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While writing the fourth Ana story I took a good look at just how much lore, overarching plots and character growth (no pun intended) I was trying to cram into it and it made me realise that I was writing a pretty terrible piece of erotica.
I ended up talking to a few friends about it and the general consensus was that despite my misgivings there was something worthwhile in there. The big problem, however, was that short pieces of hyper-niche erotica aren't really a great way to deliver any kind of big narrative to an audience…
So we're going to try making a webcomic.
Who's "we" you ask? Well it's worked on by a shadowy cabal we've named "The C.S.C.". Some move in the kinds of circles the original stories were published in while others are just awesome people we knew with a variety of creative backgrounds that were willing to jump aboard.
Right now anyone that has read my work before is probably wondering something along the lines of: "Webcomic, huh? Sounds cool, but how much will it appeal to my… niche interests?"
To which the blunt answer is: "Probably Less."
But do not despair, good reader!
If you like domination then you can expect more-or-less the same one-sided power dynamic in a romance between a demanding princess and her attendant.
If you like the size/weight stuff then Ana is going to remain proud to be a big, beautiful, demoness who towers twice as tall as most humans.
And if vore is what drew you to my stories then rest assured that nobody is getting put on a vegetarian diet.
All that being said though, there's going to be way less of a focus on the fetishy/NSFW elements. We aren't setting out to make a lewd comic because not only are we publishing it on a platform that doesn't allow explicit content, but we're trying to make something that can be enjoyed by anyone. Those elements will remain present in the DNA of the story, but it's more like we're telling a story involving them as themes rather than being written specifically just to feature them. In many ways it's just the next logical progression for my storytelling after years spent drifting gradually away from straight-up titillation.
(There has been a little bit of discussion about eventually doing what a lot of other romance webtoons do and using patreon to fund work on the comic by offering early access to bonus NSFW content.)
I realise that this "unlewding" might come as a slight disappointment to some… and for that I apologise. I would also like to sincerely thank anyone who does feel let down because not only did you take the time to read my stories, but you must have enjoyed them enough to want more of the same and I really, truly appreciate that.
But rather than spending any more time focusing on potential downsides or what the webtoon is NOT going to be, I want to focus on the positives and what it IS going to be!
At the moment we're planning to self-publish on Webtoon Canvas starting with a three episode pilot to see what the reception is like. If there's enough support for it we hope to build up to the point where there would be a new episode coming out monthly with each instalment being a pretty decent length (the scripts we're working from at the moment are several pages long per episode in text format).
We're using the existing stories as a starting point while expanding the cast of characters and fleshing out the setting in order to make the "fantasy" element a bigger part rather than just serving as a backdrop for a romance story. There will also be a bit of a mystery element to it as Ash learns more about demons and Ana but things don't quite seem to add up.
So where is this project at the moment? It's still in the early stages. It's been a year full of personal challenges and other disruptions but we're making progress… steadily. We've got a bunch of concept art, character designs, scripts and long-term plans already and we've started storyboarding the pilot episodes.
I'm announcing it now in the early stages because one thing that we would absolutely LOVE to get is any kind of feedback.
Are people excited after reading this announcement? Do they hate the idea? Do I even update here frequently enough for anyone to care in the slightest? Who knows, we certainly don't!
If you have questions, comments or criticism then please, PLEASE let me know what you think! Leave a comment here, message me directly, whatever! Help us make this thing as good as it can be.
I ended up talking to a few friends about it and the general consensus was that despite my misgivings there was something worthwhile in there. The big problem, however, was that short pieces of hyper-niche erotica aren't really a great way to deliver any kind of big narrative to an audience…
So we're going to try making a webcomic.
Who's "we" you ask? Well it's worked on by a shadowy cabal we've named "The C.S.C.". Some move in the kinds of circles the original stories were published in while others are just awesome people we knew with a variety of creative backgrounds that were willing to jump aboard.
Right now anyone that has read my work before is probably wondering something along the lines of: "Webcomic, huh? Sounds cool, but how much will it appeal to my… niche interests?"
To which the blunt answer is: "Probably Less."
But do not despair, good reader!
If you like domination then you can expect more-or-less the same one-sided power dynamic in a romance between a demanding princess and her attendant.
If you like the size/weight stuff then Ana is going to remain proud to be a big, beautiful, demoness who towers twice as tall as most humans.
And if vore is what drew you to my stories then rest assured that nobody is getting put on a vegetarian diet.
