The Big Ol' Writing Post
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lb_leeWow, this post has become a true monster. But here it is, all the writing. If you want the fanwork folks have made me, that's here. Basically, my schtick is queer slice-of-life speculative fiction and essays about weird multi brainstuff. If you want to buy stuff, check out my shop page.
This post got mostly locked down in 2021 and we are still working on what'll get unlocked where. If you want access to the locked stuff, ask us.
This post was last updated on 9/30/2024 with The Sins-of-Flesh Demon.
Series/Story Groups:
Essays (AKA all the plural stuff) - What you're probably here for, all the stuff on bootstrapping, plural history, and nonsense.
Infinity Smashed - Queer YA portal fantasy about inter-dimensional immigration problems. (Old archive is here.)
Reverend Alpert, the Traveling Exorcist - post-apocalyptic serial involving a kinky exorcist traveling around with a living personification of his darkest desires. GETTING UNLOCKED
Battle the Universe - Superhero slice-of-life in the Trump era. OVERWHELMINGLY LOCKED
The Princess and Her Monster (HIATUS) - Historical fantasy in a world where the Roman Empire never existed and Judaism is the dominant monotheistic religion. LOCKED
Old Bloods - grumpy old vampires who actually act like old geezers and don't understand how fax machines work. LOCKED
The Tree That Wasn't - An eldritch entity trying very hard to pretend it's a tree, and failing miserably. Also a woman and her ghost boyfriend. LOCKED
Disabled Cyborgs - Exactly what it says on the tin.
Magical Moonbeams - A protagonist of a much-beloved, awfully-written YA series flees her stories and takes refuge in a big crossover fanfic RP as an NPC barista. LOCKED
Tanika, Ghost Whisperer - 'Nuff Said. LOCKED
Stand-Alone Stories - Ditto. Getting unlocked.
Reverend Alpert, the Traveling Exorcist
The apocalypse has come and gone, leaving behind the remnants of humanity and a lot of supernatural entities. Reverend Alpert earns his bread and butter dealing with them. A loner by nature, his life is simple and regulated, but then he picks up a companion and things get complicated. You can learn more about the story set-up here!
The Gestaltist of Blood: Alpert gets caught by some enterprising bandits.
The Sins-of-Flesh Demon: In the Gestaltist belief system, monsters reflect the humans around them. So Alpert is less than pleased when he spawns a sins-of-flesh demon. (NSFW) (Old 2014 version here.)
The Monster Under the Bed: As a constant traveler, Reverend Alpert makes his home by setting wards. At the inn he stays at, the children make their home by creating a monster. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
La Curandera: Reverend Alpert travels to a town, only to find it fallen to plague zombies. All that remains is the child of the local curandera, and her monstrous stuffed owl. LOCKED
The Angel of Joy: Reverend Alpert meets an entity that wants nothing more than for everyone to be happy. Fanart illustration! LOCKED
the Rage Mother: After their run-in with the Angel of Joy, Alpert and Perfection need money, and so they end up taking on two cases of possession: a mother, and a farmers' crops. One goes well; the other, not so much. LOCKED
The Black Dog: Reverend Alpert is called to deal with what seems to be a haunted house, but between the troubled boy being haunted and the nature of the spirit, things are more complicated than they first look. LOCKED
The Shadow Wife: It's winter harvest season, which means more possessed produce work for Alpert and Perfection, but another Gestaltist gets involved who doesn't approve of their working arrangement. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
The Curse of Opposites: Reverend Alpert and Perfection are called to the cursed town of Chelm, only to find that the curse isn't the problem, but a small puppy instead. LOCKED
The Thing in the Drain: Reverend Alpert and Perfection are looking forward to a relaxing night at Alpert’s favorite bath house, but it looks like the management has changed. LOCKED
The Greenwitch: Alpert and Perfection are still making their way to the central church, when they run into a case involving a very different faith than Alpert's own. LOCKED
The Woman Without Will, Part One and Part Two: Willie and Nellie shared a body together and joined the Gestaltist church as children. But neither of them can perform any works... LOCKED
The Genie: While Alpert deals with the central church, Perfection takes some time to herself and finds another monster displeased with their master. Fanart illustration! LOCKED
Alpert's Son: To train her for their upcoming work in the Scattered Cities, Alpert introduces Perfection to his son, Zachary. LOCKED
The Terror-Eater: Alpert and Perfection encounter a carnivorous shape-shifter who embodies its audience's worst fears, which leads to a very uncomfortable conversation. LOCKED
