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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 21)

There wasn’t any point commenting about how surreal this all was. That had been true since I first woke up on that fucking cart.

“I’d have given you shit if you did, Mini-Me. You got the girl and everything. Even put a ring on her.” There was a sound like static again. “The last thing I want to hear is you complaining.”

“You’ve been watching all this time?” It wasn’t so much speaking as thinking the words.

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 27)

       The Old Lion

He leveled the letter on the lacquered table with another beleaguered glare. House Lannister had never been stronger than it stood now, and still his children were determined to do everything they could to try and tear it all down.

The dwarf had always been a disappointment, so he had hardly been surprised when he abandoned King’s Landing to go cavorting across Braavos with whores. It was what convinced his ...

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June Monthly Prompt Tiebreaker

Only a two-way tie at least.

Bunny Troubles (My Hero Academia)

He and Usagiyama (or Mirko as she insisted on now) have had a tumultuous relationship throughout the years they've known one another, sometimes friends, sometimes rivals. Even bitter enemies for a few weeks after The Incident That Will Not Be Named.

Something changed after he helped her out with her vigilante schtick. Now she had just told (well, practically threatened) him to meet h...

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A Dreamer in a Dream Recap (chapters 1-20)

I know some of the elements of the story haven't been the easiest to follow, my own additions to the already often contradictory mindfuck that is TES lore not making it any easier. And so, recap. One focusing on the more esoteric parts of the story...

The first chapter has the memetic opening without much explanation. The tower is first introduced at the very end of it.

The second chapter gives a peek behind the curtain. Some hints that this isn't your garden variety isekai...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 20)

Windhelm continued the whole Lord of the Rings vibe that Whiterun had, just more Minas Tirith than Edoras, a sprawling thing of rock and stone that meshed with the mountain next to it. Though unlike the White City it also sat right on a massive river that emptied out into the sea to the north. Which meant ships.

One of those ships was bound for Winterhold.

I did think about taking the opportunity to fuck with Ulfric’s head, but yeah, no. Not my mess to deal with. I was perfectly...

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Another Quick PSA

Two things.

With Ned's recent PoV, I was a teeny bit unhappy with the end after the bit about Melisandre's vision. Ned should have commented on Bobby B just needing an excuse, and that's in now. And then I also had him more purposefully not talk Bobby B down.

With Dreamer, I wasn't happy with the Oblivion parts in the latest chapter. While nonlinear time's come up a few times now, I never really explained it. Now I have. Also expanded on the general vibe of Obliv...

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 26)

       Eddard

Green. Everything was green. Green and black. Ned could hear himself barking orders at his men as they tried to contain it, but his mind was a world away.

He could not even feel much relieved that it was only him in King’s Landing, for it was his insisting that the Blackfish take Bran and leave that his son found himself suffering the hospitality of the mountain clans.

Or perhaps he should call them wildling...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 19)

We were back in the barn again, staring at the stars that weren’t stars. Or she was, at least. I couldn’t stop looking at the ring on her finger.

It felt real in a way nothing had so far. Maybe because it was something from the place I still thought of as the real world.

“I can almost feel your eyes on it,” Skadi teased, lifting her hand to show it off. “Does it mean that much to you?”

The ruby and sapphire looked like they were floating in space with how black t...

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 25)

       Jaime

Their first sight of Braavos was not the city itself, but the Titan that guarded the entrance to the lagoon that cradled it.

From afar it appeared as a giant astride the open sea, and grew more intimidating still with each moment that passed. While it did not stand near as high as the Rock, it also wasn’t a mountain that had been hollowed out, but a monstrosity of stone and bronze that had long since turned a vivid...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 18)

YSMIR, DRAGON OF THE NORTH! II

Skadi drank in the scene before her with a quirk to her lips. Eir was still eyeing him grumpily, aye, but he had won her parents over. Not that it was hard.

