Sup. This month is over and here's what happened:

Aside from being sick for a ridiculous number of days, I've had two big things to prepare: Tapas Inksgiving Special and Super Patron F Yea application.

And then done a few changes on the website:

First of all, support page has been slightly redesigned. Since more people have donated ink during the Inksgiving, I took some time and added all of the names and updated ink amounts. There's now one ink bottle per person and it will accumulate all their ink and grow bigger. I added the option to display Ko-Fi donations on the shelves as coffee cups. Also, he totally-not-evil-and-not-ominous wall of rotating eyes is now optional and can be switched on and off by poking the eye on the bottom shelf. Not gonna work on small screens though. Still can totally destroy your pc.

Second, since I have a normal android phone now, I had a chance to look at how the website works in general on mobile. So I made some changes to the menu - it should be more obvious when it's collapsed and when it can be opened. Changed the floor tiles a little since they seemed to float in the air sometimes.

Third, push notifications were glitching a bit, and I still don't know why. But they seem to be working now. If they're available, you'll see a tiny bell in the bottom right corner. So if you tried to subscribe before but got no notification, please try one more time! Also, tell me if you see no bell at all.

Fourth, the snow is real again.

Still no idea how any of this looks on Apple devices. *shrug*

Plans:

I am almost 170 pages behind what I designated as my goal for this year, and I've also not made that much for DDB during November. So, let's hope I don't get sick again, and I'll try to crank out as many as I can before the year ends.

Now there's a notifications subscription button in the website menu. You can find the same button under every comic page. It's just a pop-up thingy where I moved all the buttons for Discord, Patreon, etc etc. All sources listed there are completely free and I'm clarifying that because "subscription" can mean something paid.

Also in another coding rush I connected browser push notifications - see the first button in that list. They should work in all browsers including mobile ones (except for Safari - I don't really care though. If you're an apple device user, I'm sorry, but I doubt that the website even shows properly on that, and I've no way to check, lol).

To turn push notifications on and off you only need to need press the button. However, if you've blocked such notifications in your browser for all websites then nothing will happen (I mean, that's exactly what you wanted). So you need to look at your address bar and click the lock icon (or whatever it is that you have there) to the left of the address and allow notifications. It should work after that.

Of course, I need people to test this. I'll wait a couple of days to let more people subscribe and then I'll send a test message. What will the message be? Subscribe and you'll find out :)

Oh hey it's that time again. Ink god demands sacrifices. I'm drawing but slowly and lazily, and I'm already late, and not following prompts but drawing my favourite people. But you know what, somehow this year it's more enjoyable, so I'll continue. If you follow me on social media, you'll catch updates. Also, new pics should show up on the website in the art section.

I've also decided to open quick Ko-Fi commissions which will only last until the end of Inktober! You get a drawing for 1 coffee, recorded process for 2, and I'll even send it to you over the post for 3. All info and terms here, my Ko-Fi page here.

Also, I've started streaming recently. Sometimes playing games, sometimes drawing. Follow me on Twitch or DLive. I'm trying to put some effort into my streams and even bought a good mic. I haven't decided yet which platform I'll pick as my main, both are currently equal in follower numbers. So, go make a difference! :D

I'm testing a feature on the website. I sat down and wrote a bit of code, and from now on I can publish new pages and they will be available to patrons only, and patrons can log in and view them on the website.

Basically what I've been doing on Patreon before, except better: I've removed a lot of unnecessary steps for myself, and made it more obvious for those who would want to read new stuff. I don't have to publish pages twice, they're finished, and I need to press only one button to convert them to public whenever I want.

The code is still a bit shaky on my side and I can think of two or three ways to improve this, so I will keep testing to make sure that they work better, but for now it is good enough and I'm going to roll out the updates on the website. Honestly, I'm way too happy that I managed to pull this off. There was a point in time when I was thinking about moving the entire website to Wordpress because it has Patreon plugin. But hey, I have brains! I wrote my own thing for GetSimple!

Anyway, I would much appreciate new patronage and help with testing this thing.

Okay, okay, but.. How does it work?

Simple!

1. Open dreamdb.com and witness something like:
   
2. Become very excited and click the link.
3. If you're logged out on Patreon, it asks you to register an account or log in, and then one of three things will happen:

• If you're currently my patron, you give permission to my app to store some data and give you a cookie, and then you can read the page.
• If you're not a patron, you get redirected to a page where you can become one, and then proceed as above.
• You don't login, don't pledge, don't get access, get lost somewhere in the links and nothing happens. That's a possibility.

