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I would say we are still safe on here. I try to keep the real stuff somewhat hidden, so they would have to do some digging before they find anything. I think the way I do it is still somewhat safe. It's not immediately obvious that b-stuff really is the main thing here. And I don't think they will. It does mean that if they get serious, they might get me too. Either way, I have no control over that so I try not to worry. But I would recommend you post links to an archive if you are going to monetize it, rather than posting images and don't directly mention the stuff you do if it violates tos. I don't know for sure that it matters, but I like to think it does.

zeroGravitas

Hey ZeroG. Just getting a little worried here since I heard some other Patreon Artist got axed because their content (starts with LOL and ends with I) violates the TOS of this site. Then the recent news about Pixiv booth, fanbox and requests are also going to crack down on lewd content has me extra worried. So I just wanna ask how safe are we here for your brand of content? I am on Pixiv fanbox actually and just starting out so this news really bums me out since I wont be able to sell my service there and probably not here too on Patreon.

Kwess

Not every day of the week, but I do on weekends :)

Mrorome

You check every day? That's really unnecessary (unless you want to of course). I typically update on Sunday or Monday (I'm almost done with this week's stuff but don't know if I can finish it today). I'll change the pinned post so you can see what I am working on and how it's progressing.

zeroGravitas

This is completely understandable. It would be nice if there was some pinned post where you could keep us updated when we'll be getting a new post, so we don't have to check every day :D

Mrorome

Also keep in mind that ZeroG has a full time job on top of this, to my understanding. I don't think the poor guy sleeps at all ;)

Chem321

Yes, I am working solo. Not having assistants is not really a financial issue. I'm not exactly sure how that would work, since I prefer to do the drawing/rendering myself, that's the fun bit and it's the whole point of doing all this. I don't think I can easily delegate some of that.

zeroGravitas

George, It's a balance between complexity of the process, quality and weekly output (as seen in the Actual Rescue Party storyline with detailed interiors). I totally understand where you're coming from but I assume ZeroG is working solo so you just gotta let them do their thing. interesting question though is if you create a higher tier, will getting assistants be something that's feasible for you if theres enough subscribers?

Kwess

I'll still take this as a compliment :). I'm working on a couple of things right now, but really, a few images a week is as much as I can do.

zeroGravitas

Hey ZeroG, you know what, you have one very big downside and that is - the updates are too slow ！！！！！！Take my money! Just take it! Please! Please! Please! I want to see what happen next lol

Furing George

I've only been a patron for literally 24 hours and I'm already obsessed. I saw this yt short about barnacle adhesives and all I could think of was your suspiciously sticky monsters! Keep up the gorgeous filthy work :) https://youtube.com/shorts/ooQA7KBFJto?feature=share

Mable

That would be awesome! Maybe the captives are stuffed in the cells of the comb and sealed, in various situations.

Amoskeag

Thanks for telling me. I'll figure out some sort of backup, just in case

zeroGravitas

Hey, ZeroG! With the latest bans on Patreon you should make some other account to keep us informed where to find you if they strike down your account. I wouldn't want to lose access to your great work just because of some prudes in Patreon management ;)

Mrorome

Great art! Personally I would love to see something with wasps and a breeding hive

mrvn

Here's an idea for a story: Say a bunch of girls (could be the ones now) survived and bonded over their shared experience of being pumped by spiders. Some move on to become arachnid/nasty critter-stomping machines, Others... go a bit loopy and starts a f-ed up fertility cult. Fast forward a bit, colonies elsewhere go silent, and spiders (or something similar) are spotted in far=away places... too far to be a natural occurrence. The experts get called in, and then finds out it was old friends who are spreading the critters. Now they have to deal with BOTH rapey spiders AND insane cultists... Alternatively, the cultists could be replaced with people trying to weaponize the spiders gone horribly wrong...

D0gbert

I realized just now it was on my end, the page needed a refresh, sorry bout that.

CVonRatz .

Are you sure? The link still works for me. If it really doesn't work, I can make a secondary archive on gmail.

zeroGravitas

Uh, I believe the mega folder has been deleted, its telling me that they removed it for violating guidelines, or that it was removed. Either way I'd like to know why.

CVonRatz .

Would love to see more of the uncovered variants in the rescue party series. Especially the two girls giving birth at the end. Glad to be a subscriber. You won me over with the three of them tied up in webbing and pregnant over on pixiv

Karl luctem

Do you think you will eventually add a more "grim fate" to the girls. Like as the spiders feeding on their mothers or the other girl being dissolved in the slug?

