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Further Extra Special Bonus Preview Time!

So, good news: my writing mojo has returned! Bad news: not in time to get an extra chapter under the hood for this week! Good news? You get to see the second half of the (still unfinished) space combat fic! 

Content Warning: The Terran half of this continues to be military sci-fi logistics wank with a mild dash of feralism.


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Extra Special Bonus Preview Time!!

Hey! Hey! Guess what?! I ran out my buffer entirely! It finally happened! 

By way of a mea culpa, instead of a preview of next week's chapter of The Floret in the Mirror, you get an excerpt of like length from a fic I've been writing off and on for over a year at this point. Someday it'll get finished — until then, it's languished on the back burner. But you, o' patrons, g...

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The Floret in the Mirror Chapter 10 Draft Excerpt

Hey y'all. So, good news, bad news. Bad news, I don't have a finished chapter due to the various factors I mentioned last week. Good news, I have, I dunno, about half a chapter that I can post, and it's more or less a complete scene, so you don't go totally without. 

(I'm starting to think this time of year in general is just hell on my creative impulse — which is...

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The Floret in the Mirror Chapter 9 Draft Preview - "System Partition"

Hey all! Still on the content treadmill here, plus finishing up some freelance work on the side — hopefully that won't interfere with my uploading things on time, but if it comes to that, I'll let y'all know. I doubt it'd result in more than a single-week hiatus, but obviously I'd like to avoid that if at all possible. 

Content Warning: Plural system with a backseat member the fron...

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The Floret in the Mirror Chapter 8 Draft Preview - "Insecure Channels"

Hey, y'all. Another not-quite-polished draft this week as I work on catching back up on things. Hope y'all enjoy! 

Content warning for: body writing, objectification

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Insecure Channels 


2.8.1.-rc3

Shedding her avatar let Jess shed the physical symptoms of distress, but the unease remained even as her perspecti...

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The Floret in the Mirror Chapter 7 Advance Draft - "Handshake Signals"

Okay, back on schedule!! This week's chapter may well change significantly in the next week or so, so don't get too used to how it looks right now, but that's the nature of seeing things less far along in the process of being written and edited — as outlined, this chapter did a lot of other things that might still sneak in! 

Content Warnings for: None, really, apart f...

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Floret in the Mirror Chapter Six Draft Preview - "Halting Problem"

HOO BOY. 

You know how life finds a way? Yeah. Sometimes life finds a way to really mess up your schedule. Hence why this post is coming in two days late. Sorry, y'all. You're getting a hot-off-the-presses draft this week, which means it's probably gonna be draftier than normal, so mind the rough edges. 

The good news is, you get a sneak preview at five thousand of the smu...

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The Floret in the Mirror, Draft Preview - Chapter 5 -

Hello, y'all! Time for another draft preview, and the beginning of (finally) getting into the intended cadence of the story, alternating chapter-for-chapter between Jess and, well, Jess. (I'm also running up against my buffer — the trip really took a toll on it — but worry not, I should have a finished draft preview ready for y'all this time next week!) 

Content Warning: A v...

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The Floret in the Mirror, Draft Preview - Chapter 4 - LookingGlass.exe

Greetings from not-that-sunny [REDACTED], where I am holed up and watching my chapter buffer slowly tick away while I turn my attention to other things (such as fun new allergic reactions). Today, our draft preview concludes Digital Jess's tutorial with a bit more extreme lewdness and a whole lot of Kana bloviating about perceptions of digital networks. Following this chapter, we should more or...

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The Floret in the Mirror - Advance Draft Chapter 3

Hey folks. I am writing this a day ahead of time, so forgive me if I'm a little perfunctory about it. Y'all ready to shift perspective? Because I just wrote a whole-ass 100k word story without a perspective shift and let me tell you, I love me some perspective shifts, so buckle up and get ready to meet Jess's co-protagonist: Jess! 

Content Warnings: Transformation (b...

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The Floret in the Mirror Draft Preview - Chapter 2

Welp, I've posted the first chapter publicly. Committed now. ;) 

Chapter 2 picks up right where Chapter 1 left off - mostly because this all used to be Chapter 1 and it just got too long. Once things settle down I do want to trade off chapters between Jess and... well, you'll see. ^^ 

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The Floret in the Mirror, Draft Preview - Chapter 1 - "Deja Vu"

Hey, friends. Been a hot minute, hasn't it? I've been plugging away the last couple of weeks at The Floret in the Mirror, and I've got a decent lead built up, so I'm going to start releasing it publicly starting next week — and you know what that means! That's right, you get a sneak peak at the opening for this story about identity, digitization, mystery, and sex so hot it's phy...

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Sui Generis Chapter 25 Draft

The final chapter. It's always bittersweet, ending a story and knowing you may not ever get to come back to these characters that you've spent months getting to know as intimately as possible. Stories need an ending, though. Endings give closure, give meaning, give structure to what came before. 

I'd been planning to start up novelposting, but alas, my brain has not been in gear on t...

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Sui Generis Chapter 24 Draft

Greetings! I actually remembered that I update on Saturday this week! 

This week's preview chapter is a bit short — I sat down, wrote this in almost a single sitting, and then realized I'd said everything I needed to say in this chapter. I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do with it, since it's very necessary but it's also just barely over 2000 words, and that feels so sho...

