“Any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families.”
—PAUL ATREIDES, DUNE
Two days passed in the measured cadence of preparation. The morning air carried the rousing rumble of activity—Brockton Bay awakening to another day of controlled chaos. Paul walked the familiar st...
2025-07-02 00:39:54 +0000 UTC View PostA young Aemond Targaryen, secretly the reborn Paul Atreides, visits the dragon Dreamfyre in the dragonpit, confiding in her about his visions of Arrakis and a future war within his family.
He is discovered by the Dragon Keepers and returned to his mother, Queen Al...
2025-07-01 03:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostLantern-light pools across the conference chamber like water spilled on inkstone. It trembled in the draft that wound through the shattered frames of the Hokage Tower, found the faces of a dozen clan heads, and painted their shadows—long, uncertain—on scorched walls still reeking of yesterday’s fire. I stood against the far shoji and pretended the hiss of the ...
2025-06-28 15:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis section covers the protagonist's life before the main events of the Naruto timeline, including his original life and his early experiences after being reincarnated as Itachi Uchiha.
Original Life in California: The narrator originates from a small, quiet coastal town in Southern California. He...
2025-06-25 16:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post“I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”
—STILGAR TO THE LADY JESSICA
The kitchen of the Veder apartment breathed the warm musk of cumin and roasting vegetables. Steam ghosted above simmering pots, curling around the task-...
2025-06-25 15:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
—PAUL ATREIDES, DUNE
Paul sat in a posture of sculpted stillness, his spine straight, his hands resting loosely on the faux-wood grain of the table. He was a statue amidst the fidgeting unease of the living. Across from him, the seats reserved for their accusers remained cons...
2025-06-25 15:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Remember, we speak now of the Muad’Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies’ skins, the Muad’Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: ‘I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough.’"
—ARRAKIS AWAKENING BY PRINCESS IRULAN
The Ford's engine settled into silence with a mecha...
2025-06-25 15:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Batch 1
The AI was finicky, and I got frustrated. Alec is meant to have white leather gloves. Taylor is meant to still have her armour panelling. Paul is meant to be using a Barrett M82.
BTW. Alec(Regent) is wearing a slick plate carrier underneath. The suit itself is stab-proof and lined with Kevlar, like everyone else's.
2025-06-18 17:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostSubject Information
Codename: Hibana
Real Name: Keiko Ayase
Status: Second Trigger Event Confirmed
Current Threat Level: Tier 8
Updated PRT Classification
Tinker 7 (upgraded from 6)
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
—FRANK HERBERT
The mill sang like a monastic bell—exact, resonant, inhuman.
Steel dust floated in the filtered workshop light, catching in motes upon the breath of invisible machines. The industrial printer clattered a few meters away, a chorus of mechanic...
2025-06-18 13:58:50 +0000 UTC View Post"The Padishah Emperor turned against House Atreides because the Duke's Warmasters Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho had trained a fighting force -- a small fighting force -- to within a hair as good as the Sardaukar. Some of them were even better."
—FRANK HERBERT
The air in Winslow High carried the fevered reek of youth—a miasma of sweat and c...
2025-06-14 18:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis scene might not(Maybe, not certain yet) make the final draft. I decided to polish it and share it with you just in case. Warning, will contain minor spoilers
The coffee had gone cold twenty minutes ago, but Sarah Martinez couldn't bring herself to look away from the television screen. Her apartment felt smaller with the weight of what she was witnessin...
2025-06-11 13:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe conference room felt smaller than usual with everyone present. Fifteen bodies scattered around a space designed for more. Yet, the air felt thick and stale, recycled through vents that hummed that low, monotonous tune of bureaucratic inertia Colin had come to associate with failure. He paused in the doorway, cataloguing the tableau of Heroes and Wards befor...
2025-06-09 07:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe met the convoy on a major thoroughfare, just past the 42nd bypass. I found it first—through my swarm, sorting through a kaleidoscope of fragmented perspectives—compound eyes catching glimpses of asphalt, metal, and movement. It took a few frustrating false starts, a couple buses and an ice cream truck, but I got there. Three vehicles in tight formatio...
