TEN LITTLE YEARS
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THE WRITER
Wow. It’s amazing to think Little Foolery has been here for ten years. I’m amazed that we’ve managed to tell stories that reach this many readers for that long. Thank you all for following us this long.
I guess if we’re exact, Little Foolery started with Sfeer Theory, ten years ago, a story that I came up with while extremely bored at my job as a museum security guard. But if I’m honest, Little Foolery started a few years before that, when I got a random IM from someone who really loved a fanfic I’d posted on ff.net. That someone was Chira, and I didn’t realize she’d end up becoming my best friend, along with being my biggest, most loyal fan. I was barely into my first year at college. The fanfic in question was posted from my library in high school. And, at the time, I still had to be convinced to post most of anything on even a fan-site — but, under Jayd’s encouragement, I branched out, and I’m really glad I did. I don’t think I’d be the writer or the person I’d be without her. Little Foolery has grown as we’ve grown. From stories that were heavily based on whatever book or video game or movie we were into at the time, to original fiction that spans a hell of a lot of genres, I think we’ve really come to spread our wings. Some of you have been with us from the beginning. Some of you are just joining us. But I’m so glad you’re here. Thank you, Jayd, for believing in me. And thank you all, our fans, for supporting us for ten amazing years. We still have so many stories to tell. — Alex "Muun" Singer
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THE ARTIST
In 2009, I proposed starting Little Foolery as a way of collecting Alex's stories in one place. She freshly graduated university and had been doing original stories more frequently. I kept drawing fanart of her stories, both out of love and support, but many failed to recognize what I was promoting. I had a personal website server I wasn't using for more than image hosting, and, out of exasperation, I decided to attribute a domain to it and make a site where people can find her stories, and the art that inspired it, easily and conveniently. She had no official archive or portfolio for her writing, and I've long self-appointed myself as her librarian, anyway.
I asked her, "So what should we call our domain?" It was a throw-away question, a to-do task on something I was throwing together in an afternoon. We turned to Shakespeare a lot for help with titles, so we did it then, too, and found what became our titular quote from the play As You Like It. "Yeah, that works, it's cute!" she said. "Okay, cool," I said. Named, coded, published. Little Foolery. Just like that. I had no conception that my pragmatism for organization would later nurse an independent creative career over the next decade. Something I conceived only as a self-indulgent hobby for fun with my best friend, who also happens to be my favorite writer in the world, ended up being something that grew me in ways I couldn't imagine, and connected me to a future and world full of people I treasure deeply. This site became an avenue to not only uplift ourselves, but also others. To everyone we touched, and at the same time touched us: thank you. — Jayd "Chira" Aït-Kaci
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In Loving Memory Of
Natalia Alexeeva
( 1984 - 2018 )
Thank You For Helping Design
Our Beginning
ALBY AND THE MANTICORE
(Published 2009)
DEVELOPMENT ART
SFEER THEORY
(Published 2010)
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SFEER THEORY
RATED T | COMIC
METAHISTORICAL | LABLIT | MAGICAL REALISM It's the 18th century of the Imperial Calendar and the Empire of Warassa is at its peak. Spanning a full continent and experiencing a new mastery of the magic known as the principles of Sfeer Theory, one might go so far as to call Warassa the center of the world. However, prosperity comes at a cost. Day by day, tensions rise at the borders of the Empire, which may soon be bound for war...
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DANIELE AND THE LION
(Published 2010)
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HOTCAKE
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THE CROSSING
(Published 2010)
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THE CROSSINGRATED M | SHORT STORY
SCIENCE FICTION | CYBERPUNK | EROTIC The Twin Chain was the most treacherous and stormy asteroid belt in the whole of the Seven Systems. Many have tried crossing it and failed. Alan Wednesday is desperate enough to make his own attempt by offering his navigational talents to a pirate reckless enough to oblige him.
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AND FLOWERS GROW IN SPRING
(Published 2011)
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NAOMI AND THE DREAM EATER
(Published 2011)
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A FOX IN THE GROVE
(Published 2012)
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FLEDGE
(Published 2012)
LAST CALL AT THE CAMELLIA CLUB
(Published 2012)
THAT WHICH WILLS
(Published 2012)
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THE THREE BILLY GOATS AND PLUM
(Published 2013)
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I AM NICK LINN
(Published 2014)
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I AM NICK LINNRATED G | LIGHT NOVEL
SCHOOL STORY | PARANORMAL | SLICE OF LIFE Nick Linn is a perfectly normal boy, with a perfectly odd problem: He can hear people's thoughts. Constantly bombarded by the noise of other people in his head, he keeps a journal to keep track of which thoughts are his own. Usually that's enough, but when he's late to school one day, Nick Linn finds himself in a difficult predicament...
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BLUE LADY X RED WARRIOR
(Published 2015)
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MAREN M.
