Velvet

Firstly, Thank you.
Thank you to the many of you this year for commissioning us, sticking with us, and even inviting your friends to the channel or referring them to us. This has been a really good year for growth for us and even stabilizing a little bit! We are still really small and still not established just yet so there's always bound to be hiccups. So naturally everyone who has been super patient and understanding with us, thank you.

Plans and timing,
We don't currently have any seriously big or major plans for next year. We would love to implement some of the ideas we already have been wanting to do but time escapes us often and prevents us from going through with some things. For example the transformation Potions. Thats something we really want to do more of, but we haven't had time to really push out a proper “commission sheet” for it with rules and examples just yet.

Better than Trello,
I haven't fully finished migrating eveything over to Gitlab just yet but hey the few of you that noticed seem to be rather happy with this change, so that gives me a lot of motivation to continue! (yay.)

Centralized platform?
We are very much still set on sticking with Mastodon. We only have Bluesky as it's far better than dealing with 𝕏. My only personal concern is I've been pushing Weasyl more because it's very easy for me to use, but I also understand it's a dead platform much like FA or even DA. I don't expect engagement there as much as I use it for navigation, examples, and overall a general gallery of sorts. I wish I could do that with Ko-Fi but as many of you know Ko-Fi kind of sucks at how it handles things. So beyond only having Ko-Fi for the downloads...you can kind of start to see my woes and pains with platform stability?

Those of you who read my long posts,
Once again, thank you. Some of you have been very honest and vocal about not liking my longer posts or announcements. Particularly why I try to add TLDR or title things with “ignore if you only care about art” etc etc. Again I truly do try to be very accessible and accommodate all, as much as I possibly can. Sometimes pushing my own limits.

TLDR: “Thank you for joining us this year. We will continue everything as-is, and try to offer more things when we have time. Our primary platforms remain the same. (Mastodon, Bluesky, Telegram.) Thanks for reading.”

Your hard working reindeer, Velvet