The Heirlooms: While gathering valuables from a city taken by plague zombies, Alpert and Perfection get separated, and Perfection has her first experience of true physical pain. LOCKED
The Corpse Child: Alpert and Perfection take on a case involving a child who has died but refuses to acknowledge it. LOCKED
The Deity of Forever Road: Lupa is a very good dog, and when she dies, she becomes a minor deity protecting a stretch of highway. LOCKED
The Mother of All Plagues: Perfection and Reverend Alpert encounter something they can't fight. LOCKED
The Librarian: Most Revered Dorothy Ives has to deal with the ghosts from her past and present, along with an unexpected letter. LOCKED
The Alpert Trollface Comic: All Perfection wants is to get a rise out of Alpert. Is that so terrible? A silly comic done for the series's fifth anniversary. LOCKED
Perfection's Birthday: It was one year ago that Perfection met Alpert, and she wants something very special... LOCKED
The Cursed City: Decades after the events of La Curandera, a grown-up Prudencia cleans a city. LOCKED
You also might enjoy the fabulous fanart (here and here), and fanfic (2) fine folks have fabricated!
Battle the Universe
Superheroism is a valid form of law enforcement in the BTU world, often televised and dramatized for popular consumption. To be a street vigilante is dangerous, but one of the few ways to work on a small, local level. Follow various vigilantes as they go about their work and lives. This series has a big ensemble cast, so here's the 101 page!
Send In The Clowns!: A former two-bit supervillain finds new life and purpose in political protest… with clowns. UNLOCKED!
Better Luck Next Time: Chrone is a lesbian supervillain with time travel powers... but there are provisos. LOCKED
The Choice: New street-vigilante Tank gets faced with the classic supervillain choice: save others or themself? Tank breaks the rules, and the hostage situation moves inside. LOCKED
One Step Ahead: Tank have just become a member of Law and Justice, an illustrious superhero team, but someone seems to be sabotaging their career... LOCKED
How to Wake Up: When Law and Justice is attacked by a dream-based supervillain, Blind Justice finds herself trapped in a never-ending nightmare. How does she escape? LOCKED
Return to Sender; Addressee Deceased: In Tank's system, TJ gets dreams from system members who have died, and the Zombie tries to comfort zer. LOCKED
A Break From People: Lorry is starting to crack under the pressure of constantly being around news crews and his teammates, and desperately needs some alone time. But how do you get that when you're multiple? LOCKED
Zombie's Birthday: The Zombie does a lot of things for its internal family, and one day, they decide to thank it. LOCKED
The Gynecologist: Lorry's system can handle a lot of things, but now it's their biggest challenge yet: a doctor's appointment. LOCKED
Hamster Man: Chester "Cheeks" Maccio has come all the way from Vermont to see what superheroing is like in the big leagues, and then he and Lorry end in a firefight. LOCKED
The First Rule of Blackmail: Tank lies in a hospital bed, and Lucinda and Kara plot what to do next. LOCKED
Incognito and the Crips with Capes: After firing Tank from Law and Justice, the All-Seeing Eye calls up an old friend and asks a favor. LOCKED
That Guy at the Party: Lorry crashes, and Lucinda is stuck fronting at a party with nobody she knows, and then she gets cornered by That Guy. You know the one. LOCKED
Black Man and Cracker Jack Battle the Universe: Reggie has a bad day and ends up a costumed vigilante by accident. LOCKED
The Man In His Castle: Reggie defeats a bad guy with lesbians. LOCKED
The Reality Warper: A former superhero breaks out of the mental hospital, and reality starts to go horribly wrong. Tank tries to help. LOCKED
Cracker On Fire: Jake's stupidity nearly kills him. LOCKED
5 Times BTU Flunked Gender: T owns his Introduction to Human Sexuality homework. LOCKED
Changes: Incog has been asked which face is the real one. LOCKED
Fighting the D: Everyone’s scattering; nobody wants to be around when the police arrive. LOCKED
Lady Luck: “In a move transgender activists are calling a huge step forward, Lady Luck has joined the team of Law and Justice, becoming the first transgender superhero today..." LOCKED
Battle The Universe 5 Sentence Ficlets: Twenty-five drabbles in five sentences. LOCKED
The Princess and Her Monster (LOCKED FOREVER)
In an alternate universe where the Roman Empire never existed, the Mediterranean was controlled by three different empires: Ptolemaic Egypt, Carthage, and Maccabbean Jehuda. Judaism is the primary monotheistic religion in Europe. NOTE: This story is beyond my chops at this time, and has been quietly abandoned. It is unlikely to ever be unlocked.
