Sometimes this story is just a lot of fun to write. Thanks for supporting me.
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Zero gravity is weird.
Also not real, technically. I understand that gravity doesn’t actually ever hit ‘zero’, really. I am, if you want to get pedantic, actually just falling toward the planet and fai...
2022-02-07 19:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, I'm not sure I like where this one goes. But it's here now, so let's see how people like it.
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“When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my pri...
2022-02-04 16:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy teeth are in perfect condition.
Okay, this instantly sounds defensive. Let me rephrase.
All of me is in technically perfect condition, and not just because I am a cat. There’s actually a lot of different reasons keeping my biological form at peak performance, some dumber than others.
The imm...
2022-02-01 05:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostNot sure I like this chapter, but it is certainly here.
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“Alone in its orbit, the Blue, the Empyrean Parasite, the ineffable creature of secret inner fire that had been first among all of Life, saw. The results of its work were painted across eons, and this latest thread it had woven into the grand tape...
2022-01-29 06:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Ennos, where’s the door?” I ask in a pained meowing tone.
I have been dragging what feels like several dozen moons worth of cabling behind me, and while I understand that my concept of weight is both wrong and highly fluid due to the number of low gravity points on the station, it’s still actually kind of...
2022-01-26 08:35:18 +0000 UTC View PostI have written way more of this story than I ever thought I would.
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The days crept by, and in a twisted inverse of how I could sometimes lose myself in a project, it felt like time itself gelled around me.
It was a trick of perspective, really. When I was alone, silent, and despairing, I had a mil...
2022-01-24 05:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis one got away from me in length. Again.
2022-01-22 02:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostYou might think that after sharing something I felt was a deeply personal secret, my AI friends would have some kind of followup questions. Perhaps something about the nature of the station, or the unsettling alien machine at its heart, or maybe even just if I was doing okay.
They didn’t.
It wasn’t perso...
2022-01-15 01:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Because when you’re a millennial, you promise to do extravagant yet trivial things, to bring a sense of narrative purpose to your life.” - Harry Brewis, XOXO Festival 2019 -
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When Deb looked back at the trajectory of her life, she got this weird sense of perspective. Because in ret...
2022-01-15 01:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostEven the exposition is depressing!
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“Lily, why is this station so impossibly large?” Ennos asks with a put upon sigh.
I should never have connected that last grid node with the level four through ten cameras wired in. They’ve got a sense of scale now, and its made Ennos even more conce...
2022-01-07 19:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere is no such thing as the status quo for me.
No sense of stability, nothing I can really take for granted, no emotional bedrock or historical precedent that lets me know everything will be okay.
Oh, sure, I live on the station. But that’s like a feathermorph living on Earth. That, at least, is so...
2022-01-06 17:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay! Three, two, one…!”
I drop my forepaws onto a switch plate, engaging the magnetic couplers behind the hull plates of the station’s walls. It’s taken a lot of time - and a creative and possibly illegal use of a cleaner bot - to get the things into position without disassembling large chunks of...
2022-01-03 09:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostI'm *probably* gonna take next week off from The Daily Grind. Might be a short chapter. But I just need a break. Probably should have taken a break for Christmas! Didn't have foresight on that! Whoops!
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“Art is where what we survive survives.” -The Palace, Kavah Akbar- 2021-12-31 06:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post
More of this.
Thank you to all of you, again.
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Of all the things I expected to hear today and be excited about, “Your bloodwork came back.” was not one of them. Mostly because I had forgotten how long the medical analyzer could take on some things.
Sometimes, I think the machine is calib...
2021-12-28 05:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostI'm also posting a chapter for normal readers today as a holiday bonus. So you lot aren't gaining any more lead on this one. But you're still six chapters ahead, and I intend to grow that up to ten over the next few months! More cat in space!
Seriously, though. Thank you all for being patrons, an...
