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So, history is repeating itself yet again. Sarah X went off like a rocket, but now she's crashing to Earth like the Challenger. Possibly the worst thing ever to happen as a 4-parter begins?

This is not uncommon for my work, and neither has it ever been uncommon for my work in the whole 20+ years I've been failing, but, I do actually feel like I'm equipped to deal with it, this time around. I need to face some realities and focus on what I want to make, because that's what's going wrong, here.


I don't think I'm a bad person for twisting my interests to turn profit, I have to eat, but if there's one single issue I can identify in my work, it's this: I design something I feel people will like, it succeeds, I then poison it with my own interests, it fails, and I wind up feeling like everything I like will only bring me more poverty.


But I think it's fair to assume that if I STARTED with what I liked, then the audience would have been built for it, as a posed to being built for something else and suffered a change in content. It's like I'm baiting-and-switching people by accident, over and over again.

I like adult content, I like explicit content, I like creating adult content, I do NOT like creating explicit content. I feel like this is the broken link that's always confused me, and made me push forward thinking that I'm following my heart, when I'm not. I assume that because I like explicit content (a lot of my good friends create XXX stuff) then I must like making it. I just don't think that's true, and I need to deal with it so I can move on and continue my career more honestly.


(this isn't to say I was ever deliberately dishonest, but I do think I was very confused, to say the least!)


I'm a heavy metal guy. The style, the groove, the magazine, and the other side of me is a comedy buff. I'm watching sitcoms from the 40s all the way up to now. I love retro B-movies with exploitation humour, and the only explicit content I've ever been happy with making is the Manta comics because I could makes jokes that things going up the bum can be sexy AND hilarious.


This is a pretty serious turning point for me, my friends. I have to fight temptation to go back on my word, because doing so will make a quick buck, but it won't make me happy or secure my future.


Sarah X will conclude on the 20th episode. This is not the end of Sarah X, but when she returns, her series will be quite different, because MY favourite episodes seem to have done the worst, and The Mega Blue knows I'm no stranger to this experience. I wanted to kill someone when The Mega Blue Yonder failed. --- I still have some outstanding commissions to finish, such as Mamageddon (there's a good 4-5 parts to go), an Emma vs Dani thing, and a soviet superheroine thing --- and as that all gets cleared off the board, Jessica Kim is going to take over.


I have specifically chosen Jessica because she ticks all of the boxes. Extensive script, great characters, uses muscle growth and female wrestling as fetishes to play with, it''s one of my favourite things I've ever written, and I'm tired of telling myself that no one will like it. If yhou keep telling yourself that everyone hates your idea, you'll never muster the effort to show it, thus all stats on it will be void. It's a leap of faith, but I've got to be me.

I don't know where this leaves everyone else. It's hard for me to sit down and explain how every character would be adjusted to fit what I'd prefer them to be. For example, Super Tits (in my mind) isn't an explicit character. She's a silly, funny, kitschy, camp load of fun, and I'd really like to make some more comics for her.


EDIT: Just as I proof read this post, I want to add that, for some of you, you might not even NOTICE a change in my work from here on, it really depends what you're here for!

Emily Saunders is in a precarious position, because her biggest success lies in her MOST explicit scenes/transformations, while I would be more interested in developing the characters to put them in situations where shapeshifting has its uses, but this will make the series less XXX focussed, which is what the bulk of the complaints about the series began to be about (I was getting complaints about recent transformations not being rude enough!), so I'd worry that the direction I'd want to take the series in, would only piss people off!

It's a difficult crossroad to reach, especially when I'm broke as fuck, but I feel like every time I make some money off of a project, it deludes me into thinking I'm beginning to succeed, when I'm not even HALF minimum wage. --- If I'm going to fail, I would rather do it on my own terms. I think that's fair.


As I say, more Sarah to come, but I think this post, as miserable as it appears, is ultimately hitting the crux of my problem. My long-term supporters will know I've struggled for years emotionally and financially, and I think they kinda know half of this already.

