/// May keep, may cut. I spent time doing a reread of a lot of old sections and wanted to more firmly establish some things that felt like they were maybe too glossed over before.
“What is it?! Quasimodo asked nervousoly,” Hannah exclaimed. “No one—”
“Nervously,” Tabitha corrected in a gentle voice.
“Nervoush—Ner-vous-oly,” Hannah sounded it out with a giggle. “Nervousoly.”
“Nervous—ly,” Tabitha enunciated.
“Nervo...
2023-07-10 19:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostTwo weeks and four days later…
“I dunno why you’re so nervous,” Emily remarked, putting a finger in the borrowed manga book to mark her place, in case she was able to turn this into an actual conversation.
Kelly was standing with arms crossed at the window that overlooked the parking lot of the Seneca public library—they had chosen the quiet corner, because it featured a cozy alcove with a series of padded chairs arranged around a small table. R...
2023-07-09 21:48:10 +0000 UTC View PostRealized I hadn't been keeping everyone updated on these; I work regularly with four artists on about ten different orders a month, but most of that progress is towards the visual novel adaptation.
We're commissioning a set of novel cover illustrations from Deryl Arrazaq for ebook and print publishing. He completes for us at a rate of about a month and a half to two months per order, and works are a little hit or miss... but with him pricing them at a third of the cost ...
2023-07-06 18:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post“How are we doing?” Rebecca couldn’t even spare a glance towards the figure bundled in blankets occupying the passenger’s seat. “Are we okay?”
“Bad,” Christine sounded hoarse now. “Bad. Bad. Not good.”
Just a little past the halfway point to her uncle’s cabin, Christine vomited out an obscene amount of the pedia-lite hydration formula she had been forcing down. Rebecca’s grandmother’s blanket was soaked, and then of course Christine had a small breakdown ...
2023-07-04 18:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
/// Sorry again! The Lance / Fantasy Wars theme got displaced here since we have an amazing new Brian theme to use for all of his general POV scenes. Since this is where the military music for his Lance cosplay will be first used, putting it here for now.
1 character design, 3 character illustrations, 4 background illustrations, 5 background crowds, 1 theme track. 2023-07-02 21:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
/// Not a new post, adding new audio to the Classi Cafe entry.
Shortly after introducing himself to Stephanie, Brian invites her to share a meal with him at a particular classy cafe situated right inside the convention center. Between the hall AnimeCon is hosted in and the next hall over where a business expo is taking place, the cafe is out of the way and absurd prices ensure that it's never too crowded with long lines of weeaboos like AnimeCon's own concessions area. (ര̀...
2023-07-02 21:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post“An’ then he just says—yeah she’s into heroin,” Mr. Moore still appeared absolutely flummoxed. “As if it’s no big deal. Just—yep, she sure was. I don’t understand it! I don’t understand it.”
Mrs. Williams had been thrilled when the man had called and asked if they had a copy of Lisa’s record and transcripts. Finally, progress bringing the dolt around! She had whirled off to the police station right away. Bustling through with the usual cordial h...
2023-06-26 13:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post“How are we doing?” Rebecca couldn’t even spare a glance towards the figure bundled in blankets occupying the passenger’s seat. “Are we okay?”
“Bad,” Christine sounded hoarse now. “Bad. Bad. Not good.”
Just a little past the halfway point to her uncle’s cabin, Christine vomited out an obscene amount of the pedia-lite hydration formula she had been forcing down. Rebecca’s grandmother’s blanket was soaked, and then of course Christine had a small breakdown ...
2023-06-22 19:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post“He fucking got jumped by a bunch of guys!” Emily all but snarled. “Chloe like, started some shit with these dudes, and they weren’t having any of it, and they had her cornered and… things were looking kinda bad for her. So, Brian saved her ass.”
“Jesus,” Tanya joined Michael to look Brian over. “Where’s Chloe now, then?”
“Rotting in hell, for all I care,” Emily spat. “Fuck that shitwhistle. I’m done with her. Done.”
“It’s my faul...
