#novelistspaceranger

[kckramer]

Writeblr Introduction

Hello! It's time to properly introduce myself to the writeblr community. You can call me KC if you want. I am a full time specialist as my local library system and I have a Master of Letters in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. For now, this is my writing website, until an agent/editor tells me to build a WordPress or something. (I honestly hate traditional blogs. Weird quirk, don't know why. Also, links are underlined). If I get tagged in things, I will do my best to respond to them and share it forward.

Published Works- This includes my self-published 5e adventure and the two anthologies that include my stories. It will be updated and kept current as this develops.

Works in Progress- The main projects that I've been bouncing back and forth between. Most are world-oriented, meaning they have numerous interconnected stories within a single world.

Where to Find Me: Some of my other internet homes, including World Anvil, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook.

More Details Below...

Here are some more details on the different things I linked above:

Published Works

"Sofia Serrento's Flying Circus and the Sky Pirates of Shanghai" is published in the anthology Hell Hath No Fury: New Pulp Heroines. It's a New Pulp story set in 1930s Shanghai, featuring Sofia Serrento and her all-women aero-circus/spy ring.

"The God-Kings' Tomb" is published in the anthology Futures That Never Were, an anthology of original sword & planet short stories. This one is in the same universe as Sofia Serrento, so the two stories are... technically connected. This one involves an SOE advisor specializing in the occult and arcane who finds herself transported to a different planet in the solar system.

Siege at Oasis Butte is a standalone 5e adventure published through the DM's Guild featuring a desert town under siege by mercenaries with mysterious motivations.

Works In Progress

Iron Horizons/The Pilgrim's War: This was a NaNoWriMo novel from a few years ago that has since... grown. I've been calling it a Dieselpunk space opera, but alternate history/retrofuturism is also apt. Basically, humanity rapidly developed space flight in the 1920s based on some MacGuffin physics nonsense leading to the second world war happening on a solar system level using extensions of 30s aesthetics. Pilgrim's War is set roughly 400 years after that war ended, with the extensive resources from space maintaining the colonialist expansion into the stars and focuses primarily on a sort of... War of 1812 situation between a well-established independent government and their recently independent colonies.

The Centurion Club: My published short stories are set in this universe. Ironically, this is also an alternate history. It's the primary setting for my "New Pulp" fiction. It's mostly short fiction, with some longer projects in the brainstorming phase, and it focuses on the fictionalized city of Weymouth in New England and the members of the illustrious Centurion Club, a scientific society for explorers, scientists, freedom fighters, reformers, and others who push the boundaries of human society. Beyond that, a sword and sorcery setting in Mesolithic Doggerland, some privateers/mercenaries in the 17th/18th centuries, and a contemporary CGIS special agent in a Clive Cussler vein, plus a great many vigilantes and adventurers in the 1930s.

Sigil of the Sea King: A heroic fantasy which, also a NaNoWriMo project, is self-indulgence, where I throw together everything I've really enjoyed but could never fit in elsewhere. So there's an island kingdom ruled by merchant sea princes, flying air whales, nomads whose wagons are pulled by sails, cozy Forest Folk, a lone surviving heir to a crumbled kingdom, and lots of influence from Georgian/Armenian/Caucasian culture, mythology, and history.

Flintlock Fantasy: This is just the earliest stages of development, mostly just simmering, but somewhat Napoleonic secondary fantasy world. The main character is an elf named Lark, and I think she's sort of a janissary-type sent to work covertly in a border region between two empires. Random, Personal Information

You may have once known me as NovelistSpaceRanger, but that was like 8 years ago.

I'm a certified open-water diver and I'm working on my advanced open-water diver later this summer.

Also a whitewater rafter, backpacker, mediocre yogi, and rock climber.

I've been to 14 countries and spent a year and a half living in Europe.

[jynladyofstardust]

novelistspaceranger replied to your post “Yeah, the Ant-Man post credit scene is just about as heartbreaking as...”

Oh dear. And I really had no interest in seeing that movie. Now the post credit scene is taunting me

I think that scene, and the fact that Peggy and Sam are going to be in the movie itself are the only reasons I’m looking forward to it. If it wasn’t for that I would be skipping it. It just doesn’t look all that good.

[anghraine]

novelistspaceranger replied to your photo:it’s the small joys, really

WHich game?

Divinity: Original Sin

I’m really enjoying it!

[but-im-a-squish]

*Music note*

ohmygosh i feel so popular

the song is “Making Things Up Again” from The Book of Mormon :)

[nonbinaryfrillish]

OC Asks: 1, 11, 13

Thank you thank you thank you!

1. What would completely break your character?

Ahaha my favorite question *u* I actually had a list somewhere, but I think stuff might have changed, so…

Mavah: Have her make a mistake which has fatal or at least permanent consequences for someone other than her–she makes mistakes a lot, but she’s only used to the consequences affecting her, and the idea that she might actually hurt her friends too… well, it’s gonna occur to her way too late.

Eema: Well, see, she can see the future, and it’s always completely immutable (or so she thinks), and so, if she sees future awfulness for her friends, and her datemates, and knows she can’t do anything about it…. she breaks very quietly, but oh, does she break.

the Aloof Sword Girl: Put her in a situation where she has absolutely no control over anything, even herself–in other words, possess her, but make sure she’s aware of her surroundings and “her” actions. Really, it’s awful don’t do this (totally do this). ASG crying is just… you don’t want that.

Efi: I knew this one, but I can’t place it right now. The awful things I do to iin aren’t really arc-based… Hm. Probably something to do with being unable to protect those iin loves, getting there too late to heal them, and all. Iin is, after all, the resident mom-friend with healing powers.

