Star: Oh! Oh gosh that's quite the ah, the direct question- PENNYYYY, could you take this one? :D;;;

Penny: Sure, not like I'm finalizing our 2025 budget or anything-

Star: LOVE YA PENNY THANK YOU KISSES MWAH -poof-

Penny: ... -pinches brow-

Penny: "It's a fair question, anon. The world wide web only gets a small window into everything that happens here at the studio, so I get how it can look like we're a bunch of horny kinksters with no free time. And while that is true for Myu, the rest of us lead pretty busy lives outside of business hours.

What clients online see are the "photoshoots" that are ordered in the studio. You online viewers call them "commissions." But, when we're not doing requested shoots, we're doing normal people stuff. Talking with friends about the most recent Karen we had in the studio. Staying up until 5 am crying over our DnD campaign script because we can't get the big bad to emotionally resonate. Staring at the ceiling at 6:43 pm worrying that we came off too strong in that flirty text we sent three hours ago. Eating shitty instant noodles.

Most of the time, we're just existing in this crazy pocket dimension and trying to get by while we figure out how to get back in touch with our original worlds. Not all of us want to go back, but some of us miss our families and old friends. We didn't know when we signed up that we were signing up for a one-way trip. Even if Star says it's temporary."

-Penny's gaze loses focus, and she presses the end of her pen to the side of her lip, lost in thought-

"Regardless- most of us keep work and personal life pretty separate. Except Comet. His lines tend to blur pretty often, but, I can't super blame him. Guy's got a lot going on. So, if anyone was gonna wander around with a client still "occupying" them, it'd be him." -She pensively bites the end of her pen before looking the viewer up and down for a moment- "... Though I have been guilty of carrying some around myself, now and then. I don't mind working with 'distractions' if I'm chipping away at some personal work, or a good book. I digress- despite all the appointments and nonsense that happens here, we all manage just fine thanks to a pretty solid separation between work and personal life. And, having a pretty lax boss helps." "... Ha! No, not Star. He's made it pretty clear he'd rather we all focused entirely on work instead of messing around." -Her eyes unfocus again for a moment before she dismissively waves a hand, looking annoyed- "I have work to do, now shoo before Star comes back and regales you about the finer tannins of a good grape juice."