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Manga Recommendations (lol)

Okay. Well. So...... I got a comment on Kaoru & Hana that asked about recommendations for yuri and trans-adjacent manga, and the next thing I knew I had spent several hours typing up an exhaustive list of my thoughts and recommendations and takes on manga from literal years and years that I've spent voraciously reading the stuff. Haha. I was really trying to keep it contained but I kept winding up finding things that I just -had- to include.

So, I guess, let me present to you someth...

Kaoru & Hana 1-8 (tentative title?)

So, remember when I said I was back to writing more...? Well, this one is still kinda rough and may be subject to changes as I write more, but I think I've got something going now.

This idea comes from sort of a weird place--I read a whole lot of yuri, and also have gone through my fair share of crossdressing/gender-bender/trans-adjacent manga too (...no comment on the average quality of that latter category). But for whatever reason, I got the urge to write a story that uses some of th...

Minor update on patreon tiers

Hey everyone!

Just a quick note: I'm making a minor change - though don't worry, you're not going to lose access to anything. Basically, rather than having the $2 tier solely be to show appreciation/support, I'm going to have that also include access to stories that I have fully completed. (Which may be a little before they actually go up on Scribblehub)

So, if you're in the $2 tier, you'll get the links to my stories once they're done, like What If We Were Both Girls or The Sable...

What If We Were Both Girls, and We Kissed (In Minecraft)

Whoa, what's this?? A new story???

Okay, first a brief personal update: I... have had a difficult 2022 so far, both personally and professionally. In addition to having a family member pass away and spending a lot of time helping a friend navigate some difficult life circumstances, I've struggled to accomplish any of my own goals in the past couple of months. That eventually culminated in me feeling so completely stuck that I started talking with a psychiatrist, and long story short, um...

Goddess of Useless Lesbians ch. 5-7

I wrote three more chapters of this... kind of stretching my writing muscles, because I've been feeling very stuck on everything right now. This fic is the one where I can just write whatever silly things I want and not worry too much about it. I hope you enjoy!

Also, if you're a patron of mine I'm pretty sure you're into other stuff in the broader scribblehub-centered transfic community, and so you've probably already heard about this, but our Secret Santa bundle is now up on itch.io. ...

Ebooks

Okay, so, when I was setting up this whole patreon thing, I wasn't sure what to have extra on the expensive, and so I said 'ebooks!' before remembering that ebooks are kind of a pain to make and I always worry they don't turn out right. Um. So: sorry if anyone was explicitly wanting those.

If you _do_ specifically want some more of my content in an ebook format, like if that's actually useful to you, please leave a comment here or something? And I can possibly see what I can do? I just ...

Additional Fox and the Fight Short Story

One last story in the Fox and the Fight universe! I wanted the opportunity to go back and do some more with the characters from the original story, to help explain where they're at before they show up again in The Sable and the Statue. It wound up being a bit longer and more substantial than I expected, but I'm pretty happy with how things turned out. Gosh, I still need to figure out a title for this though, probably.

I think this is all that I currently have planned for this set of sto...

The Sable and the Statue

Merry December 27th!!

I've got a new story for you, and a fairly substantial one. This is a sort-of sequel to The Fox and the Fight, sharing a universe and some characters but telling a different story. (I might later go back and write another little short one-shot that bridges the gap between the two-we'll see) This one focuses on a sable-person (the small fuzzy critter one, like https...

Quick December Update

Hey everyone!

Once again, I thank you for your patience during a period where I've been slow in writing. I've actually been fairly productive in the past several weeks, but it was all on a chapter of my dissertation (thankfully keeping me from falling even more woefully behind). As always, though, I deeply appreciate the support you offer, and I never have any hard feelings if for you need to reduce or stop pledging.

I'm continuing on, turning back to fiction writing, though I'll ...

Teenage Dirtbag ch22

Heyyy, here we go, here's a big chapter where maybe something important happens.

Enjoy!!

The Fox and the Fight

Heyyyy look an entire complete new short story!!

