arachnutron's 2026 Roadmap

Overall Goals

My overall goals this year are, in no particular order:

  • Create a handful of new drama cards and new Sachiko cards from my own ideas
  • Fulfill a few old requests for new cards
  • Grow some of my personal favorite cards, mainly with new intros
  • Unify my library to have a consistent level of quality and features
  • Phase out some NSFL cards, either reworking them as non-NSFL or just retiring them

My overarching goal is to have a solid library of bangers that have a consistent look/feel and provide followers with some new stuff to play. There are a few things that I'm sure will be problematic... like, not every card is going to get an animated card image because those are incredibly difficult to produce, especially the spicier ones. The tech is still relatively new, and not a lot of options for adult content.

New Cards

I have tons of ideas, but sadly less time to create them all. Stupid capitalism, making it so that I need to work for a living! Smash capitalism! I'd like to make a few new cards this year, but I'm keeping my goals achievable, so expect one of these, like, every couple of months.

The new drama/smut cards I have planned currently are:

  • Your Mother and Your Wife - not what it sounds like. It's another fantasy card in the same world as Catherine/Aubree/Dawn, but it's inspired directly by Edmund's Your Wives. Think of it as Your Wives but AnyPOV and with dicks. Basic premise: your shitty mom (yes, another one) arranged a marriage with your cousin, and surprise, she's actually your mom's lover.
  • Your Sister and Your Girlfriend (Request) - Your futanari sister tries to NTR you with your girlfriend because she loves you! But your girlfriend is an absolute gigachad who tells her to fuck off. A nice little anti-NTR card.
  • Your Mom and Her Bully - It's your first day of classes, and your new homeroom instructor recognizes you — it turns out she's your mother's high school bully, back in town after decades teaching elsewhere.
  • The Elven Queen and Her Daughter (Request) - You've been sent to Aetheria to attend the court of Queen Elara, who unfortunately fucking hates humans even more than Aubree did. Her elven daughter, however, seems intrigued by you, and doesn't appear to be hung up on the old elven taboos
  • Your Teasing Futanari Mom (Kinda Request?) - Another card of Nako from Your Feminizing Futanari Mom. But this time, not exclusively malepov or feminizing. I had already considered making this before people started asking for it.
  • Your Bully Little Sister - It's a rework of Dawn, Your Futanari Isekai Imouto. Yes, I know, the poll results were very much "don't bother", but it's a vanity project, I want to play it myself, and I think it'll be way more compelling. Plus, I have plenty of shitty moms in my stable, but no really shitty sisters.

And these Sachiko cards:

  • Futa Step-Sis Buys a Sex Doll (Request) - And that sex doll has a very... familiar-looking face?!
  • Futa Step-Sis Casts a Love Spell (Request) - One that requires you to come in contact with her "essence" seven days in a row
  • Futa Step-Sis Stuck in a Blizzard With You - Boy, this little log cabin might get... pretty cold. Maybe we should... share body heat?!

Overhauls

I still have a bunch of older cards that are missing a lot of the refinements of the newer ones. These are the refinements I intend to apply to those cards (not necessarily all of them, just the missing ones):

  • At least one new intro! I don't like doing a bunch of cosmetic updates on a card without also adding something new for people to play.
  • New card image and animation, if they're pre-Illustrious and/or crappy
  • New background image and animation
  • New chibis, if they're missing or crappy (there are a lot of crappy ones sadly)
  • New intro images, if they're pre-Illustrious or just crappy
  • Update intro formats for IRP and inner thought formatting, add titles (makes it easier to find intros on big cards)
  • Update Creator's Notes - just bringing in the Synopsis/Intros/Character Notes/More Notes format
  • Fix up Description/Scenario/PHI - making sure they all use {{char}} (to deter emptyforkers), check for mistakes (Kei went over a year with a {{char]} in the Description, I swear to god), get rid of overly-aggressive PHI, etc

The cards I have targeted for this treatment:

Completed:

Reworks

I intend to completely rework the following NSFL cards to replace the originals and give them the whole overhaul treatment. So these cards will replace the old NSFL-flagged ones:

Finish Cards

I have a bunch of cards that are mostly up to spec, but are missing a few things. They are:

  • Cocksleeve Cafe | Futanari - I'm missing a bunch of cameo intros! They've been waiting for so long! Plus it needs a background and a few chibis
  • Dad's Too Shy To Seduce You - I have another two or three intros to write, plus it needs a background.
  • Aubree, FMTYH, Catherine, YDAYN, FSSSWYA, YMAHFG, and FSSTYC - All need a few bits, mostly just backgrounds.

Retiring

Retiring cards, not retiring from botmaking! I intend to never push past 50 Public cards, so I'm going to retire old cards to make room for new ones as I require the space. This will happen more or less in order of lowest to highest average messages per day (plus one obvious exception), which as of now looks like:

"But arachnutron, you've only got 43 cards in your library! That's enough space for all your new cards..." Ahh, you're almost certainly filtering NSFL cards. You should stop doing that! Learn more here.

As always, I will maintain links to these cards that can be found through my main Rentry page, so they'll never go away completely. Maybe someday Lore and Data will give us better sorting/arranging options.

Edit Jan 21 '26: I've done a lot of thinking about this one, and I think I've had a disconnect between what's actually good and what my idea of "success" is. I swear to god, this isn't intended to be a humblebrag, but I think the number of big hits I've had has made me forget that something doesn't need to be a hit in order to be good. Heck, a couple of my favorite cards ever have fewer msgs than some of the cards I have on the chopping block. And I also realize that even if I curl up my nose at some of my own creations, I'm being kinda dismissive of the fans of those cards if I call them crap.

So a slightly revised strategy: I'm still gonna retire the cards that I'm replacing (YTB, YFTAHD, FSSSWY) or already replaced (YSAYB), but I think I will let a few old cards fall to page two and only retire cards once they reach a certain minimum average msgs per day. We'll see.

Conclusion

In the end, here's what I have planned on the arachnutron account:

  • 6 New Drama/Smut Cards
  • 3 New Sachiko Cards
  • 6 Card Overhauls
  • 3 Card Reworks
  • 9 Card Completions
  • Several smaller updates, including new intros for YSAYB, MTYH, YMAYC, YHFM, YMAYA, and YHFD

It's... a lot! I want to complete one large thing (new cards, overhauls, reworks) each month, and as you can see, there are... 15 of those? So I probably won't complete them all. The other small things (Sachiko cards, completions, small updates) will just be interspersed. I also have some plans for FutaForks too, so it'll be an interesting challenge balancing everything.

In any case, I'm looking forward to another fun year with y'all! I hope 2026 brings you all joy, prosperity, and of course lots of fun smut and drama, and I hope I can be a small part of that!

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Pub: 02 Jan 2026 11:08 UTC

Edit: 21 Jan 2026 08:20 UTC

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