Bi-Weekly Report #37

Been a rough week since posting the Garbage Report. Kaz is still laid up in the hospital and probably won't be home anytime soon. They're talking about eventually shooting for a knee replacement surgery, but that's a ways down the road as at the moment they're busy managing the injury itself and everything else going on.

Consequently, things have been a bit all over the place over here. Not a lot happening re: streaming and the like, but I've been chipping at a long-standing commission and playing around with emote comms a little more as I try to hammer their final pricing out.

So let's see what I've managed, shall we?

UPCOMING STREAM PLANS

Yeah, screw it. This may as well be a section now as it becomes more and more part of the structure of things.

As Kaz's situation seems pretty cemented to be what it is for now, we've hashed out a more sustainable schedule to keep business going while making sure she's covered for her needs. Consequently, expect most of my streams to start somewhere in the 6:30-7:00 PM PST range for the forseeable future.

I'd like to work on a new presentation for the stream schedules that's a little easier to read and manage on my end (the present one takes around an hour to prep most weeks I bother with it, which seems a bit much for just sharing the information with you lot), but for now here's the immediate plan for the week:

• MONDAY: RPG Maker BAKIN Demo blind impressions (Twitch) - Join me as I try to make something in this creation tool that I've literally never touched before! I've used every RPG Maker since 95, and generally found ease of use to be a huge selling point. Will this be the contender that dethrones that long-standing series as it seems to be a decade into being lost in the weeds? Let's find out together!

• TUESDAY & FRIDAY: SKEB Commissions (Piczel) - Holy shit I am so behind there are SO MANY!! My timeline is very static though, so I might have to do them in whatever order fits instead of strictly order received. I'm giving them a second day, though!

• WEDNESDAY: Star Ocean 4 (Twitch) - I missed last week, but we'll be back this time around, so help me! It will be lovely we will have a grand ol' time.

• SUNDAY: MANOR WORK (Piczel) - The mission eternal. It must occur.

Thursday and Saturday are open for general comm work, IRL social face, and whatever else needs done. This might get adjusted as we go (last week did get a late night Phasmo stream with the homies), but it beats this last week's progress of "jack" and "shit."

Also, for the record, basically all that stands between me and Twitch monetization is follower count. I need 25 of y'all. I'm all set up otherwise, and you can even grab subs and do bit donations and such as things are - I just can't withdraw any earnings for use outside of Twitch until I reach the appropriate status, and that 25 followers is the last major bar. I've started using channel points (Seashells!) for fun interactions and rewards, too, so be sure to follow if you want to unlock those yummy channel emotes or place your bets on who is gonna die next in Phasmo. Should be a decent little time!

GAME DEV & ANIMATION

Most of the major projects have very much stalled over the last couple weeks, situation considered, but I have been chipping away bit by bit at the whole texture painting thing. It is unleashing dark powers in me that everyone should immediately fear!

Everyone should really keep an eye on what I'm doing.

COMMISSIONS

Being down for a week has not helped me catch up on either queue much, but that's not to say nothing's gotten done.

Completed:

• Surprise Box x2

• Vale Eyebrows Emote (plus one for Kaz, if you wanna count that)

• Rip It Off for Aist (very spicy! very rendered!)

In Progress:

• Haunted House YCH (Sundays, usually. Maybe some make-up days at this rate. Mia is a little more Mia every time! It's been almost a year good lord I'm sorry)

Upcoming:

• Sketch-A-Thon x 2

• Adopt Reward for Spritz

• Surprise Box x 10 (queue is almost full...!!! this has never happened before oh no)

• Vale Trading Card

Commission Me Here | Check the Queue

AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT

It's not the most generous outpouring of progress, but I can't feel too bad about it. I've been dealing with housework and such while Kaz is out, trying to wrangle this place into something pleasant to come home to. Me and the lads miss her, and between her and Max's absence the place is feeling pretty empty at the moment compared to what I'm used to.

I'm trying to make the most of it. I've caught up on a bunch of video essays and such I've had tabbed up for ages. I've been chipping at my classwork and keeping food costs down. Milo is slowly accepting that if he wants attention it has to be from the inferior mother for now. We're adjusting, I guess.

I really don't have anything to share on the gaming front, if that says anything. A bit of Phasmo between tasks as a quick one-and-done sort of palette cleaner, mostly. She got me a couple new Dragon Maid books before this all went down so I've recently been burning through those, because that shit sparks joy and helps burn away my depressions. Kanna is precious (and now has a very cute figurine on my desk, actually!), and Elma's OL Diary keeps consistently being some of the funniest shit in the whole franchise despite Elma herself basically being one punchline given human-ish form. I love these little goobers, I can't help it.

I've also been thinking about songwriting again, not that I've the slightest clue where I'd squeeze that in at the moment... Just a bit odd to be hit by that bug again suddenly. Guess the strong emotions have been piling up...

• Sera