Album of the Week: Jaga Jazzist: Starfire
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Giggling echoed about the chamber in cacophonous waves, crashing through and reinforcing themselves until all I could hear was maddening contempt drilling its way through my skull. Then i...
2023-08-01 20:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Ignore that weird looking guy in the picture. I was just happy to get a result that somewhat resembled my prompt.
Today's musical selection: Kishi Bashi!
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The light was the first to change.
The soothing blues and g...
2023-07-21 14:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies for how long this chapter took, but you can blame the holiday. Also, this is a really important part of the book, and I want to make sure it hits right. Let me know your thoughts!
So, for now, enjoy!
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2023-07-13 16:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's featured tune:
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I honestly could not tell you how long it took me to put myself back together, recover the crystal I had lost, and summon enough mental energy to recast my flying spell. However, by the time I managed to crawl my wa...
2023-06-30 16:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so according to the poll, the old posting schedule of M-W-F subchapters is now scrapped. To those of you who voted I keep it, I apologize. If you insist I keep it around, I might be persuaded to introduce a tier specifically for that.
However, moving forward, I want to try to keep to a regular posting schedule. Most of you seem to appreciate being able to count on a post coming out on a predictable basis.
So here it is:
$5 Patrons get a new chapter on...
2023-06-20 15:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's musical feature:
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Have you ever tried to knock out a street lamp by tossing a baseball bat from the back seat of a moving convertible? Neither have I, but that was the closest equivalent I cou...
2023-06-20 15:22:14 +0000 UTC View Post
( ͦ ) . ( ͦ )
____ - What is that?
Seriously, what is so difficult for AI about succubus horns?
Uh, in other news, the most recent poll seems to suggest (not everyone has voted, this may change) that the subchapter format is deeply unpopular. So I'm thinking about shifting to a release schedule with a chapter coming o...
2023-06-14 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I realize this is a little early to be talking about, however I've been thinking about it, and I have some ideas I'd like to run by you.
Creatively speaking, I've been wanting to branch out from this little story of mine for some time now. I experimented with it a little already with the short-lived cultivation story I was writing. But I think I'm going to rewrite that one to steer away from some of the more Chinese specific setting choices. Whole other thing.
... 2023-06-13 16:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostHaving tried out the subchapter format for a while now, I'm finding that both my subscriber count and the power my story has to attract new members has fallen off dramatically in the past couple of months. Meaning either the story is getting bad, people are losing interest, or the change in format is doing more harm than good.
What do we think? Should I make a change? Do we like the subchapters, or should I go back to full ones?
The whole point of them in the fi...
Arx held up her hands in surrender. “Alright, alright. Just a little harmless fun. I still don’t see why everyone got so bent out of shape about it.”
“Arx…” Jax growled.
“No, it’s okay,” Lynnria said quickly, forestalling her. “You’re right. No one meant any harm. I was just… well, I’d rather not talk about it anymore.”
Arx nodded uncertainly. “If you say so. Look, Lynnria… I know you’re still ...
2023-06-12 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFar too much time later, we said our goodbyes to the beaming tailor, two silver richer and smiling like old friends parting after far too many drinks. However, the very moment we closed the door on the man, the lot of us sagged with relief.
“I am not wearing this,” Arx announced, letting her hat fall from her head. Which did not settle to the ground so much as thump.
But at the very least, the rest of her outfit had been fixed. Her leggings ...
2023-06-09 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Well? What do you think?” Arx asked as we stepped through the door.
Apparently, she had taken the opportunity to preemptively don her outfit. And from the eager expression on her face, I assumed she had done so solely to be first in line for compliments.
Not that I was one for high-fashion, of course. Or particularly good at compliments.
And the outfit… well…?
The top half was a red blouse that looked like something an 18th century b...
2023-06-07 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe ‘pending’ notice was still up, so I assumed that meant I was still over-leveled. Again, as expected. The Gem of Power Arx had shoved down my throat had not been small. I would need to be careful not to unintentionally slip into torpor once it became available.
Come to think on it, Arx is going to have that problem for a while now, too. And probably a lot longer than I would.
Hmm… hope that doesn’t come back to bite us.
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2023-06-05 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So, it turns out, pretty much nobody was interested in the streaming idea. I'm not entirely unsurprised. I would not have been interested either, but if it was possible for me to generate some sort of passive income while also writing, that would have been nice.
Oh, well. C'est la vie.
However, some of you were interested in my music choices. I figured it ...
2023-06-02 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this why you’re so into the whole mind-reading thing?” I asked some time later, once the tears had mostly subsided. “You were trying to tell me without telling me?”
“Maybe,” she admitted, her voice muffled by my chest. “I still think it’s really hot, though.”
I smiled. There really was no explaining kinks.
“I guess I’m still not understanding the point of all of this,” I began again. “How would… doing that to...
2023-05-31 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“So. Severed, be it?” Jax sighed wearily. “That explains things. Always had ye figured fer some minted Clan’s get.”
Lynnria had gone to stand over by the window, but her gaze had turned inward. Not that there was much to see out there. Just a couple of low, grassy hills sat side by side. With some oddly-placed shrubbery right at their peaks.
“I’m surprised you’ve heard of it,” she murmured.
Jax shrugged. “Ru...
2023-05-29 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, obviously I realize you guys are here in order to read my stories. Much appreciated! Thank you thank you!
