#llq. writing

[lena-rambles]

last line tag

i was tagged by @sarandipitywrites to share the last line i wrote. thanks for the tag! read their post here - i love the description in it.

from long live the queen, after erin's mother dies:

eventually, theodore speaks, quiet but firm. “you’re not alone. i’m here. so are cora and hugo. and your mother’s and father’s families.” he says nothing about his, which is just as well.

i'll pay it forward and gently tag @gummybugg, @oh-no-another-idea, @tabswrites, and @flowerprose :)

[mia-japanese-korean]

Writing a Letter, No. 8 from Twelve Bouts in the Way of Love (Shikidō torikumi jūniban), Isoda Koryūsai, c. 1775-1777, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

couple engaged in intercourse; woman attempts to write with a brush on a scroll of paper; woman wears a pink kimono with dark pink flowers; man wears a red and orange checked kimono; text middle of right edge and below scroll of paper in LLQ A woman tries to continue working on writing a letter while her lover carries on from behind. She closes her eyes in concentration and exclaims: "Ah I am coming already, I am coming..." Size: 9 3/16 × 14 13/16 in. (23.34 × 37.62 cm) (sheet, horizontal ōban) Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/119735/

[harryissuchalittleshit]

I'm always down for George/Angelina headcannons🤭😌

Okay, this has been haunting me for the last week, and that’s because I wanted to do a bullet list about George and Angelina being Little League Quidditch coaches, but then I started writing a fic about it! Will be posted soon with the link on the other ask I got about George/Angelina hcs!!

So stay tuned for LLQ content with George and Angelina simping over each other like lovesick fools w/ some cute seven year old Freddie and Roxanne thrown in!!

(This has actually been really fun to write and I’ve enjoyed it sooooooooo much 😊)

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

Sydney had to stab Vaughn while undercover so that the people she was with didn't execute him. She stabbed him in the LLQ of his abdomen. Later, in the hospital, Vaughn's wife says that his stab wound caused his lung to collapse in a tension pneumothorax. What?! It was a gut wound, that doesn't make sense. He did fall down a large hill after his stabbing and maybe his chest hit the ground in a way that caused the pneumo, but I don't think the stabbing caused it.

I wasn't going to write about this, but then later in the episode Sydney was again speaking to Vaughn's wife and said that she heard he was off the ventilator. His wife confirmed this, but said that they were keeping him in a medically induced coma for 3 days to allow his brain to heal from his potential hypoxic brain injury. WHAT?! A medically induced coma off the ventilator?! No. No. No. That's not how that works. The medications used to sedate a person into a "medically induced coma" also suppress your respiratory drive significantly, so you'd have to remain on a ventilator for that whole time. Though I don't know what medications they were supposedly using since his IV pump wasn't even on. He also had no chest tube, which after a pneumo, would be unlikely. Sure, they could've done a needle decompression initially, but they would generally also place a chest tube to prevent re-accumulation of air causing a rebound pneumo.

He was, of course, fine. He gently woke up with just a nasal cannula in place after, I guess, they stopped his sedation. No medical personnel nearby, just his wife. Did she call a nurse in? No, of course not.

[darkluxxx]

fanfics idea i never executed

I wanted to write a phole fanfic where phole baby does a power switch on phoebe and cole and phoebe becomes the source and cole is human again and he has to get the sister to get the source out of phoebe, because he would never just let them vanquish phoebe ofc, drama ensues. 

I also had an idea  going of the beginning of LLQ where the underworld doesn’t trust phoebe, and cole has to protect her, but then the whole underworld turns against them. So to save phoebs cole takes her to her sisters. I could never make out my mind about how to get them to exit the underworld both alive and together tbh lol

[lifeinblueprint]

so excited for the next llq update, so invested in harry and binx! I love the style of your writing too with the blog posts from binx, she's so relatable! 😊

so glad you’re lovin the blog posts, i find that it’s one of my favorite parts to write :~)

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[lena-rambles]

nano update, days 1–3

daily goal ; 800 words

weekly goal ; 4800 words

month goal ; 20,000 words

one rest day per week accounted for

current count ; 2131 words

excerpts under the cut :)

wed 1 - 829 words (prologue)

