Just so you know

There is a lot of crazy shit happening in my life at the moment. My sims (and like 200 frickin’ pictures) are trapped on a broken computer. I’m about to get them out, but for the moment, we are separated and that is going to further delay things. Also, due to some awesomely ridiculous circumstances, I have to move out of my house pretty abruptly. I’m lucky in that I can set up shop elsewhere temporarily, but that is going to help set some things back. And then, there are other less crappy but more definitive things happening that I’ll eventually explain, but the situation isn’t conducive to my continuing AtC. So, I’m going to make it official and say that we are in the last chapter of AtC. Betray All will close us out, with maybe a small epilogue and a couple of side stories. Granted, due to all the loose ends, Betray All still has some ways to go. I’m seeing about 12 (insanely long) parts in my head, so that would mean we still have 9 parts to go! I will try not to disappear again, and keep the site on the up and up. Thank you all for your patience.

I know.

I know. No really, I know. I know.

I do, I know.

I’m handling it.

Really.

Because I know.

Sorry.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENELOPE!!!!!!

Happy B-Day to one very talented writer who can drop your jaw with her prose, is always there to remind you about subordinate and main clauses, has phenomenal taste in clothing, and can make you choke on your own tongue from hysterical laughter. Oh, and people across the world count down the seconds to her birthday and then party like it’s new years. Because people all over the world know she’s awesome. 

HAPPY B-DAY PEN!

Storytellers, Spiders, and Bears! Oh my!

I’m not able to update for a little bit, so I thought I’d check the search engine terms, and… *sigh* positively ridiculous.

Search Engine Terms of the Month:

webbed cocooned erotic spider stories (8 times. One of you is fucking with me.)

puncture marks in crack head arms (fair)

bass ackwards on a chair (possible)

sad sticks (hehehe, what?)

i am amused (so am I)

bear sitting on a hammock (Because of course you would click on me)

pissing desperations japan (pardon?)

praying romantis (*shiver*)

air bed betrayal (…)

am i annoying? (oh, I annoy myself all the time, don’t worry about it)

supernatural demon eye contacts (edit: okay, I just realized that this isn’t weird, I am. I actually offer enayla’s demon eye contacts for download. I forgot.)

And there were also a couple of really not safe for work or for eyes or ears or mental health. Stuff about “unespecting” girls having bad things done to them with dirty pillows. And that one got me two hits. 

Odes to my storytelling comrades… in the strangest ways possible:

goodbye_sun tarantuala

s@ndy the lover story

penelope 3-d unity

and in quotations, meaning at some point, I actually typed these phrases…

“just take what you need from me”

“across the knee”

…maybe in innocent context, but my brain consistently dives head first into the gutter.

Need: Mickey and Chauncey

So for a full explanation on what the balls this is, you can check out the last post. All these thingys will be up on the Chapter Page at some point. Like now.

This is my couple’s study for Mickey and Chauncey around the time where Chauncey was kind of set on letting his aura kill him. And Mickey was set on not letting that happen.

I was planning on having more stuff done this week, but this update was particularly difficult for me, and took up a lot of my time. I’ll try to get back on it.

And wordpress was being such a bag of chickens, I have to thank Penelope for staying up until the ass crack of dawn bitching at this blogging buttface. Fellow wordpress bloggers, avoid the autoupdate feature. Tis’ a whore.

Youth: Jax and Chloe (Pictures fixed)

Sorry for the disappearance! Life. This is probably the worst time to put anything up, but I wanted to get this out before Thanksgiving. And 5 in the morning the day of still counts as “before”. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate and a happy Thursday to those who don’t .

I’ve been really trying to get into different past events to help explain the characters a little bit more, although I’ve totally stalled on the background stories and while I’m working on Ten Years, I’m doing it at a snail’s pace. But one thing I’ve really wanted to do were couples studies… sort of. They probably fit in with the background story idea, but they’re longer and they aren’t necessarily in a familiar POV. And they aren’t focused on psychic ability… not extensively… a little bit… depending. And they’ll be based mildly on themes: youth, need, convenience, fear, understanding, and other stuff. Maybe.

