velvet_star



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 67

    Tags
    Summary

    This might be the last story I ever tell. Definitely the last story I will ever type on this laptop, as I plan to chuck this cursed device into the nearest pool of acid the very second I send this draft to Calliope for proofreads and erase this whole episode from my memory. Hermes said it would do nothing to destroy any of the actual content on it, as everything is “stored in the Cloud” nowadays, but go for it man, get it out of your system. Lately, everybody’s been telling me to go for it man, get it out of your system. They’ve also been walking on eggshells and keep giving me their therapists’ contact information.

    Wow, Apollo, you may be wondering. What is this tale about? Can it really be more traumatic than your six month road trip across America, bound to a pipsqueak slave-master and fighting off such distinguished enemies as real estate tycoons, giant snakes, horse-fuckers, the specters of all your past regrets and/or mistakes, fungal acne and your toxic ex?

    Yes. It can. You can stop trying to hide your glee, reader.

    Apollo thought his trials were over. Well, Apollo thought wrong.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    68,728
    Chapters:
    15/43
    Comments:
    238
    Kudos:
    217
    Bookmarks:
    67
    Hits:
    5,702

    26 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 28

    Tags
    Summary

    Annabeth, Malcolm, Will, Katie, Clarisse, Pollux, Connor and Travis get sent back to the winter solstice of 2005. Not to fix things, no, demigods never have it that good. Instead they have two choices, kill themselves inside their child bodies before the after party ends or their existences in their future gets erased to preserved the timeline. Oh, time is still moving on in their original time as well. With the Romans coming to invade Camp Half Blood and the doors of death in the process of being closed, it really wasn't much of a choice to begin with was it?

    Or I give a bunch of theater kids (in soul) the ability to traumatize their parents back with no consequences in the most violent way possible. Yeah, it goes as well as you expect it to.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,602
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    139
    Bookmarks:
    28
    Hits:
    965

    19 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

    Tags
    Summary

    I've never really understood Halloween.

    Kids go around in costumes for the fun of it, going to houses and requesting candy in order to satiate their hunger for destruction. 1, as a father, that sounds like something kids would do, 2, that's so far out of my comfort zone I circled back into it. (That's a horrible metaphor)

    But it's not like I had anything else planned that day, and Leo's offering of Bacon was much appreciated to get my attention.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    6,537
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    17
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    275

    18 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 8

    Tags
    Summary

    Ben only wanted to clear his head, but the forest had other plans. A sudden storm, a fall, and one bad decision leave him lost, bleeding, and alone. As the rain pounds harder, so do the thoughts he’s been trying to outrun.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,865
    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    32
    Kudos:
    103
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    926

    14 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 55

    Tags
    Summary

    Tired of being pestered by ghosts, Ben looks for somewhere quiet to read.

    Fortunately, there is a 50-foot-wide ghost-free sphere around Abaddon at all times, thanks to everyone being unsettled by him.

    Unfortunately, taking advantage of this requires actually speaking to Abaddon.

    Ben decides to take his chances. It goes... interestingly.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    9,710
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    62
    Kudos:
    427
    Bookmarks:
    55
    Hits:
    2,005

    04 Nov 2025