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Sui Generis Chapter 23 Draft

Oops. 

So, I have been sleeping really poorly this last week, and uh, I kinda lost an entire day in there. Mea culpa, y'all — I'm trying to keep to a pretty firm schedule here, I promise! 

In any case, we continue to close in on the conclusion of Sui Generis! Here, in this chapter preview, is the moment you've all been waiting for, the actual weight-carryin...

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Sui Generis Chapter 22 Draft

Y'all, we are getting so close to the end here. Four chapters left, including this one, assuming I don't pair up one of them with one of the others and make an extra large chapter because it's very, very short. But that's a concern for another day — right now, it's Sui Generis draft time. 

Content Warnings: Hypnosis, manipulation, inducing just a little psychologi...

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Sui Generis Chapter 21 Draft

It's Saturday, and we've only got five more of these left, y'all! Inclusive of today! Wild, isn't it? Pretty soon you're gonna be getting draft chapters of completely different characters doing completely different... well, not completely different things, anyway. 

The ending of this chapter will probably change just a little — I'm very particular about the way I leav...

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Sui Generis Chapter 20 Draft

Once more, it's advance draft time, this one with an actual bit of a hole left in it that I still need to fill — but that's a problem for Tomorrow Kana (or, more likely, Next Week Kana). Today, apart from other commitments, I'm going to try to get to draft completion on Sui Generis. Yes, really! I'm that close! 

.... which means I really need to get my butt in gear when it...

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Sui Generis Chapter 19 Draft

Hey, y'all — it's Saturday and it's a million degrees outside. What better time for a little bit of advance HDG fic? 

In other news: I'm getting very close to text-complete on Sui Generis. Pretty soon (with any luck), I hope to be done outlining the novel I'm working on, so look forward to that. I also have an outline more-or-less complete (in a structural sense, if nothin...

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Sui Generis Chapter 18 Draft

Ha ha oops. My brain got scrambled by a heat wave and I forgot today was update day! Mea culpa, y'all. It is, in fact, Saturday, and that means it's time for a new advance Sui Generis draft! 

Content warning for: slight medical anxiety moment, not quite a panic attack but still lots of nervous energy 


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Sui Generis Chapter 17 Draft

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! Tomorrow, the new sumo tournament begins, but today you get to see next week's draft of Sui Generis a week early! Believe it or not, we've crossed the halfway point of this story, and are barreling on towards the end. Pretty soon, I should be posting up some fun new story details about my upcoming original fiction, but for now, the draft: 


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Sui Generis Chapter 16 Draft

Hey y'all, it's Saturday, which means it's time for a new advance draft of Sui Generis! Ah, but wait, this week's draft preview is different! How so? Well, what you're about to read is actually one of the first chapters I wrote for this story, despite coming in somewhere around the middle! 

How's that work? Well, Affinification fic is, shall we say, somewhat controversial, a...

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Sui Generis Chapter 15 Draft

Guess what, y'all? It's time for the advance look at next week's chapter of Sui Generis, and this one's a doozy. Not only is it a good bit longer than the usual chapter, it's also much, much lewder, with some good old-fashioned on-screen Affini/floret filth. I love my job. 

Content warning: Big ol' identity denial here. Look, the trans metaphor that Tam represents i...

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Sui Generis Chapter 14 Draft

Welp, it's Saturday again. I'm hard at work drafting up an actual Post With Content as I work on stuff behind the scenes, so please look forward to a little bit of that. Without any further ado, here's Chapter 14 of Sui Generis

Content warning for: species essentialism that mirrors gender essentialism, and one very entitled formerly rich jerk. 


Two da...

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Sui Generis — Chapter 13 Draft

It's that time of the week again! Behold, the rough draft of chapter 13, in which Game Night finally happens as promised (as well as a bit of bittersweet plant-on-plant smoochin'). 

Sui Generis is fully caught up on ScribbleHub, so tomorrow the great NoGodsNoMasters-ing begins; at one chapter a day, that'll take me roughly a month to get through. 

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Sui Generis Ch. 12

It's that time again — chapter 11 has gone up on AO3, so here's the draft of chapter 12! This one's in pretty good shape even just as a draft, probably because this is a scene I've spent a lot of time thinking about beforehand. As a result, it just sort of fell out of my head and onto the paper (or, well, the screen, in this case). It's kind of an important scene, in that it sets the stage fo...

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Sui Generis - Chapter 11 Draft

Hey folks. Still sorting out how I'm going to handle drafts — ideally, what I'd like to do is add some markup to them to show my thoughts about it and what changes I'm thinking about making in the final — but for now I think I'm going to just post them directly in text posts like this one, and worry about getting fancy at a later date. 

Chapter 11 of Sui Generis takes place ...

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An Introduction

In the interest of not clogging up the About page with lots of words, I'll use this post to go into a bit more detail about myself, my work, and how I plan to approach this Patreon.

I'm Kanagen. I'm a weird neurospicy nerd whose interests lie at the intersection of the Venn diagram that is Kink, Logistics, Space, and Gay Stuff. By day, I do technical writing and narrative design as a free...

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