First of all, I would like to thank you all for your patience as I continue to struggle with regaining what should be my regular writing pace. Said struggle would be a lot easier if things...
2023-10-02 17:43:12 +0000 UTC
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Taylor
I don’t trust Emma.
I can’t trust Emma.
I won’t trust Emma.
“But you trust me, don’t you, Sweetie?” Lisa’s voice asks...
2023-10-02 17:15:23 +0000 UTC
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The Power of Friendship.
Yes, we’ve already tackled this subject in our lecture series, but, as pivotal as the matter is to the shounen genre as a whole, as central to otaku culture itself,...
2023-09-30 03:10:22 +0000 UTC
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So, first of all, allow me to thank you once again for your continued support. I think I’ve managed to progress on some of my goals for this month, but I still need to hit some of them that I may...
2023-09-27 20:43:49 +0000 UTC
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Claire Wallis
“It’s all so different,” I say, looking at the phone in my hand.
I remember the bulkier ones, those that people with aggressive suits and s...
2023-09-27 04:56:23 +0000 UTC
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Amy is broken.
She keeps looking at the two molten women at her feet.
Just… looking.
“It’s not your fault,” Vicky whispers in support, still wrapped around her sister’s ...
2023-09-25 23:35:55 +0000 UTC
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The first time!
When couples finally come together, baring their innermost selves to one another, allowing their vulnerability to reach past the barrier of fear and apprehension so that two c...
2023-09-25 00:27:37 +0000 UTC
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Iroha Isshiki
Part of me is about to faint due to the sheer, heart-melting cuteness of his sleeping face lying atop my thighs. Another more cautious part is already ...
2023-09-22 20:34:49 +0000 UTC
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Colin Wallis
“I’m so proud of you,” Mom says, sitting by the side of my bed, holding my hand, smiling down at me with tears held back in her eyes, doing… doi...
2023-09-20 05:14:32 +0000 UTC
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“I… I can…” Vista says.
And then falls.
I shoot toward her, as fast as I can with the last dredges of Amber I can keep a hold of despite everything that surrounds me, everything...
2023-09-18 02:20:41 +0000 UTC
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Among the many, many things that anime characters tend to do that may seem unremarkable at first blush (and, no, blushing doesn’t number among them; that could be another whole lecture e...
2023-09-15 11:48:15 +0000 UTC
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“I should melt your insides,” Amy says, arms crossed, her bulky robes doing a perfect job of not conveying her body language, her body shape, or anything at all other than poor fashion sense.
2023-09-13 05:32:41 +0000 UTC
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Miss Militia
The streets are calmer than they should be.
So I don’t have to speed up toward the nearest crisis. I can go at my leisure, my motorcycle just a ...
2023-09-11 00:20:24 +0000 UTC
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So, this time around, “Chef’s Choice” won handily the plot bunnies poll, with MonsterGrimmGirls coming a close second and Kyon’s life being suffering an immediate third. The extra chapter o...
2023-09-09 02:42:05 +0000 UTC
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Iroha Isshiki
He’s a moron.
“Seriously?” I, most likely futilely, ask.
“Neither Yukino nor I have experience with this, and Haruno isn’t going ...
2023-09-09 02:17:23 +0000 UTC
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Days go by.
It’s an easy sentence, isn’t it? Three words. Three syllables. Three sounds. The bare minimum to say that life goes on, no matter how you feel about it doing so.
And… ...
2023-09-06 01:18:50 +0000 UTC
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Missables.
The scourge of all RPG players
2023-09-04 04:25:34 +0000 UTC
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Companion systems, party management, XP and loot sharing, perma-death,… There are many ways to have the mechanics of an RPG impress on a player that the secondary characters he’s fighting by th...
2023-08-29 22:59:04 +0000 UTC
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Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in the dungeon?
This, at first blush, seems not only to be a nonsensical question but one we’ve already answered with a resounding, ‘No, it isn’t, an...
2023-08-29 22:57:23 +0000 UTC
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So.
As most of you may be aware of, my page was suspended due to violating Patreon’s Community Safety Guidelines last week. I tried to send a mass message to inform you all about the whole ...
2023-08-29 18:50:19 +0000 UTC
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Synopsis: Roy Mustang survived the fina
2023-08-29 05:01:11 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: I obviously und
2023-08-21 01:16:21 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: This is the first part of the latest Tales. The thing is about finished, but I just don't have enough energy left to finish the last two scenes and edit what's left ...
2023-08-18 01:22:44 +0000 UTC
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“This is all your fault,” I say to a still-blushing Taylor.
She of the anti-Thinker measures looks at me with a stony, inflectionless look only betrayed by her dilated capillaries and hol...
2023-08-10 15:06:12 +0000 UTC
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I don’t hate Dad.
“Taylor, can we talk?” the man on the other side of my bedroom’s door asks.
I don’t. I… I am angry at him. Betrayed.
But I don’t hate him.
...
2023-08-08 03:35:13 +0000 UTC
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In one of our past lectures, we talked about how the traditional trope of enemies becoming allies is not only a good way to enmesh a usually engaging character arc in the plot but also, and most im...
2023-08-06 06:11:49 +0000 UTC
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Breakfast.
Breakfast is… the most important meal of the day? Something like that.
It’s also, apparently, a way for Alec to emotionally blackmail me yet again into getting up early b...
2023-08-05 01:23:41 +0000 UTC
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Haruno
Impossible man.
I… I should be thinking about Saturday. About all the things I wanted, all the things I gave up on, and all the things that were impos...
2023-08-03 03:54:45 +0000 UTC
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The Yukinoshita family has plenty of companies under their umbrella, but only one bears the family name. Its main offices are at the heart of Chiba, a reminder of just whose family helped make the ...
2023-07-30 01:18:04 +0000 UTC
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So, some of you may be a bit miffed at me dropping cryptic references about something going on with my life that’s making writing harder than usual. There’s a reason why I haven’t gone into s...
2023-07-28 18:31:26 +0000 UTC
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