#ascendance month

[megagrind]

Ascendance month Day 2: favorite moment

Climax of runaway king? Rent free in my mind!

[thebatrodenused]

Proud of these two

The first one is from today, its latemar and i drew it for ascendance month, and the second one was from a couple days ago, and its a Jarogen art but i jusr zoomed into jarons face. Again, for ascendance month

[the-ascendant-doodler]

Ascendance Month(Moth) Day 6!!!

Villainous Spotlight

Jane Strick!!

Or as I see her. Whenever I think Jane Strick all I can think is this

The ascendance series wiki said that she has black hair but I mean fanon over canon am I right?

[calebsrottingcorpse]

Day 4: Modern TAS

Jaron: Would wear 2000s clothing. His ringtone is probably Never Gonna Give You Up. He’s the class clown and prankster.

Roden: Wears only 2 things. Either a jersey or a sweatshirt. Nothing else. Says sheesh and has the worst humor ever (basically Ryan’s lost twin). And he is the jock.

Tobias: Tends to wear more casual clothing. Has extremely neat handwriting and cursive. Gets student of the month at least every year. All of his notebooks have neat and organized notes. Plays the piano. He’s dating Amarinda. School nerd.

Imogen: She enjoys wearing plain dresses that fall down to her knees. She’s quiet, enjoys baking classes, and opens up when somebody gets to know her. So essentially, she’s the quiet girl that’s really nice.

Amarinda: Amarinda wears all the trendy clothing unless it looks stupid and actually terrible. She is a huge extrovert and loves meeting new people, though she tends to stick to one friend group. She likes oil painting and is dating Tobias. She’s the popular girl that everybody likes.

Fink: Wears shirts like “Mommy’s little star.” despite the fact that he doesn’t have a mother and is in middle school. He was adopted by Jaron’s father out of pity and enjoys making Darius squirm with rats. He’s like that one really annoying little brother.

Darius: He wears either all black like he’s at a funeral or he wears highlighter colors that burn your eyes. It truly depends on the day. He broke up with Amarinda about 7 months ago and is still mourning the loss of her. Tobias’s name is marked in red in all of his notebooks. He’s the kid who hates the world.

Mott: Wears his work uniform basically the entire time, and if not, very formal clothing. He works as a school janitor, IKEA worker, McDonald’s drive Thru worker, and numerous other jobs. He’s like that one rabbit in Peppa pig that works all the jobs in the show. He’s the person to come to with all your problems.

[sirasterisk]

Day 22, 23, and 24: Candy, Tea, Free Day

Day 22: Candy

Hmm I’ll just do what the gangs favorite candy would be

Jaron: Candy Corn, Twix, Lollipops and M&Ms

Imogen: Milk Chocolate, and Haribo Gummies

Roden: Twizzlers, Snickers, and Milkyways

Tobias: Peppermint Candycanes, Dark Chocolate, and Junior Mints

Amarinda: Gummy Peach Rings, Chocolate Chips, and Tiger Butter Fudge (Ik it’s not candy but I feel like she’d love it-)

Fink: Jelly Beans, Skittles, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and Hershey’s Chocolate Bars

Mott: not a really big fan of candy more of a chocolates person

Harlowe: Butterfingers, Caramel Hard Candy, Butterscotch Candy, Snickerdoodles, and Girl Scout Thin Mints

Day 23: Tea

WHIcH TyPe OF TeA? (Nah I’m joking-)

(SPOILERS ALERT 🚨) (for TSC)

Jaron: I think it was the best decision of my life to burn his face with burning hot tea- ✨ (it was actually water)

Mott: YOU DID- 😟

Jaron: OH CMON IT WAS AMAZING! IT WAS WORTH HIS REACTION 🤩

(Insert not spoiling name here) Ghost: MY FACE STILL BURNS 😭

Day 24: Free Day

AHHHHH IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ANGST ALL WEEKEND 😭

BUT ANYWAYS WHAT ARE OTHER UNIQUE SHIPS WE HAVE IN OUR FANDOM LIKE I WANT TO KNOW-

[cobalts-corner]

