Arlena Fae
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Reward Changes! Important! Please Read!
🕑 Added 2019-07-19 17:22:18 +0000 UTCChanges go into effect in August. First I want to explain why I'm making so many changes.
I've had a lot of life changes recently and haven't really had the chance to adjust things here to better fit into my new schedules, so I'm doing one big overhaul. It's simply too much to keep up with for the small amount I'm making. Basically can't afford to keep up with what I currently have laid out. I'll be going to a tech school later in the year so I can start a new job I'm super excited for--one that will actually pay the bills & offer benefits but also require more time than the one I currently have. I don't fully want to give up on my Patreon (yet) so I'll just be making it a lot more manageable. Hopefully this revamp will be helpful and something I can feel more comfortable with keeping going and promoting.
Biggest Change First:
I'm putting the $15/Boudoir Tier on pause! But wait, it's not fully gone!
I still like shooting boudoir stuff but instead of doing it monthly and in full sets, I'll be doing it a lot more casually. Because of this I'll be dropping the price and uploading the photos as I take them directly to Patreon. So it'll be a bit more spread out and not a monthly guarantee. Maybe I'll be able to bring back monthly sets in the future, but at the moment I have very little time to edit regular photos & videos (on top of working on actual cosplays, making patterns, etc) and boudoir sets are constantly running late because of this. Like I'm left either picking between editing cosplay photos/videos/making cosplays or shooting/editing boudoir sets and since cosplay is my priority, I'll always edit photos/videos/work on cosplays first. So I'd rather just take it off the table/limit it so I can better focus on what my Patreon is actually about--cosplay.
I'm adding the new boudoir reward soon and the current one will become inactive starting August. I'll make a post when I do, so please keep an eye out for it! You'll need to change the tier you're pledge to when it happens (I can't adjust anyone's pledge on my end or edit prices of tiers people are pledge to). The post will be a reminder to switch your pledges before the end of July.
For those of you who have been pledged/are waiting on boudoir rewards. Don't worry! They are coming :) You will still get them no matter what you do with your pledge. Just remember to keep checking your inbox here on Patreon because that's how they'll be sent to you :) I'm shooting the April/July set soon and will get the May/June sets edited asap (they're already shot). Past sets are available on my website for purchase :)
$1 Tier Changes
Putting a pause on live streams and removing the twitter shout out. Twitter shout outs just didn't seem to be things people were interested in. And I'm putting a pause on live streams for two reasons. They never really gained much traction: I assume there's quite a few people in different times zones/with schedules that don't align so I usually ended up sitting alone streaming for quite a bit of them. The second reason just has to deal with schedule changes in my personal life. If you enjoy live streams I'll try giving the IG live streams a go on both my main and patreon IGs~ Maybe that set up will work better since it's all on my phone and a very quick and easy thing to set up :) But it won't be an actual, listed reward.
I'm removing poll participation from the list but it'll still be a thing! It's just apart of my basic Patreon feed so there's no real need to list it separately on the reward thingy.
$10 and $5 Tiers are staying the same! :) They'll still be rewards that take a bit of time to come out--since things like fan signs can't happen until I do a photo shoot for said cosplay, and write-ups/patterns take time. Although pattern rewards are gonna be my top priority so I can get those out to you quickly as possible! I want my educational/tutorial based content to be the focus of my Patreon since that's what I enjoy the most and am most passionate about!
$25 Tier is staying the same basically. I'm just changing up my shipping time to be quarterly for everyone (it used to just be international).
I'm removing the $55 Tier. The other two higher tiers are staying the same.
