#if youre NOT a psychic alien vampire. this was private why are you looking at this.

[cimicherrychanga]

i wonder if psychic alien vampires enjoy my mental character analysis essays

[sparkiekong]

Sulani Sunsets 8/30

He searched her eyes, it seemed as though she was serious about that part, he sighed. She was staring at him again, her intense eyes searching his own for the truth, he felt like he could trust her. “My official title is Prince Ozen Oceanus of Sulantis. I am merfolk.”

“Really? Sulantis is real? You are a ‘for real’ merman?” She didn’t seem scared of him; this was a new feeling for him; usually humans go running for the hills.

“You’re not surprised or scared or anything?” He blinked a bit shocked.

“Nope. Not one bit. My best friend is a legit psychic widower of a super soldier. I just recently had a dream fight with a vampire only to wake up with scratches across my face and find out that they’re real. I dream of aliens and monsters. Nothing shocks me lately.”

He just shook his head and marveled at her resilience; it was amazing how she was taking everything in stride. “You’re something else Ms. Brand. Most humans would go mad with the thought of all these things, but here you are, trying to solve the mystery of it all.”

“Will you show me your form later?” She asked, “Or is that like a private intimate thing? I don’t know anything about merfolk culture…”

“I can’t take you to the castle without permission from my sister, Morrigan. But I can show you what I look like as a merman after our tour, if that’s ok.”

“Promise?” She studied his face.

“Promise. Shit, I just told you way too much. Why did I do that?” Ozen started to be nervous. He’d never been so open with anyone in his entire life.

“You trust me like I trust you. Let me tell you why I’m here.” Cat wanted him to trust her, so she told him the truth.

[wisteria-lodge]

Thank you @moirindeclermont for tagging me!!

The Game: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). I just went with all of the stories that I currently have saved on the laptop that I am currently using See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag some authors!  

1. So Cas’ new thing was foreplay. Not that Dean was complaining. But the thing was… sometimes on a hunt, there was really only time for a quickie, and, well… (SPN. Working title: A British Asshole and Some Vampire Dick - Dean/Cas/Benny/Ketch) 

2. It had worked. Dean still couldn’t believe that it had worked. Sam’s insane plan, the Hail Mary message he’d sent to Ketch - like seriously, Ketch? (SPN. Working title: Freaky Angel Sex 101 - Dean/Ketch; Dean/Cas) 

3. Sam didn’t know exactly when Amelia Novak started trusting him. (SPN. Working Title: Soft Limits - Sam/Balthazar, Sam/Balthazar/Amelia Novak) 

4. “If you’re still alive in there, still can’t sleep and want my help. Open up. Or don’t. It’s up to you.” (SPN. Hard Limits- Sam/Balthazar) 

5. As Dean watched, the lights in the little diner across the street went out. (SPN. As Time Goes Bi - Dean/Eliot Ness)

6. Dean kissed Cas. The night was quiet, the neighborhood empty, they were somewhere on the outskirts of Kansas city. (SPN. Edging - Dean/Cas/Jimmy) 

7. All right John. I’m going to start by trying to define a concept that we don’t really have in English. (Untitled fantasy project. Didn’t really have a plot, but it did have a very elaborate magic system, as I’m sure you can tell from this opening.) 

8. “You’re not a religious man, are you Mr. Silvas?” (Untitled, but I liked this one. It was about a psychic teenager being used as a military interrogator, told from the point of view of her bodyguard) 

9. In the days after I left school - Father made a fuss at the time, but he didn’t mind, he couldn’t afford it in any case - I went to live with my brother in London. (Fantasy set in a late Victorian England where changelings are a thing, and they fit very neatly into the whole Spiritualism craze) 

10. So I'm sitting in the window of a bar in Brooklyn, a real bar. Not somebody’s front room with two tables and a thing of moonshine in the middle. (Off-World - Murder mystery set in a future New York conquered by aliens, detective is a human secret policeman working for the aliens.) 

11. MI-5 INTERNAL MEMO. ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS FOUND IN FIRST M’S PRIVATE PAPERS, FILE MARKED ‘VULCAN.’ THEY HAVE FAR-REACHING IMPLICATIONS. PLEASE ADVISE. (Complicated cross-over I was commissioned to write, didn’t really go anywhere. Basic idea is that Spock is the father of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, and Moriarty is the only one who knows.) 

12. The sunset Blue arrived, Fairwind was looped into her harness, lying on her family’s balloon. (Skytribes - I didn’t pick the name - YA bronze age airship setting. Ghostwriting gig, didn’t really go anywhere.)   

