Alright! Now that One Piece - Halfway Broken has been out a day or two (ish), it's time for October's Story poll to start up! A small-but-critical note before that, though...there's still another poll ongoing! Specifically, the Poll about Polls. I'm going to start making the changes to the monthly polls covered in the Poll about Polls poll as of October, so make sure you get your votes in about wh...
2024-09-11 21:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post*Update! Edits made as of 9/23/2024, based on typo corrections provided by The Foreign Traveler. Thanks Traveler!
Before anything else, a reminder! There is an important ongoing poll about...polls! Make sure you've read it and voted if you haven't already!
Whew! I thought I was going to get this out bef...
2024-09-10 05:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, folks. If you haven't read the Poll Results post, the short version of my ramblings there is that I'd like to make some changes that make the polls less...lopsided. Since this Patreon first started, the polls have ended up always being utterly dominated by a single story. First, it was Displaced Hero. Then, when that was made a permeant story as I got a bit more writing time and finished Final Error, Halfway Broken swooped in and started utterly dominating despite being brand new at ...
2024-09-04 19:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! As I mentioned in the poll results post (as well as on the last My Hero Automata Post), I need a little time to sort out My Hero Automata's future plot in better detail. As such, the first update of the month is going to a newcomer story instead of Automata. A story which you all got a very small teaser of last month! The reason that this has been labeled Part 1.5 is that it's essentially a significant expansion on that small teaser. It adds over 7k additional words, bringin...
2024-09-03 01:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post...Oops? I meant to post this last night, actually. But, well, I got wrapped up in multiple projects with deadlines. As well as with getting the next story release ready. Anyway, I just ran the vote weighing calculation, so here's the polling results:
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One Piece - Halfway Broken: 115
Harry Potter - Pandora's Box: 55.5
A Very Confused Pokemon Adventure: 47
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Yeah...this was a bit predictable, huh? A...
2024-09-01 18:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Last update of the month, as far as stories go, at least. I'll put the poll results up in a day or two. As you can see, I'm still running about four days behind. In this case, the simple truth is that it took that long to write the story. I had to do quite a lot of reading/research on Felucia and Tython in order to write these chapters. Then I had to adjust things a bit here and there to make all the pieces fit together. There will be a fair few author's notes in the comments as a resul...
2024-08-27 00:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So...obviously I lost a bit of ground again on getting this out. Mostly, that's still just follow-on effects from earlier this month. However, there is a slight additional problem. As such, I have an announcement to make. Before I do, let me be 100%, absolutely clear on an important detail.
Don't Panic - My Hero Automata isn't going anywhere.
Also, there is a TLDR version of the following information later in the post, if you don't care about the ...
2024-08-20 15:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright everyone! I said in the One Piece - Halfway Broken release post that I had a bit of a surprise for everyone ;-). That surprise is a new story concept! Now, don't worry, Eridium Dreams isn't going away. Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams is still slated to get an update the next time I have enough extra writing time to squeeze something extra in. At which...
2024-08-14 03:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhew. Sorry this is, like My Hero Automata, later than usual folks. It's really just a follow-on effect from the delay with Automata, honestly. I caught up slightly, but only by about a day. I'd hoped to make that two by getting this out yesterday, but I just didn't quite managed to get the editing pass done in time.
Anyway! It's ready now. I'm afraid this set of chapters is very much a transition between arcs, which means very little action. Though we do get to see the way thi...
2024-08-12 13:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Sorry this is coming so late, folks! I'd actually hoped to have it out yesterday, but didn't quite manage to squeeze the editing in. Late or not, it's at least here now!
As usual, this is the smaller of the two monthly updates for My Hero Automata, only around 6,000 words. It's also a bit of a transition point in the story, so a bit heavy on the exposition and intenral character musings, rather than the action. But it needed doing. It acts as a transition from the frantic panic ac...
2024-08-05 11:22:21 +0000 UTC View PostBefore anything else, just a quick notice...don't expect a release of My Hero Automata tomorrow. I'll get it out as soon as possible, but life events have kicked me in the rear all month and I've lost a few steps. Hopefully, it won't be more than a few days later than usual.
