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My Hero Automata (67-68)

Alright! A few days later than usual, but given that I spend the 1st and 2nd down with a nasty case of the Flu (I'm still not 100%, but I'm feeling a lot better), I'll forgive myself for the delay with a 'circumstances beyond my control' waiver. Hopefully, you all accept those as well ;-).

Anyway, as usual for the first update of the month, this is on the smaller side. Two chapters, amounting to just over 6,500 words. About typical for the first My Hero Automata release of the month, w...

May Poll Results

Whew. So, I spent most of yesterday either asleep or delirious (102+ degree fever, body aches, chills, ick). Thankfully, so far at least, I'm feeling a bit better today. I will be spending most of the day whipping up the My Hero Automata release. But, first, the overdue poll results for May:

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One Piece: Halfway Broken: 70

Harry Potter: Pandora's Box: 34

Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams: 26

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Well...that's unambiguo...

Quick Delay Notice

Hey all! There is a reason I haven't gotten the poll response out. I've been crazy busy the last few days on my other major projects...and then had the misfortune of coming down sick on top of that. I actually do have about 3,000 words of the next My Hero Automata ready, but that's not enough for me to be willing to release it like I usually do on the 1st. As such, I'm going to try to work through being sick a bit and at least get the poll results out on the first. But I'm pushing ba...

Can One Displaced Hero Save a Galaxy? (33-36)

Whew! I only just got this one edited in time to hit the usual schedule. I just finished the editing pass a few minutes ago. Still, its 17,000+ words, so I think everyone will be happy! There's even a lemon for those that like them ;-).

As I've been doing, I'll put some author's notes in the comments. Though I'll wait until I get all the public release uploads done for the previous chapters set this time, so that it's not too late in the evening when the updates hit. Still, th...

My Hero Automata (64-66)

Behold! It tis an update!

Honestly, I wasn't entirely sure I was going to get this one out in time, as I had an hard drive failure that cost me a couple of days. I didn't lose any writing thankfully (though a few of my other projects suffered losses T-T), but it took two days to restore my laptop (which is what I use for writing. My desktop is reserved for running 3D renders) to working order. Thankfully, I made it anyway! Though, admittedly, the release is slightly smaller t...

May Story Poll!

Alright! Now that the April Poll Story is out (One Piece - Halfway Broken 22-25), I can set up the poll for May! As usual, this poll will run until the 25th, and will determine which of the 'secondary' stories get's an update next month.

For those of you who are new (and as a reminder to those that are not!), a reminder! This is a weighted poll! Voters get one vote per doll...

One Piece - Halfway Broken (Ch 22-25)

Edit It's actually 22-25. Apparently, I can't count and misnumbered a chapter -_-.

Whew! I was working on this one right up until the last minute! Of course, part of the reason for that is that it's over 15,000 words! Another part is that it's honestly almost entirely original content, given that most of the bad guys from the Easy Blue had already been handled before canon actually started. Still, it's built around a core of canon material...just reimagined a lot. I think peop...

My Hero Automata - Chapters 62 & 63

Alright! Time for the 1st-of-the-month My Hero Automata release! Only two chapters this time, but both are on the longer side for my chapters, with the result that the total word count is just over 6,500 words. So fairly typical for the first-release of the month. Such is generally always the smallest as I have to actually write it during the busiest part of the previous month...

Anyway! This one gives us some more action as they, as one Chapter Titles puts it, play Whack a Yak...

April's Poll Results!

Alright folks! Poll results are in and have been tabulated. Without farther ado, after vote weighing was applied:

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One Piece: Halfway Broken: 63.5

Harry Potter: Pandora's Box: 31

Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams: 27.5

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The winner is pretty clear! Honestly, I'm sort of impressed Halfway Broken has outstripped the combined votes of the other two stories two months in a row. I guess you guys really like that particular st...

Just a Quick Reminder!

As the title says, this is just a quick reminder that April's Story Poll closes in 12 hours (Midnight CST). A fair number of people have joined the voter tier(s) since it went up this month, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows where to go if they haven't gotten their votes in yet!

