Fractured Heart: the tale of the pop star and the pauper

“Fractured Heart” relaunch and revamp~

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So after posting to various social media platforms and Patreon for a year, I’ve learned a lot of lessons as far as posting frequency, different levels of required censorship between opposing platforms, etc, as well as my own limits on time and energy for keeping all these plates spinning at once.

As such, I’ve taken down the previously released chapters (which averaged 3-5k words each) and am reordering them as smaller chapters between 1500-2500 words each (though a few are around 2700 ^-^;;) as well as more aggressive self-censorship to reduce the chances of getting banned for “sexually explicit material” on Royal Road, etc. (where even a double entendre might be interpreted as “sexually explicit” depending on the mod who reviews the complaints against your story e.e)

Also, while originally I was concurrently posting “SFW” versions of the story to the “SFW” Patreon account I initially made for the account, having to write so many versions of each chapter as well as navigate differing posting schedules is just too much work for one little author to handle by her lonesome. So the SFW Patreon account is only going to be updated insofar as linking to the chapters as they become available on Royal Road, Scribblehub, etc.

If you want to see the “as intended” versions of each chapter, you can do so by signing up for the “adult only” Patreon account, which unfortunately requires you to verify that you’re 18+, here: https://www.patreon.com/FracturedHeartAO

Otherwise you can read the story for free at the below links, you just won’t get to see the “as intended” versions alas. 🙂

I’m also going to be posting chapters 1-10 on Royal Road starting August 31, 2026 then switching to a new chapter every Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and will have the same upload schedule here on Patreon but + 10 chapters to stay ahead (see above). Here’s a posting schedule as I have it designed so far, though this may change in the future:

If you’d like to find more Fractured Heart content, you can find fanart, reader polls, behind-the-scenes snippets, semi-canonical side stories (like early chapters written from Lysander’s perspective instead of Theo’s) and more on the various social media pages I created for Fractured Heart!

You can find all those links here: https://www.fracturedheart.net/links

Or below (this list may later be out of date, so I recommend looking at the link above instead of following the links here)

Links:

Main website:

https://www.fracturedheart.net

“As intended” adult-only chapters on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/FracturedHeartAO

Bluesky: @FracturedHeartBL

https://bsky.app/profile/fracturedheartbl.bsky.social

Tumblr: @FracturedHeartBL

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/fracturedheartbl

Instagram: @FracturedHeartBL