Short version: InkBunny, incorrectly, thinks 3D renders are screenshots. But only as an unwritten, unofficial rule. One that will still get your gallery nuked without warning. I'm not a 3D artist, but this policy is so monumentally stupid that I can't abide it. So I've hidden my IB gallery in solidarity with 3D artists, and won't post there until IB either makes this policy official (and explicitly states what attribution is required), or backs off on this nonsense entirely.

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A while back (it's hard to know exactly when since they haven't made any official statements), InkBunny implemented a policy where they treat all 3D renders as screenshots. Yes, I was as confused as you. "Pressing the PrintScreen key" is, by definition, not at all the same as "painstakingly setting up a scene, rigging and posing models, configuring lighting, then having the GPU render it for hours or even days at a time".

They used this thoroughly flawed interpretation of what a screenshot is to start nuking the galleries of 3D artists, and while some pushed back to get their galleries restored, the administration (who only replied in journal comments rather than making any kind of actual announcement, naturally) made it very clear just how little they think of 3D artists by calling their work "just moving some sliders around". I'm not even a 3D artist and I was appalled.

When you dig into it, they hide behind the potential for assets in a 3D render to not be credited, which doesn't actually have anything to do with an image being a screenshot or not. Remember, IB also allows GenAI images, and the only credit you have to give is to the LAION model itself, which invariably contains an unknown number of unattributed stolen images vacuumed up from the internet en masse. Every single argument that IB made for removing 3D art utterly fails when applied to GenAI (these are all direct quotes from one of IB's site admins):

But it is not OK to have significant components attributable to a single source uncredited in a final work
...unless it's a GenAI piece that was entirely made from uncredited sources, of course. The defense to this is "there are so many sources you can't identify any particular one" and I would love to know which IB staff member is able to look at a 3D render and identify who made every single vertex in the background.

There isn't on the face of it anything wrong with derivative works, but they have to be credited and made with permission like any other submission
...unless it's a GenAI submission that only has to credit the model and not any of the tens of thousands of artists whose work was stolen, of course. Even 'better', the defense to that is "we can't hold GenAI to that standard because there's just too many people to credit" - wow! I never knew I could get away with plagiarism if I just did it too many times to count! Truly this is an enlightened policy. /s Not to mention that (almost) every other submission type has instructions on IB's ACP as to what credit has to be given, but 3D art has nothing, since it doesn't even have a section on the ACP at all.

We don't really want a bunch of generic models doing the same things to each other, which is what we were getting with Second Life, SFM, etc.
...unless it's generation #32,742 of Loona in the default GenAI art style, of course. This goes on and on.

Even worse, it's been months since this first cropped up in May, and they still haven't even made this stance official. IB's last announcement journal is from over a year ago. Their Acceptable Content Policy doesn't even have a section on 3D - or any mention of 3D at all. Even if you grant them "well IB thinks they're screenshots", the screenshots section doesn't have anything about required credit or attribution like other sections (such as audio remixes) do.

And if they treat the output of Blender as a screenshot because it counts as "other software", why doesn't GenAI get treated the same way? Apparently you have to have sculpted every single vertex in a 3D render yourself, by hand, starting with nothing but the default Blender cube, for it to be allowable. (But you can just throw prompts at Stable Diffusion and post a batch of 6 images to IB as much as you want, no problem)

I was wondering if maybe they were dragging their heels on this, or perhaps just trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug and forget about it... but nah, I've found more 3D artists still getting their galleries wiped as of a couple days ago. So today, I went from merely not posting, to hiding my entire IB gallery.

The end result of IB's unwritten policy is a Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every 3D artist on IB - they don't know if they'll wake up to find their galleries wiped, and they don't even know what steps (if any) they can take to avoid that fate!

The most charitable explanation for this is sheer incompetence. The alternative is targeted malice: the IB staff use this ludicrous definition of "screenshot" to remove people and content they just simply don't like. Take your pick.

Either way - I stopped posting on IB in May and now I've gone the extra step of hiding my gallery on IB entirely. I'm only posting on FA and Weasyl for the foreseeable future.

Until File Read-Only mode is taken off, if you want to follow my stuff, you can check either:
- My InkBunny account, https://inkbunny.net/Codelizard
- My Weasyl account, https://www.weasyl.com/~codelizard
- Or you can join my Discord server, discord (DOT) gg (SLASH) 4cnWsWxcux

We'll be back in a week or so, there's just a loooooooooooooot of files that have to be moved.

1.  GBCREATOR
2.  TheLastFirstborn
3.  KiraDonger
4.  VanillaDumbass

I had another set of good entries, and as before I made sure to take a spread of themes while prioritizing people who hadn't won yet. If you're one of those winners then check your Discord, or your FA notes!

I'm part of FA's staff now!

As of mid-February, anyway. If you check my other account  Darkmark you'll see the little shield badge next to my name indicating I'm part of the staff. I've been here since FA's beginning, and am glad to have the opportunity to help it improve in whatever way I can. Despite all the site has been through recently I'm hopeful for its future, and I want it to succeed and improve.

Do not contact me directly regarding site issues. Always file a trouble ticket if you need to report something.

1.5 Million Words!

I actually missed this milestone - Special Exception is the story that pushed it over the line. This year has been a little slow so far due to holiday breaks and sickness. However, I've recovered from con crud, escaped the Client From Hell at work, and am back in the groove now and chugging along.

Last Call for Raining Gold entries

If you are looking to submit an entry for Raining Gold, Part 1, you don't have much longer to do it. Entries will be closing soon, most likely during next week!

Changes to my queue

I've added a "limbo" section to separately track people who have reached the top of the queue but don't have an idea ready. This is for all intents and purposes the same as my old system of pulling people up in the queue if everyone ahead of them wasn't ready, but is organized more cleanly.

You might also notice I have a commissioner marked as MIA. They haven't replied in literal months and my Telegram messages are showing as unread. It's unfortunate but happens to everyone who takes comms eventually, and I'll be removing them from my queue within the next few days if I still don't hear anything.

A "lost story" is coming soon

Keep your eyes out for Terminally Online within the next few days. Unfortunate circumstances for the commissioner forced me to cease writing it when it was about 3/4 done, but it's been touched up and fixed to have a somewhat proper ending because I'd much rather show it off than have it never see the light of day. Originally written during 2023, it's languished for a while but I'm looking forward to publishing it; it's somewhere in the 30k words range if I recall correctly. Stay tuned...

