SelkieMyth

Iona Tier Content Type Request

For the Iona bonus content, what do you want to see?

Artwork? Of individuals, or the Elaine+Iona couple? Do we want to see other characters, or stick to the main ones?

Or chapters of Elaine + Iona?

Please note: I'm likely to take these results, and try to give a fair distribution of the results. For example, if 1/3rd of the results are for "Other characters", 1/3rd are for "Written Chapters", and 1/3rd are for "Elaine + Iona Artwork", I'll probably evenly rotate b...

August Artwork! Misc Announcements

August Art! Elaine and Iona dancing! Another Tsuu piece.

It's nice that the chapter hit at the end of the month, letting me post these two back to back!

Week of the 26th is my admin week this week.

I've hired an assistant, and here's hoping it goes well! BTDEM is back on Scribblehub thanks to her efforts.

I'm still working on October's admin week. Likely the week of the 24th, but it might change.

I'm about to change the patreon prices, as mentioned. De...

Huge art piece by Tsuu!

It's one of my favorites

Iona Tier Incentive for August!

READ. THE. DAMN. CHAPTER. FIRST.

Seriously.

Also, as always, use discretion at work!

https://imgur.com/a/j1Tg9uR

Chapter 353 - School Life VI

AN: Early chapter so people get more time to finalize any patreon changes they want to make before I shuffle the tiers. Reminder about it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/announcements-70548217

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New quarter, new classes! More anatomy classes, cantrips in wizardry, cellular biology, and a class dedicated to useful general skills, and how to get ...

Chapter 352: School Life V

“Well deary,” Linnet sipped her steaming cup of tea, closing her eyes as she did so. I mimicked her.

The tea was relaxing. I’d be suspicious of some sort of skill or drug in play, if I wasn’t constantly running healing through myself, purging any and all poisons. The definition of a poison versus a medicine was entirely academic to my skill, it cleansed everything. Unless this was a potion, which my healing wasn’t geared towards handling. If Linnet was a master 2022-08-29 01:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 351: School Life IV

A piercing whistle broke through the din of practice, Shirayuki standing in the middle of the field.

“Everyone! Huddle up!” She called out, the words echoing as they got translated.

Spars ended, arrays were canceled, and we all walked, ran, or jogged over to the middle of the field. There were roughly sixty of us on the team, but there were a number of categories.

“Those of you who have been paying attention are aware that the Island is currently on a northern flight p...

Chapter 350 - Major Interlude - Iona - School Life III

Amy’s leg twitched, and Iona bolted upright. She tore straight through her bedsheet, but her paramour of the prior night just grumbled and rolled over, nestling deeper in the wyvern’s nest that was Iona’s bed.

Curse it all. Iona mentally swore to herself as she carefully extricated herself from her bed without waking up her friend. I was hoping to go at least a week without ruining something.

She eyed the blanket. The rip wasn’t too bad this time...

MAJOR PATREON BILLING METHOD CHANGE. READ ME.

Hello everyone! Sorry for the double announcements, but I literally just got the email.

The text:

"Hi there,

Thanks for your interest in early access to subscription billing. As of today, August 16, you're now charging new patrons when they join, and monthly on that same date. Nothing changes for your existing patrons, who will continue to be charged on the 1st.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and l...

Announcements and Art! README!

Hello all! Another month, another set of announcements!

First, most importantly: NOTHING IS CHANGING FOR CURRENT PATRONS.

Lemme repeat that.

IF YOU ARE A PATRON, NOTHING IS CHANGING FOR YOU TODAY OR IN THE FUTURE.

Ok, I wanted to put this part of the announcements at the bottom, but I guess I need to put it at the top.

One of my big regrets setting up and running BTDEM is my 'top tier' ...

Chapter 349 - School Life II

I was both amused and terrified by my zoology’s extra credit question on the final.

The mythical phoenix is said to be a bird made entirely out of fire. Given what you have learned, which Empire would you classify the creature into? Which Kingdom?

The question posed the risk of revealing that I knew too much about phoenixes. In the grand scheme of things, the risk was tiny, and I couldn’t resist the challenge of the question, or the allure of getting a perfec...

Chapter 348 - School Life I

“Hey Skye, wanna grab dinner?”

The Yuki-Onna looked at me with her large eyes, slowly blinking.

“Sure. What brought this on?”

I shrugged.

“I can finally speak the language well enough, and I figured we should get to know each other a bit!”

“Alright.”

“Brrrpt?” Auri flew over, offering us a… well, I’ll be damned. It actually looked like a cookie for once. Skye leaned back, clearly not wanting to be a taste-tester again, but I gave it ...

Chapter 347 - A Good Hug

I was mediating a war between my head and my heart. A comfortable waiting chair. An antechamber. A door of wood.

