Jump Base Tiamat was as lively as Seoul, but without the neon, the pollution, the hustle, the haves and the have-nots. People on their work details staffed distribution centers, worked on the gardens, ran cafes and bakeries and hole-in-the-wall restaurants specializing in one or two dishes cooked by hand. Robots puttered around, cleaning, repairing, and maintaining the station, given a wide ber...
2025-01-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t surprised when my ATLAS interface opened up of its own accord, alerting me that it was now connected to CEIDR's Xelphion network: our high-security intelligence channel. No information in the Confluence was truly secret, but intense quantum encryption was used to ensure that unwanted parties weren't listening into sensitive conversations.
"On the 6th of Tashritu, a Ta...
2025-01-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostShort one today. If you're enjoying the story, please consider dropping a like or a comment to let me know what you think!
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The first night in hospital, I had nightmares of the collapsing parking lot. I frantically wandered through the rubble, calling for my brother as I dug out corpse after crushed and mangled corpse. None of them were him. I woke up sob...
Happy New Year! If you're enjoying the story so far, please like and leave a comment! It IS the holidays, but I admit I'm a bit apprehensive about the lack of feedback - J.B
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I roused into clear white light, and the sensation of floating. For a timeless space, I wondered if Tsariel had siked me and I was, in fact, dead. Dead and waiting in some...
2024-12-31 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMusic: IVOXYGEN - LIFESTYLE (SKELER X SAGE RMX) (https://youtu.be/J9ucYne7aa0?si=4aeXvlZARmTQLHLP )
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I exploded from the doorway at as the first demon bounded into view. It overshot my position slightly, skidding to a h...
The only way down was the ramp. There was no doubt in my mind that the necromass of the demon was in there, underground. The surface of the concrete had been scoured, all signs of life burned away. No moss, no dirt, no graffiti. The faint scrape of my boots on the smooth surface seemed to echo too loudly against the walls. And as I passed under the rusted boom-gate, I smelled it: a harsh, metal...
2024-12-24 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
My muscles slumped as the paralytics hit. On trained reflex, I slammed my emergency button: a preprogrammed, time-delayed antidote to the Violator husk’s poison. Weakness spread through my body in waves, hand shaking as I braced it up against his chest to push him away. He held onto me, one hand sliding up to grip the back of my skull, the other bluntly reaching down between my legs. ...
Planet: Earth Instance 334-99-7B, Sol System
City: Seoul, South Korea (circa. 2012 A.D)
The club’s music throbbed in my teeth. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, a pulse beating against my skin and up through the soles of my feet, vibrating the tiles of the neon-lit bathroom. I bumped my hips in t...
2024-12-17 22:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post**This chapter is finally at the point where I'm happy with it. As I've worked on the worldbuilding, this project has evolved a lot. I'll be posting the first chapter right after this one.
I hope to finish this novel by the end of December and start the new year focusing on Archemi #7 and BF #2. The Black Garden isn't long, but it is a ...
2024-12-17 20:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostI need to make an honest apology to you all. It's been two years since Archemi #6 was published, and I still don't have Book 7. For that, I am deeply sorry.
I believe strongly that when someone reads my work, I am making an implicit contract with them to finish that work. You're sticking your money and time into reading or viewing something I made, and that's very important to me. Archemi...
2024-11-07 17:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I've shared bits and pieces of Host Club here and on Patreon, but here's the Patreons-only preview of the full chapter.
This is a fairly short webtoon: only 4 chapters. I'm teaching myself the format because I envision both streams of Voidhunter (Lightbringer and Harbinger) being published in this format.
And once the Archemi novels are complete? Yes. I will indeed be scripting th...
I'm starting to assemble panels in webtoon format. The butt panel isn't all the way done, but I wanted to see how it looked in the vertical structure.
I honestly enjoy this format more than the manga/comic style layout, because the verticality gives you a lot of flexibility in how to link panels during combat sequences.
This comic is being drawn live on Discord: I'm trying to strea...
Five thousand feet below my position, the city of Lovi burned.
Pillars of flame boiled unchecked into the sky from the once-white towers of the Revalan royal palace. Muzzle flash from artillery lit up the streets in waves of twinkling lights, the rolling boom of mortars reduced to pops and bangs by distance. The simmering carcass of Ilia's defeated flagship, the Sol Invictus, still smolde...
2024-10-02 22:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A twink at the gay club tried to get catty with Min-Joon. But our hero is rarely out-bitched.
2024-09-17 04:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostSome things are so loud you can't hear them. Your brain can't process the sheer volume. The sound just becomes energy, and the force of it is so intense that you feel it with your skin and bones. Everything shakes. Everything hurts.
The dome of energy expanded like a soap bubble over Lovi Palace, atomizing it, sucking the pieces of the castle into the laser-like column of black lig...
