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ANNOUNCEMENT: I WISH YOU WOULDN’T IS RELEASING JULY 2024!

i’m thrilled to announce the publication of THE book of my heart! those of you who have followed my publication journey so far will know how much it means to have this story out in the world exactly as i intended it, and that's what you'll get this summer.

more to come!

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hey!!! welcome back!!! if you’re still doing taglists i think i used to be on the taglist for mw&d at least (and probably others haha idk) but i’d love to still be on it if you still wanna do those!! no worries if that’s no longer ur thing i can always just turn your post notifs on or something just thought i’d shoot u an ask :))

hi!! so glad to see there’s still interest over this wip, i’ve slowly been gearing up to come back to it and it definitely helps knowing that people are still on the tag list! thanks for your ask, i’ll definitely add you!

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[ MONSTROUS, WRETCHED, AND DIVINE ] 

                           ↳ a wip by @holotones

“What do they call you in the villages and towns? I know you as the Black Wolf of Mariskaya, but…tell me, little wolf. Sheath your claws and tell me what your name is.”

I bare my teeth at him, my hands tightening on my sword as he lowers himself back onto the broken throne, mouth twisted into a soft grimace. “They call me many things. One of them the Black Wolf, certainly. Some know me as the Reaper, or Ksenia’s Hound, or even the Mariskayan Viper.”

The king smiles again - fatherly, gentle. “That may be so,” he says quietly. “But I asked for your name, son. Not your titles.”

I turn my blade slightly, so that it’s pointed directly at his throat. “Aleksander Volkova, but you may call me Kingkiller.”

CATEGORY: YA/NA

GENRE: DARK FANTASY, POLITICAL INTRIGUE, MYTHOLOGY 

STATUS: DRAFT ONE 

THEMES: WAR, MAGIC, DEATH, CORRUPTION, THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, GREY MORALITIES, VENGEANCE, ANTI-HEROES, WHAT MAKES A GOOD MAN?

SYNOPSIS: 

when nineteen year old farmboy sascha volkov goes into the woods one stormy, fateful night, he expects to come out safe with the reins of his family’s lost cow in hand and his unused club in the other, despite the warnings of his mother and the stories he’s heard around the fire about the monsters dwelling in the woods, shadowy monsters with spindly arms and too-long teeth and dead eyes looking for a warm meal to eat.

but he gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally frees an ancient horror, confined for millennia in a weakening magical trap. a starving, eldritch old god, just waiting for some unsuspecting animal to wander into its clutches.

sascha volkov dies that night.

he dies violently and alone in the woods, in these woods teeming with magic and monsters. and yet, he wakes up the next morning in one piece, the woods too-quiet around him, alone once again - but there is always a price for breaking such a fundamental law of the universe.

miles away, trouble brews in this country of visionaries and dark kings, as sascha learns when he sets off to avenge himself. and before he knows it, everything has changed. what started off as a simple quest for bloody vengeance quickly turns into something more, as sascha finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of dark plots thick with magic, violence, and betrayal. and soon enough, he learns the only lesson that matters in this world of uncertainty and fear - history is written by the victors.

WIP PAGE / PINTEREST 

just shoot me an ask to be added to the taglist!! ( taglist below the cut )

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BETA READERS CALL !

do you like horror, polyamory and the tense of atmosphere of small towns? then i have good news for you: i'm looking for an unlimited number of beta readers for my 98k words novel, a strange kind of hunger.

SYNOPSIS —

1853. sweetwater, massachusetts, swallows people whole. dr. jonathan fallow thought he escaped its grip four years ago, but he finds himself back in its clutches, as winter creeps in.

sweetwater swallows people whole, but it seems to be in the maw of something else. tracks in the forest; mutilated cattle; a howling chorus. the townsfolk are quick to cry devil, encouraged by their firebrand pastor, gabriel goodwin. jonathan is determined to prove that the creatures lurking in the woods are wolves, nothing more — but a night vigil and a glimpse of something horrifying force him to reconsider.

to expose the rotting heart of the village, he’ll have to form an alliance with a faceless traveller, a disgraced former surgeon — and the pastor’s beautiful younger brother.

