12/18/2020

How I got a Nintendo Switch Lite

 Annual post time!!

Now that there isn't much left of 2020, looking back at this year, one of the best/funniest things that happened to me this year was when I was like "if I earn enough with commissions/donations, I shall buy a Nintendo Switch Lite so I can play this darn Fire Emblem game I'm so crazy about
- ahaha just kidding... UNLESS..."

And that's the story of how I got my Switch.

A few days after I made this announcement, the Claude drawing I posted on the same day suddenly blew up on Twitter. Nothing I posted on Twitter for 5 years received any particularly remarkable attention before that one drawing. And all of a sudden, there was no end to notifications and even famous artists started following me. It was like everything in the universe was conspiring together to get me that Switch.



I think my Ko-fi goal was maybe $230, but I'd already had 43% of the money from earlier commissions. That was enough to buy a Switch Lite at that time. A lot of people donated (most of them came from Twitter), so I managed to collect the money and have the Switch in my hands in less than a month.





Little did I know in the summer of 2018 when I went "oh my gosh, the yellow archer kid has such a fun design, too bad I don't play Fire Emblem" that it would eventually escalate into this. XD

My FE3H fanart will meet an inevitable decline in popularity in 2021 as the game was released in July 2019 and FE3H fans are already moving on to new hyperfixations, but I'm still having a blast playing the game and drawing fanart. <3

Thank you!