Hello Dear Readers!
Sorry for the radio silence, but things have been... busy as of late. Even as I write this, I'm stuck in a hospital on an errand, already in my second hour of overtime, and it'll take another hour or more to get home, and recently this kind of shit's been the norm ...
2021-06-28 14:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dracis manor on Critias was huge. It was likely the largest and most luxurious abode in the entirety of Timaeus, and the fact that it was built in the middle of the picket-fenced suburbs of the city made it stick out of its neighborhood even more. In fact, with the combination of the multi-st...
2021-06-08 21:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Dear Readers.
Long story short, re-editing the first volume ended up as a ginormous time-sink, far beyond even my most pessimistic predictions. The fact that my job's been killing me in the past two weeks certainly didn't help either.
Anyhow, I'm done with the first volum...
2021-06-06 15:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello, dear readers!
I won't mince words here: re-editing the first two volumes in preparation for the audio book adaptation turned out to be way more time consuming than I originally imagined. Since at this rate it will be at least one more week to finish it up, even if I dedicate al...
2021-05-26 06:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostTo deceive your opponents first you have to deceive your allies. I don't know who originally said that. Probably Sun Tzu, Churchill, or Einstein, considering ninety percent of famous quotes are attributed to those three. Either way, I wholeheartedly agreed with the notion, yet I had one caveat: i...
2021-05-21 17:11:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Dear Readers.
Long story short, I completed the last part yesterday, but then we had a freak power outage while I was editing, and the file I used got corrupted. Thankfully there was a backup, so I didn't lose all my work, but I still have to write down a sizable chunk from scratch a...
2021-05-21 05:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostI have a confession to make: I always thought that plate armor was heavy and cumbersome. I mean, that was what all the movies were telling me, and I have read at least one essay online talking about how knights were lumbering tanks a samurai could totally defeat with superior martial arts, so I d...
2021-05-19 19:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe school's library was unusually empty today. Or at the very least it felt like so, though I admit I wasn't a frequent enough visitor to properly judge it. Anyhow, the place being a little deserted was working in my favor. I followed Elly with my Far Sight into the building and waited for her t...
2021-05-16 13:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's up with underground chambers? Or rather, why did my life have so many of them? Why did we even have this many underground facilities on a volcanic island? Was that even safe? Were we just a small earthquake away from being flooded with lava? And that's just a 'mundane' concern; what about ...
2021-05-15 15:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post"… and that's why our class is going to have an idol-group performance for the school festival," I explained with a fair bit of trepidation, and even though what I said didn't actually have a logical thread to follow, Mountain Girl nodded in acknowledgment like it was the most obvious thing in ...
2021-05-05 19:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes I wondered what the point of high school education was, or rather, how inefficient it felt at times. Sure, a lot of it was on things that should, by all intents and purposes, be common knowledge, like basic chemistry, geography, or physics. However, there was another end of the spectrum...
2021-05-01 15:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post"And don't forget children: the school festival is only a month away, so we'll discuss your ideas for how the class should participate in this year's event during the next homeroom. Make sure you come up with many fun activities to choose from!"
Mrs. Applebottom's enthusiastic reminder came...
2021-04-29 16:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post"You really made this place your own," I mused aloud as I entered Labcoat Guy's room. It originally used to be the kitchen of the mess hall which got turned into his workshop. Right now it was completely refurbished into a living room, with one corner hidden behind a plain wooden folding screen w...
2021-04-24 18:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post"… and so now that elder is the acting clan head, she is now my personal ninja, and I'm technically not the head of the Kage clan, just the boss of the head of the clan. It's like having a cake, and eating it too."
Once I reached the end of my very long-winded and boring explanation of ho...
2021-04-19 19:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostLooking out the second-floor window, I had to admit, the cityscape of Timaeus was quite majestic. I could see the high-rise buildings of the central district, the tidy rows of houses in the residential area, and if I strained my eyes a little, I could even catch a glimpse of sunlight reflecting o...
2021-04-17 13:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post"I tell you Dormouse; I'm not sick, just tired."