I wrote a goals journal last year: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10766997/

And basically everything in it I managed to accomplish. I finished Small Fish, Big Pond, I published TPBS's Second Edition, I expanded to Weasyl (even if it seems to be basically dead for writers), I expanded my website and published Towards the Light, I created a Discord server, and I'm pretty sure I cycled my queue (the slot I was using as a marker got cancelled so it's hard to say).

I did attempt some voice work here and there, but I was never happy with it; it took a lot of re-takes and some of the voices I wanted to do I couldn't manage to do consistently, so I haven't published anything (despite making separate attempts to record parts of TPBS and Study Buddies). There's still a month left on the calendar so who knows, but I'll probably just be sticking to text.

We're nearly at the end of the year, so I'm going to think about what I want to do next year. This goals list will be a lot smaller though since some of the above items were ones I'd been considering for quite a long time.

Go to a con for the first time

This one's easy since I've already registered for Anthro New England. I've never been to a con before so we'll have to see how this goes.

Do another episode of Raining Gold

I'm going to use my next personal slot for this, so keep your eyes out if you're interested.

Expand on my stats and make them public

I plan to make a Google Sheet with the stats on my stories, as well as expanding them a lot more, instead of just having them in an Excel sheet on my computer. It'll be more fun that way. ;)

Cycle my queue

...again. I hope. In this case it'll basically be the  walnut45's slot that I aim to... well... get to, at least. Basically, 10 main-queue slots that aren't personal ones.

Experiment with more formats

In particular I want to try writing at least one second-person perspective story. I've got a half-written one lying around that I need to finish.

Make a TWINE game

Basically an interactive CYOA style story, more sophisticated than the PDF-based ones I've done before. I've downloaded a copy of TWINE, looked at a couple of guides, and just need to try it out (since it's free). I already have some ideas; I just have to pick one, plan it, and do it.

Another book, for real this time?

I've got ideas, but I need to pick one and focus on it. My motivation for extra writing is basically rock bottom at the moment because of work being such a soul-draining grind, but hopefully that won't be the case for much longer. I've got a vacation coming up soon though that I can use.



Okay, maybe a few more goals than I expected, though some of them will be easier. Enjoy the rest of the year!

November is the approximate date when my writing work on FA began, so as is tradition I'm doing a journal to compare myself to where I was before. Previous journals:
2023: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10729882/
2022: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10369705/
2021: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10037728/

General Stats

- I have published 144 stories, up from 89 last year. Of these...
-- There are 2 books (100k+ words), up from 1, thanks to the release of Towards The Light.
-- There are 2 novels (50k-100k), up from 1, since I finally concluded Small Fish, Big Pond, which I have collapsed into a single entry in my stats list.
-- There are 8 novellas (20k-50k).
-- And that leaves 138 short stories (10k or less), of which 80 are less than 4k.
- My word total is 1,382,776, up from 826,081 last year. We hit the big 1 mil! 🎉
- I am on 3 art galleries, up from 2 last year. I will not be increasing this further. : p
- I still have 1 website, but I have expanded it to cover my major SFW releases under a pen name: http://books.codelizard.net/
- I have 1 Discord server, up from 0. discord (DOT) gg (SLASH) 4cnWsWxcux if you want to join!

I also published the second edition of my book (which still only counts as 1 in my stats; I simply updated the old entry).

Kink Stats

- 595 narrated pees, up from 445 last year. Bad Influences and More Breaking Than Entering account for most of this increase (24 and 34 respectively).
-- An average of 4.13 per story, down from 5 last year. Express slots bring the average down, both from being less likely to have the kink at all, and also from typically maxing out at 1-2.
- An estimated 801.95 pints of urine have been expelled, not counting hyper ones, up from 647.65 last year. That's about 100 gallons. 1 cubic foot = ~7.5 gallons so this is a little over 13 cubic feet, which is about the volume of a floor freezer.
- There have been 274 orgasms, up from 162 last year. More Breaking Than Entering contributes a heavy 20 to this, and Rattling The Pipeyards is 15. I only counted Bigger On The Inside as two, since similarly to the WS stats I'm only counting fully narrated stuff.
-- That's an average of 1.9, a slight increase from 1.8 last year.
- 137 floors have been peed on, up from 97.
- 74 containers have been peed in, up from 52.
- 26 vehicles have been peed in, up from 21.
- 97 items of furniture have gotten wet, up from 60.
- 81 people have gotten golden showers, up from 66.
- No new stat this year because I have plans...

Markov Chain Shenanigans

To repeat my disclaimer from last year: Markov Chains are not a form of GenAI. They're much simpler/stupider and have no understanding of context like an LLM does, working entirely on the probability of words following each other. Moreover, the model I use for these journals is trained 100% off of my own work, with no outside training data. I'm making these only for hilarity's sake.

Funnily enough now that I've passed 1 million words, I have an actual, legitimate corpus of text now to train it on - for comparison, the Brown Corpus is about 1 million words. Will this help? Let's find out! My own comments are in (parentheses).

General Ones

I did actually get some coherent short sentences now and then, but those aren't the ones we're here to read, are they? :) Let's see what Markov comes up with without any guidance.
- To offload the cargo and risk attracting attention: attention was elsewhere as she sobbed from the scented cleaning fluid. (Wear eye protection when there are chemical fumes around, kids.)
- She tasted the saltiness of the girls into the welcoming, clenching depths of the sofa when it fully closed. (It started off coherent and then wow did it go off the rails)
- Well-dressed clerks and representatives were scattered on the bed to pretend she was five. (Are you trying to get me banned from FA, Markov???)
- Fidget hesitated briefly, listening for the dragon smelled vaguely like cleaning supplies... (Almost coherent - though absurd - if you inserted the missing 'that' in the sentence.)
- Really big, like, almost all of the room. (I'm concerned about what this could be describing.)
- Anna was a sort of breeding mount, though it got dark outside and away from her. (Foxes gonna fox, but only during daylight hours.)
- Sereth only hesitated for a tool shed to grab it before tossing it onto the nearest one. (He really does sell everything. Must be strong, too, to throw an entire tool shed.)
- Zhen helped her get accustomed to the bed. (Tucking her in, or innuendo? You decide!)
- I've got to give Sydney the opportunity to creep forward enough to hit the table tightly. (Markov has plans for the ferret girl, apparently.)
- Hiccup hissed, squirming in her dress. (Lindwurms wear dresses now?)

