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Well, shit... Here I thought there was a marriage proposal... Well... I'm disappointed. Back to bed for me… (close enough...) Damn, still here... Ummm... look at the pussy! Fine, I'll answer… To be honest, probably be able to get rid of the idiots in the world... Like (fwoosh)... Or maybe that's just work talking.... and this city... Hmm... Higher level intellect? I wouldn't mind having that... Intelligently rule the world ;).

Chapter 15 (Pleasure of the Gods) is posted for your enjoyment.

Chapter 14 is posted.

Chapter 16 (A Free Galaxy) is posted. Apologies for the hiatus.

Chapter 13 is up and ready.

Chapter 14 (The Plan) is up for everyone’s enjoyment.

Chapter 18 is now posted.

Chapter 15 (Demons of Air and Darkness) is posted.

I know that feeling. Several of my main characters almost require a novella of backstory just for them alone (indeed, as it stands right now with STA, that's a very good likelihood for one character)... I've probably got a good hundred to five hundred oneshots and shorts just for the MCs, and occasionally other major and minor characters.

I'm not sure how I do, I just manage to store them mentally. Lol. Admittedly, most times I keep detailed character designs written up, but I just travel from one to the other without a second thought. Strangely enough... Mmm. Skittles...

Let's see… I'll label them off, because yeah... lol... Blood and Honour, Come Hell or High Water, ST Adventurer, Hunted, Blood Prize, TBATB 1, 2, 3, TBATB Spinoff 1, 2, 3… CR can vouch for the TBATB ones… As for how I define active, that becomes a matter of what I am continuing and not dropping. The six TBATB are one's I don't have posted, but I plan to look into publishing. Even discounting them, that remains an active 5 stories posted here. Outside of AFF brings the total to 11. All juggled around.

Chapter 13 (Just A Jaunt In The Wild) is up.

Chapter 14 (Trained in Deception) is posted.

Chapter 13 (All the Things To Come) is now posted. Feel free to leave reviews, questions, or comments. Happy reading.

Chapter 12 (One Last Chance) is posted.

Chapter 12 is posted.

Chapter 12 (Serpents in the Garden) is posted.

Chapter 11 (An Incident) is posted.

Chapter 10 (Never Joke With A Vulcan) is posted. I hope everyone reading it has been enjoying it. As always, questions, comments, concrit are always welcome and I’m always happy to answer them on the Review Response Thread under the Games section on here.

Alright, so, as the title says, does a lack of feedback affect your stories? (Ie while you’re writing, does the lack of feedback make you change things, doubt things, et cetera, et cetera? And vice versa, does a lot of feedback affect you? Do you change things that you probably wouldn’t have based upon those words?) This is probably a question that’s been asked before, don’t throw the pineapples (they kind of hurt), but… As for me, so far I’d say not really (in terms of changing things that otherwise wouldn’t have been). The lack of feedback on a lot of mine does make me question certain decisions, as I’m sure everyone does when faced with that same thing… For example, I know people are reading them (...unless they’re accidentally clicking into it and getting out of there as fast as possible… I’m going with the former, though), but lately I’ve been debating the… slow burn of one of them… Introducing and trying to create likeable characters that everyone wants to see survive through with the interactions that ring true necessitated the long fuse to the dynamite, and it’s been making me question that length. I’m sure everyone has something like that.

Chapter 9 (Leap of Faith) is up and posted.

Chapter 8 (Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner) is posted for your entertainment.

Recently, I was reading an article discussing the idea of how two of my favourite series were falling back into the cave, refusing to break the mold with new things. Stagnating. While I would normally want to argue this fact, I couldn't. Both Star Wars and Star Trek have remained in their safe little bubbles. They're pushing things out too little, too late (ie Star Trek and their celebrated first open LGBT character who, while the best character of the series so far, comes far too late to be as groundbreaking as they'd like to think) or rehashing ideas like Star Wars since Disney took over... (Sorry, that backstory is done... throw tomatoes now...) Either way, the article got me thinking, as writers, how do you not fall into the trap and keep stuff, so to speak, fresh? Rather, do you push your comfort zone and try new things? How? And did it work for you? In my case, I branched away from sci fi. Lately, I'm right back in it, but I've got several that aren't. The farthest is definitely Hunted... I'll be the first to admit, I'm probably the last person who thought I'd be writing a vampire fic. Then there's the wider inclusion of varying characters that kind of started with one I don't have on here, that continued into BaH and throughout the rest of them. In my case, I think it worked. (And I've probably rambled enough that everyone's pulling their hair out in wild frustration or yelling at screens... So before the throwing knives come out, I'm getting out of here.)