2023-06-17 16:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe drive back was long and tedious. Stephanie joined them on speakerphone for the first fifteen minutes and Kelly’s mood improved, but after catching everyone up on their current status ferrying Brian, there wasn’t a lot any of them had to say. They missed each other. Post-con depression was real and it was terrible. They wanted to all stay in close contact, but were already having difficulty doing so—Kelly’s phone and Brian’s were both destroyed. Rebecca and Christine were off the...
2023-06-15 17:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post/// Lot of different fragments for this chap are in the works, this one came along a little further than the rest.
It was high time for him to get to the bottom of all this nonsense.
Mr. Moore’s truck rumbled down a long, desolate stretch of Fairfield road. This wasn’t the close areas of nearby Fairfield that were on the periphery of his own service area—no sir, this was way out past the other side of the interstate and then some. Easily a forty minute drive, and one he felt...
2023-06-12 16:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostChloe-Ravioli: Have Brian
Chloe-Ravioli: Bring his stuff back down
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: omg
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: kk
Emily jolted into motion in a panic, throwing aside her phone and jumping for the bags by the door. They’d carried the mess of stuff up earlier to make room for Brian, and in the excruciating hours spent in the hotel room with nothing else to do Emily had repacked everythi...
2023-06-05 16:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As I was formatting the complete Ch 50 and 51 for post tonight, Bored Goddess messaged me with this as a surprise! Super honored to be her first video review, please throw her any support you can!
2023-06-01 23:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post/// Also not a new post, the music is new but Patreon doesn't let me edit audio format into old text format posts.
3 background illustrations, 1 theme track.
06/01/2023 Pizza Party Soda Funk theme added.
01/31/2023 Marino's Interior day:
Night:
02/09/2023 Marino...
2023-06-01 19:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post/// Also not a new post, the music is new but Patreon doesn't let me edit audio format into old text format posts.
2 background illustrations, 1 character illustration, 1 theme track.
06/01/2023 Primal (Mara's theme) track added.
03/19/2022 City overview:
10/26/2022 City shortcut:
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/// Have really REALLY been dragging my feet on returning to this, haha. The wrong kind of emotionally exhausting to sink my head into, lately. I think I have one more section to insert right in there before Part G, because on read throughs it needs a break into Alan POV to really show how annoyed he was by Tabitha pulling extremely expensive gifts out of nowhere for the boys and feeling like the Macintire/Williams families are encroaching or intruding on the Moores and the way their family d...
2023-05-31 00:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post“I feel sick,” Christine groaned, fighting back the bile that wanted to rise up in her throat. “I feel really, really not okay.”
“I know, I know,” Rebecca said in a gentle voice. “I know. Just try and drink as much as you can, okay?”
“I can’t,” Christine clamped her mouth shut to keep from hurling. “I really can’t.”
With extreme reluctance, from within her shroud of blankets Christine raised the bottle of oral hydration fluid again and to...
2023-05-23 17:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Kelly?” A hispanic girl in her late teens asked.
“Um,” Kelly paused, looking her over as she approached Brian’s car. “You look kinda young to be Emily’s mother?”
“Looks can be deceiving,” The girl responded with a twinkle in her eye. “‘Goin’ around with a face that’s been on television can be a tad conspicuous, ya know?”
“Yeah, I guess,” Kelly said. “So… what should I call you? Actress?”
“When I’m in this l...
2023-05-21 14:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostEarly morning at the inner city Dollarydoos was an unwelcome reintroduction to the depressive high-stress, low wage job that had pushed Kelly towards pornography. Situated in the buffer strips that separated poverty neighborhood from the main drag of the city proper, the discount variety store was tacked onto the side of a large plaza of a Shop 2 Save grocery, right between a sketchy Payday Cash Advance and a liquor store.
She’d parked Brian’s car over on ...
2023-05-19 12:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post/// Short segment this time, have a lot going on IRL right now. S is for Stephanie!
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: Brian is ok
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: Chloey btfo the creeps
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: Brian will jus need time 2 heal.
