Photo: “Page 145”. Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel created by JohnCelestri. (February 2025)

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JohnCelestri writes:

“Hi,



I thought you'd be interested to know that with this week's page upload of Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel, I've not only reached 150+ pages of story, but also cracked the 200 ...

Invicibility shades and your rests fall in a bin
Invicibility creates what few guests calls from within
Watch your memory slide, forward and counterwise
As the crowd fades into their vertical grins

Visibility flows and your next comes to a scene
Visibility shows what effects rises so clean
Hear your ...

No matter what the characters in your story might be doing–fighting crime, resisting alien invasion, surviving in a harsh radioactive wasteland, or just working in an office–sometimes it's fun to remove them from their ‘regular’ activities and place them somewhere different and out of their social comfort ...

August and Cora don't believe their uncle is dead. They go to visit the cemetery, but August takes a tumble and ends up in quite a bit of trouble, resulting a little stay at the local police station. Meanwhile Cora is nowhere to be seen. But was this all ...

Time is something that affects us all and as we age we become more aware of it because it seems to speed up, things become less permanent, and we become aware of our own mortality and mortality in general. Humans are a very long lived species as things go but ...

There was a recent article in the Guardian about how playing Dungeons and Dragons had helped siblings bond and cope with the death of their father. It got me thinking about the role that role-playing has played (now there's a phrase) in my own life.

For me role-playing began ...

Boone looks exceptionally well-dressed in the white collared shirt and black tie lovingly gifted to him by his grandmother. Excavator by profession, Boone spends his days digging for buried treasure or unearthing alien artifacts. Grandma, Boonford’s favorite person to share his findings, has a mantra borrowed from Grandpa that ...

Photo: “A Page of the Tuesday Funnies Used to Wrap a Mason Jar at the Thrift Store”. The San Diego Union-Tribune. (February 2025)

Gleaning for vintage supplies at the local thrift store, I made out with an assortment of cream coloured typewriter papers weathered by age from card stock cotton ...

In designing a good villain character there's a wide range of paths one can follow. From the grandiose villains that want to take over the world and live in volcano islands, waiting for the hero to fall into their elaborate death trap to humanized villains with complex backstories that ...

I love a character in an ensemble cast that runs counter to the rest of the people around them.

Really, it's the best way to make a character stand out. The one who has some kind of contrast to everyone else, in terms of their priorities, or beliefs, or ...