This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 144, An Interlude on the Island at the Edge of the World
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Harmon had always liked the Barrier Storms. They weren’t visible from Dondrian, not even on a very clear ...
2022-11-02 16:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 143, Songs of the Past
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Verity had gotten used to the palace, and had to admit that she loved it. It was built into the mountain, b...
2022-10-31 18:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 142, Spies
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When Mizuki stepped out into the demiplane, it wasn’t like she’d been hiding out in extradimensional sp...
2022-10-27 15:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 141, Ecology
I'm back from South Korea! The entire schedule will be shifted by one day this week, because I missed my deadline yest...
2022-10-25 15:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 140, Foundation
Apologies for the lateness of this chapter (though I don't technically have a release window, I do try to put up chapt...
2022-10-05 23:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 139, Wildlands
Sorry for the relative lateness of this one. I came back from my trip in England to find my son had a cold, and to my ...
2022-10-03 18:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 138, Overguard
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Being ‘jarred’ was risky, but Ria was no stranger to risk. She had gotten into sticky situations before...
2022-09-28 15:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 137, Demi
And we're back ... for a bit. My South Korea trip looms, which will unfortunately mean another schedule interruption n...
2022-09-26 13:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 136, The Last Days IV
A reminder that there will be no chapters until two weeks from now (or possibly there will be a chapter on the 21st, w...
2022-09-12 18:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 135, The Last Days III
Alright, as far as my break goes, I think the 14th and 19th won't have chapters, and the 21st maybe won't, de...
2022-09-07 16:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 132, The Last Days II
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In the interests of trying to follow Kell through time, Alfric stayed at the house with Vertex. This was pa...
2022-09-05 17:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 132, The Last Days I + Schedule update
Next month I'll be going on a trip overseas to England, my second time leaving the country unless you count Canada. I ...
2022-08-31 16:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 132, Lutes
Note: Read the chapter first, but once you do, 2022-08-29 16:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 131, A Herd of Children
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Verity had never really been around children, even when she was a child herself. She didn’t have any brot...
2022-08-24 16:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 130, Commiseration/Celebration Brunch
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Mizuki was feeling great. The curse, such as it was, had been lifted, they had more lutes than they would e...
2022-08-22 16:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostEager Readers in Your Area! (short fiction)
I wrote a short story, and as pointed out, yes, should also share it here. 3.5K words, pretty short, on writing, reading, and finding connection. Read on AO3, or below!
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The sites had gone empty almost overnight. It was the deep learning models that had done it, with such power and force that everyone was left feeling a bit rootless. The writing had been on the wall, if you k...
2022-08-18 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 129, Dungeon Dreams IV
If you'd like to read a totally unrelated bit of non-fiction, I wrote a blog post on AI art and some thoughts about it...
2022-08-17 15:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 128, Dungeon Dreams III
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They worked their way through the rooms, trying their best to go fast. The thrum that filled the area was a...
2022-08-15 17:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 127, Dungeon Dreams II
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Alfric moved slowly to the room’s brass door. They were well and truly lost in the dungeon, which wasn’...
2022-08-10 15:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 126, Dungeon Dreams
We've officially passed the one year mark of Dungeons being posted. I'd like to say, first of all, thanks for...
2022-08-08 15:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 125, Putting Up
I'm streaming on twitch all this week, usu...
2022-08-03 15:10:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 124, Bulrushes
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Kell moved swiftly through the bulrushes, naked from the waist up. His clothes had been set in a neat pile,...
2022-08-01 15:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 123, The Sea and the Breeze
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Mi-zu-ki and Ver-ity!
When they’re to-gether there’s lots of glee!
Stick a-round and you will...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 122, Brief Bars
No writing stream today, a tendon in my hand is giving me trouble and I'd like to rest it.
Thanks, once again, f...
2022-07-25 16:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 121, The New Normal pt 2
Note: If you don't like the more intense dungeon chapters, this is probably one to skip, and I'll make sure that context for what happened in this chapter is in the next chapter.
Content warning: suicide, violence, death
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 120, The New Normal pt 1
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It was more or less exactly what Alfric had feared. If Verity and Isra had not actually broken up, they wer...
2022-07-18 17:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 119, The Brave Knight Gave
Author’s Note: This chapter comes with a song! I think the best way to listen to it is to get to the part of the cha...
2022-07-13 16:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 118, That Sort of Thing
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The return trip to Dondrian was done without the Overguards, and there was a part of Mizuki that felt a lit...
2022-07-11 16:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 117, Wedding Bells pt. 2
Minor note: I will be making an attempt at streaming writing the exclusions doc for Worth the Candle, at https://www.twitch.tv/alexanderwales. Mostly just trying this out to see how it is, and if it doesn't work, no big deal. I'm hoping that this gives me some incentive to work on that thing for at least a little bit every day. I don't think it'll be hugely entertaining, and the audience is niche...
2022-07-06 16:25:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 116, Wedding Bells pt. 1
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Verity was skeptical about going to confront the Other Pedders. They had crashed a party, yes, and there ha...
2022-07-04 15:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
