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A hand clapped over your mouth muffled your screams as teeth tore into the soft flesh of your neck. Blood flowed thick and warm against the creature’s cold lips. It wasted no time, lapping greedily at the blood gushing from your wound.

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Your body thrashed, wild and desperate, like a wounded animal. Sharp nails dug into your skin, producing another strangled cry from your lips. It seemed the more you struggled the tighter the creature clung to you.

All you did was waste what precious little energy your body had left.

I'm shamelessly stealing this from twitter, but writers !! Quick, reblog with the last line or two that you wrote, no cheating.

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guy who says "FUCK!" to every minor inconvenience x guy who says "oopsie daisies" to earth shattering catastrophes

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One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!

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17+ Through Death We Become — An interactive fiction story about grief. [Submission to Queer Vampire Jam — Other Entries]

Years ago, your life was taken from you, stolen by the teeth of a vampire. For a long time, anger at losing all you were had festered inside, building and boiling, threatening to pour out, but you had maintained it.

Until you heard that the vampire who turned you had shown up in some state, and it all came rushing forth.

Not wanting to lose your chance at revenge, you hunt him down, but before you get to him, you wind up in a random town with a stranger who wants to help you.

7.5k words

1 human (non-binary) love interest

Lots of angst

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a centuries old vampire who's repressed any feelings of affection for ages & the mere sight of me has them believing they are capable of loving again would fix me i think

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the way i have three more ideas for interactive fics in addition to ONCE BITTEN. the pain of not having enough time in the day to work on all of them.

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What are the ROs love languages?

i adore talking about love languages!! for the ROs, their main ones are...

Levi – Acts of Service

Vanya – Words of Affirmation

Rana – Physical Touch

Allison – Gift Giving

Ellie – Quality Time

it's mostly the same when they're receiving, too, but all the ROs also appreciate quality time spent with them.

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i don't know if i would really call this a "dev log." more like a "hey guys, i'm still working hard on this" post?

(also the above is an excerpt from the short character creation sequence at the beginning of the prologue while the MC is getting ready for work in a public? restroom. idk it's giving "despite everything, it's still you" vibes.)

anyway, i'm working to finish the prologue and chapter 1 for the Queer Vampire Game Jam (which just started today!). my goal is to have them out by the end of January, so be on the lookout for that.

that's really all i had to say. thanks for being here <3

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this has been my wattpad baby for a long time and now i’ve given it an interactive makeover. @albywritesfiction and i have been working on coding it and after a lot of trial and error, we finally made a decent demo out of it!

i won’t be making any blog for this as it’s just a fun interactive fanfiction project which we’ll be updating on the side, but it may change in the future, who knows. for all the percy jackson fans, i guess this will be a bonus on top of the new PJO show.

this was first released on wattpad back in 2014 (yes, i was like 12 back then) and since then, i’ve converted it into something in which readers can actually play as the protagonist. although my old wattpad account was deleted (rip kissmylefttoe), i’m happy to say that i had my old cringey drafts to recover and edit 😭

huge thanks to alby for actually making a coherent product out of all the messy ass codes which they had to sort through 😭 without them, this project wouldn’t have seen the light of the day at all. i love working with them and this collaboration has been overall stellar!

explore the world through new lenses as you tackle fighting Greek monsters and gods who want you dead.

customize your name, gender, pronouns, sexuality, and your godly parent out of the Big Three.

zeus, of the sky, thunder, lightning, kingship, honor, and justice.

poseidon, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and horses.

hades, god of the underworld, dead, and riches.

get expelled for the ninth time in a row.

unravel dangerous prophecies and find out why the Fates should stick to playing bingo in a retirement home.

make some friends and some very dangerous enemies.

visit a casino, fight Medusa, and a chihuahua.

destroy a national monument.

take a trip to atlantis, hell, and heaven (sort of).

prevent another civil war from happening before the summer solstice.

lace-up your shoes, grab your pen and shield, and embark on a quest to retrieve zeus’s master bolt before he gets very, very angry.

sounds like a party you’d be interested in? play it here

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Which of your characters is most likely to bite?

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Vanya facts please?

of course, anon!

5'9" (175 cm) in height, 5'11" (180 cm) in heels.

Like mentioned, she owns the Scarlet Palace. Think of the Plaza Hotel and just add some illegal gambling in the basement.

She is a trans woman.

Has used many names over her lifetime. Vanya is an old one she has decided to use again.

Regularly uses pet names (love, darling, handsome, beautiful, my dear, etc.) for people instead of their name.

Has a really ethereal singing voice.

Has difficulty letting go of things and holds grudges for a very long time.

Her love language is words of affirmation.

Favorite colors are scarlet and gold.

Decidedly a dog person, specifically for those dogs that people used to carry around in their handbags/purses. She does have a Persian cat though.

Some Biographical ✨ Facts

Born October 17... and that's all you get, sorry. She is the RO who is most secretive about their age, even around other vampires. ("It's rude to ask a lady her age, darling.") She is also the oldest RO, so I guess you can take that into account if you want to guess.

Lived in what is known as modern-day Russia for most of her human life, coming from an extremely rich and influential family.

Turned at 29 on October 29. Like some vampires, she celebrates her turning/sire date as her "birthday."

Had a period of hibernation she likes to jokingly refer to as her "beauty sleep."

Immigrated to the United States around 1904 and finished construction of the Scarlet Palace in the late 1910s.

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okay, it's back up for me! phew

this is the first time i've ever seen itch.io down. so if you can't access the site, you're not alone LMAO

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okay for some reason i can access the site on incognito mode?? super weird. trying to login or register gives the same error message.

this is the first time i've ever seen itch.io down. so if you can't access the site, you're not alone LMAO

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this is the first time i've ever seen itch.io down. so if you can't access the site, you're not alone LMAO

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