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ayeforscotland · 5 years

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Announcement

Hi troops,

I recently passed 6500 followers and it was oddly surreal. Maybe because it’s halfway to 7000 but I don’t really know why that would be such a big number. I dunno maybe I’m just emotional now. Yikes.

Anyway, thought it would be a good opportunity to welcome every newcomer who has arrived since the last post. Hope you enjoy the posts and the shitposts too.

I’d also like to take the chance to talk about something new. Well something old but it’s been revamped into something new, and I’m talking about where this blog is heading because, as I laid out in my twitch stream yesterday evening, I’m finished uni and I’ve got fucking plans.

I’ve decided I can now produce better content, and I want to start making proper video essay for YouTube. I’ve already started researching and scripting my first one and I plan on having them be a bit more thorough than the short wee snips that you might have seen in my Keep Scotland the Brand video (https://youtu.be/sqQfBP285CA) I plan on improving on that, and doing as much preparation into each video it’ll look like the preparation that went into the charity fundraiser for TIE on steroids.

Which’ll be good when we do the next charity fundraiser because then it’ll be even more steroid-ier.

So that brings me to my next wee point, with this revamp of YouTube and new focus for the blog, I’ve also revamped my Patreon.

What will you get if you become a patron? Here’s a few things:

1. Ultimate bragging rights

2. You’ll get to read the patron feed which is where I’ll be posting YouTube videos before I post them anywhere else, you’ll get to have a say in the editing and demand specific content. You’re essentially going to be my boss.

3. You’ll get to see exclusive outtakes and a look at my incredibly inept creative process, what more do you want?

4. Depending on the tier you’ll be added to the credits of the YouTube videos I do and I’ll try and give you a wee shoutout

5. The highest tier will operate similar to when people submitted their own characters for XCOM. Except your character will be fleshed out into the dystopian novel that everyone wants me to write. You just send some details about your character and I’ll work it in.

Now those are all perfectly good reasons to support me but if you want an actual rationale as to why support is appreciated it’s because everything will literally go towards creating more content.

Whether it’s upgrading equipment for better quality videos/streams, buying silly wee props or paying the ungodly amount academic journals ask so you can access them for research purposes, all of the money will go towards improving the quality of content for you!

And you can support me for less than one Greggs cup of coffee, that’s a fucking bargain tbh.

It’s also not like I’m going to go on holiday or purchase copious amounts of sex toys or anything.

So even if you just want to have a laugh at the wee revamp of Patreon I’d invite you all to check it out: https://www.patreon.com/AyeforScotland

Also if you do become a patron, pay attention to your messages because I’ll slip into your DMs and whisper sweet nothings to you.

Thanks for reading.

Yours for Scotland,

Scotland

P.S This tier might be a joke

#ayeforscotland #scotland #scottish independence #scottish politics #Youtube #video essays

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kaosketches · 6 years

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This post is going to be lost in the sea of the reblogs from my main blog anyway, but it’s a bit of a vent post more than anything.

I am feeling conflicted at the time I’m writing this.

“Why am just using this sideblog right now and not when I supposed to, back when I created it 5 years ago”

Well... 5 years ago, I was in another place of my life. and the last two years of college were... quite a piece of work for me :/. I thought I would have time to develop some ideas around, some concepts I had... and while I did stuff, college was draining my creativity around (OH, and I did stuff... but writing was, I guess, more therapeutic than drawing). I don’t know. I barely remember lots of things I was doing in 2013.

And I always said to myself “I will come back to this eventually”. If anything is to go by, when I was checking my art tag, I realized that there was a HUGE time space between 2013 and 2015 when I started to do things again (and I dumped lots of things in March 2015). Sure, this was also because I was out of college, I mean, sure.

And it’s been 3 years since.

What was the point of updating this blog if I didn’t have stuff I considered to be good back then... and why I waited too LONG to do this. WELL...

I’m very bad at procrastinating. And lots of stuff have been on my head since 2015 (tons of personal stuff that I have detailed before in many of my rant/vent posts in my main blog... I don’t want to drag them here). the “One day I will eventually do this” was a bit of an afterthought.

And then... a few months ago I thought of something that was “this is it!”.

I don’t know if my OCs saved me... but it seems like it is.

The whole thing about Ellie and Riley... and my sudden thoughts of “this might work as a big project for me” kinda... remotivated me? to look back to my art content from the past 3 years and say “wait, why I’m holding these just in my main Tumblr blog?” I have been posting things also in Twitter (not as frequent as I want to, but I will go later on this), and then it came back to me “why I haven’t crossposting stuff in DA, too? why I haven’t been doing that in this side blog as well?”

Like, I know DeviantArt is a hellhole of its own that has its fair (very fair) side of infamy... but at the same time, I could have a different audience that I barely have here in Tumblr (okay, I admit it’s also hard... -and I do fanart of fandoms that are incredibly niche and mostly dead by now- and things there are also not quite as easy... their tagging system also sucks, tbh... as long as I mention a searchable term in the submission’s description as LEAST I can bypass that). I just... have (doing atm) to revamp my account a bit. Because my art gets drowned in a tons of others’ art posts in Tumblr (or after a time, I cannot bump them again w/o audience’s interest... again, did I mention that most of my fandoms are pretty much dead by now?)

And so, I also thought of this sideblog. I went to change its URL just in case (because brand recognition, I guess?) and use the previous one for another (still sorta related to this blog and my main, but I need to put order in stuff first). But, yes.

The plan is, after being up to date in both here and my DA account, is start crossposting stuff EVERYWHERE at the same time. Higher chances are that I will start posting my art here first (unless fandom appreciation weeks happen? that’s where I’d use my main one), then in Twitter, and finally in DA.

My It All Started with an Ice Cream Float project will have a blog of its own (not sure if sideblog... or revamping a different account that I barely use since 2012) when I finally march on that later this year. Maybe. I’m not sure, yet.

...I’m basically kicking myself because “why I never did this before” :)

The prospect of doing this in fb would be a chaos of its own, so I decided that on that part (because local recognition also needs to be built), the only thing possible I should DO that (if fb doesn’t go down either, lmao) is just a fan page for my project, and MAYBE posting my newer art pieces - both fanart and original. I am not going to crosspost my 2014-2018 stuff there again. I thought it may be easier reblogging these pieces, but what a huge mistake was that on my part, lmao.

#kao's nonsenses #I think i needed to do a huge clarification about this both WELL #that's why the huge space between 2013 and 2018 exists on the archive

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