#pamsdrabbles

[pamsdrabbles]

Keep Going, Orpheus

You are a poet. A singer. A lover.

The one you love most, Eurydice, has died, and you have followed her into the Underworld.

The gods saw your desperation and crafted a bargain for you and Eurydice to endure.

Walk without turning to face your lover, and you will prevail.

Keep going, Orpheus.

A game I made where you play as Orpheus, trying to get both yourself and Eurydice out of the Underworld, all while attempting to keep a promise you made long ago.

Simply click your way through and choose to love Eurydice.

Dowload for free on itch.io

[bookphobe]

Hi Tina!! Can you add pamsdrabbles to your Pluto taglist please?

of course pam!! thank you sm 💖

[akindofmagictoo]

WIP line chain game

I was tagged by @happyorogeny @google-plexed and @violetwrites (but I’m going to make this a separate post not a chain) 

rules: write the latest line from your WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the line

as ever this is not the latest line... but whatever 

She nodded. That assumed that they wanted to catch him… which she did. Didn’t she? 

right. fifteen tags. here we go ... 

@writingbyjillian @isherwoodj @zmlorenz @starryeve88 @talesofsorrowandofruin @literary-lavender @teriwrites @ink-fireplace-coffee @mjmnorwood @etjwrites @klywrites @quilloftheclouds @lottieiswriting @ardawyn @pamsdrabbles

[violetcancerian]

Longtime no-see from something about The Dragon and the Herald, so here's some Ladyhawke AU art 😅😅 (because I've been Hyperfixating)

Tristan as Etienne of Navarre and Mouse as Isabeau

Tag list! (If you want to be added or removed please let me know!)

@reyavie   @margridarnauds   @ladywithalamp   @hannahs-creations   @pieplease   @daltoneering   @epic-summaries   @musicofglassandwords   @ashara-art   @kiwibirdlafayette   @planets-and-prose   @minnuet   @lordfenric   @desperatlytryingtowriteabook   @ellatholmes  @happyorogeny  @theburnedoutnerd @reeseweston @pamsdrabbles @knotttamar @kirsten-is-writing @writtendevastation @imthatwannabeauthor

PLEASE DO NOT STEAL

[rataltouille]

FIND THE WORD TAG #3

tagged by @x-writes @andiwriteunderthemoon @wannabeauthorzofija and @mp-golfin!!

i’ve chosen one word from each of y’alls tags because i don't think having 20 excerpts in one post would have helped anyone 🥴

CHOKE [from x]

I missed winter already. Spring birthed colour everywhere and I should have loved it. My garden must be choked with growth and perfume and chlorophyll. I must be growing a mini forest there. But I missed the chill in my bones after every exit-and-enter from the front door, the plumes of vapour dewdropping from my mouth, the steady palm-rubbing as if I was trying to ignite fire. Somehow the insidious fermenting of the snow had burrowed into me. I didn’t want to change seasons. Stay rooted two feet under, bend and fold but don’t break away.

DREAM [from chandra]

Green paint gossamered in the half-fluorescence. You lay on the bed and dreamed peacefully, an angel with your hair fluttering by your ears, your eyelids cycling through sleep— shut now, slowly opening, shut again.

HEALTH [from zofija]

Our house was a slump of cement when the rains came around: the plumbing would crackle and fizz as if thunder had built camp there, the soft paint would be mossed and smothered with mud, and the ivy that curled on the rooftops, like barbed wire, would wither in stagnant water and die in clumps. You could stand under the rooftops and catch a few of the rotting vines if you were unlucky enough— the chlorophyll already sucked out, and the residue a corpse of dark green— and the decay would ruin your porch as much as it ruined your day. Every house was plagued with unhealth and the air was dirty and sediment in your lungs. Laceflies stuck to windows and shed their wings. Everyone was sick from the cold or sick of the weather and wished to sleep forever.