2021-12-27 03:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis was originally going to be two segments longer. But also the segments were originally going to be half as long. And also this holiday happened and I had to drive through snow and it was just a whole *thing*. Anyway, here's a chapter!
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“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for...
2021-12-26 03:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostDue to a minor snowstorm, I may be late getting home to actually post this week’s chapter. At the latest, it’ll be up tomorrow though.
Happy fourth quarter holiday!
2021-12-25 18:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostAnd now, the conclusion.
Conclusion-esque. Conclusion adjacent thing. Whatever.
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Have I mentioned, before, that I am shockingly unmodified?
My body rejects most augments, in all their various forms. I can’t install any wetware, host a native nanoswarm, implant backup organs, or...
2021-12-20 23:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn an effort to make writing this a little less stressful than my usual thing, I'm trying to keep chapter length to *around* 2k words. To that end, this is sort of a 'part one of two' chapter. It is also the first chapter where Lily doesn't shoot something, either literally or metaphorically!
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The ...
2021-12-18 18:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is longer than I expected for what I thought would be filler but is actually an excuse for me to expand on the actual thoughts behind some character actions. Hope it's enjoyable.
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“Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much, and feel ...
2021-12-18 02:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe mood in the station was entirely too somber for me.
I have, effectively, one reality warping power. And that is to chaotically forget whatever has been bothering me, dial into a new project or crisis, and lose track of how depressed I am in the ensuing mess. It’s kept me alive for centuries, and I like...
2021-12-11 19:49:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back!
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“Do no harm, but take no shit.” - Moira Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of Lost and Found -
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“How are they?” James asked.
He was standing in a space that had once been, and still technically was, a containment and quarantine facility for people who were e...
2021-12-10 19:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, in my long, long, long long long - and I mean *long* long - life, I was busy with something that wasn’t frantically trying to stop a hull breach, or vaporizing surface targets.
Also for once in my life, I had friends. No longer was I consigned to spend year after year, floating alone on an erratic, vag...
2021-12-06 06:44:42 +0000 UTC View PostYou know what’s weird, is that I don’t actually have any memories of being dirty?
Not really, I mean. I’ve recently gotten a taste of what it’s like to be covered in matted fur that has absorbed a lot of my own blood and crystallized into something that sticks and pulls when I move. But, like, that l...
2021-12-06 06:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostI will be taking a short break this week, for both my stories. I will return to the regular schedule for TDG next Saturday, and KCKS as more writing happens (at least one chapter next week though).
I’m not disappearing, just taking some time for personal stuff.
2021-11-30 03:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be another post, for everyone, later today, but in brief; I'm taking a short break after this one, for personal health reasons. Didn't wanna leave anyone on a cliff hanger though. So, here ya go!
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“You’re all clear, kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!” - Han So...
2021-11-27 02:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostI am, once again, drifting through the condensed nothing of hard vacuum.
My AR link is cut off as soon as I’m outside the station. How, exactly, the station has decided what is and is not inside itself seems arbitrary. But I also don’t have the position to complain about it; after all, it’s not like I ...
2021-11-22 23:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostIn case anyone was curious, if this were a TV show, the theme song would just be Still Feel, by Half Alive.
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I am, at this point, wholly prepared to believe that the ration replicator is haunted.
Or possessed? Maybe just generically ‘influenced’. I’m not sure what the proper terminology is. ...
2021-11-19 20:23:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere was supposed to be something clever here but I've forgotten what I was going to say. I'm sure it's fine. Enjoy the chapter!
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“I’ve been playing at // I’ve been playing at self worth again // ain’t it nice to play pretend?” - The Seattle Garages, Needs Of The Many -
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2021-11-19 13:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe radio contact from Glitter caught me slightly by surprise. Ennos and I had taken some time to set the station’s comm system to basically auto-answer whenever she pinged us, along with tying the station’s internal camera network into the feed. It was kind of… uh… slapped together? Look, getting vi...
2021-11-18 18:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
