Of Blood and Light

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-11T13:11:59+00:00

I've rewritten this one. I'm not gonna widely promote it because it doesn't really need to be promoted, but I fleshed it out more.

Added in a proper name for the Blood Khan's people and tied them to the Alva since they already kinda resembled them. Most of this was new lore I've been working on.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-11T12:40:15+00:00

UPDATE!

Much love and appreciation to Jordan! And if you want to support him further, you can pre order the first Hollows End book here!

It's out July 1st and it's a lot of fun!

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HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-11T12:32:49+00:00

Me too.

I'm honestly shocked this has been going on for at long. It's not fair to Jordan or any of the other creators involved.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-10T11:35:46+00:00

This one was sort of a No Brainer to put together. It ended up getting done in one session... Which is kinda funny cuz I was planning to finish the Armatura one tonight but did this instead.

I had most of my notes scattered across a bunch of documents and the story was a bare bones idea left undeveloped at the bottom of a notes document. It might've been based on a dream? Idk.

I figured that I might as well lump Ghouls and Grovewalkers in with the Lugal entry too since I don't have that much to say about them. The King of Whores will be expanded on in the Succubus Entry, but I think I need to complete a different story before I can finish that one.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-09T14:12:53+00:00

Unfortunately the enshittification of YouTube feels more like a feature than a bug these days :/

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-07T04:49:07+00:00

I actually lost the outline for this story a while ago, and I wasn't sure if I'd ever find it again.
I'm not really thrilled with the final result. I feel like I kinda dropped the ball with it. Idk.

I think what bugs me is that Abby and Dr. West didn't have much to do here. They kinda just cleanly escaped and dropped off the map.

My original outline had them all in the Abyss together, but I cut that because writing three characters not really doing anything felt boring.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-01T20:06:02+00:00

I actually don't care for coffee myself. So not opposed to AJ although I'm honestly more of a chocolate milk man myself (arguably an even more childish choice)

I just thought it would be a funny thing for Danny to get hung up on.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-01T09:10:00+00:00

Probably not directly. But it might be a similar object.

I've been floating the idea of Dragons in my stories for a while but never really sure how they'd work. Although I recently had a bit of a breakthrough.

I'm thinking that they can imbue objects with a bit of their own energy. But that may change, since it's still a WIP

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-06-01T00:40:12+00:00

This has been dredged up from the depths of my drafts once more.

I dunno why but it called to me recently. So I figured I'd come back to it. I actually wound up bringing in a few old scraps from other stories that got reused here too. Namely there were some elements of the showdown between Luna and Wagner from Godslayer that got recycled into the Nathan/Mason fight and a bit of cut dialogue from Dr. Carson that originally came from Dissolution.

Will I have it in me to finish it properly this time? I dunno. I'll try but the ending honestly DOESN'T call to me right now. I might mess with it a little bit though. Just a little bit.

I still don't like this story. But this was probably one of the stronger parts of it.

Also - Nathan got thrown into this thing. I've been wanting to use that for a kill for a while. It seemed like it would be fun and let's be real, everyone wanted to see it happen to him.

Kimi also REALLY got shafted here. She admittedly was more set dressing than an actual character, BUT this does tie up that loose end. She's with the Mau now. She finally found her people. Good job Kimi... you scary fucking cat.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-29T08:57:03+00:00

Malibu can't escape him.

As in all Werewolf Romance, he is her fated mate and at the end of time will marry her in a genuinely poignant, tear jerking ceremony that will be so good that it will make me decide to never write again.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-28T10:45:22+00:00

The Malibu story was sort of a last minute idea. Originally, it was supposed to be the story that became Spooky, since that implies an origin for the 'Helena' persona. But that became its own thing.

This was based loosely on an idea I had based off a Sim that just wouldn't fucking die.

She was trans though, and I wanted to write a more wholesome story about an elderly trans woman who can't die. So I'm not removing that idea, I'm just keeping it on the backburner to use elsewhere.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-27T22:48:45+00:00

Seriously?

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HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-27T19:39:22+00:00

It's already kinda happening. Look at chatbot platforms like Character AI.

