I have a new non-LS story available on my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/SkunkChaser). It'll be publicly available on the 31st. Here's a teaser:

The Spirit Is Willing

In this sequel to "Soul of a Skunk", park ranger Maka Nagi has to deal with an entirely different sort of troublesome park guest. At this rate, Mesa Verde is going to get a reputation as a hazardous place for tent camping.

Hi, folks!

Time for a shameless plug: I've finally written a new story that's not part of any existing series. It's titled "Soul of a Skunk", and is available now on my Patreon page. It'll be released here on 9/27.

The teaser: "Don't mess with park rangers. Follow the park rules, especially the ones about park safety. OR ELSE!"

Patrons at the $5+ level get early access to all my stories: https://www.patreon.com/SkunkChaser

Thanks.

I finally decided to put up a Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/SkunkChaser

There are currently two tiers:

Just the tip: $1 or more per month
No benefits -- this tier is just for those who want to show a little appreciation.

In all the way: $5 or more per month
Members get early access to all stories. Love Stinks chapters will be available at least a week before they're posted on FurAffinity, DeviantArt, or Discord. Other stories will be on Patreon at least two weeks before they're available elsewhere.

I may add some polls or other ways for patrons to request what story I'll work on next, but things are in the early stages so far.

Thanks!

I've uploaded version 1.0.3 of "Mad Science, the Advanced Course"

OneDrive: 1drv.ms/1KqUezO

It's mostly minor bug fixes, but the most notable one is that I had forgotten to include the illustration in one of the scenes. If you try to put the cuffs on the red-haired guard after Doctor Devious has raised the alarm, there's now a pic that goes with it.

My apologies for the flood of files today. I've had at least one person say that catching up on all the chapters of Love Stinks is too much to download individually, so I'm posting compiled versions of all of the finished scenarios. That's still 10 files, but that's more manageable than the 45 individual chapters.

I hope folks find the compilations handy for re-reading or for catching up on the series.

Compiling results from all 3 sites, the winner by a nose is Chapter 21: "Massage or Aromatherapy". A fistful of other chapters got one vote each:

2. Twice As Strong
6. Lights, Camera, Asses!
9. The Film Crew
10. Fifty Shades of Spray
20. Chain Reaction
22. The Price of Victory

With only 8 votes total, I'm thinking perhaps I should have asked which storyline people like best rather than which specific chapter.

What's your favorite chapter in the Love Stinks saga so far? Please vote for ONE CHAPTER ONLY, and please comment about why it's your favorite.

(Results will be combined with responses from Yahoo and DA.)

1. Let's Play a Game
2. Lesson Learned
3. Twice as Strong

4. Ocean Spray
5. Stormy Weather

6. Lights, Camera, Asses!
7. Alone in the Woods
8. The More, The Merrier
9. The Film Crew

10. Fifty Shades of Spray
11. Fifty Stripes Darker
12. Skunk-o-Five-Tails
13. Bondage, Domination, Skunks, and Masochism
14. Name That Toot
15. Into the Darkness

16. Foreplay for Two
17. First and Far From Last
18. Half a History
19. B Movie Queens
20. Chain Reaction

21. Massage or Aromatherapy
22. The Price of Victory
23. More Than a Handful
24. The Letter of the Law
25. Turnabout Is Fair Spray

Ternura and I had intended to publish chapter 25 of "Love Stinks" before I headed out on vacation, but real life interfered with our writing plans in all the best ways. I'll be out of electronic contact for a couple weeks, but rest assured we'll continue the saga upon my return from reconnecting with nature.

Until then!

Here are the combined results for the Favorite Character poll from all sites.

Selena: 6 (38%)
Ternura: 2 (13%)
Ivy: 0
Nastasia: 3 (19%)
Kusai: 4 (25%)
Nick: 1 (6%)

Who is your favorite character from the Love Stinks series? Please vote for ONE CHARACTER ONLY:

- Selena, the spotted sharpshooter
- Ternura, the striped gamesmaster
- Ivy, the energetic hybrid
- Nastasia, the hooded amazon
- Kusai, the striped introvert
- Nick, the skunk chaser

Any comments about why that character is your favorite would be more than welcome. Thanks!

(Results from here will be combined with those from DeviantArt and my Yahoo group.)

The biographical entries for the girls are up! You can read them here.

There was a request in the "Love Stinks" Q&A thread for bios on all six of the characters in the series. As I prepared my response, I realized it might be useful to put that information, along with some general background on the setting of the stories, in its own separate thread. Ternura and I will post background information here, but feel free to ask questions -- either here or in the Q&A thread, which can be found in the previous journal here.

I've had the pleasure of RPing with the amazing Ternura Skuntammy for a few months now. We've both been having a lot of fun writing the ongoing saga titled "Love Stinks", and we hope you've been having as much fun reading it. There are 12 chapters posted so far, with more to come. So we thought we'd give folks an opportunity to ask any questions they might have for either one of us.

So what do you think? What do you want to know about the events and characters in Love Stinks that we haven't addressed so far? We'll answer whatever we can without spoilers for future chapters, and we'll let you know if you ask something we plan to reveal as the story unfolds.

I've uploaded version 1.0.1 of "Mad Science, the Advanced Course"

OneDrive: http://1drv.ms/1KqUezO

Fixes:
- Experiment 69 gives the correct text when she's first encountered now
- Status messages fixed for the yellow-eyed guard
- Spray tally fixed for the green-eyed guard
- Minor text correction in the strip club

For those who have not encountered Experiment 69, she can only be found by accident when you're lost in the Wildlife Sanctuary. Good hunting!

In the coming weeks, I’ll be posting a new serialized story, titled Jareth the Hunter. It’s inspired by the excellent skunk spray animations created by Aerodynamics (http://aerodynamics10.blog.fc2blog.us)*, and many of the chapters feature screenshots from the animations. It’s one big story, broken into a series of nine episodes, and I plan to post one a week. All told, it’s just long enough to be classified as a novel, but that might be a bit too lofty of a term. Still, it’s more than just a group of barely related short stories, and I’m pretty pleased with how it’s turning out.

As you might suspect, each installment centers around our hero running afoul of the wrong end of a skunk woman, although he might disagree that it’s the wrong end.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I liked writing it.

(*The animations themselves aren’t on his blog or OneDrive, but he has published them to my Yahoo group.)

Hello!

I finally got around to writing another story. It's hard to believe it's been two years, but it's been two pretty eventful years for me IRL. I hope folks are still watching, and I hope the story's a decent one. Enjoy!

Life has been... problematic for a while now. I finally got around to writing another story, though -- one I've been tinkering with for quite some time. It felt good to finish up. I'll see if I can work up the enthusiasm for more.