Ascendance Month Day 3

Prompt: Sage appreciation day

ok so had no ideas on what do to for this so i wrote a poem for sage

(I WROTE THIS AS A JOKE ALSO TY HONEYDEW FOR HELPING ME WITH THIS)

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Sage is mage

He’ll make you go through pain

He will make sure there is no remains

You are the one he has slain

Your death will be in vain

because you are a

t r a i n

[antoniahale]

Imogen makes pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting... I made some

[ascendanceseriesveteran]

Jen announced that Jaron will almost be 17 in The Captive Kingdom.

And for the past two days there has been nearly zero new content for the Ascendance Series and I’m sad :(

[enchanted-prose]

Ascendance Month 2020

Here are your Ascendance Month 2020 prompts! This event runs from September 1st to September 30th!

Day 1- Favorite character and why

Day 2- Most memorable moment

Day 3- Family

Day 4- The Ascendance gang’s opinions on candy corn

Day 5- Moonlight and sneaking around

Day 6- Masquerade Ball

Day 7- Jarogen

Day 8- free day! catch up on missed prompts or take a break or get ahead!

Day 9- Ghosts!

Day 10- Cregan vs. Gregor

Day 11- Ugly sweater contest

Day 12- Who is secretly made of cake?

Day 13- Rats, Bats, and Cats!

Day 14- “Do you think it would be acceptable to jump into a pile of leaves right now?”

Day 15- Tobiarinda

Day 16- free day! catch up on missed prompts or take a break or get ahead!

Day 17- “At least I’m cozy now.”

Day 18- Autumn Traditions

Day 19- The Harlowes

Day 20-  Modern Setting!

Day 21-  “Person A! Person B is throwing kids in the water!”

Day 22- The Ascendance gang adopts a pet

Day 23- Favorite ship (canon or not)

Day 24- Take a break! catch up on missed prompts or take a break or get ahead!

Day 25- Mott appreciation day!

Day 26- Something wicked this way comes. . . And something nice for Fink’s birthday!

Day 27- Music!

Day 28- Sunlight and a Chilly Kitchen

Day 29- Freedom! Create something Ascendance related that you’d like!

Day 30- Memories

[bookish-fan-things]

The Captive Kingdom Launch Party HIGHLIGHTS

Jen has a dog that won't play fetch and a cat that hallucinates

The Kings English Bookstore is home to many authors in Utah and it has been hit hard by Covid-19. She asks for us to support them or your local indie bookstore!!!

November 14, there is going to be an author extravaganza to support TKE Bookstore

Shortly after the False Prince came out, she was still a very new author, she got a tweet from R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps saying how much he loved TFP. She was so excited and she wanted to thank him personally but didn't know his name, and he had called her Jennifer so she didn't want to say Mr. Stine.So she ended up just saying, thanks!

Book 5 is due to her editor Monday (October 5, 2020) and she said she would be finishing this (the launch) then getting right back to it!

She showed her open project folders (there are a LOT)

Working on a World War 1 story and she showed history books she is reading such as History of the World War, A World Undone, and Weird War One.

One of her new works is about a kid with no memory, a magic sharpie, and a dice game called Boggle that sometimes talks to him and he sees a message in the dice: “they know ur here go”

Q&A!!!

Disney, book to movie adaptation possibilities? She'd be fine with it if they asked. She wants it to be made right. She wants someone who comes to at it with a fan’s perspective.

Paramount Pictures had optioned the rights to the False Prince, what happened? When you have a contract, every six months they have to decide whether to extend, cancel, or make the movie. As her six months was coming up, they fired their CEO, so everything evaporated.

