#aasoaf 3

[writernopal]

you ever sit down to write and then re-read the chapter/page you left off on and get so hooked in your own story that you don't end up writing at all?

[illjustpretend]

When one door closes…

They say deep in the hearts of men, Behind the doors of flesh and imagination, Nestled in the fabric of time and permanence, There exists a Clock.

Locked away in the palace of each Soul’s making, In an endless place where many sovereigns reign, But one where there is no line of succession, Nor holy anointment…

Next >

[writernopal]

Happy STS, Crow!

It's a week late BUT I really wanted to answer this question! I will be doing this for AASOAF 3.

One Image

Roiling and violent seas sum up not just the tumultuous history of Oepus but also the lives of the main characters throughout the series. The blackened sea here also represents mystery, chaos, and power, three things which are pretty central to the plot of AASOAF 3.

One Scent

Sea salt. Overwhelmingly, almost like you've just come out of the sea and it's stuck in your hair.

One Sound

Shattering glass. I can't explain this bc its mega spoilers!

One Taste

Dried meat. Like jerky you might find in an adventurer's pack!

One Sensation/Texture

The feeling of rocks and hard ground beneath your boots. You'd be walking, A LOT.

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells

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Happy STS!

For today, I thought I'd send a mass question via tags lol. So, mutuals, here ya go:

How would you describe your WIP's aesthetics with one image, one scent, one sound, one taste, and one sensation/texture?

@sam-glade, @elshells, @writernopal, @contes-de-rheio, @silvertalonwritblr, @talesofsorrowandofruin, @winterandwords, @burntcoffeewhump, @words-after-midnight, @conkers-theficwriter, @chromehoplite and anyone who sees this and wants to do it!

[void-botanist]

2024 Review & 2025 Resolutions

My resolutions for 2024 were organized into a few different blocks, but for a better overview, here they are in one big list:

Clear out my askbox: [laughs while crying]

✅ Clear out my drafts: I did it at the beginning of the year and then immediately filled up my drafts again.

✅Follow up on a few ancient tags that I’ve been thinking about for months: I did at least one of these!

Create the Hall of Fame list: I thought about it a lot but didn't actually retag anything.

✅Catch up on my reading list! At the top of it are vacantgodling’s Cage, outpost51’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place, writernopal’s As a Stranger or a Friend, anoelleart’s Protolith, and theskeletonprior’s The Bishop of Black: this was a partial success. I made a good start on Cage and read AASOAF 1 plus 2/3 of AASOAF 2, but I didn't get to BRHP, Protolith, or TBOB. They're still on my list tho!

Write more lesbian smut: didn't get very far on this one, but that just means more to write later.

✅ Figure out Sid’s deal - and for that matter the rest of the plot of AOM that right now is just mud: AOM mostly makes sense now, and it's a lot of people making these faces at each other!

Do another pass through Nicea to fill in some of the ideas that are just empty scenes, consider Declan and Tristan more critically, and edit in Isabel’s infamous ex (he’s great actually but infamous for context reasons): I did a little bit of this but honestly I don't think I wrote that much on Nicea this year at all.

Continue doing music-inspired scenelets in some capacity, maybe to kickstart Nicea a bit: music definitely inspired me but not so directly.

Finish my other sex scenes that are just sort of hanging out: uhhhh also didn't do this but I tinkered with some of them.

✅ Get deeper into cultural worldbuilding, especially with Pajiir: there's still a lot more to do but I got some more stuff figured out!

✅ Continue cultivating better art habits (draw from the shoulder ugh) and consider actually learning to touch type for real to save my wrists: didn't learn touch typing but I got a lot better at drawing from the elbow and/or shoulder. I still need to keep working on it tho.

Have my Spotify Wrapped 2024 be at least 1/3 Black artists: ngl, my Wrapped is a mess. But I did listen to way more Black artists across genres whose songs are on my playlists now, and of my 16 favorite albums that I first listened to this year, half are by Black artists.

✅ Get back to cross-stitch and other fiber arts: I didn't finish anything but I did make progress on an ancient cross-stitch and crocheted a little.

✅ Make powerpoints: I finished one for Night Shift and started like ten others.

I completed or made good progress on 8 of 15, which is not bad! But this was honestly too many resolutions to keep track of, even though I was gonna do some of them resolution or no.

