#rambled fantasy wip

[anotheranonymousquill]

hi hello STS for you! what can you tell me about your vibey fantasy wip? (the vibes sound *excellent* honestly) are we just roadtripping about it or do they have a Quest going on?

Thanks for asking!

Yes, so I'm thinking it'll be a fairly episodic story with them taking various shepherd type jobs transporting heards of stock across long distances. This'll be cows, sheep, maybe horses or deer ect that you'd find around the globe. But I'm planning to play around with slightly magical or fantasy versions as well.

Think deer with antlers that grow valuable plants and are a sought after material when they naturally shed each year, or your more typical Pegasus.

The vibes I'm going for are high fantasy with a focus on exploring the world and its natural wonder rather than having to save it from some great catastrophe or do war. If that makes sense.

I'm more of a character driven person when it comes to writing, so I've given myself Reya Teran (26f) and her friend/younger brother figure Syon Klau (21m) to explore the world through. Neither of them have a home by this point, and both are fairly happy wandering from place to place so long as they get a bit of adventure along the way. They'll both probably also have some type of powers.

But yeah, it's mostly characters taking once off remote cattle driving jobs with whoever needs some extra hands, visiting small towns, and exploring the land.

I'm having fun with the worldbuilding and plan to play around with the common language being similar to our sign language, with dialect or accent differences depending on your occupation. For example, busy shops in the main parts of town have rapid and small movements to keep up with the noise and pace of their work, while the faming jobs in large open plains or in high wind/bad weather have big clear motions to be understood when shouting is tiresome or can't be heard.

That's most of what I have at the moment, but it's been a heap of fun to brainstorm and worldbuild for even though I haven't worked on it much or had it in mind for very long!

[acadieum]

up to no good.. 🤫

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[jemiswumbo]

works in progress:

twitch streamer!luke x reader

- luke is a gamer that streams on twitch with his friends (percy, annabeth, etc etc). they don’t know he has a girlfriend as she wants to remain out of the public eye. during one stream luke acts a little off, making his friends and his chat suspicious (18+)

UPDATE: this is now complete! you can read it here

hockey player!luke x reader

these NHL playoffs got me feeling some type of way (go oilers go)

luke and reader go on a quest

reader’s godly parent sends her on a quest during the lightning thief. she takes luke with her (much to his dismay due to his previously failed quest And bc he’s already stolen the master bolt). fluff and angst and adventure and also maybe 18+ !!!!

[getvalentined]

Thinking about the Degradation Paper again and decided I'm just gonna drop the whole outline because this is a project that's already taken literal years but I wanna get some form of it out there. There are citations missing from the outline because there's a separate file with timestamped in-game video links in it, a folder of images to be linked as examples for certain points, and a whole bookmarks directory with every real-world scientific citation, so they're not all pasted in here. I don't assume people will be typing any of them in by hand anyway, I just wanna clarify that I do have citations for everything! It's just writing it all up that is...so extremely difficult.

The whole last section of the outline just says this:

I'll get there, me from the past.

[blu3ha1redbrat]

Writer's Rant: A dilemma

Okay so, I'm writing my main character, and I'm the kind of person who imagines the entire plot of my book like it's a movie and then I start writing. But, my main character is what I see most people in book communities dislike: soft spoken, overly kind and weak-hearted, but she is also very headstrong, intelligent (she has her flaws too ofc) and after the events that happens she does a complete 360.

But, my dilemma is that I wanted to make a "strong" main character from start to finish, to please the audience I'm trying to reach and maybe in some ways in the beginning she is strong but idk.

I guess my main thing is that the FMC is a black woman, and often, black women are portrayed (especially by non-black authors) a certain way (because of stereotypes) and I wanted to make her soft to show something different regarding black characters.

I'm not sure, and I don't know if this is a stupid dilemma I have, but here's my rant for now :)

(also, i've been writing on google docs for years now, and I switched to Microsoft Word and I'm in love.)