Hope you're all having a wonderful day. Stay tuned,


- Doc / Giles.

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Commissions!

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Hiya, folks! Commissions are officially open! I’ve thought long and hard about how to bring this back, and I think the new plan is pretty tight!

The Price: * $30 = 1 scene, 2 characters, performing 5 poses/actions. I will take at least 3 renders of each pose/action sequentially, so the end result will be an image set of at least 15 images.

* Additional payments of $30 can be made to add 6 more poses to the scene/18 images.

* Patreon’s new “Commission the Doc” tier has a smaller price of $25 for each of these items. But remember that Patreon can only process the initial payment as a pledge, and any additional payments for a larger commission will still require a paypal transaction. - Or alternatively, you can simply keep your pledge running and use it to continue the scene when the month turns over!

Other Rules: * Commissions collected throughout the month will begin production on the 1st of the following month. This is to maintain organisation!

* Please request characters that you have seen me using before, or be sure to ask ahead to make sure that I have them!

* Your fetish won't offend me. But do remember the age of consent, I have a zero tolerance for depicting minors.

* All commissions will be displayed across my social medias publically after their creation and added to the Labyssitory Vault (and sold on Gumroad if applicable). If you do not want your username credited, please say so!

* If I personally want to add to a set that you have commissioned, I will not do so without your express permission!

* All transactions will be taken care of via Patreon or Paypal ( Paypal address; Cybermonth@hotmail.com ). That's all for now! - Look forward to hearing from you!

- Doc

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To save anyone from having to sift through the drivel of my soul prolapsing, I’m going to put the most important information at the top of this post: I am done with comics, and I will only be making textless image sets from now on. Any dialogue or written thing I do will be purely hobby-based or for shits and giggles.


Now onto why…


You guys know I’ve been going through a lot lately, and this post is like a swansong for my general oversharing old self. The death of my father has ripped open old wounds but sealed up a lot too. The latent desperation to impress this man I never met has seemingly died with him, and with that has gone a lot of my drama-queenliness. – It’s really quite a startling shift inside me, it’s like empathizing for your own pain dying, and yes, I can’t seem to articulate myself without sounding pretentious!


This isn’t me writing off all my old comics as attention-seeking or as products of illness, but I can’t help but let go the urge to do things how I used to. I feel so much more focussed and purposeful in my movements and thoughts – still not perfect, nor will I ever be – but the depth of understanding as to why I am the way I am, and why I do the things I do is all slotting into place. This man was a hole inside me that has now died. I can’t seek the approval of a dead man, and thankfully, because I never knew him, I can’t miss him. So all I’m left with is the death of a hole.


Under my real name, I’ve vlogged since 2006, often creating comedy videos and whatnot. I made my last “me” video last week, announcing that I was no longer going to share myself personally – and just focus on making the comedy vids, and writing shit that makes me laugh. It’s like an outer-body experience looking back at how I’ve expressed myself over the years. I get why, but it’s still surreal.


This is not a bad thing, I promise you. The content is going to get better and better. I know that because I’M going to enjoy it. A story can be told better with actions alone, and that gives something for everyone all around the world to enjoy, not just the English speaking world.


I know a lot of you have enjoyed my writing, but it’s is tiresome. It is tiresome, time consuming, and, sad to say; it’s not profitable. And a very small percentage of folks even read it! And I can make them say a WHOLE lot more if they’re not talking. Characters like Nano can still be bright-eyed and bushy tailed, Vizor can still by stern but heartfelt, ST can still be loud and verbose, and so on.


Explanation isn’t king. In fact, the concept of “explanation” has torn modern storytelling to rivets. Some things are better unexplained, because sometimes you just have to shrug and roll with it. Let’s get back to the battle jams, it’s the way it’s supposed to be.


