I saw this and felt the need to comment:

http://www.gomanga.com/articles/extraextra/seven-seas-educates-monster-fan-masses-with-license-of-monster-girl-encyclopedia/817

It's not very long, but in case you really don't want to wade through those four short paragraphs, it's an announcement that Seven Seas (the same people that licensed Monster Musume, among other things), has licensed Monstergirl Encyclopedia.

Lots of people are saying lots of things and I'm just another voice in the crowd, but this is a blog, and on a blog, people generally soapbox. So, taking into account my opinion isn't any more important than anyone else's:

It's probably not the end of the world. In fact, it's probably not a bad thing at all.

It's easy (and kind of fun) to doomsay and wail about DMCA's and bellow countless tales of normalfags taking over X hobby and now they're coming for monstergirls, but the truth of it is, we don't know much, and what we do know is at least a little bit positive. If you're an optimist, Seven Seas' licensing of MGE may actually be a great thing.

We know that, based on Seven Seas' past, they're probably not going to go around and try to take down all MGE content in order to secure their precious shekels. I personally haven't heard of them asking anyone to take anything down, nor have I noticed their licensing of MM interfering with fan translations at all. Yes, there have been some takedown requests leveled at Batoto, but according to Seven Seas, they had nothing to do with that.

Seven Seas has outright stated they will not pursue takedowns of any fanworks or alternate hostings of fan-generated content: http://ask.fm/SevenSeasEntertainment/answer/134324821138
While I would expect them to try and take down any digital copies of their own planned publishing of the hardcover Encyclopedia, I do not expect them to go after fan translations. They still may, this is simply my interpretation of their answer. That answer isn't political speak. It's stating, in no uncertain terms, that the licensing of MGE will not lead to their requesting takedowns of MGE content.

As for the content of the publication, Seven Seas has said it will be "uncensored". My gut tells me the truth of it is, "mostly uncensored". I find it hard to believe they won't censor or 'creatively translate' a lot of the stuff about the Sabbath and lolis. KC loves his lolis as much as America loves making laws about that kind of shit. To my knowledge, there are no federal laws against lolis, but I believe several states have laws against it.

Now, for the last, more nebulous concern: growing popularity and intersection of fandoms. It's impossible to say exactly what will happen to 'monstergirls' as a whole. It's possible that the publishing of MGE in a physical form with official translations will do... absolutely nothing. Monstergirl 'awareness' (god that sounds painful to say) may increase a little, but MGE is mostly aimed at people who are already fans of monstergirls. It's not really a pandering product. Then again, if the right sjw gets their hands on it, it could gain a LOT of attention. The wrong kind of attention. Of course, seeing as it's from Japan, a lot of people will redirect their ire at Japan or KC directly, or perhaps wave it off as another Japanese thing. Who knows.

As far as dilution of fans: yes, there will almost certainly be at least 1 more person who takes part in monstergirl stuff (media, discussion, etc) due to this publication. And of the people that do this, it's more likely than not that a fair portion of them will be normalfags. But normies don't go to infinitychan, and they tend to not last long in /jp/. They don't read or write smut about fucking monstergirls. Normies aren't going to flood the places you go (any more than they already do).

Personally, I think it's a bit more of a good thing than it is a bad thing. But whatever, I'm just one guy.

Time to go back to writing about humans fucking monstergirls.

Considering it's been about a month, it's time for me to post an update on things.

Currently, I am still working on my primary project. I'm a little more than 15,000 words in, which means another 10,000 and I'll take a break to work on something else. That 10,000 will probably be done with in another 2-3 weeks, depending on how much time Christmas takes away from my writing.

I know I've had a while to think of what I'll do next, but I still don't know for sure. Ideas come and go, things crop up and disappear and my mind wavers from one thing to another.
-I'm still considering commissioning scans of a couple doujins then working on translating those.
-I really want to get Not the Fall finished. It's got maybe 2 chapters left.
-Multi-armed apophis trade might still happen. Unsure.
-Still really want to write Cheshire but I have a feeling any project with Cheshire will take a back seat to other things.
-Still want to write more manticore. I'm a bit more certain this will happen, it's just about when. I might do it first thing when I'm done with my primary project, I might put it off until after translations and Not the Fall. Dunno.

In other news, I have commissioned two different artists for two difference scenes from my stories. You'll know which ones when I post the art here.

