hi followers & fellow people in the rpc ! as a lot of you know, i post resources daily. barely a day goes by without me providing things to the roleplay community. my drafts & queue are constantly filled with things for people in this community to use. i put hours of work into the things that i release, and i almost think of it as a job in some ways. making these resources helps & distracts me from the intense anxiety (among other issues) i suffer with that have made it pretty much impossible for me to land a ‘real job’.
almost every day, i’m on my computer for hours upon hours pumping out resources that i make from scratch (i take all of the screencaps on my own, sort through them by hand to find the best images, crop them, color them one-by-one to ensure the perfect lighting, & more often than not, create my own psds/colorings so things look perfect. i’m passionate about this, and it makes me feel a lot better when i’m helping people… now, to the point of this post.
i’m a college student. i’ll be moving out of my parents’ house into a completely different state in my own apartment in august. my parents have offered to help with rent & groceries, and i am so thankful for that, but there’s been a snag with the financial aid i was supposed to get for college, and my parents have to pay out-of-state tuition instead of in-state for my first semester until i can get accepted into the program i’m working toward. out of state tuition will cost more than three times the amount they were expecting to pay. with these costs, they’ll be basically wiping out my entire college fund on just one semester, and that doesn’t even include monthly rent & groceries & additional costs.
i know my parents, and i know they’re stressed about this, even though they assure me it’s fine, i feel guilty as hell. we aren’t broke, but we aren’t exactly thriving either. my dad works for himself and my mom is unemployed – they make enough money to get by, but i feel like i’d be taking advantage to just allow them to shell out thousands without me helping in any way, even a small way. i have some savings in my bank account which i’m planning to use for groceries etc, but i need to add to these funds if at all possible. i want to contribute as much as i can to my rent & possibly pay for all of my groceries and extra costs if i can. that’s where this post comes in.
i thought of asking for commissions for my work, but i found an alternative that i think works better for everyone’s favor, especially since i’ve seen so many people criticizing people who take commissions. i personally don’t see an issue with commissions, but i think i prefer this method. it’s a site called patreon. this is a link that fully explains the process. basically, you pledge money if you want to show support – even the smallest amount would be appreciated. if you pay five dollars, you get monthly access to all of the exclusive hq resources that i’m going to post. if you pay ten dollars, you get monthly access as well as the ability to send in requests & get a lot more resources than you would normally from requesting from a rph. i am going to make it worth your money.
let me make this clear: i’m not forcing anyone to pay for anything unless they really want to. you do not have to pay the fee in order to get the usual content i post, i will be continuing to post daily on my blog – (likely smaller packs, admittedly) but patreon will receive exclusive content as well as bigger packs and things that i will be putting priority on above the daily content on my blog. additionally, i will no longer take requests on my blog, for graphic-related things & resources.
i understand i’m not the only person struggling in the rpc, not in the least. but i hope that you all can understand where i’m coming from & take some time to help a fellow creator if you have some extra pocket change or if you really appreciate the work i do ! hopefully this won’t be a forever thing. i’d really like to release stuff for free, but sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do && you have to use what you’re good at. i’m down to discuss criticisms & explain this further. i just thought it’d be better for me to make sure nobody feels short-changed. i hope it comes across this way :~) p.s. if you decide patreon would be good for you too, click this link to get started !
