#onerous cimmerian

[bookwormscififan]

New Video

Talking about my WIP, Onerous Cimmerian

I did stumble a little but otherwise this was a fun video!

Go watch it

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Onerous Sneak Peek

I'm going to put this under the cut because [SPOILERS], but have the opening to a new chapter in Onerous.

[bookwormscififan]

I'm just gonna reblog here because I can't be bothered to tag people XD

I just finished a JSE fic so I'm putting the last line from my wip Onerous Cimmerian here instead

The remainder of the drive was met with tense silence.

Tagging anyone who sees this and wants to do it

I was tagged by @florenceisfalling to share the last line from my most recent wip! And if I had gotten this ping even a few days ago, it would have been a very different line from a very different fic lmao.

"Shut up," he said with his teeth, the sharpness not reaching the laughter in his eyes. "You know what I meant."

Tagging @planetpossum @fusion-ego @gbkoda @bookwormscififan and the obligatory "anyone who wants to do it" (feel free to tag me~)

[juxtaslair]

Update

Hey there,

Sorry things have slowed down here, I’ve been stressed out a lot lately.

However, I am slowly working back to writing the series; it’s a very dear tale to me, and I’d love to see it to the end!

I don’t know who’s going to like the ending of the story, but I put a lot of planning into it.

Please be patient as I work out a schedule, I love these characters too much to desert them.

Lots of love,

Booky

[booky-original-writings]

Today in "what the heck have I been doing if not writing?":

Discovering just how similar Alto's character arc is to Hamlet's, and still struggling to write a bridge between one death and the next.

But I do keep thinking about OC, so there's clearly some ideas knocking around up here.

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Hypothetically, if the end game of Onerous was all angst, would you like breaks between the hard hits or do you just want them all at once?

[bookwormscififan]

So this seemed fun and I did it for four options: fanfiction, writing, (blank), and jse fanfiction

Here are the results:

I built a thing: tumblr wordcloud generator

Inspired by a post from @theadventuresoftimtim​ and being somewhat curious myself I spent a few hours whipping up a tumblr wordcloud generator. You can give it a blog and optionally a tag and it will generate a wordcloud for you.

You can find it here: https://grimfuture.org/wordcloud/

This is what my poetry looks like

Note, I’m chronically lazy and there is no error checking so if you enter a blog or tag that doesn’t exist it will just error out. Kinda slow on retrieving all the posts, give it twenty seconds or so.

Source code available here: https://github.com/dirtyfilthy/tumblr_wordcloud

[booky-original-writings]

Me talking about Onerous to anyone: I've got this whole thing planned out, and only two characters survive the story!

Anyone else: Are you alright? Why are you so happy about killing off your characters?

Me: Mercy

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Onerous Cimmerian Sneak Peek

Been writing more Onerous over these last couple weeks, and I just wrote this passage that kind of broke my heart.

No context.

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“Henrik’s back.”

            Malvern looked up from his book at Chase’s statement, seeing the doctor wiping his hands on a cloth as he stood at the entrance to the sitting room. He placed his thumb in his book, keeping his place as he focused his attention on his cousin.

            “Jux told me,” He began, voice soft. “Is he alright?” Malvern blanched when he registered the grim look on Chase’s face, shuffling over as the doctor sat heavily on the seat beside him. Chase sighed, staring at the ground with troubled eyes.

            “He’s not himself, Mal,” he stated softly, voice breaking, “I don’t know what happened in there, but it’s not Henrik sitting in my clinic. His whole personality’s just… gone,” he opened shaking hands, palms facing the ceiling as tears splashed onto his knees. Malvern listened, unsure how to respond.

            “Do you… want me to talk to Jux?” the hero offered, pinching the skin between his middle and ring fingers. “I could ask if he knows something.” He chewed the inside of his lip as he watched Chase stare helplessly at the ground, breathing shaky as tears fell silently down his cheeks.

