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Hello!! I was a fan of your series some years back, I was full on obsessed with it, and I would love to reread it again :) is there any other place to read them from than the master post?? Like I will if there isn't, it just seems a little confusing and likely to get lost in if you close the app and have to search through the links again to see where you left off,,,

Once again thank you for your wonderful work, it was my main source of entertainment for months the first time I read it 🤍🤍🤍

Absolutely. The series exists on Wattpad which is easier to navigate in my opinion if you have that. It is also on Reddit now. The Wattpad link can be found in the master post I believe

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Just a reminder to everyone who may not have seen. The first volume of the series is available for purchase in hardcover!

See my pinned post if you want more details. But yes this is the series and not the book adaptation (I like the series better personally)

The website is print on demand and the quality seems pretty good from the copy that I got. I didn’t have any issues :)

Link here

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Empyrean Iris hardcover available for purchase!

WARNING: I am going to make this very clear before I give anyone the URL. THIS BOOK IS NOT PROFESSIONALLY EDITED. It was edited by me and a few kind people on the internet (who I appreciate greatly, and will be forever grateful for), which basically amount to three racoons in a trench coat. We were primarily editing for content, so I cannot and will not vouch for my ability to use a comma correctly. If this bothers you please do not buy the book. Again, please, please, please if the quality of the editing is going to be an issue for you, I don't want you spending your money on it without knowing (its around 40 USD) which I understand is a chunk of change.

However, if you want a copy of some of the stories and don't mind, then go for it! I hope you enjoy it, and I am so thankful for anyone who is interested. I will look into other print options if this goes well.

Link to book!

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Guys! Look what I just got! And it is a THICC boi.

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Some good news for those of you still here.

My third pass editor has finished their edits on the manuscript for Empyrean Iris hard copy volume 1. I am currently in the process of formatting and doing tax forms. Hopefully by the end of today or sometime this week I can order a proof copy of the book to see if it looks stupid or not, and then after that I can start selling them.

Like I said it has been a while, and I don’t expect this to go very far but one or two people have shown interest, so I’m going to be doing print to order copies. This first one is going to be a hardcover so a bit more expensive to print, but honestly I want a hardcover so that’s how I’m rolling with it.

Another note for those who are interested is that I am poor and didn’t have money for professional editors, so when I say editors it means me and a couple people I met on the internet who wanted to help for free. If you expect all the typos to be fixed then I’m going to need a couple thousand dollars lol. Just warning you before you spend money on something that might have typos occasionally. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Maybe if this goes well I can do other volumes better, but right now that’s just not feasible.

Either way, I hope this gets to the few of you who want to hear it!

I am excited at the very least to have a hard copy of my book. :) ( Actually shoutout to the person who printed and bound the copies by hand and mailed them to me. I have them on my shelf) so this will actually be my second hard copy, but still.

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So excited to see fanart after all this time! I love his scruffy haircut :)

My take on Adam Vir by @starr-fall-knight-rise !!!

I see fire in those eyes! I can't stop reading the excerpts of Empyrean Iris from r/humansarespaceorcs I'm going insane—

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Hello! It’s been a long while since I read your stuff, and I remember enjoying it immensely, so I’m starting over Empyrean Iris. I remember there was artwork for all the alien species, though I can’t find them here, at least not under the tags.

I remember what the Drev look like, but I need a refresher for the others.

Do you still have them, or names for who made the art, please?

Had to go digging but I hope this helps :)

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Got bored at work decided to return to the Drev conlang and work on it, made a few changes, developed a writing system, started a textbook. I have no valid reasons.

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I need opinions. What do you guys think about this for a book cover? I was going to hire someone to do it, but I couldn’t find someone Who I thought could do what I wanted. Anything I should add or take away?

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Is there any chance of getting the stories collection in some kind of offline mode? Wattpad hates my phone and I can't binge read them when I am off grid. I'd love buying a hardcopy if that's a thing to be considered ever. This book would smell good af. Thanks for writing such a lovely story and thanks for your time!