Code Ones

Okay, what does the Markov chain think I've been up to?
- Code unsteadily got to the imagination. (Me when I'm having trouble starting to write)
- Code managed to get all of the booth. (I'm going to sprawl out and you cannot stop me.)
- Code sucked harder on Laurie's bed, with a sigh. (That was almost too spicy for a journal post. Almost.)
- Code could see it by the bed, unsure what was going to get a refill. (Decisions, decisions...)
- Code chuckled and smirked, tossing the wet and shiny. (...is that a euphemism?)
- Code quickly headed back to him, while his shoulders, decked in the middle of falling cherry blossoms. (Is this from some samurai story?)
- Code ended her turn, Makayla pushed her way to the edge of the door to flow down over it, pressing firmly. (I know cats are a liquid, but...)
- Code set her foot down on his ring finger. (Whoever 'he' is had better be glad Code doesn't wear heels.)
- Code turned around to face the unknowns, the possibilities. (...actually kind of poignant.)
- Code panted heavily as she began walking forward, slowly covering the toy's legs, was a trick, all mind-games to mess with Chloe. (Honestly most of what comes out of Markov could be considered 'mind games' if interpreted literally.)

Malware Ones

Fine, what about Code's alter-ego?
- Malware had done something to her original position. (Great, she's speedhacking IRL.)
- Malware had left the conference room, dropping off their feet eagerly. (I don't want to know why she was carrying someone's feet around.)
- Malware chuckled, shaking her bones, and it struck the third one? (Skeleton Malware! Halloween was only a little over a week ago after all.)

Zenkopan's Characters

As my longest-running commissioner, I've got a huge amount of text for Zenkopan's characters. What's going on in the Codelizard-Zenkopan Extended Universe™?
- Felicia and the pangs in her breasts. (This reads like the title of something episodic.)
- Felicia checked the bedside clock, and she slipped out of the store remained lit by the captain didn't move, and even more afraid. (Apparently Felicia was sleeping inside of a store? ...on a boat?)
- Sammy watched as the queen began climbing quicker, in a critical threshold. (Video game? TV show? We'll never know.)
- Sammy wasn't hopeful; she'd been a one-way door. (Wow, come on, Sammy, don't talk about yourself like that!)
- Sammy bit her lip and twitching her whiskers, more devious plans coming to take a while. (This otter is up to no good.)
- Anna was about to offer her food...? (I love the trailing-off-question ending. After all, would a fox really give up food to someone else?)
- Anna snickered a little bit, and awoke again an hour ago but she'd left her and... (I wish I could go to sleep and wake up in the past.)
- Chloe glanced nervously at the front of her, this one would be like ice rinks, too dangerous to go find out about chemistry. (...to be fair I would not recommend practicing chemistry at an ice rink.)
- Chloe was whispering something to tell everyone. ("It's a secret to everybody.")
- Hannah knew what else. (Never ask Hannah "You know what else?")
- Hannah drove along the way, giving quick apologies before being dragged into an aisle between two pillows. (Top 10 saddest anime deaths.)
- Makayla gave her a long drive, she badly wanted this ritual to fail. (The unexpected cross-over of demonic rituals, and... golf.)
- Makayla dropped her denim shorts, going commando just like the manager couldn't ignore. (She either wants to get caught or she knows she'll get away with it.)
- Makayla let out a challenge, to say hi. (A challenge sure to defeat anyone who can't stand social interactions.)
- Kaitlyn burst out into piles sorted by size, starting with the cake. (...............what?)
- Kaitlyn gave a beep of acknowledgement. (Beep boop, son. Beep boop.)
- Kaitlyn gave a small metal box that was overriding her inherent distaste for the late summer weather. (I wish I had a magic box that let me deal with summer heat.)
- Sydney rolled her eyes, walking away from him and pulling her pants back on, since he moved forward. (Was she rejected, or did she just finish a quickie?)
- Sydney emerged from the mirror as well. (Another Halloween one?)

So, although it did generate actual coherent sentences up to about 6 or 7 words long, it still falls apart rapidly after that. My hobby is still safe.

I'll be at Anthro New England 2025. It'll be my first convention ever so hopefully it won't be too much of a disaster! I'll be Around, as Codelizard, so you may or may not run into me if I'm there.

Since I added more discounts earlier this year after the gubmint reamed me (and not in the fun way) back in April, I've had some pretty decent success, with pictures coming in for some old stories that I've posted in a folder on my other account (all of them are for WS stories so far): https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....Ins-To-Stories

Obviously the most rational move for a commissioner is to commission a picture for their own stories. And that's great! I want that to keep happening, but that's not always easy since sometimes I'm creating brand new characters for people and those characters have no art or visual reference. I also would like pictures for some of my own stuff, and I mostly have trouble finding artists; so, as an incentive and reward, I'm offering Bounties: a double discount (-$0.50/100 words) if you pay with a picture that:
- Is for one of my Personal Works, and...
- ...the art drawn is for something (a scene, character, etc) that doesn't have any art yet.

Whatever the picture costs will be fully counted towards the discounted cost of the story/stories I write for you. (Yes, this stacks with including one of my characters in your commission for an additional $0.25/100 words discount!) So for example, if a picture costs $60, I will give you $60 of credit, AND stories you spend that credit on cost less than normal! If there's excess you can either keep it as credit for the next story, or I can pay you the difference - we'll work it out. So, if one of my stories is a favorite of yours AND you want an even bigger discount, consider paying with art next time!

Some of my characters have no art, and most artists don't work with that. So, I can provide more detailed text descriptions, or composite references (ie "use the body type from this image, but the colors from this one, and the tail length from this one..."), or possibly AI-generated images if the artist is okay with using those as a reference (it's being used to make it easier to give them money, after all). I can also draw really shitty vector art to describe scenes/poses if necessary but that's a last resort.

Given the complexity of ideas that directly reference a story, please try to avoid artists who speak English as a second language unless they're very fluent. I have nothing against ESL artists and have commissioned them before; that said, complicated ideas are difficult to communicate across a language barrier, and machine translation tools can't be relied on for this. ESL artists might be acceptable for some simpler stuff to get a character drawn for the first time, but that'll be handled case-by-case.

Specifically (and I'll keep this list updated) the currently available options are:

Company Policy

- Various solo WS scenes with Code. Not gonna lie, this was my first real story so I don't remember much about it, but hey, stuff with Code is always good.

