Announcing BRASILIANA, a Steampunk Hard Fantasy, Adventure Series! (Patreon)

🛑 Mildly explicit content | A few instances of the F-bomb.

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Hello there, my naughty nuggets!

Right now, as I’m typing the first few lines of this video’s script, I am overflowing with happiness. Euphoric, really!

I’ve just finished out all my major changes to my Patreon (which is currently my main website) and I’m quite satisfied with the results. I have been hitting all my deadlines and goals as far as my writing is concerned, and this just fills me with boundless, exuberant energy.

If you’re a regular reader or old-time subscriber, thank you very much for following me in this wacky, rather unconventional journey.

Now, I’m not exactly a branding gal, and my marketing skills can be better described as “babyish and retarded”, to say the least, so I’m the first to admit there’s plenty to be improved in terms of brand image and user accessibility for my works.

If my literature continues to improve and gather more readers (ie, if I keep making more money), I’ll definitely bring somebody to help with these more specific, specialized forms of labor. A graphic designer, a social media expert, a marketing savant... something like this.

For now, however, I’m rather poor and unknown, so I make due with what little I have.

Now, onto the good stuff!

Long-time readers know that I am not a full-time erotic writer, only a part-time one. My full attention is on what I half-jokingly like to call my “serious writing.”

If you’ve been around my YouTube channel for long, you’ve probably seen this long video I published a few months ago, in the beginning of 2025, talking about the other projects I was baking in my oven.

One of these projects was Puppet Factory, which was supposed to be the second book of a planned series called The Andaluzian Saga. Alas, this project was put on hold indefinitely—more on that later.

The other project was called Brasiliana—and this is the project that I decided to focus exclusively outside of my erotic production.

Per the title of this video, this is a presentation about (and sort of a second announcement doubling as the main, proper reveal of) this series.

Brasiliana is something that I’ve been working on for a very long time, but that only recently started getting into shape. It is a steampunk hard fantasy and adventure inspired by Iberian, Latin American, and, of course, Brazilian cultures.

The premise of the story is the journey of two young people—a shy, but restless teenage boy, and a giant, dare-devilish muscle princess—toward the famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) sky-city of Excelvior, a metropolis so vast, dense, and advanced that its buildings are rumored to reach up to the skies (hence, its nickname).

I am wary of giving up too many details about the story because my narrative truly is something that must be experienced fresh and blind to be enjoyed to the fullest. Even I, the writer, am shocked by the kinds of events and twists that pop up in my tale, and sometimes I feel like the story is writing itself through me, like I’m a pen of some kind of literary ghost, some sort of spirit using me as a vessel for these delightfully delirious tales.

(Well, one thing I know for sure: when I’m writing my erotica, this spirit is certainly a demon from the horniest corners of the Lust layer in Hell.)

Anyway, back to the topic. I guess every writer says this about themselves, right? I admit, I’m a little pretentious like this, but I truly, truly mean it: this story is something else, and the more you read it without any context, the best your experience, dear reader, shall be.

Now, the story is still, alas, in its first draft, and this draft is getting... a little bit big.

How big, you ask?

Yeah. What started as a simple adventure became a sprawling narrative whose complexity both intimidates and dazzles me! I’m giving birth to a whole new civilization, which comes with the obvious complexities of managing a colorful cast of characters in a quickly-expanding web of relationships, intrigues, conspiracies, and more.

This is a story of not only individuals, but civilizations. In fact, the video game series Civilization is one of my main direct inspirations for this story, along with the Japanese works Hunter X Hunter, One Piece, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

And yes: Brasiliana has some major anime vibes. Way more than this, actually: the series is explicitly paced like an adventure anime series (think Hunter X Hunter). Some of the characters can get pretty over-the-top, like the aforementioned Amazon princess, and there are feats of superhuman strength, individualistic and idealistic courage mixed with world-spanning conspiracies, meticulous political intrigue, sex scandals, and good ole’ warfare between two bitterly rival, neighboring nations.

Also yes, sex. There’s lots and lots of sex in my story as well. Though not explicitly mature like my, you know, "other writings", this series is steamy as fuck, therefore not appropriate for young audiences.

Aside from sex, there are lots of taboo topics discussed openly and without shame in this series, so readers under the age of eighteen are explicitly forbidden from consuming it. Sorry, luvs, but all of my works, pornographic or not, are only for the big boys (though big boys with evergreen souls; grown-ups who never forgot what it’s like to be a kid).

