"...Reports coming in say that what prisoners the Bluebloods have taken are being moved somewhere, no…"
"…watch out for the prosthetics, humans put rockets in them…"
"…taken most of the City Center and Westbrook, Watson's bird country now…"
"…Spirits look at what they put in their oceans…"
"…cifica and the Voodoo Boys got fucked after they started landing in the s...
2023-11-13 16:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Not a lotta time darlin's, gotta up sticks for a spell, so I'll keep it quick.
Aliens are invading. Yes, they're real, and the ET's have already bombed the Biotechnica fields and the power plant, so be aware - cuz I probably won't be reporting anything for a bit. Here's Third Rock From the Sun by Joe Diffie on repeat 'til I get back on the air."
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"They sure don't seem friendly. I don't think this is going to be a peaceful meet and greet," 2023-11-13 16:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post
To preface this -- this poll is NOT the poll that determines the next story when a slot opens up in my rotation. This is just a poll to see the standouts in the idea-pile because I have a couple of months before my next commission story starts, and I figured it would be a good opportunity to build up a backlog for the strongest contenders for the next story release. And because I may or may not have something cooking in the background that I'm not quite ready to reve...
2023-11-12 14:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post"The obstacles are being removed as we speak. You should be sworn in by the end of the day," Stan Edgar said, speaking into an untraceable phone that he very rarely found occasion to use. He sat in a chair, flanked by concrete walls while he tore open a package of mochi sweets with his freehand. A powerful headache throbbing between his temples and a feeling of exhaustion that cut bone deep. None of this could be found in his tone as he managed to open the package and pop one of them in his m...
2023-11-10 15:53:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn't how I imagined this happening. For a variety of reasons, really. Like, I had always imagined myself facing the full roster of the Seven, and now I wasn't even facing half of their total number. And, as of late, I had imagined myself facing off with them with Robin and Yoruichi at my side.
As much fun as I was having, I could say that this was not going to plan in the slightest. I could feel the noose tightening around my neck as Homelander's and my attacks clashed in the spa...
2023-11-10 15:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostI should be horrified. I should be terrified. Vought, the US government -- one or both of them had finally found me. I knew, in the end, my greatest asset was secrecy. It was the mask. I could put it on to become Heartless and I could take it off to become just another face in the crowd and, in the end, that was a power in itself. Losing that power would cripple me. It would limit my movements. There were a thousand and one reasons, each one better than the last, why it was a terribl...
2023-11-10 15:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as I would like to say that I was about to murder every single senator, government official, and politician all the way down to Victoria Neumann, that wasn't exactly true. In the end, it would be too obvious. Stan was proving to be a rather clever adversary, and he wouldn't be so blinded by the glittering of the opportunity to see that it wasn't gold. After all, the Presidential seat falling straight into his spy's lap… well, if I were in his shoes, I'd be hella suspicious. There wa...
2023-11-10 15:52:53 +0000 UTC View PostMoney. It was genuinely shocking how many things were gatekept by the number of zeroes that were in your bank account. There were the big and obvious things -- like you had to be at least a multimillionaire to own a multimillion-dollar yacht. Or to afford one of those super-science doodads that 300+ IQ mega geniuses cooked up in their labs to throw down with the Justice League as step one of a multi-layered plan for world domination. A plan that always got stopped at step one.
But, on t...
2023-11-09 13:59:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60 has been rewritten. The opening bit is the same, but the arrival to Crete is very different. So, you’ll need to reread it for this chapter to make any sense.
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Greek Fire, I learned it was called. A secret military weapon that had been used by the Romans for near a century at this point, and it was a secret that they guarded jealously. For good reason too. A few ships outfitted with the substance could completely change to course of a naval battle -- there were few ...
2023-11-08 15:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostStrategos Tatzates was the leader of the Bucellarian Theme of the Roman Empire. Which faced against the Black Sea, making his involvement in my taking of Crete rather unusual. His domain was on the other side of Anatolia, and I saw little merit in him providing any kind of support. Its lands weren't affected, or if they were, it wouldn't be a pressing problem. Not like it would be for the Thracian and Cibyrrhaeot Themes, which were just off Crete’s coast.