Warmly Welcomed, Warmly Embraced, Warmly Released, and Warmly Welcomed Back

- There's various M and/or F WS scenes across these that could qualify
- Also various M/F sexual scenes too
- I'd also accept SFW stuff with Zhen and Code as they have yet to be drawn together, and I finally have art of Zhen

The Planeswalker: Between Skies

- There's already a lot of art for TPBS, but it's also a literal book so there's plenty of moments with no illustrations. I also was careful to make sure the per-chapter illustrations weren't spoilers out of context, which cut down my options. If you had a favorite moment or moments from the story, they could be candidates for this.
- Or even if you had a favorite character and just want to see more of them - TPBS is my magnum opus so I'll be extremely happy to get any additional art for it.

The Word of a Knight

- M/F sexual scene. Neither of them has art but I can provide an approximation since they're both anthro dragons in (or out of) standard medieval-fantasy outfits.
- SFW art of one or both of them to get them drawn and their designs visualized would also be acceptable.

Leading By Example

- Duo F/F WS scenes. I have art of Ruth and Shain, just not in their combat gear, if that ends up being relevant.
- On that note I'd also accept SFW art of one or both of them in combat gear. I know military gear is a pain to draw so if you know an artist who does it well, consider this one.

Small Fish, Big Pond

- M/F sexual scenes, mostly anal - this one would need some coordination since Tethryn has no art and is a unique species...
- ...so for that reason I'd also accept getting reference art of Tethryn drawn in an SFW or NSFW context.
- I'd also accept a 'book cover' for SFBP - both characters posing dramatically against some space backdrop type of deal.
- Art for the narrative parts of each chapter is also an option, though making them SFW might be hard given the frequency with which both characters are naked.

Study Buddies

- Various M/M sexual scenes
- Illustrating some of the wholesome moments with those two would also be great.
- Solo SFW pictures also acceptable since I don't have any real art for either Laurie or Revin.

Malware Defender

- A couple of M/F sexual scenes.
- Just getting Zhen drawn in White Hat's outfit would also count for an SFW option, as I have no art for it yet.
- I'd also be up for SFW dramatic shots of some story events since the whole thing is a superhero parody. Any pictures don't have to have a comic-book aesthetic but would be cool if they did.

Raining Gold

- Specifically getting Code drawn in her stage outfit, which depending on the angle might actually be SFW (since it's bottomless but her suit jacket covers her loins).
- ...though if you want a specific challenge illustrated, be my guest! Code has to be in the shot for it to count for the double discount, and if you're not the owner of the character doing the challenge you'll need to ask for permission.

Bigger on the Inside

- F/F sexual scene. Lyva has no art, but her design is pretty straightforward (black cat in a witch outfit), and she's only a Visible Outline in the second half.
- A picture from the opening in the shop would also make a good picture.
- If you're feeling really ambitious, the finale of this story would make a great comic.

Intimate Medicine

- Kyural doesn't have any real art, so something of just him would be a good start. (I know runes-on-body can be a huge pain but I came up with some designs that are easy to draw.)
- Any of the various M/F scenes in the story would also be good.

Special Exception

- M/F sexual scene and the only vaginal sex in a personal story I'm probably ever going to write.
- Due to the nature of the scene and my feelings around it, the picture must include dialogue from the story on the picture reinforcing its "anti-breeding" theme.
- Any point in the scene would be acceptable though as long as appropriate dialogue is included on the picture.

If this sounds good to you, let me know the next time we're working out commission details! You can pay for main or express slots this way, no restrictions there!

I already gave a more personal message on my other account's journal, so this is purely regarding my commission work.

The official statement at this time is that nothing is going to change with FA in the near future, and as long as FA is here, I will be too. I don't buy into the FUD that FA is going to disappear overnight (if nothing else, server hosts tend to bill monthly, so if FA can't keep going - and as far as we know right now, it will continue operating - we'll get some advance notice).

I've been here since the beginning in 2005, and I'll remain until one of us dies; this is my home more than any physical location, as FA has been with me between two different countries, a dozen jobs and six different residences. I wouldn't even be here, taking commissions and pursuing a creative passion for writing, if not for FA. So I will continue to use FA as my primary means for taking commissions, displaying my queue, and posting the results.

I do crosspost to IB and Weasyl, and I have my Discord server as well, if worst comes to worst. But I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. So pull up a chair, and stay with me. If this is temporary unrest, we'll weather it together. If it's not, then I'm here until the end.

In no particular order:
1.  pratumvulpes
2.  esayian0628
3.  zenkopan
4.  asteyr
5.  bachri

Don't feel disheartened if you weren't picked! This was very successful so I definitely plan to run additional "episodes" of Raining Gold in the future, and I'll be deprioritizing people who won before when I do to try and get as many different people in as possible. I'm keeping my big list of the entries around in case someone wants to resubmit their idea.

I had 26 entries from 23 different people, so I had to reject a lot of good ideas even after I decided to take a fifth one from the fun and creative ideas I got. The winners were the ones with the ideas that sounded like they'd be the most fun to write, but there were other entries that would have been good too.

I'll also post some pointers on how to make a good challenge the next time I open, as the entries I got gave me a better idea of what does and doesn't make for a good challenge. I can also list some categories as I saw some recurring themes in the entries - destruction, control, capacity, precision, etc. In particular there were some really good stealth-themed entries that would have been fun that I hope to pick from next time. I tried to spread out the themes here and only take one idea from each.

Thank you to everyone who entered! Keep an eye out for the finished story in a couple weeks or so. I plan to publish it as a PDF with internal links as I did for the CYOA experiment I did a while back (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51548223/ / https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51548241/) since the content will vary by scene and you can pick and choose what you want to read (or just go through the whole thing if it all sounds good).

Today, I learned that Discord invites go to a specific channel. When you right-click the server icon and pick "Create Invite", it goes to the channel you happen to have open at the time you create the invite. So people were getting thrown into a channel they didn't have access to and it was failing to load.

I've created a new invite that actually goes to the welcome channel, and updated the previous journal and my profile page, but here it is again:
discord (DOT) gg (SLASH) 4cnWsWxcux

🎉 1,000,000 published words! 🎊

The publication of Malware Defender has pushed me to 1,015,332 words published here on my FA account! (The millionth word was "best" "one" (I found a typo and fixed it, lowering the word count by 1), for those wondering.) I was expecting my second book, Towards the Light to take that milestone, but an extensive editing process means it's still 99.9% done at this time.

This is insane, to be perfectly honest. That's longer than the entire LotR trilogy, plus The Silmarillion. It's longer than all six Frank Herbert Dune books added together. It's ALMOST as long as all of Harry Potter (1,084,170, so TtL will push me past it if something else doesn't first). It's... not even close to Wheel of Time which is around 4 million, haha. Game of Thrones is around 2 million total, for comparison.

