Serializing Your Work
I'm making this flair as "research" because that is essentially what it is.
I'm working on a idea where once a week I'll publish a short vignette (say 750 words or shorter) and then also once a week, a chapter/episode of an ongoing story. (The vignette would NOT be attached to the ongoing story.) I'm also thinking of treating the ongoing story like a podcast series. Chapters/episodes drop for X number of weeks; break for X amount of time, and then start back up with the next season.
The content will be 4.5 chili peppers to kink. (No taboo topics.)
Before I do anything, I'm thinking of where to publish. Right now I'm digging through Substack's Content Guidelines which says "We do allow depictions of nudity for artistic, journalistic, or related purposes, as well as erotic literature, however, we have a strict no nudity policy for profile images." But, Substack then refers to you to Stripes T&Cs and under Prohibited Businesses it says, "The restriction applies to any business that offers or sells pornography and other sexually explicit materials (including literature, imagery, and other media) designed for the purpose of sexual gratification;"
I cannot control if what I wrote someone uses for a spank bank. I know some find 3 chili peppers worth "sexual gratification" and others who find erotica to be ho hum. And also, what do they exactly mean by explicit? The phrase "I know it when I see it" comes to mind.
So the question is: For those who are serializing and getting paid for you work, where are you doing it?
Search through this sub brought up Smashwords and Ream (to an extent) from a post from a few years ago. Some were using Medium since they allowed erotica and were basically finger crossing they didn't get caught. I haven't dug into either of those or Patron yet.
I'm open to anything to publish but I want to make sure I don't get fecked over b/c the T&Cs were so vague.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great!