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The “Mystics” Masterlist

When Arch becomes hired on at Mystics by the strange shopkeeper Lyrem Nomadus, everything seems to be going well. In fact, their life nearly becomes perfection; no more bullies, better grades, and a lot less stress. Soon enough, however, Arch realizes that perhaps not everything is as perfect as it seems and that Lyrem has been hiding a very dark, and troubling secret 

Thank you to @myst-in-the-mirror​ for all the support and encouragement! I don’t think it would have gotten very far without you!

Xx. - Alpaca

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CHAPTER ONE: A NEW JOB

CHAPTER TWO: THE OLD WORLD

CHAPTER THREE: A WAXING CRESCENT

CHAPTER FOUR: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

CHAPTER FIVE: A BLUE TRUCK AND A BIG KNIFE

CHAPTER SIX: THUNDER AND PRAYER

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GODS OF JUST AND UNJUST MEN

CHAPTER EIGHT: A FULL MOON RISES

CHAPTER NINE: GEMINI PT I

CHAPTER TEN: GEMINI PT II

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PAST IS SPENT AND DONE WITH

CHAPTER TWELVE: THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A WANING CRESCENT

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: GOOD TALK

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: FORWARD

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: HIGH NOON

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: DINNER IS SERVED

CHAPTER NINETEEN: A BLAST FROM THE PAST

CHAPTER TWENTY: OH SHIT OH FUCK

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: JUST A STEP AWAY

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: ROOM 111

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: TAKING NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: WHEN LYREM MET PAIMON

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: POOR THING

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE GREAT ESCAPE

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: TEENAGE WASTELAND

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: GOOD INTENTIONS

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: ROSANNA

CHAPTER THIRTY: VOW AND PROMISE

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: RSVP

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: CURTAINS

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: CONTROL

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: FAMILY MATTERS

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: THREE LITTLE BIRDS 

THE END! (Until part 2 of course… Release date: very soon!)

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Mystics Behind the Scenes Interviews (asks)

Relieving Scenarios

Realm Aesthetics

I Have a Job For You (Lyrem and Arch meet Lynne the knight)

You Want Him? (Lyrem and Arthur meet the whumper, Vikram)

Don’t Flirt with a Demon

Have A Heart

Maleficent’s an Asshole (ft. Viez)

Philosophy 101 with Prof. Paimon

New Meat? (Paimon gets to meet Damien and Lar from The Castle Series)

In The Eye of the Beholder (ft. Viez)

Call Me (Arch has a nightmare, and Paimon becomes a caretaker)

Flashback Fever

When Lyrem Met Paimon

Maria (nsfw)

Coke and Cotton Candy

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candlelight

Coffee or tea?

Coffee to wake up, tea before bed :)

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HIIII ALPACA :) I miss talking to you lol- here’s one more? Loved the ask game!

elven palace; Self care tips?

Put away the tech for a while. Sit outside and watch the world move in real time. Don't forget to grab a hot drink first.

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twinkle; A quote to live by? (Doing all of these in separate posts so you can answer when you want lol)

Because I really love the karate kid franchise I gotta talk about the moment Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel to clip the bonsai and tells him to picture it in his mind.

Daniel asks Miyagi, "how do I know if my picture is the right one?"

Miyagi says, "If come from inside you, always right one."

And I don't know why but I think it's quite beautiful. Watch the original if you haven't seen it.

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witch’s broom; Do you ever wish you could be a child again? Why?

Not really. Childhood was terrible. Kids annoyed me then and still annoy me now. I much prefer the adult world :P

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cherries; Do you keep a journal? starlight; Share a secret. velvet; Have you ever wished upon a star?

Hi! This is late answering but I gotta catch up the asks somehow.

Cherries: I kept a journal as a kid because there was no such thing as therapy for kids "back in my day". I still have them but I don't write about personal things anymore. It helped when I had no one to talk to, but now I do, so I don't have to write as much.

Starlight: opting out of this one, there are no fun secrets.

Velvet: yes I have but I can't remember what I wished for. Probably for money, to be pretty, or world peace. Idk.

Thank you for the asks!

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cobra kai is crazy bc imagine being told “you know you liked it” by the man who tortured you decades ago in the fuckin cereal aisle. terry saying this in front of god and tony the tiger 

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Send me asks?

Xoxo

🌙🌿 Fairytale inspired questions 🧚🏼‍♂️✨

witch’s broom; Do you ever wish you could be a child again? Why?

stardust; How was your first kiss?

herbs; Do you believe in magic?

luna; What’s the best book you’ve ever read?

magical land; Name a person that inspires you.

hobbit; Looking back those last 4 years,is there something you regret doing?

pixie dust; Have you ever loved somebody? And if you have, do you still talk to each other?

secret garden; Do you believe in soulmates?

wonderland; What are you looking for in a friend?

forest nymph; Do you ever daydream?

snow white; What is your biggest dream?

enchanted; Do you have a crush right now?

elf; What’s your favorite time of the day? Why?

owl; How do you want to be remembered?

spells; In what time period would you rather be living in?

muse; How do you like to relax?

mythical; Dream destination?

rose petal; A few small things that make you happy?

twinkle; A quote to live by?

spark; Favorite film?

angel; What’s the last person you talked to?

roses; What fictional universe would you like to live in?

castle; Favorite fictional character?

swan lake; Do you like poems? If so, what’s one of your favorites?

doe; Have you ever written a letter?