Bear with my, the vault will be up soon, so you’ll be able to see how it works. It’s good stuff. It’ll be like countless jam sessions going on at the same time, but every time I add to them, the images will contain an “ending”. So even if a set is complete, I can add to it. Even if it’s incomplete, it can be viewed as if it’s complete. You’ll get it.


- Doc

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Hey, folks. Just wanted to write a little apolagising for the slow month I've had this April. Many things have gone wrong, and even the things that have gone right have taken up my time, like setting up the new computer!

The new machine is great, but we lost a lot of time during the deterioration of the old one, which ate the early days of the month, then I lost days to backing up data, then I lost days to copying data over - Daz Studio data folders are notorious for how long they take to copy because they contain millions of tiny little files, and Windows tends to struggle with file quantity as a posed to file size.

Additionally, the internet has been breaking up for just over a week, making my OneDrive resources (which I need to work!) difficult to access and use. I'm glad you all enjoyed the new ST story, because it took an entire day to finally get it uploaded to OneDrive and Gumroad! And finally, the pièce de résistance of this crappy month: I've recieved a call from an estate researcher confirming that my long-lost father, whom I have searched my entire life for, but never found - has died. I really wasn't going to mention this, but it's turned my head into a cement mixer of emotions, as you can imagine.

I hate the feeling of letting anyone down, and I know Emily fans especially haven't technically had an episode this month, but all I can say is that I'm doing my best. The internet is fixed, the new computer is set up, and dad can't die a second time, LOL. This has been a tough month, but I'll get through it, and it'll be business as usual before we know it.

Thanks for all of your support, it really means a lot. I don't mean to get emotional, but when folks are pledging for stuff, I'd rather tell you the situation otherwise it just looks like I'm sitting on my hands! - Cheers, everyone.

- Doc / Giles.

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V4 to G8

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Hey, folks, it's yer Doc!

Well, not your ACTUAL doctor, that would be scary!

"Hmm. I see the rash, Mr. Smith. Might I perscribe transforming into a bus or perhaps having a sexy fight with someone?"

Anyways! - You might have noticed the difference in builds between the stuff I normally do, and the Overwatch images. This is because I typically use the Daz Studio "Victoria 4" as a base for all my models, but these Overwatch models were using "Genesis 8" as a base. --- In laymen terms, G8 is like, DECADES more advanced than V4.

I've been on the fence about changing over for a long time, obviously. I have all my style (from posing presets to lighting) wrapped up in V4, and to be honest, I nickname the G8 model "the queen of botox" because creating large and vibrant facial expressions with it feels like pulling teeth, no pun intended. The expressions sliders are so slight, but then again, there are MORE of them, so if you know where they all are, you can - slowly but surely - get some decent faces out of her, it just takes time.

So, I'm going to begin the VERY slow process of converting my characters from V4 to G8. In many cases this will be a complete re-build, as nothing is copy-and-pastable between the two bases.

The lighting won't change. There's a very specific reason I have my lighting the way I do, and don't worry about EMILY for now, I know how popoular she is, and I have no intention of touching her (or her cast) for now. What I'll do instead is go ahead with Emily Saunders 4 using the versions you all know, and making the G8 version halfway into production, then polling its usage with you guys for the future ES5.

Hope that's clear. So, the next Emily episode will use the usual models, and a vote will decide if they're all updated for the episode after.

As for every other project - this will NOT be a fast process. I barely have any clothes for the G8 model, so it'll cost a lot of MONEY to rebuild my OCs in G8! - But you'll also be glad to know that there's a lot more TRIBUTES coming you way, as there's some great pop-culture stuff available for the G8 model, and I was put on this earth to mess with 'em!

(Tributes will never be paid-content, I'm doing them for 1. funsies, and 2. they help with promotion, I guess. The only time they'll be behind a payway is here on Patreon because the site doesn't allow adult content in free posts!)

Anyway, slow progress, but progress none the less. Back to work, Dr. Slam - I've got a Finale to finish!

- Doc

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