2024-09-14 15:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Fans: "I read Voidhunter for the plot."
The plot: 🍑
After several weeks of banging my face against Archemi 7, I've made a bit of a breakthrough. Excited to start sharing some of that soon. Sorry it's taken a while, but I definitely have a Process(tm) between books where I just Can't. That period is frustrating, and requires what amounts to a lot of anxious suffering as I draft pure crap, figure out what doesn't work, and redraft it. For every 10...
2024-08-31 05:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm deep into Archemi #7 now, and have finally started to draw again. I found myself sketching the Mercurions of Archemi, definitely some of the most fun characters in the series to draw.
Image 1: Rin on the left, Ebisa on the right.
Image 2 (Bluelines): See if you can guess these ones! Leave your opinion in the comments. They are all characters (one reasonably major, the others t...
2024-08-02 07:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI Am Legion was, for many personal reasons, an incredibly difficult project. I started this book towards the end of the pandemic at the peak of my (then untreated) depression/ADHD combo, benched it through a period of crisis and homelessness that turned into a transcontinental adventure in a van with two cats, picked it up again after buying a house, promptly got sick with long co...
2024-06-13 18:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostNice.
Last chapter!
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One Week Later
The Gate of Ascension was a stone circle in Bagara's Marsh, east of Fortuna. It was some of the most gods-forsaken country I'd ever seen. Croaking black bogs. Skeletal trees strung with black lichen, like a dead woman's hair. And dinosaurs. Lots of lots of dinosaurs.
I w...
2024-06-09 14:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostI grumbled under my breath as I went to the doors and pawed at them. They swung open ahead of us on soundless hinges, revealing… a crypt. Fortuna still looked like a city, but it no longer smelled like a city. Every plant, every patch of dirt and blade of grass was gone. The Maroons had left a whole lot of dead soldiers and Legions in the streets post-Swarm. Their ninered corpses were the onl...
2024-06-08 04:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostKaya's eyes glazed over as the collar flared around his throat. He honked with confusion and sudden terror. Meanwhile, Clive visibly steeled himself.
“NO!” Angel let out a raw scream of rage and unloaded three rounds into Clive’s chest. And he let her - laughing a horrible, snide laugh that clicked in his throat as the blood rose in it. He stumbled down to his knees, still laughing ...
2024-06-06 19:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post"UU GOOVE YOO HUUMAN TRUUSH!" Lulu squeaked with rage as she hauled Kaban into a pool of slime, folding up over him as he struggled and swore. His stealth, his fancy fuck armor, none of it helped him as he was efficiently engulfed. He managed to hold onto his gun, emptying the remaining three rounds into Lulu as she swelled up around him like a deadly gumdrop. They did a lot of damage. But her ...
2024-06-06 16:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostSheer adrenaline pulled me to the side as a second shot rang out, then a third. Angel’s suddenly headless body slumped to one side, collapsing as bullets ate up the floor. The deafening explosions drowned Lulu's shrill, hysterical cry of terror as she threw herself over Angel, taking the next two rounds like a giant sphere of ballistic gel. But something was wrong. She screamed as they explod...
2024-05-28 20:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostA blur of messages and notifications scrolled by, but I couldn't concentrate on any of them. Nothing hurt any more. My body felt buoyant, expansive. Like gas. Bright light flooded my remaining eye. I drew a deep, whooping breath as the light spread, consuming me.
"Nooduu!" Lulu's squeak rang out from somewhere.
It was alright. There was no pain, just the sound of my heart poun...
2024-05-27 04:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post"EEEEEEEEE!"
A blade of poisonous water lashed from Lulu's body and knocked the Daeva's sword to one side. An expression of surprise flit over Rachini’s mouth.
“Nuu!” Lulu unwound from around the human's body and bodily leaped onto Rachini, clinging to her. The Daeva, now suddenly half a ton heavier and much slimier, let out a screech of irritation and backpedaled. She raised ...
2024-05-25 00:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 7's cover is being done by a new artist to the Archemi team - and they're doing a superb job so far.
2024-05-15 19:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostFinally well enough to start properly writing and posting again. I'm still not 100%, but I've already been delayed for too long by what was prrrrrobably covid. Again. Between the kidney stuff and the coughing, I've been sick for about 4 weeks now and am pretty tired of it.
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My instincts kicked me into motion. I yanked the Angel-Lulu Meg...
2024-05-12 20:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It's happening! I've asked the artist for a redesign on Karalti, but other than that I think it's looking pretty awesome.
2024-05-06 20:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostI officially signed on with Aethon! They will be publishing the final ebook, print and audio versions of I Am Legion #1 while I write the second book and post chapters here and on Royal Road. Don't worry, Archemi fans: Book 7 is the next project in the queue <3
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The three of us pushed inside. The sounds of war faded as we paced along a narro...
2024-04-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post