How does it affect you emotionally when one of your characters goes through something traumatic or extremely challenging? She has a background in theatre and she comes to writing from a theatrical perspective. It plays out in her head like it's on stage so she becomes every character. She goes through everything with her characters, she feels it, she dreads it, she feels awful, but she's learned that “Most of us are in this stasis of being where we are just comfortable being exactly who we are and when something hard happens to us, even if we hate it, it forces us to grow. The hard thing creates heroes. So my characters start out believing they are just ordinary people, but when I do the hard things, my characters become very heroic characters. I do hard things to them because I love watching them grow.” I had to include this quote because it was so great

Favorite background character who you think gets overlooked a lot? Kerwyn, he is one of the very few stable things in the lives of the main characters, he is just good, strong, and loyal. Amarinda, she’s ok with being overlooked but she is so strong and intelligent.

Characters based on yourself? Not really, she doesn't think she is interesting enough to write about, but Sage, like her, is left handed, climbs, and has her sense of humor. She relates closely to the main character from the Scourge, Ani, and sees a lot of herself in her, but didn't base Ani on herself, they just have a lot in common.

Jen discussed how she plots out her books and how many drafts she goes through: she's got to know the twist so she can layout the hints. She shows an example of a chart of how much each character and what the reader knows. She rewrites a lot and feels it come together. First rewrite is fixing major plot issues. Second, logic. Dialogue. Description. Word choice. Could be 10-15 drafts before her editor sees it, who sees things Jen missed.

Have your characters ever taken you by surprise (with twists)? The ending of Mark of the Thief book one, she didn't expect, so she had to make some changes. Usually on top of it, and has something called the Rule of Five. Has a general idea, and makes herself come up with five possible ways the idea could play out. 1, usually pretty predictable. 5, usually really weird. 2, 3, and 4 she really gets creative. “Limitations are the mother of creativity.”

How she gets her character names: baby name books and websites (Imogen and Tobias). Symbolic, Sage (wise, a way for him to stick it to his dad and say he has wisdom), Connor (con man), Jaron (teenage boy she knew who was just a great person and outstanding kid, and if we had royalty in our country he would be a prince). Put sounds together, places, Amarinda, Mott, Roden, Kerwyn. (She also gave an example for writers to use: UTAH, UTAR, TUTAR, TOTAR, TOTARA, city of Totara!!)

She explained how she does her fantasy world building and it is mainly based on what she will need in the plot (ie Carthya is landlocked, mountains to the north, waterways that would be needed, it is resource wealthy making it desirable, etc)

Culture and religion in world building: how many gods or none? saints and devils! causing good and bad things in your life. Sage feels like he is constantly being harassed by the devils. It became a social thing in the world.

Would she want to live there [in Carthya]? Sometimes, but not in the last book that she is editing now!! *wink*

Where's fink's rat? Fink’s rat is on the castle grounds. She said this. It's canon. Fink’s. Rat. Is. In. The. Castle. (See @thedevilsofcarthya for full transcript of Jen discussing this)

TCK trailer: created by her family, particularly her son, Chase, and the voiceover was her son in law. Chase wanted to do something different and take a risk.

Your career as an author? When she started writing she knew nothing and nobody just had a manuscript that was ‘awful’ and will be buried with her. (I personally would read ANYTHING she wrote). She submitted her second one to “every agent with a pulse” and everyone said no. She wrote a new one, they said no. Fourth manuscript, she felt ready to break in, Apprentice to a Madman, she thought it was the best thing ever, submitted it and got a rejection scribble, not a letter, worked on it and kept getting rejected. One publisher had rep for taking everybody so she sent in hers. A couple months later, on her birthday, she got a call from a friend that they got an acceptance letter from the same publisher as she had submitted hers, got her own… rejected…She thought a lot about it and decided to erase everything she thought she knew about publishing and once she had a new idea, that manuscript got her agent and first publisher. That letter on her birthday was the last rejection letter she received. “Remember you can start from nowhere and find success.”

When asked for descriptions of the characters so an artist can draw them, she said, they look like how you envision them, there is no ‘right’. (Shows fanart from the competition that is on her blog!)

TCK art print was created by her niece, Ireland. It is her concept of the characters.

