Future of the Waifu's and other projects

Long story short, over the next couple of months, I'll be winding down the Waifu Royale project and replacing it with a LitRPG... thing. Details of said thing will be discused later.

In practice, it means that I won't be drawing any more new SFW waifus,  BUT we'll still have a bunch of Waifu Royale votes. I am not sure how many exactly, but we'll have at least one every week until the end of july. They will be replaced with LitRPG related votes, so we'll have a vote a week either way.

I will also be finishing up and expanding the "Midlife Crisis" story. With input from your votes of course.  I am not letting that one die on the vine. The disaster lesbians need a proper conclustion!

Why am I making this change? A couple of reasons:

- I am just bored of drawing the waifus. I drew 54 of them over the last ten months. I am ready for a change of pace.

- I am intrigued by how combining simple pinups and weekly polls can actually lead to interesting stories. I want to take what I've learned about community driven storytelling and apply it more deliberately.

- I want to challenge myself a bit more and the waifus were designed to be as easy to do as possible. The next project is going to be more difficult and force me to put more effort in.

I am giving a heads up a couple of months in advance to give you guys time to adjust your pledges. I don't like sudden changes to patreons I support. If you have an annual subscription I am happy to give a refund. Partial refunds for annual subs are a thing on patreon. Just send me a message, I'll do it no questions asked.

Now, let's get to the new project:

PROJECT GRIMLEWD [name pending]

Over the next couple of months I am going to be developing a GrimDark LitRPG world/setting of a yet undetermined name. 

What is a LitRPG? It's a type of fantasy setting where characters, in universe, gain levels, classes and abilities, like in a video game. It's not an actual game you could play. It's just an introduction of certain gamey elements into a literary setting to make it more fun.

The goal is to develop a fun setting that is able to accomodate both pornographic and more serious stories. Over the years, I've been thinking a lot about how to combine porn and plot properly. Both "Alfie" and "The Invitation" are my two more serious approaches to answering that question. Looks like this project will be the third!

I love the idea of a porn'ish LitRPG setting, but I've never seen it done in a way that tries to respect both sides of the equation. The lewd enhances the fantasy. The fantasy enhances the lewd. It's a beautiful closed circle.

In structure, it'll be similiar to the Waifu Royale. I'll be drawing [mostly] SFW character or location illustrations that contain tidbits of lore and worldbuilding. Every week 5$ patrons will vote on how to expand those illustrations into more NSFW territories.

I honestly don't know what this project will develop into. But I think that it should be fun along the way!

I'll talk about the specifics of the setting in a different post tomorrow. I want to have a separate, publicly availible document that I could link to explain the world quickly.

Here's some sample illustrations I've already drawn:

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Let me know what you think!