"Fifty ships," Hoffer remarke...
2023-11-08 15:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah, so I'm out of the fight then?" Was Astrid's rather lackluster response to learning that she was pregnant. She looked down at her stomach with an expression of mild annoyance, but didn't exactly seem displeased with the news. "Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. Honestly, the only shocking thing about this was that it took so long."
"That, and you didn't realize," Morrigan remarked dryly, her arms crossed as she lounged in one of the seats in the room -- in Rome, there wer...
2023-11-08 15:41:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a mistake. I knew that much after the first punch. I had let my temper get the better of me. I wasn't quite certain who he was, but I did understand that he was related to Chares in some way, thus making him someone of importance. The only silver lining was that he wasn't nobility, but at this moment, it genuinely wouldn't have mattered if he was and I knew that. His head snapped to the side, blood and shattered teeth erupting from his broken jaw in an arc before I grabbed hold of his ...
2023-11-08 15:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post"I can't believe you talked me into wearing this thing," Guts grumbled as he picked at the cuff of what he could only describe as a doublet. Black and gold were the coloring with the gold coming from fine embroidery that ran along the hem and his sleeves. The man in the mirror was an unfamiliar one -- he was starting to get used to the finery, shockingly. But the reason he still struggled to recognize himself was the absence of the dark bags underneath his eyes.
A hand went up to his ne...
2023-11-07 14:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post"....thing on? We live? Good.
Sorry for the interruption darlin's, had to fly the coop when the pigeons came across it. Don't worry - Nora's mobile now.
If you're going out to indulge in some pigeon-shooting, here's some advice - Smart Guns slip right past their personal force fields. Seems like slow and steady is the way to go after all, cuz Power and Tech Weapons ain't so effective.
Also got some intel that affects those of us best equipped t...
2023-11-06 15:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post"...Reports coming in say that what prisoners the Bluebloods have taken are being moved somewhere, no…"
"…watch out for the prosthetics, humans put rockets in them…"
"…taken most of the City Center and Westbrook, Watson's bird country now…"
"…Spirits look at what they put in their oceans…"
"…cifica and the Voodoo Boys got fucked after they started landing in the s...
2023-11-06 15:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post"Not a lotta time darlin's, gotta up sticks for a spell, so I'll keep it quick.
Aliens are invading. Yes, they're real, and the ET's have already bombed the Biotechnica fields and the power plant, so be aware - cuz I probably won't be reporting anything for a bit. Here's Third Rock From the Sun by Joe Diffie on repeat 'til I get back on the air."
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"They sure don't seem friendly. I don't think this is going to be a peaceful meet and greet," 2023-11-06 15:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
"There are a lot of country songs about love out there, darlin's. And even more of them about what comes after - songs about finding out that your input or output has been strayin'.
Not ashamed to say I didn't really get it when I first started listening to music. Never been betrayed like that before, and I just can't fathom how someone could backstab their other half like that - it's one thing to screw over some stranger, but… one of your own chooms? Someone you care abo...
2023-11-06 15:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy brain felt crowded, like there was too much shoved in a too-small container. The sensation wasn't exactly comfortable, but in a… you're sitting on a park bench and you end up sitting next to someone you don't know and you're forced to touch each other just a little bit kind of way. I could feel the other guy in my head, forced to touch, and where we did weird sensations washed over me.
"How do you feel, Subject Two?" A man I recognized asked me. Or the other guy? Dr. Patterson. A m...
2023-10-31 14:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis message was meant to go up a little earlier because I'm currently out of state, but I am coming to learn that I can't trust Patreon's systems -- with the latest update, none of the 'collections' I made have appeared and the timed release hasn't worked the two times that I've used it.
In any case, the announcement is that there will be no updates next week due to a few reasons. The most relevant one is related to what was supposed to go up on Tuesday in regards to Legends Neve...
