First of all, I would like to thank you all for your patience as I continue to struggle with regaining what should be my regular writing pace. Said struggle would be a lot easier if things that I envision as easy, lighthearted diversions would stay that way when I sit down to write them....
2023-10-02 17:43:12 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor
I don’t trust Emma.
I can’t trust Emma.
I won’t trust Emma.
“But you trust me, don’t you, Sweetie?” Lisa’s voice asks from the earpiece hidden between my inky locks.
“That is not a fair question,” I answer a...
2023-10-02 17:15:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Power of Friendship.
Yes, we’ve already tackled this subject in our lecture series, but, as pivotal as the matter is to the shounen genre as a whole, as central to otaku culture itself, I fear we may not have delved as deep as it deserves. You see, as we’ve already explained, the Po...
2023-09-30 03:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostSo, first of all, allow me to thank you once again for your continued support. I think I’ve managed to progress on some of my goals for this month, but I still need to hit some of them that I may need to delay for next week. I think that I can safely manage both the next Tales and the ...
2023-09-27 20:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostClaire Wallis
“It’s all so different,” I say, looking at the phone in my hand.
I remember the bulkier ones, those that people with aggressive suits and sunglasses would flaunt when getting out of sports cars near Medhall.
Medhall.
That doesn...
2023-09-27 04:56:23 +0000 UTC View PostAmy is broken.
She keeps looking at the two molten women at her feet.
Just… looking.
“It’s not your fault,” Vicky whispers in support, still wrapped around her sister’s shoulders like she’s been since I came back with Armsmaster.
I should move.
I should g...
2023-09-25 23:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time!
When couples finally come together, baring their innermost selves to one another, allowing their vulnerability to reach past the barrier of fear and apprehension so that two can become one. One of the milestones that young lovers anxiously yearn for, hope for, strive for. 2023-09-25 00:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Iroha Isshiki
Part of me is about to faint due to the sheer, heart-melting cuteness of his sleeping face lying atop my thighs. Another more cautious part is already cringing at his possible reaction to getting a ‘lap pillow’ or whatever terrible combination of ...
2023-09-22 20:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostColin Wallis
“I’m so proud of you,” Mom says, sitting by the side of my bed, holding my hand, smiling down at me with tears held back in her eyes, doing… doing what I’ve been doing to her for years.
Since she started losing herself.
“I’m t...
2023-09-20 05:14:32 +0000 UTC View Post“I… I can…” Vista says.
And then falls.
I shoot toward her, as fast as I can with the last dredges of Amber I can keep a hold of despite everything that surrounds me, everything that would make it so easy for Red to take over just so that blinding rage could cover up all the h...
2023-09-18 02:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostAmong the many, many things that anime characters tend to do that may seem unremarkable at first blush (and, no, blushing doesn’t number among them; that could be another whole lecture entirely) are the… all-nighters.
We have all seen it in one way or another: from the fighter ...
2023-09-15 11:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post“I should melt your insides,” Amy says, arms crossed, her bulky robes doing a perfect job of not conveying her body language, her body shape, or anything at all other than poor fashion sense.
“Not on the first date,” I reflexively answer because, yes, I’m this much of a moron.
... 2023-09-13 05:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostMiss Militia
The streets are calmer than they should be.
So I don’t have to speed up toward the nearest crisis. I can go at my leisure, my motorcycle just a bit over the minimal speed for this avenue near the Boardwalk, as I wave at some of the fans taking ...
2023-09-11 00:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this time around, “Chef’s Choice” won handily the plot bunnies poll, with MonsterGrimmGirls coming a close second and Kyon’s life being suffering an immediate third. The extra chapter or 3k poll has a three-way tie between Chef’s Choice, Periodical Cicadas, and Komachi Points, which...
2023-09-09 02:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostIroha Isshiki
He’s a moron.
“Seriously?” I, most likely futilely, ask.
“Neither Yukino nor I have experience with this, and Haruno isn’t going to take care of it. For obvious reasons,” he says, just adding the little twist of emotional black...
2023-09-09 02:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostDays go by.
It’s an easy sentence, isn’t it? Three words. Three syllables. Three sounds. The bare minimum to say that life goes on, no matter how you feel about it doing so.
And… sometimes? It is that easy.
Bantering with Alec as Rachel steadily improves on her cu...
2023-09-06 01:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostMissables.
The scourge of all RPG players
2023-09-04 04:25:34 +0000 UTC View PostCompanion systems, party management, XP and loot sharing, perma-death,… There are many ways to have the mechanics of an RPG impress on a player that the secondary characters he’s fighting by the side of, courting, trying to get himself rid of, or a combination of all of the above, are, in fac...
2023-08-29 22:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostIs it wrong to try to pick up girls in the dungeon?
This, at first blush, seems not only to be a nonsensical question but one we’ve already answered with a resounding, ‘No, it isn’t, and do you even realize what kind of game you’re playing?’ in our ongoing lecture series.
Ye...
2023-08-29 22:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo.
As most of you may be aware of, my page was suspended due to violating Patreon’s Community Safety Guidelines last week. I tried to send a mass message to inform you all about the whole thing, but I was cut off from the messaging system, and it looks like only some of you got an email ...
2023-08-29 18:50:19 +0000 UTC View PostSynopsis: Roy Mustang survived the fina
2023-08-29 05:01:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I obviously und
2023-08-21 01:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is the first part of the latest Tales. The thing is about finished, but I just don't have enough energy left to finish the last two scenes and edit what's left of the story today, so, seeing as I feel horribly guilty about not having posted anything in the pas...
2023-08-18 01:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post“This is all your fault,” I say to a still-blushing Taylor.
She of the anti-Thinker measures looks at me with a stony, inflectionless look only betrayed by her dilated capillaries and holds my gaze.
My clearly unimpressed, completely deadpan gaze.
Then she cracks.
“I...
2023-08-10 15:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t hate Dad.
“Taylor, can we talk?” the man on the other side of my bedroom’s door asks.
I don’t. I… I am angry at him. Betrayed.
But I don’t hate him.
“Sure,” I answer with a nonchalant tone that fools absolutely no one.
Least of all me.
In one of our past lectures, we talked about how the traditional trope of enemies becoming allies is not only a good way to enmesh a usually engaging character arc in the plot but also, and most importantly, a magnificent way for the author to avoid doing more work when coming up with ways to exp...
2023-08-06 06:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostBreakfast.
Breakfast is… the most important meal of the day? Something like that.
It’s also, apparently, a way for Alec to emotionally blackmail me yet again into getting up early because otherwise, I’ll miss Rachel’s attempts at culinary excellence that often involve some kin...
2023-08-05 01:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostHaruno
Impossible man.
I… I should be thinking about Saturday. About all the things I wanted, all the things I gave up on, and all the things that were impossible until they suddenly weren’t.
I should be thinking about the woman I’ve loved for lon...
2023-08-03 03:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yukinoshita family has plenty of companies under their umbrella, but only one bears the family name. Its main offices are at the heart of Chiba, a reminder of just whose family helped make the city what it is today.
On those offices, at the top floor, there’s a studiously luxurious ro...
2023-07-30 01:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo, some of you may be a bit miffed at me dropping cryptic references about something going on with my life that’s making writing harder than usual. There’s a reason why I haven’t gone into specifics, and it’s that, some time ago, I was told by a former subscriber that they had gotten tir...
2023-07-28 18:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post