RWD: 4.06
4.06
“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 prepar...
2025-07-02 00:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
“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 prepar...
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 A...
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...
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 U...
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
Th...
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-wo...
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 Had...
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. A...
2025-06-18 17:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostSubject Information
Codename: Hibana
Real Name: Keiko Ayase
Status: Second Trigger Event Confirmed
Cur...
2025-06-18 15:52:15 +0000 UTC View Post"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 filt...
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...
2025-06-14 18:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This 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, b...
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, monoton...
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,...
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 weigh...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 ca...
2025-06-01 00:53:24 +0000 UTC View Post... 2025-05-29 07:44:12 +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
I 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 slaughte...
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 bitt...
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 ...
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 2025-05-25 00:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally 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 ...
2025-05-23 06:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post