RAINFALL [from pía]

i didn't find rainfall so used rain instead

You, you, you. For thirty years I’d let you live with me. When I turned, you were there, grinning. When I unsaddled rain at the door, you were there, saving the towel for yourself. When I’d cut my fingers on my documents, you were there, hoarding the antiseptics. It was all in spirit, they’d say— the dead never leave you, after all. Always taking up residence in your heart. Always haunting you.

my words for you are: skin, delicate, porcelain, glisten. tagging @athenapollo @shaelinwrites @pamsdrabbles @chayscribbles @dallonswords @jennawritesstories @kraljevna @nangua @oasis-of-you @rossafabula @zmlorenz + anyone else who wants to participate !

[residentofthedisc]

Writeblr Reintroduction – 200 Followers!

I mean, 227 because I was very busy with university work when I hit the milestone, but better late than never as they say…

ME!

-        I’m Disc

-        I’m a 21yr old Irish student

-        He/him and they/them pronouns (trans and biromantic)

-        Actuallyautistic and actually hard-of-hearing

-        Ex-whump and hurt/comfort fanfiction writer so… expect a lot of injuries and angst.

-        (Gotta use my lifeguard training somehow)

-        Also love found family so there is tooth-rotting fluff in there too.

-        Tag games are great, ask box less checked but appreciated.

My writing!

-        Pretty much all fantastical and set on worlds other than Earth.

-        Obsessed with revolutions both social and technological.

-        Special interests in Revolutionary-era France, the late Victorian era for the colonies (because imperialism is bad), and the Golden Age of Piracy.

-        Every hero in my work is disabled, queer or both.

-        Either everyone can use magic or no one can.

WIP LIST

Title: Tocktick

Genre: Fantasy steam/arcanepunk adventure

Status: In progress, fully planned.

Pitch: Emmett Askren, an autistic and hard-of-hearing aeronaut, is drawn into a deadly airship race with a new, revolutionary engine and struggles to protect the crew of The Iris from their past ghosts.

 *

Title: The Drowned Rook

Genre: Fantasy steam/arcanepunk mystery thriller

Status: In progress

Pitch: Sequel to Tocktick with different characters – A phantom thief terrorises the city of Rookwell and freelance reporters, Octavia Starling, Altan Ace, and Pleasant Nettles team up to uncover their identity and discover why their friends are losing their memories.

 *

Title: Comrades of the Sixpence Circle

Genre: Fantasy swashbuckling adventure

Status: Mind-existing only

Pitch: Loving husbands, Jean-Marc and Marcel Bonheur, struggle to hide their identities as the Aeruwell Ghost when their theatre is attacked by a mysterious faction and their friends captured by the government.

 *

Title: Wildcard

Genre: Fantasy comedy

Status: Planning

Pitch: When her younger sister, Sapphira Rose is revealed to (unsurprisingly) be the Chosen One, unintended survivor, Bess Smith forcibly inserts herself into the story to make sure she isn’t exploited. And dresses as a boy because that’s the only part of the tales she likes.

Other (may have forgotten someone and I’m really sorry) interesting writeblrs I follow (and you should too)

@queer-crusader @dragonstoravens @fields-of-ink @inky-duchess @pamsdrabbles @radioactive-tiefling @humour-and-hyperfocus @meganwrote @quantumlandbook

Seriously, all their wips are great and will get proper shout-outs in their own post. 

[poetunias]

{an excerpt from improv - a day with brent lockhart}

improv excerpts are back and i’m very very excited to introduce brent! he’s been a sleeper favorite of mine as he’s introduced a bit later on in the novel but he’s such a fun guy to write. he really is cool, man.

taglist and transcription under the cut!

Taking a walk with Lockhart is like scrolling through an encyclopedia. You get the impression that he’d be exceptionally good on Jeopardy!.

If he is an encyclopedia, though, he’s the most unassuming one ever. His sentences are punctuated with drawling ya knows and rights and likes alongside dude or man or bro. Everything from the best donut shop to quantum physics is cool or neat or, occasionally, nifty. I offhandedly call him a genius - only partially a joke - and he laughs like this is the most absurd thing he has ever heard, more absurd than the fact that the inventors of Pringles used supercomputers to determine that the best chip shape was a hyperbolic paraboloid. “That’s cool, man,” he says.

improv taglist (ask to be +/-): @thescatteredscribbles // @adaparkwrites // @the-moving-finger-writes // @austrohungarianwriteblr // @reeseweston // @by-the-way-its-may // @rushing-whispers // @lumierezi // @writer-in-monochrome // @teriwrites // @candyapplewriting // @writing-in-rain // @pamsdrabbles

[writingamongther0ses]

Last Line

I really need to catch up on these...Okay, so I was tagged by @myhusbandsasemni, @crowandmoonwriting, @magic-is-something-we-create, @strangerays, @harps-for-days, @talesofsorrowandofruin, @thatfizzyyyy, @witherednightmare, and @crystallized-ink.

