I'd been considering doing a monthly subscription-style thing as a supplement to my commission income, but it's been hard to achieve this without bending to platforms' content restrictions.
I'm not going to censor my art for the sake of any payment platform, nor am I interested in keeping the things I make behind a paywall right now.
I want Special Relativity! and the rest of my art to be free for all. (An in-progress collaborative comic project I'm working on may be an exception.)
I recently had the idea to instead host the music I make on one of these platforms, so I don't have to worry about the platform shutting it down. My fiancee and some pals on my telegram group seemed to think repurposing my old ko-fi was a good place to start.
You can expect me to upload music there at least 2-3x a week, as that's how often I tend to create new bits of music. It's something I've been doing for over 10 years, and I work in a wide variety of genres, from piano compositions, to sweeping ambience and drones, looping background music, electronic dance music, and much more.
Right now, art commissions only permit me and my fiancee to float by, commission-to-commission, in our current living situation. While we have a roof over our head, it isn't our own, and we're not able to keep up with the life expenses that keep getting thrown our way.
Art and music are the things I want to do most in my life, but the tools that enable me to make the stuff you enjoy here are growing old and showing signs of decay.
My only PC is a Frankenstein's monster of a machine with parts that people have generously given to me second-hand over the years. I've had the same GPU and CPU for nearly a decade! It's always slowing down when I use art programs, or worse, clicks off when there's too much power being drawn.
There's a lot of parts that need replacing, to the point I feel like just replacing the whole PC would be better, but neither of these options are ones I can afford right now. My fiancee's PC is not in a much better state than mine, either.
In less critical news, the B key on my cheapo dumpster-dived beginner's keyboard snapped off while I was playing it recently. Sucks, but it's been interesting to try and work around it.
Car stuff, dental work, blah!!!!!!! Living is expensive, and my living expenses are not even all that bad compared to a lot of people I've met. I'm in a much better place in my life than I was a few years ago, but it's a slow climb to "independence."
Whether or not all that resonates with you, you are more than welcome to everything I post to the ko-fi page!
There's no donation required if you just want to hear the music I make.
If you choose to donate, you can rest assured in knowing it will all be funneled right back into my work in some way. I desire little outside of the time and space needed to do what I love most: creating things for you to enjoy!
