Jasmine tea smells wonderful.
It’s… A tame scent, something definitely noticeable yet non-intrusive. You find it when you look for it, but you would miss it if you were preoccupied with something else, something more pressing.
My new mother greets me as she passes by the living room on her way to the yard, and I smile politely in return.
Just like jasmine tea.
The taste isn’t as sharp as others, honestly. There are far richer brews, ones where you can ...
2021-12-12 03:54:30 +0000 UTC
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There’s a turning point in almost every anime production. A crossing of the Rubicon, as Zaimokuza would put it, after which things can no longer be the same. It is something that broadcasts a great change to the audience in the most unsubtle way possible.
It is…
Sorry, the matter is of grave importance, and I hesitate to even bring it up. Allow me to gather my strength.
It is… The recap episode.
It is the episode where the animation budget has hit such...
2021-12-10 05:23:32 +0000 UTC
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“All right, Noelle, the Tinker we’ve contacted is going to try to sedate you before installing his equipment. Is that all right with you?”
My laptop’s screen is parted down the middle. On the right side, I can see Dragon’s emulation program translating my mannerisms onto Krouse’s—I mean, Trickster’s face. It’s a bit disturbing, mostly because I’m obviously prettier and the world’s diminished by being forced to stomach this inferior replica. Also...
2021-12-08 18:27:56 +0000 UTC
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Words change meaning over time. This is not a big revelation; it’s just obvious and apparent to everyone who has been on the internet long enough to see LOL go from shorthand to finding something hilarious enough to bother the neighbors with a Westerner-like lack of restrain over reactions and emotions, to a punctuation sign that pretty much lacks any meaning beyond that of marking the user as having spent enough time on the internet to see LOL go from…
Uh. You get the me...
2021-12-06 11:32:57 +0000 UTC
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My room… It’s quite a bit like my old room, isn’t it?
The colors I understand, they are mostly my own choice, and I like the same things I liked before, but… the shelves with stuffed animals, the way they are arranged… I don’t quite remember how it got to be like this. It’s just different enough that I don’t get confused, yet, at the same time, it looks familiar enough that I know this is my room. That it always has been.
In a world with millennia of his...
2021-12-04 23:10:57 +0000 UTC
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There are, fundamentally, two types of stalkers in anime. The first one is a girl who is obviously cute, though she may frequently be shown with bags under her eyes, a hunched posture, or some other sign of an unhealthy lifestyle that would obviously make someone with idol-grade looks a pariah in high school, because, obviously, her teenager classmates are all mature enough to look past a physique that wouldn’t look out of place in a gravure magazine cover and judge her exclusive...
2021-12-03 04:59:14 +0000 UTC
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Space is full of color.
Stars that burn in ever-shifting spectrums, planets made from any and all elements known to man, nebulas and pulsars, and a thousand other mysteries that radiate throughout the totality of the spectrum, both visible to earthly creatures and beyond what those limited to crude, material shells could ever dream of.
Space is full of color, yet man rarely sees beyond white and black. Light and Darkness.
It is fitting, then, that the gatekeeper, ...
2021-12-01 01:59:27 +0000 UTC
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Seeing how popular the harem genre is, one would expect to glean from it some kind of insight into one of the key differences of a harem over monogamous relationships, that is: harem management. But that’s, of course, and like almost everything that relates to applying the harem genre’s lessons to real life, a vain hope.
Mostly, there are two harem management schools: the classic and the modern. The modern school is a trend that has emerged from the ever-growing herd of e...
2021-11-29 05:47:00 +0000 UTC
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I don’t know what to do with my life.
Which shouldn’t be a big surprise. I’m not even out of high school, and I’ve got years to figure out if I even want to go to college, what degree to pursue, and what jobs are actually available after graduating from something as utterly ridiculous as Classical Philology or another similar waste of four years—
“Your face’s going to get stuck like that, Junko,” Kazuko, my best friend, says as she pokes my forehead, her...
2021-11-27 02:32:37 +0000 UTC
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All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 20
The morning after.
The morning after is a situation anime has woefully neglected to instruct its devoted fans on, most likely inferring (correctly) that anime fans will scarcely need such guidance.
Ouch. Why do I hurt myself so?
