So, you guys must be getting tired of these postmortems that basically only tell you how bad I am at guessing how productive I’ll actually be (and if you are, please tell me so), so I...
2022-05-30 18:38:46 +0000 UTC
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“So… she’s staying the night?” Sister asks, lifting her glasses to rub the bridge of her nose as she leans on the wooden doorframe of her bedroom.
“I mean… she insisted...
2022-05-30 03:03:37 +0000 UTC
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Bath scenes are iconic in far too many mangas to list. The mix of the everyday element with the titillation of female flesh only hidden by bizarrely persistent puffs of steam heroically ...
2022-05-27 23:21:44 +0000 UTC
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Hannah’s waist feels small between my hands.
She is driving slowly, my bike smoothly obeying her as she takes us along the seaside street. The breeze from the ocean is constantly...
2022-05-26 22:51:49 +0000 UTC
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I would like to wax poetic about Lisa’s hair glinting like the sun when I wake up next to her, rousing from a gallery of unending stories that isn’t quite a dream, but it’s the clo...
2022-05-24 20:27:29 +0000 UTC
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This shall likely be known as "that useless poll Agrippa did where Konosuba inevitably won," but, well, let's at least make a token effort to keep up the charade, shall we?
I am still thinkin...
2022-05-24 08:31:10 +0000 UTC
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All right, let’s get back to this, shall we?
About last week’s schedule, I didn’t manage to finish either April 17th nor the next Ginosko chapter. I started more or less stro...
2022-05-23 18:32:24 +0000 UTC
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I’ve once again found myself escorting Minami to her residence, walking through streets only lit by yellow streetlamps, the cold air held at bay merely by the warm grasp of her hand on...
2022-05-23 12:54:32 +0000 UTC
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Cooking mangas are, by necessity, incredibly creative. The reason for that is as simple and straightforward as the plots of said mangas isn’t: the whole thing hinges on a sense other t...
2022-05-20 11:50:01 +0000 UTC
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Waking up is… weird.
I am Lee, I know I am, but my mind is muddled, and that… that kind of springy tension I feel separating Takashi and I is relaxed, and so I can feel the sha...
2022-05-18 22:50:45 +0000 UTC
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The yellow streetlamps of Brockton Bay streak past my bike at a far more sedate pace than I’m used to. Still, the lack of pressure at, for once, heeding the speed limit is more than of...
2022-05-18 00:58:11 +0000 UTC
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“What were you thinking?!” Armsmaster yells at me once again.
And far be it from me to decry his earnest efforts to help me in my self-flagellation, but it may be slightly rude...
2022-05-17 06:32:28 +0000 UTC
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Been a while since I’ve written one of these, hasn’t it?
Well, as thoroughly impractical as it would’ve been since the whole medical mess started, I think these help me quite...
2022-05-16 18:19:13 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t see why you just can’t expand the magic compass story,” Minami tells me in an almost exasperated tone that, in any other person, would make me worry rather than relax.
2022-05-16 14:03:24 +0000 UTC
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Expectations.
Expectations are forged through repeating patterns, either explicit or unstated. We expect the shounen protagonist to pull a power-up out of some anatomically uncomfo...
2022-05-14 05:29:49 +0000 UTC
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So, some of you may have read a joking comment I made on QQ about the latest good news being that my father didn't catch covid from his hospital roommate.
The bad news is that both my mother ...
2022-05-12 11:32:37 +0000 UTC
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I don’t know anything about spears.
It’s something I’ve never thought that much about, just a thing Rei did, something her mother taught her and that she enjoyed. Something t...
2022-05-12 10:24:55 +0000 UTC
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“What the Hell?” Vista asks.
“Language,” I automatically reply.
And, in the middle of a corridor in the Rig the diminutive parahuman shouldn’t be in—ah, right. I ...
2022-05-11 00:46:13 +0000 UTC
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Too much of a good thing.
The phrase itself is preposterous: if it’s good, you can’t have too much of it. You can’t have too much money, too much power, too many waifus… Th...
2022-05-07 15:23:38 +0000 UTC
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The loose earth of one of Chiba Port Park’s sidepaths crunches beneath my square heels as the streetlights alternatively pour color and shadow over it.
And Shizuka’s by my side...
2022-05-05 19:04:38 +0000 UTC
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“So, what do you think?” I ask Dragon as I turn the latest iteration of the Armscycle’s front fork in my gauntlets, appreciating the finish of the nanolathe—
“Jeans, whit...
2022-05-04 06:44:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey, everyone! Life’s still hectic and unpredictable around here, but I’ll try to deal better with it and get back to a semi-productive schedule. That being said, what better way to show my det...
2022-05-01 20:22:37 +0000 UTC
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A boardroom meeting usually follows certain protocols and aesthetics. There’s a bit of a performance to it all, with everybody both jockeying for position and letting everybody else kn...
2022-04-30 22:51:14 +0000 UTC
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So, basically, the procedure was entirely successful and I’m now no longer growing white hairs at a visible rate. The whole thing’s still not over, though, as we’re now in the crit...
2022-04-26 22:11:27 +0000 UTC
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So... The good news Is the power issues seem to have been solved.
The bad news (or, well, hopefully good news) is that I'm rushing to the hospital in a bit to see whether this time the donor ...
2022-04-25 20:28:50 +0000 UTC
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Often, I’ve wondered about Saika’s gentle demeanor and charm, about how his allure can get Hachiman to so easily lose himself as if confronted by a bashful maiden whose meek protests...
2022-04-25 18:41:13 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, guys, but I've been getting sporadic power cuts throughout the whole day and my laptop's just not working. I'm posting this from my phone (which I hate with a passion) just to warn you both ...
2022-04-25 15:45:41 +0000 UTC
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Disclaimer: So that this story fits inside of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, it’s been revised so that it occurs in an AU where all the characters are legal adults. This inclu...
2022-04-24 03:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Chatting with Hachiman until the evening comes should be, by all accounts, an exhausting experience.
For him, that is.
“Haruno, remember when I said I loved you and needed ...
2022-04-22 04:02:56 +0000 UTC
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“Absolutely not,” Miss Hebert’s voice harshly tells me through the aural communicator in my helmet.
I stop my hands and gently lie down my soldering iron on the workbench, de...
2022-04-21 06:28:18 +0000 UTC
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