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: Healer ppls hav him n a deep sleep or smth
♥ iXi Cerulean iXi ♥: Will call u sumtime today??
♥ iXi C... 2023-05-10 17:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
An impatient rapping on the hotel room door jolted Kelly out of the fitful sleep she’d enjoyed for less than two hours. It was dark and still within the room, her mood was terrible, and it was early. Weak light was just barely starting to show through the curtains, and by the time Kelly sat up Rebecca had already hopped out of the other bed and crossed over to get the door.
“Wait—” Kelly blurted out in a flustered panic, squinting miserably. “Check the—”
“...
2023-05-08 00:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostWhen they got to the very tail end of their presents, Tabitha distributed the ones that were from her—a little wrapped ball for each of them she delivered with a mischievous smile and a toss. More than anything Joshua was confused when he caught his—because the little thing was too small, and too light. There was no way a Tamagotchi would fit in here, even if it was already opened. It was almost as if—Joshua unwrapped the ball, revealing that it was in fact, just a capsule toy like you ...
2023-05-06 17:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post/// The complete chapter 51.
Mrs. Moore f
2023-05-02 21:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post/// Wait where's part F? I'm... yes, rewriting it again. So, this G section here skips entirely past the boys getting their gameboys which yes I know is the high point everyone wanted to see. It was okay, but it was not good enough. Wanted to get F redone and finished today, but then got sidetracked in a huge way by Tenne in the early morning as we try to alter her last two orders, YeMcBear in the mid morning as we work on her new Chloe stuff, and then Basem this afternoon ha...
2023-05-01 20:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post/// Again not technically a totally new post; the music is new and Patreon can't edit audio format into old text format posts.
6 background illustrations, 1 character design, 1 theme track.
This is the hotel that Stephanie was supposed to share a room with her friend Megan, a few blocks further away from the convention center than the Westerlin where Brian's room is. Mostly trying to contrast the Westerlin's cabana motel style with a more ritzy and upscal...
2023-05-01 12:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post/// Not technically a new post, just, the music is new and Patreon can't edit audio format into old text format posts, so.
3 background illustrations, 1 illustration, 1 theme track.
4/30/2023 The Oppressed theme added. We had a Chloe POV theme here, but this new track will specifically be for major confrontations the harem has with Chloe. Kelly slapping Chloe, Chloe hitting Steph, etc.<...
2023-04-30 17:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostMrs. Moore felt timid and meek as she followed her husband up the porch steps to her mother-in-laws apartment where they would be spending their Christmas morning. After frustrating weeks of arguments and a rather righteous tirade, she had finally worked up the gumption to visit a few of the businesses within walking distance of the Lower Park and ask if they were hiring. Nervous but fighting to remain optimistic, she had managed to collect three different applications and made a return home ...
2023-04-30 16:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post/// The complete chapter 50. Wrapping up the content that got split off into chapter 51 right now, should be ready and posted tonight.
“Oh, just the usual old family woes,” Tabitha gave Bobby a bitter smile. “I guess it’s a difficult time of year? Around the holidays.”
“Yeah, yeah, I feel you,” Bobby gave them a sober nod.
Tabitha found it surreal and oddly thrilling that they could just sort of show up and heckle Bobby here where he worked. I...
2023-04-29 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post/// After successive rereads, decided I wanted to start off Ch 50 more where Ch 49 left off, will feel better on read-throughs where reader goes immediately from chap one to the next. Ch 49 ending with Bobby and them at the drive thru feels like it promises just a bit more sweetness, so even if this section is more sugar than substance it just feels better to start Ch 50 right from this light note with more teen banter.
“Oh, just the usual old family woes,” Tabitha...
2023-04-18 13:03:37 +0000 UTC View PostWe're now starting our fourth year of game dev!? You can check out last year's anniversary post here. I didn't make a post for the year before that, as April '21 we got gut-punched by Zaph bailing on the project without warning. Times were tough, but I can safely say now that we've moved on and left him in the dust!
At the top of the page here you can hit play and check out one of our game theme trac...
2023-04-15 14:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post