All her father needed to hear was that he hadn’t shied away from taking the fight to the Thalmor, and her mother needed even less.

What’s important was that her plan worked perfectly, all else forgotten in the wake of her announcing that she had found a husband. Even he...

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Quick PSA

Things have been slowly returning to normal with the move done and so I wanted to go through the Skyrim Patreon chapters to see if anything was lacking. I ended up expanding on the threesome some in 14 and added a small scene towards the end of 15. Also polished up all four.

I'll be dropping 18 tomorrow and the next two PoVs of Blackjack and Hookers Saturday.

I can say that one of them will be Cersei.

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June Monthly Prompt

Summer is upon us. The heat has inspired me to offer a Mirko thang.

Wooing a Femme Fatale (Overwatch)

He had been surprised when middle management asked him to sign on a mission with Widowmaker. As far as he knew, she usually worked alone.

It paid very well, and considering Talon paid well in general, that was saying something. He took the job. The worst case scenario was always the same anyway, and getting shot by an angry femme fatale was prob...

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My Pokémon Life as an Eldritch Abomination 2

There I was, paddling my ass through the waters of Pokémon Hawaii, when it kinda just hit me. I could go anywhere. Kanto. Sinnoh. Even Unova on the other side of the world..

But there was a downside. I was an Ultra Beast now, a fucking Pokémon. I was still coming to terms with that. If I left now, I wouldn’t be able to find out more about what the fuck happened. The Aether Foundation were the only ones that studied them.

Also, Lusamine would probably expect me to try and get a...

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 24)

       The Foster Father

Even the nights in Volantis were hot and heavy, he had found. The strong stench of fish and boiled milk did not help as he waited for the bedamned cheesemonger to find him, wiping at his brow with a cloth already wet with sweat.

None of them had expected to hear that Pentos had been sacked by the Dothraki. It had taken another fortnight until they even learned that Illyrio still lived, a missive reaching ...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 17)

Really, what did I expect? After my bender across Oblivion, there probably wasn’t a solitary Daedric Prince that wasn’t aware of me now. So I sighed and dropped the shit-eating grin in favor of something more miserable.

“I didn’t pick the name,” I insisted firstly. I had Meridia’s shiny ass to thank for it.

Skadi’s eyes were impossibly blue again as she stared at me. Silently. Judgingly.

“I tried to explain back in Whiterun,” I continued weakly.

She s...

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ASoBaH Poll #6

While I feel like half a cripple after moving everything into the new apartment, I am happy to announce that the pain has given me an idea! We'll be at the 100k words mark soon, so not a bad time for me to get a measure of what peoples' favorite PoV characters have been.

Also, if you've been hankering for me to write a PoV I haven't yet or want to throw me some feedback in general, now's not a bad time. I have a general outline all the way to the end, but plenty room in the details.

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 23)

       The Blooming Flower

Naella hoped that with the sorcerer’s departure that all would return to normal in King’s Landing and she could complete her final year of service in relative peace. The gods saw fit to make a mockery of her hopes instead.

When she heard that Pentos had been sacked, she tried to gather the courage to sneak aboard the next ship to sail there and find the baby brother she had given her tongue to keep ...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 16)

Despite being the one to strongarm me into meeting her parents, Skadi still took her sweet time leaving Whiterun behind. Or more accurately, the Skyforge.

Something about going home had lit a fire under her dumptruck of an ass, and it wasn’t like Earland Gray-Dane or whatever his name was could tell the Dragonborn no. It made my occasionally nagging Farengar with questions about how magic actually worked look downright harmless.

Also ultimately pointless as Lydia had already giv...

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May Monthly Prompt (Secondary)

With a continuation to My Pokémon Life as an Eldritch Abomination heavily leading the vote, I figured I'd just close it a few days earlier to give more time for the secondary vote.

I can basically take the intro I had anywhere. He can just swim his ass to any region.

