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Chapter 6.1 Released!

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳✨

The early part of the giant that is the ball chapter is now out for the paid Patreon members. I think you will like it—especially if you like:

• WATSON

• HAMISH/HELENA

• LOVE TRIANGLES (a lot)

• More carriage rides

• Mrs Hudson

❤️ I hope you do!

I wish you a wonderful New Year 🥰

XOXO

– Doriana

PS. I will send out a free...

2024-12-31 19:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 6.1 Released!

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳✨

Here comes the early part of the giant that is the ball chapter. I think you will like it—especially if you like:

• WATSON

• HAMISH/HELENA

• LOVE TRIANGLES (a lot)

• More carriage rides

• Mrs Hudson

❤️ I hope you do!

I wish you a wonderful New Year 🥰

XOXO

– Doriana

PS. I will work on the W POV for the outfit reveal scen...

2024-12-31 19:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy holidays everyone! 🥹❤️

It's been a strange year for me. I finally finished my schooling, but just as I exited school—the game industry and the economy were a mess.

But I have... sort of a job? And I have you all, and this project and this Patreon 🥹 And I would be very lost without it, and you all. I love having this hobby and project to always come back to. It feels... safe. And warm. To always have a creative thing that I can return to.

So thank you ❤️ Truly.

I'm currently on the final ...

Do you want W pov? (after 6.1)

I'm in the middle of getting this next chapter coded and flavour texted ✨🥰

But I wanted to quickly ask you about an idea I have for a Patreon exclusive scene (in the game but password-locked) that could happen when you've finished the upcoming chapter:

Would it be interesting to see Watson's POW of MC's outfit reveal?

(If so I might work on that once the chapter is given...

Chapter 6.1 release date ✨

This is potentially a terrible idea, to announce this publically, but I'm trying to have the deadline push me into making sure I prioritise this enough to get it done in time— 🫣

Chapter 6.1 will come out around the new years, on Patreon! ✨🥳🎈

It's not a long chapter, because I've been working on the whole of the ball at the same time. But it's a fun little thing, and a lead-up for grander things! Furthermore, it's to make sure y'all get somethi...

Sneak Beaks – part 1 🕊️🕵️

This is just behind-the-scenes stuff + sneak peeks stuff 😙

And I'll put the sneak peek stuff far down at the bottom of the page! ❤️

I'll do a few of these leading up to the next release <3

I'm working hard on the next chapter -- my time is a little short, but y'all's support allows me, and spurs me on, to continue working on it. And I'm making good progress! This chapter focus is the reason the Patreon specials are a little sparse now, but ...

🥳 I sent off ch6.1 to alpha reader

I really wanted to rip that bandaid off this month, and I did 💃✨😮‍💨

I know I was less active on Patreon, but it was all for the next update, believe me. On average, I had 30 minutes on weekdays and about a day on the weekend to spend on this. So, had I spent more on Patreon content, we wouldn't have gotten very far.

So thank you all for your patience and support ❤️🥹

But I want to include some Christmas content for you all next month, too, and perhaps a ne...

Q&A starting in 30 min!

In 30 minutes, I'll begin a Q&A on Discord!

If you can't attend, you can send me questions:

- Here on Patreon as a comment on this post.

- On Tumblr, if you want anonymity, mark them as Q&A tho!

See you there! ❤️

XOXO,

Doriana

Patreon Discord Q&A time voted on!

The date will be:

Saturday (2024-11-23)

Times:

10:30 (PST)

13:30 (EST)

18:30 (GMT)

19:30 (Central European time)

I'll also post right before it starts ❤️ (I've already gotten a few asks! ☺️✨)

Patreon Discord Q&A times voting up now

For those on Discord, the voting for the live Q&A times is up in the #patreon-discussion room now ✨ The voting will go on for at least a day.

Remember that you can still send in questions on Tumblr anon beforehand as long as you mark them as for the Q&A. Or you can send them here as a comment ❤️ (if you send them here as a comment, I can post the answer as a comment here too).