Thomas Madsen

Well, if it's a colony run by a corporation, they don't need a reason to start it other than "Make Number Go Up." (The same justification would apply to how they give assignments to their monster hunters, it would appear.)

Matt (not that one)

Petroleum and other necessary resources would be a reason to colonize this strange and dangerous world.

Than why would you bother making a colony there ? Wahts the point ?

Marcin

Perhaps this particular planet has a strong magnetic field or perhaps there's radiation in the environment that specifically inhibits fancy tech like nanobots, long range communication and advanced AI and the like (maybe due to some kind of alien artifact? maybe the place is something like a planet of the dead, from the culture series?). And viruses or other pathogens don't work, the monsters on the planet are immune to all that. Simple tech works, basic drones, relatively low tech vehicles and weapons are fine too. In this setting, sending out a bunch of minimum wage workers is better. The only thing I would change from the excellent bit of lore above would be that companies recruit from local settlers

zeroGravitas

I mean... wouldnt it be cheaper to just deploy drones ? Or a nano cloud ? Or a virus keyed specyfically to the offending specie? Unless you just farm those things and "specialists" are sent down as fresh meat ;P

Marcin

I have tried to write a setting for your excellent artwork, that doesn't contradict anything you created so far and hope you enjoy it: Interstellar terraforming Making former uninhabitable planets even partly habitable is big business and more than one company competes against each other to create new living space for humanity. With new technology making it comparatively cheap to start the process of terraforming a small stretch of land on a formerly uninhabitable planet, there are unfortunately some undesired side effects of the crude “terraforming” equipment in use by all companies in this business. Most notably is the fact, that there are always unfortunate evolutionary aberrations in the newly created local wildlife. To make matters worse, those aberrations are quite dangerous, having given the whole process a bad name and cutting severely into the profit margins of the companies after several instances of new colonies being overrun by the monsters created by the terraformers with the colonists vanishing for good. But where there is profit to be had and money has been spend, there is a need to succeed. Now the companies have turned to hiring freelancers to deal with the wild life, paying per kill and sending them down alone and with a minimum of equipment, as well as beacon, that can be activated when they are finished with their jobs and ready for pick up. Due to the transportation through space costing a fortune, making every pound of equipment and human cutting further into the profit margins of the companies, the vast majority of those freelancers are women, who are typically lighter than their male counterparts and with modern weapons nearly just as effective. With minimal knowledge of the dangers and in the best cases some images taken from beyond orbit, the companies generally have barely a clue of the dangers they send the freelancers into with that being doubly true about creatures living mostly underground. So every freelancer send is a gamble for a company, that may or may not pay off. Especially since there is no way for the freelancers to communicate with the companies once planetside, so the companies just have to send them down and hope for the best. To say that the job is dangerous is an understatement and the best spin the companies put on it, still doesn't get them the best and most highly trained individuals they may desire, despite the exceptional pay offered, if the freelancer succeeds. The best companies are willing to contractually offer the freelancers a rescue party, who is send to the planet, if they don't activate the return beacon in a set amount of time, but most don't bother, as sending in further freelancers into a dangerous situation, which was to much for one of them is seldom profitable, as a rescue party is seldom able to clear the planet of the dangers the first freelancer ran into. There are some rumors of unscrupulous companies still selling land on dangerous planets to settlers, despite not having cleared them of the dangerous monsters, as well as other rumors about some freelancers being send to clear planets despite their having been already failed attempts to settle those or send to a planet where a freelancer or even a couple of freelancers have already vanished, but in the end, who can really say as those informations are highly classified and valuable trade secrets of the companies involved. Rumors about freelancers being send covertly onto planets already inhabited by settlers to clear out remaining monsters before anyone notices the dangers the settlers are in, are just as numerous, as they are unprovable at the moment. (I hope you like it and would love to get some feedback:-) )

kradeno

Also, set out in small squads instead of being alone or in pairs...? XD Then again. as many memes and jokes have pointed out, if people started acting logically, most stories and movies would be 15 mins long at best. P.S. the arachnids seem almost sentient. I wonder, do they treat humans (at least the females...) as dangerous but tamable "livestock"...?

