Tolerance, and the Tolerant (Patreon)

Shame on me. Folks, I took Tolerance and The Tolerant down a long time ago from the EMCSA, and at the time, I told myself I'd fix all the many many problems I have with it, then put it up for sale. As you probably know, that never happened, because to absolutely nobody's surprise, spending a month editing something you already wrote is waaaay less interesting than generating brand new stuff. As such, Tolerance/The Tolerant sat on the shelf gathering dust and available to nobody.

I get emails about it still pretty frequently asking a pretty justifiable "wtf Ice Bear," and my response always to ship off the pdfs. Stupidly, until today, I had neglected to share it with all of you, so allow me to apologize for my oversight and put this here where you all can download and enjoy. And yes, you can still feel free to spam me hate mail about [that one thing I won't spoil for folks who never read it, but you know what I mean]. :) I only have pdfs available, because that's what I ported from my old PC and the files are so enormous that my word processor simply gnarls the hell out of it when I try to convert, so hopefully this works for you.

In more contemporary news, I am feverishly churning out words on a new story that I think has some real potential. VERY excited, folks. It began with the monthly commission request, but the winner generously gave me room to distort and expand their idea into something much, much bigger. I started around midnight last night, and am at the time of this post 8490 words in and still going enthusiastically. I really hope I don't botch it, but so far I'm at least really stoked with the concept, and I think it's got potentially a lot of mileage. I don't want to spoil anything because it's very conceptual and if I blab the premise, you over-thinkers will have all kinds of time to drum up your own preconceptions and, to quote Miss C, you'll have a better time if you just sit back and let me make you happy. 

I hope to have something to you pretty soon, though, but I tell you, it keeps growing as I write, so heaven only knows. In the meantime, enjoy this burst of nostalgia. More to come!