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#Milestones Updates
shepherds-of-haven · 3 months
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Happy New Year, everyone! I thought it would be fun to do a little retrospective on the game's progress over the last year... Shepherds of Haven has grown so much from the little demo I posted in January 2018, and it continues to steadily build and flourish in so many different and exciting ways! Here's a look at just some of the things we accomplished in 2023!
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I added 143,151 words to the game (2.5 main chapters, 8 new character interludes) in 2023: the equivalent of writing the longest Lord of the Rings book in one year! We also broke our huge 1 million word milestone—without including code—meaning Shepherds of Haven is now officially twice as long as War and Peace, and almost as long as the entire 7-book Harry Potter series... and all in a single game!
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A lot goes into game creation behind the scenes, including the coordination and creation of visual assets for the game—like character cards, codex entries, maps, portraits, and backgrounds—fun stuff for the fans (like the MC info template we created), and songs for the official soundtrack. As the game creeps slowly and determinedly towards its initial completion, that also means learning new things as a solo developer to prepare for the future, like learning to build an official website, researching business and tax practices, and beginning to think about how to conduct testing, publishing, and marketing down the road. Much of what I enumerate here hasn't been made public yet and will continue to cook in the background for a while, but I'm very proud of the work I've gotten done this year and will be excited to unveil more in the future!
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And of course, for even more Shepherds of Haven content, I've added and completed even more stories for our little library on Patreon (which also has sizable word count at this point): The Bridge of Bones (a Trouble and Riel murder mystery), O Happy Dagger (a dark adventure featuring Briony, Chase, and Red), and The Hunt (a wild tale involving Tallys, Halek, Shery, and new kinds of spirits, fey magic, and Elves) were all serial stories completed in 2023, while Some Kind of Virus is a cyberpunk zombie apocalypse AU that will continue to be updated with new chapters monthly.
A full list of the Shepherd short stories and serial novellas (with links) can be viewed here!
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I hope you enjoyed this session of Shepherds of Haven Wrapped! Honestly, this doesn't actually cover everything I've been working on, but some things can't be packaged and listed out neatly, or otherwise won't seem very interesting to anyone else but me! 😂 As we inch through Chapter 9 and get more interludes done (only a few more main chapters to go), I'm hopeful that I'll also be able to find time to work on my next novel, but we'll see if the Shepherds schedule ends up ramping up or settling down as we work steadily towards finishing the main story!
One important thing before wrapping up is to acknowledge your guys' role in this wonderful, wild journey. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your invaluable contributions to the development of Shepherds of Haven. Whether you took the time to share links to the game, supported its growth on Discord or Patreon, left encouraging messages or asked interesting questions, reported bugs, or showcased your remarkable works of fanfiction or fanart, I am sincerely thankful for the unwavering support from this amazing community! Your collective efforts have played a pivotal role in shaping the world of the game into what it is today. Words cannot adequately convey my gratitude for your support, and I am truly blessed to have such a passionate community surrounding this project.
As we step into 2024, I am filled with anticipation for the developments awaiting Shepherds of Haven. Big things are on the horizon, and I am so excited to share these experiences with you! Thank you for being an integral part of this journey, and here's to the continued growth of our shared little world. Cheers to 2024—may it be a year filled with creativity, adventure, and joy! 🎊
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puretopia · 5 months
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burning-academia-if · 27 days
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Welcome back to another monthly update where I simply report February was Rough. Since I had to deal with life things, I didn't write as much as I wanted but I did still get some things done.
Wrote 11.3k words
Released Beck's backstory
Quick update to the demo so choice indicators are split between Path choices and Romance choices
While I can't say how much longer it's going to be, I can say for sure Chapter 2 is going to be longer then both the prologue and Chapter 1. There's going to be three different endings for this chapter, each with their own consequences (good and bad), and Chapter 3 is semi-different depending on where you end up in Chap 2.
Also, while not a big deal to most, I updated the intro post with all the path info since the major points for each path have been finalized. It was honestly bothering me, so I'm glad that's there now lol
Lastly, this is a little random, but I was wondering if anyone would be interested if I collected all the prompts I've written and put them together in a PDF collection or something? I was thinking of just throwing all the art/extras I've made and posted to Tumblr on Ko-Fi (for free obviously ajsjs), but idk if anyone would be interested in having those in one place? I just thought it might be easier, since I've written a decent number of them so far and they get buried easily on the blog. I'd probably organize it by character instead of by prompt if I did this as well. (They'd also be edited because...yikes lmfaO)
With all that said, unless March also Explodes(tm), I'm hoping to knock out at least 20k words, and finish the rest of the writing in April! For now, I leave you with this preview.
