Perks update and amusement (Patreon)
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Hello,
Perks update
As you know, I generally publish my stories on public site a month after I publish them here on Patreon. There is no doubt in my mind that some of you are supporting me partly (or entirely) for that benefit of seeing the new content right away. I'm the same. I want to receive my mangas the same day they are released or else I get anxious. ;) ... It's a luxury a lot of us like to have. So yes, it's one of the main incentive I offer to attract new patrons and keep existing ones.
I'm always looking for new ways to reward my patrons. This is why, gradually, over the course of the next couple of months, I will delay the publication of my stories on public websites from 30 days to 60 days. Once that transition is done, I will do the same and transition from 60 days to 90 days. This means that at some point this summer, if you are my patron, you'll get to read the stories 3 months before all the other humans.
I chose to do this gradually because I want this transition to be almost seamless for my non-Patreon followers. The Tiers description will be updated as I complete the transition.
I'm amused (and troubled)
At the moment, I'm publishing my stories on Gromet's plaza and Literotica. Never had a single issues after almost 60 publications. I recently attempted publishing my work on Lushstories, but everything went wrong. I published The Sun I Can't See and they mislabeled it as an "incest" story, which is a fetish I don't promote. I notified them of the error, and they professionally answered and fixed their mistake. So I was hopeful... Kind of...
With The Sun published, I decided to go ahead and publish the first chapter of Animal Café because it is my most popular story. I was looking forward to share this pure fetish story with the Lush community. (because everybody deserve to enjoy cute rubber pets)... But wait for it... wait for it...
The story was rejected by the mods because "it was not erotic" ... After a back and forth with the mods, they all agreed that Animal Café cannot be publish in the fetish category because there was no sex in the first few chapters and Clara had not vocalized her desire to have sex with the pets right off the bat. (Basicaly, Clara should have walked in the café and, despite her communication disorder, she should have said "Oh my, I want to fuck all the pets"... Can I have a cake now?") Therefor they asked me to modify the story so Clara has sex with the pets or at least express her desire to do so.
I tried to explained that the readers were intelligent enough to decide what was erotic to them or not. That many fans of Animal Café, even though there was no sex in the earlier chapters, were turned on by the mere thought of going to such a café and/or imagine themselves enclosed and helpless in a rubber pet costumes. That argument was dismissed. For Lushstories mods, an erotic fetish story must include sex or reference to sex, which I can't morally agree with.
Bottom line, I flat out refused to modify Animal Café to match this incomprehensible position and will possibly have to leave Lushstories. A lot of my material doesn't include sex because I focus more on the storylines and character development. This seems to conflict with the content Lush mods want to see on their site. That's their prerogative, so I'm not mad at them the slightest and fully respect their decision, but mine is to refuse to denature my series because of their "interesting" perspective. I'm just a bit... baffled. haha ;)
I never thought an erotic story website wouldn't see Animal Café as being a fetish story. Maybe all the petgirls should have large exposed leaking dicks? Is that what it takes to get published these days?