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πŸ«“ Wednesday weigh-in: Courtney's partner in poppadomination

Hey all πŸ‘‹

Sorry for the quietness this week!

I've finished the pic I posted a preview of last week and was going to post today... buuuut then I got inspired to write a little scene to go with it.

I should have the written scene finished by Sunday (it's only a short one), but I didn't want to leave you guys hanging too long, so as an appetiser here's the other half of the pic.

In case you hadn't guessed from the hint last week, Courtney's partner in poppadom...

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πŸ› Wednesday weigh-in: Taking up space

Hey everyone πŸ‘‹

And Happy EasterπŸ₯🐰!

Little WIP pic and character concept for you this week. Or, more accurately, one half of a WIP pic (see below).

Allow me to introduce Courtney. Like the pic, her background and even her name are a work in progress out. But I get the sense that she's a failed footballer's wife - which is to say she married a footballer who never quite made it (provisionally named Liam).

Courtney is early-mid thirties while Liam has just passed...

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πŸŒƒ Wednesday weigh-in: Too heavy for the haunt

Morning all πŸ‘‹

Hope everyone has had a good week. Bit of a hectic one for me, with a lot of things going very wrong in work-work, but I managed to finish off this little short story, inspired by one of ExtraBaggageClaim's weekly writing prompts from a few weeks ago.

The prompt word was haunt, and the story below is a longer version of the one I've posted on DeviantArt.

I had real fun with this, and plan to continue it, probably wh...

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🍽️ Dinner for Two

Introducing Donna and Eva, two OC's created by KewlKidz.

Kewl commissioned this pic from me (there'll be further pics of them to come) and has written an fantastic little introductory scene to go with it, which you can check out below!

Dinner for Two ~ By KewlKidz

β€œPlease make yourself comfortable. Ms. Baratta shouldn’t be much longer.” said the tall well-dressed man. 

Eva thanked the servant who had escorted her to the main di...

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Wednesday weigh-in: Sowing some Discord & A millionaire's middle

Morning friends πŸ‘‹

Hope everyone is well.

It shows how deeply I've been living in my own fictional universe that when someone mentioned "the drizzle" to me the other day, my first thought was of Kari and Yaz licking their lips and gazing at butterscotch sauce dripping in thick layers over the edges of their strawberry pavlova, and my second was of Tyler squeezing chocolate syrup into Hayley's mouth to cap off a midnight snack.

Funny... and perhaps quite uplifting? For most...

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🏠 Wednesday weigh-in: A Tubby Tenant Interrupted


Evening all πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈβ˜•

I can see this becoming a tradition (read: running joke), where these Wednesday weigh-ins are never actually posted on a Wednesday.

At least there was a decent reason this week, which is that I was getting Chapter 11 of The Lady wot lunched a little too much finished. I know it was only a short one, but I'd been tearing what's left of my hair out ...

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The lady wot lunched a little too much - Chapter 11

Chapter 11!

Hope you enjoy it. 

I'll  blurb it up once I've had some sleep. πŸŒ›

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The lady wot lunched a little too much - Chapter 10

Hey all,

Sorry I'm late with this!

Also, when I combined the Abby parts of chapter 10 with the Gemma ones, it was coming out very long, so I've split the Gemma ones into a separate chapter (Chapter 11) which will be posted in a few mins.

I'll also go back and re-do Chapter 9 as a PDF, just for consistency!

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The lady wot lunched a little too much - Chapter 10.75 preview

Hey all,

Still polishing up the full chapter, but promised something by today, so here is a preview.

The full addition will be just over twice as long as the below, and will form part of the definitive Chapter 10, in combination with the previous two previews. This will be posted on Tuesday (there's just one tiny bit I need to sort out at the end) so if you prefer to wait until then, please ignore this. However, this part is very unlikely to change at all in ...

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πŸ‘™ Wednesday weigh-in: "Lunch & lingerie" preview

Hey friends πŸ‘‹

Hope all is good! It's been a busy though not hectic week for me, both creativity and life-wise. I've been getting more writing done than ever and am well on track to have the next chapter of TWLW posted this weekend. I think it'll be a fun one, albeit relatively short if you've read the previews, and I'm now eager to get the full story wrapped up. There are some cool scenes ahead which I'm confident you'll enjoy, and hopefully a twist or two as well. πŸ˜‰

Work al...