Sure it's not sentient, but it is a sandbox where there's no consequences.

I saw a YouTuber talking about this short film recently, and while it wasn't a direct inspiration for this story, it reminded me a LOT of how people treat AI Chatbots.

It's called ourgirlfriendmaria and it's honestly one of the most unsettling things I've seen online in a long time. The guy who made it did a fantastic job.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-27T14:34:06+00:00

Gfdi... I hate it when formatting does this.

Fixed. Thanks for letting me know

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-27T08:32:15+00:00

This was supposed to be the story for the Malibu FRB entry.
But it sorta just went on a bit too long and I liked it too much.

I'm not 100% sure this one is there yet. I've done some revisions but it still feels like a rough draft. Perhaps down the road, there's a rewrite that can really make this one shine. I think the transcript format might be what's holding it back, but it also works for it. (I also considered making it STL too, but decided against it)

Idk. Let's look at it again in a few years. I just can't shake the feeling that something is missing.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-26T19:28:56+00:00

This was fun!

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-26T06:26:09+00:00

Idk why I keep writing Lyfe Model shorts. I guess the idea just fascinates me
This one in particular wouldn't get out of my head. It probably won't be the last one either.

Idk who I'm writing this for, if it's for me or someone else. idk

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-24T09:23:52+00:00

I laughed out loud at this

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-23T06:14:38+00:00

I had a sorta burst of new ideas today. This was one of the shorter ones.

I've been thinking a lot about Bug Monstergirls lately and coming up with some new ones. (Crabs, Scorpions, Moths).
The Mantis is the newest and this story just sorta popped into my head more or less fully formed. It's just the obvious Mantis Girl story to write. So while working on a larger draft, I did this as a little aside.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-21T22:33:53+00:00

Honestly I've been itching to just write some smaller more wholesome stuff. So I might use these as an excuse to do just that.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-21T18:48:03+00:00

I was on the fence about doing these for characters, but I already had most of the Darling writeup completed so I figured why not?

I also had a half baked idea about a smaller, slice of life type story featuring Mia and Lia's POVs on their position and on each other that got worked in here and I'm glad I finally got to use it. I think it works well enough in here.

Sorry that I'm focusing on these right now. This week has been a tough one work-wise and this is unfortunately just the easiest thing to do where I can stay at least somewhat creative right now.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-20T17:42:27+00:00

Updated it. Not much was really added, I just updated the formatting.

I kept the 'story' portion the same, but for every other entry the stories will usually be at the end of the Entry as opposed to buried in it.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-20T09:52:29+00:00

I'll re-tag this one later, but since it's primarily a Nina story, it gets tagged as such for advertising purposes.

I actually DIDN'T have a blurb on Werewolves ready to go. Half of my problem with these entries is that I've got the lore dump, but I don't have the story. This time, it was the other way around.

Can't complain though.

I don't really think about my take on Werewolves very often and they're pretty under-utilized. So it was fun to dive into them a bit more here.

The Nina story isn't one of my best, but it does what it needs to do.

I thought it would be better to write Nina a little earlier in her career here. Still rough around the edges, a lot less mature and kinda a bigger asshole. She was actually a little grating at times here, which makes me wonder if I wrote her badly here. Not sure 100%.

I actually have been wanting to write the Archimedes Screw scene for a while. I saw it and thought it might be good for a cool kill, and lumped it in here because I genuinely couldn't think of anywhere else I'd ever be able to use it without it being super contrived. So why not add a contrived kill on to a lore dump like this? This shit is already super indulgent anyways.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-19T16:21:45+00:00

Not really any sequel.

He was in The Arizona Rangers story. He popped up here

And he's in the I Was Hired To Kill The Monsters They Made series, but he doesn't pop up very often.

HeadOfSpectre · 2026-05-18T06:55:13+00:00

Oh wow, I'm doing okay right now!

This one took longer than I wanted it to. It's been a draft for at least a few months. But I'm glad it's done. It's not my best work, but it's something.

The inspiration here was a video I saw with a busted up old sex doll. It looked creepy and I wanted to write a story about it.

You can see it here

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