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End of June update

Published: June 30th 2022, 9:00:05 am

Good morning my patrons,

I’m so deeply sorry for the disappointing month that was June, thank you all so much for being here for me this month - I had a really particularly rough one, which seems to just keep happening lol, and I’m sorry it’s gotten to the point it affected my content this severely. Thank you all so much for being here regardless, I just hit 95 patrons which I never thought would ever happen. I wish I could tell each one of you what you mean to me personally. I’ve wanted for my entire life to share my love for cosplay and have it be supported, each one of you is helping me make my dreams come true and make being alive worth it.

All of my costumes, minus Albedo, are complete and I’m shooting and editing high quality content for them right now, in a way that's more ambitious than anything I’ve done so far. I really desperately want to share it with you, because so many of you decided to support me in hopes you’d see it before the end of this month - because of that, I’m going to also upload all of the content I promised for June on my Gumroad, https://candysqz.gumroad.com/ , and give all of my June Patrons a 75%+ off discount. I would do a higher one than that but I’m already going to be pricing this content relatively low and Gumroad doesn’t let you sell things for under a dollar. I’m going to send all of my Patrons the code tonight, but the content is not posted for purchase yet - so please hang onto it and keep an eye on my socials for when the posts will be up. I'm so sorry for not giving you the content I promised and I hope you believe me when I say this month was a deep lesson learned for me and I will never repeat this again.

If you would like to still support me but don’t think a Patron subscription is right for you anymore after this month, my Kofi is https://ko-fi.com/candysqz . I’m planning on posting my behind the scenes content for my merch, art books, prints, etc there and am working on the pitch for my funded Super Pochaco birthday zine right now.

I also have my Patreon-chan cosplay to shoot and make prints of as soon as possible, as well as my print store that I have been promising I’d open (and paying for the storefront to be open) since April.

Because of June’s mishaps, I’m going to work so hard to ensure July and every subsequent month will be successful and worth your support. From July 1st onward there are going to be a lot of changes to my content.

From now on, Tier 4 ($10 a month) patrons can access my premium section of my Discord server, and Tier 5 and 6 now have the “requester” role in my server, which lets them send their requests in my new request channel in a more organized manner. All Patrons can now vote, react, thumbs down, etc requests and I can also know when people want something as their request vs when people are just complimenting me!! (‘You look cute in cow print’ vs ‘I’d like to see you in more cow print’, etc!!!) This was a really difficult thing to fulfill up until this point. I also have a backlog of them that is hard to keep track of, since some of the requests will take awhile to be able to afford financially.

I am still planning on doing my Q&A, the only reason I haven’t posted it yet was because of how behind I was in costume making. All June patrons will be thanked in that video!!! If you think of a question but don’t want to be a patron next month, I will still ask people next month publicly for their questions too!

Next month, I’m going to change the way I announce costumes again - I think having the rigid promise is inhibiting me from making your pledge worthwhile in other ways if I cannot fulfill that before the end of the month. Smaller costumes, cute gravure looks, etc are things I’d love to post, but I feel like because it’s not the thing I promised I would disappoint some people’s expectations. I’m still thinking of how I want to announce them, so please wait a few days for me to make my monthly post and poll.

Please believe me when I say I really am grateful for all of the support I get, every dollar you pledge to my content means so insanely much to me and I am so so so deeply incredibly sorry that I blundered so hard this month. Being ill, having poor mental health, and having a rough life doesn’t make for the best productivity. I’m going to do better by my promises in the future and stop relying on excuses.

Thank you so so much for being here. I really love you all, I hope your June went well and you’ll consider being here with me again in July. I would love to have you here!!!!