With all the weirdness on Twitter these days I feel like I need to try harder to use other sites, and I think Newgrounds is the best place for someone like me... NSFW content is always a little bit in danger in most social media and art sites, but NG has always been very openly supportive of NSFW artists... way more than just about anything I've seen online. Hell, I think they do a better job of supporting NSFW artists than sites like Hentai Foundry.

Come join us tonight as my Actual Play group, Crits for Breakfast, starts our brand new campaign, Gears and Guns... a Steampunk Western D&D 5e game.

We play using Roll20, with all custom art created mostly by Hazels' Emporium, with additional art by myself, my wife Rainbow-Flyer, and Hazel's wife, Red Lotus.

The first session will go live tonight at 8:30 PM PST on both Twitch and Youtube, with the archived stream available on Youtube afterward. I've talked about this game a few times, and we're putting a lot of effort into every aspect of this, so I hope you'll all come to join us, even if it's just for the first session.

I'm having a bit of a stressful morning and it's making it hard for me to focus on art, so I thought I could rant and hopefully get this out of my system.

I had started a Subscribestar account because they have less restrictions than Patreon, but I was hesitant to go all-in with them because their site has less features and the payout system is more complicated with higher fees. In particular, I can't cash out unless I have a balance of at least $150, and the cashout often takes 4-5 business days. I only ever had about $150 worth of support on the site at any one time, so some months I just wasn't able to cash out at all since occasionally some subscribers didn't finalize their payments.

Things took a turn late last night when I got an email informing me that a subscriber had contested a charge to their account through their credit card (instead of just, y'know... asking for a refund from the site). As a result the credit card company hit Subscribestar with a Chargeback Fee of $50... and Subscribestar took that fee out of my money. Now, to be clear... I didn't know about the chargeback at all prior to being charged for it. I don't have access to anyone's credit card information. I don't even know whether an individual subscriber is paying with credit or paypal or bitcoin or whatever else Subscribestar accepts as payment. I never misrepresented anything that I presented or broke any TOS, but I'm still the one expected to pay the $50 fee. When I objected I was told, essentially, that Subscribestar doesn't have enough money to afford to cover the costs of Chargebacks, stating that if they did they wouldn't make any profit at all. Which, and perhaps I'm being paranoid, says to me that this happens often enough that it's a legitimate ongoing threat that puts me in jeopardy. At best I can never trust my balance, because someone might change their mind at any point and suddenly I'm down the cost of groceries for a few weeks with no means of defense... and at worse I could be targeted by bad actors who choose to flood my account with false claims to eat up all my profits for a laugh.

So I asked for what remaining money is in my account to be sent to me so I can close my account. I was just going to delete the whole thing outright, but Subscribestar has a policy that a profile with active Subscribers can't be deleted. Fair enough, so I made a post informing everyone that I was leaving and that it was because of the Chargeback fee. Then, just in case, I also sent a private message to all my Subscribers detailing the same thing. Now I woke up this morning and had an alert from last night telling me that I had gotten a reply from one of my Subscribers, and worried that they just now started a subscription and felt burned, I quickly logged in so I could talk to them in case I needed to arrange something with them so they didn't feel like i just took their money and ran.

At this point, I realized that the news post I had put up last night was deleted. Not edited or replied to... simply deleted outright. I went into my private messages and found that all the private messages on my account were deleted. Not just the messages I had sent last night about the issue... but all private messages I had ever received or sent. I tried to post a fresh news post about the issue, only to find out that my account has been set in a way that I can't post anything at all. I decided to just edit the frontpage description... I figured I'd leave out any embarrassing details so that they wouldn't just delete it and instead redirect everyone to Patreon. But editing my account has been fully disabled as well. Granted, I had told them that I wanted my account deleted, but I'd rather have the entire page simply disabled and all subscribers sent a refund, or whatever else would resolve this for everyone involved.

For now I was able to send a second batch of private messages to any remaining subscribers (although I fully expect them to be deleted soon as well), but the remaining money is still in Subscribestar's hands. It's not enough to to take any major legal action over, but it is enough to completely upend all my plans for Valentine's Day and my wife's Birthday this month. So if anyone wants a private commission, you can message me here or at bananacreamcakecomic@gmail.com.... I could use the extra income right now.

My wife decided to give my Christmas present to me early... partly because she was having a hard time holding back her excitement to tell me about it, and also because she didn't want to go to the trouble of finding the time to wrap it in private (one of the dangers of working from home). She got me a fully loaded Raspberry Pi in an SNES shell, with emulators for NES, SNES, GB, GBC, and GBA with every single game released in America on them. It's uh... an awful lot of games to go through, and definitely better than the official stuff. Anyway, right now I'm playing through Earthbound... I've played it a few times as a kid, but never beaten it. I played a bit of Breath of Fire 1, but it's suuuper generic for the first half hour or so... is it worth playing, or should I just skip to 2? Anyway, out of those 5 consoles, which games would you all recommend?

Hey, I managed to upload over 100 pieces already! I hope you're all enjoying what I've shared so far. I've still got more to come... but it's nice to notice these little milestones.

So I've been categorized as an artist or something, and I've already hit the daily upload limit on art. So that's kinda cool, but also a little sucky because I've honestly got a ton of more art to share. It's going to be a little while before everything I have is up and available to view, but I'm going to stick with it and hope for the best.

Hello Newgrounds people! After the recent Tumblr debacle I realized I don't really have a site where people can just see all my non-comic pinups quickly and easily. So for the next several days I'm going to be uploading all my old pinups here... for better or worse lol. I hope you like what you see, and if you want to see what I'm working on now head to the Banana Cream Cake Site, and if you really want to see my stuff at its newest, consider supporting me on Patreon.