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Choices in the new SSS

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As I’ve yapped about at length in the past, how much freedom to go with in a story comes with pros and cons of all kinds. For this summer’s SSS, we are going with a relatively tight outline. Some choices will contribute more to invisible scores than to immediate consequences. We’ve done this before in different ways with stories like Batgirl Against Everyone. An example of how this looks: Suppose the movie we were basing the story on was FRIDAY THE 13 TH , which is about horny camp counselors getting chased with a machete. A choice might be: “Cover for the lifeguard or go start making lunch.” Immediately, either choice will lead closer to excitement of some kind. Lifeguard is swimsuits and flirting while making lunch is an opportunity to get closer to the cook. However, the LIFEGUARD choice would be a +1 to ‘Responsible Counselor’ while going to the cook might be +1 to ‘Good listener.’ Later in the story, in some situations like running from the killer, if we have a certain ‘Respon...
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Summer 2025, New Blog

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It’s summer. Commissions are open and Sapphic Sorority is about to start a new arc. The old blog was just too terrible. I think its terribleness is one of the reasons that I didn’t update it more, but there are just so many projects that we really do need one sensible place to keep track of them. I’d have liked to just use Ko-Fi as that place and do my blogging there, but AO3 doesn’t like people linking to that, so we’ll do it here. I always think there’s no way anybody cares enough about some smutty stories to need all this info, but then someone DMs me about something and it’s just like “I really need a website,” so this is the compromise. Whether anyone cares or not, this is where I’ll blog a little about what I’m learning, what I’m planning, and my reasoning for creative decisions. Feedback is always welcome. I like writing stuff that’s fun for me, but it also needs to be stuff that people want to read, so I need to know what people like and don’t like. How can we make the mo...
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