However, in an effort to perhaps generate more varied content I was thinking you might be interested in some sort of livestream thing? I have no idea how entertaining something like that might be for you, but I do often listen to music while I write. Usually low-key background type stuff. I don't know.
Anyway, we could chat or whatever while I...
2023-05-26 23:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Of course, I know,” Mia replied offhand. And in complete disregard to Lynnria’s apparent fragility. “As the arbiter of your Power, your body is an open canvas to me.”
Lynnria looked up at me searchingly. “And you didn’t tell him?”
I quirked an eyebrow.
“Should I have—choked on cum?!” She growled in frustration. “Beginning to hate these arguments… so… much.”
A calmi...
2023-05-26 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Lynnria’s reaction to having a teat suddenly appear on her arm was—to put it mildly—bordering on the hysterical. Which is to say, there was a lot of unintelligible screeching, hurled accusations, and high emotions. I had never been party to one, so I did not know what it would look like even if she had, but I suspected the girl was suffering from full-blown psychotic break....
2023-05-24 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Whistling… gah! Why does this have to be so difficult?” Lynnria grumbled. “Couldn’t you have set up the Runes yourself? Why do I have to scratch them in?”
“Believe me, I would have—licked your asshole! I’m a dirty slut!—if I’d had the room. That was the entire point of the changes I made to your Core but, with a Capacity of 6, there is only so much I can do.”
I cracked an eye open groggily.
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2023-05-22 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe redheaded woman, on hands and knees in the ankle-deep quagmire, clutched firmly within the waters of an entirely different sort. One between the legs of a second, breathtaking beauty. A beauty only slightly marred by the mud dripping down her face.
From her hair—black as night, yet red at the tips as though dipped in ink—to the lush and glorious tail, heedless of the bog it was half-submerged within, she was the closest one could imagine to a perfect spe...
2023-05-19 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe stood on the cliffside, looking but not really seeing the waves as they swept up the naked escarpment.
I could sense something. Out there. Beyond the sea. Distant… yet not.
It was a strange feeling, whatever it was. Unfamiliar. There was no sense of it calling to me, nor did it feel particularly ominous. It was just… a something.
“But what?” we mused aloud.
No one replied.
Predictably, all our tailor ‘friend’ wanted was the opportunity to get some sleep. It was a request that was difficult to say no to. To be sure, it was an imposition, and he was a condescending asshole.
But…
It was hard not to feel sorry for the guy. What the Dungeon wanted with a bunch of knitted underclothes was beyond me, but forcing the guy ...
2023-05-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe man did something that might have been a roll of his shoulders—perhaps in discomfort or just to resettle his extravagant outfit—except he did not seem to have any, so it appeared as if his stick-like arms had momentarily drifted up his torso. Then, he dipped below the counter to retrieve an enormous hat and began fastidiously dusting it off.
“I see you have managed to lose those rags you were wearing before,” he continued in his own language. ...
2023-05-12 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo saying, I pulled out the green Key and, trying my utmost to project an air of confidence, slotted it into the triangular divot.
On contact, the metal Keyhole began to warp and flow, and I jerked back. We all watched, fascinated, as the now-liquid metal poured itself up and around the edges of the Key until finally solidifying again into the shape of a clawed hand. With the Key in its grip, the whole of it had transformed into a central doorknob—something like a demonic,...
2023-05-10 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've decided to launch a merch store. Gotta pad that income somehow, and nice art, editors and etc. don't come cheap. So for now, I've created some 'Best Girl' mugs.
Have a particular favorite? Vote with your dollars.
There's also a 'Rogues Gallery' mug with a combo design if you can't decide.
Don't like mugs? Want the design on something else? Let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
Also, Merch Tier members and above are entitled to one ...
2023-05-09 13:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostMia hummed with a tinge of disappointment. “As… you wish.”
Another handful of seconds passed. Whether they passed awkwardly or not, I did not know. Sucking oxygen into an increasingly starved pair of lungs has a way of pulling one’s attention away from social mores.
Mia did not have that problem.
“I suppose there’s no harm in admitting,” she said finally, “the various tiers of proficiency are not anything particula...
2023-05-08 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“How flaming long has it been since ye used up the Master’s luck?” Jax yelled over her shoulder as we pelted down the hallway.
“I don’t know!” Lynnria shouted, chest heaving. “Like… yesterday?”
“Watcher’s eye,” I groaned from my position trailing behind the pack. “You’re going to need to start keeping track. This is ridiculous!” 2023-05-05 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I slapped my knees. Conversation done, I decided it best we move on. There was a seemingly infinite array of doors ahead of us, and we were not going to find the right one just sitting there… even if I did enjoy delving into the occasional technical discussion over the minutia of skill function.
Post-fellatio.
Speaking of, it had been some time since Lynnria’s last luck ‘discharge’ and, unlike her elders, she had yet to purchase a tolerance ability for...
2023-05-03 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostJax sighed before flopping across Arx’s lap—to the other’s chagrin. “I dunno. Seems to me it’s just another poison like what the Master’s got already—and not even as good! ‘Sides, if Life Energy be doing that, couldn’t we just use what’s in our fannies?”
“Not dense enough—cherry boy!”
Jax’s head jerked up. However, her outrage faded quickly, replaced by a grin of amusement tugging at her features. “That one wer...
2023-05-01 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post