TheWiseTomato

April Billing Pause

Mixed news. I’ll be pausing billing for April for a few reasons.

One, I’ve been living out of a suitcase for the last month and a half at various places, some with a PC to use and some without, so while the words from the previous poll are done, I’ve been unable to type them up to post. Rather than let this continue to bottleneck...

September Billing Pause

Given my slackness this past month, I'll be pausing billing in September to give me time to catch up on lives (and to finish Uni). Goal is to squeeze a few lives in between assessment, and then start October all caught up. I'll have some information on my plans for some original fiction for y'all at that stage too.

Once again, tha...

June Billing Pause

I'll be pausing billing again for next month. Placement is almost over and has gone well, but I've got a fairly critical piece of assessment due mid June and I don't want to fuck about with it. I will try to sprinkle some words about when I have time, but weekly lives won't be viable.

Thanks for your continued support.

May Billing Pause

I will be pausing billing for May, as I have a fairly important placement to get through. At this stage there's a possibility that I'll be pausing June as well due to some important assessment and life changes. I'll keep you in the loop. Writing will absolutely resume by July at the latest.

December Billing Pause

No charge for December as I need to catch up on missed lives in November.  I have been in Tahiti, and the beaches are persuasive.

July Break

Billing will be paused for July as I have IRL commitments that will make my weekly updates impossible to maintain.  I may have time to do some side stories, but we'll see.

I don't say it enough, so thank you again for your support.  No matter the tier, I appreciate it all.

Tier Changes

Hello, lovely people who support my writing.  It's me, the guy who is far too far behind on his writing.  

The time that I thought I would have this month to catch up on what I owe you all has turned out to not exist.  That's just not cricket, so I'll be putting a pin in the What If shorts for the foreseeable future.  I...

Sufficiently Advanced Percussive Maintenance 4

“Ahhhh,” Thor said, closing his eyes in bliss.  He may have slipped through the folds of Yggdrasil to another strange new realm, but coffee was eternal.

“Worth the wait?” Elara asked, leaning forward onto the counter.  Topaz eyes were full of questions, and they seemed to glitter against her blue skin.

Thor took ano...

The Bay of America 3

Of those who witnessed the defiance of the blond giant, not all were cowed.  Some scoffed - they had seen bigger, they assured each other, seen them die on the sands to this or that famous pit fighter.  Others were sure that even if he were to prove the greatest warrior ever seen, he could not prevail against the forces of the entire c...

In A Frozen White Hell 3

Three days they walked, rising early with the sun and stopping early to make their shelter.  The trees along their path became sparse only to thicken again, sometimes hardly capable of keeping the bitter wind away, other times dark and gloomy enough to mask the sun.  It was a rare sound that wasn’t the crunch of Steve’s boots or th...

October Break

This is just a quick announcement letting you all know that I'll be pausing my writing for October, and that I've put the billing on hold for the month.  I believe I've been updating weekly (and some change) for a year straight now, and I want to thank everyone who has liked my work enough to throw some money my way.  

So thanks,...

Two Blonds: Adventures in Averland 2

A continuation of a prior commission.  Requested by xanartik, this is really very late.  

X x X

“I don’t understand, the signs all point to smuggling,” Tanya muttered.  She slapped a tiny fist ...

Professor Wong

This is a commission for KingZephyr, featuring Wong of Marvel in a crossover situation.

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It was Strange’s fault, of course.  Meddling with forces he had read the sparknotes on and thought himself capable, assuming that because understanding came to him easily that he had no need for caution - it wa...

Walt and Toby Go Fishing

This was a commission by KingZephyr who asked for Walt and Toby going fishing, but I was also able to make it fit canon.  So here we go, the first canon extra for Captain Westeros.

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Eleni wasn’t quite pacing, but she looked like she dearly wanted to.  Straw-blonde hair was tied in a...

With Grace and Genre Savviness 2

Irene was starting to get the hang of this Apparition thing, but then the prospect of fate as a chew toy for some kind of hell beast was a hell of a motivator.  The loud crack of her teleports had lessened into a quiet snap, and the frog no longer seemed as upset by the process, which was good because he might be the only reason she survive...

Shield and Cub

KingZephyr commissioned 2k words of Steve and Ciri adventuring together.  It kind of got out of hand.