Broken Cup: After a transformation, Gad deals with his new body.
Against the Night: After Gate's transformation into a golem, Princess Judith keeps having dreams of how he used to be, and she's sick of it.
Given Values of Success: Tobiach spends a lot of time desperately trying to convince himself that he and his plans are NOT failures, and then something he doesn't plan goes surprisingly right.
In Service: Long after all the rest of the story, Gate gets tied up.
A Family of Fools. Mordekhai, Miriam, and Mara are a family of professional fools in the Holy City, and they're hired to work at a party involving two feuding families, where emotions are running high.
To Serve and Protect: Mara's father gets hurt on the Shabbat, and she goes to find a foreign doctor still in business.
In Which Princess Judith Does Not Spit On A Rabbess: Where there was a royal guard, there was a royal child. Praise be. (Note: FIRST DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
In Which Princess Judith Does Not Get a Knight: "What's the difference between a knight and a guardsman?" (Note: VERY EARLY DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
In Which Princess Judith Sets a Baroness Aflame: Judith drives off another governess.(Note: VERY EARLY DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
Ties of Blood and Water: "They don't want me." (Note: FIRST DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
Chapter One: In which Sir Bertram Attempts to Rescue a Princess and Gravely Miscalculates: Sir Bertram took a branch to the face and swore. (Note: FIRST DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
In Which Sir Bertram Abuses the Word 'Obvious': "Tell me, do you ever have troubles with birds?" (Note: FIRST DRAFT. I won't stop you reading it, but it was way before things got settled.)
Old Bloods (LOCKED)
Welcome to Rochester, Massachusetts. Depending on who you talk to, vampires are either dangerous beasts after your children, or the coolest minority ever. It is now a fad in some teenage subcultures to get turned, so as to stay young, beautiful, and powerful forever, and the collateral damage is mounting. Old Bloods follows the lives of ordinary vampires who carry on their lives as best they can.
Vampires You Never See: A little comic that kicked off a lot of the original stories.
Going Home: Larry is a loving father and partner, but when he's violently attacked and turned to vampirism, he loses his job, financial security, and health insurance coverage with one bite. Which leads to the question of how he and his partner Luis can afford to pay rent...
Mao Xue Wang: Larry is having a hard time keeping blood down, and Luis is afraid for his health. Their crotchety old neighbor Han comes up with a delicious solution.
Larry's History: When Larry contracts hemophagia, his body starts rejecting some earlier modifications. Luis and Mary Ann join forces to give him something just as good.
Grand Boys: Old vampires hang out at Vasilov's, where the blood is good, the clientele merry, and the music is suitably old.
The Undying Bride: Carlisla never did like those 'romantic' stories where a creepy vampire turned his nubile human girlfriend...
Life Goes On: After being turned into a vampire, Carlisla has a bit of an adjustment period.
Acts of Kindness: When going to her Biters Anonymous meeting, Carlisla finds that her friend Rashid has just had a friendship go horribly wrong.
Blood Bank: Now that Carli has her dog back, she starts working on getting her blood safely and ethically. The Daylight Brigade decides to help.
The Tree That Wasn't (LOCKED)
The story of two neighbors. Maria has a carnivorous treebeast living in her front yard. Chavela has a lover on the astral plane. Otherwise, the world around them is ordinary, leaving the two of them to figure it out.