Btw, I once tried to format them to post them here, but it was a mess to do because of how ...

Tumblr posts 2021 part 2 ✨

Here's another Tumblr master in the Tumblr master post series (not everyone has a Tumblr, and not everyone wants to scroll down years of content 😆✨ which is understandable!)

Here are some of the longer/better posts from 2021, October-December. (I used to be… very active on Tumblr back in the day. It wasn’t super great for game writing productivity lol…) They take me a little bit to scroll through and decide on the best ones, so I'll do them in batches when I'm too knackered t...

Update thingy ✨

As I said in the community Patreon chat thingy, I will focus on the ball chapters for a little while now and only do Patreon content that doesn't take up too much writing time. So—

• Next week, I'll hold another Discord Q&A for ≈ an hour. (You can also send questions here and on Tumblr if you'd rather do so anonymously.) 🥳

• I'll do another Tumblr master post 🥰

• And I have some short-form AAOTH 2024-11-11 14:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post

✨🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN + (Q&A) 🎃✨

Here are the final Q&A answers with some Halloween questions 🧡✨

Inside the pdf is some... Jekyll/Hyde Watson 🫣

“They had to leave, I’m afraid. But you do not... I rather think you should stay...” the figure steps closer.

And here's some extra Halloween goodies: 2024-10-30 18:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post

New romantic H minigame 🧐💖

This one is very Regency-era AU-coded!

servant MC gets noticed by the master/mistress of the manor 👁️🫦👁️

I'd say this H is mostly simp H but, because of the different setting and the regency upstairs downstairs vibe, they're a bit extra "nobility" upper-class vibe 🫢 one day maybe I'll do a "humbled H" minigame lol

Password: REGENCYROMANCE

Helena version:

2024-10-23 20:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Tumblr posts 2021 part 1 ✨

I promised a certain someone on the discord that I would begin a Tumblr master post series (not everyone has a Tumblr and not everyone wants to scroll down years of content 😆✨ which is understandable!)

So here are some of the longer posts from 2021 July-September. (I used to be… very active on Tumblr back in the day. It wasn’t super great for game writing productivity lol…) They take me a little bit to scroll through and decide on the best ones, so I'll do them in batches whe...

Patreon Q&A sep 2024 - part 2

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 Thank you for the questions, everyone! 💛🤎🧡🤍

There were so many new ones, and many Halloween-themed ones, that a third part of the last Q&A send-in will come next week too 😆

I assume not everyone clicks on PDF's so here's a little part of it I felt was cute:

• Did Mrs. Hudson help Watson get ready for the ball? (If so, can we see a snippet of that?)

“Does this look quite r...

2024-10-11 11:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Q&A sep 2024 - part 1

❤️☺️✨

Thank you for the questions, everyone! ❤️

The second part will come later in the week, and don't worry about spoilers! I was able to format it in a way that makes it mostly spoiler safe imo 😌✨

XOXO ❤️

Ps. Don't forget to keep warm (or cold) 😙

Patreon Q&A — Sep 2024 💖

[CLOSED]

Hi! Please send in your question to me and I'll attempt to answer it the best I can!

This time, by popular demand, we are doing it through a form so I can take my time and answer the questions + For the people who don't use Discord much 💖

You can send me multiple questions, though for quality's sake (and possible overt spoilers) I will pick out the ones I feel I can answer best and write a good reply for!

Basically, it's like a Tumblr ask, but I'm...

Progress / update thingy 💖

I'm so terrible at making posts on Patreon without having something to throw to the sharks, as it were (very, very nice and lovable sharks I want to clarify in this imperfect metaphor ❤️🌹🦈).

But—I'm gonna try and be better at them! 💪😗

Cause I think people like them (plz correct me if I'm wrong).

Progress:

• I'm jumping back and forth on the ball chapter scenes, but gonna try and focus more on the 6.1 update content...

