Rice Lord Sake

A Story (ft. Tara Darmand) and an update

Added 2024-01-19 20:36:48 +0000 UTC

Wherein Tara's diligent studying gets her into a bit of trouble when she can't leave class and the line for the bathroom between classes is too long for her to wait and potentially be late for a very important test.

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So, seeing as how these have been really really difficult to actually get out at reasonable times, this is most likely going to end up being the last of these Vineyard stories. It was a nice little experiment that I thought would help me stay productive, but it turns out it's actually pretty much done the opposite - focusing on getting stuff out regularly has meant I haven't had the energy to work on bigger projects, and while I am pleased with some of what I've been able to get out of this, going forward I'm going to mostly be treating Patreon as more or less a tip jar, at least until I can figure out some other benefits I'll be more likely to reliably get out. So far I'm thinking at the very least patrons will still get early access and discounts (which haven't mattered mostly because I've been too busy worrying about other things to do commission work) but with how much energy a good stories takes to produce I'm not going to be able to offer them directly as a reward anymore. Right now I'm thinking I might replace stories as a reward with exclusive drawings and variants of stuff I do end up drawing - I find it's a lot faster to go from start to finish on a drawing than a story, so they'll make for better and more consistent rewards. Maybe I'll even start up a comic, get a few pages done up in advance, and then release those as rewards.

For now, we have this, and coming up soonish I do have some stuff I've drawn lately and haven't really released anywhere, and there will be more information to share on my plans once I've worked out exactly what I want to do.