Hi guys!
It's been a while since there was a post, and I wanted to update you all on things.
Overall, progress has been very good for me.
I've lost 35lbs in the last few months. A1C has gone from 11 at the end of April to 5.5 today. My Lipids profile shows the bad cholesterol and stuff is half of what it was in May.
The more concerning stuff is my eyes and heart. An echocardiogram showed that my heart has thickened in the last chamber growing inward which means tha...
The book is now available on Audible, KDP, Ebook, Softcover, and Hardcover!
KDP / Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7Y64FHP
Hey guys, how is it going.
I'm still alive, but I've been having a rough time of it.
Since the beginning of the year, I've been having trouble with my vision. Just not feeling well, in a fog, etc. I was getting some visual migraines and was just not functioning right at all. I didn't have any energy to go try and fix things much either, probably depression.
Finally the optometrist referred me to visit an ophthalmologist suspecting I had diabetic retinopathy. I have had this ...
2025-06-07 18:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe weight of the spirit fruit pack settled heavily on Xiulan’s shoulders as she trudged behind Ming back toward Aeris. The rest of the journey was thankfully uneventful. Dust coated their boots by the time the Treasure Pavilion’s familiar architecture came into view.
They went straight to the Mission Bureau. A clerk checked the fruit packs, nodded curtly, and stamped Ming’s mission scroll complete. Ming recounted the bandit encounter with concise efficiency while Xiulan stood sil...
2025-05-08 07:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostXiulan slipped off her pouch containing her spirit beast egg and put it on top of the spirit fruits. Ming nodded. Turning toward the bandits, Xiulan sized them up.
One wielded a curved metal blade that looked dull in the filtered forest sunlight. The other palmed a shrinking green orb that settled into a solid sphere. A thrown bullet, or bomb?
“Last chance to walk away,” Xiulan warned, adopting a defensive stance.
The bandits laughed. “Little girl playing cultivator,...
2025-05-08 02:49:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Guess it's not a 'oneshot', lol.
As noted before, all the illustrations are generated via Gpt4o-image, or Midjourney. Sometimes edited in photoshop or cut together by me. I'm not very good at color grading things yet...
All the framing, ballooning of text, etc is done by me in Clip Studio.
I'm not an experienced comic artist, so while working on the first and this episode I've been watching a lot of youtube videos, reading, and learning about it. Some things came on...
2025-04-21 06:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Some partnerships were never meant to exist. Some things should never have been connected. In the shadowy war on the cyber-net, the line between hero and villain has never been more blurred.
2025-04-18 20:43:34 +0000 UTC
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Morning sunlight slanted through the chamber windows, painting golden stripes across Adrastia’s quarters. Roselle sat in her wheelchair, stomach twisted into knots. The princess stood before a polished mirror, examining her reflection with critical detachment.
“Hand me that blouse,” Adrastia instructed, gesturing toward clothing laid across her bed.
Roselle wheeled over, careful not to jostle her ribs, and picked up the garment. Unlike the practical military uniforms Adrasti...
2025-04-03 13:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostAdrastia guided the wheelchair through palace corridors Roselle had never seen. Each turn revealed more opulence—gilded ceiling frescoes, marble statues in recessed alcoves, doorways inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
The few nobles they passed stopped mid-conversation, bowing deeply to Adrastia while casting curious glances. Roselle ducked her head. It was probably the first time they, or anyone for that matter, had ever seen a princess pushing a servant along in a wheelchair.
They a...
2025-04-02 18:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostAdrastia paused outside the ornate double doors of her father’s sitting room. Two imperial guards flanked the entrance, their gilded armor gleaming in the morning light streaming through two nearby windows. One guard’s gaze flickered briefly to the fencing sword at her hip—a subtle reaction, quickly masked.
She straightened her formal court attire’s crimson capelet. The sword remained. As heir apparent, she ranked among the few permitted to bear steel in the Emperor’s presence...
2025-04-02 16:32:10 +0000 UTC View PostAdrastia ran her hand along Midnight’s neck, admiring how sunlight played across his coal-black coat. The enormous warhorse dipped his head, intelligent eyes tracking her movements.
