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Billing Paused for March

Please note - because of the way Patreon bills (actually Apple's App store requirements) billing is only paused until March 28 - so if you became a patron since the billing change and did it late in the month you might still be billed. This should be pretty unusual. Go to settings -> memberships and look at your next billing date, if it's not April let me know and I'll find a way around it.

Hi guys, just a reminder, I'm off to India next Wednesday and will be back on the 25t...

Secret Ninja Valentines Day Date Tiebreaker

Because the poll was tied. Please note this will happen when I get back from India at the end of March, since I won't have time to do it before I leave.

Technically, Maya wasn't part of the tie, but I put her back in anyway so you have a third option.

Rajkumari

Oh hey, new character! Back in the early stages of Clarissa's roommate polling I said I'd add an additional Indian friend, and here she is!

Samaira Kumari Singh Rathore

Age 18-22 (in college) 22 (in the narrative present), from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. sometimes goes by SK Singh or just SK for short.

Samaira was the girl's neighbor in the dorms in college. An international student from India, she came to the US to study economics - in theory this is so she can help manage ...

Clarissa's Roommate 11: Fashion Sense

What is Astrid the Astrophysicist's look, when she manages to keep her clothes on? Copied from Kiana's fashion sense poll, except I dropped the Urban Casual, because my conception of that look is very American - I have a vague sense of what the equivalents are for the UK and France but not Norway. Also dropped the "Elegant" option because I don't think it matches her character so far as a sort of perky scientist (and I've only ever met one preppy Scandinavian). If you really, really want it w...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 10B: What does she do?

The Actual Poll!

Art Practice - AKA actually doing art, as opposed to art history. Turns out UCB has a well regarded art department, although I kind of feel like there are other schools that specialize in art that would be a more likely choice. On the other hand, life drawing practice is a great excuse to have all your friends take their clothes off, on the other, other hand you can take the classes while majoring in something else (which is what Clarissa does). But tha...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 10: What does she do?

What did she major in? What does she do in the narrative "present"? Give me your suggestions, and then we'll vote.

Considerations:

I'm thinking whatever she studied in school she should do professionally. While that doesn't always happen in real life it helps keep things focused for her character.

UCB is well known internationally for sciences and engineering (there are two different elements named after it!), although in theory she could come to study anyth...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 9: What's her name?

Shaking Clarissa's hand, she says, "Very pleased to meet you, my name is:..."

" ... I'm, um, just a bit nude at the moment."

Considerations/Notes: Blue eyes retook the lead, so she has blue eyes again.

These are all popular new baby names for girls from Norway about 20 years ago. I purposefully didn't include Anna (since she kind of resembles Anna from Frozen a littl...

New Character Poll Part 6D - Shades of Red

Some reds, also some boobs because we haven't had any for a few days.:

Bright red is out, so she doesn't look just like Emily. The line color for her hair would vary to compliment the main color, it doesn't do so here to save time but I think it gets the idea across.

If Auburn wins we might want a darker lipstick color, I'll try it and see if that happens.

If you can't tell the dif...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 8B - Eye Color

Eye colors - brown is also possible, but I think we should do one of these two.

Please note the exact hair color is not final, I did a medium red to give you the general idea. Please also note her hair, skin, and lip colors will appear overall slightly darker with shading.

Using the perky round eye shape since that's winning the poll right now, but I'll change if it goes the other way.

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Clarissa's Roommate Part 8 - Eyes Shape

I use the Perky Oval for Nikki and Kelly, Sexy Parallelogram for Clarissa, Lyta, Selena and many others. The perky oval is good for perky characters, as you'll notice it giver her a more wide-eyed cheerful look.

Clarissa's Roommate Part 7: Skin Color

Multiple polls at once to speed things along. I'm going to skip the "Is she a nude sleeper" poll because all the options are "yes".

 Considerations: How much time does she spend outside? (How much of that time is spent without any clothes on?)

I didn't include the totally white goth skintone - I feel there should be some contrast in her appearance with Clarissa, and I don't think it will l...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 6C: Hairstyle

Shoulder Length Hair options:

Considerations: She has red hair by popular demand. Scandinavian people generally have straight or wavy hair.

I feel that Options 1 or 2 would make her look the most unique compared to the other characters, but vote for the one you want.

#5 or 6 may need a bit of nudging to look less like Clarissa/Miyuki respectively - not as much an issue in color, but she'l...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 6B: Hair Color

So someone tied the the nationality poll again and I'm not sure how, because i can download the data and:

• No one's voted in the last 24 hours.

• One of you voted in the future (timestamp says tomorrow), and that would have pushed the poll the other way anyway.

Anyway we need to keep moving forward, so I'm going to put my thumb on the scales on this one and make her Irish, since Ireland was leading for a while, so it was. So with that in mind:

R...

Clarissa's Roommate Part 6: Hair Length

How long is her hair?

Styles aren't final, we'll pick a length here and then do some variations (that said, it was very hard to come up with a Pixie cut that is both unique from Maya's hair and not a crew cut). Since it looks like she's going to be Irish I expect a strong likelihood for red hair - we'll vote on that too, but I think it's likely - so plan accordingly. 

