The only person in the entire agency Endeavor would tolerate rudeness from was...
Well, okay, there were technically two. His former UA classmate Kenji was one of them. The second, though, was his daughter.
Which was the primary reason he simply leaned back and gave her an unimpressed...
2025-07-31 11:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe technical term is 'cartomancy.'
It's an umbrella title given to any school of magic or mysticism that uses cards as a tool for divination. Note that this isn't limited to just tarot cards and the like, but any sort of selection of cards made of any material used for such purpose...
2025-07-28 07:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Shoot them! Shoot the intruders!”
At this point, I'd learned enough German in order to communicate with Erik that I was able to understand the simple orders being yelled out by a man in a Hydra's officer uniform. Even if I hadn't, the tone of his voice and the way he was point...
2025-07-23 09:05:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Open.”
I finished the motion of swallowing and dropped my jaw, parting my lips as I bared first the top of my tongue and then raised it to show the bottom.
The nurse gave me a fractional smile and nodded. “Good. Sorry, but we have to check every time, especially...
2025-07-18 09:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostYOU CAN VOTE FOR MULTIPLE OPTIONS NOW! BY REQUEST!
Next chapter will have to cement Himiko's template and I'm still fussing over the choices.
What do the readers want to see?
Mundane Support Skills will have Himiko be more active as a s...
2025-07-13 06:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'm keeping this post up for the Q&A in the comments section.
This is the OLD POST and the votes are closed. These will not count.
Next chapter will have to cement Himiko's template and I'm still fussing over the choice...
2025-07-13 01:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to speed up, even if each moment felt almost painfully slow.
I finally made time for Kirishima's dinner invitation, even if his mothers' ploy was painfully obvious the moment they were introduced to me. Admittedly, I had a bit of fun playing deliberately obtuse and makin...
2025-07-12 23:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Tara, crowd control!” Kim barked, snapping her head towards the blond girl even as I began ducking and weaving through the gaggle of rich people. “Keep the civilians out of the line of fire!”
“Oh, line of fire! Did you hear that Eleanor?”
“Oh my, yes! Terribly exciting ...
2025-07-07 10:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostI hate being right.
No, scratch that.
I enjoy being right, except when I'm correct about something inconveniencing me. Then, and only then, do I hate being right.
I stared up at the hospital television with a blank expression as the cheery OP played over...
2025-07-02 13:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, I think everyone knows the bit by now, but just to make sure...
You vote it, I write it.
Yeah, pretty much that simple. Or mostly, at least. The option with the most votes gets the most attention, second-most gets that level of attention, and so on. I might shove something...
2025-07-01 09:16:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Hmm... that should do it,” I muttered, closely examining the flask of oil as I held it up to the glare of a powerful magical light.
Fuck candles, seriously.
Well, no... first, that would be awkward and dangerous, especially if they were burning. But candles were great, a...
2025-07-01 05:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post“We need to talk,” I said around the food in my mouth, swallowing before continuing. “About that, I suppose.”
I'm the guy, why am I saying that so much?
Himiko's face blanked. “I said something wrong, didn't I?”
I shook my head, making no eff...
2025-06-26 12:15:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Eat Shit!”
As I cried out, I pulled back hard on the bar of metal.
“STUPID FUCKING DOOR!”
There was an ominous groan as something began to slide out of place.
“GODAMMIT-OPEN!”
Whatever stray piece of metal this piece of crap had o...
2025-06-23 12:33:13 +0000 UTC View PostI made it thirteen years before I did something stupid.
But when I broke that streak?
It set new records for just how much of a dumbass any single person in any given universe can commit in a single act.
...and it all started, as most horrible incidents of idiocy do, on a pe...
2025-06-21 12:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostI'll have a chapter of Mind Games out late Sunday/early Monday.
In the meantime, here's something to tide people over.
It's the first chapter of a thing that someone decided to give me the idea for. Curse their name. Curse it!
Anyway, there will likely be at least one more cha...
