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I didn't want to have to do this, because I'm a firm believer in NOT removing art that others may have enjoyed, but frankly deviantART's software seems to really suck at determining what's relevant and what isn't.  This is clearly primarily a fan art account, and I am sick to death of being on my fan art deviations and seeing the sidebar recommending "more from this artist" including photos of me, shit I did for homework in sophomore year, and random stock.

What the fuck, deviantART?  I have eleventy-billion pieces of fan art on this account, and I assure you that it's not a matter of my homework and snapshots getting more traffic.  I've tried removing them from all galleries, I've tried moving them to scraps, and for some reason none of that works.  So I'm going to have to delete them so that DA will actually start recommending relevant shit to people who stumble upon my fan art and, y'know, might be more interested in seeing more similar fan art than my dumb face and some nice Christmas lightbulbs.

Honestly, I doubt anyone cares, but I feel like I should say something since I've always been so avidly against the removal of old work.  Oh well.  This is why we can't have nice things (like integrity), deviantART.
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It's been suggested to me that Tumblr is where fandom lives these days.  So, I've decided to swallow my prejudiced distaste for Tumblr and give it a try.

ravynnenevyrmore.tumblr.com/

It will be all FF7 fan stuff, because I believe in having a good, solid content theme.  I feel like I'd rather follow a feed that's about something rather than just any random thing that strikes that person's fancy, you know?  At any rate, Ravynne Nevyrmore is my fandom pseudonym so if I ever felt compelled to Tumble about other stuff I'd just set up a different Tumblr that's more about the rest of me.

So, if you're into FF7 fan stuff, please follow me.  There may be sketches and short one-shot fanfics that end up residing there and not here for lack of polish.


Also, I've been reading this fanfic about the Turks called Death Is Part of the Process by Licorice Allsorts, an acquaintance of mine over at TLS.  It's very, very long, but it's also very good so far (I'm about 25% of the way through it, I think).  Gives some pretty cool insight into the Turks' lives, daily drama, characterization, etc. around the time of Before Crisis/Crisis Core, and breathes a bit more life into the world that they live in (especially Midgar and the ShinRa Building).  Lic does a lovely job of crafting each of the characters in a way that is true enough to canon while still giving them a little bit of additional flair.

And, as you might know, I don't waste my time on bad fanfiction. :meow:
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All right, so after taking that poll a couple of weeks ago and realizing that more people who care enough to answer the poll would prefer Redemption to be updated on a regular schedule than not, and then also realizing that I still don't want to hold myself to a regular updating schedule, I've come up with a solution that I think will make both of us happy.

Instead of posting Redemption one page at a time, I'm going to try posting it in "scenes."  Not chapters; those are long.  I consider a "scene" to be a group of pages that, when read together, describe a complete thing that happens without leaving the reader off in an awkward, unfinished place.  It's a thing that happens before the next thing happens.

I did this when I started uploading Redemption to webcomic groups because I didn't want to inundate group watchers with all 50+ pages of my story at once.  So I uploaded then on separate days, in clusters like this: cover–6, 7–13, 14–24, 25–35, 36–43, 44–current.  If you care enough to go and look to see how that lines up with the content, you'll see it spans small scenes and that the breaks occur where small breaks occur in the story.  It's not an even grouping of numbers and I have no intentions of trying to force it to be, but it usually ends up being somewhere between 7–15 pages at a time.  (Although, where scenes were very small, like only 3 pages or so, I uploaded them together with other scenes.)

This is how I am going to experiment with uploading Redemption after I finish the current scene.  Which means that after the next page, you won't see any updates for a while.

However, I believe this will be more comfortable for the way that we read comics—or, at least, the way I read comics.  I hate when a story leaves off at an awkward part, or sitting down to catch up on a story only to realize there isn't a whole lot of new content for me to catch up on.  So with the web comics I follow, I'll usually let many pages pile up before I devote some time to reading and getting caught up.  Comics are slow going, and no one wants to sit around watching paint dry.

So, in a month or two, after no Redemption updates, you'll see several pages in your inbox at once.  

This works for you because I'll be doing the work of guiding you to a good place to put your metaphorical bookmark in it and come back to it later, and this works for me because I will have more flexibility in how long it takes me to do individual pages.  Sometimes I just feel like doing other things.  Like hanging out with friends, or directing my creative energy into written fanfiction instead of drawing.  (I'm currently working on a dark LucreciaXHojo one shot.)  Or, god forbid, working on my actual portfolio.  Either way, I need to have the freedom of not working on Redemption every day.

I'm aiming for the time between postings to be 1–3 months, judging by how fast I currently complete pages and how many pages have been in each scene so far.  The amount of time will depend on the length of a scene—which will not be regulated—and my levels of motivation at that time—which will also not be regulated. ;)

What do you think?  Wait longer for new content, but get multiple pages at once when it arrives?  Please tell me in the comments how this idea sounds to you!
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Due to sudden unforeseen financial difficulties, it presently behooves me to whore my pen. :dummy:

I'm not going to bother drafting up an entire menu of services and costs and samples.  You watch me; you know my work.  And I'd rather not be rigid about pricing.

Generally I've done something of this quality for around $30–35:
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This would cost more:
Devil in Your Hands by RavynneNevyrmore

This would cost less:
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This would cost, like, significantly less :dummy::
Hojo bunny by RavynneNevyrmore

If you describe to me what you want and approximately how much effort you would like me to put into it I am very willing to work with you.  You must have PayPal or at least be able to deposit money into my PayPal account, unless you are willing to hand deliver me some cash or send me groceries. :flirtymeow: by RavynneNevyrmore

I have time for one commission slot at the moment.  After that, I may have time for another, but I'm going to take them one at a time for the time being.

I also do graphic design and animation if you need services along those lines, but my rates are higher and we'd have to chat about it.  But, y'know, just a reminder. :meow:
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I know I've been out of the game for a long while, but do my FF7 fan watchers still exist?  Not to seem impatient, but I've posted two Redemption pages this week and haven't heard a word from anyone. :noes:  Given that I used to hear from 2-3 people—some of whom I'd never even heard of—on each page even when not updating for months at a time, that's just peculiar.  Out of the ordinary.  Worthy of questioning.

Is it the fandom, or is it me? :confused:

Are the FF7 fans aging away, too distracted by adult life to care about fan art and fan fiction and deviantART?  Are they simply being replaced by younger kids who can't stand to play a 64-bit, blocky polygon "retro" game, like my last roommate, and so lack the familiarity with the original material?  Is it because the franchise itself hasn't released anything new for almost 7 years now, which is half a lifetime ago for DA's youngest members?  (Even the three FF7 groups I mod have been quiet...)

Or is it because I've spent too long on hiatus, both from Redemption itself and from uploading much of anything?  Have I lost my target audience?  Do you need more FF7 fan art from me?  More discussions?  More...what?  Do I need to get my premium membership back so I can put the Redemption gallery on my user page and engage you in polls?  Contests?  Shout outs?

Where have the FF7 fans gone?  Do YOU also have trouble finding them lately, or is it just me?  Can you point me to them, and tell me how you've found them?  Are you even still there? :noes:

Someone gimmie some clues. :(
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Deleting old, irrelevant art. by RavynneNevyrmore, journal

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New Redemption updating schedule by RavynneNevyrmore, journal

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