The Tree That Wasn't: Maria meets an entity trying very hard to pretend it's a tree. It doesn't succeed.
A Cat's Eye View: Chavela's love affair, as observed by her cat.
How Does Your Garden Grow?: Maria now has a new garden resident, but how do you care for a giant predatory tree-thing? On top of that, it tries to eat Chavela's cat.
Trick or Tree'd: Maria and Chavela gear up for the inevitable difficulties that comes from having a lot of candy, small children, and a predatory treebeast in the same yard.
The Uneatable Plant: Chavela's spirit boyfriend has gone missing, so Blacksockswhite goes to investigate!
Dream Lovers: Chavela has a happy relationship with Dion, but there's just one little problem... he's not corporeal.
Disabled Cyborgs
The Corporate War has ended, leaving a regiment of unemployed veteran cyborgs in need of money and maintenance. With their human patcher, Gwyneth, they try and keep themselves going in a world where they were designed to make money, not last.
Limited Warranty: "The love that lets you patch someone up with whatever tools are necessary and then send them back to their lives."
Social Networking: The Corporate War is over, but now Gwyneth and her cyborg regiment need new jobs, and quickly. And in Megacorp, it's all about who you know...
Planned Obsolescence: Cyborg Mike05 starts having health problems that his patron doesn't want to deal with.
System Maintenance: After the war, Mem08 has a cardinal rule: never ignore a distress signal. Even if it may not be real.
Portia, the Mechanical Girl: Despite everyone's attempts to convince her otherwise, Portia is positive she's a robot.
Hayada, the White-Gloved General: Toshi Hayada was a mediocre pianist but a brilliant soldier. And then he got blown up.
Durable Medical Equipment: Levi Ibrahim is a blind cyborg working in prosthetics with sensorimotor capability (with a trade-off in the visual appeal department). Brand Olajuwon's path crosses with his, and they try to make their way in the gritty underbelly of the same world as the other Disabled Cyborgs stories above, though a different side of it.
The Bionic Prosthetist: Levi Ibrahim makes prosthetics that feel real. Brand Olajuwon is interested, but not as a customer. Sketch!
Style Over Substance: Levi Ibrahim and Brand Olajuwon have been involved for a while, but both are keeping secrets, and now they have a job to do.
Cute stories about borgified animals are also here, because who doesn't love adorable cyborg animals?
The Borg Critters: the commissioned art pieces that inspired it all!
Esprit de Corps: Dead Zone Corps #000111 are a Borg unit in charge of exploring and investigating areas with only sporadic wireless access. Cut off from the Hive-Mother's constant protocol signals, the unthinkable happens: one of them becomes individual. What to do? And how to identify something that can't be understood?
The Best Messenger: Now that the cute little cybrog critters of Special Corps Unit #000111 are individuals, they must relay instructions through sound, only to discover that weather and individual interpretation can cause problems…
Dead Man's Switch: Rat is the leader of the cyborg animals, but it is now painfully aware that it is prey. It finds an ingenious way of dealing with that anxiety.
Magical Moonbeams (LOCKED)
A meta-fiction spectacular! You know that coffeeshop so much fanfiction takes place in? Marge is a barista there. Homescross Coffee is the site of a huge crossover RP online where fictional characters (either under their player's power or their own) come to make friends, fall in love, attend support groups, and get their caffeine fix.
Ordinary Ever After: Margaret is the Moon Princess, a main character with a tragic backstory from a poorly written but mega-popular fantasy story. When she finds out a sequel will be written, she wants to escape, but how? Bonus sketch!
The Other Princess: Marge has settled into her new life working at the Homescross coffee shop. Everything is going well, until there's a mod error and another Moon Princess shows up...
God Night: Marge is stuck running Homescross Coffee alone when the gods show up to party, and everyone knows the gods tip lousy... Sketch!
The Superpowered Craft Fair: Homescross Coffee is taking part in the autumn craft fair, and Marge gets a wooden duck.
Caught in a Rad Bromance: When Marge gets harassed by someone from her past, she discovers an ingenious way to get rid of him for good, thanks to the Bromancers support group.