Can One Displaced Hero Save the Galaxy? (29-32)

Alright! Release time! Just a quick note, first. None of the attached images are mine. They are simply references taken from various lore sights for a few of the ships that appear in these chapters. The original Liberator Starfighter (not quite identical to what will show up in the story), a Loronar Medium Transport, and a YT-1000. Sadly, the other two mentioned ships don't have known visual images, only statistics. I thought I'd provide references for the ones that I could, though!<...

My Hero Automata (Ch 59-61)

Alright! Another 7,000 words of My Hero Automata! Unlike usual, this is the smaller of the two releases for Automata this month, the release on the 1st having been something like 10,600 words. It just happened to work out that way, because that release happened to contain one of the major climactic moments I'd envisioned from the start (Spoiler: That a certain death occurred).  This release, on the other hand, starts the transition into the next arc of the story. Going any farther than I...

Just a Quick Update

Salutations, everyone! I don't normally make general information posts, as much because I do respond to pretty much all comments, reviews, and direct messages, as for lack of much to say between story releases. That said, I felt I should probably mention that life events have sort of...run me the fuck over...this month. 

That will NOT affect the release of content I've promised to deliver. 

I wanted to ...

April Story Poll

Alright folks! As usual, a day after the poll-story gets updated, I'm putting the poll for the next month up! This poll will decide which of our three Poll Stories gets an update in April. So far, One Piece: Halfway Broken had dominated each of the polls it's been a part of...lets see if it keeps up its streak of gets dethroned!

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One Piece : Halfway Broken

Luffy and his crew have officially set sail on their journey! Intent on recruiting Sanji, a...

One Piece - Halfway Broken (19-21)

Time for another Halfway Broken release! A pretty large one, at that! As in, it's just barely shy of 17,000 words! I really wanted to actual

Time for another Halfway Broken release! A pretty large one, at that! As in, it's just barely shy of 17,000 words! I really wanted to actually get into the canon timeline proper, so I pushed fairly hard with this story this month, and chapter 21 does just that! 

Mind you, a lot of the events of East Blue aren't going to...

My Hero Automata - Chapters 55-58

Okay! This is a big one folks! Or...an important one? Size wise, it's over 10,000 words. So not small at all in that sense. But it's really one of the events covered that make me say it's 'a big one.' As in, it contains one of the first really major divergences to the timeline. Said divergence won't have an immediate impact...but it will radically alter events downstream, as it were. It also happens to be one of the critical scenes I had planned since basically Day 1. <...

Poll Results!

Ahoy, all! 

Since March's poll wrapped up at midnight last night, it's time to announce the results so everyone knows what to expect in the upcoming month :-). In addition, since the Relationship Poll for One Piece: Halfway Broken hasn't had any new votes for a while, I went ahead and shut it down as well, and will be covering the results of that poll in this post as well. First, though...

March's Story Poll

For the first time I had some people...

Displaced Hero (Chapters 24-28)

Alright! Time for another chunk of Can One Displaced Hero Save the Galaxy? I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out, much to my own surprise. I knew from basically day one that the entire Ossus arc was going to be the absolute worst to get right. Too many things all happening at once, even before I decided to add Mei to the mix. Trying to get it all to flow, without feeling forced or railroaded, was always going to be one of the most difficult parts of the entire w...

My Hero Automata (50-54)

Happy Valetine's/Singles Awareness day! 

I'm afraid this particular release is more action-packed than romantic ;-), but I figured I'd release it a day early anyway, given the 'holiday.' It does have one of the more epic action sequences I've written for the story so far, and it's a pretty decent length too. Right around 11,000 words, to add to the 6,500 of earlier this month, for a total monthly release for My Hero Automata of 17,500ish. Not bad, I think! Pretty close to the zone ...

Story Poll for March

I actually should have put this up yesterday, but it slipped my mind, sorry T-T. Regardless! It's up now! As most of you should know, this poll is to determine which of the three current 'secondary' stories will get an update in March. Displaced Hero and My Hero Automata are currently the 'primary' stories and will get updated regardless. This poll is therefore between the following options:

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One Piece : Halfway Broken

With Arlo...

