Hey everybody! Sooooo, no new story yet. Trying to work myself out of a writing lull, and I've got a little exercise in mind to help with that!

And here it is: I've opened a Google form for a character Q+A!

Submit questions through the form to Dari, Rida, Felicity, Ihsan, or Connie. Later this month I'll compile a bunch of them into a Q+A doc and share their answers with you all!

Send in your queries here! https://forms.gle/jmDhn6FThwVStHTu5

Heyyyyyyy, guess I should say something here since I haven't posted a new story since June...

The summer multi-part story I've talked about is still in the works! I just haven't felt quite as inspired to write lately, perhaps after all the Going Home writing and then writing new stories in February, March, April and June after that, and despite my initial goal this year I didn't want to force myself to write just to fulfill that.

I still hope to get at least the first part of the summer story done before year's end. After that the next two parts will come, and I have a few other ideas for stories that will follow too. Also, this is a bit of a ways off, but I might have some ideas in mind for a new novel-length story too... But there's other tales to tell before I...
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Hey everybody! Going Home is up for Best Written Work at the Nommy Awards run by Paramouth Pictures! Voting closes in about 13 hours so if you enjoyed my novel please go show your support! And check out the other awards as well and vote on some others too, lots of fantastic people and works here!

Vote at the link below! (Going Home is under Written Work)

https://www.paramouthpictures.com/awards

Hey everybody! So, some of you may noticed I didn't post a story in May, despite my goal of posting a story every month of this year. And the explanation for that is... Persona 5 Royal.

I've spent almost every single evening of the past month playing through it, and last night I finally beat it. Obviously I'm years late to the party here but, yeah, absolutely phenomenal game and experience. Easily in the top ten I've ever had. (And expect some Kawakami content at some point)

Anyways! With P5R done, I'll be getting back to my writing plan. This month I'll be putting out a Dari story featuring a couple of characters I haven't written about yet, and then in July, August, and September, I'll be releasing a fun three-part story that I'll also tease in this month's...
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I've made my picks from your character suggestions, and now the character poll is live!

Go and vote here: https://strawpoll.com/7MZ0AWOepyo

It'll be running until Wednesday, March 27th at 5:30 pm EST, so get your picks in before then and help determine who among this group will meet Dari!

Hey all! Another year, another raffle! And this time, the winner is, for the second time, SourceSizeShenanigans! They first won in 2022, the year I spun for two winners - which also happened to be the year that the 2020 winner won for the second time. Funny how that works!

Here's the Twitter post showing the winning wheel spin: https://twitter.com/Darkarri/status/1772060723536929051

I'll likely be posting the character poll tomorrow, featuring plenty of your suggestions for who should meet Dari soon! Look forward to that!

After selecting a handful of characters from your nominations, this year's character poll is now live! https://strawpoll.com/polls/1MnwOPA0Mn7

It'll run until Saturday, January 21st at 10 p.m. EST, so head over and help decide which character will soon have an eventful meeting with Dari!

And for anyone who doesn't see their nomination here, again, couldn't pick them all! In the case of a couple of characters, I wanted to give preference to those we haven't seen Dari with yet, or have not interacted with her directly.

With that said, have fun voting!

And we have our winner! From a record-breaking 35 entrants, the wheel landed on SwordkingX5! Congrats! See the winning wheel spin here: https://twitter.com/Darkarri/status/1615912214401290240

Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas! I love doing this, both to give something back to this community and to see all the creative scenarios! Looking forward to next year!

The entries for the character poll are now closed as well! I'll likely post that tomorrow morning, and give you all a few days to vote on who Dari should have a meeting with soon~

Hey everybody! I haven't been uploading a ton to this gallery this year, but that doesn't mean I haven't been getting commissions! Basically, I tend to only upload images to this gallery that aren't going to be posted to anyone else's gallery or anywhere else in general, which is the case for all of the Art Slave session artworks I've gotten from ecchipandaa over the years. But as I've only gotten two of said sessions in 2022 my uploads have been a tad light.

So! To kind of account for these fewer uploads, I figured I would compile a little list here, of all of the commissions I've gotten over the years that cannot be found either in my Eka's gallery or Eka's favourites - basically, everything that's been exclusive to Twitter or Deviantart. Check the links below out, and...
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So the poll still has a tiny bit of time left but I'm calling it now for Shantae, because the analytics have shown me that someone, most likely one person, has been essentially rigging the vote in Neeko's favour.

I went into detail about it on Twitter, all the info is in this thread: https://twitter.com/Darkarri/status/1479583852519698438

It's a shame someone was sad enough to try and rig what's supposed to be a fun, silly poll of celebration. And for anyone that voted for Neeko who ISN'T this person, I apologize.

So all this shenanigans aside: congrats Shantae! Hopefully I can do this again in the future, and hopefully no one tries to rig it again.