#in death forever by phyne

[phynewrites]

I kinda feel proud about this chapter so I thought I might share it here!

Here's a snippet from my wip, In Death, Forever

The stained-glass temple was silent even when the mysterious figure swung the door open. Their bare feet barely left any marks on the floor as they walked. The regal silk, compared to Father Time’s animal hide, swept the glass floor as they walked closer to him.  

“What do you think you are doing?” One of the faces asked. The face on the left scoffed.  

“Fate,” The time god said. “What brings you by?” Not that he didn’t acknowledge her question. He felt it would be more polite to give an acknowledgement of her presence first.  

“I asked you a question,” the face on the center imposed. “We are not here to punish you nor say what you have done to the elder,” the right face interjected “We just want to know.” 

“Not that it matters!” the left face shouted. “I’m pretty sure the elder already knows.”  

Time looked at them, or rather at the center face. He wondered how they could get along, fitting in one body like that, each face sharing a head. He smiled at them. “Time is the most important currency for humans.”  

The Fate sisters raised an eyebrow.  

“When they have nothing, time is what they trade. Just like wealth, people have different ways of spending their time. Some use it for years of work to survive. Some of the wealthy ones, who do not need to work, spend it on leisure. Most spend it on families and loved ones. Indeed, time is the ultimate equalizer between humans. It is the one thing that everyone is given equally, because it is the one currency that when spent, can never be taken back.”  

“Except you-” Fate turned to their right so that interrupting and noisy right face could meet Time eye to eye. “You have the power to give back lost time.”  

With a chuckle, Time continued. “Humans are powerful beings. There’s a reason why we exist because of them, yet they cannot have control over things in the universe that we can.”  

“And you want to give them that power?”  

“A glimpse of it.”  

“Why?”  

“Because-” Father Time remembered the look of desparation, love, anger, and fear on that woman’s face. He watched as she passed through the portals of the universe, which he so diligently aligned for her. Then he remembered her determination, courage, strength, and resilience.  

“I’m curious.”  

“That’s it?”  

“I’m curious how far we can push humans if they have the power we have. Will they use it for good, or for bad? Will they make the world for themselves and for us a better place?”  

For a moment, Fate was silent. Not one of the faces were saying a word, but they were visibly thinking. One of them was shocked and was still processing what he said. One was bored and seemed to be staring outside.  

“Very well; but remember this.” They straightened their backs and stared the seated time God.   

“We, the gods, are equal as we have been created by the elder. We control different realms of the universe and of human lives, independent from each other. You control time, not fate. Fate, shall remain unchanged.”  

As they started to walk silently from where they came from, the right face spoke. “Besides, Death will be asking us for the remaining souls left to be fetched.” Fate’s cackle resounded in the stained-glass temple as their silhouette slowly faded in the entrance.

border borrowed from @pink-horizon (here) thank you!

[phynewrites]

Just wanted to hop on this tag because it looked soooo cute!!

Ahhh!!!! Little Connor and Mary from In Death, Forever! I absolutely had a blast trying to make these!

Gently tagging some peeps: @boundedsea @blackcrxwking @starbuds-and-rosedust @stellarosamarys @aalinaaaaaa

found this lovely picrew and wanted to start a chain! make your wip's main character using this picrew

this is rowan from nova futurum

gently tagging: @wingedcatastrophe, @intothesparrowverse, @aether-wasteland-s, @scribbling-stardust, @lucylyricism, @stesierra, @your-absent-father, @ruinmegently, @ntzsche9, @palebdot, @holdmyteaplease, @halfbit, @floweryprosegarden, @daughter-of-inklings, @fire-but-ashes-too

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Last Line Tag

Great timing, thank you for the tag @at-thezenith (here). I spent a whoooooole lot of time researching for In Death, Forever and the upcoming third arc (It's gonna be a big one). This line is from the ending of the second arc, transitioning into the third arc.

⊹ ࣪ ˖🕰️୭˚. ᵎᵎ🗝️

When Mary got out of the Morgue, Oscar was holding out a glass of water for her. “You okay?” Well, obviously not. It was just a question of courtesy to break the ice, which Mary thought was the perfect opportunity.   

“Yes, but it would help me if you tell me what happened,”  

Oscar’s brows frowned at her odd request. He touched her forearm lightly. “Don’t you think it will make things more painful?”  

“Things already are,” Mary flatly said. “Nothing can make it more painful than it is, but I think I could find a little comfort if I knew what he did during his last moments and that he didn’t die in vain.”  