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vendetta-if · 10 months
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4K Followers Milestone 🎉
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We have broken through the 4K followers milestone! 🎉 Once again, thank you so much everyone for following, all the likes and reblogs, all the lovely asks, and the general love and support that you guys have showed for my story and this blog! 😭💖
To celebrate this, I'll let you guys decide whether you guys want to do a Q&A with the characters or whether you guys want another exclusive side story released to public.
For the Q&A, you guys basically send in asks directed to the characters and later on, I'll compile all the answers into some kind of Interview with the cast and they'll answer all of your questions in character.
For the side story, I'll probably give you guys a selection of options to choose from and let you guys pick which one the majority of you want to read.
Well, for now, I'll make a poll to see which one you guys would like more for the milestone celebration: the Character Q&A or the Public Side Story. The poll will be open for around a week 🥰
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cirrus-grey · 6 months
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From June 9, 2019 to September 23, 2023 I posted something new to my Ao3 account at least once a week, every week (allowing for some deviation between weekend/weekday posting in the early days). From January 25, 2020, I’ve had an update every single Saturday. In total, this has amounted to 219 weeks of content, 299 individual updates, and 204 unique stories (approximately - I think I miscounted somewhere in there).
4 years, 3 months of weekly posting. 3 years, 8 months of Saturday stories.
I’m very glad I’m taking a break, because finding time to post every Saturday has been getting difficult, but it still feels very weird to not be posting something today.
Anyway, I’m very proud of how much I’ve created over the last few years, so I wanted to do a bit of a statistics breakdown because I’m a sucker for hard data:
Per Ao3 sorting here, I’ve posted… 209 stories. Yeah I definitely miscounted. Anyway.
Fandoms:
203 for The Magnus Archives
2 for Discworld
2 for Good Omens TV
1 for Good Omens Book
1 for Skulduggery Pleasant
1 for Malevolent (which was a TMA crossover lol)
A bunch of other fandoms got dragged into the stats because of Vinettes, but I only added TMA stories to that one in the last 4 years.
Of the 203 TMA stories, 6 are multi-chapter longfics, including Yesterday is Here - which kicked off the Saturday posting, and remains my most popular story to date.
Wordcount:
Approximately 819,000.
Which equals about 530 words written per day.
My average story length was about 3,919 words.
If you take the 6 longfics out of that math, the average drops down to 2,623.
2020 had the highest per-year wordcount, at 236,485.
The highest wordcount for a single story was 57,758 for A Matter of Diplomacy.
The lowest wordcount was only 215 for Best Wishes.
You could fit 268.6 Best Wishes into 1 AMoD.
Random:
40 of the oneshots were posted as direct, week-of reactions to TMA S5 episodes, encompassing 19.14% of the total fics.
30 of the oneshots were for the Castaways series, for 14.35% of the total fics.
The 203 TMA fics are 97.13% of the total.
Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist was in slightly more stories (189) than Martin Blackwood (186), but significantly more stories than the next-most common characters, Tim Stoker (32) and Sasha James (26).
Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist was, unsurprisingly, the most common relationship, at 94.26% of the total (197 fics).
My ten most common tags were, in order: Episode Related (65), Fluff (53), Post-Canon (42), Short (41), Post-Episode: e200 Last Words (39), Location: Somewhere Else (29), Canon Asexual Character (27), Season/Series 01 (22), First Kiss (19), and Happy Ending (14), which says a lot about the type of story I like to write and also that I really like tagging when and where things are set.
Jon was still just ‘Jonathan Sims’ when I started this…
‘Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist’ arrived on the scene in May 2020, so 149 (78.84%) of the Jon stories have the long tag, and 40 (21.16%) have the short.
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kjack89 · 2 months
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Wake up babe, new milestone just dropped 😅
Since I still have 3 fics from my last giveaway to do, I won’t be doing anything special for this one, but I did want to take a moment to thank everyone who’s supported me along the way, whether you’ve been here since the beginning, or whether you’ve just now found one of my fics. I can’t do it without you, and I wouldn’t want to anyway.
Thank you for being with me on this weird, wild, seemingly never ending ride. Here’s to 400 fics, and to however many (almost certainly not 400) more!
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cherryg · 9 months
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Hey guys as you may have heard Ao3 has been down because of an attack against the website. I don’t know who’s behind it but I’ve been hearing somethings that Russia is behind all of this but I really don’t know.
