#nevena

[mareenavee]

(Tired) WIP Wednesday

Dragging ourselves through the week through the chaos <3

I've been ill but writing has been a balm! I'm gonna share a few snippets with you.

Was tagged by @thana-topsy (HUGE HUGS! Aiden and Sarel are adorable and you DID IT. You did the thing!) and @kookaburra1701 (I'm still waiting on Book 32 of your fic universe, and will cheer until its ready!)

Tagging especially @changelingsandothernonsense for the Sad Wars which have produced amazing content as of lately from me, for being writing exercises hehe. Not to brag, I'm just really fond of the work! And of course the amazing @paraparadigm, @thequeenofthewinter, @snippetsrus, @wildhexe, @nuwanders, @oblivions-dawn, @miraakulous-cloud-district, @throughtrialbyfire, @expended-sleeper, @inquisition-dragonborn @archangelsunited, @dirty-bosmer, @viss-and-pinegar, @ladytanithia, @polypolymorph, @gilgamish, @tallmatcha, @rainpebble3, @late-nite-scholar, @greyborn2, @saltymaplesyrup, @orfeoarte, and YOU. Because yes. You are tagged. Tag me back if you have stuff to share! I love to see it.

Below I have a few samples from some WIPs! I'll start with World, as I'm restructuring chapter 31 <3

This selection is long, too! 1,050 words, below the cut!

1) The World on Our Shoulders, Chapter 31 Athis's POV as he goes through Northwatch Keep to save Thorald. 219 words.

Still, there was something unsettling about how unnaturally quiet this part of the keep was. The hairs on the back of Athis’s neck stood up, some instinct he couldn’t place screaming of danger. Something was wrong. He’d felt this way once, years ago, before a bear charged out of the woods that time his hip had been shattered. He’d almost died, then, if it hadn’t been for Farkas and that priest out of Falkreath. Odd, that, as it was a priest of Arkay. The irony wasn’t lost on him. Now, however, was not the time to lose focus.

Athis pressed against the wall that lead out of the twisting passageways into a room that looked, from what he could tell, like some kind of torture chamber. Only, the air rippled with some kind of magic that felt like static on his skin the closer he crept. He remembered how it felt when Nyenna used certain spells nearby; this one didn’t feel like anything he could recall, and that didn’t bode well. None of it did, if he was being honest. He got the sudden notion that perhaps it wasn’t worth all the trouble — that Thorald might already be dead. But no. If there was the slightest chance that he was still alive, Athis couldn’t leave him here. He wouldn’t.

2) Storms Like This A secret WIP I'll be editing and finishing soon for a friend. 266 words.

He’d thought back to one of his favorite memories of her, besides their wedding. Before they’d decided to adopt and start a family, they were living comfortably in Proudspire Manor in Solitude. He’d been overwhelmed at first by the city he’d only ever passed through before. Living in it meant becoming entangled in the political nonsense, which Sigyn seemed to take in stride. She’d come home, fancy clothes thoroughly drenched from the rain after being gone a particularly long time on what was supposed to be a local errand, and deposited an old hip bone into a chest by the door. Unnerving, sure, but not too atypical for her.

She took him by the hand and dragged him out into the storm, onto their back porch, all while Jordis silently judged them both from her perch at the kitchen table. Sigyn had said nothing, only smiled as he’d exclaimed from the cold downpour the further she led him outside, but then, even over the thunder, he’d heard it—the Bard’s College, practicing for the Burning of King Olaf, bright and clear, almost enhanced by the storm, music reverberating through the very stones of the building next door. They danced together, on their porch, regardless of the weather. It was if, for a moment, the entire world consisted of only them. She’d laughed even as their sodden hair clung to their faces, and as water ran freely into their eyes. [He] knew then, despite all of her chaos, he would follow her absolutely anywhere for as long as he lived.

Storms like this always reminded him of her.

3) Fragment - part of The Bitter, Bitter End (Unpublished as of yet.) Featuring Nevena Ules as the POV and Orvas Dren. (Yeah. Ew.) 209 words.

