Power coalesces around me, a terrifying showing of might that, back on Verdantop, I would have assumed was a potentially lethal attack. Not here, though. This is just… fun. A game. It's such a fucking wild concept, I don't know how to handle it.
As usual, it's all familiar yet surreal. My Vita side has not only never played hoop...
2022-05-12 05:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone! Thundamoo here! A ha
2022-05-11 21:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostA comforting pressure surrounds me as I wake, though I'm immediately aware I am no longer in my bed. Yesterday went… pretty well. After getting home from Brendan's house I just streamed most of the day, which helped take my mind off of things. Brendan even found a set of foam blocks that I can stick on my claws to prevent me from ripping up my...
2022-05-10 04:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post"So there I am, trying to fight this giant, four-armed monster with nothing but a pointy stick while my teammate figures out how to give it an ulcer or whatever," I ramble, stuffing more delicious food into my mouth. Athanatos can eat and talk at the same time without issue and it's awesome.
"You said this thing was twice your siz...
2022-05-07 05:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, I find myself walking the halls of the Progenitor's mansion, staring at the ceiling and trying to piece together the image despite the many memories I've lost. Destroying Malrosa's memory core didn't just remove most of the memories from her previous bodies, but it also means that the memories of my current body, while far clearer an...
2022-05-05 04:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostMy pillow-muffled screams eventually die down as the anxiety of staying in bed for too long starts to catch up to me. My mom is going to pop her head in my room to make sure I'm not oversleeping any minute now, and I just can't deal with that so I guess it's time to get up.
I turn over and start dragging myself out of bed, causing...
2022-05-03 01:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapter! I still intend to write one for Monday as well, though forgive me if I die again. Don't ask me why I took two days off and then worked on my actual, scheduled day off. I don't know either. My brain just does things sometimes. Anyway, enjoy!
Are you sure you're human? I grumble indigna...
Hello everyone. Another unexpected break, but sometimes the author just becomes a bundle of depression, terror, and stress. You'd think this would be conducive to writing considering my usual subject matter, but nope! It just sucks.
Apologies for being so terrible at planning these breaks. The short notice makes me feel bad more t...
2022-04-29 17:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Really?" Talanika asks with surprise. "You're full?"
"I am so terribly sorry, Princesses," the restaurant's greeter says, meaning every word of it. "I believe the recent play is to blame for the abnormally high traffic."
"Oh, that makes sense," Tala mutters. "All the Queens must have gotten the same idea we had. Well, shoot."
...
2022-04-28 07:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostThey're friendly, my mind insists. Just go to them.
Even in the chill of the barren zone, my body feels like it's burning from my recent death-defying sprint. I need water, food, and rest, but even though I'm hiding somewhere safe I don't think I'll be able to get any of them.
You're safe. They're friends.<...
2022-04-25 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostI must admit, the black mana writes to me, I'm particularly surprised that you even exist. I'm quite sure you weren't self-aware just a few decades ago.
I squirm with embarrassment, though I'm not sure why that should be embarrassing.
I guess I wasn't? I adm...
2022-04-23 03:47:15 +0000 UTC View PostI wake up in my bed with the horrid, foreboding feeling that I am dead. I almost feel like the experience chills me to my core, but then I recall I do not have one.
Right, I remember. I am Vita now.
It's quite an odd feeling, to suddenly be someone else. My pleasant life knew nothing of struggle, poverty, need, oppression, hunger, or...
2022-04-21 04:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Content warning for a detailed description of a panic attack.
A frustrated pounding on the outside of the bathroom door startles me so hard I nearly fall into the toilet.
"Hurry up, Hannah!" my brother shouts at me. "I have to shower, too!"
"S-sorry!" I call back. "I'll be out in a minute!"
Annoying...
2022-04-19 05:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostMy body twitches and everything is wrong. What happened? I feel like a stranger in my own body. Is this my body!? Of course it is. Of course. What else would it be? This must be a nightmare.
"She's coming to!" my sister whom I've never met declares in my birth language that I've never heard before.
…What? Oh, it's this again, but w...
2022-04-16 06:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't felt this lost since August died.
It's not as bad now as it was then, I callously note. I don't really have the option of not recognizing that; time doesn't dull my wounds the way it supposedly does for humans. A simple look backwards is all I need to know that, yes, the death of my father was much more distressing than ...
2022-04-15 03:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Welcome, everyone, to the first chapter of my new story. It is named Bioshifter. I hope you all enjoy.