2025-06-08 19:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe vest was too tight. It was heavier than I'd expected, a suffocating weight that pressed the air from my lungs. The fabric of the uniform was rough, unfamiliar, smelling of dye and sterile plastic. The weight of the weapon at my hip felt foreign and wrong. Everything was wrong.
I stood next to Greg outside the storage unit, the late afternoon sun ca...
2025-06-08 19:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostA.N.: Writer's block is killing me! Have this whilst I work on finishing the chapters for Arcane Disorder
The bell was an ugly, jarring sound, like metal shearing against metal. It sliced through the fog that had settled over my thoughts, and for a moment, I was just a girl in a classroom, surrounded by the familiar scrape of chairs and the risi...
2025-06-07 20:09:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe muzzle was the worst. Not the elaborate, Hannibal Lecter-esque steel-and-leather contraption they’d strapped over the lower half of my face – that was just theatre, PRT overkill for the cameras. No, it was the internal framework, the damn wires and struts that forced my jaw slightly open, pressing my tongue down like a misbehaving pet. My jaw ached with a d...
2025-06-02 10:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in case you missed it...
Would hate for you to pay an additional 50% in fees just because you weren't informed.
2025-06-02 09:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity”
—IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE BY PRINCESS IRULAN
When Paul finally returned to the Veder residence, his watch read 19:47. The space behind the front door exhaled a familiar scent of warmed food as the door swung open.
John was in the living room, ensconced in the worn contours of his a...
2025-06-02 08:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”
—Frank Herbert
The flashing lights of the patrol jeep painted the rain-slicked interior of the F150’s cabin in rhythmic, disorienting pulses of red and blue. Paul complied with the unspoken command, easing the heavy truck to the shoulder of the road, the...
2025-06-01 00:53:24 +0000 UTC View Post“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
—COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD’DIB BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
The truck’s digital chronometer registered 18:03 hours when Paul backed the truck out of the Undersiders’ driveway. The remaining members of th...
2025-05-29 07:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostI will be posting one or two more chapters for Refrain(as well as the rewritten version with Rune still alive) in a few hours before we move on to the next thing on the agenda. Going to bed now. I'm tired.
2025-05-26 07:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post“The things I do for love.”
―Jaime Lannister
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The news had come like a carrion bird, black-winged and reeking of salt and slaughter. City Guards, their faces pale and eyes haunted, had stumbled in the hall, their words painting a scene of such cataclysm that Rhaenyra’s mind rec...
2025-05-26 07:22:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Every man’s a piece of the continent, a part of the main... any man’s death diminishes me.”
―Maester Aemon
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The wind, a bitter old whore, clawed at Ferrago Dimittis’s face, whipping his salt-stiffened beard and making the banners in his camp snap like angry hounds. From t...
2025-05-26 07:20:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
—Frank Herbert
Fifteen minutes. He had allotted them that span – a precisely calculated interval to allow for the immediate aftermath of the confrontation to settle, for adrenaline to recede, for the raw edges of defiance and fear to be somewhat smoothed by the mundane nece...
2025-05-25 07:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is going in the list of fics I am picking up again
Here's the full list of live fics that will begin updating as of tomorrow:
Refrain
The Golden Wyrm
Arcane Disorder
Gyakkyou
Of Blood and Duty
Updates would commence in the order above.
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... 2025-05-25 00:35:19 +0000 UTC View PostFinally got around to aggregating the entire remastered version of SFF/Convergence. That's one thing off the bucket list of things to do.
2025-05-24 21:31:32 +0000 UTC View PostSince I have blundered into setting this poll up without due consideration for how divisive the topic is (ideologically) for the majority of readers(US, Canadian, European[Sorry guys, I am Nigerian. Nazi's are kinda a distant term to me so I am a bit numb to the degree of revulsion the rest of you have. I know it's bad, yes, but my understanding of it is a lot more distant than what some of you...
2025-05-23 06:10:42 +0000 UTC View PostWindborne and weismax33 brought up some really good points that warrant consideration. Hence, I have decided to again toss a pivotal decision to the community since I am too indecisive to ...
2025-05-23 05:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
—NA-BARON FEYD-RAUTHA HARKONNEN
The silence in the vast warehouse stretched taut, electric. Rachel remained on her hands and knees, her chest heaving, her glare fixed on Paul with an intensity that bordered on the psychotic. The only sound was ...
2025-05-23 02:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post