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Chapter 12 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

On their way through the city, the sisters hear Sampson screaming a message about the end of days. For once, he's got a big crowd listening.

Amelia decides to stop and find out what's going on, but Iris goes in her place, for safety's sake...

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Chapter 35 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Since the mission is complete, the military is given permission to stop holding back, while the last few of the nukes are planted in Castigation City by Knox.

While the airmen have their fun, Artemis fries a suburb with blasts of blue fire magic, each a tenth of a kiloton!

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Chapter 35 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Since the mission is complete, the military is given permission to stop holding back, while the last few of the nukes are planted in Castigation City by Knox.

While the airmen have their fun, Artemis fries a suburb with blasts of blue fire magic, each a tenth of a kiloton!

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Chapter 35 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Since the mission is complete, the military is given permission to stop holding back, while the last few of the nukes are planted in Castigation City by Knox.

While the airmen have their fun, Artemis fries a suburb with blasts of blue fire magic, each a tenth of a kiloton!

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Chapter 35 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Since the mission is complete, the military is given permission to stop holding back, while the last few of the nukes are planted in Castigation City by Knox.

While the airmen have their fun, Artemis fries a suburb with blasts of blue fire magic, each a tenth of a kiloton!

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Chapter 35 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Since the mission is complete, the military is given permission to stop holding back, while the last few of the nukes are planted in Castigation City by Knox.

While the airmen have their fun, Artemis fries a suburb with blasts of blue fire magic, each a tenth of a kiloton!

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I wish #RoyalRoad had an official API so I could reasonably write a RoyalRoad Reader for my Kobo.

Chapter 11 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Amelia speaks with her sisters while supplies are loaded for a journey into the mountains. Mostly, they discuss Denholm's boundless loyalty and her nighttime vigilante-like activities, which Iris has been observing...

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🎉 The Head Game has reached 4,000 views on Royal Road! 🏒

Two hockey players. One dangerous head shot. A family secret that changes everything.

Read the story now: https://tinyurl.com/arkexkcj

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Chapter 34 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Masher is finally rescued, but as the team turns with intent to escape the prison, the curses that make it a prison suddenly spring back to life, preventing them from acting on their desire!

Even worse, they come face to face with someone they're totally sick of seeing...

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Chapter 10 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Amelia is bothered by the many worlds she has a foot it, including witch, engineer and governor of Rimestar.

Then there's the roles that have been denied to her, which she craves: wife and mother.

She feels like a fraud that doesn't measure up.

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Chapter 33 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Alice desperately searches the memories of Artemis for her sister's soul, disturbed the images fade as her brain slowly dies. Alice restores them as she passes, but they immediately begin to degrade again.

However, she smells human blood and begins to follow the scent...

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Chapter 9 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

After spending an inordinate amount of time searching, a cloaked star ship becomes visible and drops down for a landing in Amelia's back yard, something Lieutenant Bluewind has very specific orders about...

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Chapter 32 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The team fights their way through the upper floors of Zed block, though they're pretty haggard and fraying at the edges and Lara is hit by an acid spell that eats at her metal form.

With each of them getting close to their limits, they need help...

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Chapter 8 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

The Blackwell sisters have a family meeting in the front yard, regarding both Hobard and Marta's condition.

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Chapter 31 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The struggle of Annmarie and Jake to prevent her from being dragged to her waiting eternal punishment is interrupted at the last moment by an unexpected ally...

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Chapter 7 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

The Blackwell sisters observe the unusual sight of Uthec (the star, not the goddess) going nova on a much earlier schedule than expected.

Iris is only mildly concerned, while Marta worries and Amelia prepares for potential riots...

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Chapter 30 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The team of Artemis mostly loses hope when Mika checks her for a pulse, with great disappointment. Even worse, her body begins to shed black mist, just the same as a dead demon.

Surprisingly enough, Oz'gozod is just as frustrated as they are, because Artemis was part of her plans.

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Chapter 6 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Iris Blackwell stands to deliver a sermon at a funeral, a part of her duties as one of Nuva's Blessed.

However, just as she's about to begin, her chest and left arm ache and she slumps forward, over the pulpit!

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Chapter 29 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Finally having reached the ground floor of the prison, Artemis is caught off-guard by a hail of spikes fired blindly down a long hall!

One of them hits her in the eye and she falls prone, due to extremely serious brain damage!

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OUT NOW on #RoyalRoad! Bobby Champion, Too: The Mid-Card — Volume IV of VI. Masked as Mr. America, Bobby Tyson is gaining momentum with NAWF fans and moving into the mid-card, where he feuds with the Libyan Assassin. But trouble at home, locker-room heat, and Bobby’s growing modeling career complicate life inside and outside the ring. #amwriting #prowrestling #writingcommunity #sport #sports #literature
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Chapter 5 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Dame Amelia Blackwell settles in for some enjoyable labor in her workshop, after having temporarily delegated her more political responsibilities to the mayor of Rimestar.

