We have some updates for you all regarding preorders! Thank you all for your support thus far. We greatly appreciate it and hope you’ll continue to support us!
We’ll be discussing, Preorder Extension, Stretch Goals and Add-On Changes, and Proofs and Potion Brewing! Check out the information below the cut!
Organ(isation) Potion Master Humanbob will now be taking on finance and shipping! Finance/Shipping Potion Master Cate had to step down due to life circumstances unfortunately - we really do wish her the best and thank her for all she’s done so far!
Production Update: WE HAVE THE PROOFS FOR THE TOTE BAG AND POUCH! Stickersheet and wooden pin proofs are also on their way :D
Formatting: Due to some life circumstances, our Graphic/Format Potion Master Reah had to step down. However, Yelhsa has officially taken over and has completed a Zine PDF draft - we’re currently having our contributors review it, and are expecting to order a proof early November!
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Organ(isation) Potion Master Humanbob will now be taking on finance and shipping! Finance/Shipping Potion Master Cate had to step down due to life circumstances unfortunately - we really do wish her the best and thank her for all she’s done so far!
Production Update: WE HAVE THE PROOFS FOR THE TOTE BAG AND POUCH! Stickersheet and wooden pin proofs are also on their way :D
Formatting: Due to some life circumstances, our Graphic/Format Potion Master Reah had to step down. However, Yelhsa has officially taken over and has completed a Zine PDF draft - we’re currently having our contributors review it, and are expecting to order a proof early November!
Want more details and nice pictures with your biweekly announcements? Join our Biweekly Brews Owl Newsletter!Both are brought to you by Organ(isation) Potions Master Humanbob; both tell the same news, but the newsletter reveals extra information on them! Regardless, you will receive all the essential info.
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Rules: write the latest line from a WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.
Tagged by @athina-blaine !! Also im breaking the rules and doing a full paragraph
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That’s it, isn’t it? Wil’s guitar. The final, missing piece to his ironic, unfinished symphony. His personal memorial. Tommy pictures it now: leather strap slung over his shoulder, hands hovering over well-worn wood. Not quite touching– Wilbur never had gotten around to teaching him– but reverent fingers tracing the strings, fluttering over the fret. Tapping out the off-beat rhythm of a song Wilbur had sung, back when loneliness grew over their home with the tenacity of jungle vines.
Since the release of CH8, I’ve been managing to keep pace on writing for CH9 as well as releasing regular Patreon posts the past few weeks. Funnily, I think launching my Patreon helped me keep up a regular schedule for writing haha
I have lots of exciting updates to report on!!
To start with, my goal for CH9 is ~40k words, and during the month of April I managed to write 11k words! This means I’m about 25% through with the first draft of the chapter, which is a lot more progress than I expected to have!
For May, my goal will be 15k words, so hopefully by the end of the month I’ll be finished with the majority of the chapter and will only have the final scenes left to write. IdeallyI’d love to aim for a late June/early July update, but I’m also working on my bachelor’s thesis during this same time-frame, so I can’t give any solid guarantees.
In terms of content, as well as some other things I’ve been working on during April and what I plan to work on next:
I’ve finished the opening scene of CH9, which has hugevariations so far and took up pretty much all 11k words that I wrote in April!
During May, I’ll be getting into the mid-section of the chapter where the pace will slow down quite a bit for some recovery time for the poor Crown, as well as some more political intrigue… it’s time for some royal decrees
Also have a few LI scenes planned that I’m veryexcited to get started on! There’s gonna be some character subplots that are going to start moving verysoon
I’ve released consistent weekly progress reports, development sneak peaks, and bonus stories and content for R, X, D and Tûjo on my Patreon!
For May, I’ll be releasing more content for D, A and an (as of yet) undetermined 3rd LI as well, based on patron votes.
I’ve also put together a commission for more official AToC art, thanks to all my patron pledges during April ✨
You can find more details about these updates during my weekly Patreon progress reports, though note that I charge up front and the pledge gets renewed every 1st of the month, so it’ll probably be better to wait a day or two before pledging to avoid getting double charged right now!
I’ll definitely keep you all on the tumblr blog updated as well with these monthly progress updates!
So…this morning, when I was updating my stats in MyFitnessPal (which I haven’t done in almost a year), I realized that I’m 17 pounds lighter than I was last year in May 2021. Sometime between towards the end of December 2021 and the beginning of this year, I made the decision to stop focusing so much on calories. I’ve shifted my focus on eating more intuitively and on how the food I eat makes me feel. I have also not been actively weighing myself. I think the last time I stepped on a scale in my own home was over a year ago. The only reason why I know how much I weigh now is because I had a doctor’s appointment a few days ago.
I feel good because I hadn’t realized that I’ve made that much progress so far. I knew I had made some, since some of my favorite clothes weren’t fitting as tightly, but I had assumed it was probably just from bloating less.
I really hope I continue to see this trend. I’m also hoping that since it’s taking longer than I’m used to, it’ll be more sustainable in the long run :)
Alright, hate to do this, but I should do this every year. Year Two progress report:
YEAR TWO: Nov. 23, 2018 - Nov. 23, 2019 NUMBER OF SPECIES: 18 NUMBER OF COMPLETE FAMILIES: 2 FINAL SCORE: 18 Illustrations AVERAGE # ILLUSTRATIONS PER WEEK: .34
…..BAHAHAHA!!! THAT is TERRIBLE! Hoo, 2019 was a rough year! Here’s looking at 2020! May it have exponentially more than 18 illustrations! Thanks to everyone who stuck around through the Faunal Frontier Year of the Pig! I’m looking forward to actually drawing things in the future!
