#house of apocalypse

[hallowgracie]

Americana in High Fantasy

As apparently this is the project that is gearing up to take over next when To Sail on Seas of Sky wraps up, I've been thinking more about House of Apocalypse lately and its setting.

House of Apocalypse is a high fantasy project taking place in another world that is inspired by California in the 1970s. How I came to this idea was kind of an interesting one.

There have been a lot of discussions lately about how fantasy--especially high fantasy--is very much locked in medieval Europe, maybe venturing as far forward as the Edwardian era if anything. While there have been attempts to include other traditions and continents, I realized that for all that a lot of Americans such as myself write fantasy, we don't often write fantasy about our country.

This is an idea that has intrigued me for a long time. One of my abandoned projects, Sorcerers of the Iron Circle (later the Divine Legacy) was initially a take on this, taking Regency-era fantasy and putting it across the pond to the Federalist era in a fantasy country inspired by America. To Sail on Seas of Sky also has this element, being inspired by the New World era piracy and how certain elements of piracy and pirate culture eventually fed into American ideals of democracy and self-sufficiency.

Because while Europe has its divine right of kings, China has the Mandate of Heaven, we in America have our cultural myths surrounding democracy and the American Dream.

There has been a lot of discourse and disillusionment with the ideas in modern American culture, and for good reason. But as someone who was once a little girl who played with American Girl dolls, I still cannot help but hold a fascination for our cultural myths.

We tell a story of young revolutionaries who were creating a brand new system, one that allows the people to decide (while avoiding the question of which people) and a more fair and equal system than the divine right of kings (again, debatable in real life). We tell stories of people who forged new lives out of terrible circumstances, of people coming to America for new lives and finding it, a found family of sorts.

Hamilton as a stage musical does a really good job at exploring the cultural myths and pathos surrounding our Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War. These ideas are really powerful, and I think they should be explored in a high fantasy setting.

We enjoy seeing the cultural myth of the good king taking the throne and revitalizing the land--why not enjoy the cultural myth of young men from differing circumstances and homelands of birth changing the world to create a more fair system and marking their place in history?

I love American history, and while my country does not always do me proud, I find a lot of intrigue in our stories and cultural values and myths. Hence why I want to explore them as a fantasy writer and make some fantasy worlds inspired by America.

[redroses07]

real

[yourgothgirldowntown]

[puppppppppy]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[borgialucrezia]

"There is a deep love and affection. They're so infatuated with each other and they're very physical in that relationship. That is not something that just came out of the blue for us." (Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia || The Borgias)

"Helaena is the only person that can really get to Aemond’s heart. He cares about her in a way that breaks through his armor. And he doesn’t have that with anyone else. She's the only person that can keep him as Aemond, and can see him as the child he is. That was the undertone — she could say what she wanted and he wouldn’t throw her over the balcony." (Helaena and Aemond Targaryen || House of the Dragon)

(requested by @lucreziaborgia)

[vrtualvr]

“i’m not a violent dog, i don’t know why i bite.”

[columprncess]

must be the season of the witch ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

[omelepun]

Your lips + my lips = apocalypse

[americanwh0rerstory]

KINKTOBER 2024: MASTERLIST

For the extra depraved, screwed up people. here is a selection of fics that will only get worse as the days go on. even if the prompts seem light, by day 31 it will reach the depths of pure depravity

heed my warnings and have fun

1: gun play [tate langdon]

2: brat taming [kit walker]

3: public sex [jimmy darling]

4: kinky murder [james patrick march]

5: brainwashing/manipulation [kai anderson]

6: blood play [austin sommers]

7: inappropriate use of mutation [quicksilver]

8: risky sex [max cooperman]

9: toys [alex from adult world]

10: domination [michael langdon]

11: submission [tate langdon]

12: bdsm [kit walker]

13: prostitution [jimmy darling]

14: knife play [James Patrick March]

15: boot riding [kai anderson]

16: CNC [kai anderson]

17: period sex [austin sommers]

18: high sex [quicksilver]

19: before a fight [max cooperman]

20: voyeurism [alex from adult world]

21: dub-con [michael langdon]

22: cocaine and boobs [tate langdon]

23: smoke kink [kit walker]

24: drunk sex [jimmy darling]

25: threesome [james patrick march + the countess]

26: so many depraved things i don't even know how to summarise it [kai anderson]

27: cockwarming quicksilver]

28: mirror fucking max cooperman]

29: rule 34 [alex from adult world]

30: desecration of a sacred alter michael langdon]

31: orgy. [multiple characters]

[hallowgracie]

The werewolves are another of the prominent races in Vertumnus, but they are not so populous as the witches or as cloistered as the elves. While they certainly have their tight-knit communities and packs, they prefer to live in the suburbs and rural villages, away from the cities. They are tied to nature as the elves are—but the elves dislike them for their ties are not to the sun and the spring, but to the moon and the winter winds. 

Therefore, they frequently disagree with the elves on how to protect the balance of nature, and what that even means. It is their belief that the sickness of the world started much earlier than the Mage Wars, citing the lack of a winter, the last one being recorded in myth and legend, and a few freak accidents. 

They also believe that the apocalypse will be heralded by a figure of legend, Fenrir. A werewolf with a dark strength and command of the northern winds, this big bad wolf will usher in the next age when his visage is spotted in the lights in the sky found at the furthest point north.

The shape of the wolf has been seen in the northern lights seventeen years ago. Fenrir lives again. 

[redroses07]

said what i said

[yourgothgirldowntown]

[galoogamelady]

My last illustration for the Wastelands 2023 artbook was titled "Plains". It was inspired by my own childhood experience of riding a bike around in the countryside and being chased by stray dogs.

[rottenaangelwings]

AHS characters played by Evan Peters

[dancingdaffodils08]

Does he need heirs by any chance?🙏

[clonebrainrot]

Redoing this poll as I goofed by not including the followers of the apocalypse.