"There are a lot of country songs about love out there, darlin's. And even more of them about what comes after - songs about finding out that your input or output has been strayin'.
Not ashamed to say I didn't really get it when I first started listening to music. Never been betrayed like that before, and I just can't fathom how someone could backstab their other half like th...
2023-10-23 15:13:47 +0000 UTC View Post"Something's brewing, darlin's. Nora has it on good authority that a whole lotta Corpo and government types seem to be gearing up to storm the Alamo, and I don't have a clue why.
But I have a notion. Only one thing on Earth can shake those folks up after all.
I dunno when or where all this dynamite is gonna blow, but I do know that when it does, L's probably go...
2023-10-23 15:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey now, no need to be rude. If you want to kill me, there's another me running around that I'm happy to direct you towards," I said, floating above the street and making no attempt to come closer to him. Honestly, I didn't feel comfortable being on the same planet as him, even before he knew I was here. "I'll even help you kill him. Call it an assisted suicide."
In response, Za...
2023-10-21 14:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostNo. No. No, no, nonononono. No. No fucking way. This shit is precisely why I had time travel so shit like this didn't need to happen. So it wouldn't happen. I just had to wind back the clock and snip this shit right in the bud.
"You piece of filth," I snarled at Kilgrave, kicking him in the face before I threw him right back into his own personal hell. Right from the start. I never really...
2023-10-21 14:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostI am so annoyed with myself. I am so goddamn annoyed with myself. If I could punch myself in the mouth, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I almost wished for a Future Me to show up and put me down like an animal because I clearly deserved it. I had slipped up. I got over confident. I looked down on his mind control because it paled in comparison to the shit I had seen and as thoroughly unremar...
2023-10-21 14:54:26 +0000 UTC View PostI should be horrified. I should be terrified. Vought, the US government -- one or both of them had finally found me. I knew, in the end, my greatest asset was secrecy. It was the mask. I could put it on to become Heartless and I could take it off to become just another face in the crowd and, in the end, that was a power in itself. Losing that power would cripple me. It would limit my m...
2023-10-20 14:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as I would like to say that I was about to murder every single senator, government official, and politician all the way down to Victoria Neumann, that wasn't exactly true. In the end, it would be too obvious. Stan was proving to be a rather clever adversary, and he wouldn't be so blinded by the glittering of the opportunity to see that it wasn't gold. After all, the Presidential seat fa...
2023-10-20 14:47:19 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was on fire. Well, not literally, though that could quickly change in a couple of minutes as Cinder perched on a building, overlooking Times Square. The military was rolling in with everything short of tanks, and they had instituted a curfew. In all honesty, they should have been calling for an evacuation of the city, but that had its own inherent dangers.With her bow in hand, she wa...
2023-10-20 14:47:12 +0000 UTC View Post"... Oh…" Homelander whispered, his breath stuck behind a lump in his throat as he gazed down at the brain matter and blood on his gloved hand, the office blissfully silent. A bit of hair and flesh that was attached to a shard of skull fell from his fingers with an audible plop. He swallowed thickly, feeling strangely numb as he slowly turned his gaze downward to Madelyn. He couldn't recogniz...
2023-10-20 14:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostStrategos Tatzates was the leader of the Bucellarian Theme of the Roman Empire. Which faced against the Black Sea, making his involvement in my taking of Crete rather unusual. His domain was on the other side of Anatolia, and I saw little merit for him providing any kind of support. It lands weren't affected, or if they were, it wouldn't be a pressing problem. Not like it would be for the Thrac...
2023-10-18 14:05:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah, so I'm out of the fight then?" Was Astrid's rather lackluster response to learning that she was pregnant. She looked down at her stomach with an expression of mild annoyance, but didn't exactly seem displeased with the news. "Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. Honestly, the only shocking thing about this was that it took so long."
"That, and you didn't realize," Morrigan r...
2023-10-18 14:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a mistake. I knew that much after the first punch. I had let my temper get the better of me. I wasn't quite certain who he was, but I did understand that he was related to Chares in some way, thus making him someone of importance. The only silver lining was that he wasn't nobility, but at this moment, it genuinely wouldn't have mattered if he was and I knew that. His head snapped to the ...
2023-10-18 14:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Do I have to go?" Was the first thing that came out of Astrid's mouth, my wife sounding entirely disinterested with the entire affair. I didn't really blame her there. I also had absolutely zero interest in attending the party, but Jill made it abundantly clear that it wasn't an invitation that we could afford to refuse. Despite how much I would like to. In the end, she simply made too strong ...
2023-10-18 14:04:54 +0000 UTC View Post"Not a lotta time darlin's, gotta up sticks for a spell, so I'll keep it quick.
Aliens are invading. Yes, they're real, and the ET's have already bombed the Biotechnica fields and the power plant, so be aware - cuz I probably won't be reporting anything for a bit. Here's Third Rock From the Sun by Joe Diffie on repeat 'til I get back on the air."
