The streets are empty, the Endbringer truce enduring unusually longer as it’s mixed with celebration and grieving.
So I can drive by slowly, approaching what was the Undersiders’ lair unt...
2023-07-28 02:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s that time of the month again!
(Meaning, the time when I realize the month has less than a week left to go, and I panic even harder than usual.)
It’s also the time I usually tak...
2023-07-27 15:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostDaniel Hebert
I don’t know what I’m doing.
I’ve often been told that this isn’t an uncommon sentiment for parents, much less for widowed or single pare...
2023-07-27 01:06:32 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, remember that gushy post I wrote for my birthday and how I promised I would try to do some special stuff to celebrate you sticking around with me and my neuroses for this long?
Reme...
2023-07-24 23:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a familiar staircase.
I sometimes heard Hikky mutter something about familiar ceilings after waking up from one of his impromptu naps in our club—not that I was watching him sleep o...
2023-07-24 18:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostShe looks beautiful when she sleeps.
Which is utterly unfair, given that I’ve just woken up yet again, this time due to the unforgiving nature of the sun and how it’s inconsiderately deci...
2023-07-22 17:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as I write this, it’s currently my birthday, but I’m pretty sure I won’t finish writing until after I’m done with the next Wake-up Call chapter, and by then I’ll likely just want to f...
2023-07-20 02:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostI would like to say that the engine of my baby roars as I cut through the night streets of Brockton Bay.
I want to say that I race faster than anybody without any kind of enhanced reflexes or...
2023-07-20 01:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Please tell me what you think about this!” Noah says with a very Noah grin before handing me a large white envelope.
In a lone corner of the school.
Away from anyone.
Away fr...
2023-07-18 12:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve lost count.
I’ve lost count of all the times I’ve woken up with Yukinon in my arms since we went to bed together last night after I told her that we wouldn’t have sex until she w...
2023-07-15 13:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostVictoria Dallon
I am smarter than most people think I am.
To be fair… that’s quite a low bar.
“Vicky, can we…” Amy asks as I reach for the door...
2023-07-13 11:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Go back to sleep,” a soft voice tells me right before I open my eyes.
Which is alarming enough for me to jerk upright and suddenly be far more awake than I intended.
“Hey,” Har...
2023-07-11 23:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostDisclaimer: 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...
2023-07-09 13:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot
I catch the laughter.
Far enough away that none of the members of New Wave are likely to see me, sitting on my parked bike, by the side of a road ...
2023-07-05 21:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, the good news is that I did take your sternly worded advice and got a break.
Last week.
It lasted three days.
And I still feel the need to apologize.
…<...
2023-06-28 08:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostSlow motion. Freeze frame. A drastic shift in the art style.
All of them are ways to signify a sudden, dramatic twist about to develop or about to hit.
Hard.
Unless it turns out t...
2023-06-19 00:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostAmelia Dallon
I am not flying in Vicky’s arms.
I am… holding Emily, my arms wrapped around her waist as she drives her bike through empty roads, turning fr...
2023-06-14 21:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe have talked a lot about characters, plot contrivances, and… and not much else, really.
But anime, manga, and video games are, ultimately, visual mediums.
What this means is that th...
2023-06-11 02:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostPanacea
My ears hurt.
My ears hurt, my stomach feels like it’s trying to crawl up my throat, my eyes sting, and I can’t move my arms or my legs because—<...
2023-06-08 03:51:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy old workshop.
“What?” I ask as soon as I step through the open door in what I feel is a perfectly adequate degree of bafflement.
“It was convenient,” Trish says, brushing pas...
2023-06-03 03:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostAstonishingly, no matter how deeply we’ve plumbed into the depths of the shounen genre, how carefully we have gleaned into its intricate sophistication, there are some fundamental aspects of it t...
2023-05-29 17:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s almost summer.
…
*insert ‘It’s a Cruel, Cruel Summer’ here*...
2023-05-28 10:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostPatricia is… cuddly.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, not after everything we’ve gone through, all the things we have done to one another.
But we spend most of our nights apart, e...
2023-05-28 01:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostPanacea
She hasn’t said anything.
Emily went out last night, and she hasn’t said anything.
Right. Right. It was just a routine thing. She was just ch...
2023-05-23 23:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m fired,” she says.
And I blink dumbly at her.
I… I am at her apartment. Me. Just the two of us.
Me and Shizu.
No Iroha. No Haruno.
And we’re sitting by h...
2023-05-21 23:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot
Behemoth has been defeated.
Yes. At great cost. Losing Alexandria will hurt us greatly in the short term, but…
Three Endbringers.
Th...
2023-05-19 12:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostLuna
Good news? The rumors about orc cock were entirely true.
Bad news? It’s attached to Kazuma.
Yes, right, if I’m being fair, the kid is...
2023-05-17 10:10:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe have already talked about the utterly broken cheat power that is the scene transition. How a single shift in lighting turning golden and low makes the protagonist suddenly go from hesitating and...
2023-05-14 03:57:53 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, seeing as A Pure Knight’s Natural Enemy refuses to be written, and so as to not turn the night into a complete waste (and to avoid thinking what a radically different meaning this line woul...
2023-05-11 12:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post