Orvas was leaning over the stone parapets, looking down into the courtyard where regular people milled around on business relating to Vedam’s gathering. The moons shone overhead and, besides the noise of the crowds and bards inside, all was silent. She cleared her throat, and Orvas turned to her. He smirked—the same sarcastic look he’d won her heart with when they were younger and under far less pressure—and closed the distance between them.

His eyes, blood red in this light, held storms. She knew what had been worrying him, but she was trying hard to ignore that part, until it was safe to talk about it. Vedam’s overreaching included parlaying with the Empire and solidifying trade between Morrowind and other provinces. Only, there would be an embargo if the Blight situation got worse—which it already was, by the day. And if all of that work was so new, the newfound strength of House Dren would be the first to collapse. Orvas had said as much, and had been bringing it up in their conversations more often as of late, because Vedam wouldn’t see reason. He thought he could see a solution, but even thought of it scared her.

He wanted to ally the Camonna Tong with the Sixth House.

4) Fragment - part of It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn (Unpublished as of yet.) This one is is Danger!Bean Varlais's POV. 353 words.

Varlais never felt like he belonged anywhere in particular, to be fair. His parents had been elevated slightly after a few turns of events when they’d moved with Ondolemar’s family to Skyrim. That was, technically, his doing, all those years ago, but they were still othered by most Altmer of any rank, Thalmor or not. It was complex, of course, and he didn’t have the energy to parse it all. He’d leave that to Ondolemar, who seemed like he could hold every political detail in his head, as if his mind was some kind of tome.

All he knew was it had to do with the Ayleid ancestry that refused to fade into the background for his family, no matter how many generations. Aerissa, at least, never looked down at him for the blue eyes, thank Auri-El, but she was back in Alinor now, doing clerical work for the Thalmor. And, of course, he was stuck here. But at least, if he was here, he could try and save her from them. No matter how badly he missed her, he’d keep fighting. Before she became a thrall, well, she’d always stuck by him. He looked down at his ring, the gold band glimmering with a faint enchantment, the metal worn and scratched. Somehow, likely by Mara’s direct intervention, he’d not lost the thing, nor had it torn through his skin and bone in some horrifying way. He touched the edge of his left ear where he’d lost an earring that way, and was grateful at least in that moment, his magic worked to stanch the bleeding.

As of late, he’d been feeling even more unmoored than usual, despite Ondolemar’s best efforts—the man was seventeen different kinds of distracted, after all. They were and always had been close as brothers, but with so much changing and hanging in the balance, Ondolemar had to focus on the plan. They had a goal, after all, as impossible as it all seemed. The Civil War and the Dragons were mucking up pretty much everything. Varlais also tended to make himself a problem, though never intentionally. Not really.

[angsty-prompt-hole]

Because I might as well yeet another at you, future for Nevena and your choice for Creek

OHOHOHO

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

Nevena's worst possible future is definitely one where she gets scared and runs away from something big, like a massive confrontation or a battle, and she'd have to live with the guilt and consequences of her cowardice for the rest of her life. She doesn't really realize it yet considering how young she is, but she has a very stable support network to help her work through her anxiety problems, so this future will probably never happen.

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

Creek's biggest desire is just to be healed. No more scars, no more physical marks, no weird supernatural bullshit, no PTSD, just normalcy again. She doesn't say it in so many words, but it's clear in how uncomfortable she is with herself and her physical appearance, which is now massively altered due to her missing eye, her scars, and the marks left by the various possessions she's experienced.

She thinks she'd do a lot of things to heal herself completely, but she's slowly starting to realize that it doesn't quite work that way and that she might just have to get used to what she is now and learn to accept that she's changed. Everything is very complicated for her right, between her worst fear returning (Red) and her grappling with the fact that becoming "normal" again might strip her of her immortality and cause the other members of her family to suffer, since they would remain immortal and she would not.

[pomegranighte]

Favourite Character Bingo - 2023

Characters I first encountered in 2023 (not necessarily part of media released in that year).

