So, I left the blog collecting dust for over a year. No way around that.
For those of you who had been following it back when it was active, you'll remember I'd have intervals of months between the last updates - a combination of being busy with IRL and struggling with art. The real catch though was planning out a LONG string of comics for the current sleepover/dares arc, which would require me to sit down and work on it for a while- and with the knowledge of how LONG this comic would be (for ask blog standarts) plus me being busy, I just didn't reserve myself time to start. And I put it off. And time passed. And the more time passed, the guiltier I felt! And it just rolled up on a snowball.
So one year passed and either I would pick this blog up again, or never would. And it's something I hold dear to my heart! I had a lot of fun running it, and didn't want the expectations and pressure I put on myself to ruin that fun. Y'know, putting all your work's worth on feedback can really ruin things for an artist. I'm still trying to balance everything, and I can't promise I won't go on more big intervals between posts again, but I'll do my best to not leave it for such a long period of time again.
So before I get any more lenghty, here's how we're kicking this blog back into action:
- There'll be three and a half more posts for this event - two of them are already sketched, only need colors and text; one and a half are scripted. Each of them has multiple panels. So the asks that will go on each were already picked from the inbox; I will probably not include any new dare asks in the upcoming posts, unless they are similar to the asks already picked.
- After I'm done with this long ass event, I'll be looking at doing smaller updates with much fewer panels so I don't sabotage myself again. I'll only do a long thread of posts with multiple panels again when I have free time OR by drawing them and holding them instead of immediately posting, so the gap between updates isn't too big.
- You'll notice the color scheme changed - thought it was about time since my skills at picking nice colors improved a bit. You might see the style still fluctuating on the next posts since I recently acquired Clip Studio and gotta make sense of it.
- I'm shooting for a minimum of one new update per month. I'll do my best to keep with it!
- Since I might get new readers now that I'm active again, I'm going to clean up the ooc tag and delete old promos. I will still reblog new promos of currently active blogs though- feel free to request a promo if you're a fellow ask blog!
- I'll still be logged in on my main @sonreiv more often though, so if you need to reach out to me ooc, hmu there.
- I have old submissions that I remember were perfectly sfw fanart some of you sent to me (and I didn’t answer cause I had threads going on at the time, sorry!!) and that tumblr’s stupid algorithm blocked and now I can’t see or even delete them. So if you’d still like to, feel free to re-submit anything you submitted to me in the past.
- Since the canon plot advanced a lot in one year, I’m looking at considering canon in this blog’s timeline only the anime events! I’ve been cooking some other details, but I’ll get to them later.
That said, I'm honestly anxious about bringing back this blog since tumblr's activity dropped A LOT the last months. What has been motivating me lately was the feedback I have been getting on instagram since I started posting protoheroes there - follow me if you have one! - and I still want to keep tumblr as the main platform for posting and receiving asks since the whole blog was shaped around it.
The feedback I got from this silly blog means a lot to me, and while I don't want it to be the sole motivation - I want to have fun with it! - I'll be so grateful if some of you guys still stick around to see where I lead this story. You know I don't answer ooc asks, but I'm super grateful for all the positive messages I got over the time behind the scenes of modding these two dumb nerds.
Thanks for joining me and hope we have a nice ride from now on!