⊹ ࣪ ˖🕰️୭˚. ᵎᵎ🗝️

Gently tagging (no pressure, let me know if you don't want to get tagged)

Rules: Just post the last line you have written

@theink-stainedfolk @aseriesofsmallthings @brookewritesbookss +open tag for anyone who wants to join in

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🧁 Writing Share Tag 🧁

Thank you so much for the tag @mauannacreates (here) @sableglass-deactivated20241031 (here) and @the-golden-comet (here and many others, thank you very much!)

This is kinda heavy, but here is a line from In Death, Forever

There’s something pooling in Mary’s heart. Something so deadly that it could stop her heart from beating anytime now. She feels it travel through her nerves and numb it, as if the skin in her fingers can no longer receive stimuli. She feels as if her eyes were the only muscles she could move, but even that feels fixated on the clock. She feels it strengthening the gravity of the couch, pulling her like a black hole to a nearby star. She feels it keeping her mind awake, aware of all the shit that went down and is going on in her life. Then, it blocks her arteries and veins with its inky substance, fusing with her blood and turning it cold. It is hopelessness.

Gently tagging @snowshowerwriting @kjscottwrites @helioselene

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🍪 ᴡɪᴘ ᴅɪᴀʀɪᴇꜱ 🍪

Hi! I haven't talked about the progress on my WIP for a while

The Good news: Honestly, It's not a lot but I'm proud of how far I have already written! Before, I never really got to commit to writing a lot. We're already down 6 chapters! I don't really set target wordcounts or chapter numbers, so I don't know how further I need to write but at least the first phase is done. Three more to go (based on the outline).

However, these past days I haven't been feeling like myself when I write so I haven't added something new recently. I think it's coming from the anxiety of production, not in writing but in my personal life right now because I'm currently jobless and I feel like instead of writing I should find one and only then when I'm secured at that can I write peacefully (T＿T) . I try to change my mindset that until then, I'm a fulltime writer but somehow, nah it doesn't work.

For now, while I try to get over and rework what I need to do with my personal life and get my shit together, I notice I have a lot of pending ask games that I might answer and leave on queue. I'm also planning to send multiple asks to my mutuals, hopefully hearing you all talk about your wips can bring some spirits back to me somehow.

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🌟WIP INTRODUCTION: In Death, Forever

There is no one who is loved by time, nor anyone time hates. Time looks upon everyone neutrally and everyone is dragged away by time - The Mahabharata (Bibek Debroy Trans.)

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery

Setting: 1990, in a fictional unnamed city akin to Manila 

Pov: Third person 

Themes: Grief, Angst, Love, Time Travel, Philosophy

Status: Incomplete. I will post WIP diaries soon, and you can monitor the status of this wip via the tag #In death forever by Phyne  

Synopsis:

A Grieving Girl Goes to Generous God for a once-in-a-lifetime Gift. With this power, she can change something that her heart has always desired, or can she? There was nothing extraordinary about Mary and Connor’s relationship, until that day when Connor was killed from an operation. Since then, Mary had been plagued by the loss of her husband.  They say that people with strong spirits and willpower can transcend the universe’s force, and so she did. In a visit with Father Time, the pitiful God made a decision that will forever change the course of the universe and the relationship of gods to humankind. 

Short Character Descriptions: 

Mary Valle - A loving, caring, and determined woman who’s conviction will lead her to a chance to change her beloved’s fate, or can she? 

Connor Valle - Mary’s husband. After going through an operation to catch a serial killer in the city, meets his death. With the help of his wife, can he overturn the fate that was written to him by the Fate Sisters or will he make things more complicated? 

Timothy/Tim - Connor’s detective partner. Connor risked his life to protect him in their last operation, causing survivor’s guilt in him. What role will he play in trying to save his best friend? 

Father Time - The God tasked by the creator to watch over time and the human race. One day, a human with a strong soul approached him for a chance to change her beloved’s fate. In a decision that will change not only the lives of a couple but the entire universe, did he make the right choice? 

The Fate Sisters - Birth, Life, and Death. The three sisters are in charge of writing the fates of people. With Father Time’s intervention in their plans, can they do something to restore what was meant to happen? 

Author's notes

Hi! So for so long that I have been in this community already, I am finally introducing this WIP, the first major project I’ll be working on. Honestly, I forgot where I got this idea (it's those random moments where you go "Aha!", a period of "Ginanahan" in my language), just that I made a timeline, and time travel is quite a complex world building tool. Now that I want to push this towards fruition and completion (although it's far from that yet), I’m finally letting this be known! And what I want to achieve from this is to give my reader a little something to think about. I want them to be shocked, maybe even angry or whatever feeling I hope I can invoke into you. So that’s it! I hope you stay with me in this journey and I hope you can look forward to In death, Forever.

