QuietValerie
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Giving love to those who had to drop patronage.
🕑 Added 2024-07-21 15:25:54 +0000 UTCSo, every now and then I check the exit polls for those who dropped patronage. It's mostly a morbid curiosity a lot of the time, but nowadays I don't feel so personally shit for not keeping up a good release rate. Now, I feel a much more encompassing existential dread.
Currently, 90% of exit polls are "My financial situation has changed." That's fucking terrifying. Even 2 years ago or 1 year ago during covid it wasn't this bad, but now... the cost of living and the state of politics in the world and... sheesh.
Maybe I'm just feeling a little doom and gloom rn, but I just wanted to reach out and say that everyone who has had to drop patronage because they couldn't afford it anymore. I appreciate you all so much. Thanks for supporting me while you could, and I'd never want you to keep supporting me when you couldn't afford it.
Cheers, Amelia (QuietValerie)
(Side note, if anyone's confused about the double name it's because one time I jokingly changed my discord name to Amelia when I was RPing as my characters letting discord folks talk to them and the name made me a little gooey inside so yeah that's what happened. Don't judge!)
Comments
Kaiyalai
Got sidetracked making a reply or three, but... yeah I may have to join the ranks of paused backers. Trying to avoid it, but... yeah. Stupid day job is being extra stupid.
Alexandria Storm
I kind of wish that Patreon had a way to change your payment date without having to cancel, skip a month and then start again. Even with doing it this way, I will probably only be able to continue until the end of the year. So Oct - Dec is probably the last I can do. As I've been reading some of the replies, I have to agree, the USA is burning (in more ways than one, the West Coast is almost litterally on fire). This coming November will be a big deciding factor on which way things go. Based on the current Presidential Canidates (and extreme organized religion infiltrating the government) it's still going to cause long term issues for anyone LGBT that is 'out' in public.
Spentricus
I’m really fortunate that I have a (somewhat) decent amount of income coming in and not many expenses going out. So I’m very happy to help support you as much as possible because you deserve it for all of the time and hard work you put into making these amazing stories. And for anyone else that’s struggling at the moment money wise, my heart goes out to you. Here’s hoping that everything will get better eventually. Hugs 🥰
J DD
It would be cool if there was an option where you could gift someone a month subscription