Unfortunately there is no offline alternative right now. I have allowed people to print off copies and bins them for personal use. I just don’t have the ability/money/editor to actually publish one hard copy. I wish I could, but it doesn’t seem to be in the cards

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Wanted to draw a technicolor war criminal. I have quite a bit of free time at my new job, so I’ve found myself occasionally going back to the series.

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Filling the Gaps

Author's Note: the story ended around a year ago, but oddly enough there are certain parts of the internet where it hasn't died. Wattpad keeps things alive, and every time someone comments I get a notification. Often this results in me reading my old writing, and I have recently noticed this very annoying gap hat I completely glossed over.

The first time Adam admits his feelings for Sunny we never see the aftermath, and it ticked me off. He admits his feelings and then later they are dating, and a lot of stuff just goes missing in between. I know it was because I wasn't ready or comfortable enough with the subject to write it at the time, but tonight when I got all annoyed, I realized that it's still mine, and I can write whatever and whenever I want.

A lot of you have moved on, but if some of you found this annoying then I hope this helps fix it.

“Are we going to talk about it?”

“I don’t know if I can.”

“If we waited for you to be ready, we might never talk. I don’t want to grow old waiting for you to figure it out, Adam.” 

Adam turned towards Sunny, away from the viewscreen, but paused halfway between. His head was down, and from the corner of his eye he could see a part of her body, blue carapace glittering like starlight in the late evening. 

He couldn’t see her face.

“Okay, but not here, not where people could walk in.”

He was stalling. His heart hammered in his head. His stomach twisted into knots like his guts had become snakes. 

He turned away from her and headed towards the door. He could hear her walking behind him glad that she couldn’t see his face. Had he ever felt worse? 

Yes.

That was an unfair question. He had felt worse, but he had never felt like this. There was some special kind of torture in social vulnerability — in confrontation. Adam knew what was coming, ever since their duel in the cargo hold, this inevitability had hung over his head like a sword suspended on a wire.

He had admitted to his feelings for her, admitted them to himself.

And then he ran away.

But even the universe, and a space dragon, could not patch up the cracks in this leaking dam, could not shove the words back in his mouth.

The walk to his rooms were too short despite the size of the ship, and before he knew it he was stepping into a familiar, safe darkness. As the door slid open, soft blue light bloomed from the strip lighting on the floor bathing his personal effects in cool ambience. As the door hissed shut behind him; he immediately regretted coming here.

He had brought her back to his space, to where he slept.

It felt intimate, too intimate.

Unsafe.

As if he was opening the walls of his mind and letting her peer inside.

They were alone now.

He heard her move behind him, and chose to walk over to the window, hands clasped behind his back as he stared out into the nebulae. Nothing could be heard here but for the distant thrumming of the engines.

He didn’t want her to see how nervous he was, how sick he felt, but he knew she could.

His hands trembled.

It felt like embarrassment but somehow much worse. There was anticipation there too, the kind he didn’t want to admit to. 

A part of him was excited for this, hoped that something would happen, hoped that this would go the exact place the rest of him hoped it wouldn’t. Even as he stared into the star field, he could feel his own walls dissolving. Thoughts and feelings he had carefully packed away were now impossible to ignore. Hiding behind the appearance of the space dragon was only a temporary fix and now there would be a reckoning.

“Adam.”

Her voice was low and smooth. He had picked that voice for her, a long time ago when she had first been granted the translation equipment, but he could still feel her real voice underneath: a gentle hum that sent vibrations through his ears, morphing to a shiver that traveled down the sides of his neck. He closed his eyes feeling as his body broke out into a nervous sweat despite the ideal temperature of the room.

“Are you feeling okay?”

He laughed, and even to him it sounded nervous, lurching upwards from his throat in awkward sputters, “No.”

He heard her take a seat on the edge of the bed, listened to the blankets shifting as they brushed over each other.

In his mind he could see her poised at its edge. He could imagine the light as it fell over her body. The entire image was penned into his head in such exquisite detail he didn’t need to look at her.

