The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (sort of?)

This is, somewhat, the continuation of My History With Anime as promised. As I’d mentioned, I started to read quite a few LNs (Light Novels). Some, I’ve started because I saw the anime and wanted to read the source material….

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My History With Anime

Where It Started I don’t exactly try to hide that I am a … somewhat avid? … consumer of certain types of Japanese fiction in various forms. This started decades ago with anime. And even that started first with the…

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Winter 2023 Anime

Yeah, I know I’m really late to the party for this one, and I haven’t exactly been doing much lately anyway. Unlike the few previous ones of these I’ve done, I’m just going to highlight a couple of shows that…

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Tales From The Pub – The Emperor’s Tale – Part II

The Nowhere Pub

The Imperial Conference Room settled into a stunned silence as what had just been said sank into the thoughts of the Emperor, all of the highest-ranked military personnel, and other Imperial advisors. Vice-Admiral Kaydyn Rames began to sit down again,…

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Tales From The Pub – The Emperor’s Tale – Part I

The Nowhere Pub

Upon taking over ruling his first planet, Planetary Governor Brarol Trogawa evacuated the lightly-populated town of Vivcan. Once the population was completely gone, he had the entire town, except for one small and very nondescript building, completely leveled and razed….

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A House To Call Home

He pulled into the driveway and saw that the realtor was already there, leaning against the door of her car, waiting for him. She smiled and walked over to his car as he parked, grabbed his jacket and stepped out….

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I Am “Big Sad”

A while back, I had posted about how I was seriously hyped about purchasing and importing a Japanese Nissan 300ZX. The car arrived two weeks ago (just about literally). Two days after it arrived, much to my surprise, it made…

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Character Name Creativity

One of the beautiful things about Scrivener is that it has a bunch of built-in tools to make some of the “creative” elements of writing just a touch easier. For example, it has a “Name Generator”, complete with a set…

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Junkyard God

Come forth, mortal! Know that you stand before one of the great gods of your existence! Which god? I could tell you my name, but for your flimsy body much of it is unpronounceable. On top of which, were you…

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Pausing Tewei

I don’t really want to, but … I have to. Right now, the scope of what I want to write for the book is conflicting heavily with what I currently feel … capable … of writing. I know enough to…

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Researching Tewei

I’ve hit a weird combination of an overall writer’s block and what I can only describe as a … research block. “What on earth is a ‘research block’?”, I can hear you questioning. [Ok, maybe you’re not questioning it, but…

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New Life on Tewei

Outside of one of the Birthing Huts, there is a small cluster of men keeping watch over another — younger than those waiting with him. That man, turned nineteen in the past year, stands apart, pacing back and forth in…

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