[allaboutmagic]

dear lovely ppl on writeblr,

im still finding my way around this blog and i gotta admit, im a little overwhelmed right now. like how do one get this kind of thing started? idk, what kind of information is worth giving? what do you think is interesting? how do one get on more lists for tag games or other helpful stuff? (@sableglass i love that im on yours already, thats really amazing! and so inspiring, but sometimes i feel like youre so much further along with your story and your characters more specifically and idk, im just getting started in a way and im not sure how much i can contribute then, you know?)

any experiences or useful tips you would have liked to have at the beginning are highly appreciated thanks so much and have a lovely day <3

[foreststarflaime]

Excerpt from current wip bc I am kicking my feet and giggling they’re perfect (AGS is going on a Loveless date)

Genesis was practically bouncing with excitement all the way there, grabbing his partners’ hands and swinging them about to drag them along faster.

When they were seated, Sephiroth started ripping up the program to make little origami balls out of the pages to flick them at Genesis, who tried to fry them out of the air with the smallest fireballs he could muster. Angeal was sitting between them, but had long since given up on trying to stop them, and was now both fondly exasperated and their scorekeeper and commentator. It was probably a good thing that Sephiroth had managed to convince Angeal to let them get a private box.

As the lights dimmed, Genesis shoved his feet up on the chair beside him so he could properly lean on Angeal and grab his hand so he’d have something to fiddle with.

[wndaswife]

hai y’all thanks for voting :DDDD i am soooo surprised ab the college au popularity but realized i’ve never written a proper fic for that setting before! unsurprisingly mommy aura wanda won :3

i will combine the top three and update you all once i have a plan that i’ve begun! (also i’ll try to somehow mirror mcu wanda, and also try to come up with a really interesting dynamic for those who said they wanted something different)

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[paeliae-occasionally]

pae pae, what is one piece of lore you’ve been gate keeping, and why?

pls go on a tangent

Hello love, sorry this took me a little while to get to. Real life :( but in return you get the longest rant I have ever put on tumblr so I hope you are proud of yourself. (Also why have I been keeping it secret? It just hasn’t come up and it is a whole story so buckle up.)

Lore time…

Ok so the lore we are talking about today is Where are the gods??? There were gods but now they are gone. This is broken into 3 events: The Separation, The Dissolution and The Accords (including magestones)

The Past

In the past there were hundreds of gods who roamed the mortal plane. Gods of elements, life and death travelled there to shape the world as they saw it.

As the world developed, the latent simple components of thought and souls began to settle into creatures of the earth.

This created a race of humans, who were the first beings who had souls yet so little innate energy that it would not sustain their bodies forever.

With the rise of humans, Gods of thought and memory grew in power and purpose as more thinking creatures were formed. They had a whole new domain to weave.

The Separation

At this time any magic done by mortals was cast from their own tiny energy store so was small enough to be unnoticeable. The gods intended to keep them to their small powers so that they could never rival the gods in terms of power.

One of the Eldest gods, Ezemhaziel god of controlled magic, traveled the earth trying to create a new way to control magic, the runes. He found a mortal Rin, who seemed to have a talent for magic and a creativity that could help in his work.

Ez created a bond with Rin to share some of his large energy store between them, this is called a Laren bond. Ez later taught him to cast straight from the world around him, similar to how modern mages cast. The pair grew closer and became almost inseparable.

A group of gods watched in disdain as this mortal gained the ability to cast powerful magic. They hated the idea of the narrowing differences between morals and gods, so they decided to remove the threat to their power. These gods gathered and when Rin next left Ez’s side they drew a group of mortals together to kill him.

Rin was attacked by the mortals. He called out to Ez, who came but the gods held him back, and kept him out of Rin’s sight. Rin was killed by the mob. Ez tried to save him with every power he possessed but could not reach him in time. Ez then cursed the gods and the runes and left the mortal plane.

During the encounter Ez pulled so much magic to himself that he formed a concentrated area of Ike, (magic) so much that the mortals could feel the magic that hung in the air around them. These mortals eventually discovered methods to harness the magic around them and became the first druids. Further down the line they also train the first mages. So despite the gods’ efforts (and largely because of them) the mortals get access to more powerful magic. Even though this is all the other gods’ fault, they blame Ez for creating the magic dense area and summon him to a trial.