2023-10-29 14:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostDespite what many might claim, the great battles weren't much different than the regular battles for the people that fought in the mud, blood, and shit. Some might be proud to have fought in one famous battle or another, but at the end of the day, during the fight, you had no idea if the battle would go down in history, or not even be remembered by the locals. For all of the mutterings and preparation, Guts fully expected that to be the case for the battle they now faced.
A battle for t...
2023-10-29 14:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostI was being interrogated. I'm sure that the Avengers would call it a more polite word, but I was essentially in an interrogation room as my butt was planted on a couch with the Avengers all around me. Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Iron Man, and War Machine. The full team, and, if nothing else, that told me they were taking this seriously. I didn't see Peter anywhere, but I couldn't tell if that was a good thing or not. We were back in the penthouse where I had beaten up Loki. I...
2023-10-28 15:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey now, no need to be rude. If you want to kill me, there's another me running around that I'm happy to direct you towards," I said, floating above the street and making no attempt to come closer to him. Honestly, I didn't feel comfortable being on the same planet as him, even before he knew I was here. "I'll even help you kill him. Call it an assisted suicide."
In response, Zarathos grabbed hold of the chain that was wrapped around his shoulder. The hellfire that burned arou...
2023-10-28 15:07:34 +0000 UTC View PostNo. No. No, no, nonononono. No. No fucking way. This shit is precisely why I had time travel so shit like this didn't need to happen. So it wouldn't happen. I just had to wind back the clock and snip this shit right in the bud.
"You piece of filth," I snarled at Kilgrave, kicking him in the face before I threw him right back into his own personal hell. Right from the start. I never really considered myself a malicious person, but his screams were fucking music to my ears as I ran a hand...
2023-10-28 15:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn't how I imagined this happening. For a variety of reasons, really. Like, I had always imagined myself facing the full roster of the Seven, and now I wasn't even facing half of their total number. And, as of late, I had imagined myself facing off with them with Robin and Yoruichi at my side.
As much fun as I was having, I could say that this was not going to plan in the slightest. I could feel the noose tightening around my neck as Homelander's and my attacks clashed in the spa...
2023-10-27 14:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostI should be horrified. I should be terrified. Vought, the US government -- one or both of them had finally found me. I knew, in the end, my greatest asset was secrecy. It was the mask. I could put it on to become Heartless and I could take it off to become just another face in the crowd and, in the end, that was a power in itself. Losing that power would cripple me. It would limit my movements. There were a thousand and one reasons, each one better than the last, why it was a terribl...
2023-10-27 14:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as I would like to say that I was about to murder every single senator, government official, and politician all the way down to Victoria Neumann, that wasn't exactly true. In the end, it would be too obvious. Stan was proving to be a rather clever adversary, and he wouldn't be so blinded by the glittering of the opportunity to see that it wasn't gold. After all, the Presidential seat falling straight into his spy's lap… well, if I were in his shoes, I'd be hella suspicious. There wa...
2023-10-27 14:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was on fire. Well, not literally, though that could quickly change in a couple of minutes as Cinder perched on a building, overlooking Times Square. The military was rolling in with everything short of tanks, and they had instituted a curfew. In all honesty, they should have been calling for an evacuation of the city, but that had its own inherent dangers.With her bow in hand, she watched on from above as a platoon of soldiers marched towards their target.
Frost and ice crunc...
2023-10-27 14:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post"...Reports coming in say that what prisoners the Bluebloods have taken are being moved somewhere, no…"
"…watch out for the prosthetics, humans put rockets in them…"
"…taken most of the City Center and Westbrook, Watson's bird country now…"
"…Spirits look at what they put in their oceans…"
"…cifica and the Voodoo Boys got fucked after they started landing in the s...
2023-10-23 15:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Not a lotta time darlin's, gotta up sticks for a spell, so I'll keep it quick.
Aliens are invading. Yes, they're real, and the ET's have already bombed the Biotechnica fields and the power plant, so be aware - cuz I probably won't be reporting anything for a bit. Here's Third Rock From the Sun by Joe Diffie on repeat 'til I get back on the air."
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"They sure don't seem friendly. I don't think this is going to be a peaceful meet and greet," 2023-10-23 15:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post