Comoedia Glacialis 12: The Hero arrives, Stage Left
Checking her bags one more time, Anastasia smiled giddily. At last, she would be reunited with Tolney! It had been nearly three months since she’d last seen him, and despite near daily phone calls and texting, she still missed him. It was by far the longest they’d ...
2024-09-13 17:05:17 +0000 UTC View PostWarning: this chapter contains graphic material. Reader discretion is advised.
Interlude 9: Lupus Cor
“Make sure to read chapter 3 from Island of the Blue Dolphins, we’ll have a discussion on it tomorrow morning,” the teacher said just as the bell rang, and everyone scrambled to shove ever...
2024-09-07 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOnce more, Izuku found himself in the Divine Realm. This time, he was standing side by side with Mei, holding her hand, along with all their friends. Aqua was at the front with Eris, along with a blonde goddess that Izuku recognized from paintings back in Konigreich. Before them were an assembled council of gods, most of which Izuku didn’t rec...
2024-09-04 16:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominem 4: The Test of Worth
Deep within the Earth’s core, The Behemoth slumbered. It did not dream, but it monitored the Shard network, what little remained, and listened. It had been defeated and was still licking its wounds from 8 months ago. Its newest siblings had not yet finished forming, and the ...
2024-09-02 18:12:28 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 11: The Thief’s Jealous Aside
Not long ago, Chongjin had been the third largest city in the former People’s Republic of Korea. Now, that country no longer existed, and Chongjin wasn’t even in the top ten largest cities in the Unified Republic of Korea. It had still swollen in size, h...
2024-08-27 16:51:59 +0000 UTC View PostReclining at the breakfast table, Lucius Malfoy was reading his copy of the Daily Prophet and sipping his breakfast tea when the mail came. It was brought by Thuban, Draco’s Eagle Owl, and Dobby the Elf hurried over with the letter after giving the bird a treat.
“Here, good master, letter from Master Draco,” Dobby said.&nbs...
Comoedia Glacialis 10: The Dancer and the Servant’s Aside
“The r…re…red! The red…peg…pen! The red pen is my…f…fa…fan…fanorit?” Kollei said carefully, looking up at Anastasia in confusion, her finger over the last word.
“The red pen is my favorite,” Anastasia cor...
2024-08-17 16:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostKazuma considered himself something of a badass. Not only had he saved two, possibly three worlds now, he’d just helped to take out the Lord of the Tomb (mostly by being Aqua’s handler) and saved the multiverse. He was confident that if this were an internet battle board argument, he would scale to universal feats thanks to his actions, whic...
2024-08-13 01:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 9: The Queen proffers the Forbidden Fruit
For the next three weeks, the Tsaritsa remained in Mordovia, restoring and rebuilding the city. Her first act was to repave all the roads herself, which involved an astonishing display of power. She had Anatoly spread the word throughout the city that she woul...
2024-08-11 17:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen Dei 25: Red Sky at Morning
There were times where Capri’s life simply didn’t feel real. She’d spent most of her life as a practically broke wanderer who never really knew where her next meal would come from or what her next gig would be. Heck, even as Venti’s bandmate, she often had to wonder where she’...
2024-08-05 22:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 8: The Queen raises her hands to summon her Court
As-Salam palace had changed greatly in the past two months. For one thing, the entire thing was now overgrown with plant life. Not in a chaotic fashion, but in a sculpted and beautiful way that was awe-inspiring to behold, with a myriad of flowers that...
2024-07-29 16:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostaAfter the day he’d had, Kazuma was exhausted. They hadn’t done any actual fighting, but the sheer tension of walking through a deserted city and wondering when the monsters were going to jump out and tear him apart had him jittery the whole time, and now he felt completely wiped.
The only other problem he had was that...
2024-07-27 00:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostImperatrix Umberosa 19: Go Forth and Shine, Lightning Princess Ami!
“We seriously could have just taken the train. It would have been a lot simpler.”
“But it wouldn’t have been as exciting, and you didn’t want to steal a car, so this is our only other option!” Ami told Sayu, who was gr...
2024-07-24 17:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next ten days, things were about as close to perfect as they got for Kazuma and his band of misfits. Having Rin around to help ride herd on their cats was a godsend.
“Look, Darkness, Dust, I don’t care how much fun you think it would be, you can’t just stir up an entire nest of griffins!” Rin said in disgus...