Still, the ultimate consummation of anime romance is usually a kiss, and sometimes not even that, what with how bashful we Japanese are about public displays of affection and how...
2021-11-26 05:10:16 +0000 UTC
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If my life was a movie, Taylor and I would’ve come into our hotel room devouring each other with a hungry, unending kiss as we rolled along the wall, tearing our clothes off until we fell on the bed and had explicitly amazing victory sex that somehow managed not to show our nipples at any point.
Similarly, butts are more or less okay, but no hole should even be hinted at.
Maybe it’s a good thing our lives aren’t a movie (not until I sell the rights, at le...
2021-11-24 05:27:52 +0000 UTC
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There’s a lot of cross-pollination between manga and JRPGs, for obvious reasons. Some franchises are outright adaptations, such as that one where a game famous for having Akira Toriyama’s character designs got a manga spin-off famous for almost managing to copy Akira Toriyama’s character designs (and having almost as many resurrections as Dragon Ball, which is a high bar to clear and shows the devotion of its creator to the original inspiration). Nonetheless, there are some t...
2021-11-22 05:03:31 +0000 UTC
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Of Sisters and Shadows – Chapter 3
So, what is the first thing you think about when you are more or less mandated by the government to live alone with your sister—who you recently found out has been harboring incestuous feelings for you since she discovered boys were not her thing—because the two of you are the only living humans who know how to navigate a paranormal phenomenon that seems to be a cross between Stephen King and some pretentious author whose name I...
2021-11-21 03:48:38 +0000 UTC
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Imagine a generic trash harem manga.
Right, let me rephrase: imagine any harem manga. I admit the first line may have caused undue stress due to every harem manga being generic trash. It’s unfair to make anyone sift through the genre in search of anything remotely resembling either quality or, Heavens forbid, originality.
Now that we’re all on the same page, we can start analyzing the pattern: an everyday man with absolutely no attractive qualities beyond having the...
2021-11-19 15:56:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey, sorry to do this, but... well, I hope you understand why I want to give this chapter of "All Right! Fine! I'll Take You!" the attention it deserves. I'm going to rest for a bit and come back to it with a clear head. Hopefully the wait will be worth it.
2021-11-19 05:07:30 +0000 UTC
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Everybody knows about the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Well, everybody thinks they do.
It’s deceptively simple: two criminals are suspected of a crime, and they are given the choice to incriminate the other or remain silent. If no one betrays their partner, they both get a light sentence, and if they both betray the other (by tattling, heh), they get a medium sentence. The trick is that, if one betrays a loyal partner, the traitor goes free, and the heartbroken criminal who stupid...
2021-11-17 05:20:27 +0000 UTC
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Disclaimer: So that this story fits inside of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, it’s been revised so that it occurs in an AU where all the characters are legal adults. This includes the characters not involved in sexual events. Everybody is an adult, without a single exception. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Author’s warning:Oreimo intensifies. No, really, for any of you who want to preserve your pure image of Komach...
2021-11-14 16:45:53 +0000 UTC
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This is just a way to gauge interest in which of my original projects would you all be more interested in. It won’t be binding, but it will obviously influence my decision. Also, it’s quite likely I will choose more than one option, given that the end of the month isn’t looking as crowded as the past couple of times.
2021-11-13 13:07:36 +0000 UTC
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Well, there sure haven’t been any ties this time around.
For the first poll, the clear winner is “Of Sisters and Shadows,” which already had 4k words allotted to it this month. I published the first update a few hours ago (which basically spells out the direction of the story going forward), and you will get the next chapter next week.
For the second poll, the winner has been (by a much narrower margin) “Chef’s Choice.” I’ll post a new, non-binding poll right about n...
2021-11-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Master-Stranger confinement is bullshit.
Mostly because it’s boring, but also because, if I really set my mind to it, there wouldn’t be anything Piggot or her flunkies could do to keep me in here. Basically, the fact I haven’t busted through the walls or used a myriad thinner-than-hair tendrils of forcefield to whittle away the steel door into shavings should be enough indication that I’m playing by the rules and thus shouldn’t be confined, but then the whole Catch-...
2021-11-13 07:37:05 +0000 UTC
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Today, Hikigaya sensei is going to teach you all about the battle planning scene.
