#graycrest

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i'm theorically taking a break from fandom but still gonna ask just because i've been wondering since the first rounds: graycrest for if they had a kid meme?

-noe

name: erin arianwyn goldcrest

gender: female

general appearence: flaming red hair, freckles, slim

personality: angry, stubborn, sarcastic, logical, charming

special talents: combat fighting, pyromagic, winning, being right, seduction

who they like better: elian

who they take after more: elian, but has a lot of prim in her too

personal headcanon: i've always said that if elian would have a child, they would be a lot like him. strong, fiery and always right. put prim into this mix and we have a force to be reckoned with. erin would be named like a goldcrest, but her middle name means woman of gray-silver. she would be in slytherin. (no shock there)

face claim: kennedy wals h

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aesthetic trade: helirayburke ( elian goldcrest x henry of alderly x primrose gray x malcolm stolberg-burke)

my half of the aesthetic trade with @gaygryffindorgal

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Playing DnD:

   11. Human Blood Hunter/Warlock

[illusivesiren]

Dirk Graycrest; Blood Hunter

“You’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.”

The horror you have committed is not who you are.

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I made a blog!

It’s kind of unnecessary since at this point I uh, don’t have any books to push. But my brain doesn’t acknowledge that reasoning and has been yelling at me to make a site for a while, so I finally sat down at 2am and made one like a totally responsible adult. You can sign up for emails if you’d like! I promise not to spam you--my current intention is to only send out biannual emails with progress reports & links to any/all book reviews I write up. The only exception is if I publish anything! ...But I’m not querying anything at the moment, so your inbox is safe. 

You can find it here! 

But if signing up for biannual emails is too much for you (I am queen of the unclean inbox, I understand) and you’d still like to support me elsewhere, you can also find me.... idk kind of all over the place?

twitter || goodreads || pinterest || wattpad || nano || ko-fi

[potionboy3]

I'm in a Prim mood so pls spare Graycrest content 🤲🏼 also, Diana & Evander 👀

this is actually the first time i'm making a romantic moodboard for these two and damn 👀

and here's the second power couple ✨

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primrose x malcolm x elian x henry + dynamics:

otp: grayburke (primrose x malcolm)

otp: helian (henry x elian)

brotp: grayderly (primrose & henry)

brotp: malian (malcolm & elian)

brotp: graycrest (primrose & elian)

brotp/crackship: henry & malcolm

@gaygryffindorgal @potionboy3

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primrose gray & elyan goldcrest thoughout the years: 1897, 1926 & 1958 @potionboy3

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elian & prim | hp victorian era

(moodboard about our muses’ relationship)

for the ask game @endlessly-cursed

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Plane assistant: Before we take off, make sure that the small and fragile things are safe

Elian: You doing OK, Prim?

Prim: Die.

@potionboy3 nsnsnsmsmsm I had to do it

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This blog is about to completely switch WIPs and I don’t know how to transition gently between projects, so... I guess consider this to a warning that I’m about to roll out of contemporary fiction and into a space opera. Still melodramatic and existential with loads of death, but like, now in space instead of Luzon. 

tl;dr: feeling cute, might post about a new WIP later... idk 😳😍💖

A bunch of rambling about the projects I’m gonna juggle for the next 2 months below the cut:

So, for the last several months I’ve been chipping away at my dark contemporary novel, The People vs San Andres, but as of now I’m putting that project on indefinite hiatus. It’s full of too many plot holes that don’t add up together--essentially, it’s two very different novels mashed into one, and I’m too deep in it to figure out how to either make it work or pick just one to stick with. This, combined with its admittedly poorly timed subject matter--honestly, trying to write fiction that, at its core, focuses heavily on current events (the Philippine drug war) is painfully risky and also just painful--have really put me off it. 

All that said, I’m still deeply, wildly in love with the characters and their individual stories--which is why I’m rescuing them from whatever nonsense vs San Andres was. I’m taking all the characters and their backstories and dumping them into a speculative novel, tentatively titled The Devil Weed, which at this current juncture is... I’m not entirely sure what genre it’ll end up being. All I know is that it’ll likely end up being classified as science fantasy with strong -punk subgenre themes, but I’m not sure which punk subgenre yet. One of the things I’m looking forward to is brainstorming a lot more on this project--considering I have all the characters already, I’m overly optimistic that this won’t be a complete pain in the ass. 

However, National Novel Writing Month, aka my reason for living NaNoWriMo, is in a little over 2 months, so I’m hesitant to commit to any lengthy project with such a short time frame and so much going on IRL. So, over the next two months, my goals are:

world-build and plot The Noose of a Tender Embrace [novel | sci-fi, space opera]

brainstorm, world-build, and lightly plot The Devil Weed [novel | science fantasy, crime]

work on Graycrest Memorial Park [short stories | fantasy, magical realism]

work on Gone Are the Gods [short stories | science fantasy, cyberpunk] 

The main project I’m going to start working on is The Noose of a Tender Embrace (”Noose”), which I very, very briefly introduced a year ago before realizing I just wasn’t at the right place in life to write it. I got fucking whacked upside the head a couple weeks ago with the realization that I’m finally ready for this story, so--here I am! 

