Hey everyone, PWP won again, which shouldn't be a surprise anymore, I guess. Still, I've been a very busy spider. Here's all that I wrote for you guys last month and why:
August 4: PWP 4.4 (Weekly Chapter/Monthly Poll)
August 8: Apocalypse 1.7 (Commission)
August 8: War 6 (Commission)
August 10: Troll 6 (Commission)
August 10: War 6.5 (Commission that started as a free-write)
August 11: Spoon 4.3 (Weekly Chapter/Author's Choice)
August 18-19: A...
Preface
I really should update LT, it's been a while, but I did promise Spoon incoming.
Fish 4.4
Aaron Fulan
Petalburg City
We showed up at the beach half an hour early to set up. In fact, we just ended our usual morning run there instead of running laps at the pokemon center. Jeanne and Durvasa looked around curiously as we wandered through the tents and booths being erected. Th...
2023-09-01 13:19:12 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
This is for someone. Spoon incoming.
Chapter 8: Roll credits, because the troll is in the dungeon.
Blaise Zabini
Hogwarts, Great Britain
I leaned on Tracey as she led me into the dungeons. She walked slowly, supporting me on a shoulder and keeping pace with the tap of my cane. I could have made the trek on my own two feet but I appreciated the help nonetheless. It was str...
2023-08-31 21:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeal 4.5
2010, November 26: Damascus, Syria
Brockton Bay’s medical contingent consisted primarily of villains: Othala, Victor, Newter, and myself. By contrast, only Panacea and Clockblocker represented the heroes. All the others had gone to the hazard management or search and rescue division, including, to my surprise, Shadow Stalker.
She had apparently insisted on attending the fight, not just showing up after the fact like us prey animal...
2023-08-25 13:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
This is for someone. He knows who he is.
Chapter 7: Water
Atreus, Aspect of War
“-have any idea how much damage you’ve caused? You boiled the city for three blocks! You know what gaseous asphalt is? Poison! It’s poison! Not everyone is a brute who doesn’t need to breathe like you! Firefighters couldn’t even get close because of the heat, never mind the roadwork piping, and-...
2023-08-23 20:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
My weekly chapter was two lives for A Colorful Life. This is for someone. He knows who he is.
Chapter 7: Dinner shouldn’t be this complicated!
Blaise Zabini
Hogwarts, Great Britain
I hobbled towards the Slytherin table, the sorting hat’s shout ringing in my ears. The healers said my muscle spasms should stop in a week or two… or three…
I was a bit of an outl...
2023-08-21 02:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... I need something interesting to say...
Who's the strongest pokemon in the series excluding Arceus? Eternatus? Rayquaza? Regigigas? Well, you're wrong, because going strictly by dex entry, it's lanturn. Yes, the water/electric angler fish.
Based on the rate of diffusion of light wavelengths in water molecules, for a lanturn to be visible in three miles of seawater, it must output more energy than the sum total of our entire observable universe. Seeing how the pokemon world i...
2023-08-19 19:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs my "at will" chapter, I'm going to go live with an old quest today and tomorrow, Sunday too if I can swing it.
2023-08-18 22:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've reached a bit of a crossroads. I usually write out an outline that covers 3-4 chapters beyond the drafts. I've reached the end of that outline. I still have story beats that I want to hit, but because Aaron isn't hyper-fixated on the traditional badge route, I'm very flexible with the order in which things happen.
Which begs the question: After Petalburg, where to?
2023-08-17 15:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
You know what we haven't seen in a few posts? Spoon. Here's your Friday slice of life.
Fish 4.3
Aaron Fulan
Petalburg City
After beating Larry and his corsola, we fielded a few more challenges from trainers who’d been watching. Durvasa battled until he lost, just two opponents later. His speed and ability to use Focus Energy on the move was now a known quantity to any s...
2023-08-11 12:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
Originally, I wasn't sure I was going to make the 5k minimum word count for this commission, and it was a good stopping point for a PHO interlude, so I wrote this up to pad my word count.
Think of it as a canonized omake. It's lighthearted, but not to the point that I think it deviates from the story.
