Hello, everyone!

This month's newsletter comes with a slight delay because I've been hard at work on a big comm and The Black King Piece - Chapter 3.

For the unaware, I am no longer doing the monthly pipeline announcements. Instead, if you want to know where I'm at in terms of Subscribestar stories and what's to come, check the Workflow Central post pinned at this page's main post. It's also available HERE.

Before delving into this month's newsletter, let me summarize August's smut work with a simple meme.

Guess what: Chapter 3 of The Black King Piece is going that way too.

It's about time we had a Yuri-focused story around these parts (without involving futanari). There was enough interest in the interest poll I ran August that I am confident running this Prompt Poll.

I will make the official announcement after I've released The Black King Piece - Chapter 3, so hold off your prompts until then. However, here's what you should probably expect as the prompt restrictions for this Prompt Poll:

That's about it. Feel free to fight me in the comments below, but I think I'm pretty firm on these four. Either way, they can change until the official Prompt Poll announcement.

In August, we had our first specific-fandom Prompt Poll ever - the Azula one. I believe it went well. It's natural that there will be less prompts than usual when the format is more specific, but I was quite satisfied with it.

Also, geez, it was a genuine battle to the death between the last two prompts.

In any case, I definitely want to run more fandom Prompt Polls in the future, focused on specific characters or just an overall fandom. However, I wonder what fandoms are truly desired enough around here.

Fellow degenerate Cockyking suggested I should run a poll with a bunch of fandoms to see which ones people would like to see Prompt Polls with. I think that's a good idea. Therefore, suggest below what fandoms you'd like to see included in such a poll. I'll find a moment to run it still this month (maybe after the yuri poll).

I'm actually quite bad at remembering things on the spots, so my mind draws mostly blank right now on which ones I'd like to see. That said, a few do come to memory:

Give me degenerate suggestions below!

Special note: I may or may not take all suggestions offered for the poll. If I know nothing about a fandom, I won't be able to write it. I am usually open to researching, but there are limits to my available time. I appreciate everyone's understanding.

How many times have I written this sub-title in a Newsletter by now?

It's a trick question. *Points gun*

I've already cleared off my commissions queue. I am now working through the few subscribers who had stored words from the now-gone Hero/Commissioner/Noble tiers. Once those are done, I want to open up again. I think I might do that somewhere around the second half of October, though I want to do it as soon as possible.

When I do reopen, I'll be more limited in my availability to avoid building up such a huge queue again. Not having the Hero/Commissioner/Noble tiers will help a lot with that.

I don't know how much interest there will be, but I THINK it might be more than I can handle. In that case, I may have to reject some commissions. I have very rarely done that in the past, but it is inevitable as demand builds up and I am only one individual.

Thank you for your understanding.

Be on the lookout!

I've written a ton of smut stories since I began in early 2022. Over time, a few people have asked me random things about my writing logic.

As it turns out, a lot of it feels instinctive to me. Before writing smut, I used to write a lot of crime mystery. I think the same thing applied there: I follow a lot of gut instinct instead of some academic model or guide or ruleset.

That said, there are some things I've concluded from my time consuming and writing smut.

Behold a random Usurpman Reflection: Corruption is more interesting when it is non-linear.

I don't know if that's the correct way to describe it, but what I mean is this: Corruption is more interesting when it doesn't go steadily from handjob to blowjob to boobjob to sex, to etc., with the character becoming slightly more vulgar with each act.

Instead of progressing in a slow (or fast) linear fashion, the *line* of corruption is more appealing when it has peaks and valleys, like a stock chart.

Instead of a character beginning as a saint that slowly deepens into dirty acts, it is more fun if the character begins as a saint and holds off pure until she gets involved a BIG dirty act (peak) and then has to deal with the guilt, where she now delves into less dirty acts (valley) before steadily getting dirtier (still below the first peak), and then finds herself into another peak (higher than the first) where the next valley is as high as the first peak and she is not nearly as bothered as the first time, etc, etc.

This was just an off-the-cuff example and is not a general rule. I was only trying to demonstrate what I mean by non-linear. Non-linearity can go an infinite number of ways and be equally interesting, if not more, than the example I wrote above.

I THINK I try to apply this 'non-linearity' principle in all of my stories, though I am sure it comes off different in a variety of ways depending on context, story size, story idea, etc. At the same time, I'm sure there might be stories where I've written corruption entirely linearly. I can't recall everything on the spot.

That concludes this completely random reflection.


This has been quite the long Newsletter, so let us stop here! Maybe I'll have a new reflection for next month? I don't know.

There is great smut to come for September. I am hard at work on a big comm and The Black King Piece - Chapter 3, which might be my longest Subscribestar-exclusive chapter yet (God help me). Expect the Yuri Prompt Poll after its release.

As always, thank you all for your continued support!