2025 Resolutions

Finish one unfinished piece every month. Doesn't matter what it is - art, writing, music, code - I'm gonna get it done.

Finish one thing from my reading list every month. This one might not happen on a monthly schedule but at least I'll be reading stuff continuously!

Clear out my askbox and drafts and this time, don't let them build up more than 20 things each.

Get my nekoweb site into a more complete form. I want there to be setting and character reference pages along with more writing and maybe an askbox or a linktree?

Listen to more jazz. This year I branched out more into goth and hip hop, which I'm gonna continue doing, but man I love jazz and I just want to listen to a ton of it this year. Recs are welcome!

This isn't everything I want to do that's relevant to this blog, but it will help me stay on track, I think. Maybe I'll do a monthly update.

Anyway, thank you for joining me this year! I'm looking forward to seeing what you all get up to next year, and I'm very glad to be mutuals/friends with a number of you! Happy 2025!

[outpost51]

The 51 Post

This week sucked a whole lot actually (I started this draft on Tuesday, and I haven't touched it until 5pm Sunday) but I read a lot of pretty good shit so I think it balances.

Contents:

Things You Might Have Missed

This Week's Jams

WIP Breakdowns

From the Skwad

Around the 'Blr

Things You Might Have Missed

get on my taglists for WIP updates, 51 post, tag games, and ask events!

BRHP: Chapter 15 posted; Talus is having a Bad Time.

I stabbed Adrien real good

BRHP: Chapter 16 posted; baby's first fight pit, and a family secret is revealed.

Not new, but I dug up Adrift and The Sky, The Stars, and Me so enjoy the spooky space shorts.

See more entries for SSSC 006 below, mine is here: i'll take everything.

Growing Pains: the 6th entry into the Lighthouse in the Fog shorts; our new Keeper is definitely adjusting so well to her new life.

I'm starting to release chapters of Unlikely Adventures on tumblr now!

This Week's Jams

stargazing || power-haus, solarays [spotify/youtube]

up down || boy epic [spotify/youtube]

gasoline || chymes [spotify/youtube]

dangerous || new medicine [spotify/youtube]

she went that way || missy [spotify/youtube]

illuminated || hurts [spotify/youtube]

WIP Breakdowns

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

HI YOU GET TO MEET KADMOS IN CHAPTER 17 AND [SPOILERS] IN CHAPTER 18 I'M REALLY EXCITED

Unlikely Adventures of Bitchface and Go F*ck Yourself

zadimus needs to stop it. that is all

Blinding Neon, Shades of Grey

you know what's fun to write? drug/dream sequences. you know what's even more fun? writing one for a detective in a flashy nightclub with murder on her mind

Stellar Parallax

saren is about to go do a Very Kill and jaen is So Excited About It. also wrex. but mostly violence

Lighthouse in the Fog

7th short will be coming out some time tonight, @thetrashbagswasteland picked some yummy prompt words

In the Works

y'all 🥺💕 thank you i needed a bunch of open-ended prompts to get the brain noodles out so i can hopefully not burn out on the main wips. i've still got the same backlog otherwise lmao

From the Skwad

IMPORTANT @fenrir-kin fell prey to the hellsite shenaniganuke, and is currently @vikingfenharel until it (hopefully) gets sorted.

Surprise Challenge 006 wrapped up with (mine's above): Just Take My Hand by @sparatus, Expanding the Vocabulary by @teamdilf, and The Storm Between Us by @thetrashbagswasteland

@equusgirl is going bananas with Sapphic Summer: i know with me, you'll get a little bit addicted, One Night, and will my hands ever be clean?

@sparatus also dropped chapter 1 & chapter 2 of Make Less the Depth of Grief and were it not for the laws of this land, i would have strangled him (affectionate) but also this tasty oneshot of Nautilea being so hot

@teamdilf HOW. New chapter of Alice's Adventures in Andromeda, another chapter of The In-Laws and the Grandparents, and another chapter in A Man of Many Talents. I'm calling witchcraft

@asher-orion-writes gave us this lovely oneshot set in Cardinal Sins and I'm??? yes

@princess-prawn dropped a new chapter of Next of Kin YESSS

@regalbois is writing his mlm war stories again and i'm vibrating please go read The Earth Abides

@commander-krios wrote more Dash/Leo (thank u for my life) and New Beginnings (thank u for TWO life wow)

Around the 'Blr

Art Claims are still going on for WIP Big Bang!!

