Author: Jess Mahler
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Mighty Hero Force Epsilon (S1 E3)
Season Notes: violence, magical coercion, references to suicide, cliffhanger The safe house they found belonged to a family that had gone missing in the first attack. It was a vacation home, tucked away in the woods where they could hopefully hide for a time without attracting notice. They weren’t happy about just taking it over,…
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Planting Life in a Dying City — The First Night (S2 E1)
After a lifetime as a loner with no family, Tsouchm must now step up to become a parent and grandparent to five orphans, and a spouse to the love ey thought far beyond eir reach. Lefeng’s determination took them this far. Can Tsouchm find it in eirself to step forward and help not only eir…
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Mighty Hero Force Epsilon (S1 E2)
Season Notes: violence, magical coercion, references to suicide, cliffhanger Prince Mourningdagger and eir three lieutenants hovered over the fortress that had just appeared in the middle of the city. Watching them were the five who had just transformed. Later, they would struggle to come to terms with the power that had invaded them and the…
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Mighty Hero Force Epsilon (S1 E1)
There are certain rules a sentai team is supposed to follow. They’re supposed to have matching uniforms, and a theme. And they ALWAYS have a guide or mentor. Someone who gave them their powers and can tell them how to use those powers. Someone who tells them what their team name is supposed to be…
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Snippets: Hiatus Week 4
Reverse Stockholm Content Notes: alien abduction ‘romance’, no adult content She stood before him. A literal sacrifice to save her world. Though very far from virgin. Behind them, hundreds of news cameras watched, projecting her fate to the world in live HD. “Kneel.” She hesitated. The watching newsies gave her, for the last time, some…
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Ulfsark: Hiatus Week 3
Content notes: abuse, untreated PTSD, violence, death threats Salma pushed aside the curtain and stepped into the airway. As always, the space between the thick sod outer walls and the wooden inner walls of the long house was cool and damp. The shielded oil lamp she carried cast a dim glow across the nearest support…
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Snippets: Hiatus Week 2
Expelled “Out.” That was all they said, and suddenly Danne found himself ejected from the only home he had anymore. He had gone to the headmaster, hoping to plead for another chance. But the door refused to admit him. He hadn’t meant to blow up the alchemy classroom. It just…happened. Just like he hadn’t meant…
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The Door: Hiatus Week 1
Content Notes: death and arson references As the first flames began flickering in the windows, Elisabet turned her back on the manor. The fire would take care of all the evidence. By morning, nothing would be left of her family’s crimes. They, like the rest of her family, would be nothing but smoke and ash.…
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The Good News Is, It’s Not Covid… (Planning Ahead and Going on Hiatus)
The bad news, of course, is that it knocked me on my ass for over a last week. There’s an old saying about how ‘crazy’ is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Since sometime in August, I’ve been saying that I’d get my buffer rebuilt, and we’d get back to…
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On a Trip to London Town (A tease)
Sorry folks. That family emergency I mentioned back in August? Well it kind of ran into September and I’m still getting back on my feet. One of these days I’m going to rebuild my buffer so I can get back to posting consistently for y’all. In the mean time, here’s a piece from a few…