The Magical Girl House: Former Moon Princess Marge decides she needs to move out, and that her past history is weighing on her more than expected. Sketch!
Material, Mythic, Mindscape: For once, Alice is the most mentally stable one. (focuses on the Magical Girl House, not Marge)
Tanika, Ghost Whisperer (LOCKED)
Sympathies: Tanika is bullied at school and thrown in the local haunted house for a night, but she finds unexpected help...
Somebody's Watching Me: Tanika takes a job to deal with a creep in the women's locker room.
How Jazell Got Their Earrings: When Jazell moves to a new school, they're ordered by their brother to make a new friend.
This post got mostly locked down in 2021 and we are still working on what'll get unlocked where. If you want access to the locked stuff, ask us.
This post was last updated on 9/30/2024 with The Sins-of-Flesh Demon.
Series/Story Groups:
Essays (AKA all the plural stuff) - What you're probably here for, all the stuff on bootstrapping, plural history, and nonsense.
Infinity Smashed - Queer YA portal fantasy about inter-dimensional immigration problems. (Old archive is here.)
Reverend Alpert, the Traveling Exorcist - post-apocalyptic serial involving a kinky exorcist traveling around with a living personification of his darkest desires. GETTING UNLOCKED
Battle the Universe - Superhero slice-of-life in the Trump era. OVERWHELMINGLY LOCKED
The Princess and Her Monster (HIATUS) - Historical fantasy in a world where the Roman Empire never existed and Judaism is the dominant monotheistic religion. LOCKED
Old Bloods - grumpy old vampires who actually act like old geezers and don't understand how fax machines work. LOCKED
The Tree That Wasn't - An eldritch entity trying very hard to pretend it's a tree, and failing miserably. Also a woman and her ghost boyfriend. LOCKED
Disabled Cyborgs - Exactly what it says on the tin.
Magical Moonbeams - A protagonist of a much-beloved, awfully-written YA series flees her stories and takes refuge in a big crossover fanfic RP as an NPC barista. LOCKED
Tanika, Ghost Whisperer - 'Nuff Said. LOCKED
Stand-Alone Stories - Ditto. Getting unlocked.
Reverend Alpert, the Traveling Exorcist
The apocalypse has come and gone, leaving behind the remnants of humanity and a lot of supernatural entities. Reverend Alpert earns his bread and butter dealing with them. A loner by nature, his life is simple and regulated, but then he picks up a companion and things get complicated. You can learn more about the story set-up here!
The Gestaltist of Blood: Alpert gets caught by some enterprising bandits.
The Sins-of-Flesh Demon: In the Gestaltist belief system, monsters reflect the humans around them. So Alpert is less than pleased when he spawns a sins-of-flesh demon. (NSFW) (Old 2014 version here.)
The Monster Under the Bed: As a constant traveler, Reverend Alpert makes his home by setting wards. At the inn he stays at, the children make their home by creating a monster. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
La Curandera: Reverend Alpert travels to a town, only to find it fallen to plague zombies. All that remains is the child of the local curandera, and her monstrous stuffed owl. LOCKED
The Angel of Joy: Reverend Alpert meets an entity that wants nothing more than for everyone to be happy. Fanart illustration! LOCKED
the Rage Mother: After their run-in with the Angel of Joy, Alpert and Perfection need money, and so they end up taking on two cases of possession: a mother, and a farmers' crops. One goes well; the other, not so much. LOCKED
The Black Dog: Reverend Alpert is called to deal with what seems to be a haunted house, but between the troubled boy being haunted and the nature of the spirit, things are more complicated than they first look. LOCKED
The Shadow Wife: It's winter harvest season, which means more possessed produce work for Alpert and Perfection, but another Gestaltist gets involved who doesn't approve of their working arrangement. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
The Curse of Opposites: Reverend Alpert and Perfection are called to the cursed town of Chelm, only to find that the curse isn't the problem, but a small puppy instead. LOCKED
The Thing in the Drain: Reverend Alpert and Perfection are looking forward to a relaxing night at Alpert’s favorite bath house, but it looks like the management has changed. LOCKED
The Greenwitch: Alpert and Perfection are still making their way to the central church, when they run into a case involving a very different faith than Alpert's own. LOCKED
The Woman Without Will, Part One and Part Two: Willie and Nellie shared a body together and joined the Gestaltist church as children. But neither of them can perform any works... LOCKED
The Genie: While Alpert deals with the central church, Perfection takes some time to herself and finds another monster displeased with their master. Fanart illustration! LOCKED
Alpert's Son: To train her for their upcoming work in the Scattered Cities, Alpert introduces Perfection to his son, Zachary. LOCKED