@writernopal dropped character profiles for Magdalene and Sartor so this is your hint to get on the taglist for AASOAF 3

@tabswrites posted chapter 3 of Silver Sentinels and gave me life thank you, more please

@vacantgodling wrote this short for Lukewarm Rejection and we have no choice but to stan Trisha

@liv-is blessed writeblr with this snippet from Demigods i am eating it up

@void-botanist gave us this short for Another Ocean's Moon with LORE hidden in the tags hello

have you SEEN The Poster by @artdecosupernova-writing omg

@elshells dropped chapter 12 of Agent Ace YES congrats on the timeline choreography, bud!

wake up babes new Nameless Song short just dropped from @blind-the-winds

︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶

Outpost Updates Taglist: @tabswrites @writernopal @freedominique @asher-orion-writes @liv-is @starknstarwars @captain-kraken

Ask to +/- in the tags, replies, DMs, or HERE!

[writernopal]

LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND NON-BINARY FOLKS, THIS IS THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING!!!

in this corner, weighing in at 18,875 words, 10 chapters, and an estimated 76 pages, we have the Kinsler's Nest Arc!

and its challenger, resident pirate bro fueled by coffee and a rabid determination to spin an intriguing yarn, Nopal!

AND NOW

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!

[writernopal]

AAAHHHHHHH thank you for the tag Moshke!

Here is my contribution!

It might have been amusing to see had I not wished to be in his position. He, unlike I, was still useful.

Tagging (gently): @mysticstarlightduck @crowandmoonwriting @void-botanist

New writing game because I’m so tired and I’ve been sad that I haven’t been up for as much writeblr lately.

So

Reblog this with one line, devoid of context, that you wrote today (or the last time you wrote).

I’ll start:

It wasn’t, really. Not nearly as sharp as chocolate.

I’ll gently tag @writernopal @moonluringfrost @abalonetea @author-a-holmes@ albatris @sithbelle @moonshinemagpie @keysandopenmind @mister-writes @gummybugg @sam-glade @stesierra @akiwitch and @k-v-briarwood because that was who I could come up with off the top of my head but if you see this consider yourself tagged!

[writernopal]

Friday Kiss Tag

Its still Friday here so this counts! Thanks to @mysticstarlightduck for tagging me here!

Rules: From your Story/WIP, share a snippet of your characters kissing. It can be any kiss, from familial pecks on the cheek, platonic kisses, forehead kisses, to full-blown makeouts

This one is going to be kind of spicy because, well, because! Under a cut in case you don't want to read it 💙

Tagging (gently): @tabswrites @noblebs @captain-kraken @commander-krios @sarahlizziewrites and anyone else who wants to play!

Her blush brightened and she quickly left me, gathering the bandages in such a frenzy that I couldn’t tell which of us was more looking forward to her return. I begrudgingly returned to the bath as she’d asked and waited for her. It was torture, not even the promise of her arrival took the edge off. That burrowing sensation of bubbles finding their way to the surface of the water from underneath my shed was just too much to bear! As if I were sitting there, a decaying body waiting for a burial the likes of Mariel’s people, instead of the righteous fire we lizardfolk engulfed ourselves in to reach Kava’s kingdom! 

I gripped the edge of the bath angrily when the tent flapped open and she came back inside. The shy look on her face before she turned around and tied the tent flaps together arrested me, as if she’d commanded me not to rise, let alone move until she said otherwise. I swallowed as I watched her approach, my heart leaping in my chest and other places as she drew ever nearer. 

Gods, she was everything.

The diffused light patterned the softest shadows on her lovely face, placing their ungrateful kisses on her freckles, those tender lips, that charming nose, and those collarbones of hers. So perfect were those two ridges framed by the square neckline of her dress… How many times had I known those features beneath my lips and fingers? So many and yet not enough. Never enough. I could spend the rest of my nights, days, every waking moment, knowing them as I knew my own and it would still not be enough. To know her, to love her, was to love the stars dotting the night sky, for they and she were one in the same—peerless and more than any of us mortals deserved to set eyes on.

