Happy various independence days to Algeria (France), Burundi (Belgium), Rawanda (Belgium), Comoros (France), Cape Verde (Portugal), São Tomé and Príncipe (Portugal), Peru (Spain), Venezuela (Spain), Argentina (Spain), Colombia (Spain), Canada (Britain), the US (Britain), the Philippines (US) The Bahamas (Britain), Kiribati (Britain), the Maldives (Britain), Malawi (Britain), the Solomon Islands (Britain), Vanuatu (Britain AND France), Somalia (Britain AND Italy wow rare Italy mention) and Anguilla (Britain, hope you guys get a new one soon). That was supposed to be a short bit, I forgot how much colonialism there’s been.
A bunch of important stuff this month. So I’m using headers. Real break from tradition here.
Patreon WordPress Plugin = Borked
Most importantly, the connection between Patreon and the website has broken. This has happened to a bunch of people today, and the issue is likely either the wordpress plugin or, more likely, Patreon itself, which probably wordlessly pushed an update that broke it despite being the ones who run the fucking wordpress plugin. This is not unusual for them. I’d switch to subscribestar if anyone used it but here we are.
This is likely to be fixed soon, but in the meantime you will not have access to the paywalled stories. I’m very sorry about this. If it goes on for more than a few days, I’ll (temporarily) de-paywall the stories until it’s fixed. The only reason I’m not doing it now is that it’s likely it would take me longer to do it (I have to edit each chapter one at a time) than it will for them to fix the problem.
Ongoing Stories
Currently, I’m working on fanfiction primarily, both Keeping Secrets and other pieces (DC and ZZZ respectively). This is for two reasons, but the main one at the moment is that most of my work gets done at the office and I’m not Kitty-Unpretty bold enough to be writing smut on the clock. The mere thought makes me want to crumple into dust. So SFW fanfiction it is. The second one is just that my main stories really require me to use Scrivener and not just scribble into Notepad, btw.
Original stories that are getting updates once I get a better work/life balance (we’re getting there!) are first Demon Isles, since it’s got a half-finished chapter languishing, and then A Place Among the Stars, both of which have considerable sex scenes on the horizon, hence the fact they have to wait for the weekends.
Website Updates
I’ve finally started to put in some baseline work on the tip jar I really want to add. I don’t think it’ll see a lot of action, mind you, I just think it’s a fun and cool idea that encourages more interactivity from the people who frequent the website. How it’ll work is that you can give tips via Ko-fi and attach the title of any work. That tip will then go towards getting more of that story. It’s tips, but it’s also crowdfunding, lol.
In unrelated news, I’ve decided to hand off running of the actual business side of this business (are you guys shocked that it’s a business?) to my brother. This will let me focus just on my day job and also writing, ideally. This won’t change anything for you guys and you will likely never see any evidence of his existence.
Streams
I’m currently streaming on Twitch, Fridays around 5PM EST. Right now I’m playing Homicipher with Crow. I’m officially(?) a pngtuber now, lol. After Homicipher, I’m planning on streaming either Digimon Survive, Horizon Zero Dawn, Dredge, or Date Everything, all blind plays. I might also slip in some Long Dark or HSR/ZZZ for gab sessions. These streams don’t last very long and are generally short 2-3h sessions since that’s what I have time for and I’m just doing it for funsies. I’m not the most entertaining on my own with an empty audience, so I try to drag my friends into things as much as possible, so you might see Crow, my brother Con, or even my friend Kay.
Once again, thank y’all for sticking around, and I hope you’ve been enjoying the slow KS updates. They’re queued up to chapter 90 now! The end is just around the corner! In a few months…!