Lexiconal

They had to do something to pass the time.

They were snowed in – not just snowed in, but stuck, without a single plane, train, or automobile leaving the city for the foreseeable future.

The news reports were calling it the storm of the century, or they had before the power got a little too spotty to spend any on tv and the wifi got so miserable nobody could get a signal except when they sat in one specific spot in the middle of the dorms.

They’d started with board games.

That, of course, had led to arguing about board games.

That had almost led to a fist fight, but Maddy had gotten in the middle and handed Jody her glove. Continue reading →

Your Turn: What Do I Write Next?

Jul10

Okay, I thought I’d just open it up to you guys ’cause I need some reader excitement to excite me. 😉

Below is a list of my current projects, with a number afterwards listing number of days since last written.

Pick one, or one non-writing and one writing, for me to work on next writing session.

Please feel free to ask me what any of these are, too.

💾 – Website maintenance

🚶‍♀️ – Exercise

🎨 – Art

(no sign: writing)

Thimbleful Posts💾		115
Plan Submission		n/a
Patreon Xposts 💾		83
Spoonflower 🎨		60
mm werewolf		58
Strata Fic		58
Map 🎨		57
Bike 5 minutes 🚶‍♀️		53
Prompt		21
Story for B		18
Commission		18
Saving the Cult		17
Landing Page Landing Page💾		16
The Bellamy		10
Painting the Prison		10
F.I.B. M.A.D.		9
sort files		8
Muzzled		8
Nano Mine		8
Patreon		7
Owed A Life		4
Streeetch 🚶‍♀️		4
Purchase Negotiation		4
Inherited		3
Blog Post		2
Helpers		2
arranged		1
TootFic		1
Mine Book		1

Beekeeper: In Which Amrit Takes a Run

Jul9

First: A beginning of a story which obnoxiously cuts off just before the description,
Previous: In Which They Go To Bed.

Please note: there are two chapters after “in which they stop kissing…” which have been deprecated. This re-write begins from Amrit and Mieve ending up in bed.

This is the actual commission: @Momerath@wandering.shop commissioned me to write another chapter of Beekeeper, (see the prequel to the commission linked above)

🐝 Continue reading →

July: a Rambling blog post

Jul8

Hello, folks.

Somehow, it’s July.

If you read my site, you won’t be surprised that June was a bit of a slog for me (as I posted uh. Almost nothing. *cough* Sorry about that; I’m working on getting back to getting stuff posted both here and on Patreon).

Some of this – well, no, that was July. July has been a slog because my *@#(@& prescriber didn’t call in my ADHD-meds script, after, at last count, THREE calls from the pharmacy.

You know, the one thing I’m on that has serious withdrawal issues?

*grumble* Continue reading →

Saving the Cult (if not the World), Chapter Twenty-Four

Jul3

“Lina. Lina, if you want a shower before you save the world, you should get up now. Did you know your mother’s power includes a back room to a tent with a full bath?”

Lina blinked up at Jackson and stifled a yawn. “Shower,” she agreed. “Clothes?”

“Your mom brought some, here.” He handed her a pile of clothes. She stared at them blearily for a moment before blinking a couple times. “They’re… These are clothes I like.”

“I negotiated a couple times. The rest of us’ve been up for almost an hour,” he added. “You’ve still got time to shower and eat a good breakfast and stuff, but you have to get up now.”

“Getting up, getting up,” she muttered, and followed action to words and got up. “So I’m going to save the world dressed like a high school student. Instead of…” She had been confused when her mother had insisted on her bringing a couple of her “job interview and internship” outfits camping, but she could bet —

“Skirt suit with power pumps. Kept the necklace, though; and it’s high school professional student, you have to admit. Not ripped jeans and a band t-shirt.”

“The only band t-shirt I own I won in a bet from another kid who stole it from a concert. I mean, do you—?”

“A couple,” he admitted. “So it’s all high school professional?” Continue reading →

July Patreon Theme Poll!

Jul2

Beekeeper: In Which They Go to Bed

Jun26

First: A beginning of a story which obnoxiously cuts off just before the description,
Previous: In Which They Stop Kissing Long Enough to Talk.

Please note: there are two chapters after “in which they stop kissing…” which have been deprecated. This re-write begins from Amrit and Mieve ending up in bed.

This is a prequel to the commission, more or less: @Momerath@wandering.shop commissioned me to write another chapter of Beekeeper, and in order to do that, I needed to go back and fix the spot where I’d stalled.

Ahem.

Where I’d stalled Three Years Ago.

This chapter mentions sex and involves two people being naked and intimate but in a mainly fade-to-black way; there is no on-screen sex.

🐝 Continue reading →

Tongue

Jun25

Content warning: a great deal of discussion of body modification, including some described.

So I was talking to @root@elle.systems regarding their new tongue-split modification. They said some stuff and I said some stuff and then we were talking about how great the tongue is and, ahem.

The green-haired person in this story is not meant to be @Root; they are simply a person who had a similar idea.

Also: Tír na Cali setting, but the only setting warning required is that mentioned above.

🩺

“I want my whole body to be a tongue muscle.”

The person in front of Senne had green hair – very green, very well done – three piercings, two tattoos, and an energy like they were going to vibrate out of the room from excitement any moment now. Continue reading →

Malina and the Border Banners, Chapter 16 (A Story for B)

Jun24

Began here.
Chapter 2 here
Chapter 3 here.
Chapter 4 here.
Chapter 5 here.
Chapter 6 here.
Chapter 7 here.
Chapter 8 here.
Chapter 9 here.
Chapter 10 here.
Chapter 11 here.
Chapter 12 here.
Chapter 13 here.
Chapter 14 here.
Chapter 15 here.

I was supposed to see the oases?
Of course. You saw them, didn’t you?

There was just a little too much to take in. Malina put her head in her hands. She wanted –

She wanted her tutor, Yethen, who would help her through these things. She wanted her class-mates, especially Jaian, who knew what to do in situations where nothing made sense. She wanted –

She chuckled ruefully. She wanted people. She had spent so much of her life looking for a quiet place away from people, a little moment to herself. And here –

well, here, she had this cat, didn’t she? Even here, she wasn’t actually alone. Continue reading →

Landing Page: Saving the Cult

Jun24

This story started as a dream. 38,000 words in, it is finally past the part I dreamed.

What can I say? I dream big.

It’s a week before school starts. Lina’s parents have dragged her to a meetup on a hilltop campsite, filled with rich people acting weirdly. Some of them are even wearing robes, and not, say, bathrobes or Hugh Hefner smoking jackets. On top of that, Lina’s discovered that she can make force fields if she concentrates —

and somehow her mother pulled a whole (small) house out of a suitcase.

Things are only going to get weirder.

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