In his grief Ez does not return to the world so the gods decide that it is reasonable to kill all mortals who have acquired magic and salt the earth where the collection of magic is.

The gods start to go about enacting this, but many other gods are against the idea of culling mortals. This resentment builds especially in gods who rely on mortals as their domain. Gods of memory, thought, fear, illusions and names stand up for the mortals who act as the medium of their power.

The gods who require mortals and therefore prevent the slaughter called themselves the Azeraad, and the gods with no need for mortal creatures label themselves Dieral.

For generations there is a stalemate with a few gods killing and protecting mortals, but most remaining still to prevent a large scale godly war.

The Dissolution

In the decades while the gods watch each other, mortals develop more innovative and powerful magic and build up mage cities. In their development the mages do not forget the massacres that the early Dieral gods committed and plan revenge. They begin work on becoming immortal to further show their power as equals to the gods. Secretly a group develops weapons to use against immortals.

The mage city of Laith’Seyleren is the centre of immortality research and the forefront of magic development when the Dierals finally take notice.

The Dierals break the stalemate to ensure mortals never discover immortality. They destroy the entire city of Laith’Seyleren utterly, no one survives. The other mage cities don’t even find out until a day later when a group of diplomats teleport into a wasteland of rubble and ash.

After this the Mages and the Azeraad gods declare outright war on the Dierals.

The war rages in the deserts to the north west of the Illeri lands with the dieral gods building temples on the mountains to the east and the mages building tall thin mage towers to the west.

Hundreds of mages die in an altogether uneven battle until one mage Muliva Kazi invents a way to bind gods and trap them in Demi-planes then cut the plane off into the aether beyond. This entirely changes the battle as the gods can now be killed. Even the Azeraad gods who fought with the mages were uncomfortable with these machines.

During the battle, a group of mages and Azeraad gods have been working together to end the war but after Kazi’s machines are invented they gain the support of some minor Dieral gods as well.

One member of this group, Paeliae of Laith’Tielere, plans to carry a peace treaty into the temple of the Dieral god of light who leads their forces.

While Paeliae travels through the desert into the walls of godly defences, Ezemhaziel wakes up. He sees the war and the suffering of the mortals and gods and calls on all of the power he could not reach so many years ago to kill the God of light.

He succeeds and takes the fallen god’s seat in the Dieral hall.

Paeliae finds him there and presents him with the treaty. Ez agrees to negotiations of peace and calls the Dierals and Azeraad gods back from the war to meet.

As soon as these words have left Ez’s mouth Paeliae falls to the ground, broken by journey but fulfilled in his purpose. Ez swears one last promise to remember the fallen mortal.

The Accords (Magestones)

The Gods and a collection of mortal mages gather for peace negotiations after years of war.

A compromise is reached where some magic will be bound away so it can no longer be used by the mages or gods.

Magic was bound in giant engraved rocks called magestones. These were made of a translucent stone that glowed and hummed with power. Bindings ran like water across the surface of the stone keeping the magic contained.

Specifically magic relating to immortality, time, and the type of godly binding that Muliva Kazi invented were all collected in magestones so they could not be used again.

Particular war criminals, both gods and mages were also bound in magestones to appease both sides and as a reminder so that a war on this scale would never happen again.

In exchange for the mages giving up large portions of their magic, the gods who fought in the war agreed to leave the mortal plane and return back to their home planes. While in their home planes they can only help their followers indirectly, I.e. creating bonds that are incredibly weak due to the long distance.

Modern Day

So in the modern day the magestones are well established. Mages are taught about the magic restrictions and a few horror stories of people who tried to perform that magic and were absorbed into the magestones. There are a few magestones in Zairel that come up in the Xaeren WIP which is fun.

There are a couple of occasions of gods breaking their pacts and entering the mortal plane and one instance of a god breaking out from a magestone. (He is trapped again eventually, this starts the mist war.) —————————————————————————

Hope you liked the PAGES of lore. There is more but this was already the longest tumblr post I have ever made so that will have to wait.

