Doctor Kidemonas

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

Also adding a couple of my favorites! Long Forgotten God and the kindergarten class

45. Intergalactic Red Cross

46. Being Villagers

47. The monster under the fridge

48. Humans are the only species with a concept of vengeance

49. The Blue Key

50. Different stories resonate with different people comic

51. Whalefall horror comic

52. The Fox God comic

53. The Stone of Possibility

55. A Pool in the Heart of the Forest (comic)

56. I am asking you to endure it (+notes)

57. You Help Kill Heroes

58. The witch who raised herself

59. My pilot is good

60. Hsthete (comic)

61. Variations on the Frog and the Scorpion

62. The monster under the bed

63. Cleric slamming healing spells (microstory)

64. The Priest of Arepo

65. The Villain Wrangler

66. Old Gods vs Aliens

67. Last Contact

68. Dragon on a farm

69. Antler Guy

70. Bakery with mythical customers

71. ‘Port

72. The king prophesied to defeat evil

73. The Night Gentlemen

74. In love with a sphynx

75. A fae asks for your name

76. Once their home

77. When you die in the ocean (comic)

78. Toad Words

79. Kisses and Curses (comic)

80. And the Heavens Wept

81. Healer kicked out of the party

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

I worked out that "it looked like fun" was a good lie. "Other kids were doing it" was a bad lie, as was "I didn't think about the consequences". "I wasn't thinking about how you/other adults would feel about it/perceive it" had to be carefully used. Anything that implied lack of understanding brought out the lectures about how I was Responsible, and other bullshit words that mean 'I don't want you to behave like a child, why can't you be a little adult with no agency and no desires'.

As an adult, I lie like breathing to people I don't hold tight within my heart. Not big lies. Little lies, like making up a fussy family member I'm looking for a gift for when attempting to explain to a store clerk why the thing they have so helpfully provided doesn't suit. I make a concerted effort to give only truth to those I hold tight, but I make no promises that I'm ever giving the whole truth. I don't have it in me to ever be truly transparent.

The 'wars' of today are mostly imperialist attacks, colonising powers trying to massacre innocents into submission, or even into non-existence. It's the difference between a fistfight and a one-sided beating. The Ukraine War is worth calling a war: neither side is slaughtering civilians en masse with little meaningful opposition.

I'm not saying that war is good. I'm saying that what Americans have been doing to the Middle East for decades has been much, much worse than war, that saying that 'war' is the problem is reductive and overly charitable to the aggressor. It's like saying that torture is bad because it's violent.

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

Your fate is determined by The Counsel

You hate it

That entire argument is nothing but a self-report that these joyless adults got hurt at some point in their lives and decided that if they can’t be happy, nobody else can, and that the kids are just a convenient, vulnerable target for them to enforce their apathy on. It’s genuinely disgusting to me how these people are almost gleeful thinking about hypothetical kids being distressed and hurt when the cruelness of the “real world” collapses in on them.

As for the argument of preparing them for the real world... I agree that it's ridiculous to "prepare a child for the real world" because, well, the world they're in is already real. But that's just it, isn't it? We're not preparing them for a world in which they'll have to get up at a certain time and if they don't go to bed at a certain time before that, they'll be tired. They already live in that world. Most kids go to school or daycare and have to be up at a certain time. If they don't go to bed at a certain time, they'll be tired and poorly prepared for a day of (hopefully) learning and play.

And these times are not "arbitrary." Or, well, I suppose the point at which we set these times usually has an element of arbitrariness. Why do office jobs start at 9 and not 8? Or 10? Or 3 in the afternoon? That is arbitrary. But it's not an arbitrary rule to show up at the same time every day for work or school. How would shifts at places like hospitals work if nurses didn't know what time their relief was coming? How would teachers be able to plan a lesson if each child came in at a different time every day?

Also reminds me of an episode of Judge John Hodgman from long ago when a teenager was making the case that they should be able to use a motorcycle for their personal vehicle (and that the parents should buy and insure it) and their reasoning was "It's cheaper so I'm saving you money over the other options" and the parents' reasoning was "We don't want you to die and we are basing that concern on the wealth of data that shows this is a dangerous option for a teenage boy."

Here's a simple dilemma: it's 10 PM, I'm dead tired, I need to be up at 6 tomorrow. But I'm really invested in this show that I'm watching and there's two episodes until the season finale. Should I:

A: Go to bed and get as much sleep as I can

B: Go to bed and scroll on my phone for 3 hours

C: Say "It's just two episodes" and stay up past midnight binging TV

D: both B and C, eventually decide "tonight's a wash" and consume copious amounts of caffeine

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.

one: as long as you aren't hurting or, like, being a dick to anyone, just staying in your comfort zone isn't an immoral action. if you just want to read one type of book (or just fanfiction), or just eat one type of food, or just watch one type of movie, or not go to new types of social events, you aren't being a bad person for that, and if people say that, they are soundly wrong and just trying to get a self-righteousness kick.

two: trying new things because you want to expand yourself feels a hell of a lot different than trying new things because you're being forced to. you'll feel better about trying new foods if you know you have a back up familiar one in case you can't stomach the new one, it's easier to read new books if you can experiment with audio versions or reading it in little five-page chunks by yourself, you can breathe a lot easier going somewhere new if you aren't chained there for three hours because your parent is your ride home, etc.

Trying a new food? You can stop at a single bite. Bored at the cinema? You can walk out mid-movie. Really want to go to a friend’s party but you’re also exhausted? You can plan on just going for 30 minutes, and you can leave even sooner if that ends up being too long.

The more you practice using outs liberally, the more you reinforce to your body that you are capable of protecting yourself.

I only started being able to go to weekly activites consistently once I started giving myself an out at every step. i.e:

- I’ve gotten ready and then not left the house

- I’ve driven there and then driven straight back

- I’ve left halfway through lessons

- I’ve modified or plain skipped the exercises that were flaring my POTS, or making me feel dysphoric, or that I just didn’t feel like doing that day.