Update - Not toying with Emi (Patreon)

tl;dr - I'm messing around with a bunch of ideas right now.

This week's image

While I'm still not 100% sure this will be in the next update, it could be and I thought it made a decent preview pic here. Obviously it's from the same scene as the last one, because I felt like if you're playing with Emi and the toys, most people aren't going to just want to leave it there.

Crazy week

Without getting too personal, last week I went through a real emotional rollercoaster of anxiety that was ultimately pretty much completely unnecessary, but gave me Hell for a few days. I don't generally like to use "personal issues" as an excuse for not getting work done - and actually, right now I don't really need to, since I got some work done anyway - but regardless, it's important to recognise that everyone has issues sometimes and you need to balance life and work.

I think I'm fine now, anyway, but my plan to leap back into PAT after a refreshing short break didn't really work out.

Lots of ideas, little focus

What I've been doing over the last week (or a little more, actually) is kind of picking up ideas from all over the WIP scenes I've got in the pipeline and toying with them for a while. I've made new images and written new snippets, or longer sections, for Hirai, Shizu, Emi, Nobuko and Mika.

I can't tell which of these is going to reach the point that I can make it the centre of the next update yet, because I want to just kind of follow what's working and see how the stuff looks when I've been able to give them all a bit more time.

I think I have a pretty decent idea of the kinds of things you guys would like to see, but I also need to get clear ideas to keep the whole thing coherent and interesting.

Do you like the picture? What seems like the best choice out of the upcoming content to you? Let me know in the comments below!