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12/07/2024

Pssssst, the Articles has a discord!

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11/07/2024

11/07/2024

If you haven’t seen these yet… we printed these a couple weeks ago!

If you’re seeing these, it’d be hugely helpful if you could throw us a like or a comment. An emoji, a gif… anything helps as engagement.

Our views have been tanking! We had an admin on a page we’re on regularly say she never sees our posts. 🥲

05/07/2024

Heya, nerds! Apologies for the fb being so ded this summer. Your illustrious overlord is low on braincells and working crazy hours because the capitalist hellscape requires him to have a day and night job he hates to be able to do the stuff he loves… like the Articles!!

We’ve printed the Pinups Pt2 issue and also a compilation of all our articles on consent, boundaries, and how to avoid being creepy! Hit the comments or Zee Strike’s DMs if you want copies.

31/05/2024

Cas is running a special! $65 for any level of complexity, one character limit, simple background only.

3 slots available!!!

23/04/2024

Thinking about doing some stories for the trans issue about people’s experiences as eggs.

Just little things people look back on and go “Hmmm, that was a sign.”

Depending on what people feel inspired to write, I could do longer stories or just 1-3 sentences per egg moment.

What do you guys think?

16/04/2024

Psssst: If you're into monsters, this is a great month to hop on the Patreon and check out all the glorious s**t we've got for Monster Fu***rs Pt3!

This is Cas' first contribution, and the Patreon is fullllllll of Maven's stuff. (But look out for CWs and NSFW tags! If you don't want to see a minotaur's family jewels, you don't wanna click on recent posts with "VERY NSFW." Plus, watch for the gore/guro tag.)

12/04/2024

Heya guys, anyone know who drew either of these pieces? We lost some info and we’re working on creating bookmarks for all of our issues with the out of game credits and info on how to support artists.

We know the person who drew Vaan plays a character named Weaver, but I’m 99.99% sure it’s not the DRMA one.

The person who drew Lily didn’t larp with us but she was a contact of the player outside of game. I don’t have recent contact info on DROH Lily, though—this was in issue 7 in 2018, and my old info seems to be out of date now!

09/04/2024

Heya, nerds! We're doing a limited-time promotion this month—anyone who joins our Patreon at $5/month or higher gets a back issue of their choice along with this month's issue! (Might I recommend Staff Pt1 to go with the newly printed Pt2?)

08/04/2024

New issue just dropped, y'all!

Comment here, DM Zee Strike, or join our Patreon if you'd like to get a copy!

We have a couple slots for free issues each month if you're broketastic.

02/04/2024

HAPPY PRANKSGIVING, Y’ALL!

The Articles isn’t spilling anyone’s secrets without them submitting them to our steamy confessions.

Do let us know if you wanna write confessions, tho.

Heya, nerds! Here's a mockup for the latest issue we're working on. Super hyped for this one!! The Articles is gonna do a little foray into ✨investigative journalism✨ and expose some steamy secrets for y'all!!!

While things have seemed a little quiet lately, we've just been working on this trying to get it into some kind of shape to make an announcement! Several of the Articles staff have been doing some digging, asking a lot of... questions... at trade meets. Sometimes, a game of Truth or Wrench is more than a game of Truth or Wrench...

You may have noticed Overlord Zane hasn't been at game in a couple months... but are you SUUUUUUURE he wasn't there? :3

01/04/2024

Heya, nerds! Here's a mockup for the latest issue we're working on. Super hyped for this one!! The Articles is gonna do a little foray into ✨investigative journalism✨ and expose some steamy secrets for y'all!!!

While things have seemed a little quiet lately, we've just been working on this trying to get it into some kind of shape to make an announcement! Several of the Articles staff have been doing some digging, asking a lot of... questions... at trade meets. Sometimes, a game of Truth or Wrench is more than a game of Truth or Wrench...

You may have noticed Overlord Zane hasn't been at game in a couple months... but are you SUUUUUUURE he wasn't there? :3

22/03/2024

I’m thinking of doing a few tips and tricks for shaving in the Trans issue.

Who’s got useful tips for first-time transmasc shaving? What about getting a nice close shave for transfemmes?

(Brought to you by Overlord Zane’s weird patchy neck beard that refuses to grow upward onto chin territory…)

19/03/2024

In progress for the end of the month!!

12/03/2024

Been thinking about getting art? Digging Kelsey's style? Snag their YCH special about it! Any character, this pose and background!

03/03/2024

Wanna get some good advice AND some hilariously bad advice for your character, or for yourself?

We’re looking for letters for the advice column Ask Polly & July!

You can write as your character, or you can create a fake character to ask a question for yourself (as long as you can make it genre).