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 22)

       The Wild Child

She grinned as she beat the shadowed figure back across the godswood, steel clashing against steel.

It was always in the godswood, and it had taken so many times that she could not count them all, but Arya felt as if she might finally beat her teacher. Her hand even moved instinctively to guard against a sneaky strike as she continued her assault.

She was so close.

Then she saw it again, but it w...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 15)

       AE ALDMERIS I

Reia bit down an exasperated sigh as yet another Nord attempted to engage her in conversation. No, this one was a Breton. The slight hint of mer stuck out like a sore thumb the more she looked.

She quickly returned a dull smile and some empty words, already missing her uniform that kept the locals at a distance, just as her history kept her compatriots at a distance. No doubt what happened to Anchuunimer woul...

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ASoBaH Poll #5

It is time for a return to Winterfell. There's a few PoVs I can work with here.

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 21)

       Asha

She had grown rather fond of Dorne this past moon. It wasn’t Lys with its beaches of purest white sand and water like glass, but it was still everything the iron islands weren’t.

It didn’t hurt that she grew more rich each time her Black Wind set sail thanks to that uncanny gull Solomon had left with her. While she had heard the Farwynds of Lonely Light were skinchangers, she had not seen it for herself...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 14)

As the light show came to an end and Skadi digested Murmulnir’s soul, her surprise turned into something… well, something very intimate. And I would know.

Who knew dragon souls doubled as party drugs? Sanguine, probably.

It didn’t last, leaving her on her ass and staring at all that was left of Mirmulnir. His skeleton made even her look tiny.

I had to hobble my ass over to help her. Even if my body was made of stone right now, it still spent some time inside a...

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May Monthly Prompt

The flowers are blooming.

Wooing a Femme Fatale (Overwatch)

He had been surprised when middle management asked him to sign on a mission with Widowmaker. As far as he knew, she usually worked alone.

It paid very well, and considering Talon paid well in general, that was saying something. He took the job. The worst case scenario was always the same anyway, and getting shot by an angry femme fatale was probably one of the best ways to go out there ...

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My Pokémon Life as an Eldritch Abomination

There’s nothing quite like waking up one day only to fall into a hole in the floor. It wasn’t even a hole that led to somewhere sensible like the room below me, nah, it sent me zooming through space like an interstellar missile instead. All very cool.

What happened after is fuzzy. I crashed? Something like that. Honestly, I couldn’t even tell you how long I was doing an impromptu reenactment of 2001: A Space Odyssey for.

I eventually found myself inside a cage. A ve...

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 20)

       Solomon

He sighed as Cersei raked her nails sharply across his back again, drawing more of his blood. Out of all the women he’s had in this world or the last, she was easily the most rapacious. One step removed from a succubus even.

Still, he could only complain so much. Having a queen completely lose herself for a crumb of attention tickled a part of him pink, the loss of blood notwithstanding. It could even be confused...

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A Dreamer in a Dream (chapter 13)

Everything came to a halt as I found myself hearing someone's voice through all the static, my thoughts being pulled three different ways like dough or rubber. I desperately tried to focus on their words, slowly separating myself from myself from myself again.

It all left me feeling like one of those Russian nesting dolls.

Finally, I found myself back in the Riverwood Trader, Lucan giving me a worried look like I was about to die on him. And seeing as my head still felt like there...

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Free Members PSA

So, apparently NSFW posts have to be paywalled. Or in legalese "should reside behind the subscription wall to be accessible only by the creator's fan community of paid members" and so on. Very unbased.

There's one going public soon, so figured I would give heads-up.

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A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 19)

       Eddard

Ever since he had arrived in this accursed city, it seemed intent on greeting him with some fresh disaster on every morrow. The North had its troubles, certainly, but it still allowed itself to be ruled.

Ned could not say he ruled the Seven Kingdoms. He could not even say he ruled King’s Landing, as it were.

He had held some bitterness toward his foster father at first, for not reining Robert in, fo...

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