Update 13th Jul '25

Yeah, so like everyone else and their dog the last couple of weeks I got sucked into the hype around the horse girl game...

It's pretty good, but more "bring-your-daughter-to-sports-practise" than more overtly fanservice anime games (like Nikke). I do like to keep track of these gacha games for professional reasons as well. I also currently have a large roster of attractive female characters and it's always worth looking at what other people are doing to see if I can explore new ways of using them.

I suspect I'm always going to be hamstrung by my girls being a little too explicit on the sexual side and also my love of horror having them do things that are a little bit more extreme than the regular sexy anime waifus. (Please stop eating the customers!).

I thought it might help as I noticed I was dragging my feet on writing the slime smother nun scenario. It's been a recurring problem with the longer mini-boss scenarios and it probably hasn't helped that the nun scenario has been in progress for a while and constantly shunted to the side by more pressing programming concerns. I did try to throw everything at it to get her finished. Sometimes that works. Sometimes it fails and I end up banging my head against the wall and get nothing done. That's how it is with me unfortunately. There are fast weeks and there are slow weeks.

Next week I'll go back to partitioning the day into strict time slots again. That way even if the writing is slow, I'm still getting work done on something else in the other time slot. I'll just keep an eye on it in case I feel like I'm getting burned out.

I do have a mitigation plan for this. If I do need to switch gears and work on something else for a short while, my plan is to get the next short story collection finished up. I was going to spend a month on this anyway at some point this year (likely after I've released the last mini-boss - the imp harem troupe). If needed, I can bump that up if I really need to clear my head by working on something else for a short while.

I'll see how next week goes. I do know what I need to write for the last scenario. My brain is just being a little stubborn and uncooperative when putting pen to paper. (The current heatwave in the UK probably isn't helping there).

In much better news, one of you did decide to "adopt" a harlot, and marwmellow has finished the piece, which means I have some art of a harlot doing slightly more exciting things than the regular pinup piece. I might preview that early (with the commissioning patron's permission) or sneak it in as a surprise treat. If other people would like to do the same for their favourite harlot, contact me and hopefully I'll be able to set something else.

Apologies for the lack of progress this week. Sometimes I have good weeks and sometimes I have not so good weeks. Slime nun is so close to getting done, so hopefully tighter discipline will get her over the line next week.

Thanks for the support!
- manyeyedhydra