Shattered Gemstones Chapter 12: Battle in the Shipyard

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Do not adjust your monitors, there's nothing wrong with your screen. What you're seeing is really true. Shattered Gemstones is going WEEKLY! ...well, at least until Part 1 is finished. Which is SOON! Anyway, today we revisit Tess and Keith. The fight is on as Tess struggles to suppress a surge of emotions from her past, and Keith begins to show her the ropes of battle. Enjoy!
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Shattered Gemstones Chapter 3: Denial of a Mother

Chapter 3 is live! Sorry I didn't get it up earlier today , I was away from the internet all day. (totally not just goofing off playing Skyward Sword, that would be silly) So yeah, in this chapter we meet Tess, the third of our four narrators. WARNING: There is some brief explicit language in this chapter. I trust you all to be mature enough to deal with it, it was in there to keep the dialogue how it needed to be. This chapter's the longest yet but actually took a short amount of time to write, and was fun to do. Enjoy!
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AOTW: Hustle

A few weeks ago, Travis and I co-anchored episode 47 of It’s Super Effective, in which we reviewed SBJ’s pokémon line up for the VGC’s. Taking the reins of the podcast was sprung on us at the last second, so it was a little unnerving for both of us, but fun. We did hit one significant snag, though, and I’m embarrassed to say that it involved an Ability. I learn a lot about passive pokémon powers writing this article every week, but until I write the thing, I remain woefully ignorant of many of them. Well, I’m gonna remedy my own obtuseness, at least for this particular Ability, today! This is Ability of the Week: Hustle!

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