One Piece - Halfway Broken (13-18)

Okay! Technically, if I were sticking strictly to my once-a-week release schedule, this wouldn't be up until tomorrow. The thing is, though...I've had it finished for a day and a half already and I'm impatient to put it out :-p. So, good for anyone that wants it a bit early. Note that the image is just a half-assed AI render of Nojiko (who appears in the later chapters of this release). I'm not particularly a fan of AI Art, hence why I'm going to the trouble of making art myself for ...

One Piece - Halfway Broken Relationship Poll

Alright, ladies, gents, and others! As I've mentioned a couple of times now, I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with the relationship in One Piece - Halfway Broken. There are going to be more crew (obviously) than canon, with several of the additions being female. Hence a bit of uncertainty with how I want to do this. There are multiple girls who would be good fits for Luffy, and part of me would prefer to do the story as a multi-pairing just so I can have my cake and eat it too. I've al...

My Hero Automata (Ch 47-49)

Okay! First update of the month! This one is only about 6,800 words of the 15-20k goal for My Hero Automata for the month...but that's pretty much entirely the fault of wanting to get it out on the 1st. I've so far managed to always put out a release of Automata on the 1st, and wanted to keep it that way. The second release of it in the month should be significantly larger. Either way, this release actually wraps up the I-Island events. 

Unlike the movie, I didn...

February Poll Results!

Alright! The poll results are in! Someone even took advantage of one of the extra voting point tiers (Thanks, person who did so! Don't want to call you out in case you don't want the attention, but I appreciate it!). To be fair, it wouldn't have made a difference in this case. But that's entirely because the story they put their votes behind would have won either way ;-). Even so, I'll show a proper vote tally this time, since the vote weighing was a thing I had to properly tally this time. 2024-01-26 09:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Mass Effect - Final Error (51-53)

Wohoo! This post marks the first of my various Fanfiction works to reach 100% completion. Ending at just over 114,000 words, Mass Effect: Final Error is now complete! A bit ironically, My Hero Automata is already longer than that. But it also gets updates that are twice the size that Mass Effect: Final Errors were ;-). 

Regardless, the actual release is a bit smaller than I'd expected it to be (about 4,300 words). This is the result of the fact t...

Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams (Chapters 8-9)

Woohoo! Only two days between My Hero Automata and this! Admittedly, that's mostly because this was a bit of an 'extra' this month, and it's all that big a release as a result. Still, it's right around 5,200 words, so it's not tiny or anything. It also gives us more of a look at just how far off the rails events are already in this particular fic! Those poor Geth T-T...

As always, there are PDF and epub files of the new chapters attached to this post, and I'll be updat...

My Hero Automata (Chapters 43-46)

Whew! I just finished up the editing pass for the latest My Hero Automata release. I'll be honest, I'd hoped to hit 20k words of this story this month, instead we're only getting about 16k total (including the 9.5K of this release). That, frankly, is entirely the fault of the amount of combat I had to write for the Final Exams. As I've mentioned before, combat isn't my strong suit. I can write it, and produce at least fairly decent results, it just doesn't come naturally to me and ta...

February 2024 Story Poll

Alright, everyone! I'd actually intended to get this yesterday afternoon, but I was down pretty much all day with a pretty extreme case of food poisoning. Still not feeling great, to be honest, but well enough to get this up and reply to some comments and such!

For those of you who are new, this poll gets run once a month, from shortly after the previous winner gets updated until the 25th of the month. It selects which of the secondary stories I have run get updated. Voters get one vote...

Can One Displaced Hero Save the Galaxy? (21-23)

*Note* The art attached is NOT mine. It's the official cover art for the comic run Celeste Morne was part of. I included it so that people have a mental image of what she looks like (as she's a fairly unknown characters). Though, no glowing eyes after being freed from the talisman. Her natural eye color is blue.

With that disclaimer out of the way...time for more Displaced Hero! I'm a bit annoyed I didn't get farther than I did with it. Which isn't saying the update is ...

One Piece - Halfway Broken

Wohoo, I've got a nice, oversized introduction to a new fic for all of you! As in, this first release of it is over 33,000 words! About 25,000 words of that will be going up on Fanfiction.net later today, while the remaining 8k will be exclusive to the Patreon page until such a time as it gets updated (assuming it ever gets voted for). As I'll mention again just for clarity's sake, the reason for this fic existing is because Mass Effect: Final Error will be finishing up this month. <...