-- Twenty-Twenty-Five!
Hello! Happy New Year, a dozen plus some days late!
Hope you had a good end to 2024. Mine was alright. Some pleasant things. some unpleasant things, got a little gaming burnout, felt a little restless, so I came back a little early! Except that's not what you're here for, is it?
Not a rhetoric question, by the way. Who knows! you might have been charmed by this boundless charisma of mine, and now spend every day with bated breath waiting for the next look behind those azure curtain this blog provides. But in case you are not:
Mariwa will be returning February 1st with a pretty cool chapter. I've said this before but The Butcher of Heron Road is one of the Arcs I was looking forward to writing the most, and this still holds. There will be a minor change to schedule, namely chapters will now be posted 20:44 (8:44 PM) BRT instead of 21:44 just because, but that's about it for now.
This might also be the year Mariwa comes to an end, maybe, not a promise. Being kind of an experimental project so I get my foot out the door with serials, it was never meant to be a very long term, epic scope work. I do have ideas for further works using the same setting, but that's far off now.
As for the website, here are a few things I intend to do this year:
- I've began archiving MAIT's chapters here last year, and I pretend to continue this one. Tagging everything by hand is rough work, and maybe not the most practical way of doing things, but it did allow me to do something really cool style wise. I hope you'll enjoy it!
- There are a few things here and there I want to spruce up. The Ivian Glossary and my about page most of all, the second which is always going to be a little scuffed but which I'm sure I could do better.
- A couple of place-holder things whose replacements I've been postponing are getting sent upstate. The current List Style animations you probably guessed, but the entrance page's image too (or, really, that whole page). I've been considering changing the main background image too, the one you are seeing right now, but I guess we'll see.
- As I promised last year, more exclusive works here. I won't get too much into detail, but I've been planning a couple short stories set on the Starlit World that, if you've liked Mariwa's more horror oriented moments, you might just find pretty cool...
Later, I will be changing Priga Locus from V1: The Bedrock of All to V2: ????????. What will be the difference? None, if you've been keeping up with things steadily. Like going from teenagehood to an adult: step by step from birthday eve to birthday to the day after, and you go "That's it? Where's the Metamorphosis I've been promised?" But imagine you blinked at fifteen and suddenly you were twenty five. Huge difference, right?
Or so I hope.
Well, that's all for now. Make sure to give Mariwa: An Ivian Tale a follow on RR if you've been liking it so far, or don't, I'm not your mother. Does that make for a bad Call to Action? My apologoes, I meant to say: or don't yet, I'm not your mother yet, but when I become, watch out!
See you somewhere else in this big, blue world. Have a nice week!