Jordan walked past the office and then backtracked, staring at Plushbee. “What’s that doing here?” he asked, staring at the plush. Plushbee glared and he ignored it. “I thought she was on,” he made a gesture. “You know, the other side.”

Liza frowned as she considered the best way to word her answer. “She...was. But she decided that she like it better here with me.”

Jordan raised a brow. “So, she’s just gonna be wandering the restaurant? I’m not sure how safe-” Liza made a face and his face dropped in realization. “Liza.”

“About that...Ted said no to her wandering the restaurant. So...”

“Elizabeth, please tell me you didn’t give the murderous plush free range of our house.”

Liza grabbed Plushbee when she gave a hiss at the ‘murderous plush’ line, gently stroking her ears. “Not entire free range!” she protested. “She only wants her hallway! That’s not the entire house!” Although considering the bunny’s tendencies to wander...

I’ll tag, with no pressure, @pamsdrabbles, @scmalarky, @lova-writes, @meg-moira, @woodlights, @chayscribbles, @queenetoilewrites, @wildswrites, @hearteyeswrites, @thewalkingnerdx, @toboldlywrite, @sleepyowlwrites, @kryskakikomi, @written-by-yours-truly, and @red-wizard-writes.

[pamsdrabbles]

I loved @mardibot's Kim cross stitch, and wanted to try my hand at it using this pattern.

This was my first time doing cross stitch, and I feel like I learned a lot! I clearly didn't think about how I was going to finish the edges, and I wished I had given myself more room to work. All the materials I pulled from my embroidery stash, so I did the best I could to color match with what I already had.

I like it! Who knows. Maybe one day I'll make a Harry to match ^-^

[bookphobe]

PLUTO AS AN IMAGINED NETFLIX SERIES + (PARTS OF) TITLE CARD

tina can you please actually write instead of avoiding it by making graphics and daydreaming did anyone hear something?? no ?? ok good.. anyway... ive been seeing amazing netflix mockups of wips lately and decided to give it a try for pluto!

read below the cut for more info + taglist !

template i used for the netflix bits here. & if anyone's curious, the font i used for 'Pluto' is called NoMark

Here is pluto: the netflix series!!!!!!!!!! everyone close their eyes and imagine it... and pretend it's there and that it's good. okay. alright. i imagine the title card & credits bit to be more sophisticated- that's only a rough idea of how i imagined it hehe. writing scripts for shows & film is actually one of my writing dreams! visual media has been something i digest much easier than novels nowadays (just stating facts 😔 creating this blog is a part of my process of trying to get back into reading and Literature in general) and while things like shot composition and other aspects of filmmaking i'm less knowledgeable on, screenplays i find really interesting

Episode List

1. MORSE — Javi takes in a runaway. A young writer recounts his harrowing ordeal following his recent arrival to the town of Fell Island.

2. SWALLOW'S EDGE — Elsa adjusts to her new life, but her past keeps a tight grip. An experienced hiker finds themselves in a rocky situation.

3. WHAT'S IN A NAME — An odd presence visits the diner. A park ranger investigates a rumour surrounding the woods.

4. WONDERLAND — A chance discovery makes Javi question his decision. A determined mother shares her story and searches for her missing daughter.