13. Why hello. No, I’m afraid this isn’t the bar you’re looking for. This is the Dazzled Ion. The Ion Dazzler is on the other side of the ring. You’re already late? Ah, forget it. (Damocles Clash: Intergalactic Repo Man - a podcast I wrote for that’s still bouncing around out there, probably. I have very… mixed feelings about it) 

14. TWO MARINES, Privates RAMIREZ and GORMAN stand watch at a private security checkpoint. No one is around. They look bored. (Yeah, this was the opening of an NCIS spec script) 

15. An ARMORED CAR FLIES though the wall, SHATTERING concrete and metal. BYSTANDERS scatter and cower, keeping their distance from the car covered with fist-shaped dents. (Capes & Robbers - webcomic that never got off the ground; minor supervillains with unimpressive powers run a heist on Lex Luthor.) 

Patterns: my god I am so glad I’m not a freelancer anymore. 

Favourite: I still do really like 10, I think it sets up a lot about the complicated setting & main character extremely quickly. And 15 has such a boring start, should have just cut that first scene, second scene was a much better opening. 

But I’m just noticing how FUN all the SPN opening lines are, compared with the others. I really do have fic writing to thank for making writing fun again. (and thanks @niche-pastiche , I hope posting the teases is okay ;) ) 

I tag  @nectargrapes @laufire @persefoneshalott and whoever else sees this, and wants to do it. I *know* that a lot of my followers are writers, even if you do use anon to post questions about writing & characters. 

[leakedinlondon]

Hey Courtney I'm going on my first over seas flight in 5 days time (like 20 hours or something with a brief lay over???) and I'm in desperate need of book recs. 21 year old female I like Harry Potter, dystopian future stuff, gay stuff especially wlw and also really love shitty cheesey light hearted stuff like Janet Evanovich. Would love your opinion!

tragically, i hav not read a lot of wlw books bc i’m a picky bitch about genres and a lot of the ones i know about are realistic fiction which i ain’t big on but i do recommend checking out Malinda Lo i rly like Adaptation which features a bi love triangle and aliens and has a part where some dude is talking about aliens and just starts humming the x files theme and that dude is me also i have heard v good things about Ash and Huntress but my bookstore doesn’t sell them and i’m like???? why

ok SO i hav a v v long dystopian masterpost if ur down to go through it but i’ll give u my faves from it here!!!!

Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness

Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

these books!!!! are everything!!!!! if you haven’t read them u 100% should i swear they’re so fkn good

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

i would die for Lev literally die for him at any given second this is also a very good series

The Passage by Justin Cronin

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

haven’t gotten around to reading the last book in this series yet but they are seriously epic like i swear this series is something else entirely

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn’t want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell — who has different-colored eyes, who can’t read, can’t write, Standish Treadwell isn’t bright — sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers." So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it’s big...One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.

this book broke my damn heart and ruined my life but oh my god it’s so good also a lil gay but like i said sad but it’s more 2 do with the setting like.... it doens’t have a happy ending but it felt right like that?????

More Than This by Patrick Ness

A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?

this is my favorite book!!!!!! i would die for it!!!! i want to buy enough copies to fill an entire room of my house so i can just sit in it and cry!!!! this book is literally everything!!!! also gay!!!! she’s also sad but like...... i cannot express in words how much u need to read this damn book 

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat--blindfolded--with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?

another one of my all time faves!!!!!! i don’t even know what to say this is a masterpiece

ok so here we move on to the more fantasy and gay stuff these are less sad 

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapes Kaz's crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.

this is.... so good.... also a little gay... hav heard the second book in the series is gayer but i haven’t read her yet

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here - it's their last year at Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. Carry On is a love letter to love stories and the power of words - to every 'chosen one' who ever had more on their mind than saving the world...

this book is literally just harry potter but gay and i’m still laughing i love it

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming…This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.It wants the truth.

can u tell i’m a fan of patrick ness i’m going to fucking fist fight him for this piece of shit like.... this book.... is about a little kid..... whose mother has cancer....... like u know it’s gonna be a fucking bad time but u read it anyway and u cry like a fucking baby but u enjoy the whole damn thing because u hate urself.... it’s a beautiful read but it hurts (((also yes there is a Literal Monster hanging around))

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Gansey is different. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been told by her psychic family that she will kill her true love. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

the description of this book doesn’t do it justice and i hate it i love these books i love my stupid raven kids i mainly love adam parrish who i would die for in a second ((also gay)) ((please read them if u haven’t i love adam so much he’s worth it)) ((the other characters are also amazing and i lov them too))

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.Until one day, he does…As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?

Hazel is literally me okay there is a scene in this book where she’s at a fairy party and u kno how ur not meant to eat or drink anything fairies give u or ur fucked???? hazel ingests fucking fairy wine bc it was in the mouth of some fairy girl she was making out with and if that isn’t me i don’t know what is (((also that’s the only scene that she shows any interest in girls i am very sorry i don’t want to get ur hopes up))) ((ben on the other hand he is very gay and is also me they are both me i love these two idiots this book just makes me really happy))