Please Support The ErosBlog Patreon
I’m delighted to announce that after months of hemming, hawing, and uncertain faffing about, I’ve set up a Patreon for ErosBlog:
That means it’s now possible for me to ask for your support. My goal? A community-and-fan-supported ErosBlog, with more in-depth writing and a lot more of my “deep dives” into erotica research and curation.
I’ll let you read the full pitch on Patreon. It’s long, because I’m a wordy bastard. If you still want more explanation after all that, you masochist, try reading this.)
I soft-launched the Patreon a couple days ago. I am all agog at the generous pledges already received — OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Together we are already half the way to my first modest pledge goal. When we get there, I’ve promised to write up a detailed survey of the tools and methods I use for image provenance research.
Don’t worry, though! My Patreon initiative is all about using Patreon’s tools and your generosity to support ErosBlog, not vice-versa. I don’t plan to post very much Patrons-only content on the Patreon platform. I will post there a few things that make sense: some exclusive goodies to entice pledges, and some “extras” from the vintage erotica curation that the Patreon support will (I hope) enable. But I promise I won’t turn ErosBlog into a “I did some nifty stuff, you don’t get to see it unless you go somewhere else and make a pledge” platform. That’s totally not what this is for. The goal is to make ErosBlog stronger and better, with your support.
For the same reason, my pledge rewards are about service to the ErosBlog community: taking your requests for blog content and direction, writing you dirty limericks, doing porn provenance research for you, and helping you promote your own adult-community stuff.
So that’s the pitch. I want to do more of what makes ErosBlog great. I want to do it harder. If you — the ErosBlog community of fans, friends, and supporters — want that too, this is the way to make it happen. Thank you!
P.S. Even if you can’t pledge right now, letting people know about my Patreon also helps enormously. After 14 years ErosBlog must have many tens of thousands of readers and fans who no longer visit every day. If you’ve got an appropriate social media channel, please consider using it to mention this Patreon to them?
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Ooh, thanks so much!
I was going to be a patron, but then I saw that I couldn’t donate a lump sum (say $100) & be done with it. Is it official Patreon policy to only allow month to month donations?
As I understand it (and here I am a complete newbie who may be missing things!) Patreon doesn’t do that — they ask “creators” to choose between the monthly pledge model and the “per piece” model (that works well for people who are creating large artworks like movies or comic books).
However there’s no duration commitment with the monthly pledges. If your desired donation amount matches one of the pledge levels, you could pledge that amount “monthly”, wait for your payment method to be charged when the pledges are processed in the early days of the following calendar month, and then cancel your pledge so you aren’t charged again. It’s cumbersome, but it would work.
Thanks for wanting to support ErosBlog, even if this particular crowdfunding mechanism doesn’t work for you! I really appreciate it.
I thought you’d never ask.
Though I agree with our strangefriend that it would be convenient to be able to make one off donations.My income is rather erratic, but i’ll see what I can do.
JA I understand! A lot of my slowness was in trying to find the perfect platform with all the features that people who want to support ErosBlog might want. Given the #pornocalypse challenges that just wasn’t going to happen, so I went (fingers crossed!) with the one thing that looked like it might work. Thank you for your patience with imperfect solutions, and here’s hoping this will get easier in future.
I’ve been busy and just noticed this. I think I said in a comment a while back that I just wanted to give you money, and I’m glad to see you’ve taken me up on that. I’m currently your sole $10/month backer – which makes me 1/20th as valuable as your two $100/month backers! Maybe next year. ;)
DeeAre, thank you! But I hope you won’t mind if I don’t quite endorse your relative value calculations. Revenue (though it can be vital) is not the same as value; having people who support me concretely is heartwarming and highly motivating for me to do more/better work as well as making it possible for me to devote the time, and so the amount matters to me far less than the fact of the support. I’ve received some ridiculously generous pledges/donations and I’m more grateful than words can express, but in the long run it’s a whole crew of supporters pledging at levels they can sustain that’s going to make it possible for me to take ErosBlog to a whole new level of quality; and so I am emphatically not going to endorse any notion that one is more or less valuable than another. Again, thank you so much!
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