There’s a child living in a house full of girls and magic.
He’s always been a cheerful child, a smile rarely leaving his face, sadness never touching him for long. He’s alway...
2022-01-26 22:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post“I used to admire you.”
Those are Armsmaster’s words. The last ones he says to me before he exits my office.
Former office.
I would usually be expected to gather ...
2022-01-26 12:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostShould the august lion concern himself with the ramblings of a boorish hyena?
Well, the obvious answer would be no, because he’s a lion and has very big jaws (grandiose… no, hu...
2022-01-25 16:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post“This feels somewhat unfair, Lisa,” I mutter into the Bluetooth headset hidden in my hair.
“Tay, I love you dearly, but if you insist on being a solo heroine, I don’t think...
2022-01-24 05:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is! The extra 4k words I promise every month to those of you patient enough to keep checking when the Hell will I remember to post the poll!
(I'm sorry.)
2022-01-22 21:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis can’t be happening.
“So… Taylor, tell me how do you feel?”
Definitely not happening.
“I… Ms. Lang—”
“I told you to call me Kristen,” the ...
2022-01-22 20:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostAll Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 28
There comes a point of no return in any serialized story that makes the author look at the flashbacks, filler episodes, beach...
2022-01-21 03:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Absolutely not,” Colin says, trying to set reasonable boundaries, discouraging me from taking unnecessary risks, and overall being on the verge of screaming in sheer frustration. 2022-01-19 11:56:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Yoshiteru is warm, soft, and smells like he uses mint-scented shampoo.
These are three things I’m currently very aware of, because I’m hanging from his neck as I shove my tongu...
2022-01-18 14:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostI dodge to the right, my feet skidding on the floor as I dive behind the nearest concrete block, and the ground explodes in shards of cement along a line that follows my trajectory a spl...
2022-01-17 08:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing Dad taking notes on his stupid clipboard while he examines the latest victim of a superpowered serial killer shouldn’t be something I could get used to.
Good thing that, s...
2022-01-15 22:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostUsually, if someone said something like ‘Heroism is a lie,’ we would be forgiven to assume the line-spouter is wearing a black cape, gigantic pauldrons, and probably sipping red wine...
2022-01-14 08:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostRiding my bike through Brockton’s most deserted streets with Taylor hugging me from behind, feeling her sticking to my back as if we were cuddling in bed should have been a distant dre...
2022-01-12 05:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostLife isn’t fair.
There, I said it. Any illusions about a perfectly ordered world where good things happen to good people are no more than lies we tell to children so they don’t...
2022-01-11 00:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostLisa’s apartment is as soothing as ever.
It may be the dredges of the memories from the time I spent here while she was still piecing me back together, or it may be just another ...
2022-01-10 01:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostSuccubi.
Everybody knows what succubi are like in their anime incarnations, and some will even admit they know what they are like in their doujinshi versions. And what they are is ...
2022-01-07 04:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a degree of separation between personas.
Take, for instance, the moment where an uncaring student brushes past me in the hallway, hitting my bag hard enough that I stumbl...
2022-01-05 19:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostYukinon’s breath tickles.
It’s… It’s a silly thing to focus on when I have her this close, when she lies next to me, the heat of our bodies trapped beneath the sheets, her ...
2022-01-05 01:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostThere are always three brothers.
It’s sometimes sad, and sometimes uplifting. Often the older fails, the second struggles, and the youngest succeeds, and it is their father who s...
2022-01-03 03:04:08 +0000 UTC View PostThroughout anime history, there have always been iconic lines. Sequences of words so utterly perfect that the impact they leave on an impressionable mind can be still felt years after th...
2021-12-31 22:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post“This is ridiculous,” I say to Brian. Unnecessarily, really, because he knows. He’s just decided to be a prick about it.
“The gun, Tattletale,” he insists once m...
2021-12-29 14:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe ominous ringing of the phone… Is a bit boring, to be honest.
Or, well, it would be if—
“Yui? Is everything all right, sweetie?” Mama asks, her voice sending me in...
2021-12-28 11:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post“It was an accident, Amy,” I say for what feels like the hundredth time.
The sulky brunette looks at me, at Sophia still unconscious in my arms with her own bolt protruding fro...
2021-12-27 02:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostAgrippa’s Christmas Special
Well, remember how I’ve hinted (or outright stated) through the whole week that I wanted to do a little something extra for Christmas? And tha...
2021-12-26 03:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostA mirrored situation is one of the most ham-fisted, direct ways for an author to establish that a moment is about to highlight a change in circumstances for the characters involved. Let...
2021-12-24 05:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up next to Taylor is both a familiar sensation, something I’ve horribly missed over the past few days, and an awful ordeal involving a cramped back, a cold, uncovered leg, and t...
2021-12-22 06:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies for doing this one so late, I didn't want to get it out before I finished last month's Chef's Choice. So, here it finally is, I'll try to finish everything before the year's end this t...
2021-12-19 15:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostIf you expect me to begin this by being run down by a runaway truck, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
Because we all know how that shit goes, don’t we? A loser with a face so gen...
2021-12-19 02:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostFor decades upon decades, romance manga has revolved around a single question: will they or won’t they?
It’s faintly ridiculous, seeing as, more often than not, said question r...
2021-12-17 10:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor’s tongue wrestles mine into submission, which I’m pretty sure is a non-trivial part of the appeal that kissing me holds for her.
I would be offended if I didn’t enjoy ...
2021-12-15 09:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post