Hi!
Bit of a quick impromptu poll. (Admittedly, I've got another set of somewhat-similar poll choices for Speedrunner that'll show up on Thursday. Apologies for inundating you all; I'm hoping contributing to the direction character developme...
2025-07-29 14:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: As mentioned in one of my other recent posts, I'm still working on the final chapter of Hospital Stay; it'll be released in August at some point as a bonus to the usual cadence of Monday releases. But here's the second June poll...
2025-07-28 13:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: if you've for some reason decided just to skip ahead, please understand that this chapter is one of four different endings to the story.
They both blinked.
Claire spoke first. ...
2025-07-24 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Well, the results are in, and voting puts Matt at a 1.7 on the 1 (forgiving) to 4 (over it) scale that I invented.
So he'll land on the forgiving side of distrustful when it comes to Viv and Lauren, for now, at le...
2025-07-21 13:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: if you've for some reason decided just to skip ahead, please understand that this chapter is one of four different endings to the story.
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They both blinked.
Claire spo...
2025-07-16 16:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: In reviewing the first few chapters, I realized I've had some inconsistencies in one of the names of the stats; it ought to be called Performance, not Physical. I've tweaked the first few chapters to correct the inconsist...
2025-07-14 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: if you've for some reason decided just to skip ahead, please understand that this chapter is one of four different endings to the story.
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They both blinked.
Claire spo...
2025-07-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Make sure you are up to speed on The Thaumaturge before reading further and voting in t...
2025-07-07 13:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Well, this one is exposition-heavy. The next few may be as well. But there’s still smut in there, don’t you worry. :)
Poll going up alongside this – go ahead and vote!
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2025-07-07 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: If you haven't read this before, I've written four different versions of Chapter 24 -- four different endings for the story. That's why Chapter 23 ends where it does. I'm going to shoot for editing and posting one ending a week ...
2025-07-03 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm fresh off vacation (which hopefully went mostly unnoticed; I had everything scheduled out to go live at its usual pace!) and now raring to go.
Here's what I posted in June:
“Well,” Dr Carlson said, drawing the word out dubiously. “It’s certainly possible that the surgery didn’t work. We discussed that possibility. You feel some sensitivity, you say?”
I nodded.
I was doing my best to tell mysel...
2025-06-30 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Doing this as a short bonus post plus a poll as an addendum to Speedrunner 0.2. It's the first time any of the characters have “leveled up” so there's a bit of a mechanics-dump, and I'm going to treat this as a voti...
2025-06-26 13:36:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's that?
Ah.
Yes, we gave it everything it asked for. Of course we did.
Apologies if I sound tired, Diane, but I can see the moral hectoring coming from a mile away. That's the whole point here, the entirety ...
THIS POST IS A REFLECTION/Q&A POST FOR MY SERIES THE THAUMATURGE. IT CONTAINS A FEW SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS ABOUT THE SERIES TO DAT...
2025-06-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Make sure you are up to speed on The Thaumaturge before reading further and voti...
2025-06-16 13:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: If this were an early-2000s television series, I think this would be the Season 1 finale.
Author's Note: If this were an early 2000s television series, I think this would be the Season 1 finale. Or maybe the episode right ...
2025-06-16 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHere we are, somehow most of the way through June already!
Up top, I wanted to make sure you saw the forthcoming pricing change I posted about yesterday. TLDR: C...
2025-06-14 16:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Apologies if this is a little verbose, but I'm making a few changes in the near future, and being transparent about changes is pretty important to me.
First, the most important and most imminent change:
T...
2025-06-13 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: roxas_duh generously sponsored this second chapter of Speedrunner with his story sponsorship last month. Thank you for your support!
Also, there's a lot of...very specific formatting in here, as we get into...
2025-06-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 14
It was Wednesday night, now. I
2025-06-05 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Make sure you are up to speed on The Thaumaturge before reading further and voting in t...
2025-06-02 21:45:11 +0000 UTC View PostLauren was looking at me, steadily. "It's your call, Matt, I'm not about to pick for you. Which will it be -- getting her off, or finding some way for you to get off?"
It was an easy choice, really.
There was no way in hell ...
2025-06-02 21:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe training dataset? Astute question, Diane. Well, as you might imagine, we've got some proprietary things going on under the hood...
The training dataset? Astute question, Diane. Well, as you might imagine, we've got some proprietary t...
2025-05-27 20:41:53 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS POST IS A WRAP UP FOR MY SERIES DUNGEON MISTRESS. IT CONTAINS A FEW SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS ABOUT THE SERIES. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ALL FIV...
2025-05-23 15:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Apologies on the delay on th
2025-05-21 18:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this month's off to a raring start, but the things I'm most excited about haven't even actually landed yet!
So far this month, I've released:
Authors Note: Well, I'm hard at work on Dungeon Mistress Session 5, but as mentioned, the finale is a real behemoth and I want to make sure to do it justice. As such, I'm releasing a sponsored story this week while I continue to work on it. Re...
2025-05-12 16:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post