State of the Union: Christmas Edition!

Ho ho ho my Patrons and members of the public who come across this! Hope your festive times are progressing well! Thought I'd take a short period out of the yuletide fun to have a natter about what went on this month and what's going on into the future.

The Ride Never Ends - The life of TDL
So the updates have been a bit spotty this month, as I currently work as a barguy, and the other barguys got sacked just before the busy christmas season, so I've been pulling crazy hours. It's all over now though and I'll be taking ample time off to make sure the next lot of pages are more carefully planned out. I've a bunch of ideas and a number of sketches I want to do that I'm looking forward to sharing with y'all over the coming weeks!

I've also made a company with a couple of friends where I'm going to be the chief artist, and I'm wondering how much to devote on that vis-a-vis this. Volition is a 'shielded' property and there'll be no effects on the updates on that from this, but for the rest we may have to see how we go and what people want from them.

Streaming
Your voices were heard on the last poll, and I will begin streaming twice a week at set arting-times for y'all to tune in and watch! I reckon I'll set the page to be viewed publicly, but give stream-times to Patrons. As for what I'll be working on....well, I put 'Volition' down, but it's only fair that I leave that down to you! Perhaps you'd want a mix? Vote in the poll!

(WARNING: I'm uh, not actually that great...but thanks for the support!)

Toph Commission

As you've no doubt noticed, we've breached the $100 dollar mark, and thus a commission piece has been begun! I've had a lot of good suggestions from the lottery winner and audience both, and it's now on the list of things to do. I reckon it'll be popping up sometime in January!

Thrallworks

It's here! And now, the voting will be open too, in a post for my patrons that I'll be doing in a minute. There's no 'story' in mind so much as a world for you to do stuff in, and I've gotten the services of a friend of mind to occasionally RP Cerise in the Discord chat, which was nice of her to volunteer for.

I'm going to be running it as strawpolls for individual votes, and if I see people talk and a consensus build for a course of action in the Discord, one LARGE vote over there. Ideally, I want y'all to hang out and get to know each other and generally for peeps to get along!  Anyway, I hope you enjoy your role as K-Committee people, and make good choices for the company!

Volition

We're right where we need to be for it, and I'm making plans for what I see as the next 'chapter' of the story. I reckon the next few pages are going to be very interesting, and what at least *some* people will have been waiting for.

As ever, your mileage may vary- but at the very least I promise interest!

The Earth King Has Invited You...
Also, some people recently have put 2 and 2 together to make 5 and wondered if I wrote a story almost ten years ago called Lake Laogai- and I did! You can find it here: http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600091651

It's incomplete, but does have an ending, as I intended a Book 1,2,3 setup for it...heck I even still remember how I wanted the story to go. By no means does this have anything to do with Volition, but there are some similar items in it...largely because I still have the same kinks I had back then. I would brace myself were I you on first reading, it can be rather harrowing in places.

I'm also considering writing some short stories again, but....well. That might be a whole other ballpark to get into at a later point.

 Sketches

I know we've fallen behind, but trust me I haven't forgotten, and I'd like to do more off-the-cuff ones too. I trust y'all will be appeased.

Queue me some Eyyy's!

Sadly no archive pics to show off this time, I'm on my laptop and hanging out with relatives- but in any case thankyou for your time, and feel free to ask me any questions you'd like below, on any topic! Don't worry, I'm hard to bruise after all these years of internet living.

Have a Merry Christmas, and enjoy!