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It was the second week of their little adventure, and the fourth fort they faced.  Once a fortified manor of a slave lord, it had been hurriedly built up when word of their coming ha...

With Grace and Genre Savviness

A friend of mine, let's call her Irene, subscribed to the Leviathan tier because she's cool like that.  Because she also takes great pleasure in twisting the knife, she had me write the most degenerate of commissions:  a xianxia friend insert.  I know nothing of xianxia, and have yet to read a single example of the genre, but here...

Sufficiently Advanced Percussive Maintenance 3

Wrapping her head around the whatever-the-fuck of the sight could wait until there was no longer a Reaper perched on the Citadel Tower.  “Advance to cover,” Jane ordered, and they moved as one, every one of them positioned to support two others should an attack come.

The blond oddity awaited them, unconcerned about standing in the...

Long Live The King

The Targaryen delegation was late that morning, leaving what some had called the STAB alliance to cool their heels in the pavilion that had been set up outside the city walls, picking at small hors d'oeuvres and sipping at what wine the army could find.  In time though, the gates opened and the royal party rode out, armour glittering under ...

Still Waters Hide Sharp Rocks

KingZephyr asked for more of Naerys' entrepreneurial efforts. 

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“Another one, Lady Naerys,” Zary said, handing over a scroll.  Vindictive amusement was clear on her bronze face.

“Who was it this time?” Naerys asked.  They sat in her office in the White House, the ro...

Sufficiently Advanced Percussive Maintenance 2

xanartik commissioned a continuation of the Thor/Mass Effect 'What If?'. 

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Thor watched as the defenders emerged from the cover of their bunker, weapons raised warily.  He saw two unfamiliar species, one with a metallic crest on its head and similarly hard skin, the other with smoother skin and rounded hor...

Iron Wrench, Metal Gear

KingZephyr wanted to see an Avenger have a run in with Senator Armstrong of Metal Gear.

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Sometimes, Tony considered just how bad it would really be if he took over the US, just seized control.  It wouldn’t be hard.  Sure, Pepper wouldn’t talk to him for a week, and he’d be on nappy duty full time, bu...

Naerys Drops A Hint (Or Several)

KingZephyr wanted to see more of Naerys suffering, and poor Ser Arthur caught in the crossfire.  

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“...’with lavender eyes I see your quality, your smile, your heart, Only give me a sign and our romance might start.  I will raise my sword beside you, that we may never be apart.’, Steve read ...

In A Frozen While Hell 2

When Steve woke, he was in danger of being covered in bodies.  Sleeping bodies, some snoring, others twitching, one drooling, but bodies.  The hut he was in had a single large fur on the ground, and a number of smaller ones as blankets, but it seemed that Steve’s natural body heat had been deemed to be the superior option, as every o...

An Archer Adrift: I Don't Have An Arrow For This

KingZephyr commissioned the opening scene of the meme Clint quest. 

X x X

Clint bent over backwards to avoid a swipe that would’ve torn out his intestines, before returning the favour and carving the four-armed-mutant-dog-looking-thing from hip to shoulder.  Shimmering red light cloa...

In A Frozen White Hell

Steve hated the cold.  He hated the way it cut through his suit, he hated the way it burned with every breath, and he hated what it reminded him of.  There was no escaping it, not in the hours he had been walking since he woke up, half buried under a growing snowbank.  He could count on one hand the times he’d been seized by suc...

Two Blonds: Adventures in Averland

Xanartik requested Thor and Tanya, adventuring through the Empire and getting up to all sorts of trouble.

X x X

It was a quiet morning on the road to Grenzstadt, at least as far as those things went.  A steady trickle of caravans and traders passed through the northern gate of the fortress-town, carrying the wea...

The Bay of America 2

The fighting pits of Meereen prided themselves on their spectacle, and that meant doing more than simply bleeding untold numbers of slaves dry on the sands.  A discerning audience demanded surprise and spontaneity, and that meant more than the classic circle of sand.  Some of the most memorable fights, still spoken of years later, had ...

What The Heart Wants

KingZephyr commissioned the wedding of Steve and Keladry, with Naerys watching on.

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The wedding of Lord America to Lady Delnaimn was a popular affair, as much for the event itself as the salacious gossip it seemed to birth with every bit of news surrounding it.

‘Did you hear, the Lord America made a bast...