All that being said though, there's going to be way less of a focus on the fetishy/NSFW elements. We aren't setting out to make a lewd comic because not only are we publishing it on a platform that doesn't allow explicit content, but we're trying to make something that can be enjoyed by anyone. Those elements will remain present in the DNA of the story, but it's more like we're telling a story involving them as themes rather than being written specifically just to feature them. In many ways it's just the next logical progression for my storytelling after years spent drifting gradually away from straight-up titillation.
(There has been a little bit of discussion about eventually doing what a lot of other romance webtoons do and using patreon to fund work on the comic by offering early access to bonus NSFW content.)
I realise that this "unlewding" might come as a slight disappointment to some… and for that I apologise. I would also like to sincerely thank anyone who does feel let down because not only did you take the time to read my stories, but you must have enjoyed them enough to want more of the same and I really, truly appreciate that.
But rather than spending any more time focusing on potential downsides or what the webtoon is NOT going to be, I want to focus on the positives and what it IS going to be!
At the moment we're planning to self-publish on Webtoon Canvas starting with a three episode pilot to see what the reception is like. If there's enough support for it we hope to build up to the point where there would be a new episode coming out monthly with each instalment being a pretty decent length (the scripts we're working from at the moment are several pages long per episode in text format).
We're using the existing stories as a starting point while expanding the cast of characters and fleshing out the setting in order to make the "fantasy" element a bigger part rather than just serving as a backdrop for a romance story. There will also be a bit of a mystery element to it as Ash learns more about demons and Ana but things don't quite seem to add up.
So where is this project at the moment? It's still in the early stages. It's been a year full of personal challenges and other disruptions but we're making progress… steadily. We've got a bunch of concept art, character designs, scripts and long-term plans already and we've started storyboarding the pilot episodes.
I'm announcing it now in the early stages because one thing that we would absolutely LOVE to get is any kind of feedback.
Are people excited after reading this announcement? Do they hate the idea? Do I even update here frequently enough for anyone to care in the slightest? Who knows, we certainly don't!
If you have questions, comments or criticism then please, PLEASE let me know what you think! Leave a comment here, message me directly, whatever! Help us make this thing as good as it can be.
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Sorry if this dampens your enthusiasm for something you're no doubt working hard on and excited for, but this is more than a slight disappointment to see. I'll be sure to give your webcomic a look when it launches, but I really enjoyed the lewd and fetishy elements of this story, and not much else. The lore was certainly unique and in some ways intriguing, the king in particular being a memorable character. But on the whole, other than the lewd elements, I found the stories just depressing.
I think I may have said in a comment or note somewhere that the real world is depressing enough, is it necessary that our fiction be even more unrelenting? Maybe there would have been catharsis through character growth (lol), but it felt like there was scarcely a bone thrown my way. I was unsure you would ever even take the story that way, and instead just more unrelenting abuse, slavery, torture, murder, and tyranny. I don't go to FA to see that, I get an eye full of it every morning when I pick up a newspaper. So it was hard to motivate myself to keep reading your work. Though the effort you clearly put into it did keep me around, despite the content really turning my stomach at times.
The porn at least gave me the escapism I craved, and I could rewrite what surrounded it to suit my desires.
Oh well. As I said I'll check it out, but this is disappointing. Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear.
I think I may have said in a comment or note somewhere that the real world is depressing enough, is it necessary that our fiction be even more unrelenting? Maybe there would have been catharsis through character growth (lol), but it felt like there was scarcely a bone thrown my way. I was unsure you would ever even take the story that way, and instead just more unrelenting abuse, slavery, torture, murder, and tyranny. I don't go to FA to see that, I get an eye full of it every morning when I pick up a newspaper. So it was hard to motivate myself to keep reading your work. Though the effort you clearly put into it did keep me around, despite the content really turning my stomach at times.
The porn at least gave me the escapism I craved, and I could rewrite what surrounded it to suit my desires.
Oh well. As I said I'll check it out, but this is disappointing. Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear.
No need to apologise at all! I asked for all kinds of feedback and feedback you gave!
I can certainly understand the need for escapism, the world is indeed a depressing place with some big, obstinate problems. One of the great things about fantasy in general is that it can provide a way to get away from all that, but one of its other wonderful qualities is that it can be the lens through which real themes and issues are explored; I've always considered the Ana stories to be closer to the latter. (I'm not saying that one is better than the other or that you're in any way wrong to look for escapism in fantasy!) I think, in part, writing stories that deal with some of those real themes is one of the ways that I cope with some of the depressing stuff in the real world.