2025-06-21 12:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostYakumo moaned my name.
I cut her off with a searing kiss.
The mother of my child, no matter how unconventional the birth, was not a master of prana bindu. Not in the traditional way, at least. I'd taught her a piecemeal set of lessons in the art, ultimately designed to fight the conge...
2025-06-17 10:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd like one week without any drama.
Just one.
Ugh.
Long story short, one of my visiting relatives is in the hospital and they're probably going to extend their stay with us for... a while. Thankfully, it looks like they got him in before a cardiac event happened and he's due t...
2025-06-17 10:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how is he...” Fuyumi paused, looking around the observation room, her eyes briefly landing on Hitoshi through the one-way mirror that took up a large portion of the wall opposite the door. A dozen scientists were taking an assortment of notes on paper, laptops, and a few reviewing footag...
2025-06-12 07:47:28 +0000 UTC View Post
And we're back!
Mostly a chapter from outside of Hitoshi's POV to properly communicate the quirk-assessment's findings. So you get a lot of Hot Ice/Fuyumi and the doctor talking.
Poor Hitoshi, that testing took a lot out of him.
But at least it's settled.
In other ...
2025-06-12 07:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Society of Judas.
Even in a wholly mundane world, the Catholic Church has more than its fair share of secret societies, hidden branches, and forgotten organizations. It's not even uncommon for them to be all three at the same time. Between the surviving Nazis, the groups that co...
2025-06-08 08:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go!
A nice long chapter with the events of the quick negotiation between Solomon and the Society of Judas as well as Harriet's birthday party. I've got a bit more about the party in the next chapter, I think, especially considering Sirius made his choice, so I need to do at least a...
2025-06-08 08:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Seal.”
The intricate design of earth, stone, salt, wood, and a dozen other things flared with energy coaxed and stored in an array of small quartz crystals dotting the knotwork of power I'd constructed over the small hill.
Marteen van Beek watched impassively from a large rocky o...
2025-06-03 05:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Ugh! I swear this chapter tried to kill me.
Anyway, here it is. By the time you're reading this, I'm probably already working on the next update. I'm pretty sure it's going to be either Where Your God Is or Nexus Event. I haven't been back to either of those in a while and need a change...
2025-06-03 05:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostSecond Verse, Same as the First!
2025-06-01 11:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, still working on THWD, but I'm going to go ahead and get the June poll rolling in the meantime.
If you're new here, the way this works is that you pick out the project that you want to have the most updates and I attempt to focus on it for the month if it gets the most votes.
Se...
2025-06-01 11:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post“So... I didn't ask last night, but...” My father began, a pair of chopsticks pausing over his curry and rice. “What exactly...”
He trailed off, not entirely willing to finish the question he'd begun, but the concern in his expression was enough for me to intuit where he was...
2025-05-28 11:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I do not suggest contracting a sinus infection while suffering from jetlag.
That knocked me on my ass for a good 24 hours.
In happier news, the update for Mind Games is finished and I should have the big chapter for The Hand We're Dealt out for Saturday. Thank you for your pat...
2025-05-28 11:24:04 +0000 UTC View PostBack at the palace, at least, I was able to retreat away from all of the hubbub.
After the King and Queen got their greetings in.
The summation of everything was that all of the adults thought I was very brave for doing as I had, but that it was most decidedly not my job to do so desp...
2025-05-25 19:57:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I hate flying so much.
Wanted to have this out earlier (story of my life), but flying for eighteen hours in a single day just wiped me the fuck out. Finally got home and slept for a solid twelve hours.
Anyway, I've got part of a Mind Games chapter written, look for that either tonigh...
2025-05-25 19:55:56 +0000 UTC View Post“What's the timetable?”
Those were the first words out of my mouth.
I'd read, of course, about the 'Instant Villain' incidents that had occurred a few years ago and with a smattering ever since. They were the opening shots in the new Japanese drug war against the societal menace k...
2025-05-19 01:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post