Illin: Ahaha I’m so mean to my beautiful cinnamon roll. Breaking them involves them losing control of their powers and burning down a building, preferably with people inside. Again. Ahahaha this precious puppy never wanted to hurt anyone o well!

Jir: I. Have less than no clue. But whatever it is, run away.

11. What would your character give their life for?

ASG: Once they open up to eachother and start being pale as all fuck, Mavah. In a heartbeat.

Mavah: Really, any of her friends. She’s such a damn protagonist. 

Eema: There isn’t much she’d die for, as she’s rather careful about her own life, given that she can’t see her own future, but the chance to prove one of her visions wrong and save the lives of her datemates. (Her datemates being Efi and Illin–the poly trio is fantastic and amazing and tragic.)

Illin: Really, they’re as bad as the Tua’than–they’d die rather than willingly hurt someone, even an enemy. It’s… not pretty. They got stomach acid dumped on their hands.

Efi: Iin is a mom-friend. It’s rather obvious–iin’d die for, like, anyone iin considers theirs, but especially Mavah who is practically iini child at this point and the rest of the poly trio. 

Jir: Destroying a defective void caterpillar, I think. They’re a sentient immune system. This is their job. 

13. What does your character pretend or try to care about?

Oh this one is interesting indeed o_0

Jir: I’m gonna kinda assume the lives of, well, most other people. They are a very big-picture kinda person. And also kinda an asshole.

Efi: Being polite. Iin tries, sometimes, well, occasionally, well, almost never, but really, why can’t everyone just be blunt? It’s so much more effective, and it saves so much trouble. (Iin also, unsurprisingly to everyone except, like, Jir, has absolutely no sense of dramatic timing.)

Eema: The opinions of other people about being read by her. Eema, not everyone appreciates their futures being read by a near-stranger, and nearly all of them don’t want to be told what’s gonna happen to them without you asking permission first. She’s getting better though.

As for the rest…. I honestly don’t know.

[sarriane]

novelistspaceranger replied to your post:REMEMBER THAT TIME CLINT BARTON FUCKED A DOOMBOT

I WAS TRYING NOT TO

clint barton: doombot fucker

[astriiformes]

1, 6, 9, 7 (Identity ask)

1 -  answered

6 - are you religious/spiritual?

9 - are you an artist?

theoretically?

7- do you care about your ethnicity?

i wish i could, tbh?? that probably sounds weird but. i just feel so distanced from any/all my culture and history and it actually makes me kind of upset. i feel very White American and i dislike it because like. i want to have connections to my history beyond being able to rattle off some countries people immigrated from. it makes me sad, because all my family are actually pretty recent migrants to the US -- my mom was still in regular correspondence with family in germany? but by my generation p much everything had died out and i feel very... awkwardly loose/disconnected from everything, i feel like if i pick things up solely for the sake of wanting a connection it’ll be less natural and something would be “wrong” about that. i’ve tried some little things, like learning some german and contemplating doing the same with scottish but... none of it really feels right or real, it just feels like i’m pretending

....basically fuck the american melting pot for making my family feel like they had to assimilate and lose the cultural history i/we could have had

[firefirefire]

3, 4, 7, 52, 84

3. 3 Fearsoblivion, abandonment, bees4. 3 things I loveBri, music, mac and cheese7. My best friendBri. my best friend who is not my girlfriend is Sarah52. When was the last time I hugged someone?like a half hour ago. it was with my mom, she’s a good hugger84. I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?flight

[askmiddlearth]

Prompt: Question 1

[for the female characters meme]

1: protagonists

Luthien

Idril

Eowyn

Haleth

Galadriel

[ruthfully]

Tagged by the lovely aquillpen​.

I am currently in love with—

One book OR song:

Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero            

Two movies:

Marvel’s The Avengers

Big Hero 6

Three shows:

NBC’s Hannibal

ABC’s Forever

USA’s White Collar

Four characters:

Dr. Hannibal Lector (books as well as TV)

Anna Jarvis

Dr. Henry Morgan

Daredevil (REALLY highly anticipated)

Five foods:

Hamentaschen

Some interesting Chinese dish made of sticky rice, boc choy, broccoli, sausage, snow peas, regular peas, zuchini, Chinese cabbage, baby corn, carrots, and celery

Goat milk

Matzah, ha

Apple pie (making some for my sister tomorrow)

I tag six blogs: wibblywobblyweirdness​ shadowsofwho​ novelistspaceranger​ theteastainedpages​ twylascorner​ arcaneshadows

[emeraldavenger]

novelistspaceranger replied to your post: My room in the new house gets the afte...

He looks like he’s having a miraculous vision of angels or something

He might be, he’s been staring up at the ceiling a LOT since we moved in....

halfkree replied to your photo:My room in the new house gets the afternoon sun...

Has cyclops baby managed to gain enough courage to explore yet?

She has, but only inside. When we’re outside she sits in the open door and slowly creeps out just past the bottom step, then BOLTS INSIDE the second there’s a noise. Cyclops baby is not the bravest. Or the brightest.  

[queerbauten]

*sideways 8*

“We are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord/we are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord/and we pray that our unity may one day be restored…”.

They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love” -- Peter Scholtes

[threehoursfromlondon]

:( *sends more warm fuzzies* You can resist it! I believe in you!

*clings to warm fuzzies like a lifeline*

[writercookie]

Novelistspaceranger said: what type of music? Any music. Anything you think is good. I'll check it out. I feel so out of the loop

[astriiformes]

novelistspaceranger replied to your post: Colorado Gothic

Great. Now you’re making me scared to move there for college in August.

say hi to the demon horse for me

[paladinkit]

novelistspaceranger replied to your post:novelistspaceranger answered your question “So I’m...

Ta failte romhat! (I think I did that right)

I think you did too!

Dia duit! Conas tá tú?