New Pages Tomorrow Night (+Note from the author) (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Here are two teasers for the upcoming pages that will be out tomorrow night! I also wanted to share a message I posted on Twitter that I thought would be important to share at the beginning of this new chapter:

I've mentioned this before, but maybe long time readers have missed this, or new readers never saw it. I think now, with the start of this new chapter, it makes sense to say why I make this comic.

Less than a year before I contacted Pop Lee to make the first pages in 2017, I had to be put on a ventilator for a long time because of a very bad upper respiratory infection. They made a lot of mistakes in the hospital. I have no permanent damage, but it was a really hard time.

I was diagnosed with PTSD once I started therapy. I couldn't think about anything but that experience for a long time. I could barely sleep, I could barely talk to anyone about anything else. I hallucinated a lot while I was in the hospital. A medical coma is not like sleep.

The reason I ended up in that coma is because of the immune suppressant drugs I take for a chronic illness that I have struggled with most of my life. My health issues and the direct and indirect impact they have on my life inspire a lot of Princess Claire's inner conflicts.

People have told me that Princess Claire often seems very sad and that they hope she can become happier. That sadness and pain, the story of this lost and confused person, is how I have processed my own feelings of overwhelming confusion, despair and regret.

The plan has always been for her to become a more self possessed and happier person, that is the overall story arc of the comic. I have never wanted the comic to venture into excessive trauma or torture as that is fundamentally not interesting to me.

That being said, Princess Claire has and will definitely go through more confusing and scary things. Things that I think might be upsetting for some long time or new readers. Please know that I am writing the comic this way to explore, not glorify, painful, violative experiences.

People love to hate Leleshara and thats exactly how I want it. She is a bad person who violates Princess Claire, physically and emotionally. Likewise the daemons and monsters are impossible to empathize with, both speaking gibberish and having no real facial expressions. They are not characters, but obstacles for Princess Claire to overcome.

I really get that people might feel uncomfortable with the non-con nature of these new pages. I have no desire to convince people they should be accepting or happy with it. Not at all. But being in ICU can feel very violating and that is what I am trying to explore and express.

I think a lot of people find different reasons to empathize with Princess Claire. There's obviously a lot of gender and sexual orientation play going on in this comic. People with all sorts of trauma have told me that they find  her story and struggle meaningful to them.

For anyone who will not engage with the non-con tone of the recent pages, I get it. Please know I am not trying to make light of other peoples' pain, but to understand and let go of my own. Intention isn't everything, I know, so thank you for your patience and grace. END OF RANT