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2023-10-16 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post"There are a lot of country songs about love out there, darlin's. And even more of them about what comes after - songs about finding out that your input or output has been strayin'.
Not ashamed to say I didn't really get it when I first started listening to music. Never been betrayed like that before, and I just can't fathom how someone could backstab their other half like th...
2023-10-16 15:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post"We live in a crazy, crazy world darlin's. But you probably knew that already.
Here's an itty bitty update on the Red Ochre investigation - apparently there are, according to numerous sources, 'vampires' running around underground in Night City, and werewolves stalking around those Biotechnica fields outside it.
Now, not saying that vampires and werewolves don'...
2023-10-16 15:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post"Something's brewing, darlin's. Nora has it on good authority that a whole lotta Corpo and government types seem to be gearing up to storm the Alamo, and I don't have a clue why.
But I have a notion. Only one thing on Earth can shake those folks up after all.
I dunno when or where all this dynamite is gonna blow, but I do know that when it does, L's probably go...
2023-10-16 15:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere were times that Geralt would forget that he was a century old. It wasn't that old in the grand scheme of things -- he personally knew plenty of people twice, thrice, even four times his age. Still, some days he would wake up and feel like he was a fresh face on the Path, at the very start of his journey. That all of the notable events of his life happened in the span of a couple of years ...
2023-10-14 14:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as I would like to say that I was about to murder every single senator, government official, and politician all the way down to Victoria Neumann, that wasn't exactly true. In the end, it would be too obvious. Stan was proving to be a rather clever adversary, and he wouldn't be so blinded by the glittering of the opportunity to see that it wasn't gold. After all, the Presidential seat fa...
2023-10-13 15:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was on fire. Well, not literally, though that could quickly change in a couple of minutes as Cinder perched on a building, overlooking Times Square. The military was rolling in with everything short of tanks, and they had instituted a curfew. In all honesty, they should have been calling for an evacuation of the city, but that had its own inherent dangers.With her bow in hand, she wa...
2023-10-13 15:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post"... Oh…" Homelander whispered, his breath stuck behind a lump in his throat as he gazed down at the brain matter and blood on his gloved hand, the office blissfully silent. A bit of hair and flesh that was attached to a shard of skull fell from his fingers with an audible plop. He swallowed thickly, feeling strangely numb as he slowly turned his gaze downward to Madelyn. He couldn't recogniz...
2023-10-13 15:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostI could feel it. I could feel it deep in my bones that we were on the cusp of greatness. Slowly, I had been building and building to push things to a boiling point. Much like a pot left on a stove, the water was heating up and the lid that was clamping down was about to pop off from the pressure building underneath. I had all the pieces I could want in play -- I had my criminals, I had my supes...
2023-10-13 15:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah, so I'm out of the fight then?" Was Astrid's rather lackluster response to learning that she was pregnant. She looked down at her stomach with an expression of mild annoyance, but didn't exactly seem displeased with the news. "Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. Honestly, the only shocking thing about this was that it took so long."
"That, and you didn't realize," Morrigan r...
2023-10-11 14:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a mistake. I knew that much after the first punch. I had let my temper get the better of me. I wasn't quite certain who he was, but I did understand that he was related to Chares in some way, thus making him someone of importance. The only silver lining was that he wasn't nobility, but at this moment, it genuinely wouldn't have mattered if he was and I knew that. His head snapped to the ...
2023-10-11 14:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Do I have to go?" Was the first thing that came out of Astrid's mouth, my wife sounding entirely disinterested with the entire affair. I didn't really blame her there. I also had absolutely zero interest in attending the party, but Jill made it abundantly clear that it wasn't an invitation that we could afford to refuse. Despite how much I would like to. In the end, she simply made too strong ...
2023-10-11 14:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostLearning how to read was a frustrating endeavor, and not only because Greek was very different from both Latin and Norse. It was frustrating because I was surrounded on all sides by scrolls and texts that I either couldn't read or I had to pretend that I couldn't since I wanted the fact that I could both speak and read Latin a secret. And in the few weeks that I had been inside the University, ...
2023-10-11 14:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post"There are a lot of country songs about love out there, darlin's. And even more of them about what comes after - songs about finding out that your input or output has been strayin'.
Not ashamed to say I didn't really get it when I first started listening to music. Never been betrayed like that before, and I just can't fathom how someone could backstab their other half like th...
2023-10-09 14:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Something's brewing, darlin's. Nora has it on good authority that a whole lotta Corpo and government types seem to be gearing up to storm the Alamo, and I don't have a clue why.
But I have a notion. Only one thing on Earth can shake those folks up after all.
I dunno when or where all this dynamite is gonna blow, but I do know that when it does, L's probably go...
2023-10-09 14:59:36 +0000 UTC View Post"We live in a crazy, crazy world darlin's. But you probably knew that already.
Here's an itty bitty update on the Red Ochre investigation - apparently there are, according to numerous sources, 'vampires' running around underground in Night City, and werewolves stalking around those Biotechnica fields outside it.
Now, not saying that vampires and werewolves don'...
2023-10-09 14:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post