I'm very happy to say that my 2026 goals are still on track haha, and I've made lots of progress this month! Must be the Australian Open spirit.

The next CT:OS update will be ready very soon—it will be the final part of Chapter 7 and bring you to the end of the National Doubles National Championships!

Early Access for Ko-fi/Patreon supporters: 1 Feb

Public Release: 14 Feb

Features:

Have dinner either with Sam or your teammates

Heart-to-heart conversation with your roommate (or find a way to invite someone else back to your room)

Play the semi-finals match...

Clinch the championship title if you get past your opponents in the final... and survive a harrowing incident involving a heckler from the stands(!!)

hihihihi!!!

I actually have the next chapter done!!! I was just debating on whether or not to upload art with it because I’ve been like up to my eyeballs in things!!

I was actually moving house last week, and I’ve been between a kinda crazy work schedule and situating all my things since then! Oh and taking summer college classes 💀

I may just push send on the chapter w/o art, and save art for more of the important chapters/ending scenes! Idk 🥹✨today is the first day in the past like week I haven’t had to be awake and doing things at ungodly hours of the day, so my brain is kinda fried lol

In regards to other WIPs, this is the order of the next updates:

The guide to the best snogging spots in Hogwarts;

There’s still some love left

Summer Loving (happened so fast)

Those Stark boys

When words are not enough

Decided to post my update schedule for next week, now I have finally worked it all out.

01/10 – Under the sea and stars 

02/10 – Float like a butterfly, sting like a bitch

03/10 – Riding the rising tides

04/10 – Judging a forbidden wish

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while!

Life update

I've been so busy at work that I've barely had time to rest and hang with friends and family, let alone write as much as I need. I've still been spending some of my weekends writing, but rapidly discovering how little I can get done with just 5 or 6 hours of writing per week. (Crazy how much time IF-writing takes haha)

It's just peak busy period for my job right now before holiday season and things will calm down in December.

CT:OS

As y'all may know, I had been hoping to release the update in early Nov for early release folks and mid Nov for public folk.

I am still aiming to squeeze out the CT:OS update by end of Nov or early Dec and I wanted to let you all know where I'm at!

The scenes are about 95% written (all the way up to the end of the matches currently, I'm just finishing up the win/lose reactions and editing)!!

As of right now, the new update stands at a mammoth 90k+ words with code, but I think something like 35-40k in a playthrough, and there are new RO kisses for all ROs :)

The good news despite these delays is that this update (far from being a short pt. 2), is actually meaty enough to really stand as its own update.

Merry Crisis

I'll update again when I have a bit of a sense when CT:OS is done and how busy my December looks.

Ko-fi

Finally, because I don't want ko-fi folk to be paying out of pocket for this month as its taking a bit longer than expected, I will be refunding ko-fi monthly payments from beginning of Nov until the next update, which I hope will be before Dec.

Once again thanks everyone for continuing to read/play the IFs, supporting me, and sending me love/messages :)

Heya heyo! :)

Author ramble: Actually there haven't been much by way of curveballs beyond the fact that my boss is back and now I've been pulled into a team doing lots of really difficult work (boo) but things are progressing on the writing front!!

I (as usual) underestimated how long it'd take me to write and rewrite the tennis matches because of all the content I write and end up not using, but:

Progress report: the tennis matches are done (!!!) I have more than 80k words (incl code) of content for the next update.

Now I'm just editing and writing cute lil interactions between mc and their doubles partners & mc and their supporters (including Sam). Definitely entering the last leg now.

I don’t know how many of you follow me on AO3 as well, but those who do, probably know that I’ve been updating a lot of things lately. I made a promise to update everything that was still in progress, from oldest to newest.

Technically, I should be working on “Kiss With a Fist” now, but my muse for this story has left the house u.u