D0gbert

Well, it worked for the slug :p. But I suppose a better lesson to take from this would be "don't get within petting distance of something that is trying to eat you". I'm not entirely sure about the lore yet. I have this idea this is some kind of alien planet in the process of being settled. Humans are hunting the local wildlife because the monsters are a nuisance, and because it is fun. It's not much of a backstory yet, but it might get better

zeroGravitas

The moral of your short stories? If you somehow find yourself in a fist-fight with a chick, punch them in the vag...? Will you ever produce some backstory to your world...? Fucked up Earth or an alien planet?

D0gbert

I'd settle for "spider outbreak in lab goes *real bad* for our heroines' overconfident bosses," but this idea also has merit.

Matt (not that one)

Cool...looking forward to that. And if you need any ideas/suggestions for the escape ending, I did write up one as my own fanfic. It coincidentally also starts right at Rescue Party 18; I'd be happy to share it with you! (It turned into more of an escape + epilogue, because I just could not stop writing it.)

Matt (not that one)

By the way, I love the fully encased stuff, as an end picture very much. Looks like utter defeat to me, when they can't even see anymore and only breath through the webbing as little as is absolutely needed to let them survive. Weakening them, making them unable to resist being fed disgusting substances for sustanance, which makes them even more passive. Makes it hard for them to think, to struggle at all, leaving them in a drugged state only to be broken out of this state by the intense pain of birthing monsters, as they realize, what has become of them for a short while, till the cycle of forced impregnation, being forced fed, sinking into a drugged haze, till they are birthing monsters again continue for the rest of their lives. Also I love how the spiders are smaller, than their victims. Making their defeat so much more humiliating in my opinion. Would love, if you could create a series at some point, where again the heroines are defeated by something much smaller than them :-) I have high hopes for the Gastropod Ambush story :-)

kradeno

The escape ending will be a future update. I think that one will take place after part 18, just before the one little spider scurried away with the knife. Right now I'm working on the ending where they don't make it out

zeroGravitas

Maybe the hoard of new spiders will go on the offensive towards civilization?

Chem321

Would this be the escape ending, or is that a future update?

Matt (not that one)

Cool, thanks! I was looking forward to the grand finale :-P

I think we will be returning to rescue party after this week's giant slugs update (hopefully by this weekend). Rescue party still needs a proper ending like you say, and I do already have a few scenes sketched out.

zeroGravitas

So I was just wondering, when you are done with Giant Slugs, will we see a return to Rescue Party? It's been a long pregnancy, but it would be lovely to see the three beautiful ladies finally give birth to their massive spider broods, and then begin the cycle again. It would also be nice to see some new hosts in the second chamber, too. IDK if you just wanted to add a few more final chapters or start a new, shorter sequel series, but you pick the ending that you want!

Quick idea: If your escape storyline involves our heroines getting saved by more rescuer(s), maybe they find the rescuees by tracking a homing chip they all have implanted into them by their amoral bosses. If you feel like making the backstory more dystopian, that is. (I did write out more ideas for my own escape-ending fanfic, but of course it's way too large to include in a comment...)

Matt (not that one)

Yeah, my thought process began and ended with "rule of cool" here. :D

Matt (not that one)

I always consider any suggestions I read here. A redhead is a good idea. It was mentioned before, I like it and plan to make the next new character one. Sword expert sounds interesting, but I'm not entirely sure how that fits with the rest of the setting. Unless there are creatures that can't be defeated by projectile weapons I guess. swords are cool though

zeroGravitas

Out of context, but if you're taking suggestions for future cast members, the phrase "redheaded sword expert" came to mind the other day.

Matt (not that one)

Yeah it's on the same planet, but they aren't that close to eachother (slightly different biome)

zeroGravitas

Sorry, if this has been already discussed and I just missed it: Are both the spiders and the slugs on the same planet? Is it possible, that the hot chick fighting the slug right now is just a few meters above the 3 hot "spidered" girl-breeders?

Scyrus

That's the reason for the long gap: the embryos need time to grow inside the mother, so by the time we get back to her and the ladies in Rescue Party, they will have reached full term and are ready to give birth.

Poor Adventurer is still just lying there, glued to the ground helplessly hosting however many eggs were implanted. I'd love to see her try to struggle her way out of that mess while birthing a colony and hope she can escape before the mother comes back.