Secret Ninja Valentines Day Date

What do you want to see for February? Aztec Priestess V-day pinup is coming, if that influences your decision at all.

If we get Clarissa's Roommate or the girls' neighbor (New Indian Friend) results there will probably be a delay since those characters aren't designed yet.

It occurred to me that Maya is their neighbor in college as well (this will be where they know her from), so might as well add her as an option as well.

Clarissa's Roommate Part 4, Nationality (Specific)

So European won the tiebreaker, HOWEVER, someone went and voted in the original poll and voted for India, so it is no longer tied. So rather than have a tiebreaker for the tiebreaker or just put my thumb on the scale, I'm thinking we'll do the following:

1. We'll vote up a new European character to be Clarissa's roommate, because you'll have more to vote on (seriously, India is the most populous country in the world, and every single woman I saw there has long hair. Except for Tibetan B...

Clarissa's Roommate Pt. 2 Tiebreaker

Because we currently have a 3 way tie. So where's she from?

Considerations:

I have been to India more often than any other foreign country, so I am rather more familiar with it culturally. Indians are the largest or second largest group of international students at UCB from year to year so there's a certain amount of realism involved. However, we will need to make sure Roomie is visually distinct which may be hard (she could easily end up looking a lot like Selena or Kiana).

Clarissa's Roommate Pt. 2 - Body Type

Asking the important questions:

The nationality poll is tied, so while we're waiting on that to be resolved here's a poll about boobs. You can always wait on this one if the result of the first one is a determining factor for you somehow.

Clarissa's Roommate - Background Pt. 2: Roots

Where did she come from? Once we narrow it down regionally we can pick a country (unless it's Canada, then we're set). Where I've listed European countries is to give you an idea how I'm dividing Europe up, it's not an all inclusive list.

The top 10 countries for foreign student enrollment at UCB in Fall 2024 were China, India, South Korea, Canada, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. When I was there (been a while) I also encountered a lot of Aussies and Dutch...

Shiny New Character! - Clarissa's Roommate - Background

So it seems like the majority is for a shiny new character to be (or correctly, have been) Clarissa's college roommate. We can assume Roomie doesn't live in the Bay Area in the narrative "present" but she can visit and the girls can visit her wherever she is, and we'll see her in flashbacks.

We'll so this like the last time, that was pretty fun and we got good results, I think. So Question 1, where did she come from?

Considerations: both of these are actually plenty likely, the UC...

Secret Ninja Valentines Day Date

What do you want to see for February (pinup for ninja level patrons)?

We are going to have a Selena Aztec Warrior Priestess pinup on DA, and it looks like we'll be creating a new character over here.

Clarissa's College Roommate?

I have plans for college flashbacks, and Clarissa's roommate would play a part in these, that's why I keep bringing it up. Considerations:

Alli knows Miyuki from childhood, and this could get them into dares and other bad behavior faster. Also would give her something to do other than being a ninja accountant and only non-succubus natural blonde. However - the "present" is like the year after they graduate, and in the Oracle Sword Alli was handling pr...

February - March Update

February we're back to normal, but I'll be out of town for most of the middle of March (from like the 6th to the 24th) so billing will be paused for March. Then we're back to normal for April.

Unresolved Lore Question - did Clarissa have a Roommate in College?

I never considered that she did, but it's pretty much impossible to get a dorm room to yourself as an undergrad. Since the girls have graduated college in the narrative "present" then it mostly only matters for flashbacks. For their junior/senior years she'd probably get an apartment with Lyta and Miyuki, since at UCB the dorms kick you out then, they may or may not keep a fourth person. Consider:

While not having a roommate seems like a situation where more privacy = more nudity, she w...

A Miyuki Lore Question for You

Under what circumstances do you suppose...

Clarissa first saw Miyuki naked, and vice versa? I have actually thought through a great many things that make up their backstory that have never come up, but I haven't settled on a good idea for this. Consider:

• They met in college, Miyuki and Lyta were roommates in a dorm, Clarissa was their neighbor. (Separate unrelated issue, did Clarissa have a roommate? If so, who is she?)

• Clarissa would have been the second p...

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Billing Paused for January as Holiday Gift Art Continues

Holiday Gift Art is going to keep going into January, so I'm going to pause billing on 12/31. I should be able to finish in January; it's generally a slow month at work and I'm not planning on traveling until later in the year.

If you haven't requested your holiday gift art yet, do it here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-holiday-gift-117065252

Nikki & Sunny

Selena's sister's BFF's friend's (cousin's? we're not sure) college roommate was interested in picking up some modeling work, and Sunny was looking for models, so it seemed like a natural - Nikki was shy about taking her clothes off at first, but one thing led to another, and someone left a strange glowing statue of Huēhuehcoyōtl in the room, and soon Sunny's clothes were off too, and further photos were delayed.

I decided on these two - they don't really have anything to do with each...

My Holiday Gift to You

2/4/25 - The post with all the actual art has been hidden by the site for TOS reasons - I believe I've resolved the issue and submitted it for review, so hopefully it will be back in the next few days.

1/28/25 - All aboard that's going aboard! If you haven't made a request but would still like to, please do so now - I'm hoping to wrap these up by the weekend.

It's December, and you know what that means... time for your holiday drawing requests!

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