Ana's design is quickly nearing completion, but now we get to the tricky part - colours!

After settling on a fur pattern for her little and adult forms I couldn't really decide on which palette to pick, and figured it'd be a good opportunity for a poll on my site. I am quite partial to one of them in particular, but I like them all.

You can choose up to two of your preferred options in the poll below, which closes at the end of the month.

Hey all! In my journal post yesterday I mentioned wanting to gear up a little with some more online activities, and I've long since been missing running my Sketch Play series from a while back. I'm not sure exactly when it'll happen, but I might as well start things off by deciding on what to play.

On that note, I figured it'd be a good opportunity to set up a poll for it. I threw in a handful of titles that I've been wanting to stream, and which I figured would make for good subject matter for the illustrations.

You can vote for up to two choices in this poll.

Welcome to the Candy Shop's first content selection poll!

I'm sorry that it's taken so very long for me to get to one of these, but I'm pretty confident it will have been worth the wait. Things should move along a lot more smoothly now that I've got it planned out a little better. Without wasting too much time explaining all the details, let's get right into it.

I've revived my old rewards format for my own monthly illustrations which I'm calling "Candy Shop Quickies." For each new set of pictures, I'll pick two themes and come up with some ideas based on them. For this month's batch, I've chosen the themes of Diapers and Exhibitionism. I've come up with a couple of concepts for each of them, and I'm putting them up to a vote!

They're all laid out below, tagged appropriately and hidden within spoiler blocks so you can choose which prompts to read more about. You can always base your vote solely on of the title of the illustration if you'd rather be surprised.

The polls close this Sunday the 18th, at midnight CEST. Winning choices won't be limited to just the top spot, and the level of detail will depend on their placement in the final results. Even if your favourites don't come out on top, there's a very good chance you'll get to see something that you voted for.

If you're a Tier 1 patron, the polls won't be accessible. However, you still get to have a sneak preview of what I may be working on in the coming weeks. Remember, you can vote on this poll right now if you upgrade your pledge!

Hello there! You've probably noticed me having gone on quite an unusual posting spree today.

As it turns out, I've tended to stagger my uploads a little to help fill out my upload schedule and minimize periods of inactivity. Now that I'm gradually getting back into the swing of things, this has led to a sizeable backlog of content, so I'd like to start uploading everything as soon as I can whenever I've got something to upload. These can and likely will end up accumulating more often than not, which is a good problem to have.

One of the benefits of staggering uploads is that I avoid spamming inboxes, much like I did today. Unfortunately, the way I've designed the site means that digests (aka batch updates) are not easy to implement and would otherwise involve extra work each time. They would also be counter-productive given my extensive use of tagging and categorization, which work best with individual notifications.

That having been said, modern email clients thread related emails; in other words, emails are stacked into a single entry in an inbox if they share the same subject. At the moment the notification emails sent include the posts' title, but I can remove the title so they match and can be threaded this way.

It might need further testing, but in the meantime I just wanted to use this opportunity to try out the site's new feature: Polls!

Short summary of the question: What do you think I should do about my notifications for busy days like today?

I can either keep the unique titles in the notifications to make them recognizable but not threadable, or remove the unique titles so that email clients like Gmail can group multiple notifications together.

NB: While the perk for voting on polls is reserved for €7 patrons and up, this post is accessible to everyone since it's a site-related issue that affects everybody, and it allows me to test the feature more broadly. I will be reserving art-related polls to the appropriate tiers when I get those going; hopefully soon.