These are intended to be ordered loosely according to genre, moving from classic to contemporary horror, sci-fi horror, thriller horror, on to drama, comedy, then comic/cartoon and fantasy. Naturally, plenty of these don't quite stay in their own prescribed mould and could be considered fitting for another genre, but this is MY PARTY and I make the rules >:(

The hardest thing I've ever done may just be forcing myself to choose only one Baldur's Gate 3 character. If this was ordered by fondness for the characters, Astarion would be up top, but it's not and I'm petty so he's last and least.

As may surprise no-one, the prevailing trends are trickster archetypes, gothic looks, autism coding, and sympathetic or misunderstood status and/or rebellion. Also Billy Crystal is there.

Listing below the cut!

Countess Marya Zeleska - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Mrs. Danvers - Rebecca (1940)

Lady Sylvia Marsh - The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Nevena - You Won't Be Alone (2022)

Kim Diamond - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Brynn AND the Aliens - No One Will Save You (2023) (as an interacting set of characters, not necessarily as interesting actors singularly)

Violet and Corky - Bound (1996)

Andrea "Dre" Greene - Swarm (2023)

Gunther - V/H/S/85 (2023) - Goth boy who saves the day through his prescient lucid dreaming and rebels against being falsely cast as the villain, hell yeah.

Willard - Willard (1971) - would be in the top three if this were sorted by level of favoritism.

Gerd Wiesler - The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen (2006)

Primo - Big Night (1996)

Walter Tattersall - Yellowjackets (2021-) - of call the cast and I fixate on THIS GUY. Got me again, Elijah!

Willie Jack Sampson - Reservation Dogs (2021)

Barabara Howard and Melissa Schemmenti - Abbott Elementary (2022-) - My god these two gripped me. Just give them an entire season. Gregory can be there too.

Gregory Eddie - Abbott Elementary (2022-)

Sally Albright and Harry Burns - When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Raven - Teen Titans: Beast World (2023-) - solely for her design; I am practically floating at the departure from emo/punk Raven and a return to a more whimsical gothic look. Another artist draws her looking like Billie Lourd and I'm into it.

Sharon Apple - Macross Plus (1994/1995)

Spider-Punk/Hobie Brown - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

The Medicine Seller/Kusuriuri/薬売り - Mononoke/モノノ怪 (2007)

Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - He's my best friend, he's my pal, he's my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy, and I've been so excited for you all to see his whole schtick since way back in 2020.

Runner Up's: Shin Hati (Ahsoka), Mirror Woman (The Art of Mirrors) - don't ask, Nearly everyone else form Baldur's Gate 3 but especially all the companions and the Emperor oopsies I'm a sucker, Padraic (Banshees of Inisherin), Mary (Carnival of Souls), everyone from Dungeon Meshi but esepecially Marcille and Senshi, Lorne Malvo (Fargo), Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell), Brigitte (Ginger Snaps), The Harppy (Harpya), Joel and Ellie (The Last of Us; kept out because of the Zionist higher plot), Dracula and Clemens (The Last Voyage of the Demeter), Martin (Martin), Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death), Father Amorth (The Pope's Exorcist), Deer Lady (Reservation Dogs), Elora Danan (Reservation Dogs), Adam (SAW), Carl (Skyman), Kris (Solaris), Kurt Kunkle (Spree), Sammi Curr and Eddie (Trick or Treat), Bitch Cat (V/H/S/94),

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Eurovision 2008 - Number 49 - Svetozar Hristov - "Pandemonium"

Bulgaria is in only its fourth year of Eurovision, but after getting a taste of success in 2007, they've gone big with their national selection. Starting with three monthly televised contests so that the nation can use their combined televoting powers to select from a wide range of acts who took part in an open submission for songs and singers. Four or five went through from each month's selection alongside four that were hand-picked by the judges.

The venue for all of this was perhaps the biggest stage in Bulgaria, The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, a huge multi-functional venue with several stages and at the time, one of the biggest such venues in the world. All the shows were in front of a big live audience at the venue as well as on TV.

One of the competitors in the final of the three selections in December was Svetozar Hristov. He'd actually already taken part in the first one as part of a duet with Magdalena Dzhanavarova and qualified for the final from that in first place. This was a subsequent solo song and composition as Svetozar was clearly in a creative spurt.