However, she's soon interrupted by Denholm...

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Chapter 28 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

As Artemis and her team make their way through the prison, they encounter a monk sitting alone in a cell, who doesn't smell anything like a demon.

He quickly becomes frustrating, because he answers every question with one of his own, in the manner of zen philosophy.

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Chapter 4 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Marta and Hobard speak with Denholm, Amelia's bodyguard and the head of security for the house.

Denholm glares with hatred at Hobard...

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Chapter 27 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

A gremlin possesses an A-10 Thunderbolt, while the pilot of the plane desperately fights for control. Unfortunately, the gremlin cut her oxygen supply to zero and she begins to experience hypoxia.

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Chapter 3 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Hobard confronts Marta, torn between the desire to kill her and thank her, at the same time...

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Chapter 26 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The demon dragon, Bevna, faces the horrors of a modern air war, including fighter jets and A-10 Thunderbolts tasked with bombing her into oblivion!

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I'm building a Socrates-style fanfic recommendation bot for Discord and I'd love your input.

There was a bot on Discord I used before called Socrates, based on Flipper and I wanted to build something like that. Mine is using data from my fanfiction archive so it won't give proper recommendations until a few users like a few fics. After that it should get better the more it's used.

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What it does

It's a companion bot for that self-hosted archive — think "your own AO3" that can also import/scrape from other sites. The bot gives you fanfic recommendations right in Discord, Socrates-style:

• Recommendations from your reading history — !recs, !fresh, !gems, !roll, with pagination (!next / !prev / !page 3)
• Cross-platform taste: AO3, fanfiction.net, and RoyalRoad are unified into one works model, so your history on one site feeds recommendations across all of them. No "500 favs limit" wall.
• Slash commands for search, quotes, downloads: /search, /ask (ask a question about a fic's content in natural language), /quote, /download (EPUB/MOBI/PDF straight to Discord)
• Library commands: bookmark, rate, kudos, block/unblock, updates on followed fics
• Community stuff: fic requests board, roadmap voting, links back to your web profile

The honest limitation

The recommendation engine learns from what people like on the archive — and right now my site has zero users. So "personalized" recs won't be proper until a few people like a few fics. The more people actually use it, the better it gets. Once there's real taste data to learn from, the recs should beat what you got from Socrates, because it's learning from actual engagement, not just what's popular.

So, what would you want?

If you were going to invite a fanfic bot to your Discord server, what would make you actually use it?

• Recs based on what? (fandoms you're active in, specific pairings, tone/vibe, length?)
• What's the one feature that would make it your default rec source?
• How do you feel about bots that track your reading history and suggest you what to read next vs. ones that give more generic suggestions?
• Anything Socrates used to do that you miss and wish existed elsewhere?

I'm building this solo and want to make something the community actually wants, not just what I think is cool. Fire away.

Chapter 2 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Marta Blackwell wakes in the woods, with blood around her mouth, a fact that disturbs her, but she's glad it turns out to be from a rabbit.

She's afraid of what happens to her when she black out each night, but doesn't know what to do about it...

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Chapter 25 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Artemis arrives at high altitude above Castigation City and quickly spots some known landmarks, then heads toward The Outcast Detention Center.

In the background, fighter jets attack a dragon and vacuum bombs are dropped on the city of demons.

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Chapter 1 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Hobard Twoheart walks the forest in the foothills of Mount Rimestar, at night, tracking a very unusual beast, that he might claim the bounty placed on its head by Dame Amelia Blackwell, the local governor.

However, the beast is not the rabid wolf or bear he assumed it to be...

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Chapter 24 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The invasion of Hell begins with Artemis and her team using a moon base to open a brief portal, using the raw life energy that pools on the surface during the new moon. That's followed by several other portals, backed by the magic of The Cauldron of the Elements...

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Chapter 23 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

With little time remaining, Oz'gozod tortures Masher endlessly, without rest, keeping herself awake and alert through a steady drip of stimulants. Meanwhile, Masher grows ever more tired and his will begins to falter...

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Chapter 22 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Artemis and her team reach the Sanctuary, which miraculously provides them with a meal of magical fruit, then seek to get the back door open.

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DONG! NEW CHAPTER ALERT!
Chapter 7 of "Soda & The Spazmotronic Slughunt" stars Poo-Go and Tiny Tirdly and is a tribute to Italian horror movies.

Read "Two Lizards in Women's Skins" for free at #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/107544/v-soda-and-the-spazmotronic-slughunt

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