Alright! With that boring but necessary warning out of the way, I've just finished tabulating the vote weighing for the monthly poll! The results were...predictable but not as utterly one sided as they could have be...
2024-07-31 12:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Sorry this is so late in the month guys, gals, and others. I've been struggling to get anything done after going to the doc for a follow up on a new medication. It was making me super fuzzy and foggy, so they claimed 'well, sometimes with this, it makes you LESS foggy if you take more' and upped the dose. Surprise...so far that's not what's happened. I've been having a horrible time focusing enough to write. But I can at least say that I'm actually 100% happy with what I finall...
2024-07-27 04:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew. I'd originally intended to post this yesterday, but I had another round of dental work done yesterday that left me in quite a bit of pain. I ended up not getting a lot done as a result >_<. Regardless, it's here now. This set of chapters is just shy of 8k, bringing the total for the month to a bit over the usual 15k goal for this story. The smaller-than-usual size for this second release is simply the result of the first release of the month for My Hero Automata being larger than ...
2024-07-18 01:22:13 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! Now that the latest One Piece - Halfway Broken has been out for a few days, time to get the poll for next month up and running! Will Halfway Broken win again? Or will the fact that Harry Potter: Pandora's Box actually got an update last month cause an upset? Let's find out!
As usual, this poll will run through the 25th, and will determine which of the 'secondary' short stories will be updated in August. Also remember that this ...
2024-07-14 08:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhew! Sorry this is a bit later than usual folks...and also slightly smaller too. It's only about 13,600 words instead of the typical 15,000 I shoot for. The reason for both of those things is simple. Specifically, I just had fairly major oral surgery (4 teeth extracted, and a hopefully benign cyst removed) and I'm understandably feeling like crap. As well as a flipping between high on pain meds and sleepy because of them. -_-
Anyway, I didn't want to delay this any longer just to try a...
2024-07-11 02:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! Sorry about the slight delay folks! But chapters 76 & 77 are here now, and the release is a little bit longer than the typical early month release of My Hero Automata. A solid 7.5k versus the usual 5-6k that most first-of-the-month updates are. That was, of course, part of the reason it's coming out on the second not the first ;-).
Anyway, the new chapters see us starting to transition into the totally-off-the-rails content even farther. If anyone hasn't figured it out yet...
2024-07-03 00:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! So, short notice is short. Essentially, just wanted to let everyone know that the usual first-of-the-month My Hero Automata release won't be out until tomorrow instead of tonight. The writing is actually done, a solid 7.5k words too, so larger than normal for the first release of that story in the month. I haven't had a chance to edit it yet, though. And I hate trying to do that right after I finish writing. I usually let it sit for a day to in...
2024-07-02 01:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! This took longer than I thought! Mostly, to be honest, that's because the content I had an outline for ended up being around 3,000 words short of my monthly target for this story. The part that I thought would take up a lot more word count ended up just...not...for reasons I'll go over in chapter 42's author's note. Anyway, I actually did know what the next thing I wanted them to do was. But I hadn't properly outlined it yet. So I had to scramble to outline the ne...
2024-06-25 16:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this isn't Displaced Hero, folks :-p. As you should know by now, the last release of the month is the one most likely to drift a bit. In this case, I'm actually only just starting on Displaced Hero today, as a few doctors/dentist appointments over the last few days upended by sleep schedule entirely (I'm normally a night owl, but sadly such people demand you come during the day, under the gaze of the Nuclear Death Ball and its scorching rays). That said, I basically have 80% of today bl...
2024-06-22 14:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Typo corrections made on 10/03/2024 thanks to Foreign Traveler's efforts. Thanks Traveler!
Mawhahaahahaa, it's ALIVE!
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Okay, I'll stop being over-dramatic. Mostly.
Anyway, I've been saying for the last...3-4 months? Something like that. I've been saying for a few months at least that I wanted to get at least a small update out for Harry Potter- Pandora's Box. It and Mass Effect:Eridium Dreams<...