( trigger/content warnings: gore, body horror, familial abuse (largely off-page), religious abuse/trauma. a more in-depth list of warnings for each chapter will be available on request )

HOW THIS WILL WORK —

if you're interested in beta reading, DM me here (@wifewulf) or on discord (@/hotspurpercy) to let me know.

beta readers will have until the 30th of september to finish ASKOH. unless you're a mutual, please don't sign up unless you know you can finish it by then

beta readers will get access to a private discord server where you can read ASKOH and give feedback, as well as get some bonus short stories and art pieces from me!

there's currently no limit on the number of beta readers i'm looking for. however, if a lot of people sign up, i may prioritise mutuals and readers of colour

( + TAGLIST UNDER THE CUT ! )

@villaneve / @vandorens-archive / @nallthatjazz / @starshots-blog1 / @cannivalisms / @perditism / @spillme / @upoffringar / @thelittlestspider / @wildswrites / @brownpaperhag / @akoumi / @quilloftheclouds / @absolute-nonsense-scribblings / @birdywrote / @tiredlittleoldme / @strangerays / @ninazeniks / @authortango / @aetherwrites / @caravagest / @chazzawrites / @anavkour / @videsnoir / @karamel-pop / @philocalizt / @cryptidsandqueers / @stephwriteswords / @muddshadow

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A STRANGE KIND OF HUNGER — COMPLETE !

this is an extremely belated post, but i finally finished the third draft of a strange kind of hunger! it's been about a week, and i still don't really know what to do with myself. i started working on it at the start of the year, and it's been my mainstay for eight months — through the end of my first year of university, teaching strikes, the death of my granddad and a 10-day sailing expedition... and it's done. wow! it capped out at 98k (19k extra words), 45 chapters and even more tangled, complicated relationships than the last draft.

what comes next?

i've been having a writing break, not only to replenish my writing juices but also because i gave myself slight carpal tunnel in the mad final two days of drafting. when i'm replenished, i plan on:

writing some short stories to submit to student magazines at cambridge

editing my hotspur poem for a mini zine i'm making with a friend

picking a new long-form project to be my mainstay

and querying askoh!!

where can i read askoh?

as always, the very first draft is still available on wattpad, but i would caution against it. i won't be generally releasing this draft, but i will be looking for beta readers, so if you'd like a copy of the improvised ebook you can dm me on tumblr or discord (@/hotspurpercy)

( + TAGLIST UNDER THE CUT ! )

@villaneve / @vandorens-archive / @nallthatjazz / @starshots-blog1 / @cannivalisms / @perditism / @spillme / @upoffringar / @thelittlestspider / @wildswrites / @brownpaperhag / @akoumi / @quilloftheclouds / @absolute-nonsense-scribblings / @birdywrote / @tiredlittleoldme / @strangerays / @ninazeniks / @authortango / @aetherwrites / @caravagest / @chazzawrites / @anavkour / @videsnoir / @karamel-pop / @philocalizt / @cryptidsandqueers / @kingsinking / @muddshadow / @stephwriteswords

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[ MONSTROUS, WRETCHED, AND DIVINE. ]

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GODS OF MARISKAYA - 1/?

CREATION.

Long, long ago, before your great grandmother or her great grandmother or even her great grandmother, there was absolutely nothing at all. You ask me, “How can there have been nothing? That’s impossible, there had to have been something.” And I tell you that there was nothing, child. None of the things you’re used to. No sky, no land, no animals, no delicious shashlik, not even a breath of air. But nothingness can only exist for so long before something comes out of it. 

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[ MONSTROUS, WRETCHED, AND DIVINE ] 

                           ↳ a wip by @holotones

“What do they call you in the villages and towns? I know you as the Black Wolf of Mariskaya, but…tell me, little wolf. Sheath your claws and tell me what your name is.”

I bare my teeth at him, my hands tightening on my sword as he lowers himself back onto the broken throne, mouth twisted into a soft grimace. “They call me many things. One of them the Black Wolf, certainly. Some know me as the Reaper, or Ksenia’s Hound, or even the Mariskayan Viper.”

The king smiles again - fatherly, gentle. “That may be so,” he says quietly. “But I asked for your name, son. Not your titles.”

I turn my blade slightly, so that it’s pointed directly at his throat. “Aleksander Volkova, but you may call me Kingkiller.”