            “Henrik’s gone, Mal,” Chase whispered, turning wide, watery eyes to his cousin, “There’s nothing left but an empty shell. I can’t… there’s nothing I can do to save him. I was so sure I could protect everyone, but we’ve just lost Henrik. It’s a lost cause…” Chase’s head fell into his hands, crying into his palms as his guilt washed over him.             Malvern sat for a while watching Chase, then sighed and stood up, heading for the staircase and Juxta’s room.

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I feel like A Spell for an Eye was like one of those short films that people make in primary school that are forgotten when the person gets older

And Onerous Cimmerian feels like one of those A-list celebrity Hollywood production feature films, recorded in state-of-the-art quality with awesome effects

Basically what I’m saying is that Onerous feels so much better than ASfaE ever did

[bookwormscififan]

This is why my writing is so slow to be posted (as well as personal issues)

I stopped Oblivion and Onerous Cimmerian all those years ago because nobody engaged with them.

The only reason I’m going back to them is because of @roesavalonsigma because you showed interest in them. (Btw there’s a small thing going up on my side blog soon)

it’s so frustrating (and heartbreaking) to see so many writers going on indefinite hiatus / deleting their blogs because they are not motivated to write anymore. worst of all: people would always be like ‘no why are you leaving we don’t want you to do so :(’ but they were nowhere to be seen in our notifications beforehand. the lack of support on this platform is a huge issue and it’s a shame that content consumers don’t get the hint when writers have been waving the red flag for months. please support creators by rebbloging their posts, interact with them by leaving a few tags, a comment or an ask! if you’re too shy then hit that anon button and you’re good to go. show them that their works matter and you enjoy their blog, because when the decision to leave is made, it’s already too late.

[bookwormscififan]

If fics slow down, it’s because I got the motivation to work on Onerous again

But hey! Art! And the Wishing Dress project!

[bookwormscififan]

Why am I only ever able to write for Onerous Cimmerian when I’m at a low point?

Is it because this series was born during a low point?

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Snippet from Onerous

“She’s psychotic, Malvern.”

“She’s Death.”

I just wanna smile and share this little extremely out of context conversation from Onerous.

If me from 2017 ever saw this, she wouldn't even believe I wrote that.

This is what taking inspiration from what you read as well as analysing literature will teach you.

Also helped me to come up with snarky conversations like this one.

Onerous is being revived this week, as well as starting my new uni year.

[bookwormscififan]

I have a series that focuses in on mental health, death and other angst triggers that I work on. It’s like a DIY Councellor because everything worrying me just kinda projects onto the characters. Check my Onerous Cimmerian tag if you’re curious

I’ve got my books and my mum and I have been watching Netflix series about British royalty, POC history and Judaism.

if anyone wants to know how im going

i have been writing a script for a short film while listening to either welcome to nightvale or mumbo jumbo doing some hermitcraft stuff. i am full of rage at the Australian government, particualrily Dan Tehan and Scott Morison, and I know way to much about how teachers in australia are paid. ask me questions im going insane

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WIP Progress Report - February 2023

I know, it’s been a while. Stuff has been happening.

What’s the progress of Onerous Cimmerian?

It’s coming along. I have some end scenes written out, but the getting there is the big problem. Trying to move the story from the middle toward the ending is tricky. I did write some while I was in Singapore back in October, but not an awful lot.

How much have you written?

Well, I have completed a couple chapters, but not a substantial amount. Juggling all my hobbies and uni kind of makes it difficult to work on this story. However, I did progress Chase and Stacy’s story a little bit, which was good. I also progressed some motives.

Can we get a snippet of the WIP?

Not right now; I haven’t really touched it since October, and I don’t have it on me at the moment. Maybe next month.

Not the progress report you were hoping for, I bet, but it’s the best I can do for now. My life has been kicking the hell outta me, but I want to get back to writing this so it can be published ASAP.

I’ll also try to get these out more often. Really, I will. It will motivate me to work on Onerous more if I have to make a report on it each month.

See you next month!!