#rizeth

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tagged by @oh-no-another-idea, thank you! nine from A Question of Trust today, since i’m about to shove my hands back into the guts of this thing and fix it so help me god-

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It wasn’t ideal—the beds weren’t the same height, and the heat remained regardless, despite the open window, but it would do for one night. Rizeth lay there in the gathering dark as Ashenivir drifted into reverie, listening to his slow, steady breath. Lucky. That was what he kept thinking; how incredibly lucky had he gotten, for this to be his life now? He settled a hand on Ashenivir’s hip, and his heart clenched as Ashenivir shifted unconsciously towards the touch, mumbling some wordless nonsense that nevertheless held a world of affection. Rizeth wanted to tighten his grip. To dig his hands in tight so Ashenivir wouldn’t be able to leave. He’d ruined one relationship, and the idea of ruining another—ruining Ashenivir—terrified him beyond reason. Things right now were good, impossibly so; the kind of good he’d never dreamed he’d be allowed anywhere near ever again

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no-pressure tagging @sarandipitywrites @chauceryfairytales @rhikasa @ink-flavored @tabswrites @winterandwords @ceph-the-ghost-writer @artdecosupernova-writing and @charlesjosephwrites

Obedience taglist: @foxboyclit @belovedviolence @thegreatobsesso @notwritinganyflufftoday (ask to be +/-)

[thespacelizard]

theres a post going around about this so i have to ask: what would your ocs bring to a potluck? (iirc rizeth is the only one who can cook right?)

oooh this is a good question. now i have to think about what Rizeth can Actually Cook instead of like. vague meals lol

of the Lads in my main collection, yeah, he's the only one with what I'd call a solid actual ability to cook - though he's not a chef, and doesn't really consider his skills like. Skills. He's competent.

But I feel like he'd bring something that pairs with what Ashenivir can make - so like he'd help Shen make some nice sporebread or something, and then make a big ol' soup to go with it, something like that. Something that's tasty but not showy; he doesn't want a bunch of people gushing over how good that was, he just wants to make sure people are fed.

Vizaeth is bringing nothing, if he's even invited to the potluck in the first place. Food is nothing but an Ordeal for that boy.

Zeth'rinn brings a very fancy dessert that he very much did Not make - he's 100% fine with bragging how talented his baker friend is and strongly implying he was eating frosting off of them like five minutes before he showed up.

Rune brings a tray of assorted meats, and Astarion's brought fancy cheese and wine, so between them they've got a functional charcuterie board and are thus my favourite people at the party <3

we've got a decent meal going here, what are your ocs bringing? what am I avoiding so i don't get poisoned :p

[incoherentmuses]

happy pride everyone!

@foxboyclit brought up 'Rizeth, but in a crop top' and then this happened. consider it a companion to last years obedience pride piece i guess

ko-fi | commissions info | fic series Ashenivir & Rizeth are from (nsfw)

(also tagging relevant interested parties @lawful-evil-novelist and @britta-ashcroft)

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heads up seven up

tagged by @oh-no-another-idea, thank you! i’m very nearly done (!!) with The Perils of Wanting, so here are seven lines from that ft Ashenivir being Ashenivir and not understanding his own pining, as per usual

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Up the hall, the red marker was still tied on his and Rizeth’s playroom. Moths in his chest again, agitated, a furious swarm, and that awful, hollow feeling that he was missing something important. I’m not missing anything, I have everything I want, it’s just comedown, I should go back to the room and wait for— “Ra’soltha?” His heart twisted. I want him. I’m already his, but I want him.

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no-pressure tagging @cherrybombfangirlwrites @loopyhoopywrites and @talesfromaurea

Obedience taglist: @foxboyclit @belovedviolence @thegreatobsesso (ask to be +/-)

[foxboyclit]

flufftober did cause iphis and nydalla to get stuck in my brain

and then came ashenivir and rizeth with the steel chair

[ranger-rizeth]

Rizeth getting lost for the first time in a century, he does not like it.

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looking back at wips and feeling The Temptation is such a mood oh my god. cannot look in my wips folder, that way lies madness

im always sooo intrigued seeing people writing (especially more involved/epic type fantasy) that don't outline/plan/prep as much as i do!! how are you just launching into longform stories just on vibes that's way too scary

i will concur that Will sounds like a delight to hang out with in real life and Vonnie sounds SO much fun to write. as i just added a hot mess lesbian to Valloroth, i feel solidarity here <3

IRIS yes i am also pinching her cheeks you go science girl!!

24 & 28 for the weird writer questions !

