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I love my baby boy so much

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Characters from my fantasy-cyberpunk WIP

They are Pinkeye and Slim-Bob, the two guards of the Reverends, a commune living off the grid in the desert. Both are side characters.

The Reverends have taken a stance against capitalism and overconsumption by moving to the Preetian Flats, where they live in a half-naked commune and build, grow, and fix everything they need by using whatever they can find in Preet, the abandoned (and ghoul-infested) megalopolis near their camp.

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Look at my beautiful protagonists 💃🏻

In order: Jacob, Noa, Jade, Tara, Emma

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Coming on September 15th!

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Years of agony have left Jacob Matts angry and hopeless. Now, he only has one goal: to kill the High Priest and die.

This simple quest for revenge changes when Jacob absorbs a magical being and becomes the only one capable of stopping the apocalypse. He would gladly let it happen, but there’s an issue. If the world burns down, the High Priest will burn with it, and Jacob’s sworn to personally end that monster’s life.

That is until Noa Boyle, a man made of smiles and love, walks into Jacob’s life and threatens to overturn everything he thought he knew.

Stuck between a whisper of hope and the violent wills of two powers capable of endless destruction, Jacob faces a choice between dying with his past and fighting for his future… But when the battle seems fated to end in tragedy, it’d be easier to let hope stay dead. How do you even begin to fight something that’s inside you?

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If you’re a fan of fantasy, morally gray protagonists, plenty of action, found family, big character arcs full of big emotions, and queer characters, this might be the book for you. ;)

Coming to Amazon on September 15th.

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the way I finished reading a very popular book for the supposed "good disability rep" and just ended up looking into a non-existent camera like I'm in The Office

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this show has taken over my mind and heart so I had to draw them

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my OCs

blorbo alignment chart where one axis is "doesn't need much therapy" vs "needs SO MUCH therapy". and the other axis is "would willingly attend therapy" vs "needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to therapy"

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After voting, do you mind reblogging so the sample size could increase as well? Thank you so much.

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My characters be like, "I wish someone loved me."

Then someone comes along and is like, "I love you."

And the first character goes like, HOW DARE YOU LOVE ME I AM AN UNLOVABLE MONSTER >:( -threatens with a knife and runs away-

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Planning stories: yaaas

Planning dialogue: YAAAAAS

Actually writing: No

Editing: please kill me

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my OCs enjoying a bit of domestic happiness

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"I don't walk away from family."

"I promise you, I'm not leaving you."

"But there you are."

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Foreheads touching. A forehead kiss. Laughing into the other’s shoulder. Sleeping close to each other. Tracing fingers over the other’s.

That’s it. That’s the post.

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Random Names

Part II

A list of random names that I've come across to give you some variety for your next characters.

Lotta (f)

Selma (f)

Margarete (f)

Esra/Ezra (f/m)

Lale/Laleh (f)

Marek (m)

Lami (m)

Pinar (m)

Leonas (m)

Rima/Reema (f)

Hanka (f)

Darius/Dariush (m)

Mailina (f)

Janis (f/m)

Alise (f)

Arminas (m)

Roman (m)

Marian (f/m)

Namik/Namık (m)

Georgina (f)

Marnia (f)

Titus (m)

Jonte (f/m)

Belinda (f)

Patrick (m)

Henry (m)

Fabienne (f)

Imani (f)

Antoni/Anthony (m)

Talia/Thalia/Tahlia/Taliah (f)

More names!

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Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.