In any case, I figured you may as well have this. This fully completes my monthly commissions.
Chapter 6: Wanna see a hat trick?
Hogwarts, Great Britain
“First years! First years! This way!” Hagrid shouted. The man was a hulking goliath. He stood nearly twelve feet tall, but in the dark and the rain, seemed even bigger. He was twice as wide as I was, and most of that bulk were muscles that I felt could uproot small trees. He wasn’t technically allowed to do magic anymore, but that didn’t make the half-giant any less imposing.
...
2023-08-10 13:21:09 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
What's this? What's this? What's this, what's this, what's this?
THIS IS HALLOWEEN.
Also, War (and Sparta). I did say I was just getting through final edits for my commissions this month, right? Here's your 5k of War.
Chapter 6: Oil
Atreus, Aspect of War
My shield blazed with celestial fire as it collided with Lung’s wrist. Its edge met the metall...
2023-08-08 23:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostLiftoff 1.7
April 2015
As the dawn broke, Rocket and I began our day with a workout. Now that we had the security provided by this little slice of civilization, I saw no reason to ignore my own physical conditioning. Well, no reason except the sassy murder-ferret cackling mockingly as I grunted through my thirty-fifth pushup.
No, I wasn’t especially athletic. Yes, the sentient scarf was a foot tall. Yes, he could fold me in half like a tac...
2023-08-08 15:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostSeal 4.4
2010, November 26: Brockton Bay, NH, USA
I tried to work, to be productive. I thought I gave it a solid effort considering everything on my mind. Then the endbringer alarms went off. Seeing how the city sirens hadn’t gone off, I allowed myself a relieved sigh. Had Behemoth or the Simurgh appeared here early, I would have been forced to find Sisi and mom and dip town, no matter what that did to my identity.
As it had been explained...
2023-08-04 13:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostI got a few messages asking about more representation in stories as several people joined for my less popular works. I would like to remind people that this poll, despite how attention-grabbing it is, mandates only two of my weekly slots.
To be clear, I want to list out everything I wrote in July:
July 1: Legendary Tinker 7.7 (Wildcard, haven't updated this in a while)
July 4: Spoon 4.1 (Commission)
July 6: Apocalypse 1.6 (Commission)
July 7: Plan? W...
Fish 4.2
Aaron Fulan
Petalburg City
My team and I went about our morning ritual with cheer and vigor. With teammates like Jeanne and Durvasa, even Artoria couldn’t put off starting the day forever.
The beauty of rising so early was that the pokemon center’s backyard and training fields were completely deserted. After stretching and taking a few laps around the field, we returned inside to gorge on the center’s free supply of eggs. T...
2023-07-28 13:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostSeal 4.3
2010, November 22: Brockton Bay, NH, USA
Tutoring James netted me an awe-inspiring sum of… forty bucks… Truly, I was the embodiment of wealth and prosperity…
Sarcasm aside, it was refreshing to have someone who was willing to listen and didn’t brush me off like some kind of chore. I promised myself I’d put in the work for him.
As much as I wanted to jump right into alchemy practice after mom and Sierra fell asleep, I...
2023-07-21 12:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostIntermission 7.8
Eugene Lewis
2002, November 20: New York, NY, USA
DC was still being rebuilt so we gathered at the national Protectorate headquarters in New York. I walked through a Door and into a designated room on Legend’s floor set aside for the purpose. I made my way to the roof, where I found only Legend, Eidolon, and Alexandria. I couldn’t attend, Last Christmas had made it abundantly clear what the Simurgh can d...
2023-07-14 12:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: Flour
Atreus, Aspect of War
I sat in the living room of the one-bedroom apartment the local powers had provided for me. It was small according to the woman called Militia, but no true Ra’Horak cared for mortal luxuries. What had been provided for me was already wealth beyond what I’d ever held, save the relics I wielded into battle.
The size of the dwelling was adequate for a man and the quality of its furnishings would put th...