once upon a time; Do you dream every night? And do you remember last night’s dream?

dandelion; What’s your favorite plant/flower?

shooting stars; Are you more of a cat or a dog person?

candlelight; Coffee or tea?

princess; Favorite tv show at the moment?

love potion; Have you ever had any magical/paranormal experiences?

pressed flowers; What’s the first beautiful thing you see around you?

sweet daisies; Do you believe in love at first sight?

jasmine tea; Forest or sea?

moonlight; Sun or Moon?

cherries; Do you keep a journal?

starlight; Share a secret.

velvet; Have you ever wished upon a star?

crystals; What’s your spirit animal?

glow; What do you value most in people?

sugarplum; Do you like children?

honey; Favorite song with meaning to you?

gardenia; Rain or Sunlight?

dwarf; Do you enjoy horror films?

magic mirror; Zodiac sign?

merpeople; Favorite scent?

mystical; Most beautiful name and word you can think of?

cloud kingdom; Have you ever been to a concert?

feather; What excites you about life?

glittery dream; Baths or showers?

unicorn; Favorite food?

elven palace; Self care tips?

rabbit hole; What color are your eyes?

mermaid lagoon; What color is your hair?

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Hello! Just popping in to check on all of the participants today. How's the experiment going for you? Any interesting updates or exciting developments to share?

Wishing you luck in your writing endeavors! 😆

Hello friend! I must apologize for my lack of activity. My world has become very busy since I signed up for this experiment and my usually habitual writings have become somewhat delayed, sparse, and otherwise nonexistent.

But!

That is not to say my brain hasn't developed a series of very interesting story ideas since then.

I just hope to find the time to write them down.

Thank you for the check in. You have been very kind and encouraging.

Xoxo.

-Alpaca

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3 times!

they let the baby say fuck 😭

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 10 // SEASON 5 TRAILER JOHNNY LAWRENCE AND DANIEL LARUSSO

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SCREAMING CRYING THRASHING AROUND

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“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?

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Ooh spicy!

What's a scene that you finished writing that gives you the most whumperflies?

Who do you like to write most, whimper, whumpee, or caretaker or other?

Is there anything your followers should brace themselves for in the coming days?

Excellent questions! I'm delighted! Thank you so much!

1. I don't really get whumperflies from my own writing but I do get prideful. There are a few sentences where I've sat back and been like, "Damn, so that's what good prose looks like."

Here are a couple:

(1) It’s an invasion, an unwanted, unexpected intimacy. Like ivy, it crept into his consciousness, spread through his body, winding itself on every uninjured nerve, and choked him.

(2) Fallen from a perfect place, dropped from careful and careless hands, and lived in tiny, fragile instances of joy and grief and pain.

(3) Their flesh is ripping apart as if there's something creeping under it, desperate to escape and respond to every loving, thorny, worshipful kiss.

2. Whumpee or caretaker! It's hard to get into and stay in the mindset of a whumper for me because they can be extremely cruel and that hurts my own feelings sometimes. 😅

3. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 Yes.

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what was your inspiration for your current wip? did it evolve into something different after you started writing it or did it stay like you planned? which character do you feel like is closest to yourself?

— @livingforthewhump

Currently, I'm writing a high fantasy called the Book of the Owl, nothing is shared online for it though.

My inspiration for it was originally from when I was a child, and super interested in all sorts of magic and human culture. I developed an entire world, and entire calendar and several belief systems for it. Everything I designed was pulled from all different cultures, and then changed to reflect the world that I was putting it into.

For example, the old world in the book of the Owl followed a calendar with 8 seasons per year, each year corresponding to a certain animal (8 years in total for one iteration). It was inspired by the Chinese zodiac. The animals in the Book of the Owl are in order as: owl, bear, spider, fox, frog, serpent, mountain lion, and raven. Each animal contains its own meaning and symbols, colours etc. Respectfully, the seasons in each year that corresponded to an animal were: Frost, Melt, Budding, Blooming, Storming, Scorching, Harvest, and Deadfall.

In later years, the new world (the world my characters are a part of when the story takes place) the old calendar is replaced with a Common Man's Years, and counts base ten like ours.

It was so hard to count with a base eight number system that I eventually started just counting out the years on a spreadsheet and I spent many hours figuring out when characters were born.

Everything has changed since I started developing the world and the characters, but 2 things remained the same.

Our main character Enid who is 13 and summoned to become a Mage (their magic depends on being able to use the old calendar and know it's symbolic nature) he has always been naive and found herself in various troubling situations.

And my other main character Yamin who is 46 and must teach Enid the ways of the old world magic. He is very troubled himself; his predecessor was very abusive toward him and caused him to become a drug addict. So when he is given this responsibility of taking care and teaching Enid, he is understandably out of his depth and must heal before anything good can come out of their relationship as student and master.

Together, they have to find a way to survive as the new religion has decided to persecute them for their powers. :O

Enid was originally a self insert. Now, she is definitely her own person, and I've come to see some parts of both of them within me.

This was probably too much information. Haha.

Let me know if anyone wants me to share a snippet.

I plan to put it on Betabooks when I finish all the final edits.

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Elemental asks :)

Shadows: What’s the darkest theme you’ve ever written about?

Ice: What do you always get stuck on when writing?

Shadow answered

Ice

I don’t know if “stuck” is the right word but I focus a lot on balancing detail/setting and dialogue. I struggle with it sometimes!