Weekly Update #125 (Patreon)

Alrighty. So, that was a rough week in terms of Patreon. Lost a lot of patrons, went down about $400 in pledges, and my health took a bit of a nosedive there for a moment. I checked my blood pressure and it was critically high in the upper end of stage 2 hypertension when no dietary nor lifestyle changes recently, so I guess that was just the stress from officially making the announcement about TQH/CORE and then seeing Patreon take those losses. After I saw how high my blood pressure was, I decided to take the rest of the week nice and slow when it came to writing, worked out a bit more, and ate healthier. My blood pressure is still high, but it's only in the middle area of stage 1 hypertension now.

What I'm interested in is how high my blood pressure must have been before this week. Because, honestly, even with everything going on, I felt less stressed this week than the weeks where I was still writing TQH/CORE. I don't want to think about how long my blood pressure has been that high for, but I'm also morbidly interested. Oh well. Can't find out anymore anyways. Though, I do remember it being high at one point a few months ago, and I also had a suspiciously high heart rate which I still have. We'll see if those problems start to relax a bit now. Of course, now there's the stress of losing so many patrons, but that's not as bad as how I felt before.

But yeah. Goes to show that TQH and CORE were stressful to the point where they were taking a physical toll on my health, I guess. Now that I'm aware of how high it is still, I'm going to be extra careful with eating healthy, work out more (I've already pulled some muscles from lifting my barbell for the first time in a while among other exercises), and try to just... relax. Well, I can't relax quite yet. I'll be breaking the news to free readers tomorrow about TQH and CORE. That's going to be pretty dang stressful, and a part of me is terrified of reading the comments that I'll get from that, but I feel like it'll be important to read everything. One of the effects that TQH/CORE had on me is that I basically stopped looking at comments/reviews on all my stories. I want to get back into reading all comments/reviews and actually engaging with the free readers, though, so I'm hoping it'll do me more good than harm to try that again.

Anyways, memes 'nd things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBrXvqRfb5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXcSDuDc1Jw&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibLm9PZke0w&feature=youtu.be&t=10

Weekly Worksheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdQ1FpOmkoDfGVPJ3oSThUfMJNlaaoRf/view?usp=sharing

23,966 words, 27 hours. Woo. I'm happy with these numbers. Best numbers I've had in a while, though it's mostly thanks to me not really taking a proper day off this past week and working on both TQH reboot and the next VRMMO series.

TTE

And so, the real life volume has finally ended. We'll be back in-game this week! A lot of things got foreshadowed for the game over this past volume, so now it's time to deliver on all of that. Oh, and I also got a bit more of TTE's first volume rewritten into past tense this week. I didn't get anywhere near as much as I wanted since I ended up falling asleep for most of the day shortly after declaring on the Discord server that I'd get the rest of it edited that day, but I did manage to get some completed at least.

EDO

This next chapter should be a fun challenge to write given how the last chapter ended. Not really anything to say other than that! I've been awake for 24 hours to try and fix my sleep schedule, so I'm pretty sleepy.

LDQ

LDQ will be joining TTE here in wrapping up its volume. This next chapter will probably be the end of the volume, and then we'll finally be moving onto the next! The only question is whether or not I should tease the next zone and princess with the finale or save it for the intro of the next volume.

TQH Reboot

I've got the first chapter done and did some plotting, so I'm making good process. I plan on making more this week. I'm also thinking of commissioning Eros for a few... fanservice-y moments. For example, just uh, you know, something like a certain somebody wearing some provocative clothing crawling into bed toward Woofen (the viewer). Whether I actually commission that or not, I don't know. If I do, I'd want it to be Patreon-exclusive, and I don't know if it'd be worth the financial cost to commission that. We'll see.

New VRMMO Project

This is what I've got Eros currently working on and what I've teased some art for recently in the previous weekly updates. I've already got like, 7 chapters written for it, but they're kind of all scattered around. I've just been writing whatever chapter I've had the most muse for. What I've got to do now, though, is just go and actually connect everything. Also, I'll say that the MC of this might be my favorite MC that I've ever written.

Let's just say that things are going to get... chuuni.

In Closing

It was a rough week. Here's to hoping that this week is better. To those of you still sticking around with me, seriously, thank you a ton. You're honestly what keeps me going, now more than ever. I'll do my best to continue providing you with enjoyable stories. For now, please look forward to this week's chapters, and thank you once again!

Agfsdgfsd I'm falling asleep in my chair. I'm going to go ahead and post this then play more ARK to keep me awake for a bit longer.