“if you're crown princess now,” cora said, twisting her hand in the thin fabric of her nightgown, “that means you will spend all your time with mother after the war, right? like zacharias.” a denial immediately stumbled out of my mouth. i pulled her close and ran my fingers through her sand-blonde hair. “no, i— i am still your hearth-sister. always.” five years later, sitting on my mother's throne with a crown far too heavy, i wish i knew how to keep that promise.

thurs 2 - 579 words (chapter two or three)

“i never- i don’t know what to do,” i stutter, muffled. “this wasn’t- she can’t be- she can’t be gone.” “i’m sorry,” he murmurs. i know he’s sorry for my pain, not that mother di— i appreciate it nonetheless. i turn my head, cheek resting on the pillow but facing away from him. “it wasn’t supposed to be like this. i was- i was the second-born. the hearth-daughter. and that was fine, i liked it. then- the, the war came. another skirmish over the channel but arius couldn’t let it go and it just, just snowballed.” theodore makes a small sound. i can not find it in myself to powder my next words for his comfort. “and then the siege and lord evander.” the name falls darkly from my lips, my utter despisal heavy. “zacharias died. everyone says it was a tragedy, but he secured the royal family’s continued survival. that wasn’t it- he could’ve run away too. but he put his family first, he wasn’t supposed to, that wasn’t his job, he should’ve come with us.” five years later, i’m still angry at my brother. i want to grieve him like a proper sister, but — “i wish he was here. gods, theodore, i can’t-” i cut off, a fish hook sinking into my long rambling words and pulling them down.

fri 3 - 723 words (chapter one)

i know when the lady has seen me, a tight smile curling her dark-stained lips. she murmurs to her husband and son. her son’s face softens and he tries to hide his grin to no avail. i can clearly imagine his hazel eyes crinkled with fondness, even if i am too far to see them. when we are close enough for conversation, theodore’s parents bow and curtsy respectively. he tilts his head in a deep nod. he’s one of few outside of family who need not bow; a privilege granted as my betrothed. i dip my head. “felicem diem brumatis, lord and lady evander, theodore.”

i'm pretty happy with these few days! my goal is 800 words 6/7 days in the week, which is 4800 for the entire week. i've been really stuck on the beginning of chapter one for literally months, knowing exactly what scene and vibe i want but not being able to write it. finally today (the 3rd) i got it! the first 700 words of the legit first chapter so,,, that makes me really happy

long live the taglist

@memento-morri-writes @sarandipitywrites (ask to be +/-)

[mia-japanese-korean]

Du Fu's Over the Blue River, Sasaki Shōgen, late 17th-early 18th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

three lines of bold text; three small characters above two red seals at left edge, LLQ “Over the blue river, birds exceedingly white; On the green mountains, flowers about to blaze. This spring we view is also passing by, When will the time come for me to return'” 江碧鳥逾白　山青花欲燃　今春看又過　何日是���年 Du Fu (712–770) was a renowned Chinese poet whose quatrain here expresses the wish to return. Shōgen therefore exaggerates that character (in the left column) greatly by writing it three times as large. Size: 51 5/16 × 22 7/16 in. (130.33 × 56.99 cm) (image) Medium: Ink on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118712/

[lena-rambles]

find the word

thanks @violets-in-her-arms-writes for the tag! took me a few days, but here i am lol

i was given trip, throne, tired, tempt, and tone. i switched the latter two's order because both answers are from the same scene and chronologically it worked better haha

also editing to put it under a read more because damn i pasted a lot

trip ; i got nothing for this ;-;

throne ; once upon a cursèd dream

A thought brushes against the back of my mind. I have yet to see her face, but she seems familiar. Her thin frame, delicate hands, and there—a faint mark on her forearm. I suck in a sharp breath and finally lift my gaze. Our eyes meet. She has stopped in her tracks, only halfway through the throne room, but I don’t blame her. She whispers under her breath and her eyes, light brown and familiar, flick across my body. In a daze, I rise from my throne and shake off Mother hissing my name. I know everyone is staring at us, I can feel the curious heat of their eyes, but for once I am able to ignore them.

(re)tired ; long live the queen

I sank into the music, savouring it and committing it to memory until I heard it next. We danced for two songs afterwards, then retired from the floor. We made our way to his parents, who stood by the marble fountain talking with Lords Cassius and Alba. The two men bowed and excused themselves, leaving Theodore and I alone with Cadmus and Priscilla. “Felicem diem brumatis,” I greeted. “Happy solstice,” they returned, Priscilla a beat behind her husband.