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thank you <3

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

it really depends? my wips usually start with a vibe or an idea that a character gets involved in, and then a setting around that, and then i just start writing and see what happens. with the raedoran cycle the prep has gotten more detailed and it's been nice to have that structure, but i definitely still go off the rails once i get into the groove of actually writing, so i can never really spend too much time on prep work because i know it will all be ruined by a character slapping me awake at 3 am because fuck the outline, they decided they don't want to be doomed by the narrative

it was fun to think about my prep work process so here's a wip by wip breakdown:

the raedoran cycle: originally was between three and five short scenes that i wrote in college for a creative writing exercise where we looked at paintings and wrote a scene based on it. birdie was in one, arthur and jack in another, and finally emilia and fabin in a third. i remember the paintings so vividly but g-d damn me if i can find them again :( so we were all vibes at first. and then nanowrimo was happening and i started writing out what all three stories together as one intertwined novel would look like, then abandoned it for two years until i took a novel writing class and revived it. most of the prep work happened there and i made a bunch of plot notecards (still my favorite prep method) but that was back when the story was a little less complex

lacuna: started once again with vibes--wanted to give a maura prequel backstory and came up with the character of keelan. and then he grabbed the steering wheel out of my hands.

thieves: planned out diligently. plot notecards, outline, the whole shebang. maybe this is why i've been stalled out in the drafting process for months :(

dragons: i don't know what the plot is yet

the witch: see above note about the cycle as a whole. also more recently all that has gone out the window as birdie snatches the steering wheel from my hands so you know. grain of salt!

hurts, doesn't it? (low sci-fi dystopian drama, shelved atm): i started writing this in eighth grade bc i thought the idea of a paint smuggler who threw knives was cool and wanted an excuse for her to exist. i never prepped anything and it showed lol--i just started writing and once i had a draft i went back and figured out what the hell the story was about.

log date persephone (high sci-fi story told through the transcripts of the audio logs of an astronaut stranded on an unknown planet, looking at getting back into it): got inspired for this by a combination of a book i read for a class and a sandbox video game. no prep no plan just vibes and then editing it until it's presentable for the thesis committee. yes this was my senior honors thesis yes i did pass no i did not ever have anything to tell my advisor when she asked me about my process

sting (sci-fi romance about gays on a boat studying aliens, shelved until i looked at it again this morning and fell back in love with iris): had a dream about aquatic aliens and woke up thinking that was a banger vibe. two nanowrimo plot worksheets later i got sick of prep work and started writing

i don't generally love the prep work process? it's fun to decide where the story is going, but for me the meat of the process is always in the actual writing, and that's honestly where i have my best ideas

28. Who is the most delightful character you've ever written? Why?

this is such a cruel question it's like asking me which of my children i love best so i'm going to cheat and take multiple definitions of delightful

delightful (would want to interact with them on a daily basis in real life): will moore -- hurts, doesn't it?

we stan a jewish king. he's got bad jokes for days and will absolutely let you crash on his couch if you're having a rough go of things. goofball extraordinaire loves his mom and his friends more than himself. he's just a florist!!

delightful (writing about them is very fun): vonnie mallory -- the raedoran cycle

i love vonnie she's such a hot mess. middle aged lesbian allergic to commitment but a big softie deep down. has a drinking problem but still manages to be better at her job than 95% of the men she works with. turns every scene she's in into a sitcom. has been ruining the tonal consistency of the third acts of lacuna and the witch of the west but i don't even mind bc at least she's fun

delightful (pinch their cheeks at the family reunion): iris adenaur -- sting

dumbass lesbian knows so much about biology and aliens and is so smart but cannot comprehend that kiri thinks she's pretty. gets excited about science and will ramble about her research for hours if you let her, sweetest person at the party/the drunk girl that tells everyone she loves them, lets her friends drag her to the gay bar but dreams about her lab the whole time she's there. requested a sample alien corpse to study and got laughed off bc the company that owns them wouldn't give her one and decided right then and there that she would just get a boat and catch one herself, dammit. never mind that they're incredibly dangerous and if she gets stung she'll be dependent on their venom for the rest of her life and also she doesn't know how to operate a boat. none of this can stand in the way of science!!

this got so long but u know what i got weird about it and isn't that the point? thank you again for the ask <3

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heads up seven up

tagged by @zmwrites, thank you! final Perils of Wanting chapter on FRIDAY so here’s some good good lines from the fic so far, ft Classic Rizeth Pining Behaviours (this bit is from Chapter Two)

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He did pick up a few shards of the crystal that proliferated on the cavern ceiling from her—if nothing else, the fact that it continued to glow after it had been harvested made it useful, and he thought perhaps Ashenivir might like it. He realised afterwards that what he’d just done was buy Ashenivir a souvenir, and debated whether throwing himself into the geyser might not be the simplest cure for his idiocy. A long, distracting walk seemed the second-best solution, and one considerably less scalding, so Rizeth went wandering. He spent a good few hours taking in the small town and the svirfneblin ingenuity prevalent throughout. Not a speck of magic in the machines that harnessed the heat of the springs; all of it was pure engineering. Ashenivir would be fascinated, he thought, then winced. So much for a distraction.

