Lear Ragnos
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Who are you, and what can I expect from you?
🕑 Added 2023-10-13 06:48:50 +0000 UTCI've written a lot over the years. Writing and reading are, by far, the things I find the most comfort in. I can't quite say that writing comes to me naturally, though. Motivation, health, and life in general can get in the way of my ability to do so. Still, as time has marched on, it's become increasingly clear to me that storytelling - and stories in general - are what I live for.
Unless you're a brand new reader - Welcome! - some of that is probably familiar to you. I might be shy about some of the details, but I'm nonetheless apologetic any time I can't write as often or for as long as I want to. Those issues are what has ultimately led me to create this Patreon.
I enjoy writing smut, and I enjoy creating more of what I try to look for but can't find. I enjoy writing about Corruption and Mind Control, focusing not just on the act itself, but on the process - what is being changed? How is it being changed to begin with? I enjoy writing romances. I enjoy writing about people loving and respecting one another, and living in a certain kind of domestic bliss. I love writing about people being willingly degraded and about people being unwillingly degraded.
By supporting this Patreon, you help motivate me to write my stories and run my quests - mostly through guilt. I don't intend for this Patreon to be little more than a tipjar, though. I also have a few projects only possible through your potential support.
Patreon-Specific Projects
Generic Monstergirl Farmer
A story about Farms, Monstergirls, Genre Conventions, and both far more and far less than that. It's both hard to describe and not. A long dead man, drifting through possibility, witnesses worlds live, thrive, die, vanishing and forming like ephemeral seafoam. Before the last of what he was vanishes, he attaches himself to a world that would pop like a bubble without him. Now in a poorly thought out hentai world made real, what else is a man to do but start a farm and hope to live a good life?
The first four chapters of this story are already available on Royal Road, Questionable Questing, and Fiction.live.
At the moment I'm making sure I have a backlog of content for this story. I hope that, sometime close to the end of December, I'll be able to post advance chapters to this Patreon, before they're posted to those other three websites.
Updates will be twice weekly. There will be a tier that allows you to read two weeks ahead, and a month ahead.
Mercantile Adoration
Mercantile Adoration is the largest project I have planned outside of a Beating Hearts revival. It's going to be a Visual Novel about a bounty hunter in an ever-growing High Fantasy setting who discovers something far more dangerous than she was expecting in a distant frontier village. Will she resist the webs the Spider spins around her? Will she fail to even struggle, finding not one hint of the truth, as she's remade and sucked dry? That's all up to you.
To speak more clearly about this game's contents and plot, you'll play as a bounty hunter unexpectedly ensnared by hypnosis. Her wealth, her love, her everything; these are all things her potential husbands wants to see her as nothing more than currency with which she can buy his affection.
There will be 14 stages at which their control over you is deepened, 5-6 endings depending on how and when you manage to escape his control, and a short, simple gameplay and story loop built around painlessly furthering the story and smut.
I intend on releasing rough builds of the game once every month or two at the start. I'm going to create a tier specifically for backers of Mercantile Adoration, separate from people who want to support my quests and stories. The speed at which I work on the game will accelerate if it receives enough support and as I finish up other projects. This tier exists to support the games development, not to acquire early access to these rough builds.
The game's primary Fetish content will be Mind Control, Domestic Fluff, and a variety of other kinks splashed here and there.
Okay, but did you bring a Portfolio to this interview?
Outside of those projects, however, you 'll likely know me better for the quests I run of Fiction.live, and the stories I've completed there and elsewhere. For the time being I'm committed to gradually finishing all of the projects I've left dangling over the years. Below you can find a list of those finished and in-progress stories, a list of the places you might find them, all ordered by my priority in finishing them.
List of Completed Works
Contractual Obligations - [RR][QQ][Original]
When a young and inexperienced Dark Mage summons a demon to work in his bakery, he's not looking for much. When that Demon gets frustrated with him adhering so strictly to the contract's terms it cannot claim his soul, she gets frustrated enough to... renegotiate. It's a shame their summoner has no idea what they're doing.
[Vanilla][Romance][Demon][Lighthearted][2nd Person][Male PoV][Female PoV]
Turn the Tables - [Original]
A short quest I've yet to clean up or repost elsewhere. You take the role of the victim of a malicious reality warper who can change you and the world a limited number of times per day - will you manage to turn the tables, or will you become just another character in their story?
