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Ten years ago I wrote a Welcome to Night Vale fanfic called 'Welcome to Cyber Vale'. It was the story of Carlos going to the Night Vale space colony to meet C.E.C.I.L., a dangerously sentient robot with dark secret that threatened the whole colony. It was a real hit, despite one very large flaw.

See, I had only just gotten into Welcome to Night Vale when I wrote it. So when I wrote it I got almost all of the characterizations completely wrong. It wasn't until I finished the fic what I was like, oh, oh shit, the WTNV characters aren't like that at all. But I also realized that, hey, I had the bones of a pretty good Sci-fi story here. Time to make some lemonade out of lemons as it were.

Ten years passed. I would work on the story, send it out to agents/publishers, get turned down, put the story away, sit on it for a few years, bring it back out, etc etc. In 2023 I realized that my book of Queer Robot Romance was just a little too strange for traditional publishing. So with the help of family, friends, and donators I got the funds together to get my story ready for self publishing.

And now it's ready.

Echo of the Larkspur is a full Sci-fi/Romance/Mystery novel at roughly 130k words now available for preorder on Amazon (other sites coming soon).

This is a story about love, trauma, overcoming the past, learning to trust, all while being queer and diverse as fuck. If you enjoyed the original fic (or any of my other fanfics) then you're sure to fall in love with Ciro and S.A.G.E.'s 'enemies to lovers'-style romance.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, and thank you to everyone willing to give my novel a shot! Love you all!

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Liushen week day 2: Mandarin Orange

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The ML/love interest of this novel is one of the most unlikeable MLs/love interests I’ve read in a while. I am halfway in so that’s unlikely to change.

Also, I am sorry, having your high fantasy royal warrior have the speech, behavior and personality of a weed dealer who lives in a trailer park is a…choice.

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enough.

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the line between naïveté and hopefulness is almost invisible

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I am rereading svsss right now and work has not been horrible for the past few weeks so here is some fanart

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Princess Calli

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Do you have a shipping date for your summer collection? (I've got a wedding in a couple of months they'd be perfect for!)

Ginkgo and tulip culottes will go out this coming week, and ginkgo/tulip button downs are arriving this week so theyll be sent the following week probably!

Ginkgo and tulip boleros are shipping to me now and shorts/the fungi forest design are finishing up production so theyll need a few weeks still :)

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gift for a friend ; weilan & daqing

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Though I read the book nine months ago, I finally have created art of the man, the myth, the peak lord who's doing it like no one else--Shen Qingqiu!!!!!

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My problem with heterosexual romance novels (which I am reading under duress due to my coworker book club but find somewhat entertaining cuz they're not something I normally wld read) is that whenever the love interest is an asshole the author also makes him all dommy dom. when what I really want is for him to be thoroughly put in his place. All of these shithead Christian grey knockoff guys in these books would be excellent brat material but nobody cares what I want. Nobody cares what I want

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★ 【ねこのけだ】 「 さんぽ 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter // bsky

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Gil and Enkidu in some Sumerian gowns

(disclaimer: these outfits are not historically accurate! i referenced the designs from different illustrations of ancient Sumerian/Assyrian gowns. this is a personal interpretation. Enkidu's clothing has both traditionally male and female elements, which would not be possible in real history (probably.) anyways don't take this one seriously :)

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How to read Fate/Strange Fake Light Novel

Read the First Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.1 (2015) PDF

Read the Second Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.2 PDF

Read the Third Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.3 PDF

Read the Fourth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.4 PDF

Read the Fifth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.5 PDF

Read the Sixth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.6 PDF

Read the Seventh Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.7 PDF

Read the Eighth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.8 PDF

Read the Nineth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.9 PDF

Volume 9 PDF updated 2/3/2025:

Volume 9 updated and completed

Note: From this point onwards I don't think I'll be able to keep up with the updates. I barely read it anymore, a lot of years have passed and I have more pressing matters to attend IRL so these PDFs will only work as a quality of life for those that want PDF reading but are not desperate to read the updates as soon a translator picks them up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

It's all about the sauce:

The chapters translations are made by OtherSideofSky and Comun. You can read the original raw text submitted by the translator in The Beast Lair along with epub versions.

About the Manga:

You should also read the manga. It has a sharp and beautiful art style (by Morii) and complements the story already being told in the LN.

Credits to:

Thanks to Nakula for translating the initial version (2008) of F/SF Vol 1, and Mew and Food for the extra chapters to complete the final Volume 1. Thanks to OtherSideofSky for translating the Volumes 2 to 6 and Comun for Volume 7 onwards. And thanks to Ryohgo Narita for writing Strange Fake!

I suggest following me on Twitter if you so desire getting updates when I... update... these PDFs. It's also a better way of communicating with me in case it's necessary since this post is a revision of the original I made back then in 2017 but the Tumblr account was breached and deleted the pinned post (this one) so... yeah, there's that.

