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Schedule Update: EDIT: Still cooking, probably not coming out until Thursday morning. Still a little delayed because of Cooked, so Tsunade 5 will most likely be coming out late on the 5th. It'll be a little story-heavy since we'll be skipping ahead a lot, and there's a good amount to explain, but it'll still have plenty of fanservice including one of my favorite scenes in these forced fem stories~ Lots of changes this chapter, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do! PS: I know these stories have all been very PG lately as we've hit a bit of a slow patch in OP and Cooked is still cooking, but after this Naruto post expect a lot of romance and spicy scenes in all 3 stories as we race to the finish! (Man, I think I might've set it up to where all 3 are going to end around the same time... O_O)

Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 2: Apology + Nonapology But now that it's the end of the 20th and I'm reviewing what I've done, I'm doubtful I'll be able to release cooked in full on the 21st. I'm thinking that I'll work through the day and try and have 20 pages ready to go by 5pm PST with the rest going up late Wednesday. I know it's frustrating that the schedule keeps being changed, but I want you all to know that it's not from a lack of trying. I normally go at a rate of one chapter per week because it's tougher for me to go any faster. So far this month we were still on pace for a release every 7 days, and only now with CC's full release being pushed back to the 22nd is there really a "content delay." My issue is that I shouldn't have promised the 17th or 20th in the first place so I could account for delays and problems on my end- that's my bad and I apologize. But the schedule overpromising is the only thing I'm apologizing for this month. I have been working my ass off this month even through getting sick off of LA air quality, and I've posted both a larger monthly release and a larger weekly release in the span of 14 days. I treat this like my full-time job and have been putting in waaay more than 40 hours each week over here, constantly pulling all-nighters, and I hate these insinuations that I'm being lazy or faking an illness to get out of work. Everyone has a demanding job, I'm not trying to farm sympathy here and I'm sure many of you work way harder than I do; but I'm trying my best and grinding to get you content so I'd appreciate it if you at least waited until the end of the month to evaluate the volume of chapters/releases. So far, I think this month has been fine enough personally.

Upcoming Release Schedule: 2/24 - Certifiably Cooked Part 6 3/03 - Tsunade Part 5 (Monthly) 3/10 - Office Politics Part 22 3/17 - Certifiably Cooked Part 7 3/24 - Office Politics Part 23 3/31 - Tsunade Part 6 (Monthly) As always, this schedule is highly optimistic (More of a goal than a schedule really) and it's likely that I'll miss certain deadlines by a day or two which ends up pushing the whole thing back. I work very efficiently under pressure so I like keeping deadlines tight, but this might be the last schedule to feature 7-day releases. The last few chapters have taken me 8+ days and while there were certainly a lot of circumstances (Convention, suspension, sickness), it seems like "odd circumstances" are becoming more of a norm that I should plan around rather than a rarity or fluke chance. It seems like every other week NovelAI is having server trouble, there's some big family drama I need to deal with, I'm sick, or some other random thing takes a day of work away from me. We'll see if things can finally stay normal for a bit and I can hit some of these deadlines, but if I'm way off I'll start making new schedules with 8-9 day release times or I'll just give you all the chapter order instead. There's the option of releasing smaller chapters more frequently as well, but I'll hold off on considering drastic changes like that unless I miss March deadlines by some huge amount. I think March should be much more normal than February/January so even if I miss a deadline it shouldn't be by too much.

Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 3: Going Forward If anything needs to change (other than my overly optimistic schedules) it's the rate at which content is released. I am literally making myself sick with how much I work and I make very little time for hobbies anymore because I always feel like I'm behind schedule (which I usually am.) I really don't want to abandon the "one chapter per week" mentality but it's getting harder and harder for me as I start to get more anal with the post-editing and greedy with the base image generations. I'm burning probably hundreds of dollars in Anlas each month for generatons and it might be better to switch to a "3 chapters + random fun stuff" monthly format for mental, physical, and financial reasons. However, I'm sticking to the weekly format for now and I'll try to find some level of consistency going forward. Cooked will be out soon, and I'll work my ass off to have OP and possibly-but-not-likely Tsunade out by the end of the month. I'm always thinking of you guys and how I can deliver the best content to you. I don't blame anyone for being mad as I understand the frustration of looking forward to something only to have it pushed back at the last second, and I really don't want to shut down discussion as I try and welcome everyone's opinions/suggestions here, but this perceived image many of you have of me being a lazy liar is just not true and I'm sick of seeing it. I am still very much working towards the day where I'm an AI wizard and can guarantee a release on the same day every week. I'll eventually make time for my Stable Diffusion training and I've already begun to poke around with more of the complex stuff and other models. I'll keep trying to get at least four 30 page releases out every month (and maybe even the mythical 5th release,) so I do hope you all stick around for the content and I'll also put some more work into branching out to other places with a better revenue-split so I can afford to lower the sub cost. (Fansly would still be my main though)