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no-pressure tagging @mjjune @chauceryfairytales @willtheweaver and @ink-flavored

Obedience taglist: @foxboyclit @belovedviolence @thegreatobsesso @notwritinganyflufftoday (ask to be +/-)

[thespacelizard]

listening to the obedience playlist and got to "crush" and listen i know jennifer paige is american but this is one of those songs that is so UK radio to me. i feel like i hear it all the time. americans can't possibly be listening to it that much in 2025

now i need to know if ashenivir would listen to the sugababes. the spice girls, even. in a theoretical AU where the obedience cast is hanging out on modern day earth, what's shen's music taste. what's rizeth's. send help

crush is peak childhood back of the car radio to me, a Very UK Person. i only own that song because it was on an album of similar Types of Songs i had when i was a kid and i've been listening to it for YEARS

modern AU Ashenivir absolutely listens to BOTH of those. he's the coolest boy in the world but he is such a pop girlie and i cannot lie about this. much as i want to just give him my music taste, i don't think he enjoys metal as much as i do. he's chilling out in the girl bands and gay bands section of the playlist store - he is 100% a Marina and the Diamonds Electraheart type of Guy. Kim Petras, Icona Pop. he's got like 2 Pussycat Dolls songs on there.

he definitely had an emo phase, as most of us are wont to do. it didn't stick, but that single G note is a sleeper activation, and he still has a much-played Three Days Grace album kicking around that he puts on if he's feeling particularly angsty

modern AU Rizeth is classical music and classic rock to me. he's such an old man. he has Specific Opinions about versions of various classical songs (opinions i cannot give because i am not a classical music nerd). he enjoys a bit of like. Fleetwood Mac. REO Speedwagon. Crowded House. that kinda thing. maybe some REM or Blondie if he's feeling daring. i think his guilty pleasure artist is Robbie Williams. i just feel that in my heart.

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some tender boys, as a treat, because Current Arc is so damn angsty.

ko-fi | commissions info | fic series Ashenivir & Rizeth are from (nsfw)

(@foxboyclit @britta-ashcroft)

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the struggle is honestly endless - like 200k+ of m/m fiction under my belt and still the struggle goes on~

i just cheat it a lot of the time and group things done by one character together as much as possible so i'm not having to switch names or who the pronoun applies to. (half my writing ~techniques~ are just cheating shit at this point, lol)

also like. i just give myself and my readers credit that with context clues they can tell which 'he/him' applies to which character. like if i throw out a 'he' and the guy is topping, it's a good bet y'all can work out it means Rizeth is the 'he' in that circumstance

and i don't think the name is gonna be an issue -> said with confidence since I've been using Ashenivir, also a four syllable name (that isn't even a Real World Name) for years and it has never been a problem

thing thing thing, I need to try to explain this.

Yeah so, when so many of my scenes are between two he/him characters and they are so frequently describing the other's physical actions while they're together (🍆 💦), I often:

Go insane wondering if people are going to be able to understand "he [verbed] his [whatever]" and I suspect, end up using way too many "Milo"s and "Octavius"s.

Get subsequently stressed out because while a "Milo" slides right by, I get so scared that an "Octavius" throws a wrench. It's just such a four-syllable clunker and I become afraid it breaks the flow of whatever I'm trying to do. And I will NEVER change his name, because he's Octavius. :P

I'm not really asking for advice, I think it's actually not a big deal for anyone but me, but if anyone can relate, I'd like to hear how you handle it/your worries. :D

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Artists asks! 5 and 25?

ahh, ty!

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

ohhh so many things! my wip-list is too long, but i really want to do a full character piece of my tiefling bard, Lilith in her full goth getup with her magic violin.

i've also been meaning to design Pharaun Mizzrym since i read war of the spider queen the other year and i still haven't. i love that awful little man i need to make him unnecessarily attractive

25. Based on your recent reference searches, what would the FBI assume about you?

that i am a gay little man who likes rope bondage which is what i get for drawing my ocs in spicy Situations asdjsdka

[archaeologysucks]

My local college offers archeology as a minor, so I'm thinking of taking history as my major, just so I can get started. I really want to work in dig teams, so I'm curious if a minor in archaeology will be fine for the field work?

Yes that is absolutely fine! As long as you also do a field school, you will be able to find work in archaeology.

[thegreatobsesso]

@space-writes 😍😍😍😍😍😍

ugh don't we all. and he knows it.

but can we talk about your Ashenivir and Rizeth please ???

@winterandwords's Brett and Noah, fuck my heart

@dontjudgemeimawriter's Terran and Raymond!!!

@afoolandathief's take on Loki and their entire fucking family dear gods

And every one of @itsthenovelteafactor's OCs are fantastic but for some reason Aunt Madeline overshadows everyone else in my mind🥰

sometimes you just have GOT to get weird about someone's oc. embrace them. treat them like you would the main character of a hit tv show. blorbo from someone else' brain. it's good for you

[leidensygdom]

ranger-rizeth replied to your photo: I want to anounce the Secret Satan - 2018 for...

What is the age range of the participants? Are NSFW reference sheets allowed?

There’s no minimum age for the Secret Satan. Keep everything SFW, please! I will be editing the main post with this clarification

[ranger-rizeth]

Tuesday Dnd, the ranger went to take a bath, the bard decided he needed help and called in the rest of the party. Wizard was happy to help, fighter didn't care and left the ranger to his demise.