Jay Friday

June '25 recap, July '25 plans

Added 2025-07-01 13:00:12 +0000 UTC

I'm fresh off vacation (which hopefully went mostly unnoticed; I had everything scheduled out to go live at its usual pace!) and now raring to go.

Here's what I posted in June:

The Thaumaturge, Chapter 12 (and its poll)
The Masseuse Chapters 14-20
Speedrunner 0.1
The Thaumaturge, Chapter 13 (and its poll)
The Thaumaturge Ch. 1-13 Q&A/Reflections
Speedrunner 0.2
Speedrunner 0.25 (including a poll that's still open as of this posting; go vote on Chloe's character progression choices!)
A Hospital Stay Part 7

28k words of new fiction this month across a lot of different posts, as well as other new writing!

The reader vote for the month was a tie! As a result, I'm going to prioritize the second Thaumaturge chapter, but will try to release both it and the stand-alone story. To be honest, I'm overdue to write something a little shorter and stand-alone anyway -- it's been a long time since I've posted anything to reddit because all of my recent work has been so long it's pretty cumbersome to post without editing it down, splitting it up, etc.

As a result, my plan for July is to release (not necessarily in this order):

The Thaumaturge Chapter 14 (kicking off the next arc in the story!)
The Thaumaturge Chapter 15
Speedrunner 0.3
A Hospital Stay, Part 8
A stand-alone story: a young man goes to a high-end clothing boutique to get fitted for a suit, but the woman helping him has...other plans.

If something gets bumped, it'll be the stand-alone story, but my plan is to try to do it as a bonus release either near the end of this month or early next.

I'll also post The Masseuse Chapters 21-23.

For most of June I was trying for a schedule where there's new erotica on Mondays and at least something on every Thursday (whether it's a batch of Masseuse chapters, an update or reflection, etc). We'll see if I can stick to that for July; there'll be a few other little things here and there (maybe a reflection on A Hospital Stay as a series? Maybe the part-24 endings to The Masseuse? I haven't decided yet.)

Thanks again for all the support and positive feedback as Speedrunner has gotten going, and as Thaumaturge hit the end of its first major story arc. Excited to write more. :)

-JF