New update on the Rentry page.

I'm really sorry for the delay on this one. I wasn't planning on being too candid, but this release has been so late that I think I owe everybody an explanation. In brief, I haven't gotten anything done whatsoever for almost all of the last month, because I've had to spend the majority of every day visiting my father in the hospital. He's been diagnosed with cancer, and this has kept him bouncing around throughout the healthcare system—including a stay in the ICU, and a subacute ward where he was surrounded by inattentive nurses and mentally ill patients, like the one who had to be physically restrained because she kept eating her own diaper. So adding that on top of the previous problems about my business slowly falling apart, I will probably have to start going the "desperate begging" route very soon.

Following up on the previous posts, these are the most immediately viable options I've either been given or thought up myself:

• Get a Boosty/Buy Me a Coffee account and hope they don't bother to moderate it
• Get a Patreon/SubscribeStar account and attach it to a completely separate blog and identity, then bullshit some generic, low-effort, mass-appeal product
• Do videos on something like YouTube or Twitch in spite of having no discernible talent
• Get an account on Substack or something like that and bullshit some written content
• Get what looks to be a potentially very high-paying (but equally unstable) work-for-hire job with a shady AI tuning company that I don't trust in the slightest
• Try to enter the doujin translation world and dramatically overcharge people for commissions
• Accept commissions for RPGX scenes, and then feel guilty about it

I'm still accepting suggestions, if anyone's got any better ideas. At the moment, I have very little time to do anything, so the less effort I need to put into it, the better. Technically, the least effort would just be getting the Boosty account and putting it on this blog, so I may do that. But they apparently don't want pornography at all, which means that if they were to start moderating more strictly, I could have the rug pulled out from under me. They apparently just updated their TOS, and it's the first time I've ever seen one of these sites ban "hypertrophied genital anatomy". That's pure jealousy, right there.

Provisionally, I'm thinking of maybe going the separate identity/Patreon route and churning out mass-appeal crap. I saw one particular VN which has simplistic writing, an uninspired concept, and the most generic-looking AI art imaginable—and it's raking in $8000 USD a month. If I could get something like that going, I could more than compensate for my life going down the toilet, and probably still have time to get VN/gacha content done over here.

Anonymous asked:

Have you suggested making a page on "Buy Me a Coffee"? Users can just donate to you, doesn't need to be a subscription. 

That could be an option. I would prefer the support to be consistent, though, which would suggest a subscription scheme.

On a different note if you did continue your work what do you think the runner-up for next translation would be? I've seen the hentai and game CG's for Himekishi Lilia and they don't really interest me personally, especially every character having pubes too.

I'm not in a position to think that far ahead. I have only two more days' worth of work to go on the next gacha patch, but I've had those two days of work for over a week now. I'm under emergency circumstances at the moment, and I have no idea when I might be able to get my regular schedule back.

Anonymous asked:

Cant you start a youtube channel and patreon sharing your knowledge on rattan furniture construction?

Unfortunately, I don't have any presentation skills or talent. Not that that's stopped anyone else on YouTube.

Anonymous asked:

Are there any plans to do Himekishi Lilia? I think its a pretty popular game and enjoyed the hentai so I was quite surprised when I found out that the game has no fan English patch at all.

I was thinking that would be the next VN project, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get back to doing VNs at this rate. Things are going extremely poorly for me right now, and it's hard enough to even put out my regular gacha patch.

An Urgent Appeal on Behalf of the "I Want All Your Money" Fund

There's a "woe is me" sob story version of events that I won't get into here, but I'll let you in on one aspect of how things are going for me. It's not directly health-related for once, although if you're good little boys and girls, I might regale you with tales of my colonoscopy. It's been a funnnnn year.

Partially thanks to some serious problems that have cropped up of late, I'm getting to the point where my business is falling apart. At the moment, it's looking like I might have to essentially be the company pretty soon. If and when that happens, I can't do all the work myself, and the profit margins are no longer high enough to even pay someone minimum wage to help me. Hell, I'm not making minimum wage right now. I had to agree to pay the majority of President Bigly's tariffs just to keep my most important customers. The second that the de minimis exemption was retracted, virtually everybody cancelled their orders until I offered that. It's a similar story with prices.

In essence, I'm heading slowly, but steadily in the direction of "financially fucked", and thanks to credit card companies suddenly being the morality police, all my backup plans are no longer viable. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do to supplement my income before that income becomes literally $0? I've considered armed robbery, but my face looks fat in tights.