Yet again, the end of the month has caught up with me and I still need to write a lot. This has been further complicated by my neighbors remodeling their whole flat and apparently deciding that walls are no longuer in vogue, which usually shouldn't be that much of an inconvenience, but.....
2022-08-29 10:12:44 +0000 UTC View PostSayaka—The Morning After
“What the heck?!” Hitomi yells at me for what feels like the hundredth time.
Which… well, we left the hospital (by which I mean I fled and she chased me) about ten minutes ago, so… about ten times per minute… 2022-08-29 09:57:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet again, I delayed a day in publishing the poll. In this case, it wasn't due to forgetfulness but due to my neighbors apparently deciding to reenact the destruction of the Berlin Wall throughout the week and me not sleeping a wink while desperately trying to push out the next Pure Knight chapte...
2022-08-26 21:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis may come as a shock, but maybe
2022-08-26 20:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostCrusader—Left Behind
“She isn’t there, boss,” I tell the infuriating man on the other side of the phone, my words echoing in the empty staircase.
“… Any traces of violence?” Kaiser tells me after a slight pause that is suspiciously cl...
2022-08-24 03:10:10 +0000 UTC View PostYet again, the end of the month nears, and there are an infinite amount of things I wanted to have done already.
Also yet again, my predictions for last week were off the mark, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a trend that will repeat itself in the current week.
Regarding th...
2022-08-22 22:39:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I think we can all agree that the house of mirrors was a bad idea.”
“It wasn’t myidea,” Lisa points out, tugging on my sleeve and being basically insufferable.
“I don’t point out all of your bad ideas,” I tell her as I pretend I...
2022-08-22 02:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostRiz is elegant, agile, experienced, deadly—
“Tart! Move!”
… And slightly domineering.
Not that I dislike that.
“Tart!”
Ah! Yes! The phantom!
I throw myself to the right, dodging the slow blow by rolling on the grassy knoll of thi...
2022-08-21 18:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostPhotography is annoying.
There, I said it.
The concept is straightforward enough, isn’t it? You see something you want to… preserve, you point your camera at it, press a button, and done.
Except, not at all.
Because eyes lie. They constantly adapt to light l...
2022-08-19 01:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostVictor—Choice
Anti-Master training is not what most people think it is. For one thing, you can’t actually resist a Master’s power, much like you can’t resist being set on fire.
Though you can learn to stop, drop, and roll—useless as it tu...
2022-08-17 03:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, sorry I skipped last week’s schedule, I was basically trying to frantically catch up to all the missed updates of the priorschedule, because it seems this summer is out to murder my productivity.
But, well, it’s been a few days without… healthiss...
2022-08-15 22:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostDisclaimer: So that this story fits inside of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, it’s been revised so that it occurs in an AU where all the characters are legal adults. This includes the characters not involved in sexual events. Everybody is an adult, without a single e...
2022-08-15 11:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostThere once was a girl who looked into a mirror.
She had been playing with a kitten, and a flight of fancy took her to peer into the looking glass atop her chimney’s mantelpiece, where she wondered about the room on the other side and how much she would like it if the glass turn...
2022-08-14 00:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Demon Lord is a lonely existence, a being that exists merely to be defeated, to have all that they’ve worked for stripped away before they fall before the hero’s might.
But games have True Endings.
That’s an artifice that dates back to the very dawn of gaming, a w...
2022-08-12 03:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostColin has left for the morning shift, likely to seclude himself in his lab until the world starts making a modicum of sense. That is: the Tinker coffee reaches health-hazard levels.
Which means I’m currently alone in his apartment, handed the perfect opportunity to snoop and co...
2022-08-10 03:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostBarbara Gordon, the first Batgirl and the only Oracle, was drunk.
It wasn’t as rare an occurrence as some may think, and not just because of the Irish stereotype. Yes, Barbara despised the alcoholic her biological father had been, yet… Yet she understood. The need to run away...
2022-08-07 01:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostEveryday life.
Everyday life is, by definition, uninteresting. You spend most of it going through a routine developed over the years, either submitting yourself to the whims of the educational system or bowing to your corporate overlords until you can get home and devote what lit...
2022-08-04 00:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So, first of all, thanks to all of you for sticking with me this far. Sometimes I get discouraged when the numbers drop unexpectedly, or when it seems like a particular chapter I’ve poured a lot into doesn’t work, or a thousand other things that someone more resilient wouldn’t even...
“Did you see the bitch?” a gruff male voice asks from right around the corner of the alley I’m hiding in. My currently enhanced hearing tells me the origin of the sound is about a head higher than mine, and I can tell he’s almost out of breath and trying not to show it.
D...
2022-07-31 20:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostJapanese RPGs evolved after being inspired by the original Western tabletop pioneers in the genre. The first entries in classics such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest didn’t have much of a personality of their own, not until they managed to find their own voice, and so one could cle...
2022-07-29 22:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo, my apologies because I just realized this should’ve gone up yesterday. I warned you about how I am at keeping track of time…
Anyway, you will notice something a bit different with the poll this time around: there’s no Konosuba option.
“What?!” you’ll say. “But, Agrip...
2022-07-27 17:51:46 +0000 UTC View PostDick Grayson was a man who had been defined, much like his mentor, by loss.
If somebody had asked him when he was ten years old if he would ever give up the excitement of being Robin, of regularly meeting Superman, traveling to the ends of the world, defeating evil time and again...
2022-07-27 07:47:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn the desolate wasteland filled with forced death marches that is the Japanese education system, there’s one shining, bright moment, an oasis, a refuge for weary hearts to rest and recover in the company of their comrades, enjoying the solidarity that can only be found in those who ...
2022-07-23 18:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostColin barely has dinner at his apartment. The freezer is better stocked than his fridge, and his microwave is the thing most used in the whole kitchen.
“Can you pass the salt, please?” he says, dabbing his mouth with a red paper napkin.
Narrowing my eyes, I reach to my ...
2022-07-21 19:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhew, been a while since I did one of these, hasn’t it? Sorry about that; the truth is that I’ve been exhausted due to a mix of pushing myself too much at the end of June and the start of July, the heat wave and my nerves not letting me sleep too much, some family stuff, and… And...
2022-07-19 22:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the first things I always do when I arrive at a new timeline is to hunt down any known witches that are weak enough not to pose too much of a threat. It gives me plenty of leeway when it comes to facing unforeseen crises later on, and it’s always a good way to gauge how my own...
2022-07-19 02:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Student Council is an ever-present enemy in nearly any high school manga—except the ones where they are the protagonists rather than the antagonist.
This shows us two things: the first one is that every young Japanese man understands, at an instinctual level, that authority...
2022-07-16 04:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostColin’s guest room is about as drab as his living room because, for some reason, the man whose power is obsessed with efficiency just decided that dark olive green is an excellent color for walls.
Dark tone apt to remain apparently clean for longer periods—<...
2022-07-13 06:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostDisciplinarian teachers are something that hasn’t survived the transition from the Showa era. Back then, the gruff, stubble-ridden, jersey-wearing, shinai-wielding gym teachers who would get hands-on with unruly students were either manly supportive of the (direly in need of a patern...
2022-07-10 01:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you… all right?” I ask her.
And the question is stupid, something I berate myself for as soon as it leaves my lips, but I still need to say the words to beg her to tell me…
She nods, her chin briefly digging in the crown of my head as I lie on top of her, unwil...
2022-07-07 16:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post