A/N: Hey everyone! I swear these chapters are still supposed to come out on Friday, I'm just... bad at doing that, I guess? I tried weed for the first time on Thursday and it absolutely fucked me up in the worst way possible, so I kinda needed to take a recovery day. Turns out I am an unimaginably wimpy lightweight. Oh, well! You may all rest assured that the horrors of my mind emerge fully sober. Also! Content warning for the chapter! Stop r...
2023-04-09 11:19:15 +0000 UTC
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It's perversely delightful to watch the whole congregation freak out and turn on each other in the brief moments I get to see with my spatial sense before running off. My mother seems to turn on J-Mom, demanding an explanation and likely trying to blame her for everything, but the congregation looks like it turns on my mom and dad, expecting them to have some idea of what's going on with their daughter. They don't, of course, and I can't help but giggle a little as I watch my parents...
2023-04-03 07:17:53 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry again for the delay. At least this time it was because the chapter actually turned out to be super fucking long. Ah, and I meant to include this last time but I forgot, so attached to this post is a picture of Hannah's current form on the world tree! Isn't she a cutie? Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
"I guess," I say quietly, "I'll keep your advice in mind."
Madaline nods. She can always just flip the board. I wonder, in a...
2023-03-26 09:59:28 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I... I don't have a good excuse as to why this one was late, actually. I was just playing Vampire Survivors. Um. Enjoy the chapter!
I've been getting tortured nightly for four days now. I think that's enough to qualify as routine.
I guess you could argue I've been tortured for three or eight days just as easily, because time is… different for me. As is consciousness. I was tortured treeside Sunday night, then hurt all day Monday,...
2023-03-19 06:57:16 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey everyone! Thank you all for your patience. I'm still a little sick but I'm doing way better than I was last week and very much on the mend. Barring YET MORE random bullcrap smacking me around, regular update schedules should resume from here. Also: wow! Chapter fifty! That's a pretty cool milestone, right? I think it's cool. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
My throat is raw from silent screams, so after a while I stop bothering. I can't stay still, of cour...
2023-03-14 04:45:22 +0000 UTC
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Holy shit, I don't know what hit me this time but it really fucked me up.
I was in a seriously bad way all day Tuesday, just 24 hours of being curled up in a heated blanket and fading in and out of consciousness. Then Wednesday I was awake but couldn't really get out of bed (though I thankfully had my wonderful roommates to help take care of me). Today I have been recovering fairly well: still not in good shape but I'm walking, eating normally, etc., so if I can get some good slee...
2023-03-10 05:19:06 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay, everyone! A combination of life events and COVID recovery held this back a little, but it's finally here. Enjoy!
I am inordinately frustrated about the fact that I can't dress up cute for my date.
There are obviously a number of valid reasons for this. I'm in the closet and hiding my relationship from my family. My old clothes don't fit very well anymore and they don't match my constantly-changing complexion as much as they use...
2023-03-05 21:06:15 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey everybody. Sorry for the wait. I did my best to crank this out before the end of the month for you all, and I'm glad I managed it. It's the beginning of the end now, and I hope you all enjoy the final ride. Thank you all for sticking with me. It means more to me than you can know. Enjoy the chapter!
My older sister's island is weird. Really weird.
It's not even just the disturbingly-textured caves lit by glowing mushrooms, although the...
2023-02-28 00:40:16 +0000 UTC
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"...I don't really want anyone to die," I manage to mutter quietly.
"Seriously?" Helen asks. "Nobody? Not even the people who self-admittedly want to kidnap you and experiment on you until you die?"
I nestle deeper into the backpack, my squishy, still-molting body protesting the movement.
"...If you can help it, yeah," I sigh.
Helen makes a nonplussed expression as she slinks through the crowd, turning to follow Kagiso's stalkers at a distance.
"That ble...
2023-02-25 07:44:32 +0000 UTC
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I have COVID and my everything hurts. Chapters will probably not happen this week!
Some of you may remember the Pokemon fanfic I briefly posted. I still update that occasionally, and I've finally started posting it somewhere more readable than Discord: Archive Of Our Own. You can read the story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44996500/chapters/113218813
2023-02-16 22:28:18 +0000 UTC
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"Ow," Valerie grunts, staring at her newly-clawed fingertips. "This really hurts."
