So, I already told you that last week my output was lower than usual due to some family matters. This week, I struggled to get past them and managed to barely finish two more or less okayish chapte...
2022-11-20 22:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostCallbacks.
The power of callbacks is a subtle one and not within reach of every series. You can’t call back to something that isn’t there, so you need to establish things properly and in ...
2022-11-19 03:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You owe me, Danny,” Lisa says, glaring at me with… far less energy than I know she can gather.
Behind her, a woman who’s uncomfortably attractive while still looking like my daughter...
2022-11-17 06:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post“How are things going at school?” Dad asks after minutes of silence only broken by chewing noises over a breakfast table that is unpractically bigger than what we used to have.
I wanted to do quite a lot over this week that still hasn't been done, such as the next Periodical Cicadas (which has involved me taking a long, hard look at the outdated outline), the next Ginosko...
2022-11-11 17:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a power that all shounen protagonists share, the real key behind their ability to escalate, to go beyond, to surpass any and all threats, and reach a realm above that of their fellow manl...
2022-11-11 17:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t call me that,” I say. Reflexively, harshly, unbidden.
And my biological mother stares at me in incomprehension.
“What—Sarah, what are you—”
“That. Sarah...
2022-11-10 03:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostPatricia spoils me.
Which she can obviously afford to do, but I think she shouldn’t. I think she should stop viewing her own value only in terms of her identity as Patricia Ginosko, high ex...
2022-11-07 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostOK, this last month was… great. Just great, I have no other words for it, for how it felt to see so many new readers rush in and support me, it’s… Wow.
I’m awed, really.
It also...
2022-11-04 20:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn one of our previous lectures on the history of anime tropes and conventions with Hachiman-sensei, we talked about the planning scene and how its most prominent and staunch defender is a certain ...
2022-11-04 20:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn front of me, Noelle, frozen in time, stares with curiosity at the broken chassis of Bakuda’s time-stop grenade, the scattered pieces of the red metal perpetually glinting in a float...
2022-11-02 20:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostOK, yesterday I told you that I was kinda bummed that, after rushing it as hard as I could without the quality (hopefully) suffering, the short story You Can Leave Your Mask On wouldn’t be availa...
2022-11-01 19:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know what I never expected I would have to deal with once I set on being a superhero?
Prank calls.
“Look, if you’re gonna try and convince me that you’re the Tinker murderi...
2022-11-01 03:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The 31st of October has a lot of names. Hallowe
2022-11-01 01:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostI have already talked at length about companion quests and why they are so important to make one feel attached to the bundle of pixels displaying more character and focused goals than mo...
2022-10-30 20:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt is said that history repeats itself. If that is the case, then anime is history.
The rival who struggles to catch up to the oblivious shounen protagonist, only to briefly surpass him as a ...
2022-10-28 02:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a weird thing about superheroes. I mean, other than the sexualized costumes, the ‘no guns allowed unless a gun is your whole thing’ rule, the ‘no killing allowed unless killing is y...
2022-10-27 00:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s this time of the month again, the one when I offer you all (some) of the plots brewing up in my lemming-like brain that’s too proud to admit I already have too many ongoing projects.
Sayaka – Thieving Cats Should Watch Their Hands
OK, calm down, Sayaka. All of this has a perfectly reasonable explanation. There’s no need to make a scene. Madok...
2022-10-25 02:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostI let him trick me.
Again.
Because, let’s face it, taking up the Student Council President position? Playing to his tune and taking the damn job? That… That was…
Th...
2022-10-22 18:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“So… why the Machine Army?” Taylor asks, apparently disinterested as she sits on the hotel’s bed with me on her lap, my back against her slight bust, her uninjured arm around my ...
2022-10-20 01:50:27 +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...
2022-10-18 03:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostOK, it’s clear my trying to have a detailed weekly schedule, while good at making me stress myself out at every approaching deadline and making you in turn be perpetually disappointed at the fals...
2022-10-16 23:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostOriko – All According to Keikaku (Keikaku Means “Nookie”)
Komaki is taking a shower.
She’s… She’s weirdly punctilious like that. She may be utterly...
2022-10-15 03:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s been talk in recent years about how otaku culture is a dark mirror on which Japan’s most regressive views are often showcased. Despite our fascination with blond foreigners (...
2022-10-14 01:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you really comfortable with those?” Taylor asks as she points to my shoes with the hand not resting on a sling.
My white kitten heel shoes.
Sinking into the...
2022-10-12 01:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, when you bring your non-blood related sister with pseudo-incestual feelings for you home, you… ponder things.
Things such as: am I OK with our kissing escalating and b...
2022-10-10 12:34:05 +0000 UTC View PostShe’s…
OK, OK, Yui, you can handle this, whatever this is supposed to be. It’s not like you’ve been holding back from pushing Yukinon down, tearing her clothes off...
2022-10-09 02:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostThank you, everyone! I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am for your continued support and making this possible! I’ve still got a lot of work to do, and I’ll keep taking as many com...
2022-10-08 01:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostIn this introductory series about manga, anime, games, and other ways for Japan to decrease its birthrate, we’ve already talked about the ball as a scene that is a staple of romance in...
2022-10-07 00:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post