[Goth][Vampires][Elf][Family][Genderbending][Mystery][Reality Warping][2nd Person][Male PoV][Existential Despair]
List of In-Progress Works
Superpets - [QQ][Original]
When a somewhat big-name supervillain known as the Trainer tries to lay low in a rural town, he ends up finding out it has more heroes and villains than he'd like... and he's damned if he's going to have to move out again.
[Mind Control][Petplay][Corruption][Voyeur][Exhibitionism][1st Person][Male PoV]
Corrupter of Servants - [Original]
In which a man relishes in the act of corrupting the spirits of humanity's greatest. After finishing Atalanta's corruption, the quest will likely go on hiatus while I finish other projects that will take a shorter amount of time.
[Corruption][Slowburn][Fate][Atalanta][3rd Person][Female PoV][Occasional Second Person]
From Brave to Bratty - [Original]
Having freed a 'Spirit' of truly terrifying power, it's now chosen to repay its debts to you the only way it knows how; making your adventuring party into your harem.
[Mind Control][Corruption][Reality Warping][Fantasy][Slowburn][Petplay][Monstergirl][Elf][Romance][Cosmic Horror]
Elves Can't Be Hypnotized! - [Original]
In which an elf and her roommate get into an argument over whether or not Elves can be hypnotized and so make a bet. It ends as expected.
[Mind Control?][Hypnosis][Elf][Romance][Domestic][Second Person][Female PoV]
Unbreaking the Heroine - [Original]
You broke the Heroine. You ruined her friends. You got your happily ever-after and full-page spread of their cum-covered bodies. Then the mind control you used on them stops working on you, and you're left to make something of your horrific actions.
[Mind Control][Mind Break][Deconstruction][2nd Person][Male PoV]
An Average Price - [Original]
A Fae, a bit lost about the "why" part of making Deals or Bargains, trades a King eternal youth in exchange for their Firstborn. As it turns out, the Fae might not have understood what the cost of their price really was.
[Romance][Fae][Monstergirl][Ennui]
Elves Definitely Want to be Hypnotized - [Original]
Three elves and one human meet in person for the first time to spend a week in a secluded cabin. Details like how they met through a popular forum for Mind Control fetishists don't matter. They know what they're getting into.
[Mind Control][Elf][Consent][Too Many Things To List]
Corrupter of Servants - [Original]
In which a man relishes in the act of corrupting the spirits of humanity's greatest, resumed from its long hiatus.
[Corruption][Slowburn][Fate][3rd Person][Female PoV][Occasional Second Person]
That's nice, but what can I expect from you in the future?
I intend on keeping the list above updated. I may cycle through new posts, but at the very least I'll keep a convenient, updated list of all content I publish under this name. The minutia of that decision isn't why you've kept reading this far, though. You want to know what lies in store past all of that - what your incentive to continually support me on Patreon is.
A lot of that depends on what people want to see. At the moment, I'm creating four tiers.
- A Basic Tier. This is for people who want to throw support my way. It has no real benefits, and no real incentive for you to stay within it from month to month. I even set the price to lower than what Patreon recommends I should. This will see the most change in the future - at the bare minimum, I want people in this tier to have access to polls and similar things. But for the moment? It's just how you quickly toss me a few dollars if you feel like I deserve it.
- A tier for Monstergirl Farmer. It will grant you two weeks advanced access to chapters published on the Patreon before they become publicly available. In the future, it will grant you similar early access to whatever other writing projects I center around Patreon.
- A tier for Mercantile Adoration. It is functionally identical to the previous tier, and exists to let me measure how much support Mercantile Adoration has accumulated in its early stages. Early mockups of the game will be posted publicly, but later version of the game will be released to backers early.
- An advanced tier. You just want to guilt me into writing more. This tier grants you access to absolutely everything else.
In the future, some of these tiers will be consolidated; if any project grows to be truly popular, I might even have to consider making a separate Patreon for it. I'll also consider things like opening commission slots, polling my audience about future projects, and more - though I dislike the thought of putting some of that behind a paywall in the interest of open communication.
Ultimately, supporting me on this Patreon won't do much for you beyond ensuring I can continue to write smut. It'll help enable me to commission art and try making more ambitious projects, like Mercantile Adoration. Very little will be put on the Patreon that won't be publicly available elsewhere if you just wait.
I just hope you enjoy the fruits of my hobby as much as I enjoy making them.
