A/N: I apologize for this delay. I had a cash crunch, people coming in do rebuild my house, some work pressure and other things besides. I really, really appreciate your continued support for Smol. <3 Y'all are why I keep doing this, and I truly to love u.
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A half-dozen curious faces peered down at the reinforced glass screen, the slight warp of the reflective material twisting their faces slightly out of proportion just like a women’s chang...
2022-02-26 05:40:44 +0000 UTC
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Sreshec’s work room hung suspended over Gentle Expanse, the blue-green world hanging like a chandelier in the glass observatory. She liked to work at the “bottom” of the station-resort she owned, partly because the views were usually uncluttered, partly because the “top” had the sameviews but you could charge 10x to put a client there, and partly because no one was going to to sneak through both maintenance and security to get to her quarters anyway.
She humm...
2022-02-11 03:31:11 +0000 UTC
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“Elder” Ti’miquek - who mused that he could now actually carry that title if he really wanted to get a senior’s discount at the supermarket - chirped softly as he waited for his youngest hatchling to respond to him. After decades of serving his local community, he knew enough not to trust little-needs-protectings when they were in such an excited state, but the storiesthat they were telling him about his erstwhile pure and innocent daughter were just… well. Raunchy, out-of-...
2022-01-28 02:00:42 +0000 UTC
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Well howdy everyone! We are back to a brand new book of Smol, which takes us back to Gentle Expanse! There's gonna be laughter, surprise, suspense, betrayal, intrigue, and everyone's favorite emotion: vindictive knife-twisting pettiness.
It's one of the smollest emotions in the galaxy!
Also side-author's note: I actually had to google "What the fuck is liberal arts" so we're on a good start.
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The resta...
2022-01-14 03:08:32 +0000 UTC
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... it's a christmas movie! So here's a christmas oneshot!
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Michael ‘Mick’ Valleris was a born pioneer, a likely lad who faced the unknown with a human’s typical and somewhat mis-placed confidence. He needed that attitude, since he was one of the very first humans to be stationed onboard a Karnakian ship. This placement was only possible thanks to the recent ‘readjustment’ of relations between his species and the giant feathered aliens.
Thanks ...
2021-12-25 17:59:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Hope y'all are doing well! I wanted to give you an update on all the good stuff that's going on, so you can start the hype train rollin'.
First, THE BOOK. It's going to be a re-write of Arc 1, the self-named They are Smol - but that's not all. It's going to be about 2x the length, with new lore, new shenanigans, more explanation of what the hell is actually going on.... and including new art. Yeeeeee we're doing t...
2021-12-06 16:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hsh'narat'nth ducked in her (relatively small) hood in against herself as she made her way amongst the throngs of warmcuddles about her. This entire outing, not to mention even setting her tail on this world went against every single one of her instincts; while she was very much what most termed a ‘cold-climate’ Jornissian, her natural adaptations only went so far. This entire colony was what she and her kind would generously term ‘suboptimal’ in terms of climate. ‘Suboptim...
2021-12-06 03:28:36 +0000 UTC
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I still haven't forgotten about the other vote. It'll be a one-shot, don't worry.
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more than one kink in the story. If it doesn't flow, it won't be in - and if the kinks collide, the highest-voted wins.
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For those of you who've never voted, it goes so...
2021-11-19 00:20:33 +0000 UTC
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not too big, not too small, but just right.
2021-11-09 15:00:01 +0000 UTC
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At every fast food joint, no matter how far into the future you go, there’s always a secret menu. Corporate will never acknowledge it, regional will attempt to tamp it down, but if you go to the fun fast food joints that have lax management and say the secret words, you’ll get the best bad food your money can buy. These could be burgers, drinks, special sides - or special sauces, in the case of the McGangBang. Mike, as a proud American, was well versed in the art of secret orders...
2021-11-06 05:07:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey! We're kicking off the podcast series again, y'all. <3
2021-10-27 13:38:49 +0000 UTC
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“Oh hey now what’s all this then there, bud?”
