December Plans (Patreon)

Hello all, I hope the Monday Doldrums have not blindsided you this day.

It is time to start thinking about December!

For those of you who have joined in the past year, every December I change the monthly format around, and also give out an extra patron only type present. Most of the time I two extra polls here, one about the format for that month (Two large stories, no small story, patron only story vs the regular 1 large, 1 small, 1 patron) and the second on what kind of present everyone wants.

This year, however, I have already decided that there will be an extra small story, that being Semblance of Hope. This fic, my RWBY/Ranma crossover has become a freaking running gag in the polls due to how horribly it does. That is why I’ve decided to take it out of the poll rotation and just update it every four months starting from December.

And there is going to be an RL disruption this year as well. My family is going to have a bit of a gathering from the day after Christmas to the day after New Year’s. And such gatherings are notorious for sucking up my fic-writing time.

With both those facts in mind, I am going to take out the Large Story poll for December. Instead, I will run two small story polls, breaking them down by Fandom for the first time. This means there will be one Ranma crossover small story poll (on top of Semblance of Hope being updated, yes), one small story HP crossover poll, and one patron only poll.

On top of this one! LOL.

So for my Christmas/Chanukkah (used to celebrate both in my family when my grandparents on my father’s side were alive, ah happy days) present to you all I give you three choices. Each choice will be followed here with a brief explanation.

1. How about that new WoW/HP crossover? - New Story Idea teaser chapter

In the past, the way I’ve rewarded my patron fans is by creating a one shot. The above concept has garnered more likes than nearly any other story idea that I have introduced, although not as many comments as the DC/Ranma crossover (A story idea I will be coming back to after ATP is finished), and to be blunt, this is about the only way that you all will see anything from this idea until at least two other stories are finished.  And just FYI, most teaser chapters go from 20,000 to 40,000 words.

2. God damnit give me the next chapter of Heroes of the High Seas!!! – Hero Academia/One Piece Crossover

This was two-shot teaser from last year which many people enjoyed quite a bit.  As the tin says, characters from My Hero Academia find themselves in the one piece universe. Specifically: Izuku, Momo (fav girl) Jirou, Kirishima, Tsuyu, Iida, Hatsume, Todoroki, and Melissa Shield. This occurs after the events of my version of the MHA movie. Think more battle, less Bakubrat. The Heroes won, Todoroki and Izuku male-bonded and Momo and Melissa are cute.

3. How about you just keep going with more of your Homage Episodes? - Ranma(Wonder Man Mod)/Familiar of Zero Crossover

What it says on the tin. At this point, the next homage episode may be the only one occurring this month since Ranma already won the large story poll. If people remember, I started the homage episodes so that my Ranma fans would have something to look forward to while HP was dominating the polls. Once that is not an issue, the number of episodes per month go down. So if this choice wins, I would ramp them up to four, albeit smaller episodes (5-6,000 at most and I swear I will chop my hand off if I don’t LOL) in December.

This poll will end on the 29th. That way I will be able to start work on the winner right away. And because there is only one straight Ranma choice here, and he will see a story update already, I will be cutting votes on that one down by 400.

In other news, while I had several questions, I think I will keep most of them to myself. But I do wonder, do you all think the time has come to change the title of FILFy Teacher? While Harry is still technically a teacher, I am probably not going to be showing any more scenes of him teaching, or indeed much of anything at Kuoh Academy-scholastic wise going forward at this point. So the title no longer makes sense.