And it's all thanks to you! I wouldn't be doing this if not for the commissioners and readers out there. Not in the sense that I chase page views or reader counts but just because it's nice to have an audience, and I wouldn't write any of this stuff purely for myself. Some of it might be more meaningful to me than my readers (like TPBS) but I still put it out there in the hopes that other people find it and enjoy it. Whether it's from enjoying the characters, narratives, settings or plots, or because it's porn that's up your alley, I adore hearing other people say they liked my work.

And so, to help try and build a little more of a community...

My Discord server is now open!

discord (DOT) gg (SLASH) 4cnWsWxcux
(Link obscured to prevent bots from scraping it)

I set it up earlier this year and was going to open it when I published TtL, but since something else pushed me past the big 1-mil early I'm opening it now. Whether you just want to lurk and listen for updates, or you want to engage and talk with me, everyone's welcome! I expect it to be a fairly chill server since despite my prolific writing I'm pretty small-time as FA members go. This server is just a place for fans of my work to chill, chat, and ask me questions. The NSFW channels are locked behind an opt-in role, as are the channels for the WS/Scat stories I am most commonly writing, so you don't need to engage with any of that if you don't want to.

In addition to sets of chat/art/ask-code channels it also has a copy of my commission terms and my commission queue so that FA isn't my only place for these. I have a fairly minimal set of channels to get started, and if I get a community going and more are needed, then I will make more.

Nothing is going to be Discord exclusive. I'm still here on FA and will still be reachable through the same means as before. You don't have to join to talk to me or commission me, it's just more convenient. I'd just be happy to see some of my readers there, so feel free to join!

I've made a small update to my terms to allow express slot stories to have alts, so long as the changes are minor enough that I can get to them in the same three-hour writing block.

I originally said "no alts" for those because the point of express slots is to be one-shot stories I finish in a single sitting and I don't want to have a lot of extra follow-up work beyond editing. However, I think it's reasonable to ask for minor alterations to an express slot story that still fit in the allotted time. Stuff like removing an extra kink would be an ideal example. I'll say no if your request is something that entails a huge rewrite, but for little stuff? There's no real reason to refuse it. This is effective immediately.



Also, be sure to check out the YCH/Contest I have open if you haven't already! It's free! Submissions are still open, keep 'em coming! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56501955/

tl;dr All old forms of payment are still valid. There are new options if you want them.

I've updated my main ToS journal accordingly, but here's the rundown for anyone interested:
- All discounts lower my rate by $0.25 each.
- The "My OCs" discount remains as it was.
- Paying with art from a third party gives you credit at a discounted rate - that is, the discount is in your benefit.
- Paying with gift cards gets you a discount AND I'll round down to the next $5 increment since gift cards are typically sold in multiples of $5.

Any art must be from a third party to avoid any conflicts of interest. Plus, if you're trying to pay me with something you made, that's not paying, that's a trade, and while I am potentially open to trades I handle those on a case-by-case basis.

In the interests of brevity I omitted some "obvious" things from the main journal: I have to approve the artist and the picture idea. You don't have to theme the picture around the story I'm writing for you, or other stories I've written, but I would especially love it if you did. That said, it does need to be something I like, both in terms of the art style (which I am picky on) and the content (so don't try to inject your own kinks into a picture you're trying to pay with or I will ಠ_ಠ at you). I'm flexible with scheduling (since my queue is long and other artists might take a while too) but until I actually get the picture that was intended to be used as payment, I will treat it as though I have not been paid, which means you can't re-enter the queue. If the picture is worth less than what you owe you can pay the difference another way. If it's worth more, then I can credit you towards the next story, or maybe pay you the remainder, depending on circumstances.

Gift cards are easier, but might pose some challenges. For instance, I have discovered that Steam only lets you send digital gift cards to people on your friends list, and they must have been your friends for at least 3 days. There might be other anti-fraud measures on some platforms to account for as well that I'll probably discover as we go.

Okay, so, to elaborate on the previous journal:

I have a day job. The "Code" in "Codelizard" is there for a reason; I'm a programmer. A senior one. As such, I earn a pretty good salary from my day job. For this reason I have been trying to keep my rates low, at around the minimum wage given my average writing speed. I want my stuff to be fairly accessible, and I just charge the money so that I get some compensation for my time. It's a hobby, not my job, so I am always flexible with payments if people need to split them up or wait for a pay day or something, because it's not paying my bills. It's just meant to be a nice little side income that mostly ends up being passed on to other artists when I commission them and pay out of my PayPal balance.

The government thinks otherwise. Because my day job income is a not-insignificant salary, all extra income from my writing commissions gets taxed... heavily. To the point where it doesn't even feel worth it any more, again given that I was originally trying to aim somewhere around minimum wage for my writing rates.

But as crushing as it is to discover this the hard way, I don't want to stop writing or give up commissions. It's a good creative outlet and I enjoy doing it. I like hearing from people who read and enjoy my stories, and I'm always happy when a commissioner likes what I've created for them. Plus, my commissioners give me fun ideas to work with. I want to keep doing it, but I also don't want to be doing it for free (or paying half of it to the IRS). And trying to raise my rates accordingly is a losing battle that will just price everyone out of commissioning me, and I don't want to do that.

So...

I'm currently considering how to accept non-monetary payments. Art would be an obvious option. Or video games or gift cards or stuff like that. I've actually done this a couple times before where I've given people credit for either drawing or commissioning art for me related to my stories.

And doing the math, I could even give a huge discount on it. Even if I hypothetically dropped the exchange to my original rate of $1/100 words, I'd still be coming out ahead compared to earning the money directly and then having the government eat half of it. Not to mention that there's a better emotional payoff; I love seeing my stuff brought to life visually (or even as audio, which has happened once). Even moreso if it's something involving one of my characters. Plus, it helps spread awareness of me and brings in new potential readers to enjoy my work. These things are worth more to me than the $40 (well, $20 after tax) or whatever I'd otherwise get.

There are obvious caveats. I'll need to be willing to accept cash in full either way as not everyone will want to go this route. A perfectly equal exchange is highly improbable, so I'll still have to accept money just to cover the difference, and just treat the non-monetary payments as a discount option. I'll also need to be a little picky on artists and art styles, so that people can't try to pay with MS Paint doodles or tiny background slots in an overpriced YCH. Any given artist and I won't work in lockstep so one of us is going to finish first. It'll require a certain amount of trust between me and the commissioner, as well as the third-party artist.

