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The Lotus Flowers is here!

For the past two years I have been working on the follow-up to Fateheart: A Starless Seaquel.

This is a big one. It is an important one.

May I present:

The Lotus Flowers

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Okay, so I think I need to start from scratch here. I definitely went too dark too fast, and I don't think I can save the candlelit area.

Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the colors!

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Commission for @mj-bites of Mirabel (Fate) and the Keeper from the Starless Sea, thanks so much, friend!

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The Ship of Dreams

I made this collage a while ago and realised I don't think I ever posted it here - Lenore's ship out on the honey-sea.

This is one of my favourite presiding images from The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern: that wide open blackness, all the light from beneath, a fairytale ship with blood-red sails. Enchanting i loooooove

Anyway, new cover photo!

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DRABBLE

Many attempts have been made to map the Harbour. Serious cartographers with those two-pointed compasses and grid-lined paper. Determined young men in tweed jackets with balls of string and keen journaling habits. Librarians with boxes of index cards and complex, many-digit categorisation codes, frowning at the shelves and muttering numbers to themselves as they go. But it is young Eleanor, rabbit-mask in place, who baffles all Harbour-goers when she announces that she never gets lost. “How can this be?” they ask her. And her answer: “Well I always set out to find somewhere new, and I manage it every time!”

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DRABBLE HOURS

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is playing a video game. Which game is not really important - one of those ones with many co-existing adventures and lots of side quests. Mid cut-scene he realises that this game, too, is about Fate. Maybe they all are. Maybe he is, too. He adjusts his glasses. He has fuzzy socks on and he crosses his legs, watching the cut-scene. He starts to laugh. Eventually he starts to cry. When Dorian comes home later, he holds him for a long moment. And when Dorian asks him if he is okay, he says ‘yes’, and he means it.

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-A stream at Frederiksværk, Denmark-

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Made a Fortunes and Fables quiz!

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NEW FIC NEW FIC NEW FIIIIC

This is absolutely the dumbest thing I've ever written - I am so proud of her tho lol.

Sick fic!! Dedicated to my fried who is the king of sick fic, and also had Covid last week, inspiring me to produce this piece of nonsense lol

Dorian gets sick - which doesn't happen very often and he handles poorly. Bit like me attempting to write something short and fun for my friends and it ending up being 30k long.

ENJOY

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Harbour Drabble Event 2024 coming soon!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone! So brilliant news...July is coming up and I've been thinking about the drabble event we hosted in our server last summer, and how much fun it was and how batshit insane i went on it lol, and I've decided it's a good idea to host it again this year! so this is the post with all the important info for the Harbour Drabble Event 2024 <3333333

"what is this even anyway roo???"

you may ask! if you were not here a year ago! it's a very lowkey event, low commitment for anyone who wants to participate- basically the idea is that you write drabbles about The Starless Sea during or before the month of July and submit them, and I'll post them on this blog!

if you don't know what a drabble is!! it's a very short piece of fanfiction- we're going for this event with the traditional definition meaning its exactly 100 words of fic, usually capturing just one small moment! i highly recommend going for it if you've never written drabbles before, it's a really fun creative exercise and way to write fic without spending a huge amount of time! i had never written a drabble before we did this event last year and i became. quite prolific lol

"ok but what do i do with the drabbles tho????"

some options! you can:

post them to your own tumblr blog and tag us so i can reblog them!

submit them to this blog so i can post them!

if youre in the server and more comfortable with discord you can dm them to me and i will post them here!

"ok fine so what do i write drabbles about then"

the starless sea! lol

last year i gave myself a theme for every weekday (because i was posting AT LEAST once daily god that was unhinged id be like posting two drabbles from an airplane or some shit) but anyway i thought id use these as optional prompts for the event this year! these are not mandatory just some ideas of what to write!

More Drabbles Monday - anything lol

Time and Fate Tuesday - drabbles about Mirabel and the Keeper or their previous incarnations!

Cheese Wednesday - not actually one of my themes last year but kristin @boogleboot wanted a cheese day so a cheese day you will have my dear <333

Monday Part Two Thursday - anything again

Fateheart Friday - drabbles focusing on characters, events, and/or the new Harbour from Fateheart! (the greatest known work of tss fanfic if you havent read it you should)

Sad Times Saturday - angst <3333

Son of the Fortune Teller Sunday - drabbles about Madame Love Rawlins and her children <3333 (yes dorian and kat are her children be so fr)

more prompts may be to come! but yes submit drabbles any time from now until the end of July <33333 love you all peace out

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PEWPEWPEWPEWWWWW

das the sound of a new fic!!!!!!!

This one is set a few years after Fateheart, and was inspired by an idea from a good friend in the Harbour discord (JOIN US: https://discord.gg/5bAc23ax): an Inigo Montoya fic - Dorian's past coming back to look him in the eye. She very generously said "uhh yeah sure, go for it" when I started frothing at the mouth over writing this idea, and for that I give her the greatest thanks. One wet smack for u, Zing, ily.

This was also an opportunity for me to attempt a writing exercise of sorts that had occurred to me a while ago, but I didn't have a story to go with it at that point. A fic that took the form of a conversation between a series of paintings. It began with Magritte, which was Zachary Ezra Rawlins' fault, and it ended here.

This is also a fic about the Parliament of Owls, which, as they have become more and more developed in my head, are increasingly the subject of everything I write.

I thought for a while that this one wouldn't get finished, but it has come to have quite a place in my heart, not in spite of all its quirks but because of them. Glad to give the protagonist of this one his moment in a world beyond the sun. Hope you enjoy.

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Starlight Lantern // Mystery Glass Art

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getting a bit teary for the love my man Leander is being shown!!!!

Leander means a lot to me <3 happy birthday bro

ON BEHALF OF THE HARBOUR I WOULD LIKE TO SAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEANDER!!!!!!!!!!

Leander may not appear in the starless sea even once but through all of the love he has gotten in our fandom I think its fair to say he is definitely canon in our hearts!!!!!! from @boogleboot's fan sequel Fateheart (and its sequel coming At Some Point to ao3s near you) to AUs like my Rollins au and kristins pern au, Leander has become one of the core cast of characters that our fandom holds dear and I could not be more proud of him and of Kristin for it. Hes my favorite little guy and honestly I just want you all to know how much I love him and to read Fateheart if you haven't so you too can experience the joy of Leander 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Another little Starless Sea ficlet!

This is a scene exploring Dorian in the early days of his relationship with Zachary. A little bit hurt/comfort, a little bit reflective, a little bit heavy on the boat imagery.

But I love me a gimmick.

Set, as ever, during the events of Fateheart

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hey @erinmorgenstern I'm writing a full-length Starless Sea followup fic that uses Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as its central narrative device. any thoughts on the intersection between those stories?????????

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hi i just finished fateheart and i just want to say INCREDIBLE job, i am sufficiently insane over it. thank u <3

ohh thank you! Messages like this make it all worthwhile <3 I'm so pleased with the general response to Fateheart. the next book in the series is well on its way!