#she's gonna be my yeehaw heir

[simmancy]

.・゜゜・beach babe ・゜゜・．

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[albatris]

Wait that sounds cool tell me more about Bright and Burning Things? (If you want to ofc you definitely don't have to)

:D!!! of course, I can tell you some stuff!!! thank you for the question, I'm happy you think it sounds cool!!

this is not really a super sensical explanation, this is some rambles, as usual

so, this is a short standalone project of mine, it's uhhhh........ hm. something something fantasy comedy something. it's meant to be a bit of a light-hearted adventure, but as it is with most of my more silly stories, it takes a sharp detour into some "oof" territory c':

bits of the premise sound kind of Heavy but silliness and heaviness go hand-in-hand quite nicely I think

the central character is a ghost kid! this kid’s name is Max! the story kicks off right after they die and they’re being ushered onto the bus that will take them to the afterlife. as they are being ushered onto said bus, they’re like “holy fuck wait no” because they have unfinished business in the living world. they got straight-up murdered!  their life got cut short! they don’t have any closure! they don’t even know who killed them!! so they make a run for it and go ghost

and like, oh, this happens sometimes. the dead are sometimes quite affronted by the fact that they’re dead and kick up a bit of a fuss when it comes to Moving On. the thing is, souls aren’t really built for Being Ghosts and can’t really survive long out in the living world, so there’s a bit of a time limit on Max’s quest to figure out who killed them and solve the mystery of their own death, since if they stay too long in the living world as a disembodied soul they’ll start to unravel

related, and perhaps more pressingly, is that there’s various agents of the afterlife who are attempting to find them and bring them back and Make Them Move On. these forces take on a bit of an antagonistic role in the story, but they’re not really any malevolent force that wants to hurt Max, they’re just the folks who go after stray and panicked souls and try to bring them to the afterlife before they fade away and disappear completely

Max’s got shit to do, though, like I said

so the story follows Max over the course of one night as they piece together the story of their death and fill in the gaps in their memory, while also attempting to stave off their unravelling for as long as they can

Max becomes acquainted with various other supernatural beings who are on their own time-sensitive quests on the same night, n they form some sort of kinship over this fact and band together to help each other out on their missions

firstly there’s Daisy, stir-crazy thousand-year-old heir to the vampire throne, due to be crowned the next day, who suddenly had an existential crisis and was like “actually vampire society is dull as hell I wanna LIVE”

so she goes out into the human world and robs a pizza store and starts several fights and is like “hell YEAH this slaps” and basically decides she’s just gonna kick up some real chaos since this is her last night of freedom, basically, n she’s gotta make it count

she’s very smart! she knows next to nothing about human society and how to be a normal person though, and if you leave her unsupervised she will attempt to eat marbles

also the structure of vampire society is very convoluted and confusing and full of complete nonsense. it makes no sense to anyone but the vampires themselves, and even then the rest of the supernatural world is half convinced the vamps are just playing the long game with an extremely elaborate prank. their royalty live in an abandoned petrol station? they wear those little paper crowns from hungry jacks/burger king. they take themselves very seriously

also this is the story in which I was really drunk when I was planning it n just slammed some vodka and was like “VAMPIRES COME FROM SPACE NOW” and then sober logan just had to deal with that

ANYWAY

next there’s Hope and Deckchairs, a socially anxious uni student and a socially anxious demon respectively, and the deal with these two is uhhhhh

well, Hope was trying to be a Cool Kid and tagged along with some Cool Kids who wanted to do a demonic summoning ‘cause Hell Yeah That’s Edgy And Cool

and Deckchairs (not named Deckchairs at the time, this is a name that’s adopted during the story) was doing their very overdue demon taxes and stressing over demon finances, n then got yoinked out of the underworld because of the aforementioned summoning

