Progress Report and Poll, 12/03 - 21

Hello everyone and welcome to another in the line of progress reports!   

My cold or whatever the hell plagued me is finally subsiding, meaning I'm slowly recovering from the daily fatigue I've struggled with over the past two weeks. Things are looking bright for the prospect of returning to regular schedule content from next week and onward, so look forward to the Monday loop and more to come :)

In terms of projects I have, perhaps unsurprisingly, not had much time or energy to deal with things of larger structure owing to illness, but owing to the amount of time I spent laying on my bed or couch while feeling like I was slowly dying, I've had a lot of time to sort things through in my head in terms of the content on this patreon moving forward. I have carried a lot of frustration for some time in terms of my wishes to create and deliver upon more intricate works than simple loops and wallpapers, and the larger projects pretty much inevitably bloat beyond their original scope, taking months to make. Thus, I need something smaller, but still interesting for my creative spirit.

As such when I began to proper recover health-wise, I set to working on this experimental prospect: something like a low- to mid-tier piece, less ambitious than projects and yet more ambitious than Monday loops. Owing to the way I work, these will be more classical DH pieces, almost certainly with game sounds and voice lines ripped owing to the shorter production cycle and lower budgets, reminiscent to that of my early work but with, hopefully, significantly better quality compared to back then. I have dubbed these pieces "Scenarios", and the idea is to have them be the bridge between larger projects and loops, consisting of singular short scenarios found in game lore, with a small preamble or explanation of setting, and it ending in a single creampie or the likes. The idea with these as well is to be able to deliver on projects I have previously considered or worked on, but which I find cannot stretch to the length that has come to be expected of a large project, and which thus would suffer quality wise if I attempted to crowbar it into such a form anyway. Take, for instance, Project: Breaking the Lineage, where I am primarily struggling with the Shinnok model, but honestly also with the script, as the idea of the project is effectively spent after the first time Cassie gets creampied. With the Scenario structure, I could more easily deliver on the Scenario in question, while keeping my sanity intact by not having to feel like I have to stretch it into a 6 minute long ordeal, and it might even lay groundwork for other Scenarios or even Projects that builds upon these silly lore bits we're exploring.

This of course does not mean I am giving up on larger projects, it's just that they sometimes are incredibly daunting and to be perfectly honest, after a long day of work, I will sometimes come home, sit down in my chair, and find myself simply lacking the motivation to poke away at these giants. To clarify as well: my regular update schedule of Loops, Wallpapers and Progress Report will continue, with these Scenarios replacing the occasional Loop on Mondays. Having these smaller, less intimidating pieces in between would be good for my mental health, my motivation, and most crucially, they would also enable me to create more varied work centered on different characters, with more frequent polling for community input on these matters, as to have more representation from the larger gallery of ladies as well. Community input has, for instance, pointed out the propensity for Mass Effect to win polls, and I've noted the rationale for asking that the universe be temporarily suspended from polls in order to give other settings a chance, as being fundamentally reasonable, but also one which can be devastating, since the most common content poll is on my larger projects - of which I can only muster to deliver a few per year. As such, suspending Mass Effect (as an example) from a content poll or two might see it denied entry for literal months, which doesn't sit quite right with me. It wouldn't for any universe.

I thus firmly believe that Scenarios is the solution I am hoping for, and which might give you people something meatier to bite into, while giving me some respite from the stuff stuck in development hell. Should this be the path we take, I will look into the projects we currently have in the works, and consider their potential and roles in all this, as well.

So, Scenarios, yes or no?

(Also, thanks for your support, and take care of yourselves!)