"Yeah, I mean, that's how it usually happens," I agree.
"Aaaand my fingertips are all bleeding," she sighs.
"Oh, I've got some stuff for that, uh… in my… backpack. Which I do not have with me."
"We didn't think this through well at all, did we?" Valerie asks.
"No," I agree. "No we did not."
"Boof!" Fartbuns barks.
Valerie and I both turn to stare at her dog, happily...
2023-02-12 07:06:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! It has been... way too long since I released a Vigor Mortis chapter, and you're all certainly overdue for a quick "what's going on?"
First thing's first: yes, the chapter is still on the way. The situation so far is that I wrote a ton of it, realized I had to delete it all and rewrite it from the perspective of a different character, and have been rewriting it ever since. The chapter is currently a good ways over two thousand words, and I have been chipping away at i...
2023-02-08 01:52:13 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry for the wait! I saw a lot of people chatting about the cliffhanger and I'm sorry, I promise I didn't plan this. Anyway, content warning for you! Stop reading the author's note now if you don't want any spoilers! I mean it! Everyone gone? Great. This chapter contains a section that might be uncomfortable for anyone who struggles with the perceived attractiveness of their body, particularly for transgender people. T...
2023-02-04 11:15:22 +0000 UTC
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I wake up groggy, sticky, and sad. The first leads to me taking a while to understand the second, but once I do it rather exacerbates the third. I'm covered in blood because I killed and ate a bunch of people. Right.
A Refresh takes care of that, at least, helping me forget a little as I take stock of my surroundings. I'm in the room the pirates locked us in initially, Kagiso slumbering on the bed next to me. Sela is actually at the foot of the bed now, relocated from the cargo bay, and...
2023-01-21 08:54:54 +0000 UTC
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If I ever needed to hide a body, the hardest part would probably be deciding what to do with the feces.
Even that wouldn't be hard, per se. I'm sure there are a lot of things you could do that would work. Burying it, tossing it into a river… it dissolves easily, so as long as it's not still hanging around the scene of the crime I'm probably good to go. The stomach acid poses a similar issue, but less so. I can use Refresh to separate the edible components of a stomach from the hydroch...
2023-01-13 08:15:25 +0000 UTC
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So! I was plotting out stories the other day and I suddenly came to a terrifying, world-shattering realization: the end to Vigor Mortis has really snuck up on me. Like, really, really snuck up on me.
Vigor Mortis will be ending in the next few months. There are like, single-digit chapters left in the story. And then that'll be it.
Forever, possible sequel notwithstanding.
...
Yeah.
Vigor Mortis is the story that let me ...
2023-01-10 10:39:58 +0000 UTC
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I stare at Helen as she stares at the ceiling, presumably consumed by murderous whimsy.
Uh. Hmm. Okay! That was a really concerning thing for a person to say. Am I letting that one slide? No, I need to trust this woman to watch me while I sleep, I'm not letting that one slide. Crap, okay, what would Ida say in this situation?
"Can we, um, maybe unpack that real fast?" I ask, quietly clearing my throat.
"What?" Helen asks.
"You know, that was just, uh. Should I be worri...
2023-01-07 09:35:48 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Content warning for gore.
"Pirates!?" I yelp, jumping a little as Helen rapidly sits up, her head snapping back and forth to look for threats.
"Fuck, did we get boarded?"
"N-no," I stammer, glancing around the ship with my spatial sense and not seeing anyone I don't recognize. We're near the center of the hull, so my spatial sense can see everything but the far tips of the front and back. "The ship seems totally fine. We must've only just spotted t...
2023-01-01 10:31:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hello! I'm back! My wrist is still a bit damaged but I got my old speech to text program working and I'm back to the grindstone. Also, content warning for suicidal ideation. Enjoy the chapter!
The delicious scent of a dying meal wafts through me. It's close. I dash towards it, no longer having the energy to avoid salivating. I'm hungry, oh so hungry, but I'm always hungry so it hardly matters. I have to save them. This one and the next one and the next o...
2022-12-30 06:03:08 +0000 UTC
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Sorry all, I need a week to heal. I'll be back soon!