Followers don't get access. People who don't pledge to a tier don't get access (custom pledge to a tier is ok, but custom pledge without isn't).

If the process was a success, you'll see thumbnails, "unlocked" icon and won't get redirected anymore:

I will also make sure to notify everyone when new pages become available for Patrons and when they go live for everyone.

Why do this at all?

Sometimes I post a thing, and then go back and change it. Sometimes, I make mistakes, copy-paste the wrong stuff or forget to erase something. It's a messy process and I would love for people to lend me a pair of eyes and say if anything is wrong anywhere. I've also been sharing pages on Patreon before and it felt like I needed to do 3000 extra things to publish everything after that. Also Patreon's post editor still FUCKING SUCKS. So this feels more natural and I have more control over presentation. If you help me, we could make this thing become better (and I could pay website bills and maybe eat). If you don't want to or can't support me, then nothing changes for you: pages will go live whenever I decide to make them public and you still will read all the stuff. But I will still share secret art on Patreon, and there still will be free posts about how I make things, so maybe consider at least giving me a follow (for free! did I mention following is free? FREE).

This post on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29126703/

Wow, I haven't written these since I quit LiveJournal.

Let me start on a sour note. Just like this year did. Oh boy, did it start wrong. I was so depressed the first few days, it wasn't fun. And then throughout the year there were quite a few dips. But somehow I'm piloting though these high turbulence zones with less damage now, and I think that's great.

I've been looking for a job since may and still haven't gotten any, and that too sucks. I had to cut a lot of expences, including a good hosting for ddb. (Yep, this is now truly made of shit and sticks, but somehow still works.) No commissions happened this year as well. Heck.

Inktober happened and it was also a big disappointment for me this year. I almost wish I hadn't decided to go with the Discworld theme. There were a few pics I'm really proud of. But the ones that attracted more attention were either from the uber popular books, or gathered likes because, apparently, liking Death is edgy?? I know that the fandom holds That Gay Shit infinitely higher, and I've done none of it, so of course things were not that interesting. And as soon as I stopped drawing it was as if none of it happened, everyone instantly went back to ignoring the existence of my work. Honestly, I've no idea what happened, but I could've just as well never done any of it for the same amount of satisfaction which I got out of this (which is equal to fuck all).

I had to kill our Facebook page. Because Facebook is evil. Even though there was absolutely no point in maintaining it (look at previous news for details), I would've killed it anyway. In fact my personal account is scheduled for deletion tomorrow too. BYE.

And don't even talk to me about the fleas.

But you know what?

I started posting things on Tapas and Webtoons and had a lot of fun on these websites this year. Posting on there has also helped me understand how people view and read comics these days. I've also learned a lot and put effort into making my pages look better.

So, let's take a look at the stats. I posted 107 new pages this year. But if we count stories with multiple page like SBBM as one then it's 73 stories. My favourite is still the goddamn SOCK.

I've finally finished Dogtown. There is going to be another chapter but it's taking place a little bit after next events in DDB, so I'll start drawing it SOONish.

I've also started posting new pages in DDB, and.... there's so much script written this year it may take me years to draw it all? And it never stops writing itself? I am a slave of this story now. By the way, I do intend to publish DDB and nothing but DDB in 2019, so get hyped. After all, I still need to kill Homestuck.

Habits are now going back into slow mode and probably won't be updated regularly. I have a few topics which I wanted to draw, so maybe I'll do that and kind of consider this comic as finished.

In the big art department not that many things happened this year. But I've uploaded most of my work on Artstation. Deviantart is still alive too, althogh it feels lacking in features, and less and less relevant.

Some bits of design have changed on DDB, story pages are now slightly different :o) One big change is something you don't see, something I've already mentioned. I had to change hosting. Now we're live from inside of a thing configured with my own two hands. It will be free for awhile, and then I'll have to move again. Hopefully I'll find funds this year enough to pay forward.

Other good things that happened in 2018: one important heretical artifact has been acquired thanks to Steven. Jesus was found. Crowley kept on Crowleying. Discord is live. Patreon was restarted and now has some cool shit.

Well, I am incredibly hungry right now, so I have to wrap it up. I probably forgot to mention some things. Many other tiny good things happened. The year was alright.

Seems like I'm going to meet 2019 hungry, horny, sleepy, while listening to some Japanese music and updating DDB. And believe it or not, that's the best kind of state for me. I hope 2019 will be mostly like that.