Drama Llama
$1/mo
This is for the people who want to read "The Sundry Sordid Tales of Being a Writer" that I won't make publicly visible for personal reasons. The biggest one is that I do my best to present a professionally mundane appearance to the writer/reader community. No, like really, they say, "booooring," and roll right on past :)
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Lyche Patron
$3/mo
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Get a glimpse into the struggles and drama of a muse-plagued writer's life.
Well, this is the easiest one to summarize. It's about Black and Red and Blue and Green. I mean Garthelle. :)
....But now I wanna change his surname just to be a flaming smartass about color wheels and such.
Dark Baphomet is about a pair of twins who work the local corner as energy whores, basically, to their vamp overlords, in a dystopian kind of setting. Not entirely post-apocalyptic, but Homo Sapiens are considered second class citizens, a food source to be sustained at best, and half-breeds are a particular delicacy. I'm reworking it. Is the plot going to heave about and transform drastically? Well, not drastically but there are definitely going to be some alterations. There already are, it's just that my edits are a bit ahead of my actual posted content, and do I have any idea where the changes will lead? Pfft, fuck no I don't. That's Muse Bizness, and I, The Lowly Writer, am not on the Need To Know List until we get to a part where it's necessary.
Access to Chapters of Dark Baphomet
Shifter Patron
$5/mo
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The Shifter Tier is The Blood & The Bear. This is intended to be an expansion of my short story titled Blood & Peyote, in the Unconditional Surrender anthology. This one is subtitled "A Squad Goals Story" because I think that's a perfect tag for this squad of quasi-immortal forgotten gods who run amuck in Kent and other far-flung locales, slaughtering rogue vamps and feral lycans and sundry other supernats who think The Rules Don't Apply to them. So the cast is expanded a bit from the short story, as is the story arc -- the section consisting of the short story's content actually doesn't take place until roughly halfway through this story, so that the novel covers some backstory as well as the aftermath of the peyote ceremony. Chartreuse is a berserker from a long line of berserkers stretching back to the time of Neanderthals and Cro Magnon, when cave bears still populated much of what is now Europe. Aapi-si is a Blackfoot skinwalker who is supposed to be training with his tribe's shaman to take their place in the near future but is shirking duties for sundry reasons.
This tier gets you Access to Chapters of The Blood & The Bear, in addition to the lower tier story, Dark Baphomet.
Access to Chapters of Dark Baphomet
Access to Chapters of The Blood & The Bear
Insignis Patron
$9/mo
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The Insignis Tier is Gressus Tribus, the sequel to Piaffe. This volume of the Legacy Of Three series follows Jaedyn, Eldrenji, and Aerdin in the wake of forging the iunctus bond. Aerdin has a falling out with his intimus, Eldrenji switches skins for the first time in five years, and Jaedyn basically volunteers to be taken prisoner so that he can have a chance to kill two draco with one strike-- a serpen (paen draco) and a draco summa, because at this point he's fed up with both of them equally, and just wants to be left alone in his head with his thoughts. Medias Grotto is apparently overrun with serpen sympathizers, and Davyn still can't reconcile with the fact that his consensus smells like an idolon. Aerdin's former intimus retaliates by dragging Jaedyn south toward Lashekyn in hopes that sacrificing Draecon Aedis blood to the serpen will gain him a boon.
This tier gives you Access to Chapters of Gressus Tribus, the sequel to Piaffe, in addition to the stories in the previous tiers.
Access to Chapters of Dark Baphomet
Access to Chapters of The Blood & The Bear
Access to Chapters of Gressus Tribus
Khorradi Patron
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Son of Hell is the Khorradi Tier story. Set in the Doctrine Wars universe, this space opera is about a mercenary who drops onto the next planet marked for assimilation, only to find the black market recreational drug that originates on this planet is capable of reversing the Doctrine's favored tool -- mind wiping. Khorrado natives Arjun Lukenkhe and Taunnil Swaythe convince the Coalition mercenary, Malin, to help them find a way to stop the Doctrine's impending arrival and invasion. They're a tiny little backwater planet, and while they have an orbiting planetary defense system, it is by no means sufficient to the task of thwarting the Doctrine's advancement. As the Doctrine's manipulation of Malin's mind begins to slip free, he agrees to assist the Khorradis in their resistance, so long as they take measures to ensure the Doctrine is unable to legally retaliate on him for breach of contract. Then he piles them on his ship, and taxis them straight into the waiting arms of... The Alliance, who loves nothing more than to thwart the Coalition's expansion in any way it legally can.
This tier gets you Access to Chapters of Son of Hell in addition to all the stories on the lower tiers.
Access to Chapters of Dark Baphomet
Access to Chapters of The Blood & The Bear
Access to Chapters of Gressus Tribus
Access to Chapters of Son of Hell
Sphinx Patron
$25/mo
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This tier gives Access to Chapters of The Lion & The Phoenix, in addition to all the stories in the lower tiers.
This level also gets you on the writer's good side.
If such a thing even exists.
Wait one second. [off-screen shuffling, followed by muted voice, "hey Rhi, do you even have a good side?!" a heavy thump, then painful squeals of microphone feedback.] Yeah, you should take that as a no, I think.
The Sphinx Tier story is Fangs & Flames, or The Lion & The Phoenix. (I haven't decided which, just yet.) This is a high fantasy, magical realism genre story about Demian Zhar, a mage, and Ahriman Swart, his sphinx-- a brawn-slash-bodyguard with certain magical abilities of their own. The mage has some issues-- namely he has memory lapses every time he manages to use his magic. The Powers That Be don't really care that he's handicapped; there's a war waging on their eastern border and they need his powerful fire magic over there to help hold the line, posthaste. But his sphinx, who helps ground the mage so he can retain his memory, is apparently a skinwalker in exile, and is forced to return to his homeland to the west when his skinwalker nature is revealed. Shifters are taboo among the mages, even though the best sphinxes are always skinwalker/shifter blood.
Access to Chapters of Dark Baphomet
Access to Chapters of The Blood & The Bear
Access to Chapters of Gressus Tribus
Access to Chapters of Son of Hell
Access to Chapters of Lion & Phoenix