CATEGORY: YA/NA

GENRE: DARK FANTASY, POLITICAL INTRIGUE, MYTHOLOGY 

STATUS: DRAFT ONE 

THEMES: WAR, MAGIC, DEATH, CORRUPTION, THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, GREY MORALITIES, VENGEANCE, ANTI-HEROES, WHAT MAKES A GOOD MAN?

SYNOPSIS: 

when nineteen year old farmboy sascha volkov goes into the woods one stormy, fateful night, he expects to come out safe with the reins of his family’s lost cow in hand and his unused club in the other, despite the warnings of his mother and the stories he’s heard around the fire about the monsters dwelling in the woods, shadowy monsters with spindly arms and too-long teeth and dead eyes looking for a warm meal to eat.

but he gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally frees an ancient horror, confined for millennia in a weakening magical trap. a starving, eldritch old god, just waiting for some unsuspecting animal to wander into its clutches.

sascha volkov dies that night.

he dies violently and alone in the woods, in these woods teeming with magic and monsters. and yet, he wakes up the next morning in one piece, the woods too-quiet around him, alone once again - but there is always a price for breaking such a fundamental law of the universe.

miles away, trouble brews in this country of visionaries and dark kings, as sascha learns when he sets off to avenge himself. and before he knows it, everything has changed. what started off as a simple quest for bloody vengeance quickly turns into something more, as sascha finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of dark plots thick with magic, violence, and betrayal. and soon enough, he learns the only lesson that matters in this world of uncertainty and fear - history is written by the victors.

WIP PAGE / PINTEREST 

just shoot me an ask to be added to the taglist!! ( taglist below the cut )

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Mama Bird

Short practise comic about birds. 

(Frankenstein AU)

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Micro-dosing on reanimating corpses by going to build a bear

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hi! welcome to my writeblr, gildedgirls!

i am absolutely terrified of doing one of these… i honestly don’t know why, but hi! howdy! hello!

my name is sophia, i’m a minor (16 yrs old), and i’m from the us! i’ll hopefully be majoring in english language arts education when i go to college in 2 years, and i’m mostly a recreational writer at the moment since i can’t exactly publish anything.

i’ve been writing mostly fanfiction for a long time, but i’ve been planning / wanting to write a y/a murder mystery novel called camp memento, which is my goal to write this summer during miss rona’s outbreak!

it’s something i’ve wanted to do for a while, so i thought, why not? i’m probably going to be able to work later on, but since i’m home, i might as well try to write a novel and also improve myself in the time being!

i do also have a account where i write fanfiction, which is @phoebestarks​! check it out if you want to see mostly marvel, dc & harry potter content!

i hope you’ll stick around!

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here’s i got dressed up with you in mind for @holotones’ WIP HOMETOWN! i have quite a few notes for this so i’ll put that under the cut ^w^

anyway, i hope you enjoy, haeji!!

lyrics + notes under the cut!

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taglist under cut: 

@staring-at-the-wilderness @shaonharryandpannisim @tiyanaks @neothespian @anomaly00 @cutiks @percvalx @cannivalisms @confundius @emdrabbles @writers-lovers @adrestaie @halfbloodlycan @perditism @wildares @herondalelucies @summersromance @ladywithalamp @maskedlady @elizahgodswood @of-a-hamartia @elchantra @words-in-the-sky @theinfinitedivides @calmertimes @musicofglassandwords @dustylovelyrun @you-are-my-neverland @wifewulf @messythoughtsandscribbledplots @sinnerssaintsandcomplaints @kaatiba @noloumna @zalighart @worldbuildng @shy-birdd @cloudwriteblr @raripuh @aritany @writeblrfantasy @aashna @kowlazovdi @alicewestwater @reeseweston @writeblrfantasy  @thenopaes @mel-writes-with-her-dragons

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concept: a fantasy rpg that looks just like every other one on the market with one difference: all the female characters are 6′5 absolutely shredded unsmiling things with armor and scars and muscles and heavy jaws and names like thrognar the skullcrusher while all the male characters are itty bitty twinks with overly revealing bikini armor and smooth clear skin and huge sparkly eyes who are always posed suggestively in the ads and whenever they get hurt ingame they make a noise that sounds suspiciously like a moan and also every single one of the male characters only uses magic to fight. this is never commented on