[phynewrites]

Happy STS!

What are the dietary staples of one culture/region in your word and how do they affect the geography, politics, culture, religion and/or economy?

Happy STS too! Sorry this might be a bit late but here goes!

Hmmm in my wip, the culture is similar to the Filipino culture as it exists as a parallel universe like ours, therefore we have the same dietary staples like adobo, sinigang, kare-kare.

For the gods, well, they don't really have an apetite nor a culture

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Happy STS!

Imagine you had to choose two of your OCs to switch places, so they're now playing each other's roles in the story and/or life in general. (Such as Mary and Connor from In Death Forever!) How would they cope? Would they survive and/or thrive? Would they not last a day?

Hi Claire! Thank you for asking

Actually, that's an interesting question because they canonically switch roles in the middle of the story as they both try to time travel.

They're gonna have similarities when it comes to their goals, but you can say that Mary is more of the "means justify the ends." She's more calculated and careful not to screw up the timeline completely (you know, butterfly effect and all!) whereas Connor is more "ends justify the means" It's time travel! He could probably unscrew things if it gets too screwed up. The important thing is he gets the goal, so a few mistakes here and there shouldn't matter. He could do it again ang again if he had too. Mary doesn't have that patience. Best possible route at all times is for her!

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OH. MY. GOD.

Netflix is releasig this new Kdrama "A Time Called You"

And my writer brain is co sidering watching it to study how I can use elements of it for my wip

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Eve's weird question timee: How do your ocs kiss? Is it tender, hungry, loving, or what ever you think it is?

Hi Eve! Thanks for the ask

Mary and Connor, as married partners, share a mix of casual and passionate kisses. A slight peck on the cheek before they both leave for work. Random forehead kisses when they're together at home. Greeting each other with a quick kiss on the lips is also frequent. I just love these small gestures even in real life

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Happy Blorbsday! Which of your blorbos are a foodie?

Hello lovely moot!! This might be a little late but better late than never!

Among my OCs, Connor is the absolute foodie! He is very meticulous about the balance of taste and is keen to try every form of cuisine he has. He is also the best cook among my roster of OCs. It's almost like his hobby, but he keeps it reserved for his family and friends (Despite being a good cook, he never considered being a chef lol!)

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𝓌𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 ❤❤❤

Hello people of the internet! A wild, young woman enters the scene and decides to storm in this tumblr community. 

First, I would like to thank you for stumbling upon my page, and I do hope you stay and follow me throughout this process! 

A Little Introduction about me: 

My name is Phyne. I’m a budding writer, actually wanted to for a long time and had the passion but never the initiative (I know some of you understand how this feels!) I was fond of reading since I was a child and was met with wonder about stories, that I decided I wanted to be part of them. I still do (even though I said I never had the initiative), that’s why I aspire to be a journalist. Some of my interests including reading (of course, and a diverse range of materials from novels to comics and articles), collecting memorabilia, shopping (If I have enough money that is!), Watching TV shows and anime, and writing.  

I created this blog mainly to become an outlet for my thoughts, share it to the world, and actually push myself in honing my hobbies. This marks the beginning of the days where I actually start to take action instead of imagining it all in my head. In a way, having a blog and creating content will push me to materializes these ideas.  

What you will find here 

I mostly write #Prose, occasional #Poetry. My comfort zone is usually fictional genres mainly High fantasy and science fiction. Still, depending on my inspiration I can delve on other genres and in different forms such as #Short Stories, #Prompt Fill, and #Prompts. 

I also have this mini-interactive writing project called #Open Drabble. This one is kind of a concept I thought that would help me engage with all of you. Open drabbles are like short stories, instead I write them in a whim and given with little context, whereas short stories are basically complete itself. This is where you come in, anyone can put context on the drabbles and try to complete it, basically like a longer prompt already. Completing it isn’t necessary to understand it, but it would make it more interesting! Be sure to tag me if you do!  

So yeah, that’s it for now! Until the next post! 🌟🌟🌟

My WIPS 

1. In Death Forever (Follow through the tag #In death forever by Phyne)  Status: Drafting

- Intro post 

1. Karikultura (Follow through the tag #Karikultura by Phyne) Status: Completed

- Intro Post

- Read it here (updates every week)