#honor bound

[hpowellsmith]

My games are on sale for Pride!

You can grab my Choice of Games titles on sale as part of their Pride Month celebrations. The links below are to Steam, but you can also get them on sale on whatever device you play CoG games on. Enjoy!

Also, there's an interview up in which I talk about my thought processes writing queer characters, how my approach has evolved over time, and lots more. I'm wordy when talking about writing queer characters and queerness in settings (and, well, talking about anything to do with writing), so if you have any thoughts or questions about this, or about my approaches in general, I'd love to hear them!

Here's the interview!

And finally, here's where you can play the first three chapters of my dark fantasy WIP, The Earth Has Teeth!

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Crème de la Crème (40% off): Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Noblesse Oblige (40% off): Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart? A 180,000 interactive gothic novella.

Royal Affairs (40% off): At your exclusive boarding school, will you rule the roost or be a royal disaster? Court publicity, sway the fate of nations, and find love! A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Honor Bound (40% off):Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country? A 595,000 word interactive novel.

Blood Money (30% off): By the power of your blood, you and your ghosts will take over your crime family! A 290,000 word standalone dark fantasy interactive novel.

[rainyartblog]

Binaon naman na ang lahat / Tinakpan naman na 'king sugat Ngunit ba't ba andito pa rin? / Hirap na 'kong intindihin Though I’ve already buried everything / Already covered my wounds But why’re they still here? / I struggle to understand - Multo - Cup of Joe | [a good English translation]

I really liked this scene from @hpowellsmith’s Honor Bound and just had to draw it! This isn’t a 1:1 representation though I tried to go for a similar effect (couldn’t get pews to look right aha).

When this was in the sketch phase, I got roped into listening to the entirety of Cup of Joe’s Silakbo (yes this took a While) and felt that Multo’s lyrics were rather fitting. It was hard to choose only a few lines from the song lol

[whump-tr0pes]

Author copies arrived today

If you'd like to grab a copy (with 3 new chapters!!) you can grab one off Bookshop here.

You can also grab copies of all the other Honor Bound books from the links in my pinned post.

It feels like this beast is truly done. Holy shit. Thank you as always to @kys-chai-and-books who edited this series with me. Their guidance truly made me a better writer. If you want to know why I am (in my personal opinion) rocking y'all's shit with Gunmetal Skies... you partially have Ky to thank.

[curseoftheeel]

You are no "god" to me! Hey everyone, so there's no Eel page this week, because I am exhausted. I've picked up some extra hours at work, and the freelance pool has gotten deeper so I'm doing my best to stay on top of that, but the lack of sleep and more work absolutely pancaked me this week, which I apologize for. I should be back next week, and I can start also promoting some of the things I've been working on on the side.

Take care everyone, thank you for reading and for your patience

[haleandwellmet]

very serious repressed 4 repressed relationship

i made a very stiff workaholic MC for @hpowellsmith's Honor Bound and they ended up in a korzhamance! Did they make each other worse? yes :^) Did I love every second of it? without a doubt.

MC lore below the cut because I am rotating them in my mind:

Oriole Bittersea (not to be confused with my dnd character Oriol Battersea who I did base their character on) is a 44 y.o disgraced field medic clinging to their military job like it's a speeding train they just managed to hop onto the back of.

Extremely dutiful, overly reliant on structure of the military to shape their life, and pragmatic, yet kind of artless, they ended up being a slightly more naive version of Korzha lol. I did not realize that was happening because I went it completely blind and didn't know much about the characters except what it said on the tin.

I actually thought they were gonna romance Fiore, but Oriole is someone who would prioritize work over any social commitments so they kept being drawn to Korzha instead, because spending time with Fiore felt frivolous.

ALSO similar to Korzha, Matia ended up being a close friend who helped them unbutton a bit. Side note: I want Matia to be my friend irl, I can't wait to do a more Matia-centric run.

No spoilers, but after several painful fuck-ups and continually failing to look after their health, Korzha remains their last tie to a military they're not really sure they want to be attached to anymore, while Korzha is in it deeper than ever. I did not have the heart to break them up after everything, but they are in for an interesting future together :^)

oops the tragic, personality-based doppelbanger situationship has committed accidental war crimes!

[roseburning]

Rewatching the Death Note Musical gave me some ideas... hmmm something about Light having this clear blunt hatred for the justice system and bad law enforcement, and everything around him thinking this boy has some DEEP daddy issues cuz he's father is a police officer

[allyxmatics]

Wip 🤭🤭 for Honour Bound on ao3

[smallsinger5901]

the way soichiro thinks he’s singing this about light but it really only applies to himself </3