And we're BACK you sexy, sexy thangs! Woohoo! Welcome to Arc 8.2! We're going to be switching between Fight!Raika back in the Republic of Morae, and Nerd!Raika, with some peeks at the others in between! Maybe a few Interludes here and there, but I'm planning to keep arc 8 still very Raika-centric on the POV side.
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Everything is fucking itchy
2025-02-20 04:25:49 +0000 UTC
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So y'all know I rarely do trigger warnings. Take heed of this one, motherfuckers.
TW: Torture, mutilation, powerlessness
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The real world is where the monsters are.
-Rick Riordan
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Hungry.
Dark.
Hungry.
Trees.
<...
2025-02-18 06:13:05 +0000 UTC
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Alrighty, we've reached the end of the INTRAMUSCULAR arc! I feel like it's either skip a moment or let myself get ground down, so it's time to move ahead. We don't need to see Ilia's next day at work- we can dive straight into some more Divine Visions and some fucked up small town shenanigans. See you soon for the interludes between now and then! Next chapter up tomorrow!
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.ɘяɘʜ moяʇ ɘƨ...
2025-02-17 03:10:46 +0000 UTC
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And back again! I'm getting faster about it! Training myself like a good student of Pavlov and it's actually helping me more easily decide / dictate when and how I write. It's becoming... not easy, but easier to engage, in a sense. I'll let you know how it turns out! In the meantime, today's chapter! Tomorrow, we get to nine ahead instead of eight!
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Let i...
2025-02-14 04:08:47 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! I'm kind of liking the alternating? Offers an organic point to take a day off (day between each story) while allowing me to build up a bit of feeling, I think, for each story as it goes. I think I'll keep it up for now!
And as proof, here's the new chapter! The return of Jay, a hint to an old seed I planted with him a while back, and the start of the town exploration expedition mini-arc! Yippeee!
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2025-02-13 06:09:05 +0000 UTC
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I have got to start writing shorter chapters! It's not fair! I wanna get a backlog! I want to get 5+ more chapters ahead of the curve, instead, here I am gifting you all these juicy 3k+ word chapters on the regular! Very poor monetizing, me. Ah well. Guess you'll just have to enjoy the ways I've upgraded my standards and eat yummier chapters!
This marks the end of what I'm calling arc 8.1- we're going to be dancing between Raikas for...
2025-02-11 04:55:24 +0000 UTC
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It's been a while since we saw Raika being politically clever! She's not exactly savvy I think, but clever? Well that's her to a T, ain't it? Didn't quite manage two chapters today, but got a head start on tomorrow's, which should be the last RfR chapter before we swap back to VISCERAE for a while. Or I might take a break! Been a few days writing so WHO KNOWS! Anyways! Sleeptime! Enjoy, lovelies!
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2025-02-10 04:06:24 +0000 UTC
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Having fun with these titles, just as I'm having fun with this fight! It's nice to see just how tough Raika is, and this whole arc is kind of her coming back to her roots as a melee fighting regenerator, with all the weaknesses that entails. Can't wait to see how we apply this back to her entire self, or how she'll still manage to surprise and frighten these sect leaders! Tee hee!
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2025-02-08 23:54:08 +0000 UTC
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Oh gods I missed her so much! I missed her so fucking much! Oh gods, my baby, my wubby, my precious murder monster beloved! Raika's back! Expect a good few days of Raika, mirroring the last few of Ilia, and I can't wait to explore why and how this part of the world works!
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Bin Wei goes to propose a battlefiel...
2025-02-08 05:21:36 +0000 UTC
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It's so late! Aaah! But it's fine! I slept in real hard this morning! So here! Chapter!
We go from the world-shattering depths of eldritch horror to the far more mundane and infinitely more pervasive horrors of the threat of brutality from everyday authority figures! Yippee! Wonder what prompted them to come out this way today of all days? A spicy hint, perhaps?
