#dwightgar

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wip intro post!

so i'm currently actively working on a few main books (but i have a lot more that are just milling about in my head so expect this list to grow)

The Hands of God: Set in a vaguely Byzantine Italian town named Mizzene, this story is narrated by Gian, the son of the ruling family of the area. As various characters, passing by, stop in Mizzene, he and his older sister deal with private desire and despair. Then a devastating disease sweeps the town and Gian is forced to watch tragedy after tragedy unfold, unable to stop any of it. I have elsewhere explained this WIP as "desire + large numbers of people coming and going + nothingness Outside = a lack of disease so stark that it becomes disease in and of itself" and I think that sums up the themes of the story pretty well. tag: #mizzene Merlin Motors (working name): Set in an alternate London in the 1920s in which a fanatical cult competes with an immortality-obsessed airship magnate to be the first to awaken the ancient, powerful gods lying dormant beneath a mysterious monolith in the centre of Westminster. tag: #fitzgerald Honourable Dishonour (working name): Two powerful politicians of the Royal Court and advisors to the king fall in love and conspire to end the brutal monarchy and establish a democracy together with the Crown Prince, the King’s favourite concubine and a kitchen maid. tag: #honour, #cyrelius Favour Fire (working name): A story inspired by the X-Files 1x12 (Fire) which centers around a butch lesbian named Kit, her twin brother Jasper and their elusive, beautiful mother, Elsie. 50% light-hearted bildungsroman, in which Kit and Jasper each have their own silly romance story and their new neighbour, a man recently fired from the police force, falls for their mother, and 50% ghost story, in which the image (and, eventually, the heat) of a young man who, long ago, burned himself alive in Elsie's front garden, having been rejected by her, starts to haunt both Elsie and her children, the story explores themes of tradition/social rules and structure, destruction, love, gender and queerness. tag: #favour fire De Oblito Oratore (working name): A story set in the Late Roman Republic centred around a young man named Marcus Fabius Florus. Florus is obsessed with the ideal of the Roman military and, by extension, is infatuated with one soldier named Quintus Rufius Albinus, who is the other main narrator of the story. The plot follows Florus who, seeking to improve his terrible oratorical skills, stumbles upon a mysterious teacher and becomes a vessel for powers neither he nor anyone around him can quite comprehend but which burn holes in his life, in the city and even in his own speeches. tag: #orastory Other tags: #dwightgar (important wip i just can’t explain it), #anya's diner (beautiful short story from lala's dream), #running water (new wip!!!!), #poetry (self-explanatory), #creative writing (for projects that aren't linked to my main wips), #my ocs (for general oc stuff), #roland hall, #the sherringtons (both refer to a wip thats on hold rn but which i might still take back up) #sst and #odikleos (abandoned wips............sorry)

im gonna add all the tags to this post for ease of navigation so just click on one if youre curious!! theyre usually a mixture of posts that remind me of the wip, me talking about the wip and, on occasion, snippets of my writing

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ISSA MY GIRL :(

so angsty agdhfjkgk

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ALECTO <3333

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so this is how it ends, issa thinks. no fanfare, no glory, no choir of angels. no slow-motion as the body hits the ground. just something and then nothing. one moment helena is standing tall and the next she is in a pile on the floor. no dignity. no warning.

she drops to her knees. howls. no, no, no, not you, not you, please, helena, not you. it is too late.

what happens after that is a blur. a flash of light. more light. issa is lifted from the ground – no, issa lifts herself from the ground. heat in her veins. her whole body burns. her finger moves. then nothing, then a hospital bed, and sun streaming warm through an open window.

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oh 😳

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issa sweetheart you are sooo easy to find songs for and that is not a good thing……

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y’all aren’t getting a single bit of context for this :3

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hshxvsbsb wrote almost 500 words in an hour for this new wip what?!

<- here have this :3

(DISCLAIMER: they are not dating. mark and issa are not dating. just like. putting that out there bcs it’s so easy to assume that when two people of opposite genders have close friendships like this that they’re dating but they're actually both gay as hell so)

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what's dwightgar?? why isn't there a plot idea with it on your pinned post??