The Terror-Eater: Alpert and Perfection encounter a carnivorous shape-shifter who embodies its audience's worst fears, which leads to a very uncomfortable conversation. LOCKED
The Heirlooms: While gathering valuables from a city taken by plague zombies, Alpert and Perfection get separated, and Perfection has her first experience of true physical pain. LOCKED
The Corpse Child: Alpert and Perfection take on a case involving a child who has died but refuses to acknowledge it. LOCKED
The Deity of Forever Road: Lupa is a very good dog, and when she dies, she becomes a minor deity protecting a stretch of highway. LOCKED
The Mother of All Plagues: Perfection and Reverend Alpert encounter something they can't fight. LOCKED
The Librarian: Most Revered Dorothy Ives has to deal with the ghosts from her past and present, along with an unexpected letter. LOCKED
The Alpert Trollface Comic: All Perfection wants is to get a rise out of Alpert. Is that so terrible? A silly comic done for the series's fifth anniversary. LOCKED
Perfection's Birthday: It was one year ago that Perfection met Alpert, and she wants something very special... LOCKED
The Cursed City: Decades after the events of La Curandera, a grown-up Prudencia cleans a city. LOCKED
You also might enjoy the fabulous fanart (here and here), and fanfic (2) fine folks have fabricated!
Battle the Universe
Superheroism is a valid form of law enforcement in the BTU world, often televised and dramatized for popular consumption. To be a street vigilante is dangerous, but one of the few ways to work on a small, local level. Follow various vigilantes as they go about their work and lives. This series has a big ensemble cast, so here's the 101 page!
Send In The Clowns!: A former two-bit supervillain finds new life and purpose in political protest… with clowns. UNLOCKED!
Better Luck Next Time: Chrone is a lesbian supervillain with time travel powers... but there are provisos. LOCKED
The Choice: New street-vigilante Tank gets faced with the classic supervillain choice: save others or themself? Tank breaks the rules, and the hostage situation moves inside. LOCKED
One Step Ahead: Tank have just become a member of Law and Justice, an illustrious superhero team, but someone seems to be sabotaging their career... LOCKED
How to Wake Up: When Law and Justice is attacked by a dream-based supervillain, Blind Justice finds herself trapped in a never-ending nightmare. How does she escape? LOCKED
Return to Sender; Addressee Deceased: In Tank's system, TJ gets dreams from system members who have died, and the Zombie tries to comfort zer. LOCKED
A Break From People: Lorry is starting to crack under the pressure of constantly being around news crews and his teammates, and desperately needs some alone time. But how do you get that when you're multiple? LOCKED
Zombie's Birthday: The Zombie does a lot of things for its internal family, and one day, they decide to thank it. LOCKED
The Gynecologist: Lorry's system can handle a lot of things, but now it's their biggest challenge yet: a doctor's appointment. LOCKED
Hamster Man: Chester "Cheeks" Maccio has come all the way from Vermont to see what superheroing is like in the big leagues, and then he and Lorry end in a firefight. LOCKED
The First Rule of Blackmail: Tank lies in a hospital bed, and Lucinda and Kara plot what to do next. LOCKED
Incognito and the Crips with Capes: After firing Tank from Law and Justice, the All-Seeing Eye calls up an old friend and asks a favor. LOCKED
That Guy at the Party: Lorry crashes, and Lucinda is stuck fronting at a party with nobody she knows, and then she gets cornered by That Guy. You know the one. LOCKED
Black Man and Cracker Jack Battle the Universe: Reggie has a bad day and ends up a costumed vigilante by accident. LOCKED
The Man In His Castle: Reggie defeats a bad guy with lesbians. LOCKED
The Reality Warper: A former superhero breaks out of the mental hospital, and reality starts to go horribly wrong. Tank tries to help. LOCKED
Cracker On Fire: Jake's stupidity nearly kills him. LOCKED
5 Times BTU Flunked Gender: T owns his Introduction to Human Sexuality homework. LOCKED
Changes: Incog has been asked which face is the real one. LOCKED
Fighting the D: Everyone’s scattering; nobody wants to be around when the police arrive. LOCKED
Lady Luck: “In a move transgender activists are calling a huge step forward, Lady Luck has joined the team of Law and Justice, becoming the first transgender superhero today..." LOCKED
Battle The Universe 5 Sentence Ficlets: Twenty-five drabbles in five sentences. LOCKED
The Princess and Her Monster (LOCKED FOREVER)
In an alternate universe where the Roman Empire never existed, the Mediterranean was controlled by three different empires: Ptolemaic Egypt, Carthage, and Maccabbean Jehuda. Judaism is the primary monotheistic religion in Europe. NOTE: This story is beyond my chops at this time, and has been quietly abandoned. It is unlikely to ever be unlocked.