She kneeled beside the tub and leaned on its edge, then softly whispered. “Tell me what to do.”

“Been a dangerous thin’ to say.”

“I— I don’t care.”

I shifted in the bath and rested a curled finger beneath her chin, coaxing her just that much closer. “Been that so…?”

“Yes…”

She closed the space between us and pressed her lips to mine. I groaned and trailed my knuckles down her supple neck. A soft sound escaped her. If I could but devour her whole…

“Tell me what to do.”

“Fetch that there stone and strip down.”

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend

@elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo @tabswrites

@void-botanist

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[writernopal]

Writing Share Tag

Thank you to @noblebs (here) and @mysticstarlightduck (here) for tagging me on these!

Tagging (gently): @daisywalletchains @tabswrites @void-botanist @noblebs @sarahlizziewrites

@commander-krios

Alright so this sneep is gonna be a little different from my usual because uh, I need to remind myself from time to time that AASOAF is a romance 😅 So here, have some Mariel and Axtapor ✨spice ✨

But how could we pretend after that? We knew one another, in ways we could never hope to conceal. So we didn’t. He came near, expression robed with lust, but still, I begged him closer. Closer until there was hardly enough room to breathe and none to think. Our hands, with enduring memories and invisible will, found buttons, clasps, and ties, liberating us of the clothes that long felt unwanted. 

Skin to scale, we gathered one another close, he, pushing my thighs apart, and I, whimpering as his claws tickled my skin. A soft swear escaped him as he scooped my hips toward his and drove into me as he’d done many times before. I exhaled a shallow breath, dropping my head back into the pillows and digging my nails into his scaled chest. He was maddening. Intoxicating. Smoldering tobacco stuffed in a pipe whose stem my lips yearned for. His claws tore at the blankets beneath us, a hushed syllable of pleasure forming itself in his throat, further stoking a dangerous feeling alive in my chest.

It burned wonderfully. 

I surrendered myself to it, singing that quiet lover’s hymn to him. Lurid lyrics melted between us, dying a sweet death between our lips, as our hips moved to the rhythm of the waves lapping against the shore. And at the interlude of that most beautiful composition, I lay my cheek against his and confessed, in the softest of voices, those three words. He, my reliable echo, filled that inches warm space between us with the same sentiment.

And so we rose and fell, rose and fell, intoxicated by the mastery of one over the other.

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend

@elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo @tabswrites

@void-botanist

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[writernopal]

🩰No guilt. No shame.🩰

Alright its not a tag but the spoons for those are still loading SO I decided to share a snippet from AASOAF 3 because this is still a writeblr after all lol. Enjoy or don't! Do whatever you want!

WC: 484 CW: mild spice

“That I—! I…” A shallow exhale escaped me as I watched his throat bob up and down, gulp after gulp disappearing into his belly until the flask was empty. “I… By Orran, you’re so handsome…” “Been I?” He whispered as he wiped his mouth clean. I swallowed hard over the dryness in my throat. “Y-Yes…” The flask landed on the table with a soft thud and the world put him into special focus. The glowing bouquet of lanterns hanging on the masts illuminated us and the decks alike, but left many sensuous contours of dark across Axtapor’s body. Those parts fell against the dark sky and the sea, and became invisible, as though he were peering into a brightened room from the blackened corridor of the heavens… “Come ‘way.” We left the main deck behind, and in the darkened corridors of the Angel’s Lyre, we frolicked about as though it were our first time stealing away. A few chaste pecks and nervous looks of bliss pulled us together, then apart again. The slide of his hand across my waist and the light caress of mine against his chest flooded those places and parts so full of warmth I expected them to glow. Our soft sighs subsumed themselves into the walls, such that none would ever know they’d passed our lips. And our feet, glided in perfect harmony across the lower deck, as though we’d continued the ballet I’d seen above, down below, in an intimate interlude the audience was forbidden to see on other side of the curtain.  Until, like a crack of thunder, the door of our quarters slammed back on its hinges. We spun through it in a hazy cloud of drink and the atmosphere quickly transformed from one of innocence to lust. Kisses with purpose followed as we scrabbled at each other’s clothes in search of sensitive flesh. I came upon it first, the buttons of his shirt yielding easily under my desperate fingers. My palms smoothed over his chest, my lips following. A sound of pleasure rumbled from deep inside him.  “Kava be damned…” He hissed, catching my chin between his finger and thumb, then bent over me as if he were preparing to devour me whole. I gasped softly. “Temptress…” The rasp of his voice licked my nerves awake and the place where only he’d been quivered with wanting. I threw a hand out behind me, catching the edge of the door and throwing it closed as he dragged me deeper into the room. A little sound escaped me as we tripped about, both of us struggling for breath as he crushed his lips to mine. We collided against the bed. I braced against it and let out a soft laugh. He echoed it.  “Been ye ‘lright?” I nodded, hurriedly willing away the dull pain of the bed frame biting into my calves. “I just want to kiss you…”

