Chapel Orahamm

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered bloke hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can’t afford is the attention of the cops. Oh yeah. G’day. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only…

I dug around in the pile of storage boxes I had sequestered into the weird alcove corner a support beam in my room provided me. One box looked promising. I hadn’t gotten into it from five years ago. I shifted some papers and random shirts off the top and found the black fabric I was after. “You want our help, but you don’t want us touching you? What gives, boss? It’s what we do. We’re…

Manhua by NA Jin Soo This one is a bit more dense, and satisfying in the realm of literature. It takes you along for a neat ride, featuring explosions, cunning, tactic, and high impact fight scenes. At the core of it, though, is the acknowledgement of human kind’s darker inklings. What takes them from sympathetic to villainous. It speaks on how people can be pigeon-holed into respective rolls…

Let us take a look at another graphic novel I picked up from the Dutch library. It would be nice if I could find book 1 for any of these series, but I’m living with what I can navigate for now. This one grabbed my attention because of the execution of the rim lighting on the cover. It has that airy style that a burn and blur brush can net you when done well. And yes, I did read it purely for the…

Everyone expects the king to rage at the suggestion that he find a new spouse to stand alongside–or better yet, replace–his beloved husband. Some might be planning on it, hoping to incite another conflict like what has plagued the country since the death of the last legitimate ruler. But to everyone’s surprise, the infamous Traitor King, Arden Canamorra, reacts to the suggestion with amusement,…

A pasty cream-coloured world slowly came into focus, along with a raging headache. More like Medicus’s sick yellow cement walls. I studied the lines between brick and mortar in apathetic indifference for a time. I kept my breathing shallow. It felt better that way. I had to wonder. I had been in my great-grandmother’s apartment. We had been talking. I had been holding onto my lion. Why was I…

Manhua by: Li Hyeon Min / Mun Baeg Kyeong Hello, isekai. This one is playing on the field of ‘woke up as a villain’, as seems to be a popular trope at the moment. But, I can’t complain about it. I like a good farming manga. Silver Spoon tends to be up there on my shelf of favorite manga, so when some sort of agriculture manga or manhua shows up, I’m willing to give it a chance. This one takes…

I picked up this graphic novel at the library primarily because it had the word Efteling at the top and I had to assume it was the theme park’s publishing department. If you weren’t aware – the Netherlands has several theme parks, and Efteling is one of the best reviewed in not only Europe but in the world. The thematics are said to be on par, if not better than Disney. It’s on my list of to…

Returning to my rooms that evening left me hollow and suffering a headache. With luck, and Nebra’s planning, the evening’s sacrament had involved honey. The congregation had rejoiced upon the luxury, reserving all they could to take home to their families. With that cover, we kept Amami’s Repercussion in check.         Nebra caught me, letting me splay out on the lounge and rest my head in her…

M/M historical romanceJed Trevithick, able seaman, has just escaped from the Royal Navy, and he’s determined never to return. But the war against Napoleon is never-ending, and Naval press gangs scour the coast, looking for cannon fodder.He meets Solomon Dyer, a London ostler who has his own reasons for avoiding the press gang. Together, they flee across the countryside, quickly coming to rely on…

Six months passed. Summer took over the dome, and the newly acquired grain fields and orchards came into their own. Ambulatio and Praetemptura took on the responsibility of outfitting an overseer for what had been Aurantiaco territory. There were the loyalists to Mercurius that were exiled from Urbs Aquarum. They were dumped out in the Stagnum ignis where they could form their own band or…

Hanging on at 27 chapters, Zombie-Hide-Sex opens with what a decent percentage of yaoi hentai open with, and is in the title – Sex. What’s different for this is the swing back to where it all started and it gets going very fast with the horror of a zombie apocalypse taking over. But we get back to that opener very quickly, so don’t go thinking you’re going to be waiting long. I can appreciate…

Talking to a friend over on bsky earlier about my issues in using Tumblr. Genuinely, I don't understand this platform. It has a lot to do with not putting in the time to learn it. Coming from Twitter and it being my primary soc-med until I got off it in...2023? was it? Whatever year mustard face bought it. After that, I just haven't found a platform that I've jived with really.

So, while working on my websites, I found a button to force-send my posts to various social medias and figured I'd just hook up my tumblr to them and let them run. It's probably not the ideal method. I don't think it adds the right tags to it, so it's more a matter of people stumbling onto them.

One of my big issues right now is the prevalence of bots and people pushing scams or even AI based services that have made me wary of interactions. That's probably not the healthy mindset to have, I just don't feel like devoting the bandwidth to it. Know what I mean?

So, for now, I'm just letting my webnovels, travels, and book reviews slow load on here and not going to worry much about interactions. It gives me the anxieties...

On that note:

I am NOT looking for beta readers. My webnovels aren't being posted to look for the service. I'm just trying to drive traffic to my site so people can read my wacky little fluff books. They're free to read. I don't even have kofi or other tipping services attached to it, because I don't want to mess with taxes and income right now, so I'm not paying for the services. Maybe the webnovels have sagging middles and are a bit wordy here and there. I'm okay with that. They're growing organically and I'm finally having fun writing again. So, if you feel like offering advice in order to market a service to me...please don't. And if you're going to take a chapter and do a full beta breakdown: I'm going to believe you're a scammer, utilizing AI, and/or are a rude individual who hasn't discovered social boundaries yet.

“He is a wab! Half-souled, ba-less at that, My Lord!” Adom protested upon entering the temple’s main hall. We had arrived for the late evening services, Amami at my side in his new vestments, a massive white robe covering most of the new outfit. “I can agree to leave your… predilections…to yourself.” The High Lectern flicked a disgusted glance towards Ptolemy who stood guard at the back door to…

Alright – disclaimer time, Dutch is not my first language, let alone my second, third or fourth – those go to Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese respectively. However, as I am currently living in the Netherlands and working on learning Dutch, I have access to the libraries here. Which means: Dutch Graphic Novels. When I took my TEFL certification course, one of the lessons focused on using graphic…

“This mean I need to find you another shole?” Saeesar slipped into a current that sent us away from the Gulf and Karis’s nesting ground. “Well,” I hedged. “I wonder if you like sweetwater eel.” He twisted his head in what I would equivalate to a cocked eyebrow. “One from your home waters?” I had never had eel, salt or fresh. “I remember some vaguely near a place called Samut Songkhram. The…

Rollende Kuekens up in Westerpark, Amsterdam has been going on near on 20 years at this point. Wren and I talked to our neighbor about it before heading up for the 2026 event and learned more about the early years when it was more ‘cozy’ and less crowded. We got in on both Saturday and Sunday right at opening, so it wasn’t all that crowded. But it did eventually get crowded. That is something to…