Before & After & Inbetween

...and chapter 5 of Bionics was just uploaded to the AO3 - I expect to spend the next few days catching typos I missed. ;)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89238176/chapters/241472836

...just hit the AO3 : https://archiveofourown.org/works/89238176/chapters/238225226

......and the obligated "post posting editing" to correct all the missed "a", "the", and erroneously chosen words was completed on the next day!

Chapter 2 is currently edited to about 50% (rough estimate) - and yes, I spent some time ferreting mistakes out of the already poster chapter 1, today.
Depending on how well my head copes with the upcoming heatwave, it may be ready to hit the AO3 next weekend, but Zach certainly has a tough time waking up after the implantation. And Niko applies for a job.

Aside from that: Bionics is currently 100 A4 pages, posted and edited are about the first twenty. The latter half is gappy, so total length will be more in the end.

Quote of the day:

The Untold Truths About Living With Bionics:
#1: You don't want to know.

...on a different note, I may need to make additional GR icons. The Queen and the Badge are kinda limiting as of late.

For the record, I do not use AI, generative or otherwise, for writing and editing my stories. I do this for fun, and outsourcing fun to a technology with an energy demand that puts our planetary heating on MAX while we already suffer temperatures above 40°C (!) in Northern(!!) Germany and have projected to potentially reach 46°C (!!!) in a week in my books is suicidal.

And other than anyone on Windows and Mac with Word these days, I can be sure that all mistakes, errors, inconsistencies, and quirks in my writing are mine and not slop induced:
My computer runs on Linux, my writing software is a barebones LibreOffice, my dictionary... is the same since 2001: Langenscheidt's Handwörterbuch Englisch (ISBN 3-468-05127-1, 1800 pages, weighs 2.8 kg, firmly occupying one corner of my desk, because I deem it too heavy to haul around).

If there are similarities in style or grammar between my writing and genAI output, that's because my homepage was scraped without my consent.

In short:
Accuse me of writing and editing with a chatbot, and my dictionary would like to have an impactful conversation with your face. Have a good day.

Just posted the Epilogue of The Right to Refuse on the ao3 !

...and now I'm tempted to edit Bionics, the story about how Zach got his hardware & the S5s were formed in my universe!


https://archiveofourown.org/works/87440591

Chapter 8 (Quarantine) of The Right to Refuse is now up.
The story refused to be done in 8 chapters + an epilogue, so it's going to be 9+E instead.
So much for planned brevity!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87440591/chapters/234486736

"Chapter 7: Tarred, Not Feathered" of "The Right to Refuse" is now on the AO3. Looks increasingly like it's going to be 9 chapters and an Epilogue. All remaining chapters have major parts already written, but with some gaps & need for arrangements left & the cold from hell [tm] is so not helping right now. :(

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87440591/chapters/232317121

current chapter word count: 8166 words (mostly continuous)
scene written: burning hands
scenes to be written next: report coming undone
character, who is seeking relief: Seishiro
character, who doesn't want to tag along: Subaru

quote of the day: "I don't work remote."

issues to be addressed:

• ambassadors in burning hands;
• how will Yimura take it that she does not need to be sorry for her boss?

still open question: will there be a Naha and an Ijyuin scene in this, or just one, and if so, which?

Beware the Sakura on Social Media!

Fandom.ink is now hosting Tree-san in its endeavor to cover the ongoing writing issues with the Decagram in live toots; the account will be linked to bridgyfed in a week, so you can follow not only from the Fediverse (Mastodon), but also Bluesky and even (shudder) Threads, if you like.

Anyways, the Tree is now online at

https://fandom.ink/@Tree_san

Searchable username: _@tree_san@fandom.ink (without the _ before the @)

current chapter word count: 7947 words (gap closed, events now flow smoothly, but text could have more oomph! So more polishing needed on existing text.)
how long will the chapter be? defined by the story, but chapter 1 was roughly 14k in the end.
scenes to be written next: burning hands, report coming undone
character, who is a nicely kept secret: Seishiro
character, who is so not a kept secret: also Seishiro.
character complaining about enma-flavored meager meals: Tree-san
character feeling sorry for her boss: Yimura
issue to be addressed: how will Yimura take it that she does not need to be sorry for her boss?
research of the day: indoor mold in Tokyo

open question:
will there be a Naha and an Ijyuin scene in this, or just one, and if so, which?