EEEeeee! Updates! Can’t wait and don’t worry, good news is always worth space in my inbox

Will Broken Wing be a full-length story or just a few chapter? Not a deal breaker either way, I’m just curious

Also, love the name

With the story I have planned out, I estimate it will be similar length to Bird House. Lots of plans for this entry! Some new characters, return of some old characters and of course more TFs. Lyall is going to face some new challenges in his time grounded, maybe even help a few folks along the way.

I'm blaming FA for this, as it had to be a glitch, but you apparently posted the same journal three times lol
Ignoring that, I do like seeing journals like this that provide updates on what's going on. Spam away, as there's a reason the journal section comes with the "select-all" button. That being said, I always enjoy seeing updates from you and I'm looking forward to the chapters coming out soon.

For Zoo Intern and Camping Trip, I would say you don't necessarily need to do anything else with them in the future. They make good stand-alone stories in the Anima universe, and there are so many other cases that we can move onto.

That will probably make this next part make it sound like I'm a hypocrite. I am loving that we are coming back to Lyall and getting more of his story. I feel like his experience was kind of unique, what with retaining more of his mind and all, so it feels like there is more to be said. Our kangaroo friends kind of had a happily ever after together, so it feels like there isn't much else you can do (feel free to prove me wrong lol)

You're not doing anything bad. You're doing great, and I envy the fact that you're finding time to write (unlike me *sobs*). Keep up the awesome work!!

Thanks for the heads up! I cleared the duplicates, I have no clue what could have caused that!

I have no plans on continuing Zoo Intern or Camping Trip. I am happy with them being standalone smaller stories. I do want to do some minor reformatting so that they can take one listing each on the search vs. having them take up a listing per chapter. (I did this with he original Anima story so that it wouldn’t show up 19 times for “bird tf story”. Old chapters exist but are listed as scraps so they don't clutter peoples views)

I have a lot in store for the new part in Lyall’s story. Some new characters, new TFs and maybe even cleaning up a few loose ends. I think the threads I have planned should fit nicely in a story of similar length to the original.

I did come across a story I believe you helped with, about three jays! I was happy to see your icon in the description. I love hearing your thoughts and appreciate you taking the time to read my writing. I have been trying to find the free time but sometimes it can be difficult, I do have more written and almost finished than I have had prior. I’m hoping to keep myself ahead when possible to be more consistent in releases this time around!

Ah yes! If you're talking about Bird Caged, a friend and I roleplayed the scenario out and then I did the gruesome editing to turn the chat log into a coherent and enjoyable story. After that, we posted it on our separate accounts for science, as we wanted to see who would get more faves and views. I've got it posted on my older account because I've been trying to keep SFW and NSFW somewhat separated between the two accounts. I REALLY loved helping write that story since I really like blue jays and it was fun to do a slow-burn transformation (with some naughty side effects lol).

And I am happy to share my thoughts with you all the time. I actually get a little excited any time I see your name pop up because I've been enjoying not just your stories, but talking to you. (Is this how friends are made? lol)

This may come as a surprise, but blue jays are my favorite bird 😆

I thought about keeping the NDFW and SFW separate, but I’ve decided just to try and label them and rate them as best as I can. Donum is my only explicit thing, besides a short I wrote for someone. (I haven’t posted it here, but I have thought about it!)

Half the fun of writing is getting to chat with folks afterwards. I really love to talk with everyone, it’s always a pleasure!

WHAT?!?!?! Blue jays are your favorite?!?! lol
I feel like redtail hawks and blue jays are always fighting to be my favorite, but I just love the coloration of blue jays so much so I think they're usually more of the victor (plus they're the bird I tend to default to when turning someone into a bird lol)

What really drove me to try and separate the two accounts was the extreme fetishes I tend to fill my NSFW account with. I figured if I'm already tainting it with such evil horrors, why not just put all the naughty stuff over there lol

Most days, I feel like I'm not commenting on enough things. Part of it is time, and part of it is dealing with social anxiety. Some days, I will comment on your stuff within minutes of seeing it. Other days, I need to give it 24-48 hours before I have the energy to throw some words at you. Just depends on my energy levels, but I always enjoy actually getting to have conversations like this one.

Blue jays are interesting, a little larger than the usual song bird with bright colors to boot, but very much still corvids. I chose Lyall’s to be a red tail after getting to see one up close at a bird center (also got inspiration for something else there). I didn’t want to do a blue jay off the bat, but I still snuck in Westin as the blue jay character.

I know my explicit is certainly not to the point many others are. I’ll drop my toes in a bit on some stories but Lyall’s tends to be pretty clean.

I struggle with purposefully NOT responding to some comments. I want to say something, but I don’t want to hint that more info is coming later. The biggest annoyance on here is that I don’t get a notification when someone comments on one of my posts IF they are replying to someone else. I tried to get around that but it doesn’t work so great 😅

That had to have been hard to resist the temptation to make Lyall a blue jay, but I am glad that you still worked one in. I still want to find some time to try and write my own contribution to this world. If I did a bird, I might go with a peregrine falcon or a small song bird. I have aspirations to write about someone becoming a snake because I bet that would be interesting.

I'm slightly amused that you hint at what naughty things happen in Lyall's story without going into detail. It feels like a fun way to acknowledge that it happens while still keeping the story tame.

Lol I do wonder how often people comment on parts of the story and basically predict exactly what is about to happen, leaving you to say nothing or spoil the next chapter. I also hate that you don't get notifications of replies to other people's comments. If it is a comment anywhere on something you made, it should be notifying you! But good luck getting the developers to implement changes that everyone wants.

If you do write something taking place in this world, let me know! Ryker-Wolf did one last year that was fun to read, I’d love to see your interpretation.

Lyall met a female, a little later she laid eggs. I’ll let the imagination of the reader fill in the blanks 😂

Right now, some of the predictions are completely off. But some are right on target for what is happening. I won’t say who, but a big one is revealed in the next chapter!

I have been checking the comments on recently posted chapters to see if there is any extra discussion happening. Little extra work but it’s not terrible

You'll be the first to know if I write something Anima related! (I might ask you to do a pre-read of it before I post it to make sure it follows all the lore you've got in your head).

I love how you basically said you can neither confirm nor deny how accurate all the predictions are. You successfully gave nothing away! lol

So many comments I want to reply to but they are explained in chapter 3. I don’t want to ignore, but I NEED to ignore 😂

The struggle of being the author with a lot of secrets hehehe