“So, are we going to talk about this?” She said, She sounded so calm, and  he wondered how she was doing it. He felt so small all of a sudden, a child compared to her and he didn’t know how to take the sensation back.

“Then talk.” His voice felt tight.

“I’m not the one who needs convincing.”

He closed his eyes. “What do you want me to say?”

“I want us to talk about what is going to happen moving forward. I need to know where this goes.”

His hands continued to shake. “I don’t know. . .I’ve never. . . I don’t know if I can.” 

“Why don’t you start with telling the truth. I think we both need to hear it.”

He paced two steps to the right and then two steps to the left, “Why, you already know.”

“You’re not exactly convincing.”

He laughed again, another nervous laugh and turned away from the window, still refusing to look at her. His feet carried him back and forth over the floor in short, quick steps. The walls spun past him. Every time he turned he caught sight of her out of the corner of his eye and his heart picked up in pace.

“Maybe I don’t want to be convincing.” It felt like a hand around his throat.

“Why not?”

He threw up his hands. “Because!” His voice cracked. No, not now, not like this.

His eyes stung and his face grew hot and he turned his head to the ceiling.

“Adam. . .” 

He squeezed his eyes shut. Every time she said his name it was like being branded, each time a new wave of heat washing through his body.

“Why can’t you say it?” 

“Because I’m not supposed to feel like this!” He couldn't stop it, the words tumbled from his lips, and even he could hear his voice shaking. He kept his face pointed up and away.. He wished he could sink through the floor. He wished the window would open up and suck him into space.

He looked at the door.

Could he run again?

He heard her shift behind him, knew she could tell what he was thinking. She always knew.

His cheeks flamed with heat.

“I don’t understand, why can’t you feel like this?”

His hands dropped from behind his back and he turned down to look at them, anything to avoid looking at her. Suddenly he felt distant, detached from his body as he stared at his hands. He never expected this would happen, but now here it was, and somehow he was having trouble comprehending that fact.

“You’ve always supported LFIL, so I don’t understand. Do you find them disgusting? Is that why?”

He took another deep, shaky breath and turned his eyes back to the ceiling, “No! I didn’t say that. Of course I support them , but that. . . for other  people, not for me.”

“I don’t get it.” her voice was calm, but he knew her enough to know the undertone of frustration there. Not at him but at his words for not making sense.

He breathed in, but it wasn’t smooth, it stuttered and stammered like his voice, “I know it doesn’t make sense, I know it’s stupid, I know, but it's okay for other people to do it, I support them in what they are doing, but when it comes to me. “I” can’t do it. They are allowed to do it but I am not because if I do it, it would be wrong.”

His voice choked.

His heart clenched.

How must this make her feel? It's okay for other people, but my feelings about you make me feel disgusted. Is that what she would hear? 

Would he drive her away, insult her?

Is that what he wanted?

To his surprise, she laughed and he could feel goosebumps erupt over his body at the noise.

“It’s not stupid. Nothing you think is stupid, not to me.”

He felt the emotion then, prickling behind his eyes and nose. He valiantly struggled to keep himself in check, and kept his face turned away from her.

He took a deep breath. “Admitting to this feels like. . . feels like admitting they’re right.”

“Who?”

He flung out a hand in an angry arching gesture trying to make up for the emotion with aggression, “Everyone, everyone since I was young. All of the people on the news who accuse me of it, all the people I grew up with calling me a freak, certain members of my family. If I admit to this they win and I prove them right and I. . .” He dashed a hand across his teeth, teeth gritted in frustration and embarrassment.

“So, let me get this straight. You don’t get to be happy because people you don’t care about would be right?” 

He was pacing in circles now, so fast he was making himself dizzy, like he could replace one feeling with another.

“Adam.” 

He walked past her.

“Adam.”

He went to go past her again, but that’s when her hand struck out, catching him by the wrist.

“Look at me.”

He didn’t want to. He kept his head turned to the side, but then she reached up a hand touching his cheek and turning him to face her. His skin felt hot, and her hand cool. His heart hammered in his chest. He met her eyes for the first time in days.