If I accept gift games I need to be careful not to end up with a thousand games I'll never play, and I have to be picky there too so people don't try to gift me copies of Bad Rats or hentai games or whatever. Gift cards might be nice in certain circumstances where I already have something in mind I need, like a new piece of computer hardware, but otherwise aren't very useful to me. I guess I could also take GrubHub credit for when I order dinner, since food is obviously something I need regularly, but there's an upper limit on how much of that I need.

I'll have to think on it some more before I write it into my terms officially. Until then, it is unofficially a potential option, so feel free to reach out if you're on my queue and interested in such an exchange. I'm also open to ideas in the comments if you have any.

U.S. taxes are an absolute pain in the ass.

That is all.

As is usual, IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON MY QUEUE, THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. This only applies to new main queue slots added after this journal is put up, and to any Express Queue slots that occur after March 1st.

The new rate will be $1.75 per 100 words, rounded down. The new discounted rate will be $1.50 per 100 words, rounded down.

It's going to be a long time before I cycle my queue (though as I mentioned in this journal, I hope to do so some time this year, getting down to at least past the slot currently held by Esayian). So this is me planning ahead more than anything else, well aware that I won't actually see this bump in rates for a long time yet.

I'm also not putting it into effect immediately on Express Queue slots to let people get a few more in at the current rate before the increase.

This year has been quite something. I wrote two books and published one of them, got my Express Queue going to seemingly resounding success, increased my writing time, published to a new furry art site and learned the technical limits of Google Docs. (Pro tip: don't use it for huge projects with lots of revisions and comments)

I'm still going strong, so here's a shortlist of things I'm planning for 2024:

Finish "Small Fish, Big Pond"

I've got one chapter left and it's already 90% done. I just need to take some spare time to wrap it up and it'll be nice to have a mid-size project completed.

Publish "Towards the Light"

The second book that I wrote this year which is undergoing an extensive editing process with the commissioner. We're getting there, despite Google Docs' best efforts to thwart us.

Publish the 2nd edition of "The Planeswalker: Between Skies"

This will depend on when I get all the chapter art for it, and when I write all the bonus scenes and supplemental material I want to add. Ideally this will happen on its 1-year anniversary, but we'll see. The main text of the story won't change (aside from fixing a few errors that slipped through the editing of the 1st edition), I'm just adding more stuff.

Expand to Weasyl

I offer my apologies in advance for what I'm going to do to the Weasyl frontpage. It's a much smaller and less-used site than FA so I wouldn't be surprised if I manage to completely dominate the Writing segment of the frontpage for the better part of a day or more.

Expand my website

I plan to expand TPBS's microsite to have pages for all of my SFW stories: The Days After, Towards the Light, and The Planeswalker: Between Skies, offering all of them (and any more SFW stories I write) in various formats under a pen name.

Start a Discord server

I'll do this after publishing TtL since that will 100% for-sure push me over the 1 million published words milestone. I've got a plan written up for channels and such:
- Channels to ask me questions about whatever; commissions, things I will/won't do, lore, etc.
- Copies of my commission queue and my terms so that they can be found away from any particular art site.
- Announcement channels with an opt-in role for pings so you can know when I've published something.
- Additional formats of longer works, as somehow Discord is the best place for me to dump a bunch of extra formats if you want to read a PDF or ebook version of a story.
- While there will be NSFW channels, and channels for the niche fetishes I'm best known for, they'll be opt-in through a role management bot so you won't have to deal with that if you're not into it.

Experiment with audio recordings

While a more grandiose plan is to record TPBS as an audiobook, I might want to first try something shorter and see how that goes. Maybe people will find my voice annoying, maybe they'll think it's okay for narrative and not erotica, and maybe it'll push people's buttons, who knows. But I won't find out until I try, so I'll have to pick a story (or a scene from a story), record a reading of it, and put it up to see what people think.

Cycle my queue at least once

At the time of writing I have 17 entries in the queue (of which 13 are actually commissioners, and the #1 is written and being edited). Not every slot is equal, some will be smaller and some will be bigger. I'd like to at least go through the whole queue next year at a bare minimum; preferably with more progress than that but I hope to make better progress. Various measures I've started taking (insisting on full outlines before starting and having a pause at 30k words) should help keep my queue moving much more reliably. Ultimately this is still a hobby and not my job, and it won't become my job unless I get laid off or something, but I do want to have a decent turnaround time regardless.

Another bo-

Hahaha, no. Two books in one year was enough to last me a while. Unless...?
More seriously, while I don't have any plans to write a book at this time, I didn't exactly intend to write 100,000 words when I started TPBS or TtL either. They just kind of happened. So I can't exclude the possibility of more accidental books in 2024.
Even more seriously, I'll probably try to take some long-form writing time to do more emotionally weighted stuff like the Warmly series / Study Buddies as they've been incredibly insightful to me while writing them. I'll just have to find some particular theme to write about and explore.

That's all for now. Best of luck to everyone in the new year, and thanks to all my readers! Whether you've read every last word I've written, or only that one story that panders to your specific fetish, I appreciate all of you. Thanks!

🎊

November, 2023 marks (roughly) the fifth year I've been doing this on FA. As is (sorta) tradition I'll compare how things were from the last anniversary journal to where they are now.

General Stats

- I have published 89 stories, up from 55 last year. The introduction of Express Slots has definitely bumped this up a lot.
-- Of these, 1 is over 100k words, 29 are at least 10k but less than 100k, leaving 59 under 10k.
- My word total is now 826,081 words, up from 517,228, which is longer than the entire LotR trilogy plus The Hobbit plus The Silmarillion. This does include my magnum opus, The Planeswalker: Between Skies, but sadly does not include Towards The Light, the second book that I have been working on for  walnut45 which is over 100,000 words as well (and counting!). I will absolutely hit the big one-mil somewhere near the start of 2024.
- I have 1 website, up from 0. :) When I publish TtL I plan to expand TPBS's microsite to host various versions of my clean stories under a pen name. (The fetish work that makes up the majority of my gallery will remain on FA/IB(/Weasyl some day maybe?) where it can be properly age-restricted.)

