variant vote & (potentially) revised tiers

first off - we'll post the variant vote suggestion up in 1 week, take this week to think about ideas and prompts for when it opens. I'll post the general guidelines below after this post.

secondly - we're looking at revising the patreon tiers. We've had the same tiers since I started on KoD, and we've gone through a lot, we have a new artist, they haven't changed in over half a decade, and I think they're a bit wonky as well. So, we're thinking of revising them, here's how current thoughts:

$1 becomes $2 for new patrons, it's been $1 since we started and to be transparent we do not get the majority of the $1, it goes to flat patreon fees per sub. We'll also include 3 day early access with this.

$5 will now have the ability to vote on PATRON picks, and will receive 1 week early access

$15 will retain the current benefits (suggest and vote on variant & patron votes, extra vote power if you don't suggest), now have 2 week early access, sans sketches

$25 will retain the current benefits (suggest and vote on variant & patron votes, 2x extra vote power if you don't suggest), now have 2 week early access, sans sketches

$50 ability to select a name for a character that's upcoming. Limited to 2 slots so there's no sudden influx for whatever reason, and if we end up with a backlog, we will temporarily close it until the names are fulfilled. This is ONLY a name, you do not get to design the character. 2 week early access, sans sketches

Additionally, the 'extra sketches when available' will be retired. Continuing with the transparency, the extra sketches take a lot of time and Joy still needs to devote time to commissions to be able to make enough to continue living. The time that would be spent on sketches we prefer to just spend on more content for the main game, currently. As we continue and hopefully grow the support a bit bigger to what it used to be, revisiting this or something similar is an option.

Reasoning for the change to early access is that our release cycle is a bit longer than when the tiers were released.

Reasoning for $5 being able to vote on patron picks is that everyone gets to see the patron picks, since they're in the main game. Adding it to the $5 tier we're hoping will just be a nice extra bonus and increase the activity for the patron picks. Being able to suggest a prompt still remains a $15 or higher reward.

Thanks for reading, hopefully this all makes sense. We're happy to hear any and all feedback about this - either leave it here or you can DM me directly if you don't want to post publicly for any reason.i immediately have an idea of what to do with these and how to incorporate it. the first one maybe is when she gets brought to azula, dumped in front of her. or it's azula tying her up and gagging her while suki watches the rest of the village burn down around her. azula makes sure she's tied super well and stuff, because at that point azula has a bit more control, in front of her followers, etc, so she does the tying properly/well

then we can have the second sketch you did be a bit later, maybe after the first day azula wraps her face up because she gets annoyed of suki's angry eyes/glances, tells her this will be better. then shocks her a bunch/etc/fucks her, the general revenge/angry talk stuff. maybe we have azula go to sleep, but just leaves suki like that. and maybe the wraps/fabric are soaked through where suki's been crying?

thats such a good sketch on the first one too, i LOVE the pov/suki looking back over her shoulder. the expression o ff ear is topnotch. i think it'd be really fun to have azula walking around suki, circling about as she speaks, slapping, shocking suki as she does. suki trying her best fo follow where azula is by looking oevr, squirming and twisting