Well god damn. I'm alive! Who could have thought?
Update post coming after this one, I think- but for here, enjoy this one! Kept it in the oven a lot longer than normal, as you all may have noticed, and I quite like it in spite of how hard it was to cook.
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A mycorrhizal network (also known as a common mycorrhizal network or CMN) is an underground network found in forests and...
2025-06-06 19:50:05 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Slowburn chapter, all about Shin Ren and his homies now that he has been unilaterally forced to take a break, lol.
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“Ah! The great young master of the wall, returned from yet another late-night rendezvous with the young Blade! Perhaps the asceticism of this great master has at last be...
2025-05-31 20:41:52 +0000 UTC
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Man, I just love the times where I get to really weave in and cement the ways that Shin Ren is a foil to Raika! Enjoy this one- I am a woman
Man, I just love the times where I get to really weave in and cement the ways that Shin Ren is a foil to Raika! Enjoy this one- I am a woman of my word, and thus, chapter!
Also, fun chapter title! It's a quote on war from Jose Narosky! Not sure if it's too far outside my usual, but I think it works. Next one's gonna be sillier I ...
2025-05-30 06:59:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Recovery period is ongoing but significant progress has been made! This chapter came out great, and it felt really fun to do an action scene again, even if we're reaching towards that point in a xianxia where every battle takes all of ten seconds and also a billion miles, lol. Looking forward to doing more of these as I get back on my feet!
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2025-05-26 18:06:31 +0000 UTC
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Got broken up with today, so the depressive spiral hasn't exactly improved, but turns out that pain is a good motivator when you need an outlet for it!
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A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one of the traditional eukaryotic kingdoms, along wi...
2025-05-23 04:01:30 +0000 UTC
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So you might have noticed it's not technically RfR's week yet, since I've only done (checks notes, winces) two VISCERAE chapters all last week.
Well, my brain is fucked and I am all out of whack and big sad, and VISCERAE, as much as I love her, is considerably harder to write than RfR, which for all the love and care I put into it, is still very much an exercise in liberating my creative flow. It's a wide world with a shitload of character...
2025-05-20 22:40:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey! Bit of a dull chapter, for which I apologize! A lot of buildup and a bit of introspection, relating to my own messy lil brainspace I guess. Part of me wants to speed things the hell up, part of me is going "woah this is going so fast into the unknown! Waaaah!"
Anyways. Enough of my psychobabble, time for chapter! Promises a bit more action and strangeness to come!
Also, do tell me if the opening blurb feels too blatant / direct? I feel like the stuff I'...
2025-05-16 17:08:21 +0000 UTC
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First one's up! Come get your fresh-served videogame allegory madness!
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?kniht uoy t'nod ,ylrae tib A .detcepxenu ...saw tahT .lleW .hO
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It feels wrong here. Alien.
Ironic, right? That’s almost silly to think about. To consider this place an alien thing, when I am already as alien as I can be,...
2025-05-14 22:45:48 +0000 UTC
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And we're back, after a long two weeks of RfR and a big break of a weekend! Figured y'all were due another glimpse of the Deeper Weirdness, and here came this interlude!
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She keeps knitting, pulling closed the stitching, playing with the stones that keep the body from kicking.
She hums the thought to herself, back and forth, playing with different notes and rhythms to it as she pulls...
2025-05-14 00:14:43 +0000 UTC
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Despite my best efforts, I really can't think of a better spot to end arc 8 on. Like, hot frickin dang, this was a surprise development- I h
Despite my best efforts, I really can't think of a better spot to end arc 8 on. Like, hot frickin dang, this was a surprise development- I had a vague idea for like 10+ more chapters in this arc, dealing with the consequences! But... nah, this works better. Raika alive but divided, doubling down on the training arcs, offering me more options fo...
2025-05-09 19:39:34 +0000 UTC
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Huh. You know, haven't had a feeling like this in a while. That feeling that "hey, this thing has grown, and only now that it is whole can y
Huh.
You know, haven't had a feeling like this in a while. That feeling that "hey, this thing has grown, and only now that it is whole can you see the shape of it".
I think arc 8 might be over with tomorrow's chapters.
...On we go.
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2025-05-08 04:03:38 +0000 UTC
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I won't lie my loves, this chapter became an unexpected result in many ways, not least in that I intended to do a skip back a week to pov 8.2 after last chapter's events. But you know what? This balls way harder, and I do, as the kids say, mcfuckin love to ball hard. Enjoy a chapter with some delicious consequences, loves!
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2025-05-07 20:34:17 +0000 UTC
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Hehe. Bet y'all thought I forgot about that particular plot point, huh?
Raika's plan culminates at last- and on goes the Wheel.
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She sits in a chamber warded to the high heavens, glowing with enough power to pulverize her current form to paste with a simple command.
Arrayed across the table from her are members of more th...
2025-05-06 04:09:44 +0000 UTC
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A slightly weird mis-quotation of the famous "pound of flesh" quote from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare. Not sure I love it, but I do think it fits the surreal nature of this particular chapter, which is one of the more artsy ones we've had in a minute!
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The voices ring and ec...
2025-05-05 21:37:13 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Three-chapters day! That's been a while! Ooooh, but that feels good! Felt sexy! Felt Right! Ugh, I liked it a lot. I'm gonna try and replicate these circumstances when I can. Hehe. This one's shorter than the last one, just passing 2100 compared to the gargantuan 3.7k of the last, but it passed the threshold and the ending felt right, so here we be, besties. Enjoy!