Kink Stats

- 445 narrated pees, up from 352 last year. A smaller increase since my commissioners have been branching me out into other kinks and fetishes.
-- That's an average of 5 per story, down from 6.4 last year. This includes the heavy lifters like Friendship is Golden or Buy One Get One Pee.
- An estimated 647.65 pints of urine have been expelled, not counting hyper pisses. Last year was 561.8 pints. That's 80.95 gallons, slightly more than the volume of a water heater.
- There have been 162 orgasms, up from 98 last year. A notable bump that corresponds with the drop in watersports-focused stories.
-- That's an average of 1.8, the same as last year.
- 97 floors have been peed on, up from 74.
- 52 containers have been peed in, up from 44.
- 21 vehicles have been peed in, up from 19.
- 60 items of furniture have gotten wet, up from 51.
- And a new stat: 66 people have been peed on in narrated scenes. I defined this one as a character being peed in or on by someone else (so wetting doesn't count). Max once per character per scene, which means Splash Party only counts as one.

Markov Chain Shenanigans

Disclaimer: Since last year, Generative AI has become a bit of a Thing; however, Markov chains aren't a form of GenAI. They're much simpler and just semi-randomly glue text together without much intelligence and zero understanding of context. Moreover, the one I use for these journals is also trained 100% off of my own work, so there's no ethical quandaries to deal with either. I'm only making these to laugh at them anyway. So with that established, let's see what nonsense I get this year.

As before, my own comments are in (parentheses).

General ones

- The day after that, she gasped. (Talk about a delayed reaction!)
- When she clenched her muscles similarly to make sure she was back home. (Is this some weird fetishized version of Alice In Wonderland?)
- Reaching down, Melody straightened up, grinning down at the calculations all over the place. (Melody is strangely excited about math. Who knew?)
- Her pussy was so fast! (That's not an adjective I'd normally ascribe to genitalia, but sure, whatever you say.)
- For several minutes to check out my bulge, of course. (owo?)
- We'll just have to bear the responsibility of your company policy! (This could be some sarcastic Code dialogue.)
- Chloe didn't even turn on. (Some fox she is.)
- She shifted a little, and Zhen obligingly opened his eyes closed tight. (Real "John Freeman turned on off the computer" vibes)
- Kaitlyn agreed, reading some more popcorn, only to relax and unwind, and she sank her hips to almost nothing. (It almost makes sense, and yet makes no sense at all.)
- Then, he slid off her kimono, but looked a lot of extra room with a clench of his hat, resting his arms as she felt his tongue out against the side of the ship. (I think you missed, buddy.)
- We are about to avoid staring too closely at Linya's book; it appeared to be targeted and limited, without alerting its denizens to her as she leaned back, stretching out her phone, she realized she had taken over by the door closed behind them. (It started almost coherent and then just got crazier and crazier.)

Code ones

For this set I decided to see what would happen if I forced it to start a sentence with "Code". ;)

- Code didn't know if it's not real lockpicking. (Code confirmed to not be LPL.)
- Code frowned, turning her on immensely. (Do I want to know the context?)
- Code stood in the open, and not the right phrase. (Code has escaped into the narrative itself.)
- Code didn't know what went wrong, though. (I really don't.)
- Code ended her turn, then set it down in history. (A legendary victory at some tabletop game or other, apparently.)
- Code flicked the end of nowhere. (What.)
- Code stared off into the carpet, and inspected it closely; it had changed her tune, but didn't see each other eagerly. (That time Code did drugs and got into a staring contest with a carpet.)
- Code grinned as she knelt down on her hips, she realized she was unconscious and barely clinging to his pants. (Kneeling down on your hips sounds painful.)
- Code knew about the vegetables. (There's some dark secret being alluded to here.)
- Code was wearing a set of doors. (Ah, doing Dark Souls 3, I see.)
- Code stared off into the trees and the divider between the front displays bearing feminine mannequins in lacey underwear. (Code is trapped in a lingerie store.)

I think I'm still safe from the machine uprising, at least from Markov chains.

For those who have read Otter Meets Otter, the commissioner and I got a joint commission from  nopetrol. Since I'm trying to keep my writing on here and my commissioned art on my other account, I've posted it over there; but in case there are people who just watch this account and are interested, check it out over here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54052260/

As mentioned in my previous journal, the current story is big. Really big. It's going to be longer than The Planeswalker: Between Skies and I did not at all expect that when I first started writing it.

As a result, my queue has ground to a standstill. I don't really want this to keep happening because it's a self-perpetuating cycle: the longer it takes people to get to the top of my queue, the bigger ideas they are going to submit because they want to "make the most of" their slot, which just makes the wait longer. So I am going to nip it in the bud with the following changes effective after this current slot:

A slot in the queue is for a single story. However, every 30,000 words or so I may put a pause on your story and work on the next one down before coming back to you. I say "may" because I will use some judgement: If I'm on the very last scene of your story, for instance, then I'll just finish it out. And if the next one along is probably also going to surpass 30k, then I'll just stick to yours and finish it out as well.

This will incentivize medium-length stories: ideas that are too long for an express slot, but don't go on forever and ever. At 3k per night this is a little over a month's worth of writing time. Long stories will still be perfectly doable but the commissioner will have to wait a bit longer for them. It will also allow my queue to keep moving even with a big one at the front of it. And a proverbial change of scenery will help my writing, too.

Thanks to everyone for your understanding and apologies for the long wait for everyone who is almost at the front of the queue. But I hope that once this current story is finished that it is as well-received as the previous one from that commissioner!

(Edit: I should mention that I chose 30,000 words based off previous stories: almost all of them are shorter than this. Even the longer ones usually cap out around 25k. It's the truly long ones that have gone past this, so it seems a reasonable place to set the limit.)

tl;dr once again I'm fine, just working on another big one.

I know it's been quite a while since the last main-queue story. The reason is simple: the current one is big. I am facing down the real possibility of writing two whole-ass books in the same year and I'm not sure how to feel about that, but it is cool. Thankfully with the Express Queue it hasn't been total radio silence and I'm still doing a short one a week, which is a nice source of variety and a good way to keep you all going with a steady supply of short stories.

This isn't the only one, either; you may recall there was an additional slot that I was working on for a while that got delayed several times before being pulled off entirely. That story was also quite large, just barely shy of 30k words with 7/10 chapters drafted, but unfortunately stuff happened to the commissioner that I won't elaborate on here. I may still be able to finish it up for them at some point in the future but it will be done in my spare time and not as part of my queue, so until then it will languish in an incomplete state.

Ultimately what went wrong here was that each story in this block did not have an outline before I began writing on it, and the fault for that rests entirely with me; as the writer it is my responsibility to make sure I have all the details in order before committing to the work. Similarly to my job, I need to know the requirements before I can start coding. This is why I added an extra clause in my terms earlier this year: I will not start work on a story until I have a complete outline. This isn't to be mean or to be a stickler for rules, it's because I had three stories in a row where I encountered great difficulty due to a lack of an outline and I've learned my lesson. Outlines are important for multiple reasons. They let me gauge the size of the work, but more importantly with a complete outline I can write all the way to the end of the first draft without having to stop and poke the commissioner for more details.

