Teaser PtP ch.2 part2 + plan for next month (Patreon)

Currently on track to finish part 2 of Prolonging the Party ch.2 on the last day of the month. As such I'm going to have to delay Lingering Affection ch.1 to next month as I definitely will not have the time or energy to give it the attention it deserves. I have a good outline for it, and it may be on the longer side if I don't choose to split it up (which may be for the better pacing wise).

In addition to Lingering Affection, I'm also planning to finally actually open commissions again for art. I still need to make some decisions on that front, such as pricing, but I would like to prioritize/emphasize simpler commissions that can be done quickly. I will not be offering full comic commissions, since, as you may have noticed from PtP, comics just take way too much time and effort - at the moment, it's difficult to price them in a way that feels appropriate for both me and the average commissioner, and while there are some commissioners who may be willing to shell out for them, I don't want to dedicate so much time to one commissioner if there are other people waiting their turn. In any event, it probably won't be right as the month flips over, but I'll try to make the decisions that need to be made so that I can open commissions as soon as I can. I'll make a proper post about it here and on DA when the time comes.

On the topic of comics and pacing, while I plan to continue working on Prolonging the Party and other comic projects in the future, I don't think it will be healthy for me to continue trying to fit them into a monthly schedule like I do with story works. So instead I will work on them at my own pace which may ebb and flow as it needs to, and only after I finish a chapter, will I post it as part of that given month's (or the next month's) content rather than trying to set a hard deadline that may or may not be reasonable. That means that comic work will slow down, but I can't keep up this current pace as it is - I'm just burning out too fast.

Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. With that all out of the way, though, have some teaser pics from the up coming PtP chapter. The final page count for chapter 2 in total is 37 plus two splash/title pages (one of which is new with this batch), so that's 20+1 new pages this month.