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And here we are again. My birthday, and the second anniversary of One Piece: Pure Corruption.

The second year has been much, much slower than the first year. And I do have the very good excuse of getting my master's degree and then looking for a job as reasons for that.

I'm not done with all four coming chapters. But not publishing one today would just feel wrong. So I've done so.

Volume 05: Aniara, and with that, Chapter 040: Girl talk are here. Yay!

And speaking of the name of that volume...

Today I'm also officially launching something else, very experimental, that I've been working on a little. See, Pure Corruption isn't my only project. I create content for things in a variety of ways, but I've never really had somewhere to collect all these. That has now changed, as I've created a web sandbox/project "hub" for all of my projects - which also, completely coincidentally*, bears the name Aniara. As a companion to that is a Discord server of the same name, which includes a category for chatting about Pure Corruption, if that is something anyone's wanted. It can be reached here.

I'll keep updating those progress meters in the previous news post. I'll try to actually keep up the publishing of chapters now.

And I hope you'll keep enjoying Pure Corruption despite how terrible I am at sticking to a good release schedule.

To all of my readers: A sincere thank you!

/Kenny

*not actually a coincidence, I just like that name.

JOY AND JUBILATIONS

I really was telling the truth in that last post. I didn't finish the editing until today. But you get two chapters at the same time! Oh boy!

So wrapping up Volume 04: On the run is Chapter 038: A fish out of water and Chapter 039: Curiosity.

With this, I'm noticing that it took a painful 7 months for volume 4 to get fully published. That is far, far too slow, though I will note that those 7 months have also contained the majority of my work on my final project for my master's degree, so. Next volume should be quicker in every way. And now I'm taking a "planned" break, which means that - as previously mentioned - I'll start publishing chapters again when I have at least 4 chapters done, so I can do weekly updates for a month.

SO THERE YOU GO.

...and some more things happen. But the important part is that Chapter 037: The Bluefin Expedition is here, for you.

The next chapter is almost done so the delay should be shorter for that one.

I can't apologize enough for the wait - I really didn't want it to be this long - but now, Chapter 036: Hunt and gather is finally here. Definitely hoping the next chapter will come much more swiftly!

Also, fun fact: "Hunt and gather" is what I originally had titled the previous chapter, but it ended up not fitting that one, so that's why 035 has a kind of lame chapter name. Yep.

And! Don't forget about Summer Games Done Quick 2017 starting on Sunday, a weeklong speedrunning marathon for charity, benefiting Doctors Without Borders!

Edit: Additionally, at least according to the word counter on FF.net (and that miiiiight not be 100% accurate given the hoops I have to jump through to submit there, but it's the best total I have, so I'm going by it), Pure Corruption has now broken 100,000 words! Not bad, not bad.

Look at that it's actually an update. Go ahead and read Chapter 034: What the map didn't show!

Also belated Happy Easter and oh god I have so much shit to doooooooooooo

Edit: And since I just made a cover image for this story over at Fanfiction.net but I don't think you should read this on Fanfiction.net, I'm going to show it to you here too. Muse gets to be the cover girl because she's the one I have a good colour portrait of (credit to Miranda Cablk). A portrait that will appear in full once I actually get done with that Gallery page I've been intending to add for forever.

Edit again: Updated with a slightly changed version. Very slightly.

Here we are, Chapter 032: The little ship that disappeared into the night has arrived - and with it, the conclusion of the W4 arc. It's been an interesting arc to write because a lot of things ended up happening pretty differently from what I had envisioned when I started writing it. Would you believe that I hadn't even come up with the idea of the Knights of W4 until after I had already started writing the chapter in which Cagizo first appears? Some things were planned to happen but didn't, a lot of things that weren't planned happened anyway, and a bunch of things happened in different ways and to different people. More than anything it's been emblematic of the way I keep getting the characters into situations that I don't know how they're going to get out of, so I have to figure out how they're going to get out of the corner I've written them into. At least it means I force myself to be creative.

So anyway.

No promises about a chapter next week, but I have gotten back into the writing groove somewhat. Stay tuned.

So, yeah, Chapter 031: Knights of W4 is here for you now! I really won't make any promises for consistent updates right now though given that I'm about to get started for real on my big final project for my master's degree. But I will certainly try. Enjoy!

So I spent a lot of time at universtiry this week, didn't really get the writing that I wanted to get done done, but I wanted to update now anyway! I've got another weekend without deadlines now so y'know.

So yes. Volume 04: On the run is here, and with it, Chapter 030: Always. Do enjoy!