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The past, present and future of my Patreon page
🕑 Added 2021-07-06 18:01:04 +0000 UTCI'd like to start off this announcement by thanking all of you who've been supporting me, either via pledging, feedback, or by simply bumping up the visibility and traffic to my content by viewing it on one of my other outlets. When I launched this page a bit over a year ago, I never expected to see such overwhelming support considering how niche my specific flavor of work is.
When I first started writing M2BBW fiction over a decade ago, the scene was almost devoid of content. And I'm very glad to see that after all this time, erotica of this type is no longer quite so scarce. Numerous great M2BBW stories and captions have been created by talented authors, especially in the recent years.
I still very much enjoy writing. You've always allowed me to work at a pace where I've been able to create out of passion and inspiration rather than simple obligation and I've never taken this luxury for granted.
As the general literature side has thrived, I've slowly began shifting my focus towards creating artwork, as some of you might've noticed. This is because even though there are a number classic M2BBW illustrations of high quality out there in the form of comics, sequences, and other drawings, most of these were created a long time ago and fresh artwork appears rarely still. And so, just like when I started writing M2BBW way back in order to contribute to a kink which I'm passionate about, I now aim to do the same on the artwork front (and for PE/male-focused transformations as well while I'm at it!)
I'm aware that my style of drawing is still very crude and contains a ton of shortcomings. But I also don't feel like my methods are at the worst place, either. I hope to expand on the artistic foundations that I've established so far and refine my skill further. I very much enjoy the process of drawing and intend to increase my understanding of the craft and pumping out artwork more regularly. There are so many great resources and an ocean of talented artists for me to learn from out there.
As most of you might know, I'm not a huge fan of sharing my thoughts publicly like this. I assume that most of you look up my stuff to escape reality for a moment in favor of a kinkier one. One of the major reasons I'm making this lengthy announcement and putting a new plan in motion for my Patreon page is because I've just been contacted by Patreon's Trust and Safety team. A number of my works have been reviewed and declared to be against the Terms of Service/Community guidelines of the site. The staff were kind enough to issue me a warning instead of taking harsher actions, allowing me the opportunity to fix my page personally to fit the guidelines.
Naturally, I intend to comply to the best of my ability to their request and will proceed to remove all sensitive content after publishing this post. After I'm done, I'll submit my page up for a re-review, hopefully getting to keep it if everything is in order.
Caption creation will continue normally for now, but if I succeed in better establishing myself as a transformation artist (mainly focusing on M2BBW and also various male-focused themes) and also manage to saturate the contents of my Patreon with more exclusive artwork, I hope to transition completely into an illustrator one day in the near future and make writing a side hobby that everyone gets to enjoy on my publicly available platforms.
This plan is not a direct response to the e-mail from Patreon. I've had this plan in my head for quite a while. The e-mail was simply the catalyst to finally put things in motion and announce my position publicly.
Obviously, I intend to make sure that none of my future content posted here will go against the guidelines.
I understand if some of you choose to back out as I shift my focus more from writing towards illustrations. To those of you that intend to continue supporting me on my endeavour, I don't intend to exploit your goodwill. It's probably gonna take me some time to become better and more productive, but for everyone that sticks around, I sincerely want to create a show worth coming to.
To end this off - I extend my most heartfelt thanks to all of you. Your support for all this time has brought so much joy, inspiration and a sense of worth to this niche little kink creator, and given him the confidence to aim higher.
~Lewdsmith
P.S - if you have any questions, I recommend reaching out to me on Discord: Lewdsmith#4157
Update: good news - my Patreon page passed the re-review process and is no longer under risk of suspension. From here on out, I intend to exercise more caution with the type of material I post.
Comments
Colt361
Will your flagged Patreon posts be backed up on your blog? I know you share a lot of them there, but I was not sure if all of them were there?