Once again, I wake up trying to figure out which of my limbs are actually real.
It's my own special little form of sleep paralysis, and the fact that it occurs nearly every single morning has not made it any l...
2022-04-12 01:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Murderer!" the young little vrothizo roars at me, launching herself through the air towards me in a manner I note is not dissimilar to how Vita nearly killed herself by leaping at Galdra. Loyal to a fault, the both of them.
Loyalty is a virtue, not a fault.
Of course, loyalty is a virtue and not a fault. It is observably be...
2022-04-09 23:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post"So… so you're sure this is safe?" Lark presses, clutching one of my soul-infused meat rations like it's a dying child. "It's not made out of a person and it's not hurting anyone?"
"Well it's made out of me," I say defensively. "But no, I'm not being harmed by this at all. Anima is just a substance, like meat. Some of i...
2022-04-07 08:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This is a Penelope chapter. If you struggled with the last Penelope chapter, read this one with caution.
Waiting for Galdra to come back quickly becomes more painful than the knowledge that I have been violated on a fundamental level, though at least half of that is probably the boredom. Being stuck alone and unable...
My claw comes down, and I become a murderer.
My Evelyn Terrestrial's size, weight, and frighteningly optimized muscular system make the task trivial. I simply run up to my target and bring one of my arms down on the front of its body, crushing through the protective chitin with a wet crunch. A single strike to the head, and it's over. This...
2022-03-28 23:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostSomewhat disappointingly, the rest of my squad declines to take the much faster and more efficient travel method of simply riding on top of Ketevan the Worldshaker's back, and we end up trudging through the forest muck like plebeians that don't have tree-felling giants as subjects. I could ride alone, I suppose, but I'm trying to be 'one of the ...
2022-03-26 07:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm not feeling well and as a result I'll be taking a couple days of break. Next chapter will probably be Friday for VM and Monday for HMGGH.
Sorry!
2022-03-23 00:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostI'm already moving and casting before the attack comes, and it's a good thing I am because otherwise we would have all died.
I tackle Xavier and Jelisa as my tendrils weave a repulsion spell to blast the rest of the team out of the way. An instant later, Ketevan's hoof comes crashing down where we had gathered together, Keero having telepo...
2022-03-19 18:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostI feel the tears falling down my face and I just let them. I'd thought I could at least feel good about having kept my entire squad alive, but it turns out I can't even do that.
Melik is dead.
He wasn't a friend, not really. He was grumpy, mean, and rude, at least around me. But he was getting better over time, and he was still my
"I wish everyone could at least agree on the definition of abuse," Tara muses softly, her breath warm on the back of my head.
"Hmm?" I prompt.
We're cuddling together on my bed, and I'm quite enjoying being a happy little spoon. The fact that my girlfriend is the ruler of a country now (and rapidly preparing to ...
2022-03-15 05:00:42 +0000 UTC View Post"You might need to let me handle it," I whisper regretfully.
I've thought about it a lot as we slowly approach, and so far as I can tell we have no better option. That Wight is packing the sort of power that could end civilizations if unleashed, which means the first and most important element is to not aggravate it. We need to be stealthy...
2022-03-12 10:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostWalking through the forest with a team is both pleasantly nostalgic and exceptionally frustrating, considering that I have the benefit of good company but the downside of having to be led around by blind people. I used to take pride in how damn good a scout I was, back when I was a hunter. I suppose I didn't realize exactly how much I e...
2022-03-10 04:28:33 +0000 UTC View Post"The tumultuous situation in Myanmar took another strange turn this morning as a group of armed women stormed and captured the capitol building, which they are now holding against the Myanmar military," the news declares, causing me to drop my spoon into my cereal. "News out of the country is sparse, but the following images and video were c...
2022-03-08 06:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostI practice sword and shield drills in the barracks yard, frustrated with how my body wars against two sets of competing instincts. Melik knows how this body is supposed to work, but his movements and instincts are struggling to hold their head above water as I fall back into my own habits, designed for a body stronger, tougher, smaller, and thin...
2022-03-04 22:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostMy fight-or-flight instinct is still screaming at me to kill as Cassia walks in, my whole body tense with the need for movement, for preemptive action. This is the woman that actually caught me two years ago, after all. The most direct and immediate reason I got locked away in Site 4 and ended up as public enemy number two. So there is an elemen...
2022-03-03 08:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post