2023-07-12 16:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostSeal 4.2
2010, November 20: Brockton Bay, NH, USA
I entered the house a little bit after my sister dropped me off. I’d timed my arrival to be about fifteen minutes past four. Hopefully, that’d be enough to give others time to arrive; I didn’t fancy being alone with the birthday boy.
As much as I considered him a good person, I didn’t really click well with Dean, even more than other kids my age. I considered him a little too much of ...
2023-07-07 12:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostLiftoff 1.6
April 2015
Hunting for spearow was, shockingly, boring. I didn’t know what I was expecting. It wasn’t like I was headed into the forest to chase them down directly. No, my job involved sitting at the highest place on the hill with a borrowed hunting rifle in hand, watching the skies.
Just to keep myself useful, Pat had dragged up a wheelbarrow full of mid-sized logs and handed me an ax, something to do during the wait. It was...
2023-07-06 16:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostPreface
Ask and ye shall receive.
Yes, Fish. Then Entre, Cheese, and Dessert. Like with most things regarding this story, it started as a meme but I’m genuinely not sure what I’ll use as arc titles when I’m done with the courses of a meal. Maybe random flavors of ice cream?
Fish 4.1
Aaron Fulan
Route 102, Hoenn Region
My bokken glowed faintly with whi...
2023-07-05 03:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostIntermission 7.7
Eugene Lewis
2002, November 16: Winnipeg, Canada
I stepped out of the Doorway onto the rooftop of a high-rise apartment. The PRT’s expansion into Canada was a methodical one. Even with support from the Canadian government, there was a limited amount of funding so Rebecca strategically placed offices in major cities, starting of course with Ottawa. It meant that though Winnipeg was the provincial capital of...
2023-07-01 05:05:21 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure why I do these anymore. I definitely didn't expect PWP to take off like this either. Thank you guys for all your support.
Anyway, you know the rules.
I've decided that I'm going to give myself a bit of time to rest until July 4th and write a shitload of Homeless Bunny, an omake series published directly to FF, QQ, and Akun (because it's a quest).
Seal 4.1
2010, November 18: Brockton Bay, NH, USA
“Good hustle, Kiley!” Coach Miller called as I ran by on my sixth of eight laps. Two miles was nothing to me at this point so I just grit my teeth and chalked it up as some extra cardio. Maybe it was small-minded of me, but I couldn’t deny a pang of smug satisfaction as I blew past some of my classmates. My performance was mediocre compared to many athletic adults, but it was still tangible p...
2023-06-23 12:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4: Yeast
Atreus, Aspect of War
I was led into a box-like contraption that moved up and down on its own. An elevator, they called it. I wondered what it might take to install one onto the Targonian mountainside. It would make traversing the slopes easier for our elderly. I asked Armsmaster for an explanation of how these contraptions worked but I could not understand beyond that they utilized some sort of harnessed lightning. Not lightning ...
2023-06-21 20:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostLiftoff 1.5
April 2015
I woke up with the dawn, a habit that had been long ingrained in me by this point. When you backpacked without electricity, you rose and slept with the big blinker in the sky, sleeping sometimes as early as seven or eight at night and rising to catch as much daylight as you could, while you could.
That didn’t mean I was happy about it though. It was a chore, an inconvenience I’d simply resigned myself to suffering....
2023-06-17 18:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostSoup 3.10
Aaron Fulan
Oldale Town, Hoenn Region
We jumped at the chance to tour the Oldale Ruins. Not just because Artoria and Durvasa were looking forward to exploring the cave system, but because Onale was a very persistent girl.
I hadn’t quite realized just how grating a shonen protagonist could be until I’d met her. And yes, despite that medieval tavern bard theme she had going on, she absolutely was a...
2023-06-16 23:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: All Aboard the Choo-Choo Train
London, Great Britain
I stood on Platform 9 ¾ with mother-dearest, my luggage, and Minerva the owl. To my surprise, it was Valencia who woke me up this morning, saying she’d see me off to school. It was a once a year event so hardly a time commitment, but that she took her time out of her schedule to come along was… something. What it said, I wasn’t exactly sure.
I felt Minerva pruning my hair...
2023-06-14 17:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post