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Putting some stories away in the "vault!"
🕑 Added 2023-02-01 12:04:48 +0000 UTCHey everybody! I've been making an effort to try and tidy things up around the Patreon, one step at a time. There's a few things on my checklist, ranging from minor edits to adding accurate content tags to all of my early stories... but in the meantime, I wanted to go ahead and begin a procedure that I'm calling "vaulting," which is just a fancy way of me taking older stories and restricting them to a Hexed-tier+ audience.
Why? A few reasons! The criteria is different from one story to the next, but typically a story will be vaulted for one or more of these reasons:
- Curation. Over the three years of patreoning, I've written quite a bit! And the reality is that some stories are admittedly better than others~ Navigating my Patreon is already quite a chore, and it can be difficult for a new reader to get an idea of what they should want to read. So a story might be vaulted if I've decided it doesn't quite represent "me," or doesn't otherwise act as a "conventional" story someone would more likely want to read.
- Age. As stories get older, it's less likely people are going to just happen to click on them, since they're buried beneath a bunch of newer stories and posts. Putting these stories away in the vault will actually increase any attention they get now, since new patrons may want to actually find these "exclusives" they didn't originally have access to.
- Content. Some of these stories contain content or themes that aren't typically my "style," or aren't topics I would normally write about. Not that I'm opposed to anything I've written, but I like for my most-available content to be a nice representation of what I usually write, rather than confuse readers with why I've only ever written one story about an exact topics or fetish or what have you.
- Patronage. Frankly, I want to give my Hexed-tier patrons more benefits, and encourage more readers to upgrade from the Jinxed-tier. I won't pretend this isn't technically a pre-existing benefit, but I hope Hexed-tiers feel a little more prestige knowing they have more exclusive accesses. It isn't much, but it makes that separation between tiers more notable.
I'm going to be adding more stories to the vault as time goes on. For now, the following stories have been vault'd. Note that the most recent vault'd story here was from April 2021.
- Bodycleaners
- Return of the Sphinx
- Captive to a Monster Lilligant
- Medusa’s Revenge
- In Gravel’s Care
- Special Day
- Midna's Moment
- Elsa's Control
- AJ's Skinny Jeans
- The Harpy Matriarch (only the bonus ending)
- Vlad's Pawn
- Between Saber & Rider
As well as these stories becoming exclusive to Hexed-tiers, I've also removed these stories from other places it might have been uploaded, and provided a link instead to the Patreon's upload.
Thank you all for your understanding~ I'm happy to answer any questions you might have! I don't know when I'll add another batch of stories to the vault, but it definitely won't be as many, and probably won't be for several more months -- it'll be a periodic thing, mostly cleaning up those older stories. Thanks again for everyone's support~ and look forward to more uploads this month before I go on my break in March!