5. FROM THE WOODS — Elsa tries to get closer to Nico, but her intentions are not what he thinks they are. Cosette puzzles over what she saw.

tv pluto is a bit different than book pluto in that book pluto is, in my head, much shorter than how i imagine tv pluto to be (about 2 seasons, 8-12 eps max?? 😗), and so there would def be more content added that focus on the interpersonal reationships in tv pluto. things like storylines etc would have to be shuffled around & adjusted as well because tv and word are different mediums after all. also pluto employs the framing device - there's an outer story, concerning the customers & employees, human and non-human (wink wonk), and then they spill their tales, the inner stories; the idea of exploring that concept on tv pluto, especially with the added advantage of visuals, is cool!! and ,,, a little bit ambitious tbh since the outer story is also complex-if not more-than the inner stories. that being said the tales told during the episodes are pretty short and won't take too much of the episode time so actually hmm there'll be enough room for everything i imagine. the show would have the same vibes as these images

(CURSED™️). lots of scenes would b framed as if you were just looking in, a bystander watching these people, or watching thru the pov of the town itself as it watches its organisms' every move. notable songs in this soundtrack (i will post a link to the spotify playlist soon 🤪🤪) include strange fruit by billie holliday, and you are my sunshine, sung by johnny cash (after seeing annabelle: creation that song has not ceased in reminding me of demons LMAO). i'm a big fan of innocuous enough songs being turned into songs being paired w things that r the complete opposite of its original vibe u kno it's so Unsettling

❤️ pluto taglist @carlyiswriting @berinswriting @nightmares-and-fireflies @aetherwrites @oasis-of-you @odysseywritings @haldimilks @chloeswords @isherwoodj @avi-burton-writing @themillionthdraft @ryns-ramblings @kitblogsthings @writingbyjillian @pamsdrabbles @piyawrites @bijouxs @ravens-and-rivers @spencers-tomes

[writingamongtheroses-archive]

Last Line Tag

Thanks for the tag, @ettawritesnstudies! This is another future Nano project, more can be found here and here.

The night guard, Lamia, was frozen once again. Her practiced ears could pick up on her raised heartbeat, the fragile organ pounding. If she wanted to, Violet was close enough to kiss her pulse, feel the heartbeat for herself. Instead, slowly and deliberately, she plucked the laminated paper from Lamia’s grasp. She was careful to keep the bloodstains visible.

From the little whimper, the effort had not gone unnoticed.

Then she stood and slipped her polite mask on. The android smiled before turning on her heel and heading to the kitchen. She kept one ear focused on the table. The others were already asking about Lamia’s welfare.

The others were silent. It was broken when William whistled- a long, admirative sound of their leader’s unspoken claim.

Violet smirked.

Mine.

I’ll tag, with no pressure, @raenawrites, @writemares, @myhusbandsasemni, @absolute-nonsense-scribblings, @mrs-raven-writes, @rhyaxxyn, @pamsdrabbles, @inkwell-attitude, @notwritinganyflufftoday, @druidx73, @the-hangman-macabre, @lordfenric, @rhikasa, @reeseestrellabooks, and I’ll tag @ettawritesnstudies back.

[akindofmagictoo]

[ID: a digital sketch of two people. the man on the left, Theo, has fair skin and brown hair tied in a low ponytail. he’s wearing a blue waistcoat, white shirt, black pants and boots, and is carrying a book while looking affectionately up towards Aella. on the right, Aella is hanging off the rigging. she has dark brown skin and black curly hair. she wears a white sleeveless shirt, black pants, a yellow sash and is barefoot. she has multiple gold earrings, tattoos on both upper arms (and wrist) and some crisscrossing scars above her right elbow. / end ID] 

becca?? drew my kids?? and i love them so much?? (i meant to post this like two days ago and i forgot, but we’re here now) 

LOOK AT THEM AREN’T THEY ADORABLE?? (I nearly died even more when I got this one. THANK YOU BECCA!!) 

Potions and Pirates Taglist: @copper-dragon-in-disguise​ @diphthongsfordays​ @pepperdee​ @zmlorenz​ @the-orangeauthor​ @quilloftheclouds​ @magic-is-something-we-create @extra-magichours​ @ettawritesnstudies​ 

