Okay, lots of stuff to talk about! We’re still on 2 pages per month, but we’re gonna have another consecutive week with an update because April starts on a pretty good day for Top Webcomics voting, so I want to take advantage of that if I can. And the next page is also the last page before a scene break (and my favorite page!!!), so I figured it’d be good to go consecutive. So come back next week!
*March 31 (Saturday) also the deadline for us to hit 300 patrons on Patreon for the special goal of 2 bonus pages! HUGE thanks to the new folks who pledged last week!!! And an equally huge thanks to all the old folks who stuck around another week! 😀 Y’all are keeping DOTU running! *
Merritt’s story is also returning on Patreon this week with the start of book 2! 😀 The 4-page intro will go up on Thursday, and then the full chapter 1 (a BIG chapter, 30+ pages) will go up the following week. Three sketch requests from the book 1 event went up last week, but then I had to work on the actual story and DOTU, so I’m gonna try for the remaining two requests within the next few days.
Monthly Patreon rewards will also go out this week, including a letter from a guest character for the Pen Pal tier! This month’s letter is going to be from Annie, and I’m really looking forward to it! 😀 I haven’t decided yet if this month’s Secret Gallery art will be another NSFW… I’m gonna have to see where my inspiration leads, haha.
And finally, an awesome reader and writer just alerted me to a new fanfic about DOTU! As a policy, I don’t read DOTU fanfic for legal reasons, but I always get excited when people make it, and I get even more excited when people read each other’s! ^_^ So go check out the newest fic on Ao3, and thank you to malfoyisme for writing it!
This week’s Top Webcomics voting incentive is actually two incentives in one. I really wanted to share an excerpt from last month’s Patreon letter from Pogo because I feel it’s his magnum opus. ^_^ And it happens to be fitting for this scene too. But I also had a request a few days ago from someone who wanted to see a detail shot of Samsid’s horrified and offended face on ch4p21. So I included both, which leads to a sort of amusing juxtaposition. ^_^ You can vote and see the letter excerpt and the detail shot by clicking the TWC button below or in the sidebar!
[EDIT] As of 1:44pm on Monday, thanks to a very generous patron, we’re now only $20 away from the milestone goal of 3x pages per month! So we might actually hit that goal before or in addition to the 300 patrons goal! (bear in mind 10-15% of pledges go to processing fees, so it’ll take slightly more than $20 to hit the goal.)
*As of 3:58pm, we’re $15 away! Huge thanks to our newest patron!
*8:50pm, and we’re $6 away! :O Thank you to the newest patron!
*4:25pm Tuesday, and we’re $2 away! Thank you to a long-time patron who increased their pledge!
Just past midnight and we hit the goal of 3 pages per month! :O A huge thanks to the newest patron tonight! And thank you to everyone currently pledging who helped us hit this goal!
*3/31 – We dropped back below the goal. There will still be 3 pages in April, but we’ll need to meet the goal again in order to have 3 pages from May onward.