So, I already told you that last week my output was lower than usual due to some family matters. This week, I struggled to get past them and managed to barely finish two more or less okayish chapters of Wake-up Call and All Right! Fine! I Will Take You!
That wasn’t the plan.
I wante...
2022-11-20 22:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostCallbacks.
The power of callbacks is a subtle one and not within reach of every series. You can’t call back to something that isn’t there, so you need to establish things properly and in a way that’s memorable enough to stick in the audience’s mind.
A classic example would be ...
2022-11-19 03:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You owe me, Danny,” Lisa says, glaring at me with… far less energy than I know she can gather.
Behind her, a woman who’s uncomfortably attractive while still looking like my daughter’s girlfriend and partner-in-not-quite-crime bites her lip in something contrite that would make m...
2022-11-17 06:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post“How are things going at school?” Dad asks after minutes of silence only broken by chewing noises over a breakfast table that is unpractically bigger than what we used to have.
I…
I look at him.
He’s trying to smile, white teeth gleaming like the tiles beneath...
2022-11-14 03:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to do quite a lot over this week that still hasn't been done, such as the next Periodical Cicadas (which has involved me taking a long, hard look at the outdated outline), the next Ginosko (to be published on Monday), and as much of the She-Ra one-shot as I could manage. Sadly, yesterday...
2022-11-11 17:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a power that all shounen protagonists share, the real key behind their ability to escalate, to go beyond, to surpass any and all threats, and reach a realm above that of their fellow manly men who are sometimes women, or men who cry a lot while still remaining manly, or men who are ...
2022-11-11 17:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t call me that,” I say. Reflexively, harshly, unbidden.
And my biological mother stares at me in incomprehension.
“What—Sarah, what are you—”
“That. Sarah. Don’t call me that. Not anymore.”
Her arms are still tight around me, and I shrug m...
2022-11-10 03:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostPatricia spoils me.
Which she can obviously afford to do, but I think she shouldn’t. I think she should stop viewing her own value only in terms of her identity as Patricia Ginosko, high executive of Ginosko Corp, millionaire, and ‘expensive.’
I think she should just realize tha...
2022-11-07 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostOK, this last month was… great. Just great, I have no other words for it, for how it felt to see so many new readers rush in and support me, it’s… Wow.
I’m awed, really.
It also was the month I finally managed to (partially) get over my fears of rejection and post something on...
2022-11-04 20:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn one of our previous lectures on the history of anime tropes and conventions with Hachiman-sensei, we talked about the planning scene and how its most prominent and staunch defender is a certain franchise with a penchant for pissing off any major religions to have ever existed. But is that hatr...
2022-11-04 20:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn front of me, Noelle, frozen in time, stares with curiosity at the broken chassis of Bakuda’s time-stop grenade, the scattered pieces of the red metal perpetually glinting in a floating cloud of shattered light.
Sometimes I wonder how that works. How the light can keep on shi...
2022-11-02 20:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostOK, yesterday I told you that I was kinda bummed that, after rushing it as hard as I could without the quality (hopefully) suffering, the short story You Can Leave Your Mask On wouldn’t be available on Amazon for the Halloween mini-event I was trying to offer you. As it turns out, Amazon must b...
2022-11-01 19:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know what I never expected I would have to deal with once I set on being a superhero?
Prank calls.
“Look, if you’re gonna try and convince me that you’re the Tinker murdering people for shits and giggles, maybe do something more impressive than using a gag voice garbler f...
2022-11-01 03:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The 31st of October has a lot of names. Hallowe
2022-11-01 01:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostI have already talked at length about companion quests and why they are so important to make one feel attached to the bundle of pixels displaying more character and focused goals than most people you’ll ever meet outside of an eroge release queue.
(I never claimed it was go...
2022-10-30 20:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt is said that history repeats itself. If that is the case, then anime is history.
The rival who struggles to catch up to the oblivious shounen protagonist, only to briefly surpass him as a prelude to the latest bullshit power-up? The main girl who’s about to realize her ‘true’ feeli...
2022-10-28 02:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a weird thing about superheroes. I mean, other than the sexualized costumes, the ‘no guns allowed unless a gun is your whole thing’ rule, the ‘no killing allowed unless killing is your whole thin—with an exception clause for the gun thing’ other rule, and the alarming propensi...
2022-10-27 00:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s this time of the month again, the one when I offer you all (some) of the plots brewing up in my lemming-like brain that’s too proud to admit I already have too many ongoing projects.
So, choose what new challenge to impose on him until he learns not to taunt me with more ideas<...
2022-10-26 02:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostSayaka – Thieving Cats Should Watch Their Hands
OK, calm down, Sayaka. All of this has a perfectly reasonable explanation. There’s no need to make a scene. Madoka, Hitomi, the new girl, and you are just gonna have a nice, peaceful talk while eating lunch in the...
2022-10-25 02:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostI let him trick me.
Again.
Because, let’s face it, taking up the Student Council President position? Playing to his tune and taking the damn job? That… That was…
That was dumb. Like, so dumb.
I knew what he was doing! He told me to...
2022-10-22 18:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“So… why the Machine Army?” Taylor asks, apparently disinterested as she sits on the hotel’s bed with me on her lap, my back against her slight bust, her uninjured arm around my waist, and her lips on my hair.
And I panic.
“I mean, by mere process of elimination...
2022-10-20 01:50:27 +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...
2022-10-18 03:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostOK, it’s clear my trying to have a detailed weekly schedule, while good at making me stress myself out at every approaching deadline and making you in turn be perpetually disappointed at the false expectations I kept setting up, isn’t quite working in the way I intended. Starting this month, ...
2022-10-16 23:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostOriko – All According to Keikaku (Keikaku Means “Nookie”)
Komaki is taking a shower.
She’s… She’s weirdly punctilious like that. She may be utterly exhausted, barely able to lift her head off my breasts, but as soon as she can drag herself away fr...
2022-10-15 03:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s been talk in recent years about how otaku culture is a dark mirror on which Japan’s most regressive views are often showcased. Despite our fascination with blond foreigners (or darker ones, among certain connoisseurs of the NTR tag), it’s clear that our social mores are a...
2022-10-14 01:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you really comfortable with those?” Taylor asks as she points to my shoes with the hand not resting on a sling.
My white kitten heel shoes.
Sinking into the lush, pistachio carpet of our hotel room with vistas to the sea.
…
Look, I may or not...
2022-10-12 01:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, when you bring your non-blood related sister with pseudo-incestual feelings for you home, you… ponder things.
Things such as: am I OK with our kissing escalating and becoming more and more frequent? Has she deliberately changed her body enough that I will be able to ...
2022-10-10 12:34:05 +0000 UTC View PostShe’s…
OK, OK, Yui, you can handle this, whatever this is supposed to be. It’s not like you’ve been holding back from pushing Yukinon down, tearing her clothes off, and making her scream in a continuous, never-ending climax until she collapses breathlessly beneat...
2022-10-09 02:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostThank you, everyone! I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am for your continued support and making this possible! I’ve still got a lot of work to do, and I’ll keep taking as many commissions as I can manage (that is: the current amount), but it is an amazing feeling that we’re fi...
2022-10-08 01:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostIn this introductory series about manga, anime, games, and other ways for Japan to decrease its birthrate, we’ve already talked about the ball as a scene that is a staple of romance in plenty of settings, many of which shouldn’t even have any kind of ball, seeing as Japanese high s...
2022-10-07 00:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post