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2025-02-06 07:24:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter one of two for the day! I WILL achieve further backlog tonight, this I swear! In the meantime, enjoy Ilia's supremely fucked up day-to-day as she recovers from being dead and begins work on using her "powers" here in the real world!
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.яɘiƨɒɘ ƨɈɘϱ ɈI .llɘw ɘd oɈ υoჸ ƨɈnɒw Ɉi bnɒ ˎυoჸ ɘɘƨ nɒɔ Ɉi Ɉυꓭ .ƨʞяow Ɉi woʜ ƨ'ɈɒʜT .Ɉƨяiʇ Ɉɒ lυʇ...
2025-02-06 01:32:09 +0000 UTC
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Aaaand we're back! Had a busy weekend, at least by my standards, and been a bit out of it, so I apologize for the delay! We'll have a few chapters of VISCERAE up in sequence, then swap back over to RfR a little later this week. Wish me luck babes!
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TARTARUS RESPONSE PROTOCOL TIER 1.01
NON-VIOLENT PRISONER CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE:
2025-02-04 03:02:49 +0000 UTC
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It's quite late, and I will NOT be staying up to write a second one, but I'm glad I got the chapter out. The 21-ahead lead remains for now, and tomorrow we'll hop back to VISCERAE to try and push that backlog a bit further ahead!
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Elder Bin Wei, veteran of almost a hundred sect wars, who has lived to see more than a thousand years and wields in hi...
2025-01-31 05:19:20 +0000 UTC
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Not even young masters, but slapping down arrogant assholes high on their own supply is absolutely on the list of xianxia tropes that can be very fun to play with! Raika, even effectively disarmed from most of her arsenal, is not at a level that she can be challenged by beginners and amateurs, and if those amateurs happen to be assholes, well...
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2025-01-30 07:13:07 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Ended up adding like 1500 more words so it was delayed, aaaaaaah
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Raika lands in a puddle that almost immediately turns electric, only barely dashing out of it in time to avoid the smell of burnt flesh. Then she’s forced to duck beneath a bush that has whips instead of branches, and then weave past a cacti that’s l...
2025-01-30 01:26:12 +0000 UTC
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What a milestone, babes. Chapter 300, and after a week-long hiatus! Woof. This felt good to write, but I did have to go back and read a few chapters to re-familiarize myself, even after such a short break! Had a lot of fun with it, and I think it's one of my favorites. Welcome to one of the two mini-arcs (or proper arcs, hard to tell with me) before we get to meet the rest of the Apex, and then march of to war!
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2025-01-27 04:36:40 +0000 UTC
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First time in a while I've worked until this late, but I'm done! I wanted the chapter a bit longer, but I can decide later if I want to swap over to some detailed buildcraft shit or if I wanna do a lil timeskip, we'll see! Maybe both, who knows! Either way, toodles! See y'all soon.
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I believe I have found it. I believe that I have found something. All thos...
2025-01-25 06:42:01 +0000 UTC
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Second day... second chapter... well. Me oh my. I suppose I might have one more chapter in me for today. Why not? Let's see. Let's find out.
I'm feeling... hungry. Antsy. Let's see what I can make of that.
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The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
-Charles Darwin
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2025-01-24 21:52:33 +0000 UTC
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And after a bit of a hiatus, here we are again! I'm faaairly certain I repaired the issues with my medication, if the last few days of recovery are good indication, but... well, fingers crossed! This one came out a bit shorter than I'd like, but the original version was way too short, so I feel like the fusion is a good compromise. Welcome some new (faces? Not-faces?) to the cast, and enjoy! I'll hopefully keep up the pace tomorrow, though no promises as to which story in particular it'll...
2025-01-24 03:55:19 +0000 UTC
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And WE! ARE! BACK! I'm Actually extremely proud of this chapter, I think she turned out AMAZING!
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“But you can’t mean—” gasped Rainsford.
“And why not?”