Ana very much acts as a representation of so many problems with the world, in fact even in-universe she's literally them given physical form! She's a big, obstinate problem for everyone that's too big to be ignored and those with any real power or authority over her (The Queen) act like they don't care or even want her to get worse because it benefits them. That's why I find that Ash makes such a good perspective to tell the story from because in a way most of us are in their position. Ana is largely their problem now, even though they didn't ask to be put in the situation. Despite having such little power in this world, Ash spends every day trying to reduce the suffering of their fellow humans. Even though they know they're outmatched they do everything they can. They use their empathy to start understanding what makes up "the problem" and how it got to be that way and that allows them to start making a real difference. Sure they don't magically fix everything and it's exhausting, but they feel that duty because even those small changes they are able to bring about in Ana's behaviour end up saving lives and that makes it worth it.
(Didn't mean to go off on such a tangent, whoops!)
Anyway, if you found the stuff with Ana's father interesting, that's the kind of "mystery" element we're hoping to make a bigger part of the comic.
And thanks again for taking the time to read and repeatedly give me awesome feedback. :)
I can certainly understand the need for escapism, the world is indeed a depressing place with some big, obstinate problems. One of the great things about fantasy in general is that it can provide a way to get away from all that, but one of its other wonderful qualities is that it can be the lens through which real themes and issues are explored; I've always considered the Ana stories to be closer to the latter. (I'm not saying that one is better than the other or that you're in any way wrong to look for escapism in fantasy!) I think, in part, writing stories that deal with some of those real themes is one of the ways that I cope with some of the depressing stuff in the real world.
Ana very much acts as a representation of so many problems with the world, in fact even in-universe she's literally them given physical form! She's a big, obstinate problem for everyone that's too big to be ignored and those with any real power or authority over her (The Queen) act like they don't care or even want her to get worse because it benefits them. That's why I find that Ash makes such a good perspective to tell the story from because in a way most of us are in their position. Ana is largely their problem now, even though they didn't ask to be put in the situation. Despite having such little power in this world, Ash spends every day trying to reduce the suffering of their fellow humans. Even though they know they're outmatched they do everything they can. They use their empathy to start understanding what makes up "the problem" and how it got to be that way and that allows them to start making a real difference. Sure they don't magically fix everything and it's exhausting, but they feel that duty because even those small changes they are able to bring about in Ana's behaviour end up saving lives and that makes it worth it.
(Didn't mean to go off on such a tangent, whoops!)
Anyway, if you found the stuff with Ana's father interesting, that's the kind of "mystery" element we're hoping to make a bigger part of the comic.
And thanks again for taking the time to read and repeatedly give me awesome feedback. :)
Hmm, if that's the direction you intended for Ash I'm not sure I really felt that communicated. Though it's possible I wasn't reading carefully or was just too put off by other things in the story. Nonetheless, I found his extreme callowness repulsive. To use a modern comparison, he reminds me of the hypothetical Muscovite on the street, whom if you ask "what's your opinion on your president" will look at his feet and mumble out "I don't really follow politics" before quickly leaving.
In the real world it disgusts me to see people so quick to lie down and die in the face of tyranny, because it's not pointless to resist (obviously that's easy for me to say, but still). But in your fantasy you've created a world where it truly is pointless to resist, or at least it would seem that way. But it definitely seemed there was no interest in presenting anything more than one depressing atrocity after the next. The story I really want to read is one about the indomitable spirit of humanity crushing the callous repression of demonkind. Not a pathetic slave repeatedly spouting gee whiz, isn't my evil mistress awe inspiring?
I definitely did enjoy the "mirror universe" setting and characters a lot more, so I'm hoping that's what you use for this project. Or at least something more in keeping with that direction than the original two stories, or the genocidal monster of the Queen Ana story.
In the real world it disgusts me to see people so quick to lie down and die in the face of tyranny, because it's not pointless to resist (obviously that's easy for me to say, but still). But in your fantasy you've created a world where it truly is pointless to resist, or at least it would seem that way. But it definitely seemed there was no interest in presenting anything more than one depressing atrocity after the next. The story I really want to read is one about the indomitable spirit of humanity crushing the callous repression of demonkind. Not a pathetic slave repeatedly spouting gee whiz, isn't my evil mistress awe inspiring?
I definitely did enjoy the "mirror universe" setting and characters a lot more, so I'm hoping that's what you use for this project. Or at least something more in keeping with that direction than the original two stories, or the genocidal monster of the Queen Ana story.
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