And yes, yes, this is a series, not merely a book. In fact, though I started it out with the intention of writing a single book as the introduction to the series, the current draft will actually end up covering two books.

Out of how many books in total, you ask? Well…

Okay, sit down, ‘cause this gonna be a long one.

Like the most popular anime and manga, Brasiliana is divided into arcs. Each arc neatly comprises a segment of the grand narrative, advancing the characters’ goals while also introducing new characters, themes, obstacles, expanding the lore, and deepening the worldbuilding.

This is sort of difficult to explain to someone without any experience in the medium, I’ll be honest. If you know anime, you know how it is.

The first arc of Brasiliana is called The Journey to Excelvior, and it will probably comprise four books. Probably.

Books 1 and 2 are the ones I’m currently writing, and their working titles are The Call of Adventure and The Guardian of the Woods, respectively.

It’s far too early to give definitive titles to books 3 and 4, but the ones I’m currently working with are: The Flight of the Rebels, and The Journey to Excelvior.

Furthermore, each arc can be divided into Volumes. I’m trying not to make this too complicated, but if you consult this chart here, I hope you will understand what I mean.

Books 1 and 2 form a neat narrative mini-arc within the first great arc (The Journey to Excelvior)—hence why I’m writing both books at once. It just feels more natural this way.

The same goes for Books 3 and 4, at least according to the plans and notes I have for them.

Though things may (and probably will) change in the coming decades, I have good reason to believe the structure of the entire series will remain the same—that is, one Arc that can be divided into Volumes, each Volume having two or three books apiece.

It’s likely that, when the first two books are finished, they’ll also be published together as a single volume additionally. Personally, I would actually prefer to buy and read the full volume at once, as it is more of a full story; it neatly completes the mini-narrative within the larger arc.

Also, a reminder: each arc itself is a segment of the great narrative of the entire series, which might last for a grand total of… oh, I don’t know. Fifteen arcs?

Yes, I know. I was only partially joking when I said that this whole series may end up with sixty freaking books. It is a sprawling, ever-widening narrative that—if everything goes according to plan—will conclude with dozens of main characters with interlocking narratives and branching paths, like that movie Magnolia, but on steroids.

It’s taking me about one year and a half, maybe two years to finish the first draft of the first two books, and I have no reason to believe that the next drafts will, in total, collectively, be any quicker.

Luckily, fingers crossed, I’ll have these books ready for release in 2028—about four years after I started working on them back in mid-2024.

I’ll assume that the narrative will become quicker and the worldbuilding easier to grasp in the subsequent books. Still, even assuming a complete series of “just” 50 books, and one year of development and writing per book, this will amount to… well, fifty years of work—and again, that’s me being generous.

It’s likely that I will spend sixty years to complete the entire series, assuming nothing goes wrong and I can at least continue writing at the current pace, which is absolutely—and I'm sorry to say it—not a given.

To be honest, I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m probably never completing this work—not for the lack of desire, motivation, or planning (unlike some other writers), but simply due to the lack of time.

You know, good ole’ mortality and all.

Does this bother me? Yes, sure, a little, of course, but also... no, not at all. Brasiliana is written in such a way that each book is perfectly fine on its own. Though there is a grand narrative, the smaller arcs and volumes tell self-contained stories that are sure to please most, if not all of my readers.

It's like the first three books of Harry Potter. Yeah, remember those? I remember reading those stories and getting a tremendous feeling of closure on each of them. Sure, the whole thing with Voldemort and all provided a nice context and a tease to the overall, grand narrative, but each individual book was perfectly good on its own right. Up to Prisoner of Azkaban, frankly, I wouldn’t feel terribly sorry if I found out that the story wouldn’t continue past that.

Of course, it’s a whole different matter after the fourth book (my favorite in the series, by the way), where the stakes were raised so dramatically that the self-contained, episodic format of the earlier books simply wouldn't fly anymore—and, in my personal opinion, that’s why the last three books (or four fucking movies!) of the series were extremely lackluster in comparison.

This, of course, aside from the other… cahem, J. K. Rowling shenanigans.

My point is: even if I never conclude the grand narrative (which is the most likely outcome, sadly), this won't necessarily leave a very bitter taste in the mouths of my readers. At worst, it will be a bittersweet taste. The longing for an adventure that never came, but also carrying the gratitude for all the wonderful adventures that did happen.