While I do enjoy writing these really big stories, it does feel a little unfair to the people in the main queue who have to wait for me to get past them. However, a person with a big story also waited their turn to get to the top of the queue, so it would also be unfair to make them wait longer by breaking up their story or working on someone else's in parallel. I'll have to think more on how to resolve this since I do, at least, have express slots to partially alleviate the problem; my queue keeps growing - which is good insofar as it means I have lots of people who enjoy my work and want to get some for themselves - and I'd like to be able to move through it a bit faster in some way.

Anyway, that's more or less what I wanted to say: addressing the long wait and why I'm going to be stricter about outlines going forward. With 1/3 as many submissions, my writing account already has 3/4 of the views of my main account, and I'm getting a steady trickle of new watchers all the time. I enjoy my writing and hope to keep doing it and am always glad to hear when people like my work.

Only a couple of months until my 5th anniversary of story writing! Let's go!

If you haven't seen it already, check out https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52481256/

It's been quite a trip. Clocking in at 105,324 words, it is officially my longest creation (crushing the previous record of 50,454) and is longer than The Hobbit (95k words). It also pushes my grand word total to 756,964 words, demolishing my last milestone of 706k (for LotR + The Hobbit + The Silmarillion combined). I will need to start adding another author's books to compare against, probably the Dune books.

Even though I consider The Planeswalker: Between Skies to be my magnum opus, I'm not done writing, definitely not yet. I have to get back to work on Small Fish, Big Pond for one thing and finish that out. Plus my commissions, of course. And I have a whole stack of other ideas stuffed away in a notes file waiting to be turned into actual stories. And if TPBS gets enough interest I plan to do an updated re-release of it once I have all the art done; it'd include various supplementary material like the art, perhaps a map, some extra information about the setting and other things you'd usually find in the appendices of a fantasy book.

I've already gone around to every group I'm in to advertise my book, but I'd greatly appreciate it if others who enjoyed it could help spread the word. It's free, after all! You can't argue with the price and I'd like to think it's an enjoyable fantasy novel for an adult (in terms of maturity, not explicitness) audience who wants a compelling story.

Regardless, this isn't the end. I'm still going strong and I hope to write many more things from here.

I'm Writing A Book!

Or rather, I've written one, and it's in the final stages of editing. It will be published here for free, and I will also be posting some download links in other formats. It's over 100,000 words so I'm going to have to do it in .docx and .pdf formats and I'll ask a friend to convert it into some ebook formats as well. I don't currently intend to actually publish it on an ebook store because of anxiety and a lack of self confidence - it was supposed to be a personal short story that got really out of hand.

I've been posting commissioned art for it on my other account, which you can see here: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....-Between-Skies

What's it about?
If it were a real book and it had a back cover, the blurb would read...

Those who wield great power must know when to stay their hand.

Disaster is unfolding in a world among the clouds populated by dragons, and some of its residents have embarked on a journey to confront it. Yet they have an unusual source of assistance: an extraplanar traveler aiding their efforts.

To avoid discovery, she must blend in among them. Come what may, she must not do anything that compromises her disguise... even when it puts her companions in jeopardy.

Are the lives of friends a price worth paying in pursuit of a goal, however noble it may be?

It is a completely SFW story, but written for an adult audience. It is a high fantasy book that tells of a group on an adventure, their journey, and their bonds with one another. It also serves to properly introduce Shaaria, my other primary character, outside of the realm of smut. It is a serious story with emotional parts, though it's not grimdark or depressing - it is a proper narrative with a real story to it. If you've read The Days After, it's that same general style of narrative.

I'm excited to release it, but also nervous. It's Coming Soon^TM as soon as the final rounds of editing are done. I truly hope people read it and enjoy it!

Friday Writing slot

A prior engagement I had on Fridays has ended, freeing up that evening. I will be using it for writing time, as a 3-hour block, same as the others. I am taking a vacation soon (the week of May 28th), and this will take effect after that week is over. So, June 9th will be the first Friday that I will be writing on.

This is the most time I am willing to devote to my side hobby at this time (9hrs/wk) but it will help me move through the queue faster and will also let me do something else I've been considering, namely...

Quick Slots Are Dead, Long Live The Express Queue

As I mentioned in this journal I am going to do away with Quick Slots, which have had a highly variable and unpredictable demand, and also have to wait behind main-queue commissions. To streamline the whole process and have a quicker turnaround for small things, I will have a second queue that only takes ideas I can finish in one writing session to serve the same purpose. I couldn't have done this back when I only had 1 writing session a week, but now that I will have 3, it's much more feasible.

Details:
- My Sunday writing slot will be used for Express Queue commissions. In the event that it is empty I will (probably) use it for main queue commissions instead.
- Express Queue slots have a soft limit of 3000 words, which is roughly "one scene with an intro", because 2500-3000 words is typically how much I can do in a single writing session.
- For NSFW stories, any sex or fetish scenes will have a limit of 2 characters maximum.
- Express Queue stories must be self-contained. That is, whatever story they have must be resolved within that same slot. Sequels to previous self-contained stories are fine, just no "Part 1" type stuff in the Express Queue - that's what main queue slots are for.
- You must have an outline ready and approved by me before I will put you in the Express Queue. As with main queue commissions I'm perfectly happy to help flesh out or even write an outline, but I will not accept "I'll come up with an idea later" for the express queue. (It's still fine for the main queue) This is because I need to verify that your idea is actually something I can do in a single writing block.
- Express slots will be charged at my normal rate of $1.50/100 words rounded down, or $1.35/100 words if one of my characters is in a major role in it.
- Any material I would normally write about is allowed in an Express Queue story, as long as it can fit in the word limit.
- You can be in both queues at the same time, but still only once per queue.
- The main queue will have a personal slot every 4 slots instead of every 5; all the current Quick Slots will simply be deleted from the queue.
- I will not reserve slots for myself in the Express Queue.

I am willing to accept ideas now but I will not work on them until after the previously mentioned schedule change - so the first Express Queue writing day will be Sunday, June 4th.

I just noticed I hit another nice milestone recently, and this increase is for sure entirely due to my work and not due to any legacy holdover courtesy watchers.

Thank you all! I'm keeping at it and I hope you continue to read and enjoy the stories I create.