Despite my protests, my dear assistant continued hold her palm against my forehead in search of any sign of fever. The placeholders in the classroom were giving us odd looks (I liked it better when they ignored our shenanigans, but I don't th...
2021-04-16 16:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Dear Readers (and Steve)!
Long story short, I had some technical difficulties since last weekend, with my PC's stock CPU cooler deciding to die on me overnight. Running a Ryzen chip on 100 degrees is not exactly healthy, so I had to express order a replacement. This was the fir...
2021-04-14 11:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post"All right everyone! Let's play!" Angie exclaimed with an excited grin partially hidden behind the meticulously painted cardboard folding screen in front of her.
For once, we were all gathered at Josh's house, though it was hard to recognize the place at first glance due to how much we rear...
2021-04-09 14:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post"You know," I mused a little absent-mindedly, "I originally thought that your whole obsession with the fish tank was silly, but I have to admit, watching them swim around like this is unexpectedly therapeutic."
Galatea let out an appreciative noise in response to my comment and continued to...
2021-04-06 18:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post"… and then the Chief made Pascal take her away, and that's the end of it," Judy concluded her recounting of our encounter with 'Sahi' for my other girlfriend, and the princess seemed to be unexpectedly stumped at the moment.
We were already on our way home, halfway to Elly's place to be ...
2021-04-02 13:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm thinking about a collar," I told Judy just as we sat down at one of the tables in the dining hall of the school. It was only the two of us for the time being, since Josh and the rest of the gang stayed behind in the classroom to finish up their English homework. Apparently, between the four ...
2021-03-30 20:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Please be careful! It's really fragile!" Labcoat Guy called out in borderline panic, though for the life of me I couldn't understand why. The Fauns carrying the large industrial machine already treated it like it was made of eggshells. At last, under the watchful ministrations of the owner of th...
2021-03-27 10:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear readers!
Just a little heads-up: on Friday, I got my second CoVid shot, and to say that I had an intense immune reaction to it would be an understatement. Headache, forty degrees fever, inability to sleep, the whole nine yards.
The thing is, I get most of my writing done on t...
This Thursday had one of the most pleasant mornings I have ever experienced. I got out of my bed after a good night's rest and I... Wait, that sounded strange.
"Oh well, I must still be half asleep!" I concluded with a broad smile as I put on my clothes and walked down the stairs with a spr...
2021-03-17 23:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostHow come elevator music is always so boring? I know, I know; not exactly an astoundingly meaningful question shining a ray of intellectual light through the impermeable fog enshrouding the true nature of reality or such, but that doesn't automatically make it any less valid. I mean, soft jazz was...
2021-03-12 18:52:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was roughly around ten minutes before the end of the lunch break that I made my way over to the nurse's office. I wasn't exactly in a hurry, as I planned to discuss a number of things with the portly man aside from my PE-exemption, and since the said class was just about to start, I technicall...
2021-03-09 20:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post"The C-menu? Really?" Josh proceeded to grumble aloud by my side as we walked across the unnecessarily spacious cafeteria of the school with our shiny metal trays in hand. The place was as high-class as usual, though because of the changing season, it looked even busier than usual.
"What? I...
2021-03-07 16:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post"Moooorning guys!"
Our little group composed of my girlfriends and Snowy came to a stop when a familiar voice called out to us. When I glanced towards the source of it, for a moment I was afraid I was going to be tackled, but the energetic Celestial somehow managed to stop on a dime right i...
2021-02-28 15:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post"That's why I told Leo that he should use his reality-warping ability to come up with a new thing everyone would want to buy," the princess remarked on my left, slightly leaning forward while sitting on the couch so that she could look Judy in the eye. "Then we would invest in it, wait for the de...
2021-02-25 20:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Oh. Welcome back," my sister greeted us without any of the reaction a guy, his girlfriend, and a fluffy fox popping into existence in the middle of the living room should have elicited. Oh well, it was just a matter of time before my sudden appearances would lose their novelty, I supposed. It di...
2021-02-21 22:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post