Tagging the Tag List~ which is new for me:

@thelovelymachinery, @an-indecisive-nerd, @the-letterbox-archives, @oliolioxenfreewrites and @winvyre

[lainswardrobe]

myunhingedportraitprocess1

My work is a mess but I like it being that way.

I like not knowing where something is going when I first start it because it allows the painting to finds itself along the way. And I always end up with unexpected but welcome results.

This may not be the most "egregious" example of my unhinged process but it is one where I enjoy seeing the different stages and felt there was something valuable there to be shared.

Here is the work that this portrait is from.

[crossroadsdimension]

That Vash’s Ghosts WIP? Whatcha planning with that?

Oh, that one! That's a fun idea that I'd really like to get back to.

The premise is that Vash of the Trigun Stampede anime gets haunted by his manga and 90s anime counterparts. They offer commentary on his journey and interact with him to a degree as well!

Vash's counterparts aren't the only ones who get "carried over," either, but they're the first ones who show up, so that's why it's titled that way.

I haven't decided yet if their interactions are going to change the plot in a minor way or a drastic way, but it's definitely a fun thing to think about.

Have a snippet! This would be ~Ep 9 of Stampede (I wrote it when the anime was happening; I don't know if I'm going to actually keep this scene as written or not). Rumble is anime-Vash, Maximum is manga-Vash.

“You can’t go to July!” Rumble scrambled in front of Vash, putting his arms out. As if that could keep the younger Plant from walking right through him. “I have to,” Vash said quietly. “I have to stop him.” “Not like this you won’t!” Rumble didn’t seem the least bit phased by Vash walking through him like a ghost. If anything, he seemed even more agitated. “You’re gonna – he’s gonna make you—” “You’ll wipe July off the map if you go.” Maximum’s voice made Vash stop short. As much as he wanted to argue that – he wouldn’t kill anyone, he didn’t want to – something in the other self’s voice made him pause. Vash turned slowly and looked back at Maximum, frowning. “Are you saying that because it happened to you?” Maximum held his gaze for a long moment. His expression didn’t waver. “It happened with both of us, but for a different reason.” He nodded to Vash’s flesh-and-blood arm. “We have a power in us that is dangerous and hard to control. Knives is going to do something that will set it off – what that is depends on him. But it will wipe July off the face of the planet…and the entire incident will be wiped out of your memory. Maybe more.” Vash’s eyes widened. He could – he had a power that could – He shook his head. “Th-that’s – that can’t be right. I don’t…I don’t have that kind of power.” “You do. You have an Angel Arm in you, and you don’t know how to control it.” Maximum looked frustrated. “And thanks to Zazie, we don’t have the time to teach you. I don’t have the time to teach you.”

[severevoiddragon]

💄 for Seray and Valen? If you don’t mind that is 👁️👁️

What do they think of their face?

Seray:

Hates it. She tries to get rid of the magical markings on her face, but no matter how much makeup she puts on, they're still there. And she can't pick them off like spots, so she just ends up having a red face with scratches. She likes her eyes. Well. Until they turn red. She used to like her smile but now she just thinks it's another awful part of her face

Valen:

Completely neutral ! Valen thinks the magical markings are cool, but wishes their face was a different shape. Otherwise, they consider their face simply A Part Of Them, being both good and bad

Questions Here

[reneesbooks]

wip intro/masterpost - the raedoran cycle

hi hello here it is. my baby.

genre: fantasy

pov: third person limited, with various narrators throughout

status: a series of 4 novels/stories, in various states of drafting

summary: in one night, Raedora is thrown into chaos. the royal librarian murders the queen and her youngest daughter with magic and flees, leaving behind the king and the crown princess to pick up the pieces. the princess spirals slowly into madness as her sworn shield tries to save her, terrified of her dead sister's prophecy.

two thieves in the capital set their sights on the crown jewels after attending the queen's coronation. but when one gets a little too reckless and catches the attention of the Mad Dog of Morbhard, their plans quickly go off the rails.

