I was caught off guard by how sudden and intense my desire was to leap out of bed and go to Hina. I was possessed of the urge, for just a moment, to flood my muscles with Flame enough to stand under my own power in spite of the egregious harm I’d already inflicted on them, to rip the intravenou...
2025-03-21 18:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi! This is for both current and prospective supporters of Sunspot. I'll be changing the Patreon rewards starting with Arc 3; everybody will be getting more stuff per dollar!
TLDR:
Side stories are becoming available for members of all ti...
2025-03-21 09:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post“She hasn’t come out of her room since we got back.”
My stomach twisted. Last time that had happened, Hina had been stewing in remorse. This time, it served her right, but even so…
“Oh. That’s…bad, yeah.”
Alice sighed. “Very, very bad. Normally she just runs aw...
2025-03-15 16:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostIf I dreamt after passing out in the grass, I don’t remember it. Perhaps I would have spoken with Holton again, or drawn the parallels between how I’d broken out of our shared dream and how I’d escaped back into reality from the abyss, or connected the gargantuan hunk of driftwood to the to...
2025-03-07 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this is late! I really wanted to make sure I got it right. You'll hopefully understand why by the end.
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If only getting back to reality were as easy as letting gravity drag me there. Even though we were supposedly ‘above’ the three-dimensional slice of the universe humani...
2025-02-23 15:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the Radiances, Yuuka seemed the most universally useful. She was nearly impossible to catch by surprise. Even though she hadn’t foreseen Takagiri escaping the first trap, she’d still been able to avert the magical backlash and gotten it right the second time. I didn’t know much about...
2025-02-15 15:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody! Thank you so much for 2000 readers across shub+rr+the main site. To celebrate, this chapter is available to free members in addition to the usual patron tiers. Enjoy!
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Rather than dive into the crowd to go after Takagiri directly, Yuuka simply summoned her Flame once ...
2025-02-07 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a REVISION of 2.13 with one major change that cascaded down across the chapter. The change is informational, not plot-related. The original chapter is still available here on Patreon.
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Have you ever seen one of those ultra-slow-motion videos of a bullet pa...
2025-01-26 15:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostHave you ever seen one of those ultra-slow-motion videos of a bullet passing through ballistic gel? The projectile leaves a series of overlapping voids expanding behind it, the nominally solid gel encouraged by the extreme forces to bubble like a liquid. Milliseconds later, the forces that formed...
2025-01-24 13:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostNo side story on this break week! Sorry, Vaetna-tier patrons; I'll be trying to get arc 2 done during that week!
Also, during the longer break after arc 2 finishes, I'm thinking about shuffling around the Patreon rewards. I'll probably make side stories available to all patron levels, but g...
2025-01-23 14:17:00 +0000 UTC View PostI cannot talk about Dad’s death without discussing infernos, and it is difficult to discuss infernos, especially those of the firestorms, without first explaining free ripple, or ambient ripple. That’s the stuff that brings uncontrolled magical effects, be it from natural sources or as the ru...
2025-01-17 12:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a lot of things that sucked about the morning of Hikanome’s event.
First and foremost was the pain. I could feel what I had done to my body last night as a low-level burning, scratchy sensation, not unlike a rash. Every place where a hair follicle had been removed and backfille...
2025-01-10 12:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s Christmas. Alice and Hina go shopping.
CANONICITY: Canon until contradicted by main story.
DATE: 2021 December 25 (two months before the Thunder Horse Inferno)
The last six years had brought some rather seismic changes to how Alice Takeha...
2025-01-03 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlso available on Sunspot's new website!
Mild content warnings for dysphoria and blood magic.
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Who hosts an outdoor event in February?
The Saturday of Hikanome’s festival had seen the rain fina...
2024-12-27 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostYou can also read this chapter as a Patreon release on Sunspot's new website by logging in with Patreon there!
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“I’m—mutating? Like Hina?” Yes, Ezzen, that’s what she just ...
2024-12-20 14:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys! Sorry for delay; see the Discord or 2.07 public authors notes on Shub/RR for info about my absence. I'm back!
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“Hit me!”
Hina was in a mood. A giant, gleeful grin of pointed teeth covered her face, and the blue of her eyes held a fervor, a mania.
“...
2024-12-15 12:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostPretty happy with this chapter overall. Let me know what you think!
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VNT: Vaetna-type. An obnoxiously inaccurate term; for one, none were equal to the Vaetna, and for two, the term was haphazardly applied to essentially any group where a flameb...
2024-11-22 15:41:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s cold.
That’s weird, because temperature isn’t the kind of thing one normally notices in a dream. Nonetheless, it is undeniably cold here. I can feel it on my skin, in my teeth, and especially from the ache in my hand.
Where is here, anyway? It is not t...
2024-11-15 15:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was hard to write. Let me know what you think!
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Did I want to go to the Hikanome rally? Not particularly. But it was worth discussing.
“You should go,” Ebi opined. Her voice sounded quite distinct from when she was interpreting for Amane, ...
2024-11-08 13:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days late on this, sorry. Pretty happy with how it turned out in the end but it was a struggle. Hope you enjoy!
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Valentine’s Day. A day I’d basically never had any reason to care about, and especially not one I’d expected to become ...
2024-10-27 12:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostLast week people didn't like linking to the Google Doc because of lag and brightness, so I'm just going to put these in the post body for now. Thanks for the feedback, and for supporting Sunspot! Enjoy!
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I did my best to enter Ai’s giant machine shop surrepti...
2024-10-18 12:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so this is a bit scuffed, but you can read 2.02 early via [this link]. This a publish-mode Google Doc, not a regular share,...
2024-10-11 13:42:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody! First post. Thanks to everybody supporting.
Just clarifying that additional content (advance chapters, side stories) won't start being a thing until mainline updates resume on October 11th. So you're not getting 2.01 early (2.02 will be the first Patreon advance chapter, avail...
2024-09-25 16:57:08 +0000 UTC View Post