DM Zee Strike to get in on it!!

18/02/2024

We're looking for more people to give perspectives on what it's like to be aromantic, in their experience! We have the beginnings of an article and just need a handful more people.

It's going to be similar to the one in issue 3 about asexuality! Nobody needs to write more than a few lines or a paragraph if that says what they want to say. (We'll just organize it so the longer ones are together and shorter ones balance well!)

02/01/2024

We've got two issues verrrrrry close to being ready to print, nerds! And while I'm waiting for other people's contributions to those, I'm hyperactively trucking along getting the writing and layout together for the next ones.

As a side note!

Due to the insane inflation, we've been steadily losing patrons over the last year or so. I haven't really been pushing the promo, because we're still okay for printing and I don't like shaking people down for support when I'm not in bad shape.

But if you'd like to contribute, you can get copies of the issues as they come out and see art before it prints... and it'll give me more to yeet at the artists, so we can get more art to put together issues sooner! I've been keeping track of which artists are going through it and trying to funnel as much at them as I can, so most of it'll get redirected at them. But of course, only sign on if you have fun money to spare!!

31/12/2023

We’ve had Bad Makeup Advice before… but what’s your GOOD Makeup Advice?

28/12/2023

What’s a random piece of advice you have for our readers? No topic in particular, just miscellaneous advice.

22/12/2023

We’re in dire need of people for the TV issue! We have some funds to cover a few people.

Anyone want art of their PC… or NPC?l

22/12/2023

We're doing an in-character Q&A about the Articles! Ask us anything!!

You can ask in DMs or comment here.

(Caveat: If you get weird, I can only guarantee that Overlord Vera will answer.)

21/12/2023

Anyone want to contribute to a Year End Confessions column?

What are your characters’ juicy secrets? What are they embarrassed about? (Feel free to DM if you don’t want it public… but unfortunately, we don’t currently have a fully anonymous submission form going.)

18/12/2023

If your character were going to be canceled for an opinion, what would get them canceled?

(For the Hot Takes column…)

18/12/2023

Working on a little shower thoughts column.

Anyone got an idea to contribute?

11/12/2023

Way back in issue 03, we had an article on how to be supportive of your partner’s changing body (partly for ascension stuff, partly trans).

Somehow, we’ve never done tips on how to handle your OWN changing body. Didn’t strike me as an oversight until a year and a half on T myself, haha oop…

Anyway. Clearly this needs to happen for the Trans / Genderqueer issue.

Anyone want to contribute? I feel like this one needs to have more different perspectives in it, from people all over the spectrum experiencing all sorts of changes. (Some ascensorites again, probably, but mainly trans this time…)

09/12/2023

So… there seems to be a fair amount of interest in Monster Fu***rs Pt3, and it’s a top seller in Leeds live games. But there’s one smol issue with doing one. Between the last two, Issue 64 and Issue 68, we had three whole entire commissions from people who aren’t me…

That’s just three monstrous PCs, a metric ton of commissions from me funded by the Patreon and by my other jobs, and a metric ton of donated art that some of our artists had already drawn for funsies. Now, afaik, we don’t have 13 or more random monsters and slashers drawn by artists who were just having a blast doing slime monsters getting it on and slashers with their family jewels on full display… so.

Would anyone be interested in getting art of monstrous PCs, PCs getting it on with monsters, or just your favorite monsters looking sexy? As long as the monster is sentient and capable of consent, we can include them.

Art credit to the fabulous Brianna Miller.

08/12/2023

What issues do people want to see a Pt2 for?

Some options we’ve been discussing:

- Graphic S**t
- Uns**t
- Seas
- Various faiths
- Various strains (or broaden it to lineages)
- Pinups Pt3 (since Pt2 is full)
- Lingerie
- Monster Fu***rs
- Bloody Valentine / Blood / Gore
- Swimsuits
- Aces & Aros
- Fighters

And what stuff needs a Pt1?

- Medics
- Adventures / Jonesing
- Genderbending (in a trans inclusive way, acknowledging the term can be used in problematic ways but haven’t thought of a better one)
- Soft sciences (psychology, etc… get some therapists in there and articles about that and suchlike)
- Nerds (Sages, aspiring sages, generally characters who like research and reading)

08/12/2023

How would people feel about a new kink issue? Would you be most interested in a broad one like Kinksters where you could put all kinds of stuff, or multiple specific things like Bo***ge or something?

01/12/2023

The Plus Sized issue needs more MEN!

Also more people of ALL genders and ALL plus-sized shapes, but the only men we’ve currently got are… welllll… “totally cis” female characters of this one chameleonic transmasc player. (It me.)

Art credit to the fabulous Brianna, who has a couple slots open!