  2024-09-25 19:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post

New romantic Lestrade minigame 🥳🎉

Have you ever wondered who they were before?

Before all that darkness that clouds their mind and forces their mouth to speak far too little or far too much?

Meet what I dub "douchestrade" 💖

Far too much confidence, and not enough humbling going on at all.

... I have no idea if this is selling it or not. But basically, this is an AU mini-game, of Lestrade without their downward spiral, a little younger, and far too many thoughts of Sherlock.<...

Patreon Q&A aug 2024 - part 2

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Thank you for the questions, everyone! With this, I'm closing the send-in! 💖

• It turned out to be quite the thing, so I'm splitting it up in two, and this is the final part. There's a pdf down below with the answers, I was gonna post them right here too, but the formatting got incredibly confusing 😆

• 2024-09-01 20:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Q&A aug 2024 - part 1

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Thank you for the questions, everyone! I had fun answering them ❤️

It turned out to be quite the thing, so I'm splitting it up in two, and sending the other half next week. There's a pdf down below with the answers, I was gonna post them right here too, but the formatting got incredibly confusing 😆

XOXO ❤️

Ps. Don't forget to hydrate 😙

Patreon Q&A — Aug 2024 💖

CLOSED SEND-IN

Hi! Please send in your question to me and I'll attempt to answer it the best I can!

This time we are doing it through a form so I can take my time and answer the questions thoroughly! + For the people who don't use Discord much 💖

You can send me multiple questions, though for quality's sake (and possible overt spoilers) I will pick out the ones I feel I can answer best and write a good reply for!

Basically, it's like a Tumblr ask, but I'm...

How did MC and Watson meet? 😙✨

Well, wonder no more!

Here's a lil written treat for the Watson fans (romantic or platonic) of the first meeting from the pov of Watson 🥰 This is a scenario I've gotten asked about for a while, and I didn't feel the story was worth telling until i realised I wanted to show it through W's eyes!

Then after this scene, Watson's feelings only grew, and soon W hardly knew what to do with themselves, (to the point they might end up yelling at Sherlock about flowers!)

Let me kno...

Progress / update thingy 💖

(I genuinely don't know what to call these... sporadic "here's where I'm at" posts? Random late-night emails to Patreons? Something of that nature...)

Anyway, I hope y'all are well! <3

Since we last talked (unless you're on the discord, which, in that case... we might have talked a lot) I've been working on some bugs and content fixes with old and new chapters ✨But I've also been able to get back into working on the ball, and its really just such a fun chapter to write, so it...

Q&A starting in 5 min!

In a little over 5 minutes, I'll begin a Q&A on Discord (where I'll be as open as I can while answering questions I would not normally answer publically.) 

If you can't attend, you can send me questions:

- Here on Patreon as a comment on this post.

- On Tumblr, if you want anonymity, mark them as Q&A tho!

See you there! ❤️

XOXO,

Doriana

The next discord Q&A is Planned for TOMORROW!

19:00 CEST (UTC +2) Wednesday 10th of July (About one day and 3 hours from now) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240710T170000&p1=239

The Q&A will be on Discord in the Patreon room 🥰❤️✨ 

If you can't attend, you can send me questions:

- Here on Patreon as a comment on this post.

- On Tum...

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Thank you everyone 🥹💖

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all, the response to these last two chapters have been so very lovely, and to see a lot of people come back once I unpaused Patreon is very heartwarming!

I'll be uploading a few bug fixes tonight, which might break saves, I am unsure. But this is a little warning that this might happen.

The fixes will make some seemingly hidden content appear where it should tho!

• You will get the right flowers (half simps were supposed to ...

  2024-07-05 12:10:22 +0000 UTC View Post

A small Ch5.2 poll

Anonymous google feedback and bug form ✨

For the people who have played the chapter, if you would fill this out, it would really help me out! ❤️ (It's small and won't take much time! 🥰)

https://forms.gle/kJH5pznz7XT7VYBi7

Thank you!