The Noose of a Tender Embrace follows the last days of Oswald, the retired Death of humans, a species that has driven itself to extinction through proliferative breeding with other species.  While waiting for the Death of Deaths to come to him, Oswald lives the remnants of his life out on Ka-an, a planet known for its interplanetary travel base and sleazy motels.  But his retirement is thrown off-course when he meets Miami, a half-human dying of an autoimmune disease whose only hope for a cure is in a laboratory on Earth–a planet half-destroyed by being the chew-toy of a nearby red giant, the Sun.

Noose is Very Much a Space Opera™, full of fun things like a light version of enemies to lovers, one-sided pining, complicated sibling relationships, terminal illness, absolute nonsense unpronounceable names for infinite species and planets, and, oh yeah, a three-way* war vying for control of the Perseus-Pegasus Filament. 

*one side is actually a scattered and decentralized collective of hundreds of various organizations, each with their own independent motivation and control, so really it’s like a 912-way war, but, y’know... three is easier to mention :’)

As far as Graycrest & GoneGods go--I’d just like to write a couple stories, I don’t expect to make any, like, serious or coordinated effort with either project. Graycrest Memorial Park is something I’m hoping to post online and I don’t have any intention to formally publish, where as Gone Are the Gods is a collection I’d like to publish in the future, but both individually and collectively the collection needs a lot of work and organization so, meh, that’s still mostly a project for future me. 

If you read this to the end then you have the patience of a saint and I don’t deserve your kindness asdfghjkl

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*slides into your inbox* hello there! I'm getting very out of the loop on projects! What's currently your main(s) wips? And what about the characters??

I wrote this last night with a lot of coffee in my body so I was able to give a somewhat comprehensive answer for once in my life!

My main WIP right now is a second draft of the novel Give My Love to the Ocean (it’s getting a new title soon, probably). It’s a contemporary/literary novel with elements of legal thrillers and dark romance incorporated, in which professional idiot and sometimes criminal defense lawyer León San Andres has a passionate affair with Vicente Rivera, a corporate executive for an international boat manufacturing company--only to discover that Vicente is also the heir to an international crime syndicate, the Hagonoy Cartel. From there his relationship with Vicente escalates and León becomes the cartel’s main defense lawyer in the States, where ultraviolent turf wars have broken out along the west coast. León struggles with anxiety and his own traumas, but he’s also a sassy, ambitious, self-destructive moron who likes cheap beer, tequila, quiet nights in, and literally any event that involves free food. Vicente is... painfully confident, and painfully intense. He’s got an insane amount of drive, terrible insomnia, and only drinks expensive wine. Other characters include Seven, Vicente’s childhood best friend and right-hand man (charismatic, extroverted, a romantic, a Fool); Ana, León’s best friend and fiancee [it’s... a marriage of convenience thing] (PsychD student, wine connoisseur, confident, heart of gold); Violeta, Seven’s fiancee (ex-yakuza, aloof, intelligent); and Benjie, one of León’s clients and a distributor for the Hagonoy Cartel (young, terrified, weasel-like).

I’m also working on a novella, Layers of Hell, which is a cyberpunk retelling of Hades & Persephone. In a future where the pantheon of Old Gods abandoned the world during the War, the survivors of the War live in city-towers over what was once the city of Seattle. Persephone lives in the city-tower of Demeter, working through deep simulations to research ways to develop agriculture in the destroyed world. Hades is a Venter, a rare and secretive class permitted to move between city-towers, maintaining the ventilation systems that filter out the radioactive air from Outside. Their relationship, an illicit thing on its own, gives way to even more illegal things--like figuring out that what they’ve each been told about the Outside doesn’t line up, and neither of them knows the truth.

And lastly I’m working on a contemporary fantasy project, Graycrest Memorial Park, which is a loosely connected series of short stories about Annihila, a witch and the graveyard keeper of Graycrest Memorial Park. In a reality where ghosts regularly wander back into the world of the living, Annihila has her hands full with organizing the dead and their games of tarot poker... and the oldest ghosts that suggest she isn’t fully human... and disposing of the bodies the Mafia brings her... and beating back the terrible, hungry thing that lives in the woods behind the graveyard. Annihila is independent and sometimes seems aloof, but she cares deeply. The only other major character so far is Elias, the love interest, who died when he was 19 in a military training accident [he was an Army soldier]. Elias is a soft guy--the youngest of four siblings, a bundle of anxiety, a gentle soul, an absolute weapon at tarot poker. 

