Jack Poignet

There, I did it. I left an emoji under the „anxiety“ post. Of course, I questioned if that was even appropriate, because… What‘s the correct emoji here? „Thumbs up“–too generic, impersonal. „Love“–might make me seem like a heartless and tone-deaf monster, even so it touched my heart and made me emotional. „Haha“–can‘t say it‘s funny even though it is and probably is meant to be. „Wow“–could be interpreted as „what a freak“, even though it‘s meant to convey „Greatest Respect“. „Sad“ or „Angry“–might be conceived as „I hated this, don‘t bother me“ instead of sympathy or compassion. So I settled for „Fingers crossed“… yeah, it‘s not easy, you just can‘t do it right. Btw. I‘m currently editing my story „BigPaws“ and a main character there is very „funny“ and „chaotic“… my beloved and always right internet editor Gemini AI suggested I should elaborate on this behavior as a coping mechanism for PTSD. But I guess putting different names on a beast doesn’t really change it.

@Bill W I was actually very tempted to do a Steve/otter story at first, but then–in the chat about „Creature Feature Anthology“–the others began going off on vampire-unicorns, penguins on pepsi, and wiener dogs. So, after a bit of back and forth in the chat, I felt compelled to write „challenge accepted“…. I was still very tempted to add a major part for Steve, but somehow Kevin came along and enough is enough 🤷‍♂️. I actually had to reign in my tendency to say „let‘s add…“ and then somehow I desperately tried to come up with anything remotely resembling a story (that was the really hard part, all the rest is just me on a normal tuesday afternoon). But no worries, Steve is happily swimming in the backwaters of my mind and just might pop up one day in another story.

@Thirdly Thank you so much for taking the time to do one of your famous and beloved comments of story/chapter this long… I‘m now very tempted to reread my own story 😱

Part 1 Lord Percival Nocturne was, for want of a better word, bored. It was a boredom of breathtaking antiquity, a boredom that had seen empires rise from dust and crumble back into slightly more worn dust. He had tasted the blood of kings, poets, and the occasional tax auditor (which was, he’d found, uniformly bland and unimaginative). He had seen the turning of ages, the shifting of continents, and even the invention of the Spork. He had met each with a progressively more

Lord Percival Nocturne is an ancient vampire suffering from a profound boredom. His fate is sealed when a meal on a virgin porn author fills him with untapped creative energy. A subsequent attack by a rabid unicorn doesn't kill him—it transforms him into Sparklehoof, a glittery, fanged unicorn who excretes rainbow ice cream . He realizes he is a cosmic antibody against "The Beige," a universal force of soul-crushing blandness . Can his army of Pepsi-addicted penguins and furious dachshunds save existence from total monotony?

I started writing/posting on here quite exactly one year ago… while I believe I have improved, I wouldn‘t exactly call myself an author just yet. But thanks a lot 🤗

Thanks a lot @AlexLittel! I‘m pretty sure I‘ll start on the second Lightbringer story soon (maybe this time I‘ll actually fully plot it before I start 🤔).

I‘ve read all your other stories (including „Unchained“, which touches related themes to this story), so I’m looking forward to reading your SciFi when it‘s finished.

Loved the story and especially the open „ending“. I wouldn‘t mind at all if you took the material and turned it into a complete novel, but of course that would mean that you‘d have to deal with the questions Jordan asked himself in the end. Very interesting, thank you!

Loved the story and the setting. The world building, the family descriptions etc. were almost a bit much for just one chapter… but I think I’ll be able to overlook this if more chapters follow…

It is done. I've submitted the story with days to spare! (In the end, I simply did not include the main hero bursting into song every now and then, and the artisanal cheese making Minotaur with his ottoman lover (traditional upholstery!) were only mentioned once)

If I don't get an extension, I'm pretty sure I'll finish it just in time. If I get an extension, I'm pretty sure I'll struggle even more to finish just in time... 🤷‍♂️ Currently, I'm hard at work editing and putting in some last new absurd bits... the story is >15k words now, BUT I WILL FINISH IN TIME!

Oh, please. Jackalopes are just a poor fantasy rip-off of the (obviously existing) Bavarian Wolpertinger. No, I have totally ignored that (until now. I still have a few days) But I have added werewolves, because I just didn‘t have enough creatures fighting the enemy…

I’m still working hard on editing my story… It’s just so damn long and very confusing. Vampire-Unicorns? Unicorn-Vampires? Penguins on Pepsi, Wiener Dogs… 🤪 But I’m hopeful I can make it in time...

Thanks a lot! It seems you are reading the stories in the newest to oldest order. Be prepared to noticed that I’m still developing my skills so the older the stories get … oh well 🤷‍♂️This one isn’t too bad.