Arctic Light

SSR Confidential works (the Agent Carter gift exchange I run) are all revealed and non-anonymous. We had 42 fics, art, and vids, way up from last year!

I just finished redoing my Patreon pledge levels (again), in preparation for starting the comic updating again in July. My new reward levels are geared towards trying not to have any necessary or semi-necessary Kismet content locked at a high level (I want all patrons to be able to see all the Kismet backstage stuff and whatnot), but also offering some nice stuff at higher pledge levels, including rewards for people who might not be into Kismet, as such - while hopefully not causing myself a huge amount of extra work. New reward levels are:

• $1 - gets all the behind-the-scenes stuff (some of which is locked, some not)
• $2 - gets a free ebook any month I have a book out (e.g. Metal Wolf this month)
• $5 - gets snail mail, postcards and whatnot, once or twice a year
• $10 - gets mailed hardcopies of Kismet books when I have a new one out (this one hasn't changed, but I also haven't had a new Kismet book out in longer than I really want to admit to)

This is not meant to guilt anyone into backing my Patreon or anything, just pointing and saying, "Yo, Patreon over there."

And Kismet starts again in July, YAY. I really didn't meant to take six months off, especially since I've left the most recent page only half colored for this entire time. THAT leaves a good impression, all right. >___>

You guys, my Patreon is closing on its first stretch goal! \o/ Granted, it's a very low stretch goal ($50/month), but I'm still completely thrilled; this is so much farther than I thought I'd get so soon. Thank you so much to the people who are supporting me. You make me feel like I can make this comic-making thing financially viable. ♥ (And even if I don't get to the first stretch goal -- where the bonus is unlocking a side comic -- I'm going to try to do some side stories anyway. I have a ton of scripts just laying around; I need to start working on them ...)

I am also going to start doing more with my Tumblr(s). Last night I did a top-to-bottom reorganization of my Kismet folder (which hasn't really been cleaned out, well, ever; there's so much old stuff in there) -- this was what prompted this tweet, though as far as I can tell, I didn't make any terrible mistakes. *g* But it reminded me how much creative play I used to engage in; there's so much Kismet-related poetry, cartoons, worldbuilding side stuff, playful crossovers with TV shows and manga ... basically I just want to start doing more with it that's not strictly related to the pages I'm working on, and putting a lot more of it out there.

I'm frustrated by how inefficient I've been lately. I just don't seem to be managing to do a whole lot. I waffle around between different projects, do a little here, a little there, but don't end up with a whole lot to show for it. I can't figure out where the time goes, or why I'm doing so little with it. Ten years ago, I was doing a lot more than this ON TOP of working a lot more! nnnaaaargh.

On the other hand, things which I have learned today: in Tolkien's early drafts, Aragorn was originally a hobbit, nicknamed Trotter because of his wooden shoes and the clopping sound they made. I may never stop giggling at this. (Also, Frodo was originally named Bingo Bolger-Baggins, which I think I did know already. Thank god for rewrites ...)