“How are you so calm. . .” 

Her hand slid down his wrist, catching his hand. “Adam, All of my life I have been a disappointment and a freak and an embarrassment. I have been rejected time and time again, the object of hatred and mockery. I am an expert in handling how you feel right now.”

His chest ached, his tongue caught on itself. “I feel like I’ve missed my window for that. Everyone figured it out early and I. . . I thought I was supposed to be alone.”

“Oh no, it seems I get you all to myself. What a tragedy.”

“I don’t know what to do,” he whispered.

She tilted her head. ‘Well, neither do I, but it can’t be that hard. Idiots figure it out all the time.” her fingers slid between his, four fingers slotting perfectly into place. His hand felt numb. With another hand she pulled him closer.

He couldn’t ignore it now: the feeling rising in his stomach, the way his eyes were drawn to the curve of her cheek, the turn of her neck into her shoulder, the curve of her leg.

Her eyes.

“You know what we Drev do, instead of kissing?” 

He shook his head afraid to speak. She pulled him even closer the outside of his leg brushing against the inside of hers. She leaned up and he bent his head down. Then their foreheads brushed against each other. Static erupted through his face and down his cheek. She pulled him to sit next to her, mattress sinking so his leg was pressed into hers. She turned her head, the corner of her mouth and face brushing against his cheek, and then his ear. 

The static sensation rushed down the back of his neck and into his shoulder before stopping at his lower back.

His hands fluttered uselessly unsure of where to go and what to do. 

His stomach writhed.

Her head dipped and she briefly brushed up against his jaw sending the static into his face and chin.

And then she let him go, pulling away.

He was left, unsteady body buzzing.

Sunny chuckled, “Hmm, interesting.”

“What?” He managed.

“You aren’t dead, didn’t dissolve into a puddle, the ship didn’t explode.”  They weren’t touching anymore but he now wished they were. It was getting easier to admit that. “So, is this something you would like to move forward?” 

He couldn’t find the words. His tongue still felt thick, whatever part of him which had been holding back still clinging to the tatters. 

But where his tongue was tied his body was not.

He nodded.

It was only then did he see the tension leave her shoulders. She took a deep breath.

Had she been nervous too?

How had he missed it?

“Good. I had hoped you would say that."

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I was thinking about you guys today. My art had improved since the series ended, so have a pic of Sunny and Adam.

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Is your A03 user name the same ?

Yes

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New Project

Hello Everyone! Its been a hot minute since I posted anything, and I know this account has mostly gone dormant. However, I wanted to tell you guys about the small project that I have finally been working to put out.

The Fear You Know is a dark fantasy horror novel I wrote some time ago, and have finally decided it needs to see the light of day in one way or another. So, I am going to be throwing it onto the internet as soon as I give the chapters their last look over. Unfortunately, right now I have no money for self publishing or anything fancy like that, so I will be putting the book up on Wattpad and maybe A03 and other platforms, maybe on Tumblr idk,  if it gains any interest. Also I had no money for an editor, so be aware that I am doing all of the grammar and stuff myself (and we all know how that will turn out). 

From the Book Jacket XD

The world is a landscape of fear. Humanity suffers under the oppression of a pantheon of dark gods, called Dreads, who grow in power as humanity languishes without hope. On a trip to Veerus city, information broker, Eli Collins, and his companion Wink  search for information that will shed light on: combatting the Dreads, finding his missing father, and saving his own life before it is too late.  However, it is not information hat he finds, but a man named Peter, and a strange book with an unusual symbol.

If I were to describe the book in one sentence.  The Magnus Archives Meets High Fantasy? 

Here is the Link

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Hello! Is there anywhere we can support/follow your new stories? Or is the best thing to just follow your wattpad/ao3?

Right now that is the best thing to do. I plan on self publishing with in the next year or so and giving everyone content they can actually interact with, but as it turns out you need money to hire an editor/ voice actor/ cover artist. And right now I am a poor jobless student so until I have a real person job, I can’t afford to do anything else :(