I just want to take the time to apologize for the unscheduled lapse in ask content over the last two weeks. The first week was just what I thought was going to be a minor delay, as I was finishing commission and story work, and I had Christmas duties. I figured I would be able to make up for it early the following week. However, life comes at you fast, and my ask plans, as well as my Christmas plans were dampened severely by a medical emergency involving my mom that still has yet to be fully resolved. Thankfully, we were pretty much out of holiday themed asks, so it wasn't a total loss in terms of missing a content window.
That said, I should have more asks for you later this week provided nothing else comes up. I've never been a big 'New Years' guy, so I don't expect that to get in the way much.
However, I feel I must address an issue that has been coming up increasingly over the past few months. As I've said on my previous blog, when it comes to asks, the official ask email (Or Patreon Member Ask Chat) is the only place I will solicit asks from. The reason is a combination of keeping thing organized, and maintaining my other pages strictly for commissions inquiries and other requests and questions.In addition, sending me asks doesn't guarantee that I'll answer them. I try to answer most of them, but if it's ill-suited, or I can't do anything with them, I'm sorry but I'll have to skip them. More-over, sending me emails like this...
Is the fastest route to insuring I blacklist any asks you send in going forward. My ask blog is the tail end of my workload. It's meant to be more of a promotion of my stories more than anything else. Aside from Patreon asks, which get some degree of preference as part of a perk, I don't rush to answer specific asks generally. When I'm ready to do asks, I take a look at the inbox and visualize a minimum of two for art, and about five for text. They are largely chosen based on how I'm feeling and how much writing I've got in me at the time, because I have a nasty habit of turning asks into minifics. That's my system. If you've sent in an ask, it's unlikely that I didn't get it. And I will eventually get to it. But pestering me outside of the Ask Blog email, or emailing me about when your going to get your asks answered is not going to get you any sort of preferential treatment.
I hate that I had to say this, and I hope it doesn't come off particularly venomous, I have had a rough two weeks and it's weighing on me a bit. I try to accommodate everyone to some degree, and be understanding, but when people start pushing boundaries I've established, I eventually have to say something.
That's all for now. I hope you had a Merry Christmas or other holiday, and I hope you go on to have a Happy New year.
-WT
Sorry to hear that your Mother has had to deal with this sort of thing. And that some of the askers have been badgering you. I hope that everything works out with your mom, the coming Asks, and whatever else is happening in your life.
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