As the Shakespearean saying goes: don’t be sad because it’s over, be glad because it happened. Or, more aptly for my case: don’t be sad because it’s ended too soon, be glad because of all the good stories that you got the chance to experience.

Going on a minor tangent here: this is also why I personally didn’t feel too sad about Berserk ending abruptly. I mean, yeah, I was sad that Miura died (I’m not a heartless bitch), but I kind of didn’t care too much about the story being left unfinished (that is, back when we didn’t know whether anyone would pick it up or not, and the end of the series was the most likely assumption).

Up to that point, Berserk was such an extraordinary and exceptionally well-told story that even its abrupt conclusion on the Fairy Island arc (with Griffith apparently winning, no less, hahaha!) felt… fitting.

Like, sure, I wanted to see the rest. Sure, it was a bummer that one of the greatest sagas ever told was left unfinished, but the experiences up to that point had been so overwhelmingly great, so out-of-this-world magnificent, that frankly, I felt like I’d gotten my full of quality storytelling long, long ago. By the point Griffith was resurrected (ah, spoilers, by the way), I literally didn’t know how the story could have gotten any better.

That it did get better only added to an already impossibly large pile of happiness within my soul. It’s kind of paradoxical, I know, but sometimes, things can get so good that ending them abruptly feels like mercy.

Like I’m going to explode and die if they keep improving. Not even in the sense that “too much of a good thing is bad”, no. More like, “too much of a good thing can give you an aneurysm and permanently fry your dopamine receptors with way-too-high expectations”... or something like that.

Hopefully, if my own work is anywhere near as good as Miura’s worst chapters (I’m looking at you, Boat Arc), then I’ll consider myself one of the most accomplished artists in human history, and you, my dear readers, will have gotten a storytelling experience unlike any other since a certain British lad with way too many R’s in his name picked up a pen and started writing about short kings obsessed with evil jewelry.

Oya, there, my royal bitches and loyal witches, this is a mid-video reminder that I’ve got a Patreon (yeah, I’m e-begging, spare me your judgement), and this Patreon is my main hub of online operations in the moment.

That is, my Patreon is my main page, and that’s where I post everything, everything that I write, from the horniest motherfucking adult stories this side of the Great Firewall of China, to (hopefully) the soon-to-be-greatest steampunk adventure slash hard fantasy ever written!

Come to my Patreon, become a loyal follower, and be gentle when you take my backside virginity on our wedding night.

Speaking of literary masterpieces, my Brasiliana series is something that I like to refer as “hard fantasy”, which is not a term that I hear very often (though I’m pretty sure someone has used it before; it simply never caught on, I guess).

You know how there is something called “hard science fiction”, or “hard scifi”? Like, which are works of science fiction that pay painstaking attention to real scientific concepts, sometimes to autistic levels of detail, making said works rather impenetrable (most of the time) to casual, mainstream audiences?

Well, in this same vein, my Brasiliana series is a rather hardcore fanatsy story, or “hard fantasy”. It is a fantasy primarily focused on the sociology and geopolitics of its fictional setting, as well as the biology of its fictional creatures, the weather patterns and geology of its fictional planet, the minutiae of the cosmology and astronomy of its universe, and so on and so forth.

Like my hardcore erotica, it’s perhaps a little too autistically detailed—but don’t worry, I’m actually going to revise it down to a more mainstream, palatable format. Again, I’m not a fucking psychopath, and I do enjoy the prospect of not freezing to death on the streets as an independent artist.

I’m just going to have a more serious approach to my worldbuilding than the your average fantasy writer these days, and stylistically, I believe this is going to be one of the most defining features of my ouvre—if I pull it off, of course.

Ah, yeah. Back to the general structure of the series (and rough estimates for the release dates of the first few books). It’s far, far, far too early to tell how many books, volumes, or even arcs the whole series will have, even though I have all the basic plot beats already in my head.

Remember: I started out wanting to write a single book, and I had the idea of roughly 300 pages for the first draft of this book, but…

Well, that didn’t end up quite as expected, did it?

You can say I overshot it a little, and what was meant to be a single book became two, and what was meant to be 300 pages per book is on pace to reach 600, double my initial estimates.

Even taking into account the massive (and I mean massive!) revisions ahead, you can see how this story is growing much faster than my ability to plan around it, right?