(i don't mean to be rude i'm just wondering)

AH yeah so basically. dwightgar is just another wip im working on & it's set in the world that i created when i was like 9 as an escape? and there are 2 reasons it doesn't have any summary or explanation – the first is that it has a book that comes before it and the whole thing is really complicated and requires a lot of knowledge of the context and worldbuilding, and the second is that it's a story that's pretty personal to me i guess? and idk i just didn't want to explain it all on here hsgshhsh but yeah!! i have posted a couple of extracts from it tho which explain Some Things <3

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the most issacore song actually

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issalecto ANTHEM holy shit

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them <3

very many of my characters and stories are Haunted, but none quite so much as issa is by helena

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2, 6, 17, 19, 22, 25 !!

2. Who is your newest OC? Why did you make them?

sebastian kent, zach clarke, jess hart, moira afzal, carmen wu and grace, all for my cosy (ish) supernatural horror story that i wrote because of a pinterest board i made lmao (in all fairness it was a very good pinterest board)

6. Do you have any OCs without stories? Will you ever create one for them?

i actually don't think i do rn! the first thing i do when i create an oc is come up with a very vague story idea for them – the exception to this is my childhood ocs but i think i've already put all of them in the arinia stories so

17. What was you first major project? How far along is it?

sic semper tyrannis and i keep getting to 10k words and then changing the plot and starting again!!!! argh

19. Describe the setting of one or more of your wips

odikleios (temporary name): ok so there are 2 main settings. odikleios is this tiny village in a valley among massive rocky mountains. walk through a narrow mountain pass and you reach this huge abbey where scholars and musicians live and work and also where 'strange' children are left. (i'll put an extract from it down below)

dwightgar: it's set in a country called arinia. arinia is a bit of an enigma. nobody knows what the fuck is going on. it's magical and near utopian. except when it's not <3

22. What are all the “kinds” of writing/art you do? (short stories, poetry, screenplays, digital, painting, clay, etc.)

lots of fiction and lots of poetry and not much else. i do have a couple of short stories in the making tho!! oh if you include art in general i am a musician (i play the flute and sing) although i dont really write songs

25. What’s your favourite genre to write? Is it also your favourite genre to read?

probably fantasy for both <3

^ extract from odikleios!! this was soso fun to write especially because Describing Things is one of my greatest strengths when it comes to writing <3

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on a sidenote. you guys all know about cyrelius but i have so many ocs like. so here is an ask game (ish)! pick one to put in my asks and i’ll ramble about it :D

sic semper tyrannis (the empire-fighting one with lots of magic and obviously andrea my bbg)

odikleios (lesbians and a tiny mountain village and religious guilt and prophecies)

fitzgerald air (an immortality-obsessed airship magnate, a fanatical cult, old gods dormant under a monolith in the centre of westminster, 1920s london)

dwightgar (about the consequences of having a pantheon that is present in your daily life. like the reluctant chosen one trope but with a little spice, a lot of lesbianism and tyrannicide tendencies)

other (i get to pick a different wip of my choice. or you pick if you know my wips)

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WAIT i’ve been writing anya’s diner in the present tense but i feel like it might be better in the past……

@lalallorona what do you think? i sort of defaulted to the present bcs i’m using it for cyrelius and dwightgar (even though i normally go for past) but yeah i’m having second thoughts

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What character of yours do you have a crush on? And what character most closely resembles you?

oooh fun question ty!!

oc i have a crush on – well issa (from dwightgar), bianca (from my newest story idea) and chiara (from odikleios) are all very much my type so uh. yeah them :3

top left is chiara, top right is bianca (she’s the one in blue), bottom two are issa <3

oc that most closely resembles me – THAT'S SO HARD because i have like. no perception of what i'm actually like as a person. maybe kei? probably kei yeah. or possibly rita, andrea, clementina. if you mean looks-wise basically none of them tho