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To those who are dissatisfied with Patreon's behavior.
🕑 Added 2018-12-23 14:09:22 +0000 UTCI've received many people's apologies on their dropping of my support in the light of recent events around banning of certain people and I wish to remind those, as well as let you all know, if you still hope to support me and cut out this middleman, you can do so by means of paypal directly to paypal.me/ponysmith or change the middleman and jump to ko-fi services at :
Thank you all whom still continue your support of me regardless of your personal politics and attitudes towards Patreon. Until a better widely supported platform that's less volatile in their politics emerges, I am at the mercy of Patreon, as is my survival and ability to keep drawing comics, so I am extremely grateful to all of you whom still support me. Let's try to sail this burning boat to a nearest safe harbor together, the waters are deep and shark infested so jumping the boat is not that easy to many artists at this time.
Let's hope 2019 either brings some sanity to patreon or brings us a better, more free platform for our self expression. As an artist, I am always in the cross hairs of the moral guardians so to me all emerging censorship and political deplatforming is a grave sign of hardship ahead. As it often seems to escalate to a point nobody is safe no matter how pure and kind you may be.
As tumblr and patreon now join the inquisition, the truly free platforms for artists grow ever more few, and dark ages dawn in the bright network of the information era. Irony is not lost in me either.
However, to me art has always been the highest priority, and as long as I can do that, I will suffer the toughest storms. With all of you backing me, I can withstand a storm much greater than ones I can brave alone.
Thank you again, all of you, and happy holidays, which ever kind you celebrate! Let's head to 2019 together and make more comics into reality page at the time, in defiance of the current winds.
Comments
Pencils
Nah, just embers blazing a bit of cozy warmth <3
StumbleDuck
whoops... I just jumped aboard. Is the boat burning already :(
Keimori
Well, to each their own. As long as patreon doesn't self destruct like Tumblr did, I'll be here for you and the artists I can afford to support. (which isnt as much as I'd like, but I'm not a wealthy benefactor like some patrons can be.)
Xan151
Well, on one hand some people provoke something like this unnecessarily, but on the other hand a lot of people have gotten so sensitive to things like that and make a fuss about stuff...
Nolax
Beautiful text ! I hope you and the other artists will be able to continue to do what you really like <3 Happy holidays
Robin Brail
I will certainly support you here. I've enjoyed your art and the stories you have done so far. You can't be held responsible for what sites like this happen to pull.
Pencils
Patreon banned Sargon of Akkad for some trollish stream where he called some racist people with a bad name. This made patreon only hear the bad word and not the context, or so I've been told.
Xan151
Oh geez, what happened now again?