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βš–οΈ Wednesday weigh-in: "She eats too much"

Hey friends πŸ‘‹πŸΌ

Hoping that a smashing week has been had by all. Mine was pretty mixed. Things aren't too wonderful at work at the moment - it's a difficult time for a lot of businesses, I think, and it's all having a knock-on effect. The upside of this, though, is that I'll be pushing to try to make more money here: not with price increases; just by creating more to encourage more subscribers and possibly by offering a new tier with some additional benefits mid-March - about which...

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The Valentine's Treat Thief

Poor Gemma and Holly. Their chances of getting a share of whatever's in that huge heart-shaped box are looking a lot slimmer than Abby's waistline.

Maybe they'll start to wonder why it's the only day of the year she gets into the office first!

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Happy belated Valentine's Day! πŸŒΉπŸ’

NB I'm fairly happy with how Abby's overall shape came out here. Still questing for a definitive face. In my head, Abby looks like an English Camila Mendes (in her Vero...

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Wednesday weigh-in: Valentine's D(el)ay


Hey friends,

Happy belated Valentine's Day! πŸ’ Oh, and pancake day the day before, too. πŸ₯ž That's a lot of sugar for our ladies in two consecutive days!

And for the rest of us, too, it seems. For in Googling possible inspiration for Abby's Valentine's Day pic, I discovered that hospital admissions for gastrointestinal issues tend to increase considerably on Valentine's Day. Apparently the cause is not a nervous stomach, but too much rich food. And, I should imagine,...

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πŸͺŸ Best Jobs for FAs #2 [mild nudity]

Cleanin' winders 🎡 cleanin' winders 🎡 when I'm...

Reminds me of that time the window cleaner arrived while I was downstairs. Standard mildly awkward smile and wave exchanged, then as he extends his ladder I realise I've left a pic rendering on the PC in full view of upstairs window. Bolted upstairs and managed to get the monitor off, turning to leave just as his head appears in the window. Smile and wave again innit.

He must've thought "What a wierdo."

Yeah you don't k...

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πŸ’ Choose your valentine

Hey all! Want to do a Valentine's Day pic, but drawing a bit of a blank, so thought I'd open it up and see if anyone has a preference for a character to feature.

NB I've left Holly and Amelia out as they've featured in the last couple of years' Valentine's pics. Sorry if that disappoints!

Feel free to offer up any ideas for a setting / pic in the comments.

EDIT: POLL WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 10PM GMT SUNDAY 

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Wednesday weigh-in: Amelia & Irene in colour

Hey friends,

Hope we've all had a great week. A little late with this, but still calling it the Wednesday weigh-in because, well, alliteration. And maybe it is still Wednesday for one or two of you.

The reason for the delay is that I caught up with an old uni friend yesterday evening. (Gosh, where have the years gone?!) It was the first time we'd seen each other in over five years, but didn't feel like it. We ended up sitting and chatting for much longer than intended. All the mem...

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πŸ”₯ Debi's hot & heavy hotel liaison [contains nudity!]

Looks like the ladies have taken matters into their own hands... Matters being Debi's extremely full belly. That greedy girl clearly didn't stop at the hors d'oeuvres!

But where has Cyrus gotten to?

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

The third part in my commission-collab with my friend Samster. Hopefully one for contrast lovers...

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Wednesday weigh-in


Hey all! πŸ‘‹


Hope everyone's good. For me, the last two weeks of January are the storm before the calm: work churns like Amelia's potbelly after an ill-advised fourth helping of crème brûlée, but then things begin to settle in February and usually continue fair to middling through March - which is great, because it means more time and energy for the creative stuff!


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A sucker for the sachertorte

Inspired by the trailers for the new Mean Girls film, here is Amelia doing her best Regina George imitation.

This is a teaser for a scene from my upcoming Amelia story set during her time in university. The "Irene" Amelia is berating will feature heavily, and was inspired by a member of the canteen staff (back then we called them dinner ladies) from my own time at university. 'Irene' could only be described as an absolute legend, one of those formidable takes-no-shit old ladies, who jus...

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Weekly weigh-in

Hey all,

Hope everyone's good.

First,  here's the link to my entry for this week's writing prompt.