2024-06-17 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Wohoo! Time for the hopefully-no-one-strangles-me reveal! I've made it fairly clear in the past that I'm not a fan of My Hero Academia's later content. That, in point of fact, I pretty much hate everything past the Eri/Overhaul arc. The Cultural Festival and Joint Training arcs are fine, but they are barely more than filler, really. Everything after that? Trash. Utter trash. The MLA/PLA arcs were nonsense, the Dark Hero arc was worse, the Star and Stripe arc was...pointless,...
2024-06-15 21:59:36 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! Now that the latest One Piece - Halfway Broken has been out for a couple of days, time to get on with next month's poll. I'm actually enough ahead of writing that I'm going to at least try to get a small update of Harry Potter: Pandora's box done in the next few days. But there's no certainty I'll pull that off. So I'll go ahead and put the poll up now.
As usual, this poll will run through the 25th, and will determine which of the 'secondary' short stories will be upd...
2024-06-11 00:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! Hit this release right on target! A solid 16,500 words of One Piece- Halfway Broken for you all, covering mostly the events of Drum Island (and a little travel/training time enroute to said). I almost made this an image post...right up until I realized the image would be a spoiler -_-. Come to that, there isn't a lot I can say that wouldn't spoil something inside, so...check the comments for author's notes if you want commentary ;-).
As always, the new portions of the story ar...
2024-06-08 23:05:12 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! This time, there are two polls results to cover instead of just the one. First, the June Story Poll which technically wrapped up around a week ago. That poll is weighted, so here are the final results after doing the vote weighing:
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One Piece: Halfway Broken: 140
Harry Potter: Pandora's Box: 25
Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams: 28
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Yeaaaahhh, I really need to sneak updates...
2024-06-03 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Sorry this is a day later than usual, everyone! Technically, the writing was actually done yesterday, but I didn't have time to do a proper editing pass on it until today. Hence the day of delay. It's roughly 6,750 words, so about the typical size for the first update. And it includes an entirely gratuitous but (hopefully) fun lemon!
The 'entirely gratuitous' part was because I added in, in order to fluff the word count a bit. Normally, I don't do that sort of thing. In this case...
2024-06-03 01:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! The writing on this was done yesterday, but I only just got the editing done a few minutes ago. Still pretty close to the usual release time, and over 16,500 words. So I think I did fairly well :-). This time, we've got a little bit of action, mixed with more buildup of the options for ships and industry, plus a small moment or two of more personal interaction.
ALSO, if you're not already aware. There is an 2024-05-23 23:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Mwahahaha! I've overcome the late start to the month, and gotten this out at the usual time! Oh...wait, that's not evil. Err...ignore the evil laughter?
-cough-
Anyway. Release time! This batch of chapters is slightly shy of the 10k I was shooting for, but only by like a hundred words. So, I'll call that a win. There's a short Eri appearance (I did promise I wouldn't completely leave her out), followed by the Cultural Festival and some ominous hints that various ...
2024-05-15 22:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! As usual, since this month's story poll winner (Halfway Broken) has had its release, it's time to get the poll going for next month's! As usual, this poll will run until the 25th, and will determine which of the 'secondary' stories gets an update next month. I mean, given how it's dominated so far, Halfway Broken is probably going to win, but we can't be certain of that! Particularly if I manage to squeeze a small update for one of the other stories in somewhere. Which I've been tryi...
2024-05-10 13:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Didn't quite manage to make it by the 8th, which would have been the usual release date for the poll story. But I got close, despite the late start to the month due to illness. Honestly, the writing was actually done, but I ran out of steam last night trying to edit it.
Anyway! These three chapters amount to a bit over 17,000 words. Though they is...basically no action. Well, no fighting type action. The release does contain the very first lemon/smut segment for ...
2024-05-09 16:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostMay the 4th be with you! And...a perfect day for this, I guess!
-Cracks Knuckles-
-Cringes and apologizes to the people that hate that noise-
Alright, folks! Time to tackle a topic I've touched on a tiny bit in various comments. A couple of times here, and quite a few more times in response to comments/reviews on Fanfiction, Scribblehub, and Questionable Questing. Specifically, the exact nature of the relationship in Can One Displaced Hero Save a Galaxy...
2024-05-04 11:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post