Hurricane Taglist: @writingbyjillian​ @oddsandinks​ @ahowlinwolf​ @aziz-writes​ @juls-writes​ @lookinpeach​ @zmlorenz​ @quilloftheclouds​ @viawrites-andacts​ @isherwoodj​ @katnapped​ @thepsycheofbrokenthings​ @happyorogeny​ @magicalwriting​ @ettawritesnstudies​ @florraisons​ @tea-and-pirates​ @writtendevastation @talesofsorrowandofruin​ @lilmissravingwriter​ @zielenbloesem @metanoiamorii​ @little-boats-on-a-lake​ @lottieiswriting​ @violetwrites​ @the-unwrittenwriter​ @ink-fireplace-coffee​ @iparisaltanwing​ @tragedieds​ @pamsdrabbles @waysofink​ @hekat-ie​ @thehellinsideyourhead​ @starryeve88​ @trans1ence @vellichor-virgo​ @the-orangeauthor​ @google-plexed​ @literary-lavender @crystallized-ink​ @ellatholmes​ @seamajorshanties​ @crowewritesstuff @ashen-crest​ @astridmayewrites​ @wannabeauthorzofija​ @mel-writes-with-her-dragons​ @waterfallwritings​ @enchanted-lightning-aes​ @wizardfromthesea​ @huloglangit​ @diphthongsfordays​ @ruby-overlock​ @copper-dragon-in-disguise​ @innocentreticent

[violetcancerian]

WIP INTRODUCTION

The Dragon and the Herald by J. A. García and A. M. Wright © 

Genre: Arthurian Retelling, high fantasy

Elements: Magic, fae, war, LGBTQA+ and POC characters

Status: Editing

Summary: 

The legend always said that the dragon would bring peace. That had been a lie. It was obvious to those in the borderlands, for they had to deal with the countless raids, the death, the stealing of sons and daughters by the White Lady. No one had ever seen her but every mother spoke in hushed tones to their swaddling children, not to speak out, not to draw any attention to themselves lest they be caught in the witch's icy grip. 

A band of rogue warriors and unlikely heroes join the fray to stop the White Lady from unleashing her full power, unaware that soon their fates will be entwined and set in the big scheme of pulling Britain out of a darkness that will go beyond legend.

Tag list! (If you want to be added or removed please let me know!)

@cukibola   @reyavie   @wildandwhirlingwords   @ladywithalamp   @hannahs-creations   @pieplease   @daltoneering   @epic-summaries   @musicofglassandwords   @ashara-art   @kiwibirdlafayette   @planets-and-prose   @vioaeon   @lordfenric   @desperatlytryingtowriteabook   @ellatholmes  @happyorogeny  @dorothyannewise  @theburnedoutnerd @reeseweston @pamsdrabbles

[residentofthedisc]

Last Line Tag

Tagged by @pamsdrabbles

This is a bit more than a last line, but I’m pretty proud of this. Pretty graphic, so be warned!

There was too much blood for him to handle alone.

Sixsmith felt it dripping from his coat, the life-warmth trickling across his fingers, saw it dotting and blotching into the packed earth and he realised, deep somewhere in his gut, that he was scared. But he couldn’t show it, not with Godwin under his hands, not with his eyes wide and breath coming quicker and quicker.

He spoke Taiyeku. It was natural, flowing to his tongue like blood. “We’re alright, we’re alright, we’re alright. Someone’s coming. Someone’s coming.”

A litany. A prayer.

Not for the first time in his long life, Sixsmith wished there was someone – or something – up there. That his Gods hadn’t abandoned them. That his forebearers’ spirits could really step in and do more than nudge aside a bullet or change the wind direction.

What he really needed (what Godwin really needed) right now was a spirit of a proper surgeon with a surplus of blood and some really good  stitches.

He laughed and saw Godwin’s fear briefly flash into confusion before the pain came back.

“Stay with me,” he whispered. “Don’t die.”

Godwin tried to nod. His eyelids were fluttering.

Sixsmith leant back. He could still smell smoke coming from somewhere, people were still screaming, but it seemed more concentrated, less chaotic. What was happening?

He worked spit back into his mouth and tried to yell. “Help!”

The tent flap clattered in the rising wind. Thunder rolled in the distance.

“Help me! Help!”

Godwin’s fingers closed about his wrist. His lips moved.

“Help! I need another medic!”

Godwin’s hand was shaking and it took him a moment to realise that it was deliberate. Sixsmith moved closer again, putting his ear next to the stricken man’s mouth. “What is it?”

