal with soon and you'll be notified in due time!
As always, I'm here if you need me, if you have any questions about anything. Or you are also more than welcome to write on Discord either to me privately or better yet, on our server!
Thank you so much for all your support and please look forward to all the art coming your way soon!
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Daniel Harris
Be well and safe, guys. We're not in lockdown in my state and my job is still open, so I'll be playing it safe 5 days a week. Godspeed.
