Forgive me if this journal lengthy. I basically just wanted to go over a few things now that I'm doing commissions and to address the status of my ongoing projects following the four month hiatus.

For starters, commissions have gone super well. All the clients I worked with so far have been very pleasant and I've had a ton of fun writing stories for other people! Admittedly I had no idea how things might go and part of me expected the worst, but so far it's been a fantastic experience and it serves as a really nice ego boost if people consider my writing good enough to commission it.

As a result, I'm going to keep commissions open indefinitely. I'll take on three clients at a time. The previous featured commission journal will be modified shortly after I post this one to account for this. I don't think traditional temporary commission openings like illustrators do will work as well since I had a tendency to finish one commission after the other in a few days at most, albeit the commissions have mostly been on the shorter side. Demand for commissions is also coincidentally just enough to fill most of my slots at the moment, but I doubt this will last indefinitely.

Then there's the ongoing series such as Terran Insurrection and Friends In Low Places.

It's been a year since I started both. I'll admit, I knew it was probably a bad idea, but I shouldn't have split my efforts between two series. It might have contributed to burnout. Updates for both were less frequent as I went back and forth between them, and most people eventually lost interest in following each one if updates took too long. So I would have been better off just focusing on a single series. Other stuff such as the commissions, sporadic short stories, and an alternative alias I made for exclusively SFW content have divided my efforts furthermore...

Nonetheless, I went back to read and edit both series, catching a few typos. I also determined the overall word counts.

Terran Insurrection: 25,120 Words
Friends In Low Places: 43,821 Words

I tweaked various things too! Terran Insurrection now has a proper thumbnail from the iPoke artwork I commissioned rather than a purple phoenix I found on Google Images. The more recent PDF files have gray backgrounds with white text to make them easier to read. Some physical descriptions were changed or snipped, such as making Amber from Terran Insurrection resemble more of a painted dog rather than switching between describing her as similar to a vulpine or a slim hyena.

Since Friends In Low Places is the longer of the two series and the most popular, I'm going to primarily focus on it from here on out.

Both series will be completed at some point though, even if it takes me literal years. Small sidenote about Terran Insurrection though. The original series was divided into three acts focusing on different things. Act 1 is near completion. Although I'm retaining the traditional sequential chapter format on this website to avoid confusion, it's still internally divided into three separate acts to account for time skips and major events in the narrative. Consequently, Terran Insurrection will still receive a few more chapters with an optional NSFW chapter for when Cain and Amber get more acquainted with one another, but work will stop once Act 1 is done to focus on Friends In Low Places before I return to Terran Insurrection in the future.

As I said in a previous journal, the Stellaris size trait steam workshop mod is just being maintained as is. It tends to always work, even if the mod is flagged as outdated. I doubt this will change unless Stellaris overhauls the trait system.

If you want to contact me directly about commissions, discuss my work, ask questions, post memes, ect... feel free to join my Discord server!

https://discord.gg/njpcqvnkVt

Otherwise, that's all! I do appreciate the support from people. The ones who regularly favorite my stories and leave comments... you know who you are. You're awesome. Thanks for helping me stay motivated!