Saint
Dragon mourns.
It’s… an uncomfortable realization but an undeniable truth.
The artificial intelligence has been barely functional since the battle against Behemoth, her outburst of energy when trying to save Armsmaster something that seems… ...
2023-05-10 01:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostShizu – Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner?
‘That’s not gonna happen,’ I told him with a teasing lilt.
This very morning.
Just this morning.
“Nice to meet you, Haruno,” Dad says as he grabs my incredibly persistent, nagg...
2023-05-07 03:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostA long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away…
It is a period of strife. The Sith Order under Darth Sidious has met surviving Sith who don’t adhere to Darth Bane’s creed of Master and Apprentice.
The struggle for power, for the dominion over the Dark Side, can’t be solved by str...
2023-05-05 16:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostThere is… not joy. Not joy, but something similar.
There is companionship in mourning.
Hannah has refused to leave Colin’s bedside since he was put into the hospital room assigned to him.
The one I paid for.
Because I’ll be damned if I let them stick him in a coma wa...
2023-05-04 05:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe poll winners are both kinda dull and immensely relieving: you guys told me to rest—which, for any of you new around these parts, means that I’ll do my best to catch up to the projects that have fallen behind.
Mostly because I’ve developed a very particular kind of insomnia: I wake...
2023-05-02 11:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, stories try to be clever.
I don’t have any issues with cleverness. I enjoy it as much as anybody with a hint of mischievousness, with a love for Clever Foxes.
But I don’t enjoy it when it runs contrary to the tale.
Subversion, deconstruction, parody, and satire…...
2023-05-02 04:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostMadoka – Friends Before Femmes
Classes are about to be over.
Classes are about to be over, and I’ll finally have the chance to spend some time alone with Homura, and talk, and discuss things, and ask what she remembers, what I did, how she saw me...
2023-05-01 03:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, anime and manga are relentlessly mocked for unfair reasons.
(Contrast that with when they are relentlessly mocked for fair reasons, a far more common occurrence.)
There are many instances of such a thing happening: from decrying as cliched and stale the stories tha...
2023-04-28 07:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostHannah
“I think it’s… Fuck me sideways,” Minnie says as she warily lifts up the edge of the black signal-shielding cloak covering us before she dramatically throws it off.
In front of me, Behemoth’s head and shoulders rise above the wrecked homes, t...
2023-04-26 08:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostWell, here we go again: time for democracy to work.
For those of you new here (and thank you for coming), the way this works is that I list a few things that have been brewing on my mind for quite a while (and, by popular demand, the added option for me to try and take a break) and...
2023-04-24 23:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s actually an almond tree.
They are quite common in the region of Spain I am from, and I saw this one just a few blocks away from my home, so I decided to take a picture to share with you.
The thing is, they are kinda symbolic of the coming of spring as well, and, while there are...
2023-04-24 22:18:31 +0000 UTC View PostStories rhyme.
It’s an old truth. Endings that echo beginnings, middles that resonate somewhere in between. Patterns that reemerge time and again.
There’re dragons to slay, princesses to save, old homes to leave behind.
Because stories rhyme.
So I find myself standing ...
2023-04-24 16:48:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe princess’s fingers languidly glide down the window, their paleness uneven due to a light distorted by the waving surface of the glass.
“My Lady.”
I announce my presence and await a reaction, but her gaze remains lost in the distance, beyond the horizon, beyond the castle’s...
2023-04-23 20:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostA kiss.
Just a kiss.
He thinks he can make things right with a kiss.
Damn him for being almost right.
I surround his waist with my right thigh, his hair glides beneath my fingers, and his tongue pushes mine down, making a small sound come out of me that I’m too worked up...
2023-04-22 02:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostThirteen
Hold.
We stand together, my field replicated and layered a thousand times over, the green light emitted from the interlocked planes only shifting when we perceive another cape being under threat of attack.
Between the monster and the river it i...
2023-04-19 13:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I forgot to write one of these last week, what with trying to recover from the writing rush of the April’s Fools Special and the stupid flu/cold thingy I caught in its aftermath. I think we’ll be able to go back to a regular schedule for both Wake-up Call and All Right! Fine! I...
2023-04-18 02:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe glass with a black frame shows a beautiful woman reading inside of it.
“The PRT still hasn’t disclosed an official statement regarding the earlier incident, though anonymous sources indicate a Master’s power to be the cause of Gallant’s—”
It’s always a beautiful woma...
2023-04-17 11:35:46 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lecture series, one of the very few aspects of storytelling that has, so far, been not thoroughly explored to the most exacting and rigorous of academic standards is the original soundtrack.
It is a somewhat forgivable oversight, given that we’ve covered both light novels and mang...
2023-04-15 10:08:04 +0000 UTC View PostEidolon
“Evacuate! Everyone, back away from Behemoth!” Dragon yells in my ear.
Immediately, my time perception shifts.
It’s a minor Thinker ability, one that doesn’t affect my body, just my thought processes.
Just the way I see the world.<...
2023-04-13 00:02:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen it comes to not only anime but fiction in general, there’s something that no author can evade. Something all readers, players, and viewers know is waiting for them.
The Status Quo.
Yes. It deserves the uppercase.
Because, as you all already know, the Status Quo i...
2023-04-11 01:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostChevalier
Uncountable figures of light and shadow move around me, their many-jointed limbs reaching beyond my power’s sight, bringing out thunder, flame, light, and a thousand things I don’t have the words for so that their bearers can wield them.
My bloo...
2023-04-09 02:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostIf someone ever asked me to tell them what meet
2023-04-05 05:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, I’m sorry to say that the latest A Pure Knight’s Natural Enemy chapter just… didn’t cooperate, so my last attempt at a schedule just became a garbled mess. I’m rather (if not entirely) happy with the quality of my output, if not the quantity, so let’s try to have both this week,...
2023-03-27 22:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a usual misconception in those animes both Shizuka and Hachiman seem to love so much (and isn’t that an understatement, given I’m pretty sure Iroha would get unhealthily jealous of the way those two treat their respective libraries of consumerist escapism), and that’s how...
2023-03-27 09:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s yet again that wonderful time of the month—insert obvious joke about menstrual pads’ insane commercials here—in which I race to do at least a portion of what I set out to do at the start and give you all the chance to vote upon what I’ll try to get done (and get stressed at) next m...
2023-03-26 20:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostHannah
Do you know what used to give me nightmares, even if only figurative ones?
Grey goo.
I was living in a new country, a new world, and I was under no illusions that I’d been brought here to do anything other than fight, but I still… I still was...
2023-03-26 02:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostQuite often, the isekai genre gets conflated with the LitRPG genre. They are both quite distinct in their characteristics, yet close enough in their true essence that it’s easy for those unfamiliar with the deepest nuances of both to make such a mistake.
That is, both genres rely on havin...
2023-03-24 05:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, this is me posting this despite my own shame at my failing to uphold last week’s compromise.
… Remind me not to freak out when starting pivotal arcs. Again.
(Seriously, All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! took an ungodly amount of time and mental effort, given the mediocr...
2023-03-20 21:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostPrincipal Inoue is…
Precisely what one would expect him to be.
On the wrong side of middle-aged, hair graying and balding, with sunken cheeks and square glasses that play up to his image as a stern schoolmaster that will allow Sobu High to retain its prestige. He’s the kind of man...
2023-03-20 00:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis is… manageable.
I mean, yes, Hellhound’s dogs pack a punch, and I feel guilty about now realizing that they have been actual dogs all along rather than projections like I always assumed, but between Amy and me, we should be able to handle this without any issue.
Other than, y...
2023-03-17 05:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post