This was written as a birthday present for a very good friend of mine. However... I have the strangest suspicion that there might be other people following me who would be interested in reading about being bullied into a gender-affirming body with fluffy ears and a tail. Perhaps. Who can say!

This is gonna go up on Scribblehub in another week or so, because the aforementioned very good friend is making me a cover image for it for my...

Teenage Dirtbag ch21

First of all, thank you so much for your patience. This has been a particularly slow month for me productivity-wise, as I've tried to balance fiction writing on top of the dissertation writing that I'm way behind on, and had a few unexpected problems coming up, too.

Also, I'm not certain that this is going to be the chapter that everyone is clamoring for, but we're right at the good shit, it's coming up so incredibly soon. And also, there's an unexpected bonus that I'll be post...

Goddess of Useless Lesbians 4

So, I'm back from vacation things, and am starting to try and get back to writing. As a way to get my head in the right place I was gonna take a break and write a chapter of something different, and when I started to do that, I realized that I had an entire chapter of this story already written, but had never posted it? Whoops??

So here's another chapter of this extremely silly story, which... is probably a bit Too Much, but which is like blowing off steam to write, at least when I'm in...

The Monster in Crook Pond

Hey everyone!

This month I've been/will be travelling a fair amount, and so I've not been able to make as much progress on TDB as I'd like. (though I'm 1k words into the next chapter, and I also figured out an important thing that will come up in the end!)

Buuuut since I don't have as much time to write this month, I figured I might share an older story of mine. Like... five years old or so, written back when I thought I was just a boy who liked writing lesbian romance because it ...

Teenage Dirtbag ch20

Hey everyone!

To check in a bit: August has been a pretty rough month for me, both in terms of productivity and also mental health. I'm okay, and am taking some steps that should help, but I still feel a bit guilty and wish I could have gotten more done than I have. But then again, I always wish I could have written more, that's an eternal mood. :)

That said, I recently got motivated to get back on TDB, and I've got another chapter ready. I've also got a few more ideas floating ar...

Teenage Dirtbag 18+19

Okayyy! Two more chapters done, and these are particularly big ones. We're starting to get some important resolutions going on, and I'd appreciate feedback about whether that's working right in this moment.

I've also made a minor change in chapter 9 (both here and on scribble) in order to hint towards something that I do in chapter 19. It's really not a big deal, and probably the majority of my readers who are following as the chapters go on are going to miss it, but I think it will mak...

Putting Down Roots (Early Access)

One more in-progress story - this one is part of a commissioned work (that I really need to get back to writing tbh). 

Synopsis: A troubled trans girl who keeps bouncing around in the foster care system finally winds up at a particularly unorthodox group home. In the end, it might be exactly the place she needs to bloom. At least if she gives it a chance.

It's a bit more drama that usual, with maybe a dash of mystery. In the end, I hope to explore some feelings about personal...

Goddess of Useless Lesbians (Early Access)

Hey, so this is a story that I wrote three chapters of back before Teenage Dirtbag distracted me. I plan to get back to it eventually, because I have a few more specific scenes and thoughts that I'd like to write, even if I don't know exactly where it'd wind up in the end, haha. It's kind of a screwball comedy, even moreso than usual, but I am intensely proud of the horrible joke at the end of chapter two.

Normal warnings about it being an in-progress document apply!

Teenage Dirtbag (Early Access Document)

Okay, here's the big one, though at this point there's only a couple of chapters not posted on Scribblehub yet. As I continue to write, this document will continue to get updated with new chapters. (though maybe I need to split it at some point, I don't know.)

A couple of notes on this story in particular: I do quite a bit of editing as I post the chapters to Scribble and those changes don't make it back into this document, so several chapters have slight changes throughout. Nothing maj...

Welcome!

Hello everyone!

I'd like to extend my heartfelt thanks for your support. I'm still trying to figure out this whole patreon thing, and so please let me know if you have any suggestions for how best to set things up, though in general I'd like to keep things fairly simple and refrain from promising too much that might cause me to burn out. One thing that I'm pretty sure that I don't want to have to manage is setting up a whole discord server - but if you would like that, there ar...