Svetozar (also known as Zarko), has loved music from childhood, although he'd never been entirely sure what genre to choose. He'd written more than two hundred songs, but they included jazz, R&B, hip-hop, funk, soul and even grunge.

As well as all those songs, he'd taken part in his first TV talent show, I Sing in KuKu-Bend (yes, that was the name) where he made the final, but didn't win. There was a follow up competition for song-writers for the band, which he did actually win, but never actually received the prize of an album recording session. There was yet another talent show , 5 Star, where he sang cover versions of songs of each week's guest.

That brings him to the 2008 national semi-final, and an open submission process must have been catnip for him, hence the two songs. Pandemonium is pure pop in English language with lyrics by Ventsislava Tumangelova. There was one key difference here though. There was no televote. It was a 100% jury based decision who would progress to the final.

Unfortunately Svetozar, the jittery pop of Pandemonium and his black-faux leather look didn't catch their ears and they eliminated the song at this stage. That was also the fate of his other televote winning song as a duet.

Maybe this rejection by insiders was part of his decision to head to the USA in 2009 to try to make it there, starting at the bottom as a busker. He wasn't giving up.

He subsequently appeared twice on the Bulgarian version of the X-Factor, once on his own and once as part of a group, Belcanto, neither time with success. He entered Bulgaria's national final again in 2012, and like this time was eliminated at the semi-final stage. That invisible barrier to his success presumably has led to him recording under the name Zarko, switching styles to a more comedic pop-folk act and this has at least resulted in several singles released.

In all that long career of nearly-but-not-quite making it, he has made one music video, as a duet with a singer called Nevena. Bez Imena. I kinda like it.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Nevena Nikolcheva

[jareckiworld]

Nevena Prijic — Hot Rain (acrylic and flashe on canvas, 2022)

[veneroid]

still images taken from short film 'TRNOVO' written and direct by me

@heavenie666

[mossarchives]

Pyre has melted my brain, so wanted to draw my Reader, Nevena~! They start going Demon-y after the second liberation rite, but this is a couple years after the ending.

[psikonauti]

Nevena Prijic (Serbian, b. 1985)

Active Matter of Evanescent Bloom, 2021

Acrylic and flashe on canvas

[mareenavee]

For the ask game :D

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

35. What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain?

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them? ( 👀👀 at this one. No idea how you whip up so many ideas but more power to you LOL may they keep coming)

Hello <3 I haven't actually answered an ASK in forever, but I love these!! AH. Thank you.

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

My absolute favorite part is the ability to slightly twist canon and provide readers (and myself) with new takes on ✨weird magic shit.✨ Hehe. I really love when I can read TES like a text (which it kind of is), find a strange detail and absolutely go wild with it. I like writing on the rails for World, too, for the most part, but I'm really enjoying the bits I get to make up, like new pieces of dungeons, or worldbuilding that isn't touched on in the source material. It's a ton of fun.

35. What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain?

@paraparadigm teaches us this best with Undnar, but the best kinds of villains believe wholeheartedly that what they are doing is the best way to proceed to get to their goals. That they are, without a doubt, wholly correct in their approach because to them, there is no other way. There is such a super fine line between a hero and a villain -- it should be that if you flip perspectives and hop into the villain's head, the HERO of the original story or POV looks like the villain from there. Evil for the sake of evil is hard to get right -- Evil because of really high stakes for that character is also difficult but I find it to be more satisfying to read and to write. :>

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

HEHE <3 I just stunlocked myself and @archangelsunited with the answer. I have 41 WIPS at the moment. BUT to be fair, I am participating in a prompt challenge or two, and more than half come from prompts and are mostly being collected as a crow might collect shiny things.

It's tough to narrow down a favorite 1 new WIP I'd like to talk about...but I can speak on one that's not related to the main fic's universe, and that's The Bitter, Bitter End.

It came up from some brainstorming sessions on Skywind and ultimately we didn't go in this particular direction because of...oof so many reasons...but I still LOVED the concept and, since I do write fanfic, I can twist it even further.