And I’ve got to be honest here, both with you and myself: I write a lot of bullshit, admittedly, and I tend to love the sound of my voice… or, well, the look of my words on the page. Even this paragraph right here, that you’re reading (or listening to, in the case of my podcasts and YouTube videos) is a little chonky and full of fat, isn’t it? I mean, I’ve got quite a lot of fat in all of my writings, especially when I don’t revise them or edit them thoroughly (which is the case of my adult stories).

Regardless, I do feel that this is for the better, at least since 2023, 2024, which was when I finally began to hit my stride as a writer—not financially, mind you (oh, definitely not financially), but in terms of writing quality. I’ve finally acquired what I consider to be my very own style, as unmistakably “Gigi Potemkin” as a fingerprint is to a person, and rereading my past few pornographic works, I was amazed by how well the stories flowed… that is, considering how long and detailed they were, and how repetitive my unrevised writing tends to get.

I’m finally starting to become a real writer, a professional author—and all I can say about this is… thank god!! Finally! It’s happening!

It’s been 15 fucking years of trial and error and finally, finally do I feel like I’m getting somewhere! Sure, I never quite really worked full-time on my writing until now (due to poverty reasons), but still, I expected some results sooner, you know? Well, better late than never.

So, what does this all mean? What’s the purpose of this rambling? Well, that’s basically me saying that I’m not just randomly farting words on the page. I know that writers can get their heads stuck too far up their own arses and end up writing hundreds of pages of pure gibberish if they don’t have a stern, reasonable editor whipping their backs like Antebellum wiggers on the Chaucerian plantations, but… I do believe I’m going somewhere with my writing, and it’s somewhere amazing! A place where very few books have taken their readers to.

The story is getting so big because… well, that’s how big it must be! This is a hard fantasy story, not just your average out-of-the-factory mono-mythic slop that has become so prevalent in the West in the past two decades—especially since 2012, which is when I believe Western entertainment went irrevocably to shit.

No: Brasiliana pays painstaking attention to detail and the spacial-historical development of its many fictional civilizations, and the actions of its main characters unleash cascade effects that reshape these civilizations over decades… while also being influenced and reshaped themselves by these slow-moving, largely imperceptible civilizational transformations.

Largely imperceptible, that is, in the short-term.

I know my pretentiousness will go off-the-charts now, but I feel like I’m really breathing life into a whole new world. Like…

I feel like a god… well, a goddess bringing life to a small universe of my own—and far from saying that I can do everything I want with this world, the reality is rather nuanced: this world has its own rules and logic that must be respected at all times if the story is to work, and I am both creator and slave to these rules, lest I aim to write pure gibberish.

As I said in the beginning of this video, I feel possessed when writing this universe. It’s both an act of creation and taking dictation from my brain, putting into words images that sprawl naturally (and sometimes aggressively) from my frontal lobe (or something—I’m huffing my own farts a bit, okay? Let a gal enjoy herself for once).

The more I write and the deeper my world becomes, initial plans change and whole story-lines end up, if not rewritten, revised. What at first felt like rushed and unnatural situations for my characters to get into become fairly reasonable and coherent once I take the time to explain them. This has the obvious downside of demanding more time for revisions and, of course, more pages in the first draft.

Don’t get me wrong: I know painfully well that I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me, and that finishing the first draft is, in the best-case scenario, only half of my work. I am pretty realistic about all this, and this is why I’m extremely cautious and conservative regarding release dates and all.

With that said, I’m fairly confident that the final product will absolutely rock your world, so the extra time and attention to detail will be more than justified.

Fingers crossed, sure.

Anyway, about release dates: 2028 is a (more or less) good estimate for the release of the first two books (that is: the first volume), though whether it will be on the first or second half of the year, welp, that’s anyone’s guess.

Also anyone’s guess is the release dates for the next two books (that is, the second half of the first arc) of my series.

The first of a currently planned fifteen-arc storyline—which I know sounds insane when I put it like this!

Right now, fifteen arcs (comprising four books each, or 60 books in total) just seem like the logical structure for the whole story that I have planned in my head, already taking into account the growing complexity (and page count) seen in these first two books. Hopefully, the rest of the story will flow a lot more smoothly once the foundations have been laid, but again, I prefer to take the conservative, “pessimist” route and say that, yep, that’s sixty motherfucking books that I have ahead of me, divided into fifteen goddamned arcs—each arc, by the way, forming what I’m going to call a Season, which…

[SIGH]

Ah, fuck. Turns out, the structure is even more complex than I imagined when I began writing this script.

