State of the Union: Every Day You're In This Place (Patreon)

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Greetings, fellow travellers! Another State of the Union; a little later than the halfway point of the month, but just in time for the last quarter of the year. I'll call that a win!

So, 2026 so Far?

Well, it's been okay.

The start of the year was marred by stressing about changes to Discord terms and services, and now it seems that here toward the end of the year those're going to change/get more difficult again, as well as patreon asking for more personal information.

Anyway, let's have a look at the earlier state of the union ponderances and where we're going from here...

2025 Headers were:

Website Stuff

I suppose I have something more limited in mind for the time being for both Thrallworks and Moov; something like a chronological archive of prior works with links to them. Either that, or a kind of archive link that one can click on to hop on a discord server (not my main) to download old packages of artwork.

We can work on making it pretty and interesting and functional in due course, but I think just having some singular place that the wider viewing audience can go to and see new updates to my work rather than having to snuffle about 3/4 different sites would be at least some kind of blessing.

I do suppose it would be good to either put a date or a timeframe onto this, so I'll say I'll look to get something done during November.

Moving Stuff off of Gumroad onto Itch.io

Has now been done!

I was going to write something like 'I'll be doing this after the Union post', but felt that no, we're here for results, so I stopped writing this post for a few days to go do it XD

So indeed, the thrallopedia products and so forth are now over at: https://tdl.itch.io/

And yes, you, my beloved patty-rons, may find discount codes for the stuff here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2370314?view=expanded

I think one of the reasons it took me so long was trying to figure out how I wanted to approach the older Thrallopedia stuff (knowing I want to revamp them in the future) and if it was possible to do discount options. Turns out I had to make completely separate projects for the discounts, but a download key for the 'free' variants was indeed possible, so I managed to cover all the bases there.

The timelapses also troubled me as I did want to keep them with the music I put to them, but didn't want to put a sale price on them, so I detached them as a separate free download, which is how I'll be doing it going ahead I reckon.

Fulfilling Commissions & Other Pieces

Behold the list of shame:

Here's a mostly-ninety-percent-ish-complete list of outstanding works both promised, commissioned and placeholder-commissioned.

Its grown pretty big over the years, and some of these take a couple of weeks on their own (the Domine Set really exploded in size compared to previous ones); so I'll be putting at least two of these on the docket every week to do, whatever I can fit around the more 'regular' work I do (which in the current case would be drawing Volition and writing Thrallworks) with an aim to get it all done afore the year's end.

Obviously stuff like the Ponygame art does ideally come with a pony game, but let's try and just focus on a nice easy list of achievable tick boxes for now rather than delve into the eldritch hateworld of code-purgatory.

Volition

Volition is coming along pretty much as intended right now; we're in the new scene and the shading is to my liking and I know what days I'm working on it. Any considerations for accelerating the schedule of getting the pages coming out is something to consider after most of the above is taken care of.

I will say we're nowhere close to the end of chapter 2; so we've got a good amount of story, sexy outfits and smut left to cover in the story. There's a bunch of extras I have in mind to draw for it as well, lore blah blah with art, but as said above, all good things in time.

Thrallworks

Let us look at the first line of what I said in January:

Early this year, I'll be releasing the Hospital scene on its own for free as a kind of soft relaunch of Thrallworks in the public eye.

Well, here we are in month 9 and I'm reworking the opening animation to do just that. Hardly early in the year.

Though I've done plenty of art around Thrallworks over the year so far, I do feel estranged from the project. Not enough writing I fear, and so I'll be putting the hours in on that for an end of month/start of October update. Feels like a loooong time has been spent NOT writing, not just for this but in general, and I don't want to get too rusty with it.

Also, in prior years I've wanted to use Kinktober as a month to try a lil' short-run project, but this year I think I'll take it easy and get more TW stuff done instead.

Anything Else You Want to Add?

Not particularly.

FeeD the TeeD and Discord Hunger Games changes?

Ah, right.

A part of the reason I have a vague feeling that things are going alright is because of the FeeD the TeeD streams and being able to take on some new commissions to...well, feed me XD. I'm quite pleased with the variance and quality/opportunity it's providing and it's a good contributor to the art updates, so I think that it'll be sticking around as a monthly project.

The discord thrall games on the other hand is being delayed for reasons that are apparent in the backlog list- as the months go on, the index entires and random sketches pile up. As this isn't the first time the pipeline's gotten constipated, I think the system's due an overhaul.

I shan't bore you all with the details here- discord is a haggard place I don't expect y'all to sully yourself with- To be brief; the end-reward will be given out much less frequently, but the rewards will be greater. I also intend to do some coding in due course to make more games and mayhaps even run some contests or raffles or form-related things here or elsewhere online, as people fancy. We'll see!

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Anyway, questions and comments welcome below! Now's a good space and time as any for some Q & A's. The next one of these posts will be pretty soon- start of 2027 (oh god that is soon huh...) with a new survey and a review of the ye olde 2026 one (Some interesting bits of inspiration and guidance in that one, I assure you.)

See you soon for the next Volition page, more art and a TW Update! Enjoy!