#page thieves

[lesleymoonwriter]

Page Thieves Beta Reading Applications are Now Open!

What the Heck is This?

Genre: Middle Grade Comic Fantasy with Mystery Elements

Length: 53,000 words

TWs: parental emotional abuse, mild body horror.

Synopsis: When his hatred of cake uncovers a conspiracy and (mostly) saves him from a curse placed on his family, unconfident noble's son Arno joins forces with a pair of curse breakers known as the "Page Thieves" to thwart a conniving earl's plans.

Featuring:

-Found family! -1890s-based fantasy setting! -A fun magic system! -Cozy costal town with small mysteries to solve! -Several bizarre curses (and the weirdos who break them) -Absurd royal conspiracies! -Magical gadgets! -Heisting hijinks! -Lots of puns! -A frog tongue! -And a despicable chocolate cake.

What I’m looking for: Primarily comments on the setting and plot, as well as the characterization of the main characters. Notes on humor and entertainment factor also appreciated. Not looking for grammar notes at this time. Beta Reading Deadline: September 30th, 2024

Sign ups are available here!

Photo by Austin Santaniello on Unsplash

[lesleymoonwriter]

A noble kid with anxiety gets cursed, and ends up getting two queer curse thieves to help.

Hey writeblr! Here's a challenge: can you summarize what you're writing in one sentence?

[danielsarmand]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) dir. Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley

[oakenshieldbaggins]

I do not traffic in colloquialisms.

[queenmakings]

“I do not traffic in colloquialisms.”

[godwithwethands]

Regé-Jean Page as Xenk Yendar, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

[5ftboy]

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Before production began on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the main cast played a session as their characters. (It's a shame the big studios stopped caring about bonus features, because there was a time when we would've gotten a whole featurette explaining how the game went.)

[stitchposts]

This is so obvious it's almost petty to talk about, but it keeps happening so I am increasingly faced with needing to decide to bring it up. Can everyone who advocates for not reposting art and for crediting artists start bringing that same energy to photographs of traditional art? Especially fiber arts and sewing related things, due to very prolific scraping accounts that repost things from elsewhere on the internet here to tumblr and a few years ago stopped crediting the artists at all. They never asked permission, but credit has just dried up entirely and it's galling to see.

I know non fiber artists don't really have the experience to see this, but just like visual arts, fiber artists develop pretty clear styles. So if a blog is posting elaborate pieces of infamously time consuming arts that cover a wide range of styles, once or twice a day, with no credits or discussion of themselves as an artist - that shit's stolen as fuck.

It feels like I'm going insane sometimes because thousands of people who otherwise yell all day about how artists need to be credited, just think that sewing related photographs pop into existence without needing to be linked to the person that made them.

[min0uze]

Bless me with your smile

[mcbride]

Michelle Rodriguez as HOLGA KILGORE & Regé-Jean Page as XENK YENDAR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES

[lesleymoonwriter]

Unorthodox Ship Dynamics

Tag from @maddstermind Check out their post here.

Rules: Come up with five unorthodox, overly specific, or niche dynamics for one of your ships. You can do all of them based on the same ship, or pick a different one for each, or somewhere in between.

This is gonna be a mix of ships from both the Secret WIP and Page Thieves (including a set of cut characters).

tough girl who wants to be more girly x shy girl who wants to be more girly (and also they're trans) (and a dragon)

the reluctant beast x the guy who cursed himself to save them

hero down on his luck x his one-sided childhood rival who just can't let it go

two guys with low self esteem in different directions (who make each other better people)

cheerful plant nerd & gothic plant nerd (this is platonic <3)

Tagging @kaylinalexanderbooks, @loopyhoopywrites, and anyone else who wants to give this a go!

[shootfighting]

from the Honest Trailer

[danielsarmand]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) dir. Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley

[oakenshieldbaggins]

xenk leaving the party

[imfuckceok]

Swear To It