Also, I added the name of my most recent translation. It's been done for a while, I just forgot to post the name of it on the sidebar.

I updated the list of monstergirl artists to commission here: http://rserenity.blogspot.com/2015/03/list-of-artists.html

Update on what I'm doing: more of my primary writing project. I've started another 25,000 word block and I'll probably finish up in a month.

Afterwards, there are a few things I'm considering:
-Commissioning scans of certain doujins I want to see but haven't shown up on the internet yet, then translating them.
-Finishing Not the Fall (I really need to do this)
-Writing multi-armed apophis (for a trade)
-Writing Cheshire
-Writing more manticore

But that's all just what I have in mind for now, nothing concrete. Who knows what will happen in the future? As for now, I'm focusing on my 25000 words.

Fly High or Not At All finished!

http://pastebin.com/1m5nbxmH

This is the dragongirl story I've been working on for some time and finally decided to put aside the time to finish it. I hope you all like it.

Next? I'll probably find a doujin to translate, get that done, and then move back on to my main writing project for another 25000 words.

It has been one month and fourteen days since I set out to get down 25,000 words of my story.

As of today, I have hit 25,020 words.

What does this mean? Well, for starters, it means I'm taking a break from that story. It doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing. There are still plenty of other things I want to do. The 25,000 word mark was meant to give me a clear place to take a break as well as give me a goal so I could motivate myself to keep moving forward.

So, what's next? I'm not completely sure. I do, however, have a list of priorities, one that goes something like this:

1. More of Not the Fall
2. Translate another doujin (the most recent Ahobaka scylla one comes to mind)
3. Finish the dragongirl short (there is no smut in this if you are wondering)
4. Write some fun smut

I don't know how long of a break I'll be taking from my primary project. Once I pick it up again, I plan on committing to another 25,000 words in much the same fashion as before. At the very least, I think I'll be releasing another chapter of Not the Fall and translating that doujin before I get back to it. If I keep my current writing schedule, another chapter shouldn't take too long.

Speaking of Not the Fall, I kinda cheated and wrote a Liess side-chapter already. I posted it on my pastebin a week ago. Here's the direct link if you want it: http://pastebin.com/n9Ew6niR

That's about everything. I may do regular Sunday updates like I used to while I'm on this break, or I'll just update whenever I finish something.

Thanks for reading.

It's been a few weeks since I started working on my other story. With my 25000 word goal in mind, I have made it a little past 12,000 words, and missed 2 days of writing out of 21. I'm pretty happy with how close I've stuck to my plan and with the progress I've made so far.

Any monstergirl content is still on hold. I did notice there was a new slapstickstrike doujin scanned, but I have no intention of translating it, as I don't have any interest in any of the girls.

That's all for this update. Depending on my progress, you may see another update in another 3 weeks.

I'm not going to pretend like I tried to get any work done this week. I was watching Dota 2's The International all week.

Now that it's done, however, I've decided I need to be more regimented with my writing. I'm not happy where I am right now as far as output and skill, so I'm going to start working to change that. While that does mean I'll be writing more (a lot more, if things go as I plan), it also means that what I'll be writing won't have anything to do with monstergirls or the story I have in progress (Not the Fall).

The fact of the matter is, people probably won't be interested in seriously critiquing/editing monstergirl stories, and I'm was never planning on getting serious with them either. They've always been on the 'hobby' side of writing. But I've been writing for years always with the intention of eventually writing something more marketable, both in subject matter and polish. So that's what I'm going to do.

As of right now, the plan is to write up 25,000 words (approximate) of this other story. This is hardly the entire story, but I don't want to mentally commit to doing the entire thing at once. I've got my daily word counts planned out, a calendar to mark progress, and a wealth of notes I've accumulated over a long period of time. It's possible when I get to that first goal, I'll decide to tackle another chunk of the story or maybe the rest of it. It's also possible I'll want to take a break and come back to something like Not the Fall or even finish up that dragongirl short.

As far as translating things, C88 is right around the corner and maybe I'll see something I'm interested in. Can't say for sure. Translating's a bit easier than writing so it's something I can do alongside writing. In other words, I don't expect to completely stop translating monstergirl things.

I know the few of you that follow my monstergirl writings may be disappointed, but I always knew I was going to have to make this choice sooner or later if I wanted anything serious to come out of my writing. Now just feels like the right time.

Thank you for reading.