2022-12-22 06:38:18 +0000 UTC
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Of all the things I could find to hate in my current situation, for some reason the one my brain focuses on is my clothes. I hate them so, so much. I hate my chaste little floor skirt and my tight, itchy socks that keep getting in my joints. I hate my loose blouse, catching on my wrists because I have to stuff the ends of the sleeves under my gloves. I hate how my fingers dig into those gloves, the fabric constantly catching on the claws and forcing me to constantly readjust in a panic lest t...
2022-12-21 09:24:37 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey, everyone! Sorry for the delay. I fucked up my wrist again so most of this chapter (and this author's note) is written with one hand, and I am... not very fast at that yet. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck! Meleme, slow down!" Helen screeches again, causing everyone else to sigh with irritation.
"Grip tighter!" Kagiso snaps back. "Baby!"
"I'm not a fucking six-limbed tree hugger!" Helen shrieks. "I...
2022-12-14 08:59:37 +0000 UTC
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I feel… bloated.
My tendrils slither through the shattered streets, twisting under rubble to provide lifesaving touches to the crushed and dying… as well as collecting the dead. So much for no casualties, but I never really thought we'd manage to pull that off. I don't doubt that everywhere else on the island is suffering even worse than Skyhope, but I still came back here right before the final moment.
I hate this place, but it's the only home my human self ever had.
I ...
2022-12-11 11:06:12 +0000 UTC
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Well. Uh. Hi everyone. So I've been working hard on Bioshifter and Vigor Mortis, both of the upcoming chapters for those have a couple thousand words written. But I was hitting some major writer's block for both, and... well, to make a long story short, my roommates convinced me to host a Pokemon quest to try and unblock my writing chutes and so I ended up writing that for like. The past two days. Instead of anything else? Sorry!?
Uh, for those you who don't know a Quest is, it's basica...
2022-12-05 07:47:59 +0000 UTC
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The tile floor is vaguely cool on my knees in that alien way temperature is now noticeable without really affecting me. Kneeling in general feels unnatural now, an improper state of rest that only exacerbates my discomfort. The human kneecap is a completely independent bone, kept in place with tendons and ligaments so it always protects the joint. I no longer have kneecaps, my closest equivalent being a ridge of chitin connected to the exoskeletal equivalent of my tibia which extends...
2022-11-29 12:02:58 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey, everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! And sorry for the wait, this one needed a liiiiittle extra time in the oven to get it just right. Enjoy!
I yank the robber into the side hall, stewing in frustration. Why does this keep happening to me? Why? And more importantly, how does he have magic!?
I mean, he obviously got it from me somehow. Everyone I know who has it is someone that spends time around me, and I've had my suspicions on how exactly that w...
2022-11-24 23:04:50 +0000 UTC
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"Can you expand on that?" Dr. Carson asks, though the question only makes me want to shrink into nothing.
I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm talking about this. I can't believe I admitted to it. I'm such a mess. All I had to do was deflect!
"I… it… so I had… or I guess I have these… dreams, right? I mean like, everybody dreams, but I had the same dream every night and it always made waking up really difficult because of this weird sleep paralysis stuff ...
2022-11-22 10:19:34 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Ah, it feels good to be back. Sorry for the wait, everyone, and enjoy the chapter.
"I have an urgent message for the Progenitor," Vita snaps, and the soldiers stand aside.
What incredible social power. They don't question her, they don't inspect her, they simply obey, because she is Athanatos. Back in Skyhope, if I tried to demand an audience with the king I would have been laughed out of the castle! Back when I was a Firs...
2022-11-19 09:59:56 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I did it! Hahahaha! Now if I can just get that damn Vigor Mortis chapter done on Friday I'll be back to three chapters a week, baby. Wish me luck!
Also, and more importantly, content warnings for this chapter! If you don't want to be spoiled about content warnings here is some text to give you time to decide to stop reading. Boogly boogly boo. I write this note to you. Sometimes I bite shoes. Okay, still here? Content warning is for past sexual as...
2022-11-17 10:47:53 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry for the wait! This one took a bit of extra time to edit since it deals with (and please take this as an official content warning) trauma about past abuse. It's just one of those things that needs a bit of extra love and care to write, you know?
On the upside, this delay doesn't seem like it'll prevent me from meeting my goal this week of two Bioshifter chapters, as well as the Vigor Mortis chapter that I've been struggling to get out as ...
2022-11-16 01:10:19 +0000 UTC
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