So, let me see if I got this straight……

Brasiliana is a sprawling narrative best divided (for now) into five grand Seasons (or Mega-Arcs), each Season containing three Arcs, each Arc containing two Volumes, and each Volume containing two books.

The first two books are scheduled to be released in 2028, and the next two books (or second Volume) of the first Arc are scheduled to be released in…

I’m literally not even going to try and guess a date for books 3 and 4, in part because of… well, carts ahead of horses, you know, but also because I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment.

Naturally, finishing the first two books is all that matters for now, and making sure these books are a success, or at least, as good as they can get, is the only thing in my mind.

There’s also more than pure text in my work. Brasiliana, as exhaustively stated already, is a sprawling saga set in a dynamic, ever-changing fictional universe whose width and depth are equally breathtaking (and to me, the writer, who’s in charge of putting it all into page... maddening!)

You know the expression wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle, eh? So, Brasiliana’s world is the ocean! Wide as one, yes, and just as deep.

You can see why I’m pulling hairs writing this story, huh? It’s no easy feat.

Naturally, such an unfathomably large, rich universe needs an equally large, rich encyclopedia to help both myself and my readers keep track of it all, and that’s also what I’ll work on, begrudgingly or not, once at least the first draft is finished: there are tons of encyclopedic articles, dictionary entries, maps, and illustrations that I need to prepare.

You know how websites like Wikia or Wiki.net keep track of the fictional universes of the world’s most popular IPs? So, Brasiliana will have something like it as well—though I definitely don’t have the time to tabulate and program a literal digital encyclopedia, at least not one with the depth of something like Wookiepedia or the Warhammer 40k Wikia.

I’m just one gal, alright? A horny little girl trying to write something worthwhile for once! There’s only so much a single person can do, and I’m already getting behind my schedule for books 1 and 2, so… bear with me, y’all!

Probably the most important of these supplementary materials—or at least the one that readers will be most interested in—are the maps. Everyone knows the maps of The Lord of the Rings books, right? It’s literally one of the most iconic imagery in Western culture since the 20th century, so much so that it created its own distinct fictional cartographic style: the Tolkien style, as I like to call it.

So, yeah, Brasiliana definitely needs maps as well, and I’ll have to draw those as best as I can. I am not much of a drawer or illustrator, as evidenced by my extensive use of AI in my promotional materials (including this video), but I’ll have to do my best to create convincing maps (in my own style, definitely not Tolkien’s, by the way) and concept art for the more abstract elements in my books.

Brasiliana features a blend of Victorian, steampunk and electric sci-fi elements, architecture, epic vistas, and more traditional, pre-industrial environments that are often quite hard to accurately describe with writing alone.

Imagine if someone had to capture the magic of, say, a Hayao Miyazaki movie through text, and nothing but text. How can you describe sequences like the first night at the spirit hotel in Chihiro or the establishing shots of the city at the start of Howl’s Moving Castle without any drawing or illustration of any kind? How would you depict the tree growth scene from Totoro using only words without losing any of the awe and enchantment? Is it even possible??

Well, it must bloody well be, ‘cause this is what I’m trying to do with Brasiliana!

To be frank, owning to its large inspiration from anime, manga, video games, and movies (you know, visual media par excellence), Brasiliana would work best as an animated TV series, at least a manga, but I simply don’t have the skill, know-how, and resources to pull this off. Not right now, anyway.

I’ll have to focus on what’s achievable at the moment and make it the best work possible, regardless of its ideal suitability to this or that medium.

You know: horses ahead of carts. First things first.

And it’s also not like I’m a bad writer (hopefully). I love writing, and Brasiliana works quite well on the page, even more so thanks to my colorful, lively writing style, especially my descriptive sequences, but… Sigh It would still be much better (and definitely more popular) in a primarily visual medium.

If I were to list the top 100 main inspirations for the series, literally no less than 90 would be from film, TV, comics, and video games. Hell, even music has had more influence in me than literature, and I’ve got to confess, I haven’t been much of a reader in a long, long while.

Overall, the world of literature doesn’t hold a candle next to the imagination and inventiveness present in literally every other medium that I consume. Even The Lord of the Rings, which is commonly cited as the crowning achievement of pop, mainstream Western literature, works way better in film than in book.