“I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.”
“Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.”
“Hunting? Good God, General Zaro...
2025-01-19 02:29:31 +0000 UTC
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A lil reversal of an earlier Shin Ren chapter! The Breach remains an ongoing issue for both sides, and while no one has yet committed proper war-ending forces to the struggle, that doesn't mean that there isn't a lot to experience there, and a lot to learn from. Welcome back again!
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War is hell.
Hell is, it would seem, a lucra...
2025-01-17 23:35:03 +0000 UTC
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I didn't make it to three chapters yesterday on VISCERAE, but I remain a woman of my word! Back to RfR! I'm figuring out my routine some and having a really good time, I think I figured out some of what was distracting me and keeping me from focusing. We're going to have a few chapters dashing between Raika's selves and some Interludes before we get back to "main plot" stuff, and might even do some mini-arcs! Big juicy delicious coming right up!
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2025-01-16 20:22:51 +0000 UTC
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Fleshlings, if you're reading this- suck it! We're past five chapters ahead, at long last! Fuck yes! Two in one day! I took a break to play viddygames and enjoy myself with friends, which I apologize for- PSYCHE! I apologize for NOTHING! Except my perceived failings and desire to do moar, lol. Aiming for 2.07 tonight, wish me luck!
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The ways of the enemy are myriad. Complex, strange...
2025-01-16 02:10:13 +0000 UTC
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FUCK IT! I feel like writing more Viscerae! I want to pull ahead! I want to have a backlog! Graaaah! This is the earliest I've put out a chapter in a while, and I intend to capitalize on that energy like a good lil american (ugh), which means it's time to push forward for more!
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“Recorder’s rolling? Yes? Alright, good. I have a feeling about this one.
“Oh fuck off, I ...
2025-01-15 20:00:08 +0000 UTC
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As promised, the second chapter! I... don't know why writing has been so slow. Sorry, y'all. I guess I'm still figuring some stuff out outside the writing as well. I'll keep aiming for a pick-me-up on the writing front, but wish me luck either way?
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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental deg...
2025-01-15 03:13:19 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Day one of two of writing VISCERAE! Was having some trouble figuring out where we're going from here, but in the process of the writing (and with some help from friends!) I figured out a little more of what I want to do and what's goin on in the setting!
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It’s easy to assume that everything deserves to live. I want to believe that. I try so very hard to believe that. But...
2025-01-13 03:08:42 +0000 UTC
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A reference to both karmic stuff and KSBD- the shape of the wheel. The wheel of revolution, of how things inevitably go, of the cycle of reincarnation.
I'm excited for the title where I get to talk about breaking it.
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Deep breath.
In. Out.
“Why?”
“Why?”
“Yeah. Why would the Emperor want th...
2025-01-11 07:08:02 +0000 UTC
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Been writing the buildup to this one for a loooooong time. LOOOOOOOONG time, lol. It's all downhill and rolling fast from here babes.
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“What are you?”
A hundred mouths smile and a hundred voices chuckle. “I will be happy to tell you. But I do not appreciate secondhand witnesses.”
For the first time that ...
2025-01-10 23:31:47 +0000 UTC
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A bit of a play on the "frog in the well" type thing! Raika's a big girl, capable of causing big girl problems, but she's still years away from being a world-eater. At least, not when it's a world this big, full of so much stuff that can bite back. We're nearing the big leagues, approaching the meat of the arc, and it'll be fun to see how everyone catches up or side-grades their own progressions!
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2025-01-10 06:15:59 +0000 UTC
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Alright, peeps, my lovelies- as it turns out, Raika did leave a good impression! Or a halfway decent one, anyways. Strong enough to be impressive, but able to talk- and annoy some of our younger Divine Beasts, lol. Love me this snake-baby whiner.
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Well that was a bit of a cock-block.
All that build-up, all that preparation, only to get stop...
2025-01-08 23:29:37 +0000 UTC
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