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BLUE LADY
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CRANE WIFE
(Published 2015)
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CRANE WIFE
RATED T | COMIC
MYSTERY | DRAMA | FAIRY TALE Lady Mitsuru arrived the day the master of the wealthy Yamagata household died. Though not part of the family, she stayed for seven days, refusing to leave. The family, concerned with the claim to their affairs, asks a detective to interview her.
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THE STEADFAST TIN AUTOMATON
(Published 2015)
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THE STEADFAST TIN AUTOMATON
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STEAMPUNK | HISTORICAL AU | FAIRY TALE Though a re-purposed war automaton, Steinhildr spends her days in a dusty box of a small theater. When a new addition to the company by the great Hoffman is delivered, however, she can't help but feel compelled to watch it dance...
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SMALL TOWN WITCH
(Published 2015)
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SMALL TOWN WITCHRATED M | LIGHT NOVEL
HISTORICAL FANTASY | MAGICAL REALISM | NOIR Vincent Byrde, a grizzled P.I. laboring under a nasty curse, has built his career chasing witches and magicians wherever they may hide. One job, however, eludes him: the frustrating case of Jimmy Wonder, a young up-and-coming spellrunner who always seems to be one step ahead of the law. Vincent is set on bringing Wonder to heel. Wonder is set on being the biggest magician in NYC. Their dance takes a complicated turn when Kitty Lovelace – Jimmy’s sidekick and main girl – walks out on Wonder and straight into Vincent’s life.
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IDA & BEEZLE
(Published 2016)
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A GOOD WICK
(Published 2016)
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A GOOD WICK
RATED T | VISUAL NOVEL
DARK FANTASY | HORROR | MYSTERY In a junction where the roads met on a flat lake, there was once a town called Pyre-on-the-Water, which experienced a thousand nights and no daylight between.
We say there was once a town called Pyre-on-the-Water, because no such town exists there now. It disappeared in a single night, leaving nothing but dust and bramble, and here we will try to uncover how this came to pass. |
CARDINAL ORCHARD
(Published 2017)
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SARAH MAGELKY
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MINOTAUR
(Published 2018)
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MINOTAUR
RATED G | NOVEL
YOUNG ADULT | CYBERPUNK | MYTHIC As daughter of the royal architect, Ikki set out to discover a new world the day she flew her homemade bi-plane up beyond Crete’s artificial sun. Instead, she crashed her plane, found herself on trial for a crime she’s convinced she didn’t commit, and is exiled to the Labyrinth — the city’s ever-shifting mechanical core. If Ikki can return in seven days, she will be declared innocent by the gods of Crete, but, lost among the moving walls and pursued by a diabolical engine large enough to shake the floors, she soon realizes there is a reason no one has ever returned. Determined to clear her name, her only hope for escape lies in the very thing that’s hunting her: a fearsome beast known only as the Minotaur.
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LIBERTUS RUBEDO
(Published 2018)
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LIBERTUS RUBEDO
RATED T | LIGHT NOVEL
MYTHIC | ADVENTURE | ROMANCE Lesley is a unicorn framed for crimes he didn't commit. He is sentenced to serve midst a Witch's War alongside creatures of the dark, a scenario that surely sets him up for a swift and brutal demise. In his desperation to survive and clear his name, he makes an unlikely alliance with a fellow convict: an ogre named Daiki.
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THE OUTLAW TREE
(Published 2018)
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THE OUTLAW TREE
RATED T | LIGHT NOVEL
HARD FANTASY | DARK COMEDY | POLITICAL Betula lenta Lutetia is a tree sprung from a cutting of a dangerous criminal. The arborists who enforce her sentencing want her to repent for her crimes. They won't tell her what she is guilty of.
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THE KING AND THE SHAPESHIFTER
(Published 2018)
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THE KING AND THE SHAPESHIFTERRATED T | LIGHT NOVEL
FAIRY TALE | ROMANCE | HUMOR King Gail has had adventures aplenty, sorting out corruption, breaking curses, and doing favors for all sorts of man and creature. When he is needed for a simple commemorative speech, he is nowhere to be found -- until he is, that is. Or something that looks like him.
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BREAK OUT
(Published 2018)
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THE MAGNIFICENT DAJI
(Published 2018)
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THE MAGNIFICENT DAJI
RATED G | SHORT STORY
FAIRY TALE | SHENMO FANTASY | HUMOR A social-climbing fox successfully seduced her way into marriage with an Emperor and aspired to die old, fat and rich -- but then he died. Now she is faced with aspiring to escape the political mess of a power-hungry, back-stabbing family on the matter of who gets to be regent of his young heir. It is quite annoying to someone so magnificent.
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TEN LITTLE YEARS
(Published 2019)
♡
“ But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
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Thank you for your
support, encouragement, and love
over the past 10 years!
Here is to 10 more ❣
NOTES
Gallery published January 10, 2019.
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