I feel very violent rn
I just hope the volunteers are ok and are finding ways to defend against these attacks because this is especially hard for them and it sucks that they have to deal with people like this. Remember that if ao3 comes back up remember to donate and thank the volunteers for putting up with this and fixing this website for us.
Also congress is currently debating on bills to try and make kids safer which sounds good right?
What they don’t tell you is that these bills involves a lot of censorship and privacy issues.
Some child safety groups like design it for us might be currently lobbying for bills like KOSA (KidsOnlineSafetyAct)
This bill would give more power to politicians to decide what people could see and may also have age verification as well
I’ve also been hearing that they could put this bill in a package along with the EARNIT act
Please guys call your senators and representatives to oppose these censorship bills
Email them, call them , fax them! There is also petitions and link trees you could sign as well
And if you guys want more information check out my pinned post where I talk more about these bills and what’s been happening
https://linktr.ee/stopkosa
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnBEcS6dZh6SKxRg5mmak4pD3fHaDV7Hr2-5N63J1Dof0EYQ/viewform
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limbokidd · 6 months
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Lil comic
Yes I like to draw Mo with a shit ton of piercings it’s fun🫡🫡
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omnificent-orion · 17 days
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It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
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nisuna · 8 days
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST BOY AROUND ! ! ! 🥳
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GAAAHHHH I have to write something special for him soon for sure!! I have a lot of ideas and I haven't forgotten about the 1k special dw dw.
I just haven't been that active bcs I slipped on the stairs and broke my tail bone 🥲 It's just a minor fracture on the tip, but sitting hurts like hell, so I didn't have it in me to write anything in the past few days....I'm trying to take it easy tho and get better soon hopefully 💪🏻
I did have a dream that I wrote smth for Aki from csm so I started smth fun..hehe..cumming soon😈
BUT ANYWAY today is all about Best Boy 🥳 Happy March 20th everyone<3 Take care and see ya soon
<3masterlist<3
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nem0-nee · 9 months
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How bad can it possibly be-
NEM'S CURSED ART CONTEST 2023
[ Duration: June 23 - July 7 (11:59 PM CST) ]
Thank you all for the support! It's my turn to give back to the community, but with a twist!
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EDIT: PLEASE tag me in your submission as well!! Just to ensure I see it ^^
NOTE: The prizes won't be limited to the examples above. Illustrations, Splash art, PFPs, and chibis are also on the table!
[ Additional Help below the cut ]
Need inspo? - This contest is basically inspired by meme redraws I see circulating around Twitter. Below are my favorite examples:
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[ EXTRA NOTES ]
Similar entries are inevitable to happen. However, if you firmly believe another participant has copied you, please bring it up with me privately first. I'll do my part in settling the matter,
Old drawings are permitted to be used as an entry.
Uploading someone else's work as your entry is PROHIBITED. Any attempts will lead to disqualification.
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mashleverse · 2 months
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Bling-Bang-Bang-Born performed by Creepy Nuts has reached 30 million views in a month!
The hype for BBBB dance is still going strong! Mashle official X/Twitter account thanks all the fans for all of the support! Join the hype by listening to Bling-Bang-Bang-Born below!
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dqrships · 2 years
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This is a story about growth, forgiveness, acceptance; about be the best you can be. And hands conveyed it all perfectly.
(inspired by this amazing blog's header)
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khaire-traveler · 4 months
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Each option would be for a limited time or come in a limited quantity. This is my way of expressing my gratitude for all your support! Y'all have been a wonderful community. Thank you for sticking around! 🧡🎉
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stargirl230 · 3 months
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Art Summary 2023!
This year was kind of a struggle art-wise (read: burnout) but I'm glad I stuck it out because I got to spend a solid 8 months drawing all the fanart I didn't have time for last year :D
Thanks to everyone for sticking around, and here’s to another year of art!
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gimmethatagustd · 2 months
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✨ fic update ✨
Hi besties,
This is an update for those of you who have participated in my follower milestone drabble game!
I'm going to use this post to keep track of the requests so that y'all know what people have sent in! I'll post the fics soon, but if you'd like to request anything else, you can view the rules in the original post and send me an ask.
Okie ily bye !!
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○ Lavender Lover Prequel (Yoongi and Taehyung's backstory)
○ Lavender Lover Prequel (Jimin as a fledgling)
○ I Wanna See Some Ass Part 2 (highly requested lol)
○ Blood On The Sheets Part 2
○ Love You For Infinity Part 2
○ He So Cute Part 2
○ Morals On Sundays Part 2
○ Himbo Hours Part 2
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