WOWZERS TTMAB PART ONE IS NOW A WHOLE YEAR OLD!

thats kinda wild to think about, considering that folks are still reading both this, and part two! and that's probably the root of most of the thoughts i have about this after a year. this has, by far, been the most viewed, most interacted-with thing anyone in our system has ever created, and it seems to have mostly just been luck haha, so much of the initial viewership is because of the "TF Games" collection curated by SnepShark (if youre reading this, hii, thank you so much for the boost), as well as just folks checking this out from the 'transformation' tag on itch.

its kind of an odd feeling to have made something so resonant within a niche, because it almost feels kind of arbitrary? like, don't get me wrong, im so so grateful that this is reaching and being enjoyed by its target audience, it just also comes with complicated feelings. again, nothing we've created before has met this kind of audience before. we've never really been ones to chase numbers or clout or success on the back of our hobbies, in fact we are terrified of the idea of our passions becoming jobs, but it also feels good to know that the kinds of folks that would enjoy our stuff are seeing it, and theres the unmistakable temptation to try to chase that by attempting to appeal to specific audiences instead of just continuing like we always have, which is just, making what we wanna make. there's a certain impostor syndrome that comes with it, too, where it almost feels like i "cheated" just because there's already such a ravenously fiction-hungry audience prowling the furry tf tags on here, but over time, ive started getting past it and just accepting that even if it got views from the tags, it wouldnt have been played this much if folks didnt like it, because part one has been read over eleven hundred times, with part two over halfway there as well. ultimately, i just hope i dont go down the path of trying to chase numbers and just take the audience size as a bonus rather than the goal. because, at the end of the day, we just like writing what appeals to us.

all of that said, though, i do intend to write more werewolf-based nonhuman-identity-exploration-focused fiction involving transformation eventually, because there's a lot that i want to do and explore with this sort of concept of using TF tropes to explore real-world concepts of nonhumanity and transspeciesism, where TTMAB was just kind of indulgent fluff. i imagine itll probably hook a slightly different audience than this did, or maybe not haha
that said though, it probably won't be for a while. like. a while. other folks in our system are actively working on their own projects, and we can only juggle so much at a time, but you should all stick around anyway, because what they're working on is really cool stuff!

our output has slowed down a lot in general (moreso than just the huge gap between part one and part two of this) partly because of shifting focus to larger projects that take a lot longer to work on, but also because, uh... we're homeless! not unhoused, granted, but we've had to pack up and hop in a friend's car to sleep on a different couch a few different times since december, and we're not exactly sure when that's going to be over? so, if you've enjoyed our work, any donations to help keep us fed and clothed all that would be enormously appreciated!

this post wound up a lot more ramble-y than i was expecting, but in closing, i just wanna thank everyone again for trying out my silly gay werewolf story. and, i want every weirdo transspecies creature, therian, otherkin, and whoever else under various nonhuman/alterhuman umbrellas that's found their way here to know that youre not alone out there. it may feel like there's not a place in the world for us, but there always will be if we find eachother, and care for one another. hang in there, okay?

-the wolf queen of run-on sentences, Joanne (she/they/it)