📌 Devlog Update – August 2025

📌 Devlog Update – August 2025

🆕 What’s New in This Update:

• Reflected on recent Mastercard processing issues and their potential impact on creators and community

• Considered the Executive Orders: GUARANTEEING FAIR BANKING FOR ALL AMERICANS (August 7, 2025) as a first small step toward relief

• Created a new music video (MV) for Shades of the Soul | Unwritten Path visual novel (VN), which may be integrated into the project in a future update

💬 A Message from the Creator

This month, I want to start by being completely honest about something that’s been weighing on me: the recent Mastercard processing problems. I am aware of the situation, and I strongly disagree with it. Even though our project isn’t directly affected—we haven’t opened donations yet—it still worries me deeply, because it harms our community. This is not about nudity or sexual content itself, but about how platforms manipulate moral standards to judge creators—applying double standards.

If the issue were truly about sexual content, you could permit platforms like OnlyFans while tagging sensitive content appropriately. But instead, moral judgment is applied without accountability. A bank—or any corporate intermediary—should not dare to enforce their subjective moral judgments on creators or communities. That lack of transparency and fairness is what concerns me most.

The Executive Orders: GUARANTEEING FAIR BANKING FOR ALL AMERICANS (August 7, 2025) provide a first small step toward relief. While this doesn’t guarantee immediate action, it is a legal recognition that creators and their communities deserve fair treatment. It offers a glimpse of reassurance, even if platforms may or may not respond.

As for the VN itself, there isn’t direct progress on the story this month. What I have done is create a new music video (MV) for the VN. It’s a personal project done alone, and while it doesn’t advance the narrative immediately, I hope it will enhance the experience when added to the VN in a future update.

I know this update may feel modest, even underwhelming, and I apologize if it doesn’t seem like much. Still, I wanted to share it because this project is about the journey, the care, and the moments of creation—even the private ones that don’t yet appear in the main work.

Here’s a part of that journey:

Project: Shades of the Soul | Unwritten Path ‪@Moralcian‬
Link: https://youtu.be/r-9f4PeCcnU

If something resonates with you, or even if you just notice a small detail, please don’t hesitate to share. Every thought, big or small, keeps me grounded and reminds me why I continue this work.

Thank you for being here, for walking this path with me, and for finding meaning in even the smallest steps.

— Pete