Writing during covid and quarantine? She's a strong believer that when God closes a door, he opens a window. She misses the opportunities to be in schools and bookshops. Just discovered a new WW2 true story she is researching. Various stories at different stages. Very excited for stories she has created because of Covid. “We will get through this, we will, and we're going to be stronger at the end because remember, when we go through hard things we get stronger."

[thedevilsofcarthya]

Random moments with Jaron being upset at what happened with Roden

“Who did this?”

“It seems I have even fewer friends than I thought.”

“Roden just gave me that.”

“He was here?” Mott furrowed his thick eyebrows together. “Are you all right?”

“I already told you, the cut isn’t so bad.”

He shook his head. “That’s not what I asked. Jaron, are you all right?”

Such an easy question for an answer that turned my stomach to knots and choked off my air.

“Was it a surprise to see Roden last night?”

“The kind of surprise that makes your heart stop for a beat,” I said.

He wanted you to know about him. Don’t you see how personal his attack on you was?”

I understood that very well. Enough to have carried that knowledge like a lead weight in my chest ever since I had last seen him.

I wished I could talk with him in private. There was so much anger in Roden’s eyes, but was that because of me or Devlin?

It was nothing new to have someone look at me with expressions of anger or dislike. But I didn’t like it coming from Roden.

Perhaps it was my own arrogance at work, but I found it hard to believe that Roden could hate me so much.

[megagrind]

Free day

I missed sage appreciation day so I figured I’d fill a page of sage doodles to make up for it

[the-ascendance-series]

Favorite ship

JaronxImogen...

duh

[the-ascendant-doodler]

Holy crap guys I host ascendance month this year

[calebsrottingcorpse]

Ascendance Month Day #9: Nighttime

So I blame Cobalt for the weirdness of this one since she did the beach one. So uh- This is TAS characters as night skies. 

Jaron ^

Tobias ^

Roden ^

Imogen ^

Fink ^

Amarinda ^

Mott ^

Conner ^

Darius ^

(Credits to Cobalt for poisoning my mind with her thought process)

[sirasterisk]

Day 7- Vacation

OH BOY HEHE

Imogen: Jaron did you get ANY sleep-

Jaron: What why no-

Imogen: YOUR ON VACATION IDIOT SLEEP IN-

Jaron: No *proceeds to go emo and goes skydiving*

Imogen: WHa-

Tobias: 🧍

Roden: WAIT LET ME COME JOIN YOU-

Amarinda: why is this happening

Mott: 😃 yk what Imma just *disappears with Trea*

Trea: 😃 same *disappears with Mott*

Darius: OH MY LORD JARON NO-

Fink: wth just happened 😭

Meanwhile with the dead peeps over watching everyone

Latamer: 👁👄👁

Conner: omfg why did I even attempted murder on this idot-

Eckbert: CONNER SHUT UP BEFORE I BEAT YOU TIL YOURE A DEAD BUSH-

Erin: thats my son right there- also Conner stfu-

Conner: I’m being bullied- 😭

Cregan: Conner this was your whole plan the entirety of your life and it completely failed-

Conner: … 😀

Back to everyone-

Jaron: well that was fun-

Roden: you could’ve died-

Jaron: YOU LITERALLY SAID MINUTES AGO “GO FIRST HEHE-” THEN PROCEEDED TO PUSH ME OFF THE HELICOPTER THEN I DRAGGED YOU INTO THAT MESS-

Tobias: For once Jaron is correct-

Jaron: stfu your haircut was uglier than Conner and I’m always correct-

Tobias: wHY U BULLY ME-

Jaron: U LITERALLY STABBED ME PRETTY MUCH-

Tobias: Fair-

Imogen: *comes back from getting slushies with Amarinda*

Imogen: hehe he’s alive I won the bet Amarinda

Amarinda: You WIN EVERY TIME- *gives Imogen 5 dollars*

Imogen: hehe

Jaron: YALL GOT SLUSHIES without me- 😭

Imogen: yes but we got yall some too-