finally........ at LONG LAST....... Thumbnails for the remainder of Chapter 10 are complete! All. 169 (nice). Of. Them. Which brings the entirety of Chapter 10's length to, drumroll...
319 pages! Aaah, I remember the days of expecting this chapter to be a whopping 100 pages long. And then 150. And then 200. And then 300. But now that this has an accurate page count, I can say with confidence that Chapter 10 will end up being its own book! And uh, it'll be longer than any of the other books so far, blowing them out of the water by 50+ pages.
So now goals for the future! I'll be going on a short break with page production to focus on commissions, laying out some Patreon plans for the upcoming year (adjusting some rewards, seeing if I can prep a regular schedule of content, distributing late rewards, etc), and deciding if I'll make an end-of-year trailer as I did in 2022 and 2023. The main barrier for that would be that it'd be difficult to make a trailer that doesn't spoil a lot of suspense in part 2 by showing part 3 scenes that immediately answers raised in part 2, so we'll see how that balancing act goes!
And then once I return to making pages, I have the lofty goal of trying to complete Chapter 10 before the end of 2026! We'll see how it actually ends up going, but I have high hopes.