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @grimmunreality @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend

@elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @milosometimeswrites @tabswrites

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[writernopal]

These two for AASOAF 3 for sure:

Long, Long Time Ago - Javier Navarette

Oath To Order - Theophany

Drop me songs that remind you of your WIP, characters, whatever!!

[writernopal]

“If he didn't wake up from this, if he wasn't here tomorrow, no matter. For I know he'd be waiting for me in the afterlife or some safe celestial place, in this life and the next and the next one after. And for whatever there is on the road that follows from here, it would only require my patience to get to him again. You see, to be in love with him makes life no great mystery.”

Phantom Thread, 2017

[writernopal]

Last Line Tag

I was tagged by @oh-no-another-idea here! Thanks so much!

From AASOAF 3:

“Helter-skelter.” “Aye, Kirik—” “Phaxix. Cap’n. Lord. Helter-skelter.” “Phaxix?” I frowned, tossing a look his way. “Aye, aye, aye…” He gobbled a match, fire and all, after lighting his pipe then peered down to the decks below, one eye spinning. “Helter-skelter.”

Tagging (gently): @squarebracket-trickster @mysticstarlightduck @elshells and @thatndginger!

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend

@elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo @tabswrites

@void-botanist

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[writernopal]

write a book, she said. it will be fun, she said. the english language is totally dependable and will absolutely not produce a monstrosity which will make her want to rip out my tongue and STEP ON IT

[writernopal]

I HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZED

Well then, as per the Writeblr Trick or Treat code, I shall share something of mine! Have this little snippet from AASOAF 3 of Lexlar trying to pick a fight with Axtapor 👀

“Who been ye to give me orders, ey?” He asked, flaring his dewlap and the comb on his head angrily, “‘Fter what happened when ye flew from these decks? ‘Fter what happened down ‘low—!” “Yesha, Quye’ck. Yesha.” Hartim croaked as he pressed a hand to Lexlar’s arm. “Hisha maria’ck tacka!” He screamed as he slapped Hartim’s hand away. “Oyevyeba? Muna y oyevyeba?”  I didn’t speak Miranish but whatever Hartim said to him calmed him down enough for him to return to scowling at me and nothing more.

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells @writeblr-of-my-own @the-mindless @zestymimblo

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Trick or treat!

You're getting... a TRICK!!

Mwhahahah!

[writernopal]

Six Sentence Sunday

I was tagged by @acertainmoshke here! Thanks so much!

So I think this might be like 8 lines technically?? But I liked them all so here you go!

Tagging (gently): @noblebs @kaylinalexanderbooks @shadoedseptmbr and @k--havok

CW: vomiting

From AASOAF 3:

I wiped my cheeks and slowly gathered myself as I looked away from the bed then winced, catching sight of the cream colored creature on the ground once more. Its presence made the room feel longer, as though it were being pulled away from me. It made me strangely sick--a room shouldn't breathe. Too much saliva coated the inside of my mouth. My skin puckered as though pinched by winter air. No matter where I looked, the room beckoned my eyes back to its distension and the note now shifted across the ground, like a predator preparing to pounce. My stomach and eyes swung with it until mouth went bitter in one corner and next I knew, I was doubled over, looking into a pile of my own mess. I grimaced, gripping onto the desk for support as I willed myself away from the mixture of bile and half-digested food on the ground. A bead of sweat slid between the blades of my shoulders. Several more dampened my forehead. My eyes found the note again and with a creased brow, I stumbled toward it, snatching it from the ground as I remembered my mother doing with snakes that had found their way into the chicken feed.

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend

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