The quote might sound familiar to other Morrowind Fans. It will be a doomed Morrowind where the incarnate dies, but that's background as to why the world is as bleak as it is in that one. The main focus will be a political snakepit and the narrative will center around two slimy POVS: Nevena Ules and Orvas Dren. Or rather. Nevena/Orvas. It will end with what happens with the fact that Dren has linked up with the 6th house and nobody is around to stop the spiral of destruction. This links up super well with the villain question above. How does one build a story around two villainous POVs? I think it'll be a really fun challenge.

[dariusz-art]

Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” wyróżniony w ekskluzywnej kolekcji na 100-lecie surrealizmu!

Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” został wyróżniony w prestiżowej kolekcji „100 Lat Marzeń z Kolekcją Malarstwa Surrealistycznego” kuratorowanej przez Nevenę Bojinović, z okazji setnej rocznicy surrealizmu. Continue reading Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” wyróżniony w ekskluzywnej kolekcji na 100-lecie surrealizmu!

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Eurovision 2008 - Number 36 - Nevena Tsoneva - "Не изчезвай"

This is one of the first footsteps in the career of a Bulgarian superstar. She'd been singing in the clubs and bars of Sevlievo alongside her father from the age of six. He pushed her and by the age of thirteen, she was already recording her first album. She was also winning local singing festivals and competitions. Nevena was still performing alongside her father at this point.

Then came the first series of the Bulgarian incarnation of Pop Idol in 2007. It was a long, multi-round competition in which she sang in several different styles. She won by singing a version of Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You arranged for a brass band. No really.

The prize for winning was a recording contract with Virginia Records. A single and another album followed in 2007, before Nevena and her father tried to get her out of that contract. Lawyers were involved.

While that was going on, there was time to try to launch Nevena internationally by representing Bulgaria at Eurovision. For that she had a song written by Karla Rahal, Bulgarian singer and actress alongside successful producer Miro Gechev aka Miro Gee and with words by singer/song-writer/actress/personality Vanya Shtereva. This was a starry team to have behind her

The song was Не изчезвай (Ne izchezvay/Don't Disappear) and it got fast-tracked straight into the final as the song was produced by the TV company, BNT. It's a love ballad with Nevena pleading with a lover not to go, not to vanish from her life. Something has clearly gone wrong but Nevena is forgiving, reassuring. The emotion builds with the power although there is no resolution. Did he stay? Did he go? Probably the latter given that Nevena seems to be abandoning hope at the end.

It's very much a Eurovision-ready ballad. Big, bold, well sung throughout. However Eurovision was heading in a different direction in 2008 and the result for Nevena was disappointing in a competition surrounded by other acts who had already been selected for the final by a popular vote. Like the Big Four at Eurovision, that doesn't lead to a good outcome. Nevena was seventh of the twelve acts in the final, although she did end up with nine percent of the televote - it was tight at the top.

By this point though, a poor national final result on the biggest indoor stage in Bulgaria wasn't a problem. A series of hit singles followed in 2008 as well as awards for her album and her singles. That carried into 2009 through to 2011. She had a short break before coming back in 2013. Since then she's had peaks and troughs, but her published output continues to this day as do her performances on her own tours and at festivals. She sings almost anything from pop to traditional Bulgarian folk music. Nevena has also started writing her own songs.

This is Жена (Jena/Woman) performed live by Nevena in Varna as part of her 2024 tour.

[slaskie-portale-internetowe]

Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” wyróżniony w ekskluzywnej kolekcji na 100-lecie surrealizmu!

Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” został wyróżniony w prestiżowej kolekcji „100 Lat Marzeń z Kolekcją Malarstwa Surrealistycznego” kuratorowanej przez Nevenę Bojinović, z okazji setnej rocznicy surrealizmu. Continue reading Mój obraz „Apollo Struck by Eros” wyróżniony w ekskluzywnej kolekcji na 100-lecie surrealizmu!

[ourbalancedlife]

[jareckiworld]

Nevena Prijic — Vincha III (acrylic and flashe on canvas, 2021)

[veneroid]

still taken from short film 'RUŽICA" directed and written by me

@heavenie666