Yeah, I’m the type of person who loves Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings way more than J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The same goes for Harry Potter, the only literary work in the West that has come close to matching Tolkien’s work in popularity and cultural influence: I prefer the movies over the books, and it’s not even close!

Another quick aside: the only literary series that I have found to be incomparably better than its visual adaptations is C. S. Lewis’ Narnia. Firstly, because the books are, like, really, really good! Secondly, because… uh, have you seen the movies?

Speaking of visual media… will I use AI to help me with the work? Yes? No? Most likely, yes, I’ll keep using LLMs for promotional materials and (maybe) more important, consumer-centric artwork like the covers of my books—albeit with extensive editing and curation.

There are only two pieces of early promotional concept art that I’ve made for Brasiliana, which you see now, here, on-screen (this is for those watching the video on YouTube and other video-sharing websites). Every element in these images is AI-generated, but the full illustration is edited on Photoshop—and it was not light editing either. I remember taking one hour, maybe two hours to edit each image. That’s not including the time it took to deal with the AI-generation and stock-footage procurement. For every AI-generated graphic element that you see here, on-screen, there were literally hundreds of inferior generations that I passed over.

Even with the best prompts on paid services, AI is, for the most part, shit, and it takes quite a while to generate graphics that more or less align with your initial vision.

Honestly, I don’t believe that even the best models out there can generate a full poster like either of these two that I created. The best we have at the moment is the generation of individual elements that can in turn be assembled into a finished product—one that will hopefully match, or at least approximate, your original vision.

So, back to the topic: I will likely keep using AI for the promotional materials, especially low-value, low-stakes, fast-turnout products like this very YouTube video you’re watching (or just listening to) right now. I intend to use AI for the covers as well, but this will require extensive editing, as this is the most important visual element in any book, at least in terms of sales.

I do not intend to use AI for any of the maps, though. I’ll draw these myself.

Also, there is a very important question that may need clarification for some of my readers, especially the newer ones, who are not yet “in the know” of what this whole “Gigi Potemkin" thing is about:

Do I use AI in my writings?

No. Quite simply, no.

Writing is my bread and butter, my passion, and I have no need for AI in it. Not for the drafts, not for the revisions, not for spell checking, style guide, nothing. When it comes to writing, everything that you see from me—up to and including the script for this video—is 100% Gigi-made. Full authenticity. A through-and-through human creation.

My madness is mine and my own only.

I only use AI for things I cannot do myself at a bare-minimum level of quality and customer-satisfaction. The silly images I use in these videos is one of them.

And yes, these videos are actually important to help advertise my work, believe it or not. In the digital age, you should never underestimate the vital importance of videos in your marketing campaigns.

Trust me: I underestimated the medium all my life, and this is why I’m atrociously poor in my thirties.

Though AI is merely okay for some image-generation tasks, I’m pretty confident in saying that it’s an exceptional tool for voice work and narration. Everything that you’re hearing right now is AI-generated, and I’ve got to confess, I was blown away by the quality of this service relative to its price.

Sure, there are some spotty segments in this narration now and then, but that’s because I don’t spent any time either generating or editing these audio files. Were I to put more serious labor into this voice work, I’d probably create something that would fool most people into thinking it was a professionally human-narrated script.

I intend to use AI to make audiobooks for my series, though this is a much, much longer-term project, and one that’s only on very early planning stages.

Should my book be successful or gain interest/momentum early on, I want to bring in real artists and real craftspeople in as many stages of production that I can—but again, this is quite a long-shot for the time being.

I’m an unknown, broke nobody, and I depend on erotica writing to both relieve myself of my own nerve-wracking, groin-burning horniness, and to attract attention to my other, more serious, less commercially viable writing, so it shouldn’t come as much of a shock that I don’t have a lot of cash to spare, eh? I’m not exactly loaded, that’s all I’m saying.

There’s no way I can bring a single good artist to work with me full-time for less than two thousand dollars a month, and any artist worth their grain of salt would demand equity stake in the project—which makes it so much worse when the project doesn’t have any equity to begin with, huh?

I mean, yeah, I love my work, it’s the fruit of a lot of passion and love and whatever, but in real, concrete, capitalistic terms… Brasiliana is still nothing.

I hope it might be something one day, sooner than later, but for now, all I have is hope. Hope and nothing but hope—and sadly, hope pays neither bills nor wages. But I repeat myself.

All I have is hope… and you, my dearest reader!

