Fair warning!! A cherry-picked selection of recent or not-so-recent (political and other) happenings are shown under different perspectives as the main character tries to 'rationalise' all the time while stuck in a fantasy world that is more then what it seems to be. If you cannot stomach a slightly—eyeroll—weird perspective on things or sometimes longer inner monologues and conflict, this book might not be for you.

One chapter per week at my discretion. Each chapter is accompanied by 1 picture generated with AI (the earlier ones date back over half a year now and are of lesser quality, but there's some amazing stuff to see AND tonnes of prompt engineering involved).

Short Synopsis: Drellid (slow burn) is about the cultivation of mind and body like you haven't read thus far. No system, no ludicrous power scaling, and no set power levels. That aspect, left murky by default for dark reasons, infuriatingly makes the chronically philosophising protagonist come up with one bad judgement after the other—in hopefully funny ways.

Longer Synopsis:

Teddy Drake was your average philosophy-loving adult in the prime of his life. Working his ass off like everyday good folks, he struggles continuously with what life threw his way. Ever since he started his career at the public portfolio management company Hedgeowl Goldenduck, following an excellently disastrous paper discussion for his degree in Finance and Administration, the pressure had only mounted. Wage issues, superior issues, commute issues, neighbour issues, family issues… overburdened city issues. It all came crashing down on him—if it wasn't for some weird nightmare he couldn't awake from no matter what. Yet things were not as simple, his damn subconscious coming up with obstacles 'sweetening the hour', and his family turning out to be not-so-average as he stubbornly continues to believe. Then there was another tiny detail he couldn't wrap his finger around. "Why does everyone either fear or want to kill the pacifist?" His 'subconscious' was not about to answer him so readily.