The battle planning scene is something that, while not present in every action shounen, can be a fundamental part of the narrative. Of course, blond aliens who just scream a lot rarely, if ever, feel the need to plan much more than just deciding by which time-multiplier-slash-gravity-multiplier are they going to commit suicide, I mean, train their bodies to reach new limits. But when the charact...
2021-11-12 03:27:04 +0000 UTC
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You know what I never knew I wanted for my birthday? A baby Endbringer.
Mostly because I don’t want one. At all.
You shouldn’t have, universe. You really shouldn’t have.
“What the fuck?!”Ah, Taylor, I can always count on you to find the words deep within my heart.
“It’s… It’s just a theory, all right? That’s the best we could come up with,” the wheelchair-bound girl with auburn hair says defensively.
“A theory ...
2021-11-10 04:38:27 +0000 UTC
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Disclaimer: So that this story fits inside of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, it’s been revised so that it occurs in an AU where all the characters are legal adults. This includes the characters not involved in sexual events. Everybody is an adult, without a single exception. Sorry about the inconvenience.
“Tattletale, I’m not sure we should be doing this,” the black boy dressed in leather says.
“Relax, Grue, you know this will be g...
2021-11-08 02:31:32 +0000 UTC
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Hi! This is November's first extra poll, which, as you can see, has been considerably fattened up regarding last month's. I'll give it till next Saturday before I announce the results, and if Chef's Choice wins, I may do a smaller poll o gauge interest in the various options. Meanwhile, it's back to trying to get into my rhythm with the pending chapters already queued. Wish me luck (and regular sleep).
2021-11-06 16:57:26 +0000 UTC
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There’s an old Zen tale about a student meditating atop a mountain, probably with the top of his robes undone to show his well-sculpted physique that is a requirement for monks of all religions (that is, if manga has taught me anything—that guy from Berserk was ripped… and now I made myself sad).
Right. A minute of silence.
…
Moving on.
As I was saying, the gym-obsessed ascetic is meditating upon the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, such as whether e...
2021-11-05 04:21:01 +0000 UTC
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It may come as a surprise that some of the best whiskies in the world are brewed in Japan. Suntory Holdings Limited, for instance, has even managed to snatch the title for the best whisky in the world with a very memorable sherry-cask-aged single malt.
I know the heir to the company. Mother introduced us at a gathering of… family heirs, what else? Nice enough guy, didn’t even brag about his father’s company and managed not to get offended when I didn’t even touch the ...
2021-11-05 04:18:52 +0000 UTC
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Triumph is a funny thing (by which I mean “triumph,” not “Triumph,” though wearing a lion-themed costume and roaring at people is not precisely lacking in the humor department). You always picture it as this great moment, as Rocky standing in the ring, unbowed even after everything, and yelling his lover’s name, but then you remember Rocky didn’t win. No, that scream, that moment of acknowledgment, had nothing to do with victory against a great foe and everything with h...
2021-11-03 04:12:20 +0000 UTC
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Mark
The girl’s kisses are rough, and the alcohol overwhelms her natural flavor. I can not stress this enough: when you make out with a vampire, trying to taste nice goes a long way towards making us feel up to it.
Still, we are already locked in the club’s bathroom stall (female side, I wouldn’t dare brave the sanitary catastrophe waiting for me on my gender’s own), she is pressing herself against me with barely restrained need and I haven’t gotten laid...
2021-11-01 04:07:58 +0000 UTC
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Tales from a Lewd Fantasy World – Tale 1 – The Witch, the Hunter, and the Baron
When I was a child, my grandmother told me the world was made of stories.
‘Anna, look around you: everybody you see in the village, every traveler you see passing by, has their own life, their own tale to tell. The secret is knowing how they all fit. The mages in the Royal College can pontificate all they want about the nature of the world, but we know better, don’t we?’<...
2021-11-01 04:05:15 +0000 UTC
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Cockblock All the Zombies
This would have been my first October’s Chef’s choice, but, quite frankly, it is already an ungodly hour in here and I should drop in bed before I get a very realistic vampire costume and make-up. The idea behind this would have been a completely comedic and hentaish series about a grumpy, aspiring researcher getting trapped in an Umbrella Corp scenario only to discover the zombies are hentai zombies. He and h...
2021-11-01 04:03:04 +0000 UTC
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