Hello, everyone!

May has arrived! I am hard at work on a bunch of stories, so this Newsletter might be shorter than the usual. Or maybe not. I'll find out once I'm done writing it.

The Secret Usurpman Method.

Firstly, let us delve into April's memes!

We had two polls this April.

Firstly, I polled you guys on which of my BBC-focused stories you have read. Most of the stories on the poll were Subscribestar series, but a couple were commissions as well.

The results were actually surprisingly balanced, though there was a significant gap between first place (Tiffany Goes Back To College) and last place (Behind The Closed Door).

I'm sure a lot of it is because Tiffany Goes Back To College is just such a great story (a commission as well). I think a bit of it also has to do with recency bias and story size. Behind The Closed Door is a one-shot from way back in the day, and I remember it doing very well when it first came out.

House of Temptatiosn got second place. It always surprises me a little bit to see this story being popular. I'm glad to see Emily is so liked. Or, perhaps the game show setting.

Method Acting did very well too. I'm glad, because I had a lot of fun writing chapter 2 of this one. I hope Kimberly fans enjoyed her guest appearance in chapter 8 of Adding A BBC To The Family. Look forward to her in chapter 9 as well.

We also had a second poll: Should Prompt Polls have a third phase?

36% said yes, 11% no, and 52% was neutral.

I actually expected a higher vote on 'yes', but it was still a significant result. The idea would be to have a third phase where the top 2 prompts from the Prompt Election face off 1v1. Some comments suggested that it should only be done if the gap between first and second place is small enough for it to make sense.

I probably agree with that. Since we'll have a Prompt Poll this May, I'll talk more about it below.

Yes, we shall have a Prompt Poll this month!

As said last time, Prompts involving BWC x Asian female are banned since this specific setting won two times in a row. That said, I won't be fully banning BWC or Bleached tags. The reason for that is that we don't have enough dark-skinned babes around these parts, and I find BWC x Black female to be a different enough flavor of Bleached to set it apart.

Also, it shall be a free-for-all again. I considered making it an OC-only Prompt Poll but decided to keep the people free.

Next one might be OC-only though.

As for the three phrases thing, I'll probably go ahead with the idea of having a third phase if the first and second places have a 5-or-less vote gap during the Prompt Election - and only the first and second places. If there is some sort of tie for second place, not sure what I'll do yet.

I'll make the formal announcement next week, probably. I'm working on clearing out a couple of big commissions right now.

In any case, ready yourselves for prompting and voting!

Very well, actually. It is close enough to reaching its end that I'm here talking about when I'll reopen.

I'm actually not sure if I'll reopen immediately upon wrapping up my current queue. I might take a month or two to focus on Subscribestar series and clear some of them out, as I hate having so many ongoing ones; At the same time, I am cursed with giving it my all in each story, and so they take a bit to conclude.

It's the Secret Usurpman Method, you see.

I also haven't fully decided if I'll change my rates when I reopen. I might increase it. No promises either way yet.

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With that, May's Prompt Poll is concluded!

I am hard at work on two very large commissions, one of which is borderline finished, and the other is very deep in the works as well. I'll soon move on to working on the second winner from December's Prompt Poll.

I've queued March's Prompt Poll winner very early in my Workflow Central so there is no longer a big time gap between winning and releasing. I'll do the same for May's winner. To those who waited so long for December's winners, thank you for your understanding and patience.

May shall be a great month for smut. I'll give my all. Thank you all for your continued support!