Writing

I know I may seem off on a tangent with this new story, One Way to Graduate, but I’m thankful for everyone who gives it a try (as well as AliasMV’s continued support in both storyline and editing). Building on oneshots like Spending the Holidays Inside and Life Together, about people learning to accept their disabilities, I would like to angle myself toward more realistic, personal, and grounded fiction, while also covering more pervy and inventive designs as they come to me. So, more or less a flip in priorities. Longer, softer stories and shorter, darker bits too. We’ll see how that goes.

That said, Dollhood has been really prioritized since I got romanced-out. Thanks to significant assistance from Slothargy, Dollhood is now heading into Chapter 33! I don’t have a release timeline, but this 4-chapter section will be huge, and consist of a visit back home for Hope, still caught in Jack’s twisted games. This story is a monster and every word adds more lore and material, twisting the elements already set up for torturous subversions or catharsis. I’m sorry to say this takes time, and I am a slow writer, though please know we are in “tying of threads” mode now.

I have no illusions about the slim audience, as this is a spiritual sequel to a much shorter smut tale set as an offshoot in the future of a different fetish – RIP – but as it gets larger I’m also putting more time into crafting it, making it perfect. A fool’s errand, maybe, but also one I enjoy chewing on.

Beta Academy is a permanent flip-flop – to rewrite or continue after so long – but it won’t be touched until after Dollhood is finished, so perhaps 2025?

Milestones

For anyone scrolling through this corner of the web, thank you. This site has some incredible stats, being visited by over 1000 users monthly. I don’t peek at the analytics too often, but wow.

Similarly, we passed 1200 watchers on DeviantArt recently! This is remarkable, and I know illustrations are a driver for that growth, but the more eyes that hit the written pages the better!

Last, but most importantly, Dollhood has reached 200 pages of written text in my personal google doc! 12pt, Times New Roman, paragraphs slightly spaced: don’t think I’m cheating or anything! This marks a move into novel territory, and while I won’t be publishing or selling this, I am proud to be operating in that tier.

Website Changes

If you’ve noticed, the site got a bit of polish a couple weeks ago. Out goes Palatino typeset, in comes Lora!

A tiny blind survey in the community discord resulted in a consensus that Lora was more readable, and honestly the last piece of the development/design puzzle of this space was a suitable font. I won’t say its perfect – I wish italics had a bit more lean/skew to them – but overall I’ve been told it adds a newer feel. That is… if its noticed at all!

Another very subtle tweak is Print Styling. If you want to save a story, click on the title to see all chapters together, and use your browser to print to PDF! I think archiving smut is super important due to how quickly it evaporates, and I wanted to make that as easy as possible.

Website TODO

• A CMS back-end to write these posts easier and hopefully more often (for now come chill on the Discord! ). I used netlify-cms super effectively in a new site for a friend recently and I would like to implement it, but requires hosting on Github or Gitlab, at risk of their Terms of Service.
• Full-story pages don’t link their footnotes correctly! I need a subtle translation filter to find those and tweak the link to something unique for all chapters, likely upon templating. This would be easier if I rebuilt the site in Eleventy but not sure if I want to go down that road yet. (Tempting…)
• Likely more, I can’t remember now. If you have any feature requests or usability concerns about the website please reach out!