A door whose outline I’d traced a dozen times with my eyes, wandering over the meandering pattern traced in wood. The way the grains flowed implied the door had been grown into shape.

I loved magic.

I hated my situation.

Every fiber of my treacherous being was telling me to leave. That I shouldn’t be here. That this was a bad i...

Chapter 346 - The Bird’s a Liar

There was something profoundly wrong about dragging myself back to my dorm after a long day of work, with the sun rising on the horizon.

Work had been busy, students hurrying about the library as the quarter was approaching the end. I was also busy, but had no time!

Nothing to do but practice while I walked. Bless the System and the stats it gave me, I could easily walk and draw in my notebook thanks to my dexterity. I was working on my Anaconda. I had worked out...

Chapter 345 - Minor Interlude - Auri - Burn the tears, burn the world.

Elaine woke up thrashing, fighting with her sheets like they wanted to strangle her. She bolted upright with a wild look in her eyes, panting and sweating.

I cracked an eye open, pretending to ‘wake up’. Sneaky Auri! Stealthy Auri!

Quiet Auri. Elaine needs her sleep! All the sleep! She’s always super tired, and see, SEE! Big yawn. Huge ashy spots under her eyes.

Not enough sleep, oh no. My big friend needs more sleep! Maybe that’ll make her happy.

“Morning…...

Fan Art!

Amazing fan art by the endlessly talented Fuyu! 

I suspect they've started a read through of BTDEM, and are making artwork as they go along... https://fuyudust.artstation.com/

Chapter 344 - The Second Day of Class, and the rest

[*brrrrring!* Wake up! Time for class!]

[*brrrrring!* No for real.]

[*brrrrring!* Future me, I swear if you’re not up by now… we made these alarms for a reason!]

I groaned and rolled out on the last alarm, smacking myself with [Sunrise]. Another day, another set of classes. To ...

Chapter 343 - First Day of Class II

“You’re all here because, somehow, you’ve had your head buried deep in the sand, and missed a few fundamental basics of how the world works. If it were up to me, I’d have a general knowledge requirement to get into the School, but it isn’t, and you’re all here.” The old man grumped while lying back on his deep cushions, his tail wrapped around a ramrod straight metal gem-studded rod. He glared at us like it was personally our fault that he had to get up and teach.

Well, ge...

Poll! Start of book summaries or no?

Hey!

Something I've seen asked a few times is to have a chapter at the start of each book quickly going over the story so far, then listing out Elaine's skills and what they do. (I can also add Auri's skills, etc.)

Is this something you all would want to see? It would end up replacing an entire chapter for the week once every 40-50 chapters. 

July Announcements! Plus Art!

Art as a shameless bribe! I totally forgot I'd asked for flat colors on the guardians, whoops! Here they are, in all their colors!

First, KU: I will be putting BTDEM fully back on RR from KU. It is possible that I'll reverse my decision again in the future (Mainly if my finances fall apart//life decides to get insanely expensive, which is possible), but for now, I'm going back to 100% RR.

Second! The week of July 25th is my Admin Week, AKA NO CHAPTERS. Life wrecked me ...

Chapter 342 - First Day of Class I

[*brrrrring!* Wake up! Time for class!]

[*brrrrring!* No for real.]

[*brrrrring!* Future me, I swear if you’re not up by now… we made these alarms for a reason!]

I swatted the last notification, mentally cursing past-me. I was up! I was out of bed before the first alarm had finished!

Gran...

Artwork Incentive for the $10 Tier! Elaine!

Hey all!

My artist has recently had a few issues, and has been stumbling a bit. This piece was supposed to be in June's incentive, and I've just been insanely, stupidly busy and haven't been able to get another artist to help fill in. Plus I've been building a backlog of... other... art, which has gotten in the way a bit.

So! Sorry! There was only one incentive last month, and one this month. I hope to get back to two a month starting next month, but we'll see!

Elaine! Th...

Chapter 341 - Getting to the first day of class

Having picked my skills, I got out of bed and stretched, working out the various kinks in my back and neck. I focused on the world around me, my eyes narrowing at the suspicious amount of dust in the room. I grabbed the snacks I’d prepared for myself, quickly chowed down and had a drink, and left my room.

“Elaine? Is that you?” A voice croaked from the living room, and I walked over there to see an aged Skye, with Auri on the counter. Skye looked ancient and decrepit, her pale hai...

Chapter 340 - Student of the Ages

I woke up in my dingy room, dozens and dozens of notifications waiting for me, along with a minor surge of nausea that quickly vanished.

[Learning Languages] had gotten shuffled around.

[*ding!* Congratulations! [Beloved of the Wind - Wind] has upgraded into [Student of the Ages - Wood]! ]

[*ding!* [Student of the Ages] has leveled up! 8 -> 32 +5...