(I think this is generally viewed among demons as a mild inconvenience, sometimes you get Yoinked when you’re right in the middle of something and you just have to be like “ugh fine I’ll just kick up a bit of a ruckus then come back”)

however, when the summoning actually works, the Cool Kids freak out and scatter and in the chaos Hope gets her head bonked on the side of a dresser and fuckin starts bleeding out, and Deckchairs is like “oh fuck I did not sign on for this” ‘cause they’re........ yeah, look, they’re gentle and anxious and not a very good demon, maybe. n so Deckchairs possesses the body of Hope to keep her alive

so now these two are co-piloting a body, and have to figure out a way they can split and return to their lives without Hope dying. however, they’re also being hunted down by

the Cool Kids, who are now all keyed up and paranoid and convinced they’re the heroes of a horror movie n they have to kill the demonic entity they brought into the world

the underworld, who.......... now, I haven’t figured out whether they’re pissed ‘cause they think Deckchairs is committing tax evasion by body-hopping into the human world, or they’re pissed just ‘cause Deckchairs has work to do and they don’t consider one human life to be worth all the hold up

so that’s not great for either of them, but like, yeah, if they can figure out a way to split and be done with it, it’s problem solved for both of them. yeehaw. too bad they’re both nearly too anxious to speak to each other

and that’s................................. all that

facts?

there’s a plot twist at the end that I am SUPER psyched about! and it has taken literally all of my willpower not to spoil it completely

I feel like it’s an easy one to guess, but it’s perfect for the story and the themes and it’s one I’m hella excited about

and this is..................... this is I think the only story of mine where I would say it doesn’t necessarily have a happy ending? like. it certainly doesn’t end in TRAGEDY, but this is definitely a bittersweet ending, it’s got some real sad undertones

it’s the best possible ending for the characters, but like, hey, my protagonist is already dead, y’know?

anyway if you read this far I hope some of this was fun for you :’))

thanks for coming to my ted talk I hope you have a nice day :D

[camillemontespan]

revolution [drake x camille]

A very short one shot I dreamt up. It’s meant to be quite fun.  I hope you guys enjoy.  No warnings at all.

@jovialyouthmusic @fromthedeskofpaisleybleakmore @pug-bitch @sirbeepsalot @moonlightgem7 @emceesynonymroll @burnsoslow @ibldw-main @katedrakeohd @be-still-my-aching-heart @star-spangled-eyes @notoriouscs @gardeningourmet @emichelle @iplaydrake @drakewalkerisreal

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‘Ohh Drake, this is bad..’

Camille was walking slowly around the room, her eyebrows furrowed as she read the pages. Drake was sat on the edge of the bed, waiting with bated breath.

'Hit me with it,’ he said. 'How bad is it this time?’

Camille sighed and ran a hand through her dark hair. 'Well, Bertrand has gone missing and we’re still stuck in Yeehaw Hell.’

‘What?’ Drake hissed, his eyes bulging. ‘Why does he get to leave?!’

‘No idea!’ Camille cried. ‘He’s a traitor!’

Drake and Camille had been trapped in Pixelberry’s The Royal Heir for the past two months now and had become increasingly agitated at the lack of drama, action and general couple time. They had been counting on their writer, Erin, to get them out of this hell by writing more fic but gradually, she had been losing inspiration. All because of The Royal Heir.

‘If PB just wrote something that wasn’t cowboy centred, then she would have more ideas for us!’ Camille wailed, sitting down beside Drake. ‘She doesn’t even play Choices that much anymore.’

‘The bigger problem is that she isn’t interested in TRH..’ Drake muttered. ‘We need to get her back.’

‘The whole fandom needs saved,’ Camille told him. ‘She’s not the only one discontent with the writing situation over at PB. Seriously, all the Drake stans are getting pissed. It’s all Bertrand and Savannah.‘

‘I wish we weren’t stuck here,’ Drake said. ‘Like why can’t the fanfictions be canon? I would honestly kill to meet Lily right now.’

‘I know right?’ Camille agreed. ‘She’s adorable.’ 

‘Abso-fuckin-lutely,’ Drake said, chuckling. 

‘I spoke to Amara and Paisley,’ Camille told him. ‘They feel the same, especially Paisley. She just wants alone time with her Drake, but no. PB seem to have placed us on a sex ban.’