Bit of a standalone story this week. However, many of my entries will be snippets/teasers from fuller stories that will eventually be available on Patreon, so please let me know if there are any you particularly like and would like me to focus on wri...

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Writing prompt update

Hey all,

Had a minor work emergency at the end of last week which meant I had to travel and work over the weekend. So the week 2 writing prompt (#SPECTACLE) will be delayed slightly. I'll definitely have it posted this week. I may incorporate it with the prompt for this week, or may do something separate for that, depending on how it goes!

The "Spectacle" is an in media res scene involving Angelica, from a story that I've had in mind for her for ages.

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πŸŽ„ The Festively Bellied Investment Banker (pic and story)

Hey all.

A few days later than promised, but hopefully it's worth the wait!

For context, the following scene is set a year after A Cranky Kari Christmas and a year before I've got to stop eating these. This puts it somewhere in the middl...

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Weekly writing prompts

Hey all!

Just a quick side-note to say that I've decided to jump in on the awesome ExtraBaggageClaim's weekly one-word writing prompts this year. For me, it's an attempt to fight perfectionism (aka fear of posting) and hopefully stimulate some fun ideas!

I only joined the prompt writing as of Friday, so what I've written for the first week is very rough and short, but I t...

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Hors d'oeuvres and overt teasing

Happy new year everyone! πŸŽ‰

I was hit by a bit of slightly inspiration for the Christmas Kari vignette I'm working on, so it'll be delayed until the weekend - but it will be longer than planned and come with a pic.

To tide you over until then, here's the second picture in the collaboration I'm working on with Samster featuring Debi & Cyrus. This one introduces a new character, Reagan Cole, Cyrus's ...

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πŸ₯§A Cranky Kari Christmas (and a Happy New Year!)

Oh dear... it looks like Michelle's post about lazy businesswomen and their mince pie habits hit Kari's Instagram feed at a rather inopportune moment!

Hope you like the pic. I have written a little scenario to go with it, but haven't quite had time to format and tidy it up amidst all the family and friends stuff that comes with Christmas and the new year. I'll have it posted Tues / Wed.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic festive season, and thank you so much for your support ov...

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Merry Christmas! ...and a little🎁from me

Hey all,

Just wanted to drop a quick message to say thank you so much for your support this year. I hope you all have a wonderful festive season and that Santa brings you everything you want. πŸŽ…πŸŽ

An unexpected (but very welcome!) visitor this year means I haven't been able to finish off my second Christmas pic - it's quite hard to work on fetish art with someone else in the flat! Apologies for that. It'll be done and posted in the period between Xmas and the new year. On the ...

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The lady wot lunched a little too much - Chapter 10.5 preview


James didn't need to be asked twice. Rolling out from beneath the table like a commando, he scrabbled to his feet, tugging at his jacket and glancing around nervously.

He needn't have worried. All eyes in the hall were on Abby.

And for once, not for a reason she wanted.

'Bleurch!' the dazed diva spluttered, spitting out strands of sodden hair as she struggled to push herself up. It wasn't easy. Abby's head was spinning and her soaked clothes were squeezing her lik...

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Festive tax evasion

The first of two Christmas pics this year - and a little teaser for an upcoming chapter of Kari's Life in Lockdown.

While Covid restrictions are giving investment banker Kari a bad case of financial indigestion, Michelle's social media business is thriving, with higher profits than ever.

Unfortunately, as any accountant will tell you, higher profits mean higher taxes. Any accountant, that is, except Sophie Cobain, junior partner in offshore specialists Goldreign Associates, who's ...

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Update

Hey all,

First off, apologies for being so quiet recently. I've been full of man flu these last couple of weeks. Added to which my boiler broke down and it's been a bit of a nightmare trying to find someone to fix it this time of year. Fortunately the weather hasn't been as cold as it could have been.

Sob story over. The full Chapter 10 of TLWL is almost done. The only bit to finish now is the section with Gemma and Peter. It's funny, because their interactions are usually the one...

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Cyrus and Debi

Hey all,

Here's the first in a sequence of 3 pics (or possibly more) in collaboration with my friend Samster, set in his incredibly immersive Corporate Worlds universe.

Here we have Cyrus Benson and his confidant and lover Debi arriving at the end-of-season awards event for amateur GT car racing. Cyrus, a self-made billionaire with a love of risk and danger, is a keen and experienced driver himself on th...

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