Okay, So Where Do We Go From Here?

Whereas the last announcement post was one big cohesive essay that tied each announcement together, this one is sort of several little announcements. Strap in again, but loosen that seatbelt a little because there aren't any huge bombshells here.

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VA news:

First off, I have been informed that Trina's last recording date is actually August 31st. Earlier than I had expected, but I should be able to finish most, if not all of the latest batch of commissioned/patreon reward stories by then.

For people who have requested a dub, this does mean that some dubs currently awaiting completion may end up in the capable hands of Miu, Ko, or Monstrassa.

Expect Ko's and Monstrassa's first stories to begin being uploaded within the next week. I've also gotten into contact with one more potential VA, big thanks to Ko for getting me in touch. 

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Poll results:

After an extremely lopsided poll (case in point: "fuck my shit up" has more votes than the other 3 categories combined) in favor of more sexual and less "vanilla" fetishes, I am happy to say that we'll be able to provide as such.

Here is a current list of fetishes we will/will not do: https://pastebin.com/58Ue5u1r 

It's currently nothing more than a pastebin right now, but it'll be added to the page description as a fun-to-look-at image sooner or later. Please do tell me if there's anything I should include that isn't currently there.

The current tag system (i.e., this post is tagged as "Announcements") will still give broad descriptions on what type of post everything is, but story dubs will now have a handful of more succinct tags in the description.

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Misc Patreon news:   

$30 and $60 tiers have been edited to give you the option of either 1 story with SFX per month, or 2 stories of the same length, but without SFX. Original stories without and with SFX are referred to as "Standard" and "Deluxe" for simplicity's sake.

Deluxe commissions will be reopening soon at the slightly bumped price of $30. This is because sound designers are paid $15 USD now instead of $10 when commissions were initially opened.

Some goals were lightly edited: 

• Our $375 goal has been changed to 2 additional uploads per month. Can you believe I created that goal 6 months ago? The achievement condition was formerly "3 uploads per week". 
• I removed the "20+ part" descriptor from our $450 goal. It will definitely still be an overarching story with plenty of world-building, but I'm not going to determine the length until after everything is set and done. Expect more news on this once we begin to approach the goal. I have several plans in mind already on how we're going to do this thing. It'll be yuge, folks. I've also reworded the "loveletter to all of our patrons" bit at the end, as to not implicate that only paying patrons will be able to provide help for the currently-untitled series.
• If anyone's got ideas for goals to reach past $450, let me know. Maybe I'll increase the increment value for goals to $150 instead of $75.

Lastly, I made the banner blue. I like red-orange and light-blue as a color scheme more than the orange + green we had going on.

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That's all for now.  Make sure to send some extra spicy stuff in #story-requests!