“Magnificent beast,” she murmured, scratching behind his ears. “Worth every gold piece I spent on you.”
Midnight nickered softly, nudging her shoulder with his velvety muzzle. Around the pond’s edge, twenty riders tended to their mounts. The afternoon exercise had pushed them hard—six hou...
2025-03-27 06:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostAdrastia and Lady Sephine stared at Roselle with identical expressions of surprise.
“What exactly did you hear?” Adrastia asked, her tone suddenly sharp.
Roselle wiped her palms against her apron. “I got lost yesterday morning—trying to find you and the gold antechamber for cleaning. I ended up in some sitting room with connecting doors.” She swallowed hard. “The Empress and a duke were talking through an adjoining door. They didn’t notice me.”
Lady Sephine...
2025-03-27 04:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostXiulan pumped her legs faster, pushing herself to keep pace with Ming. The mountain road winded upward, quickly leaving tree, shrub, and grass behind. A constant pulse of qi ran through her meridians to maintain the exertion, otherwise she would have collapsed hours earlier.
“This is ridiculous,” Xiulan panted, glancing over her shoulder. Small beads of sweat dotted her crown but they were quickly wisped away by the passing air. “Missions shouldn’t require this much running.”<...
2025-03-27 03:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7: Dressing the Princess
“There y
2025-03-26 04:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: Haha, yes, of course some new story when
2025-03-26 04:41:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Work pretty much done on RaaWC 1's book cover. I really like it and wanted to share! Artist is https://www.fiverr.com/art_chamaleon
I'm still working on getting the typography right. Suggestions are welcome!
P.S. I am hoping to have some ShipCore A5 chapters done this week, too. So don't think I'm just purely focused on RaaWC!
2025-03-13 01:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostLin Xiulan stuffed the spirit egg into its padded cloth pouch, tucking the bag beneath her robes with a frustrated grunt. The egg pulsed warmly against her side, drawing a trickle of qi from her meridians even when she wasn’t actively feeding it.
“Just like a damn Tamagotchi,” she muttered, adjusting her robes to hide the slight bulge.
She paced her quarters, fingers drumming against her thigh. Getting booted from Elder Chang Liu’s comb...
2025-03-13 01:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay I wanted to do one of these with more video so I tried out some of the new stuff.
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It's still a fever dream, but it's easier to have more fever dream, although it took a bit of time to get the 3 minutes of clips.
With a lot more video editing talent and time I'm sure the results could be a lot better.
Maybe you'll find some enjoyment out of it, haha.
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Like a phoenix with fierce and determined intent
Rise up, lost soul, and you'll forge a ne...
2025-03-03 07:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe smallest actions often reveal the truest character. A moment of impulsive kindness may accomplish what years of careful planning cannot. Watch not what people do when they have time to consider, but what they do when instinct alone guides their hand.
—Master Yan Hui, Teacher of Common Wisdom
Su Yin slammed another useless manual shut, sending a puff of dust into the air. The ancient texts surrounding her in the dimly lit archive held thousands of herb descr...
2025-03-02 19:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Eight days after mission start
Location: Gliese 1143Ab Low Orbit, Thea’s Hackjob, Alex’s Quarters
Alex slumped in her office chair, staring at the endless loading screen on her desk’s holographic monitor. The display offered no answers to her ethical dilemma.
The smart munitions had marked her first major ethical compromise. This new decision about creating purpose-built NAIs seemed minor in comparison.
Abandoning the mining operation now w...
2025-03-02 15:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostShipCore A4 is now out on Amazon!
Progress on A5 hasn't been going, but I'm intending to work on it again as the primary starting in Feb. (Yes, I've been on hiatus, and haven't updated since December, shit, where did the time go?)
Thankfully, I'm not dead!
Just wondering if I can get everything I started done before then, haha...
I've had some medical problems (with my eyes) and some health issues that made focusing hard. Mostly I celebrated the holidays with my family...
