Progress Report (Patreon)

Alright! Time to sneak in a progress report. First, though...the Kink Poll for Starship Promise will end tomorrow at midnight! This is your reminder to get your votes in before it closes! Now, with that reminder out of the way...

Left Hand Magic

Well, of course Talia is still going to go to GamerCon! Having two lovers just means she needs to do twice the work to drag them along! That aside, I've just about finished with Days 3 and 4 of the Arianna/Talia threesome route. I just have a couple of loose still renders to do to wrap up day four, then I'll be moving on to day five directly after. 

Unfortunately, the original plan was to be done with those two days by the 10th. 

Between life kicking me in the ass, and the two animations for Day 4 taking 30 and 26 hours respectively, delays were suffered -_-. Since I'm fully expecting to get the stills for Day 5 done today along with the remainder of those for Day 4, I'm effectively only about 3 days behind in total. That's still not exactly great. But by my best current projections, I'm still hoping to get both Talia and Trix's Week 5 Weekend Events done. But it's a lot more uncertain than I'd expected/hoped it to be. And I 100% absolutely will not manage to get farther than those two routes. Ugh. 

There's nothing I can do about it, unfortunately, except grit my teeth and grind onward. To be honest, I'm even more frustrated about the financial loss that my current situation is going to hit me with. I was expecting to be able to do hardware upgrades soon, as I had previously mentioned. I badly wanted to replace the GeForce 3060 that is my current best GPU for rendering with a modern 4080 or 4090. But the $4-5000 cost of the medical issues that popped up have shot any possibility of that happening this year straight in the head. I admit, I'm a little worried what that's going to do to my long-term plans, as I was hoping to fully release Left Hand Magic this fall. Without those hardware updates, though, I'm no longer confident in being able to do so :-(. 

Short Story:

Obviously, I can't really work on Starship Promise until the poll ends. I have, however, managed to complete the rough draft of the other short story for the month. I'll be editing it tonight and hopefully posting it tomorrow. It's a one shot, as I was struggling to get anything at all down due to the stress over the medical stuff. I've always had a horrible time trying to write while I'm stressed out, it's one of the few things that can generate writer's block for me. Despite that, I think what I came up with is pretty good. It's just...not complex. I wasn't up for trying to write something complex (like an addition to an existing series), in my current mental state. Still, it's fun little one-shot, I think. 

Mixed Media Short

This is right on schedule, so far. I'm eight renders into the latest addition to The Virtual Trap. Which is right where I should be, if not even just a little bit ahead if I can squeeze another one in yet today/tonight. Honestly, I'm the less worried about this than virtually any other content of the month. So, there's that, I guess? As usual, the MMS is slated to come out somewhere in the 22-26th range. Usually I try to aim for the 24th, but it can end up a couple of days either direction of that, depending on how much time gets eaten up by other rewards/projects/etc.