2024-07-21 17:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 7: The Prince rises upon a Grave Trap
When Fortuna had been a young girl, her older sister had gone with the other maidens of the village to the shrine of Aphrodite before their weddings. Fortuna had gone as well, though she was far too young to be married at the age of only eight summers, and hadn’...
2024-07-19 16:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostOfficial poster of Ami for her new series, Lightning Princess Ami Gaiden, Ci...
2024-07-15 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 6: The Cast Converse of the Future
The Imperial Palace in Tokyo was not frequently clad in snow and ice, but even a week after the global ice storm, temperatures were low enough that it was still dusted with ice and drifts of snow. Ami peered out at the ice from her window and wondered. To her mind, t...
2024-07-14 16:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostThey made their way down the now sparkling clean sewer pipes, pausing only long enough for Tanya to do something she claimed was very important, but turned out to be her inspecting the maintenance logs.
“As I suspected, they haven’t been properly servicing the sewage system!” Tanya said triumphantly after flipping th...
2024-07-10 17:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 5: The Curtain Rises, the Show Begins
Looking out at his trellises, Saad felt his heart sink into his stomach. He tramped along the tilled rows of rich, tilled earth, his feet crunching on dead leaves and ice. This was not how it was supposed to be. It did not snow in Nagaa, Egypt. And yet it had. For...
2024-07-09 16:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 4: The Band Begins to Play
Sable & Savor had a reputation as the finest dining establishment in Saint Petersburg, though it had only been open for a decade or so. Chefs there had largely been imported from France, and the haute cuisine there was the finest available. There were Russian staples of ...
2024-07-04 15:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that Severus Snape was not a morning person would have been a gross understatement. Thanks to his pallid complexion, Severus would have been happier if the sun just didn't exist, but would have settled for becoming completely nocturnal instead. Unfortunately, he’d obtained a job (mostly against his will) that required one to keep regula...
2024-07-03 15:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostI can't promise one of these every month, but I have more free time to write in the summer, so I'll let patreons pick a single bonus item.
2024-07-01 16:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Kazuma and Rin awoke to an overly familiar sound: an Explosion.
“Does she do this every day!?” Rin demanded, her nails digging into Kazuma’s bare skin as she clung to him.
“Yes, actually. It’s her entire deal,” Kazuma said, enjoying the feeling of Rin’s bare flesh against his. ...
2024-07-01 16:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominem 3: And Throw Away the Key
Holding her Vision in her hands, Alexandria marveled at the cold she could feel. Most physical sensations, even pleasurable ones, were severely muted by her powers. Her invulnerability grew from her body being kept in a kind of stasis, to the point that Wyatt joked that he was ...
2024-06-28 16:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostIf he had still had lungs, All For One would have been breathing hard. As it was, he had been forced back, and ice coated much of his skeletal frame. It had gotten so bad he’d needed to call upon Shiguraki for aid. The two of them together had finally beaten off the attacks of Wiz, and they were enjoying a respite, however brief.
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2024-06-27 17:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith a sigh, Tina hung up the comms relay and turned to the others. “Well, her Majesty seems to approve of our actions, at least.”
They were all sitting in the main conference room of the headquarters, with plush executive chairs in black leather, a myriad of screens surrounding them and a central holoprojector. The ro...
2024-06-24 18:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 3: The Queen asleep upon her couch
When Anastasia had been young, she had lived in a big, beautiful house with her brother and parents. She remembered having a very fuzzy bear as big as she was that slept in her bed with her, and three beautiful dolls with long hair that she got to style with a brush....
2024-06-23 16:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 2: The Dancer’s First Movement
The city of Saint Petersburg had seen better days. The cars that ran on its streets were mostly ancient relics from the days when the city had been called Leningrad, save for the newer imports from Germany and Japan that the rich drove. There was a little more food and...
2024-06-18 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostOnce more, Shaltear moved faster than Izuku could have perceived without One for All, coming at him with her lance and a crazed grin on her lips. He dodged to the side, kicking hard enough to shatter the wall behind them as he did so. Even that wasn’t enough to stop the vampiress, and she managed to grab Izuku’s shattered arm. He screamed, s...
2024-06-17 16:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 2: Enter the Damsel, stage Right, and the Thief and the Hero, Stage Left
The road to Moscow was cracked and broken, having been in long disrepair. It had been eight years since the city’s destruction and the fall of the Soviet Union, but no one had ever bothered to try to fix the roads. Indeed, thes...
2024-06-13 17:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post