So, it's time to shamelessly promote my sideblog for book reviews: Secondhand Reviews! The rules are that if I can get it for under five dollars, it's fair game, so this includes books that I got at rummage sales, things that I find online in the public domain, and books that get dumped on me because I'm sort of an unofficial orphanage for unneeded ( Read more... )

In Medias Restitution;
Being an Account of the Noble, Refined and Courtly Love of a Dragon for his HordeThe knight and the princess glanced around the bejeweled cavern and the dragon’s gleaming horde. It looked like a museum, with swords and cups and shiny bits of broken glass lovingly arranged on fire-scarred antique tables, set into alcoves in ( Read more... )

Here's a small sample of the completed and currently updating webcomics that I've read in the past year or so, or am still reading. Most of them are fantasy, mystery, or adventure comics - the only rules I gave myself about throwing this list together is that they have to have made it through at least one chapter, updated within the last two months ( Read more... )

Haven't finished reading Poor Unfortunate Souls yet?

That's okay. All but two of Christian Grey's crimes were committed canonically, over the course of Fifty Shades of Grey and the first nine or so chapters of Fifty Shades Darker. This is just the list of ones that I managed to research.
Christan Grey’s crimes according to Washington State Law, ( Read more... )

Epilogue: A New Step
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Twelve: ConscienceIn the end, they had to move the trial out of Seattle. It was a preventative measure to keep Grey’s relative fame from influencing the jury - and to keep the jury relatively free of past connection to any of his businesses. Before the trial, however, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc ( Read more... )

Chapter Twelve: Conscience
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Eleven: War Far from Over
The thing about Seattle is that even the police stations are proud of their coffee ( Read more... )

Chapter Eleven: War Far From Over
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Ten: The Stolen Years
Chapter Warnings: Mild fantasy violence, some regular violence, there are guns, mentions of rape and identity theft, PTSD again, big pile of conflicting goals, don't try this at home at your local hotel ( Read more... )

Chapter Ten: The Stolen Years
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Nine: The Sound of Never
The staccato click of shoes grew closer, and a man in a grey suit entered the room.

[Everyone talks, nobody listens]My first thought was relief - he wasn’t Christian Grey - but he was still definitely armed and professional. I could tell because of the military stance and the earpiece, and ( Read more... )

Chapter Nine: The Sound of Never
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Eight: By the time we returned to our apartment after a cold bus ride, my phone was well and truly dead and it was almost two in the morning, with a sky full of cold stars ( Read more... )

Chapter Eight: The Rotten Houses
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Seven: Wisdom of SightWarnings: Elena Lincoln, child molester, makes an appearance in this chapter. Dr. and Mr. Grey are up a river in Egypt without a paddle. Taylor has PTSD and is still the better man. Panic attack. Mentions of public sex act native to fifty shades canon. Standard ( Read more... )