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Goals 2: Looking Back and Looking Forward
🕑 Added 2023-02-01 12:52:46 +0000 UTCThanks for another month of support everybody! It means a lot.
Like last month, I'll post my goals for this coming month; but unlike last month, lets take a look at previous goals and see how I did.
I know it's wordy, and I might be talking to myself here, but I feel transparency is so important for Patreon that it's worth the risk of boring everybody.
(I do enjoy collecting my thoughts like this though...)
Last Month's Goals- Looking back:
"#1. Remilia story is the highest priority"
Well this one didn't go as planned for priority one. I finished another 22 images by the end of the month, which is satisfying enough, but it wasn't the 'high priority' item I said it was. the other goals ended up being really time consuming and most polls said they preferred Forced Fem stuff instead of the Infantilism/yuri.
"#2. Gyaru Story."
Straight up, I just didn't prioritize it. Other goals, captions, and Angel backer requests ate up the majority of my time. Especially at the end of the month when I realized I had like 3 days to work on my priority 1. I really like this story and I'm hoping I make it up to you this month.
"#3 Captioned reposts/ DLsite setup."
Partially successful. Turns out, DLsite has a "censor everything" policy that my works absolutely did not meet. It didn't take long to go back and mosaic censor a bunch of stuff, but between that and setting up the captions for the new stories, this ate WAY more of my time then I expected.
The stories are still not up on DLsite which is a real bummer.
Captioned reposts are going well I feel. I have club, ballerina, and gyaru to caption, but then I think I'm done? Nothing to really caption for the Ash/Danny/Pit/ IMO I feel they're really self explanatory. If anything it would make more sense to make a whole new story for some of those. Maybe the cloud one I could back and add some dirty dialogue but that's a really low priority. Once again, that could probably use a whole story. (Would be the usual super-generic Cloud turned Mistress story)
"#4 Pixiv Fanbox setup"
Done. I have to censor stuff over there too. So between Patreon, DLsite, and Pixiv, you all are definitely getting the most content. (Unless you want the censored versions?)
"#5 Angel Investor content."
Early sequence access is a good compromise I feel. $3 backers get it eventually and I haven't gotten any negative messages about it. I still do requests for $10 backers too (more about that in the priorities section.) Right now, going by the polls, most people are ok with how things work currently. I know some people would prefer a tier with early access but no request/commission power, but then I wouldn't have enough benefits for the $10 tier once again. One solution would be to make a higher value tier where I guarantee requests, but I'm going to keep things as they are for this month. It's going ok I feel.
This Month's Goals` Looking Forward:
#1 Unfinished Patron Request-
I'm going to try to get this up by today. I have all day and I'm hoping I can put some real progress in on it. Not going to release who's request it is or what it's about, but look forward to it! It should be a fun one.
#2 Gyaru Story-
Going to caption part 1 and post part 2 this month for sure. The ironic thing is that part 3 is almost done already, I just need to bulk up part 2 to make it a more coherent story. This is going to be the traditional forced fem story for the month.
#3 Finish up Captioned Reposts-
This'll probably be slowly worked on throughout the month, as Clubbing with Sis was like 115 images, but I should be able to get that and Ballerina done by the end of the month. It'll be a real weight off my shoulders too.
Edit: Completely forget about the unnamed project 1 haha. Maybe I'll get around to finishing the image set before I start captioning.
#4 New "Good ending" story.
A sizable chunk of people liked the good ending on Pacifying the Demon Queen, or at least they want to see more good endings in general. I think I'll have to work on my writing skills to make the good endings more entertaining (ending the demon queen story felt strangely difficult?) Not fishing for compliments here or anything, I just personally think that there's something I could've done better for that ending. Figuring out what it is would really help me I think. The requestor liked it though which was cool.
Anyways, it's very possible that I won't finish the good ending story this month, but I should at least finish a part 1 of something that isn't too brutal or malicious.
#5 Finish Remilia Story
It's almost done.
#6 Patron Requests.
I'll keep an eye out for more Angel Investor sequence requests. Hopefully I'll be able to finish them all this month as there isn't a whole lot of work on my backlog.
#7 Learn new stuff.
Lots of other AI and editing software out there. It's not going to be an issue now, but eventually NovelAI poses/outfits might start to become monotonous. I've already noticed this while playing around with kisses and bedroom scenes, but NovelAI is very aggressive in setting up the characters how it wants them rather than how I want them. With some of the tags not even really working. Like any kind of romance involving lifting another person off the ground was just not happening; and there are specific tags for the exact poses I was looking for. I need to keep an eye out for anything that makes group poses easier as well.