(s)tone ; eris

(a dark sapphic fantasy that i hope to introduce sometime. aesthetic rbs here. also this "line" is ridiculously long but i'm also very fond of this entire scene so-)

The outskirts of Feyre weren’t pretty. If Lyssa was honest, the whole area surrounding the capital was dreary: a monotonous collection of farms and gaunt faces trudging down the murky streets. The north end of the city was likely the finest urban neighborhood in Tallia, the home of the wealthy, but the streets gradually worsened towards the south. Despite Lyssa’s grand plans of revolution, she didn’t like being in Feyre longer than she had to unless she was in the north end. Unfortunately, she was meeting an informant in Eira Park; not the picture of wealth. She strode through the streets, weeds and stones bowing beneath her feet. The houses here were clustered closer than Llorian marriages, with solid bases but looking weaker the taller they were. The people of Feyre preferred growing up than out, which made for a few unstable structures. It didn’t take much longer for her to arrive at the meeting spot: Rafe’s Tavern. The building looked to be three houses stacked on top of each other, the tavern at the bottom melding into the stone foundation that stretched across the whole block. Lyssa ducked under the hand-painted sign hanging in the doorway—not the smartest architectural decision—and claimed a small table away from the rowdy men arm-wrestling in the corner. She reached into her gold pouch and pulled out a coin for when the barmaid came around, then rested her forearms on the table. A minute later, a barmaid came around and Lyssa ordered a pint of berry mead. The tavern door creaked open and two people came in, her informant and— Rieka?

tempt ; eris

Lyssa scoffed. “I know someone who would spill information to me like water from a bucket. You don’t know that Rieka doesn’t have someone.” “She doesn’t, I swear.” Lyssa chuckled, but before she could say anything more, the barmaid arrived with her berry mead. While Melian ordered, Lyssa took the chance to look at Rieka for the first time in a while. She was sturdy and lithe but hunched. Her silver-white hair hung heavy around her porcelain skin, slick and tangly. Lyssa reached a foot across the floor and touched her calf. Rieka startled but smiled at Lyssa. “You’re Rieka?” Rieka’s face slid into a blank mask, which Lyssa knew was because she didn’t want to laugh and give the game away. Even though the two hadn’t seen each other in nearly a year, the lure of playing with an unwitting person was too tempting. “Yes, ma’am.”

tagging @reneesbooks, @the-stray-storyteller, @gummybugg, and whoever else wants to for the words dark, grin, breath(e), scream, and music

(also renee and cécile you're both on the oucd taglist so there's a sneak peek of a shabby draft for you up there)

[lena-rambles]

seven up

thanks @reneesbooks for the tag! it's been four days but heyyy i'm here. until tonight, i also hadn't written more of anything since my last seven up tag so yeah. finally did that and i have some new words lol

cw: on a deathbed

Erin sat by her bedside, Demeter’s hand cold and limp in her own. Her mother’s eyes fluttered weakly and soft whimpers slipped through her lips. The end was— “Oh, by the dark let her live.” The plea tumbled from Erin’s lips, over and over like the rain pittering against the stained window. “It is too early, not yet. By the gods, not yet.”

thank the amazing devil's "inkpot gods" for getting me back into writing this wip. there's also hints to "not yet / love run" because i'm tad trash and if i listen to one song, i have all of them running through my head.

also i played around with some expressions a bit. i hope they landed alright?

soft tagging @violets-in-her-arms-writes, @zmwrites, @gummybugg, @the-stray-storyteller, @lyssa-ink + anyone else who wants to :)

[lena-rambles]

nano update, days 4–6

daily goal ; 800 words

weekly goal ; 4800 words

month goal ; 20,000 words

one rest day per week accounted for

current count ; 5050 words

excerpts under the cut :)

also yes this is a day late bc i forgot to finish and post it, oop. sorry

sat 4 - 536 words

“how has life been since our last luncheon?” priscilla asks quietly, face drawn with acrylic concern. “i imagine you and your mother have been quite occupied with solstice preparations.” i close my eyes for a brief moment, slotting my next words together. “i am still growing accustomed to my role in such events,” i say slowly. “I am still learning to fit in my brother’s shoes.” my voice tightens at that last sentence. cold pride lurks in cadmus’ eyes. “certainly large shoes to fill,” he says, “moreso if you go the distance for your people as he did.” my stomach shifts unpleasantly and i take a shallow breath. “only time reveals such matters,” i say evenly.