2025-01-29 16:55:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24 – The Living Ink
Lin Yue’s boots clicked against the stone path leading to Ink House. The bloated moon stretched dark silhouettes across Blackspire’s grounds, twisting ancient trees and walls into grotesque shapes.
“Too many souls give me indigestion.” Shadow drooped beside her. “Need sleep.”
“Shut up.” Lin Yue slipped through the massive doors into the Ink House’s pavilion. Ink and ancient paper filled her nose—the signature scent of demonic...
2024-12-23 13:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 90: Friends
Xiulan hummed a cheerful tune while completing the final strokes on her talisman practice sheet. The morning sunlight streamed through the pavilion windows, highlighting the fresh ink patterns.
Finished. She gathered the brushes and arranged them neatly beside the inkstone.
Ming rolled her eyes at Xiulan’s obvious excitement. “Go ahead. I’ll finish cleaning up here.”
Xiulan paused. “Really?”
“If I hold my junior sister back from ...
2024-12-23 10:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23 – A Fragile Bloom
The perpetual twilight of the demon market greeted Lin Yue as she stepped through the barrier. Familiar nausea rolled through her stomach from the realm shift.
Blue-robed corpses littered the first square, sprawled across blood-stained cobblestones. Lin Yue’s heart hammered against her ribs. What the actual fuck? She counted at least twenty bodies.
“Weekly occurrence?” Lin Yue muttered, stepping over a severed arm.
The...
2024-12-21 12:24:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 89: Spirit Beast
Another barrage of stones ripped through the air, smacking against the ancient tree trunk. Splinters of bark exploded outward. Xiulan shifted her stance to guard her face and readied Severing Light.
“Earth element qi?” Xiulan gripped her weapon tighter.
“Yes.” Ming pulled a yellow talisman from her robes. The paper glowed with spiritual energy as she stepped out from their cover. A fresh volley of rocks smashed against an invisible barrier th...
2024-12-21 08:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88: Cushioned Falls and Flying Stones
Xiulan peered over the cliff’s edge. The sheer drop plummeted hundreds of feet through empty space before disappearing into a thick blanket of mist with tree tops poking out dangerously. Her stomach lurched at the dizzying height. Themis’ walls were visible on the hazy horizon.
“Senior Sister Ming.” Xiulan stepped back from the precipice. “You can’t be serious.”
“This should be simple enough.” Ming adjusted her ...
2024-12-20 22:49:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 87: Talismans and Trees
Xiulan hummed while drawing precise strokes across the talisman paper. The kanji flowed from her brush in elegant patterns, each character more beautiful than any English letter she remembered from her past life.
The artistic quality of the symbols brought a smile to her face—perhaps living with them daily had created a bias.
What if I wrote something in English right now? She glanced up at her mentor and imagined Ming’s reac...
2024-12-20 12:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22 – Coins and Contracts
Lin Yue jogged through the darkened streets, expecting sirens or shouts of alarm. The silence pressed against her ears.
“What kind of anarchy is this place?” She glanced over her shoulder.
Shadow drifted beside her. “We’re still in Blackspire’s territory. They’ll come from the other direction.”
That was all she needed to hear to pick up the pace. A few more streets and alleys over, she was weaving through the growing cro...
2024-12-20 07:04:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21 – Poisons and Puppets
Lin Yue flipped through the pages scattered across her desk. Wu Lan’s promised assistance wouldn’t materialize for days, which left plenty of time to dive into research.
The pages crinkled under her fingertips as she scanned the text. Making this business idea work demanded understanding her potential customers. Normal food alone wouldn’t attract her new peers—they’d lost that basic human desire somewhere between meditation and qi absor...
2024-12-19 17:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 86: Alchemy & Herbology 101
Every plant, every herb, every blade of grass contains its own story—its own path to power. The master alchemist reads these stories not just with their eyes, but with their spirit, understanding the deeper truths hidden within nature's simplest forms.
—Sage Tang Xue, Mistress of the Eternal Frost
Xiulan slipped through the green-painted door, the sharp scent of medicinal herbs hitting her nose. Rows of wooden benches provided seat...
2024-12-18 18:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post