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Sunday Digest ~ Vol XXVI
🕑 Added 2025-02-08 22:55:25 +0000 UTC[3 new Swords episodes, 7 new Stars episodes]
Cut the Deck is still on a boat!
Product Updates
The Momma Sprout Jumbo Plushie is coming to Makeship soon! Just gotta sort out a release day! She's huge, I hope you have room for her! If you missed out on Quest Sprout the first 2 times, I'm working on a solution for that too.
I've ordered more Quest Sprout comics, just waiting for stock to arrive.
Swords turns 7 years old on March 5th.
Quest Sprout's 5th birthday is on May 1st, I'm still organizing some special things to go along with it
Cut the Deck Updates
We're polishing some of the PDF modules for the game, while we wait for the stock to arrive from the factory.
I'm posting behind the scenes content in the new Cut the Deck chat - there's also a Cut the Deck room in the Swords Dis(w)cord
Life Updates
My loud neighbours who keep setting off the fire alarms by smoking indoors seem to be moving out. I shouldn't get my hopes up too much, all they do is disappoint me. Maybe things will finally turn around though. I actually managed to get a good nights sleep for once.
I'm not sure if it's the stress or the bad sleep or something else, but my body isn't in good shape right now. I felt a lot better when we weren't in the city over Christmas, so I hope it passes soon.
Whitcoulls are selling those little red notebooks for 15 cents (95% off) so I purchased a dozen
Just for fun, I took all the Rules Of Acquisition from Star Trek and reorganized them into a curated-order version
Watching Dr. Stone as it airs. I was going to watch Conan the Barbarian but I got interrupted in the first minute and didn't go back to it. I've been listening to The Art Of War audiobooks in the background - even though I've read it before, it never hurts to get it all memorized.
Social Updates
BlueSky 31k > 32k (might be time to stop tracking this weekly)
This months top performing Reddit post was a repost of Bladies for Ladies on /r/dndmemes. I encourage anyone to share more comics on meme subreddits, it is always helpful.
Patreon Updates
We've passed 1000 Patrons again this week! What a rollercoaster! We've shot all the way to 32nd place among webcomic artists, which puts me right behind my One True Nemesis (who used my art without asking one time)
I've had a few people ask if its better to subscribe monthly or annually - the answer is, I don't mind either way. We ran the numbers and it doesn't tip the scales in Patreon's favour particularly hard to do it one way or the other. I will not give you less stuff in Sticker Club if you take advantage of the 10% discount either. Please do what works best for you.
I will be posting Sticker Club letters out tomorrow and the day after unless the card game shows up.
Webcomic Tips
I asked for feedback last time about new sections people might want in these Sunday Digests, and this was one of them.
My tip this week is : If you can do a 4 panel webcomic every day for a month, your whole life will change and you will be a different person on the other end. You don't need to wait for anything.
I know the world is hard right now, so I'm just gonna work harder and if 10 comics a week is sustainable, I'll try to keep doing it. I know being responsible for other people's happiness is a bit of a Sisyphian Boulder-roller-thon, but someone who follows me on Threads told me this week that I contribute nothing to society, so how can I possibly aim to do less?
Please be kind and patient with one another.
That's it for now!
Comments
Aris
I'm sorry, "Wizard" is a uniform classification? What exactly does that role accomplish?
Matthew Wills
Makeship customer support can update an address after ordering, but in my personal opinion I'd send it to a friend's house even if you have to pick it up later? That's what I've done a few times now
Rachel Soderberg
Question, because I'm planning on moving sometime late April/early May: Will there be an issue with shipping my sprouts if I enter an address now and need to change it by the time the Makeship is done? (Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, just figured since I'd already had a smol thread going I'd ask here)
Marcus
There will always be people who violently disagree with who you are, what you stand for, even just what you enjoy. Be you as hard as you can and let the hate followers pile up in their inability to stop you from being the most you possible.
Matthew Wills
That's not really how I use it, but if having haters meets your approval I guess that works too
Marcus
I look at social media like this: If I haven't angered at least one person per week, I'm living my life wrong. So if someone is hate following, you're doing things right!
Matthew Wills
Perks of a Command role!
Andrew Holt
I remember when I only envied Seiya for his job. Now he gets to eat a bunch of roasted sand biter, too?!
Matthew Wills
Well she's twice as tall as Quest Sprout so... pretty wumbo!
Matthew Wills
I imagine they think I live in a castle and have someone else to do all the cooking and cleaning
Rachel Soderberg
Somebody told you that you contribute nothing to society?! But but but... But you do :( Plenty of people need joy these days and you're bringing that to us almost daily, imo that counts for something (a lot more than trolls on the internet are, for sure) Also regarding Momma Sprout... "She's huge, I hope you have room for her!" - How huge?! :o
Racheal
Ah yes, those who only follow to fuel their hate. What sad little lives they must live.