There are only four that I have any interest in. Jax and Chloe and their youthful beginning… so they’ll be “youth”. Chauncey and Mickey (as if we haven’t heard enough from them) around the time that Chauncey was a smidge suicidal, and they’d be “need”. Loris and Arden, who weren’t a romantic couple, but a couple none the less, they’d be “convenience” . And Hadrian and Troy, right before Hadrian jacked Aeryn’s shit and was basically trying to get out of dodge before he did just that. And before Rowanne found him and killed everyone. I think they’d be “fear”. I don’t know, they’re the only one I didn’t write yet.

I’m playing around with doing one on Harper and Troy basically showing how they got together, but the vague idea in my head might not flesh out. I was also thinking of one on Sirian and Kensee, because, something came out of that, although not quite romantically. I can’t believe that I fell in the “romance me male vampire *swoon*” trap, without even realizing it (!), and I wanted to get into my one female vamp/non-vamp relationship (Rowanne and Nyxon don’t count, that shit wasn’t love, that shit was ridiculous). But Kensee and Sirian’s roles in the story are shady enough, and while it might help explain them a little bit, their relationship was short in that Sirian died and Kensee spent most of it asleep. Soooooo, yeah, gonna probably stick with three or four. Or I might only do just what I’m posting today. I don’t know, I’m lazy.

These vignettes would be set during times that would not fit in either the main time frame or the Ten Years Prior time frame.

Right now I’m posting the first of two parts of Jax and Chloe, and I’ll try to follow it up with Part II, but I might put up Mickey and Chauncey first. Don’t be frustrated if that happens. OR, I might even update my regular story, instead of continuing to indulge my random forays into… randomness and ellipses. Tommorrow, I’m not doing poo but driving around and eating food, so if I end up on a computer, I’ll put my procrastination energy into finishing pictures.

ANNNND to say that there are sexual themes in all of them is like saying this is the internet.

Annnnnnd thanks to Penelope for letting me whine to her about Jax and making me giggle uncontrollably over his birth name.

AND! Pictures are now correctly linked.

I have a question.

Before I ask the question, I just wanna mention that I’m traveling for work right now, but I will be posting tommorrow hopefully eventually start giving myself realistic deadlines. (Got back home later than I thought. More tired that I thought.)  Not for the chapter unfortunately, but something you might otherwise enjoy. Or be annoyed with, I can’t judge. But thank you for your patience with me.

Okay, I don’t want anyone to take this question to mean a damn thing, NOT A DAMN THING (Penelope), it is just a question. For writers and readers alike.

When is it okay for the protagonist to die?

“Okay” Meaning, you feel the story would lose nothing/resolve conclusively/ remain enjoyable/not make you want to sit in your bathtub with gallon of gasoline and a lighter, if the protag dies.

Please

Betray All: Part III

I might have broken wordpress. If anyone is prompted for a password on any page just leave a comment anywhere and I’ll fix it.

Apropos of Exactly Nothing…

In the future of this story two characters have a conversation. About something. At a place. Where things are happening.  And that conversation got me thinking about… stuff. This stuff might be completely banal to you, because I’m trying to get fictionally scientific, and at first I wasn’t really going to indulge my wordy theories because I was only concocting them to keep some of my story rules in check. They aren’t really going to come up, but they might be helpful to know. And I thought maybe some readers might have thought about some of what I was tossing together and could be interested in the bio-genetic flap and yap that I pulled out of thin air.

The main thought that triggered my scientific evalution was, “Jax should probably have every form of hepatitis available and Chloe should probably be on baby number 27.”

If that ever crossed your mind, you can find my convoluted explanation and subsequent rambling tangent on the origin and genetics of vampirism, here. You can thank insomnia.

BETRAY ALL: PART II !!!!!!

Sorry sorry sorry. My attention span was useless today. This is a short one. Well, for me anyway. For a number of reasons, the main one being I am a lazy lazing lazer. Part III is looking massive though. And Ten Years Prior is looking neglected.