@ZeroDestreza on Twitter (I’m not calling it “X”, that’s dum dum)

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this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

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🐍 Official illustration for 萌谷子×DMBJ Collab Merch in October 2024—「铁三角大战野鸡脖子—赶紧跟上! 胖子」 "Iron Triangle vs. Pheasant Neck*—Hurry up and catch up! Pangzi" Series

🐍 Source: 萌谷子MOEGOODS (Weibo | xhs)

Note: A type of snake that appeared in DMBJ Vol. 4, see here on MereBear's site

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How to read the Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Light Novels

I was recently reminded that there is a lot of people who simply don’t know that they can read the Case Files light novels, and that there are people who do know but have no idea where to find them. This is especially a problem when these people have only watched the anime and want to know where they can find more of the story. Since it kind of requires you to go through some hoops (not a whole lot but still), I decided to take a page out of @humbertozero​‘s excellent Fate/strange Fake resource post and make one for my other favorite Type-Moon Fate spinoff, the dossiers of El-Melon.

Read the First Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.1 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Second Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.2 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Third Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.3 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Fourth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.4 (PDF) (EPUB1) (EPUB2)

Read the Fifth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.5 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Sixth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.6 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Seventh Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.7 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Eighth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.8 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Ninth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.9 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Tenth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.10 (PDF) (EPUB)

Important note!

It should be noted first that I am just the compiler here. I am neither the translator nor am I the files’ creator. So all credits go to…

Credits

Credits and thanks to TwilightsCall on the Beast Lair forums (from which the majority of the other creditors originally posted their contributions) for translating the first 4 volumes and some of volume 5, thus getting the ball rolling. Further thanks to azwhoisverybored for translating the rest of the series from volume 6 onwards, and thanks to Kneenaw for starting the translation for the rest of volume 5. Thanks to Dotelias for making EPUBs for volumes 1-3, thanks to  cereal_ for making EPUBs of volume 4, thanks to u/confusedkuratowski on Reddit for making EPUB of volume 6, and thanks to ProtoformX for making PDFs and EPUBs for volumes 5 to 10 as well as for Adventures volume 1 and 2!

And big thanks to Makoto Sanda for writing Case Files in the first place!

Further explanations

Anime

The anime adaptation of Case Files, with the mouthful of a title that is Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note, is particular to use as an entry-point in the series, because it only partially adapts the series. See, the author, Makoto Sanda, said in interview that the two first arcs/cases in the series didn’t quite work as scripts for anime episodes, so the anime only adapted the third case/arc, Rail Zeppelin, which is more action oriented than the more mystery focused first arcs. But because they still needed to explain stuff like Gray, Reines, El-Melloi’s students, etc., many of whom are relevant characters to the arc, the first half/six episodes of the anime is about introducing them.

So to the question “where do I start reading after the anime?”, the answer is unironically to restart at volume 1. And then you may skip volumes 4-5 since they are the Rail Zeppelin arc and there are not much differences besides some characters not being present during that arc. This is why I think you can watch the anime first if that’s more your speed (I have my problems and criticisms of the anime but that’s irrelevant to this post).

And you can’t start with the anime and start reading with volume 6, the first 3 volumes have characters and plot points that come back for the final arc, so you’re gonna be incredibly lost if you think to consume the series this way.

Weirdly enough, despite being original episodes, the anime originals are most likely canon in some ways. Episode 0, the original OVA, is an expansion of an anecdote Gray mentions in the first volume’s prologue, and Episode 1 takes place during Waver’s travels before the story starts and is an actual story, one of the 3 incidents Sanda has in mind for Waver’s journey before he returned to London. Episodes 2 to 6 take place during the one month period between volume 3 and volume 4, and finally the special OVA take place on Christmas also in between arcs.

Manga

The manga’s translation used to be on hiatus for a long time, but it has fortunately been picked up by the team doing the UBW and HF mangas. As of the time of writing (14/10/24), it has been translated up to the Rail Zeppelin arc, meaning if LNs aren’t your thing, you can experience the first two arcs that weren’t adapted in the anime in manga form. It has really gorgeous art so definitely check it out.

The Adventures of El-Melloi II

The sequel series currently ongoing, started a year after the first Case Files ended in 2019. You might know it as “the (other) series where Rin shows up grown up and also a pirate” and, as of recent volumes, “that one series where Shirou comes back spending the entire time half-naked”. @call-me-noa has been compiling pretty thorough chapter-by-chapter summaries of the volumes by @kaibutsushidousha if you don’t mind being spoiled. Or you can be patient and wait for azwhoisverybored to finish translating them on Beast Lair in this thread.

At the time of writing (14/10/24), the first and second volume of Adventures have been completed and compiled into PDF and EPUB forms:

First Volume: The Man Who Devoured God (PDF)(EPUB)

Second Volume: The Demon of the Wandering Sea I (PDF)(EPUB)

Lord El-Melloi II Case Files material

This is absolutely not required reading in any shape or form, those lore books are usually of interest only to dumb nerds like me lol. A timeline of the Clock Tower? An explanation of its politics? Yes please. But it also has insights into the characters by the author that aren’t in the books proper, as well as behind-the-scenes explanations for some decisions (for example, why it’s Gray with the American spelling instead of Grey with the British spelling). Only the glossary/encyclopedia is translated, but give it a look…after you read the series, because it assumes you did and has some big spoilers.

Drama CD

What’s that? You heard something about a Buzzfeed quizz about the most handsome Clock Tower teachers and how it’s somehow a plot point? Look no further than one of my only posts that did numbers. Read the summary, it’s hilarious.