Gloodood

wholeheartly agree to not burn yourself out. As for me, my favourite will always be Rescue Party 8-12

m

I'd love to see more for Gastropod ambush, presumably with more than one (One doing the capturing, and one worming it's way inside before the inevitable belly swelling.) Would also love to see more of the creature in Adventurer, it's definitely the girthiest of the monsters you'd done so far, and much love for the Monster Hunter lineup.

Fuoren

My favorite non-sexual ones are Monster Hunter 8-10: for the fantastic perspective, the looks on her face, and her wonderful body.

Pat

That's alright zG, don't burn yourself out. It's good to have notes on future series and updates so you don't suffer from writer's block and struggle to come up with something new in the future.

I'm taking notes. We will probably revisit a few older stories. I want to do a remake of big game hunting (the first one I ever did), and is still one of my favourites up until the conclusion. Giant Slugs started as a remake but after the first drawing I went in a different direction. But you are right, Adventurer can do with some additional images. I also like suggestion of the Monster Hunter variants. Will do. Man, so many things to draw, so little time

zeroGravitas

Speaking of revisits I wouldn't mind a few more images for Adventurer, like maybe 2 or 3. It's odd because it begins in the middle of the attack, but what's worse is that it ends just after the woman (Sam, I think) has been implanted, which I think is a very unsatisfying conclusion. Something I would like to see is: 1. Sam just before she gets ambushed by the monster in page2, like maybe it sneaking up behind her while shes patrolling. 2. After p07c an image of her a few weeks later, still trapped in the slime but also heavily pregnant. 3. And one more of her giving birth to her new offspring. Overall I would like to see this series have a similar conclusion to Monster Hunter, but obviously with different poses to make things more interesting. Hopefully it's not too big of an ask. ;-)

Actually I have a small request for Zero, since we're now getting alternate stuff, is it possible we could get a similar 'fully encased' series of alts with the 'Monster Hunter' series, where the girl has her whole face covered?

CVonRatz .

Any where theres a big pregnant belly on the damsels, or where the babies begin to crawl out of them. Can't really choose a favorite in particular though, but Rescue party is high up there.

CVonRatz .

My favorite : Pest Control, pages 12-18 (spiders12-18). Can't bring it down to a single image.

Scyrus

So, as we wait for the stunning conclusion to Rescue Party... whats everyone's favourite single image overall so far? And why? Theres almost too many, but mine is probably Monster Hunter P16. I just love the whole 'imminent impregnation' thing going on; the way the Adventurer's naked body is posed in the slime, how dangerously close the monster's ovipositor is to her sex and the way it is drooling... and the look of horror on her face as she sees it... and the eggs inside. It's like she gets a second to realize what its about to do to her before the inevitable happens...

Not sure about the random string as a name, but sluggo's a nice nickname. I can see adventurers refer to giant slugs as such, right before they learn the hard way that these creatures are to be respected and feared.

zeroGravitas

Well, for the monsters, you could always go with a random series of letters and numbers (like Species A-23 or Subject 4X-Omega). You could also toss in the occasional nickname (Specimen 62-Delta-5 "Sluggo"). I definitely like Evie for the blonde rescuer; it's a charming name. That's up to you, of course, but I like it!

Matt (not that one)

I am working on a real canon ending to rescue party, which will be done soon. Haven't started with the escape ending yet, but I will get to it.

zeroGravitas

Yeah naming them is difficult.I think one of them will be named Evie, I like that name for some reason. Another issue is naming the monsters. I can't really keep calling them giant slug or spider, especially once other stories will feature different types of slugs, spiders etc.

zeroGravitas

Well Kimm did suggest that one of the other brunettes be named after her. And with the story I'm writing for Gastropod Ambush I'm tentatively calling the black-haired girl Chloe. I don't think that she is Lena, as she has a more muscular, powerlifter-like physique compared to Lena's graceful, ballerina-type body. Naming each lady I think is important, because it allows us, the viewer, to connect more emotionally with their plight as well as their physical attractiveness. Plus. it's fun to compare the stats between each girl, like how many children they have produced and with what monster! ;-P

Say, did we ever come up with names for the other two ladies? We've got Sam and Lena, but I think we're still short names for the two Rescue Patrollers.

Matt (not that one)

I do look forward to the endings of Rescue party: A final and an alternate one (maybe where they do escape).

Double X Studios

your work is wonderful!! I definitely want to see the girls get into more deadly blob, spider and strange creature scenarios!

Mezz Mezzrow

Good idea, other channels I support do this, or send the new link out at the start of each month

Majorace14