Broken Cup: After a transformation, Gad deals with his new body.
Against the Night: After Gate's transformation into a golem, Princess Judith keeps having dreams of how he used to be, and she's sick of it.
Given Values of Success: Tobiach spends a lot of time desperately trying to convince himself that he and his plans are NOT failures, and then something he doesn't plan goes surprisingly right.
In Service: Long after all the rest of the story, Gate gets tied up.
A Family of Fools. Mordekhai, Miriam, and Mara are a family of professional fools in the Holy City, and they're hired to work at a party involving two feuding families, where emotions are running high.
To Serve and Protect: Mara's father gets hurt on the Shabbat, and she goes to find a foreign doctor still in business.
Old Bloods (LOCKED)
Welcome to Rochester, Massachusetts. Depending on who you talk to, vampires are either dangerous beasts after your children, or the coolest minority ever. It is now a fad in some teenage subcultures to get turned, so as to stay young, beautiful, and powerful forever, and the collateral damage is mounting. Old Bloods follows the lives of ordinary vampires who carry on their lives as best they can.
Vampires You Never See: A little comic that kicked off a lot of the original stories.
Going Home: Larry is a loving father and partner, but when he's violently attacked and turned to vampirism, he loses his job, financial security, and health insurance coverage with one bite. Which leads to the question of how he and his partner Luis can afford to pay rent...
Mao Xue Wang: Larry is having a hard time keeping blood down, and Luis is afraid for his health. Their crotchety old neighbor Han comes up with a delicious solution.
Larry's History: When Larry contracts hemophagia, his body starts rejecting some earlier modifications. Luis and Mary Ann join forces to give him something just as good.
Grand Boys: Old vampires hang out at Vasilov's, where the blood is good, the clientele merry, and the music is suitably old.
The Undying Bride: Carlisla never did like those 'romantic' stories where a creepy vampire turned his nubile human girlfriend...
Life Goes On: After being turned into a vampire, Carlisla has a bit of an adjustment period.
Acts of Kindness: When going to her Biters Anonymous meeting, Carlisla finds that her friend Rashid has just had a friendship go horribly wrong.
Blood Bank: Now that Carli has her dog back, she starts working on getting her blood safely and ethically. The Daylight Brigade decides to help.
The Tree That Wasn't (LOCKED)
The story of two neighbors. Maria has a carnivorous treebeast living in her front yard. Chavela has a lover on the astral plane. Otherwise, the world around them is ordinary, leaving the two of them to figure it out.
The Tree That Wasn't: Maria meets an entity trying very hard to pretend it's a tree. It doesn't succeed.
A Cat's Eye View: Chavela's love affair, as observed by her cat.
How Does Your Garden Grow?: Maria now has a new garden resident, but how do you care for a giant predatory tree-thing? On top of that, it tries to eat Chavela's cat.
Trick or Tree'd: Maria and Chavela gear up for the inevitable difficulties that comes from having a lot of candy, small children, and a predatory treebeast in the same yard.
The Uneatable Plant: Chavela's spirit boyfriend has gone missing, so Blacksockswhite goes to investigate!