The secret is, of course, that Mike Callaway already knew exactly what was going on. As soon as the main doors opened up to Rec Room 12-B and he had a good look around, he pieced together the exact type of shenanigan that was unfolding before him. It wasn’t his first rodeo, and it certainly wasn’t his first time seeing the ol’ Tibetan Pinata. He made a simple show of crossing his arms with a soft smile plastered...
2021-10-22 01:55:20 +0000 UTC
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Rrsn’sspri was content, if not a bit bored. The older Jornissian mechanic had finished the first half of his shift, which now consisted of curious younglings asking him a bunch of questions about ‘saving a warm-cuddle’ and ‘going on adventures’, to which he responded in the appropriate half-truths of a father who knew just what to say to fire up little imaginations without causing too much property damage. The other half of his shift comprised of making the rounds and gener...
2021-10-15 04:40:49 +0000 UTC
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The holding cell was a glorified aluminum box. It was machine-brushed metal on all sides, with heavy sealed doors on either end, and it screamed “transitory”: There were no chairs, no beds, desks, water sources, heat sources - nothing. Brains hummed to herself as she studied her pen - the lights were recessed into the floor, ceiling and walls - behind reinforced glass, and most likely paired with some discrete cameras. She was mindful to remain presentable the entire time: back c...
2021-10-08 04:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Exploration can be just as much about explaining weird phenomena as it is about finding the weird stuff in the first place. As it turns out, we humans have two such interesting and unexplained worlds right in our own solar system; as a bonus, both orbit the same ringed gas giant. One is Saturn’s large moon Iapteus, with its peculiar ridge running along its entire equator. The other is its much smaller moon of Hyperion, with its strange porous structure. This story involves the latter…, we...
2021-10-01 21:37:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Well I hope y'all enjoyed Book 5 of the smol series. There's going to be some epilogue chapters, some more bleppy love, and some loose ends tied up really nice for some feel good feels.
After that, what with it being holiday season, we'll probably swing over to Zephyr Station 8 again and see how they're doing, followed by a bit of a break.
During the break, I'll be working on the re-write and publishing of an actual smol book, Ar...
2021-10-01 15:21:48 +0000 UTC
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Start to finish, when it was all said and done, the entire adventure- as Nate would call it - took around a week. For humans in general, a week is both incredibly long and very short, but for people who lived over a millenia, a week sometimes felt like a day. The Jornissian who sat against the cool nickel-iron wall reflected on that as he watched a pile of his rightfully ill-gotten gains get sorted out and tossed around by tiny gloved hands, his whole world turned upside-dow...
2021-10-01 04:16:58 +0000 UTC
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“Hey.”
SP03 twitched lightly in their suit as the unknown, unfamiliar voice broke into their chanting. As the voice was not joining in with the chanting, and was not an infidel who was being destroyed for the New World Order, it was promptly ignored.
“Hey! Listen!”
SP03 frowned, somehow harder than normal, as he continued his lockstep march down the hallway. Whatever the voice was, or wanted, it was not important. It was not blood. It was not re...
2021-09-17 04:42:04 +0000 UTC
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In most movies whenever there’s a military anything going on, the camera usually pans around a war room, all the top brass wearing concerned or thoughtful expressions. Suddenly, data starts pouring in on futuristic blue screens (of course they’re blue cause they’re the good guys) and they start making snap judgments in the middle of combat that the boots on the ground are able to adapt to at the drop of a hat. This, in true human-movie fashion, involves a lot o...
2021-09-03 03:36:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! We're picking up where we left off, and we're gonna get it out to you early too!
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more than one kink in the story. If it doesn't flow, it won't be in - and if the kinks collide, the highest-voted wins.
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For those of you who've never voted, it goe...