“I’m… s…”

“It’s alright. Stay alive and I can yell at you later.” Sixsmith forced a smile.

Godwin’s eyes flickered. They grew wider.

His hand convulsed and suddenly he was trying to scream.

“What’s wrong? Stay with me!”

A shadow was his only warning.

The wire yanked against his throat, dragging him backwards.  Sixsmith choked, panic foaming to the surface, hands going to the garrotte. A body pressed up against him, he felt elbows digging into his shoulder blades as they crossed their arms, turning the line into a noose. He couldn’t get his fingers under the cord and now he couldn’t turn.

Lashing out desperately, he hit an ankle, heard a grunt, but the stranglehold only tightened. Blood pumped in his ears, pressure building in his head, in his eyes. The taste of copper rose in his mouth and all he could understand was pain, that hot-freezing line across his throat, digging deeper and deeper until it’d slice right through to the other side. His head was a ball of expanding, filling, thundering blood and spikes and pressure – shades the pressure – shoving, inexorably blistering his brain apart until –

“I’ll send Askren your regards,” said Norris.

Something popped.

The world blinked out.  

Tagging (no pressure) @queer-crusader @rebelqueen-immortalbadass @radioactive-tiefling @inky-duchess @dragonstoravens @humour-and-hyperfocus @fields-of-ink

[poetunias]

{an excerpt from improv - a day with brent lockhart}

more brent! more brent! more brent! he’s such a fascinating character and i’ve been really enjoying getting into his perspective and finding his voice.

(also! i’m trying a new style of excerpts being shorter and the font size being bigger, which i think is easier to read. if you prefer the old style, though, let me know!)

transcription and taglist under the cut!

“I don’t like that idea,” he says to me, suddenly. “I don’t like the idea of tortured genius. I think you can be smart and talented and very healthy, ya know? People like this image of art coming from really disturbed places,” - he says this in a very airy voice, as if impersonating the type of person to say this - “but it doesn’t have to. You don’t have to - you shouldn’t - give yourself up like that for anything you do.”

improv taglist (ask to be +/-): @thescatteredscribbles // @adaparkwrites // @the-moving-finger-writes // @austrohungarianwriteblr // @reeseweston // @by-the-way-its-may // @rushing-whispers // @lumierezi // @writer-in-monochrome // @teriwrites // @candyapplewriting // @writing-in-rain //// @pamsdrabbles  // @ettawritesnstudies // @drbibliophile

[dustylovelyrun]

Last Line Tag

Rules: Post the last line that you wrote, then tag as many people as there are words in the line.

Tagged by @writingamongthecoloredroses. I’m grabbing from one of the older ones I’ve still got listed, so. No idea when. But I’m determined to try and work through some of them, human! I will get them all done. Hopefully.

Rather than the reassurance he sought, however, all Calleum received was the slight, jerky nod of someone that was equally unsure; of someone that had been staring down into the same void, expression contemplative, and their body language wary, and so, so afraid.

For Pulse this time! A little pivotal moment for the Adeyemi-Nakamura siblings, their friend Xanxia, and everything they’ve ever really known, truthfully. I’m not sure how far they’ll get right now, but. It’s a start for them.

Tagging: @septemberliterature, @a-book-of-creatures, @draconesmundi, @akiwitch, @jewellsfrommaruss, @ambitiousauthor, @pepper-writes-things, @linariouswrites, @wyldlynxx, @aelenko, @magic-is-something-we-create, @itsmariemccurdy, @writemeagoodprompt, @phoenixisdabestwriter, @raevenlywrites, @pendragyn, @cirianne, @stories-by-rie, @sad-small-writer, @etddivine, @inkwell-attitude, @andiwriteunderthemoon, @silverink-and-ichor, @writings-from-the-hart, @writinglyra, @shattered-starrs, @rhikasa, @pamsdrabbles, @ardawyn, @violetcancerian, @farradays, @writingbyjillian, @fictional-semantics, @the-writing-fandom, @shattered-starrs, @loopyhoopywrites, @mego42, @lilliloves, @hannahs-creations, @sidhewrites, @writeouswriter, @em-dashes, @godsliltippy