when their parents are killed in the Dragon Purges, two shapeshifters must hide amongst their killers to survive. one, a talented healer, tries to build a life that will be safe for them, but her little brother has his sights set on avenging their parents by murdering the queen that ordered their deaths.

a young witch is raised alone by her father, always in hiding, with strange dreams and visions of the future. when he dies of an illness even her magic can't heal, she must strike out on her own, searching for answers to the prophecy that has followed her for her whole life.

tag: the raedoran cycle

so originally this was one novel following multiple characters, but thanks to a minor plot bunny that greatly spiraled out of control (lacuna) it has become something much more. many of the four novels' events occur simultaneously, with their stories overlapping and intertwining as the character's lives do the same.

the knight of lacuna lake

Keelan: baby boy war criminal. he narrates the story as he tries to save Maura from herself.

Maura: the golden queen of Raedora. she lost half her family in 1 night and handed it incredibly well all things considered (no she didn't)

status: first draft finished(!!), shelved while it marinates and i work on the rest of the cycle. likely going to come back and edit it at some point but for now it is what it is

tag: lacuna

the thieves of morbhard

Arthur: master lockpick and ball of anxiety. he narrates his attempts to get Jack to notice him while also trying to steal the crown jewels.

Jack: cursed damned street rat. born on the night of the triple new moon and condemned to a life on the streets, he's got his sights set on stealing enough to get both him and Arthur out of Morbhard for good.

status: just barely starting to draft. fully outlined.

tag: thieves

the dragons of kiltide

Emilia: the only voice of reason around here. a talented healer fighting to protect her baby brother from both the persecution they face in their homeland and the Purges that killed their parents.

Fabin: teenage ball of rage. his parents died in front of him when he was 13 and he has been supremely chill about it since then and doesn't everybody sleep with their sword under their bed?

status: outlining with the occasional scene.

tag: dragons

the witch of the west

Birdie: a talented witch born under and blessed by the full silver moon. raised by her father in the woods after fleeing the witch trials, she is determined to understand and fulfill her prophecy. her strange dreams of dragons, thieves, and knights lead her to a search for the people who she believes will help her in her journey.

status: it's complicated. this where all the original material lives for the most part so it's outlined(sort of??) and i've been writing scenes for it but idk what the actual timeline of events is and i've changed a LOT since i started. so it's a frankendraft mess. we'll get there eventually.

tag: the witch

and that's it! that's my baby! i think about Them a lot these days.

taglist: ask to be added <3 @k--havok @theharpywrites @oh-no-another-idea @space-writes @lyssa-ink

links:

lacuna wip intro/masterpost

salt and brine (pre-cycle story about side characters)

comic sans intro (silly)

i will add more as things get posted but for now you can find everything for each story/character through the linked tags up above. i am always available to scream about my children :)

[blu3ha1redbrat]

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989

Hi guys! I wrote another poem, just for practice though, so here we go! Lmk what ya think! be honest pls! I can take criticism :)

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989 

The heavy Gardner with his thick brown boots bore holes into the soil 

Drowned The Sunflowers in water, not allowing them up for air 

The Sunflowers cried, but they’ll survive  

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989 

Sunlight did not reach the surrounding greenery; it avoided them like the plague  

They shared the same brightness as the sun, shouldn’t they attract?  

The Sunflowers cried once again, but they’ll survive  

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989 

The heavy Gardner with his thick brown boots bore holes into the soil 

Once again, drowned The Sunflowers in water in more than they could handle 

This time, the yellow of their petals withered into nothingness like a flame touching paper  

The Sunflowers cried, yet they weren’t sure they’d survive  

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989 

Ugly and shriveled, laughs traveled like the wind on a chilly day 

The Sunflowers shrunk into themselves, becoming thinner than the greenery that seemed to run 

The Sunflowers lacked the water to cry, yet they were surviving  

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989 

This time, nothing made them shrivel or cower or weep 

This time, it was what lived beneath,

It grew poisonous, destroying The Sunflowers from the body that kept them standing  

Draining The Sunflowers of all their might, their own roots worked against them  

Sunflowers died on March 20th 1989.

- Nii <3 ©Blu3ha1redbrat