2021-08-30 22:09:55 +0000 UTC
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Kill Team Spite blocked the corridor with their bodies, #09SP and #04SP standing ramrod straight before an unsuspecting door behind the body-shield wall of their brethren. It was the fourth stop down the long hallway, and those who were innocent - or scared witless - had long since departed for greener pastures as the shooting drew closer. For Kill Team Spite it was freeing, in a way, to watch people flee before them; it meant the only people left were the die-hard believers… that the ones ...
2021-08-27 05:42:21 +0000 UTC
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It was called The Battle Bus.
Everyone hated the name. I don’t mean “only those who designed on the Kinetic Mid-Impact Boarding Platform Mk.IV”, I don’t mean the engineers and mechanics who kept it up - I mean, everyone hated it, including the soldiers on it and the commanding officers who know of the colloquial name. Everyone hated the name, and of course since this was the military and the militarys’ sole goal is to hurt as many people as possible, the name...
2021-08-13 05:09:07 +0000 UTC
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Space Exploration!
That’s a phrase that brings up a lot of imagery, right? You imagine Neil and Buzz, two of the OG steely-eyed missile men, looking out the window of the ‘Eagle’ and realizing that their computer is steering them right into a boulder field and they need to take manual control. You could also picture Kirk and company frolicking through a sunlit meadow on some paradise planet…at least, until they run into some cute alien chick and that jackass Shatner does what he...
2021-08-10 14:07:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
I know it's been an unusually long time between chapters, and there's been some stumbling of getting smol out on time. One thing that I don't like to do is... really start drama, cause like, creator drama is some bullshit and can get a life of it's own.
That being said, however, I uh. Kind of accidentally poisoned myself a few weeks ago. I'm out of the woods, and I'm under multiple doctor supervision, but yeah. Don't drink the stuff under the kitche...
2021-08-06 04:30:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I know, it's very last minute, but I did not forget about the lewd for this month! We've had a lot of things going on, so, it's gud.
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more than one kink in the story. If it doesn't flow, it won't be in - and if the kinks collide, the highest-voted wins.
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2021-07-27 14:12:49 +0000 UTC
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They say there’s no honor among thieves.
That is, of course, a gross oversimplification, and not totally correct. Sure, thieves do not fight for King or Country or for any greater good than their own selves. The fight for self-determination, however, does have some nobility to it - and anyone who’s ever paid taxes has had such rebellious thoughts seriously cross their mind, as most pirate recruiters are quick to point out. Although nobility might be in very...
2021-07-21 05:43:16 +0000 UTC
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Daydreaming can give you the same dopamine hit as actually doing the thing you thot about.
So how do you fall in love with - and execute on - the process that gets you from here to there?
2021-07-20 16:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The two old station workers sat, rambling to each other during their third hour of a 15 minute lunch.
“[And then they broke down my door!]” Rrsn’sspri said, raising his arms in a big sweeping motion. “[And I thought someone was going to steal that little guy, so I pulled out my old service pistol and-]”
A grey’d muzzle Dorarizin let out a chuckle, rocking his head. “[Oh stop. You brought out that thing? What next - you killed 50 men and got an award?]” He ...
2021-07-14 06:10:37 +0000 UTC
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.... I hate that name.
ANYWAY. I know this is a bit of a divorce from what you usually get from me, but I'm trying my best to make Smol my main job. Part of doing that - of growing something from a side-project into a main business - is to know your audience and know more about the people who support you.
I've put together this short google form; it shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes to fill out, and it would really really help me out if you could su...
2021-07-12 20:45:33 +0000 UTC
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IMPROVISE. ADAPT. OVERCOME.
Nate leapt off of Bleppy, his friend recoiling from the flash of light and the cacophony of sound that his suit systems so helpfully filtered out from his helmet. The unfortunate but apparent truth is that his homemade grenades were little more than flashbangs - if that was due to an underwhelming payload or a design flaw, Nate didn’t know and didn’t have the time to care. As his boots hit the floor he ripped an emergency tab from his wri...
2021-07-07 04:39:26 +0000 UTC
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