Okay, okay, fine, so… in my defense, I hadn’t planned for yet another Patreon plugin to come into the video. Not before the end credits, that is. However, as this cheeky self-promotion emerged naturally, I’ll bite the bullet and shill my humble Patreon page a third time, alright?

There will be a fourth Patreon shoutout at the end of the video, okay? As mentioned, in the end credits.

But yeah, if this premise has interested you, consider jumping over to my Patreon and becoming a subscriber. I’m currently a hardcore erotica writer, as you can see on my other videos here in this and other channels, so my Patreon is mostly erotic content.

Don’t worry, I’m tasteful, and you won’t see or read anything there that you don’t want to without a warning. This is a much-needed heads-up for those who are coming into this video or my brand for the first time and don’t really know what I’m all about.

As mentioned before, I write giant muscle, breeding erotica for fun and clout. I am intensely sexually frustrated and I need erotica as a pressure valve, a escape or release for my overwhelming, almost crippling horniness.

Alas, erotica has been the only form of writing that has consistently brought me new readers, and some of my most sincere, earnest followers all came from the most debauched websites on the planet.

I mean, it’s sad, but things do be like that sometimes, eh? I wish I had attracted long-time readers with my more, uh, “serious writing”, but I confess that this writing was often very boring, and I can’t say I’m personally frustrated by writing silly, bonker stories of superhuman muscle females and colossal Adonises with three-foot-long schlongs... among other things.

So, currently, my Patreon is focused on my erotic writings. All the customer-facing pages are very tame and suitable-for-work. You need to actively look for and download my writing, that is, the document files, to see anything indiscreet.

I’ve also uploaded my full gallery of horny illustrations there, such as these ones you’re seeing here, in this video. These illustrations are almost always never explicit, however, as I used them primarily for the covers of my books back when I focused on major online retailers, like Amazon.

Anyway, yeah, this is just a disclaimer so that some of you are not shocked or surprised when you check my page. I wish to gradually move away from pornographic writing and into proper literature, but this depends on how successful Brasiliana will (or will not) be, and how soon.

I don’t really intend to create a separate Patreon, website, or subscription page, you know, just to handle my non-erotic writings. Like, having two different pages (one for my erotica, one for my regular, mainstream work) just sounds too complicated, too cumbersome, and too confusing for new readers. If you’re not squeamish regarding my censored, adult work, you probably won’t mind it.

Of course, if it was my erotica that got you interested on my work and my brand in the first place, then welcome home! You will be more-than-lavishly serviced by my horny-as-fuck content in my Patreon!

Will I always keep writing erotica? I don’t know. I already don’t make any money out of it (any real money, that is), and I don’t really do it primarily for clout or attention, you know. It really is mostly for pleasure—double entendre and all.

I often catch myself thinking how much cash would be necessary for me to quit my erotica entirely, but then I try to imagine myself not writing any porn and drowning again in loneliness and intense sexual need, and I realize that… nope! It ain’t for money that I crank my literary knob every single day. It’s because I genuinely enjoy it (wink-wink), and it might be a long time until I stop doing it for good.

Maybe if Brasiliana is super successful or whatnot, but that ain’t a given.

As mentioned before in this and other videos, I do have another series I want to work on: The Andaluz Saga, or Andaluzian Saga (or Andaluz, for short), but due to lack of time, I had to put it off indefinitely.

Currently, my writing schedule is 50-50: one half for Brasiliana, the other half for my erotica, plus all the business, administrative, and marketing tasks required to support them.

I’m only dropping Brasiliana when I drop dead, so my erotica is left to bite the bullet. Thus, one of my longer term goals is precisely this: to stop writing erotica for good and switch over to this second series, which is supposed to be science fiction instead of fantasy, and to have a grittier, more “realistic” tone instead of Brasiliana’s highly adventurous plots and idealistic themes.

My previous novel, The Doll Who Loved Me, which is the only non-adult work currently published under the Gigi Potemkin brand, was supposed to be part of this series, but it only loosely connects to it and, in hindsight, was a very, very bad start to the series.

Puppet Factory was supposed to kick-start this series, but once again, life got in the way, time got short, and I was forced to prioritize.

Hence, my current literary production is Brasiliana by day and pornography by night, and this is how things will stand until something major happens.

So, where does this leave us?

All things go well, fingers crossed, the first volume (or first two books) of Brasiliana comes out in 2028. From there, everything is possible, and any estimate I try to give you will be so uncertain as to be totally useless.