i needed something to go down in this conversation, but cadmus saying erin should sacrifice herself?? not what i expected, cadmus. you don't surprise me, but damn.

sun 5 - 1343 words

“i should ask them to play one of sobol’s pieces tonight,” i murmur, eager to move on to a new topic. theodore twirls me away, then pulls me close again. “that’s not why I requested fulgencio.” “i know. you’re sweet as honey on me and expect wasps in return.” he shakes his head. “princess, i trust that you would never sting me in such a way.”

!! my average is 250 words in 20 min, i've been doubling that today, what the hell!!

also i'm just really proud of erin's line so that's why i'm sharing this excerpt. i hope i'm as creative as i think i am lol

mon 6 - 1040

“father wants me to be engaging more, be a proper son like ezekiel was before he went off to school,” cousin hugo says. “lucky for me, papa has convinced him not to push too hard.” i groan. “lucky you. unfortunately, the duties of a crown princess are of higher importance than a noble son, classy as you are.” i say that last part dubiously. “we can’t all be like ezekiel, either,” he continues. “papa doesn’t know what lord and lady evander did, but it worked. he may be a friend, but he sets an impossible standard.” he swirls the champagne in his tall glass, then drinks the last few sips like a commoner would beer. it doesn't surprise me anymore; theodore has heard from his brother a number of stories about cousin hugo’s escapades. “all that aside, cora and i had started to talk about tonight’s dresses.”

another bigger word count again?? ahhh very happy

i hit 5k!! 25% to my goal and a bit early to boot :))

also cousin hugo is. huh. interesting, not what i expected, and probably won't have any speaking past this scene. he lives on the other side of the country, so the only other reasonable time for him to show up is at the coronation, but there's other plot stuff that's more important than him lol. still, he's fun to write

long live the taglist

@memento-morri-writes, @sarandipitywrites (ask to be +/-)

[lena-rambles]

Hi!! For the ask game "pistol" and "bow and arrow" ! 👀

(also I don't know if you've seen it yet, but reinaeiry just dropped a new song !! 💃‍)

salut cécile ! merci pour la demande :)

my answers got a bit out of hand, especially for pistol, so i'm putting it under a read more

pistol: which character has your favorite introduction?

i haven't written a lot of introductions yet tbh. like,, i skipped the introduction of erin's in-laws even though that's the opening of chapter one lmao

of my current wips, i think my favourite introduction is of cora and cousin hugo. (cousin hugo is always specified like that because erin's younger brother is also named hugo . . . royal names smh). chapter one takes place during the winter solstice ball and at one point, erin is snatched by her sister (cora) to fawn over the dresses. it's a tradition that her, cora, and cousin hugo have had for a while. i think it's really sweet and shows the relationship between cora and erin, while also hinting at lingering tensions from the war where i left off

Cora led Erin to the edge of the ballroom where Cousin Hugo hovered. He grinned toothily as they approached. “Erin! What's your favourite dress so far?” “I must say I like Lady Sylvester’s.” Erin nodded to where Calandra Sylvester was in conversation with a few other ladies. She wore a burgundy gown with puffed sleeves and lace looped in waves across the bottom hem. “The lace is gorgeous, wouldn't you agree?” “I see that, but my favourite is Aunt Cornelia’s,” Cora said. “The gold-on-gold detailing is beautiful on her.” Cousin Hugo snorted, a breach of etiquette allowed only on solstices. “You always pick Aunt Cornelia's ‘cause you share a name.” She gasped, covering her mouth with a hand. “Hugo, you wound me. I would never fall to such biases.” “Yet you do,” Erin remarked. She giggled. “Lies.”

on a side note, i don't have any concrete plans to publish this but if i did, erin's family tree would probably be quite helpful to readers

bow & arrow: which of your settings would you most like to visit?

i don't particularly want to visit vallera even though it'd be interesting; it's a country in the wake of a civil war. the economy, agriculture, politics, alliances — everything is still changing and recovering. i . . . don't really want to go in the middle of that.

i'd love to visit the kingdoms, which i haven't talked about yet beyond the blurb on my writeblr intro & aesthetics that i've reblogged lol

i love the cultures i've been developing and would love to walk among them for a bit. they're all so diverse and it would be a m a z i n g to see that in person. i have a self-indulgent idea or two or three of these kinds of scenarios because why not lol i'd also love to meet my most beloved oc! she's That Character that every twelve year old makes who used to be op and mary-sue-ish but then i shoved trauma and character development into her so she's better now. but yeah. i'd definitely love to visit the kingdoms.