@honeybeewriter since you asked the other night and i couldn’t!! put things into proper words and managed to forget my own projects which isn’t a good sign

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Well, I’m bad at Doing Things so for the last 10 days of the year, here’s my highly improbable goal list:

finish xmas shopping [gifts for: mom/dad/Jon/gma/gpa/Julie/Grace]

xmas baking [lemon bars/pb clusters/lemon curd]

finish Goodreads reading challenge [20 21/24 books]

continue (finish?) annotating Empire of Care

finish crocheting the world’s biggest lap blanket

acquire textbooks for next term [bb/stat/mb/bi]

set up book review blog

draft: Graycrest Memorial Park, story one

rewrite: Give My Love to the Ocean, chapters 2||3||4||5

Optional bonus goals: 

don’t die

idk maybe pick up an engagement ring for the amazing @writerightmegpie since she’s a gorgeous human being with fantastic WIPs, the best characters, and puts up with me even when i go MIA for days like an asshole i’m like this close to mailing you a bag of ring pops bc you’re an angel

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asch’s writing & reading goals for 2019

write 52 short stories [0/52]

collect 20 rejections [0/20]

read 24 books [0/24]

post 20 book reviews [0/20]

finish two novel drafts [0/2]

my thoughts on why these are the goals i chose are beneath the cut!

write 52 short stories is based off a fairly popular yearly annual challenge inspired by Ray Bradbury who said “write a short story every week. it’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row” and i’m here to prove him wrong!! but also, i feel that short stories are great for improving the things i’m weak on (action scenes & plot); i’ll get a sense of accomplishment when i finish things; i’ll develop my editing process; and this way i’ll have writing that i can workshop/post/submit/burn!! also i’m including Graycrest Memorial Park in this goal bc that’s a series of short stories [which i’m planning on posting on my wattpad!] 💖

collect 20 rejections is based on someone’s challenge to get 100 rejections in a year and i don’t have a source for that bc i’m lazy, but it was an awesome goal and i love the idea. however, i don’t have a backlog of finished pieces to polish and submit, and i’m busy with school and trying to bribe my brain for Happy Chemicals™ so i feel that 20 is a more realistic number for me! and then next year i can increase the number since i’ll theoretically have a backlog of stories from my short story challenge. 

read 24 books is just my Goodreads challenge, same number as 2018 (i only read 21 in 2018 though!)--two books a month. no self-imposed rules, no limits--DNFs [did not finish] and rereads count

post book reviews for 20 books i’ve got a book blog here you can follow for these reviews!! i’m only doing 20 of the 24 i’m aiming to read because some books i might DNF (2018 was the first year i allowed myself to DNF something! it’s so freeing!) and b/c i’ll probably reread something (i don’t like reviewing rereads--way too biased) or w/e. it’s wiggle room.

finish 2 novel drafts! that’s actually not an insane goal imo (i wrote Ocean’s first draft in six weeks) and they don’t have to be first drafts--my actual goal rn is Ocean’s second draft and EOS’s first draft, but since those are subject to change, i figured any two drafts was a good goal. 

i don’t have a daily word goal or monthly word count goal or anything like that because i’m surprisingly decent about writing every day unless there’s something big happening [exams; family days; holidays]--i genuinely love writing and in comparison i hate doing... basically anything else... so i don’t want a daily goal b/c why make myself feel bad about not keeping to said goal on the rare days i take off!

those are my goals for 2019, the odds of me actually completing all of them is less than 10%, but imo they’re reasonable goals so i’m excited AF to try 💪

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11, 23, 26

thanks for the ask, hon! 💖

11: How do you find inspiration for your characters? Everything! Usually my character creation process goes like this: 1) have space/need for a character, usually a PoV character. 2) have a first concept of a character. usually my brain slaps a mental pinterest board together instantaneously and that’s all i have to go off of. 3) flesh the character out ??? which really means listening to music and daydreaming until I have a sense of their motivation, history, and greatest flaws. 4) panic and realize said character has 1-3 supporting characters and oh god how do i stop the floodgates 5) ???? 6) profit.

sorry that’s a terrible answer but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that’s actually the honest way it goes for me

23: What other works do you think you model your plots after? Oh! Give My Love to the Ocean has unintentionally followed a lot of Lolita’s [Vladimir Nabokov] beats, in terms of actual plot events, so that’s been amusing me a lot lately. Eosophobia is modeled, way less closely, after The First Law Trilogy [Joe Abercrombie]. The Noose of a Tender Embrace also follows a lot like The Fifth Element (1997), and Graycrest Memorial Park after the game Graveyard Keeper [which is like, satirical stardew valley?]. 

26: Have you ever seen/read something so bad wanting to fix it inspired a story? Oh my God, yes. Yes, yes, yes. I started writing my literary dark/crime romance thing-y Give My Love to the Ocean in direct retaliation to a terrible literary “feminist” romance I read over the summer. Like, it’s a literary romance, so you don’t expect much in the way of plot to begin with, but the characters? Boring, sheltered, predictable, whiny. What little plot there was? Completely riddled in cliches. The author and MC’s attitude? Self-righteous and tried so hard to be “feminist” it looped around and was at times painfully misogynistic. In the book’s defense, Ocean was a thought I’d already been carrying around for years, but that book was just... such a frustratingly poor read that I was able to convert my annoyance into writing willpower.

Send me a writing ask!

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primrose gray & elyan goldcrest thoughout the years: 1897, 1926 & 1958 @potionboy3