I’m probably doing some other videos in the future talking about the series, but I don’t have any interesting topic in mind at the moment.

Feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments for future videos. Things you'd like to see or know about me, I don't know. If Brasiliana has peeked your interest, let me know what I else you're curious about, and I'll do my best to address your questions.

This might sound cheap, or some sort of cop-out, but I really believe that this series is best experienced blind. It’s like trying to sell The Sixth Sense as “a ghost story”, or Star Wars as “space wizards fighting a black dude with a funny hat”—no matter how I try to word it, I’ll probably just end up selling my stuff short.

Or, worse yet, I may end up sounding delusional, which is an even bigger turnoff. Imagine if, back in the 2000s, the marketing teams at Warner Brothers tried selling Peter Jackson’s upcoming Fellowship of the Ring movie as “the best fantasy flick ever made, and one of the top 10 greatest movies of all time—period!”

Imagine if they went on to talk about how the movie was a cinematic experience of unmatched beauty and subtlety, with performances that were sure to become iconic as soon as they were witnessed, and visuals so dashing and dream-like they would shape Western culture for decades to come!

Imagine that this was the approach the marketing team decided to take. Now, were they lying? Absolutely not. However, without actually having seen the movie, without any prior context, would anyone have really believed them?

Of course not! All these statements would have be seen (correctly) as the ramblings of desperate artistes trying to hype up their upcoming movies and sleazy, money-grabbing attempts of awkward marketing teams to sell tickets. Whether the fawning words were true or not, no one would care!

So, this is the conundrum I’m at: attempt to describe Brasiliana impartially, in as objective and cool-headed a manner I can, and it will sound boring, blasé, weird, or just no one’s cup of tea (like trying to describe The Lord of the Rings as the quest of a few baby-faced midgets to destroy the world’s most evil golden donut). Attempt to describe it, however, as enthusiastically as I am when writing it, and I’ll just sound like Delusional Artist Number 24,550 who should be put back in the asylum cell from which I should have never had escaped in the first place.

For now, I’ll lay low, think of some nice, even-headed ways to shill my upcoming work, but focus on my erotic production regardless, which already brings eyeballs to my brand.

Every time I make a sale or get a new subscription to my Patreon, my heart swells and dances with emotion. The little I get today is already the world to me, and I would like the thank all my dearest readers for making it possible.

I’ve never been a financially successful individual, and I started out selling stuff online only very, very late in life, having missed what’s arguably the Golden Age of Internet Sales in my prime years—that is, the late-2000s to early-2010s. I even missed my second chance during Covid, which is an even worse and more unforgivable crime, one for which I deserve to boil in excrement for all eternity for.

Or be condemned to poverty for all eternity, which is probably just as bad.

Because of this, I truly mean it when I say that what few sales I get today, they mean the world to me.

It’s just… a very strange feeling to finally see someone show real interest on my works, porn or not, not only to the point of liking, commenting, and subscribing to silly channels like this one, but actually spending real money on it!

For someone who’s just not very used to this sort of thing, this level of acceptance and embrace by the market is true paradise.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my pussy – from the bottom of my heart, and let my next erotica be even hotter, my next stories be even crazier, and Brasiliana be just as good as I intend it (and am working for it) to be!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. With all that said, and love overflowing from my heart, this has been Gigi Potemkin wishing you all fathomless entertainment and an amazing, incredible, indescribably prosperous end of 2025!

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Wow, okay, this was a big one! If you’ve made it this far since the start of the video… thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you, one thousand thank yous all over again!

This is the part where I shill my Patreon again, yes, for the fourth fucking time, so if you haven’t already, go over there at patreon dot com slash jiji potemkin and become the newest member of my growing pornographic... I mean, literary family.

There are free subscription options if you’re a bit strapped for cash (and in this economy, who isn’t?). That’s basically a newsletter, and you’ll never miss the free updates and free chapters and erotic content I publish online regularly every week.

As my brand grows and I explore other services and content distribution platforms, my free subscribers will have plenty more updates to enjoy in the not-so-far future!

And for the paying ones—my personal heroes!—I’ve got over 30 erotic books, 30 thousand sexy illustrations, and bi-daily exclusive content that will give your groin hell (the best kind of hell!) and will leave some of you unable to walk, as well as rupture many tendons in your wrists and fingers.

My kingdom of horny and empire of pornography awaits you at patreon dot com slash jiji potemkin! See you there!