(also reinaeiry's new song was on my watch later but i can listen now! thanks for the reminder. her and anna came out with new songs at the same time so listening to both! and eee the art on eiry's is so good?? also her voice obvs. i just- yes. reinaeiry. yes. i've actually been listening to her oops i did it again on repeat, it's just -chef's kiss- . . . also anna's cover of stella jang's villain as top tier and also worth checking out)

[lena-rambles]

"My deepest secret has been revealed: I am actually Caterina Algren from a century ago!"

Only a century ago?

Ok, but really, would you like to share some context because this is very interesting...

heehee i was hoping someone would ask about this one.

alright so. i, as the writer, know the royal family tree since this family got into power and in the spirit of ~creative~ (/s) royal names, i recycled almost the same 4-5 names. caterina is one of them — my main character is the sixth in her direct line. the quintus grandmother is who the name originally came from when the algrens came into power.

now the young nephew of the royal chamberlain, elijah, was studying the important family trees and, with logic only a six year old could have, wondered the following:

“When I was visiting my sister, he asked how old you were," Elijah said. "I told him you were eighteen, nearly nineteen, and he said that didn’t make sense because if you were Zacharias I’s sister, you had to be at least 108 years old.” I laughed and heard Theodore chuckling beside me. “My deepest secret has been revealed: I am actually Caterina Algren from a century ago! Or maybe, I’m the Quintus grandmother.” “After I regained my breath from laughing, I said to him, ‘Addison, if the princess were that old, would she look so young?’ He conceded my point, and the conversation was over, but I heard him asking his mother later that day.”

i hope that makes sense? it's also a first draft so not the smoothest. anyway, my writing lizard brain loves this joke but i probably wouldn't be able to include it unless the reader knows the family tree lol

i just love the family tree so much. a lot of political and historical tension, unexpected relations, and just sksks i get a lot of subplot fodder from it because bloodlines are big part of this country's culture

[lena-rambles]

find the word

Thanks for the tag @lyssa-ink! Her post is here. I was given whisper, sing, and smile.

whisper ; long live the queen

“How are you two enjoying your evening so far?” “It’s lovely,” Soteria said, a hawk-like smile whispering on her lips. “Your family does a wonderful job every year, Your Highness.” “Thank you. And thank you as well for lending us some of your servants for the food preparation.” “It was the least we could do for this sacred event.”

sing ; once upon a cursèd dream

Once upon a dream, I saw my soulmate. She was, and still is, the most beautiful person with honey-light hair and hazel eyes. We never speak in our dreams—as is the limitation for a soul bond with shared dreams—but I imagine her voice is like that of a nightingale's song. I love her, and my heart screams at the universe for its unfair gift.

smile ; long live the queen

“Hello, Coriander. You look well.” “Thank you, princess. Time has smiled upon you as well.” “What brings you out of Varius?”

Soft tagging @ovect, @nightinthebuilding, @gummybugg, @zmwrites + whoever else wants for dream, soft, and light. Happy writing!

[lena-rambles]

line game

Thanks @gummybugg for the tag! Find Bug's post here :)

Rules: post a line that you're tremendously proud of writing & a line that’s just out-of-context ridiculous

Favorite line

The day my brother died was cold and unforgiving; a mirror of the war bubbling across the coast.

Out-of-context ridiculous line

“My deepest secret has been revealed: I am actually Caterina Algren from a century ago! Or maybe, I’m the Quintus grandmother.”

Feel free to ask for context, I'd love to talk about it :)

Tagging: @lyssa-ink, @nightinthebuilding, @reneesbooks, @ethaeriea, @ovect, @revenancy, @zmwrites + whoever else wants to