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2025-05-05 03:05:31 +0000 UTC
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Whoooooo-ie! This one was a fucking BLAST, and the longest chapter I've done in a while! Hope y'all have as much fun with it as I do!
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“Here we have the rare, valuable fragments from what was once known as the Dragon’s Tooth, a mountain-sized skeletal fragment buried deep towards the outer strangeness of the edge of the world! It’s material i...
2025-05-05 00:28:43 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Another music reference! Been a while since the last one, and I swear to god if I find out this artist did some diddy-shit too, Imma go apeshit.
Edit: nevermind, it's Macklemore, I love that motherfucker
In the meantime, enjoy! We getting petty next chapter, lol. We got plans, and so does an antagonist half of y'all don't remember lol.
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2025-05-04 21:02:06 +0000 UTC
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hehe. My darling fucko Raika got some ideas in her head. I'm trying to balance describing the Jianghu of Morae and also not bog us down in meaningless details, so I apologize if I haven't succeeded quite as thoroughly as either side demands, but I think it's going alright so far. Look forward to some funky bullshit, coming at you live from the big toothy queen of bad bitches herself~
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2025-05-03 04:00:42 +0000 UTC
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And here we are, the final chapter! I considered giving us a sexy little Qen Hou and Hao Nera thing, and I could also do some chapters for Taran, with Jun Vral, with some of the cultivators from the tournament arc way back... but nah. We got stuff to focus on, and I don't want to spent too long getting lost in the weeds with all my lovelies! We're heading back to the Republic, to see our Fight!Raika doing some realpolitik her way!
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2025-05-01 22:15:14 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! This was refreshing, man! Finally actually writing RfR again, lol- joy upon joys! I have the next two chapters planned out, and then either on that second one or the one after we're jumping back to arc 8.1 for the Republic of Morae's excellent, very big, surely not-going-to-be-messy auction!
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2025-04-30 19:20:42 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Ended up binging almost all of the Pantheon show today, which distracted me from the writing, lmao. But! Got at least one!
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Let scream the black of pitch. Let rise the joy of rot. Glory on glory, joy upon joy, the world is always ending.
Hate upon hate, love upon love, let scream from out of the earth. Break apart so as to reveal that which comes from ben...
2025-04-27 02:35:11 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Two in one day, yippeee! Turns out the change in scenery did do me good. Let's hope I continue to heal a little bit throughout the weekend, hmm?
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.niaga ereh uoy ekil gnihtemos ees ot si ti sgnileef dexim tahW .eripsni uoy riapsed daerd tahW .ees ot si taht yoj a tahW ?uoy t’nera ,tsaf gniworg er’uoY
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2025-04-26 03:27:26 +0000 UTC
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Depression hit me like a fucking TRUCK this week. Struggled to even get out of bed somedays! Been a while... But! I got out of the house, and the new environment is doing me good. Enjoy the chapter as I do my best to re-enter flow! Ah, the beauties of a good night's sleep!
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.raen era uoy nehw sehtirw dna seslup ti woh ,uoy rof smriuqs ecalp siht woh ees dluohs u...
2025-04-25 22:27:44 +0000 UTC
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Hoya! Meant to push this one out yesterday, but in the end, it was DnD time instead! Have it here today! I've got at least one more in the tank, so I hope you guys look forward to some more viddygamey goodness! Wish me luck keeping track of all this LitRPG shit, lmao.
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the C...
2025-04-23 21:31:43 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Thank y'all for your patience, it's been an intense last few days and a break was really needed. We're not back to RfR just yet- I got bonus chapters to give you sorry suckas!
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If you’ve found this, then I guess you’ve been listening. I’m flattered.
Then again maybe you’ve just run out of options. It’s not fun, is it? When people are so willing to ...
2025-04-22 21:29:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Took a break yesterday, but back to two chapters today, with some RR posts coming right behind! Writathon and my aforementioned promises bind me to this very enjoyable (if tiring) endeavor! In the meantime, welcome to a new arc! Quick wrap-it-up and some cool seeds planted, and then back to the MEAT
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Sublingually administered medications are placed under your tongue to dissolve. When...
2025-04-19 18:09:16 +0000 UTC
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So I was writing the opening blurb for a chapter, and then it sort of just kept going! And I liked it! It fixed the issue I had of kinda not wanting to write Sam's POV again just yet, lol. But hey! Here we are! You've learned how I title my interludes! Kinda! Sam is a/A, Renee is b/B, big scary critter #1 is c (for now?), and from there, awaaaay we go! We'll play around with those classifications, as we did with this chapter, but that's the baseline I'm using for the moment!
2025-04-18 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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My head hurts and I'm tireeeeeed. And yet, I am a woman of my word, as I always say (or a woman of my words, hehe). This one was a long time coming- I keep trying to keep these characters extremely human and reactive, and this chapter is a huge part of it. And hey! Great connection back into the beauty of my extra-extra meaty goodness of the world!
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2025-04-17 01:33:18 +0000 UTC
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This one was itching at me! Couldn't go to bed until it was done and at long last, here it is. I'm thinking one more chapter, and then after that, we're wrapping up the arc with a return to the VR / LitRPG side of things, rebounding to that aspect and the way it's shaping the world!
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Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the...
2025-04-16 06:21:20 +0000 UTC
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It's time! Babytime! Fresh-faced little must-be-protected lil guy, fresh to the cast- and a little surprise at the end. Been looking to tie this in for a while, and I figured this might be the perfect time!
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A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
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2025-04-15 22:16:56 +0000 UTC
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