Dream Lovers: Chavela has a happy relationship with Dion, but there's just one little problem... he's not corporeal.
Disabled Cyborgs
The Corporate War has ended, leaving a regiment of unemployed veteran cyborgs in need of money and maintenance. With their human patcher, Gwyneth, they try and keep themselves going in a world where they were designed to make money, not last.
Limited Warranty: "The love that lets you patch someone up with whatever tools are necessary and then send them back to their lives."
Social Networking: The Corporate War is over, but now Gwyneth and her cyborg regiment need new jobs, and quickly. And in Megacorp, it's all about who you know...
Planned Obsolescence: Cyborg Mike05 starts having health problems that his patron doesn't want to deal with.
System Maintenance: After the war, Mem08 has a cardinal rule: never ignore a distress signal. Even if it may not be real.
Portia, the Mechanical Girl: Despite everyone's attempts to convince her otherwise, Portia is positive she's a robot.
Hayada, the White-Gloved General: Toshi Hayada was a mediocre pianist but a brilliant soldier. And then he got blown up.
Durable Medical Equipment: Levi Ibrahim is a blind cyborg working in prosthetics with sensorimotor capability (with a trade-off in the visual appeal department). Brand Olajuwon's path crosses with his, and they try to make their way in the gritty underbelly of the same world as the other Disabled Cyborgs stories above, though a different side of it.
The Bionic Prosthetist: Levi Ibrahim makes prosthetics that feel real. Brand Olajuwon is interested, but not as a customer. Sketch!
Style Over Substance: Levi Ibrahim and Brand Olajuwon have been involved for a while, but both are keeping secrets, and now they have a job to do.
Cute stories about borgified animals are also here, because who doesn't love adorable cyborg animals?
The Borg Critters: the commissioned art pieces that inspired it all!
Esprit de Corps: Dead Zone Corps #000111 are a Borg unit in charge of exploring and investigating areas with only sporadic wireless access. Cut off from the Hive-Mother's constant protocol signals, the unthinkable happens: one of them becomes individual. What to do? And how to identify something that can't be understood?
The Best Messenger: Now that the cute little cybrog critters of Special Corps Unit #000111 are individuals, they must relay instructions through sound, only to discover that weather and individual interpretation can cause problems…
Dead Man's Switch: Rat is the leader of the cyborg animals, but it is now painfully aware that it is prey. It finds an ingenious way of dealing with that anxiety.
Magical Moonbeams (LOCKED)
A meta-fiction spectacular! You know that coffeeshop so much fanfiction takes place in? Marge is a barista there. Homescross Coffee is the site of a huge crossover RP online where fictional characters (either under their player's power or their own) come to make friends, fall in love, attend support groups, and get their caffeine fix.
Ordinary Ever After: Margaret is the Moon Princess, a main character with a tragic backstory from a poorly written but mega-popular fantasy story. When she finds out a sequel will be written, she wants to escape, but how? Bonus sketch!
The Other Princess: Marge has settled into her new life working at the Homescross coffee shop. Everything is going well, until there's a mod error and another Moon Princess shows up...
God Night: Marge is stuck running Homescross Coffee alone when the gods show up to party, and everyone knows the gods tip lousy... Sketch!
The Superpowered Craft Fair: Homescross Coffee is taking part in the autumn craft fair, and Marge gets a wooden duck.
Caught in a Rad Bromance: When Marge gets harassed by someone from her past, she discovers an ingenious way to get rid of him for good, thanks to the Bromancers support group.
The Magical Girl House: Former Moon Princess Marge decides she needs to move out, and that her past history is weighing on her more than expected. Sketch!
Material, Mythic, Mindscape: For once, Alice is the most mentally stable one. (focuses on the Magical Girl House, not Marge)
Tanika, Ghost Whisperer (LOCKED)
Sympathies: Tanika is bullied at school and thrown in the local haunted house for a night, but she finds unexpected help...
Somebody's Watching Me: Tanika takes a job to deal with a creep in the women's locker room.
How Jazell Got Their Earrings: When Jazell moves to a new school, they're ordered by their brother to make a new friend.
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