‘Last time in the lake was pretty hot..’ Drake mused. 

‘What, with the glowing stuff? burnsoslow was panicking that we would end up having babies with webbed feet!’ Camille said. ‘I see her point!’

‘Camille, you’re not gonna have a baby with webbed feet,’ Drake assured her. ‘Lily’s going to be gorgeous.’ 

Camille closed her eyes. ‘Right now, any fic would be better than this canon.’ 

‘Well.. we could be getting murdered and ruled over by Anton,’ Drake said. 

‘That’s a fucking ballsy fic, it’s got drama and intrigue, which is what PB is lacking,’ Camille replied. ‘There’s no cowboys either. I know you’re from Texas, but even you’re sick of the cowboy shit.’ 

‘I am,’ Drake said gravely. ‘I really am.’ 

They sat in silence for a moment. Camille then grabbed his hand and Drake could see her eyes had lit up; lightbulb moment. ‘I know what to do!’

She grabbed a pen and began to score out the script PB had given her. ‘Okay, so we make this adjustment.. move that scene to here… get rid of that character…’

‘You’re killing off my aunt?’ Drake said dryly.

Camille looked at him, her eyebrow raised. ‘You got a problem with that?’

Drake blinked. ‘Surprisingly, no.’

Camille laughed and killed off Drake’s aunt. ‘Now, we just write Liam deciding that he doesn’t need our baby for his heir and then the wedding is called off and we get to leave here and go back to Valtoria to focus on baby making-’

‘You still want a baby even though it won’t be the heir?’ Drake asked. 

Camille stared at him in disbelief. ‘Of course, Drake. I’ve always wanted your babies.’

Drake blushed and cast his eyes down, a smile creeping up on his face. Camille squeezed his hand and brought out her phone. ‘Okay, so I’m going to message Alyssa, Paisley, Amara and Lydia to do the same to their scripts. We’re plotting a revolution against PB.’ 

‘You’re pretty sexy when you take control..’ Drake murmured. 

‘I’ve just had enough,’ Camille said. ‘I want Erin to feel more inspired. Sure, she’s still writing fic but after the creepy Kiara series and the fluffy series with Lily, Liv and Leo, she is out of ideas.’ 

‘Poor Kiara, I really like her,’ Drake said. ‘She’s always treated badly.’

‘I know. I had drinks with her yesterday and she was quite upset about it. I tried my best to convince her that Erin does actually like her, she just wrote the AU for fun.’ 

‘So if the other girls change their scripts, then the game is sabotaged?’ Drake asked, getting back to the subject. Camille nodded, looking very pleased with herself.

‘Yup! I’m so excited! Ooh wait, last minute change!’

She began to write over the script again. ‘Now, we’ll bring in Bastien for Lesley..’

‘Ah, good ol’ Bas!’ Drake joked. ‘I’ve missed him.’

‘Ugh, me too,’ Camille agreed. ‘Such a babe..’

Drake stared at her, not amused, and Camille reddened. She looked down at her script, making more changes to avoid his eyes.

‘Okay, so we bring in Leo because anytime he’s around, it’s a riot,’ Camille muttered, concentrating on writing and scoring out. ‘Then we’ll have Olivia appear again and maybe they can hint at a relationship…’

‘Not everyone likes the Leo and Olivia ship,’ Drake warned her. ‘Some think Olivia can do better.’

Camille shrugged. ‘Erin managed to convince some of her mutuals that they were a good fit. So I’m making it canon.’

She wrote some more, particularly in Hana’s lines. ‘Hana needs more action,’ she said ‘I’ve heard that she isn’t getting treated right by PB so I’m rectifying this.’

‘Good shout.’

Drake watched as Camille finished her adjustments. She gave him a wide grin. ‘Done.’

‘Feel better now?’ Drake asked.

‘Much better.’ 

[choicesenthusiast]

The Royal Heir, Ch. 10 AKA Did I Ask for This? Didn’t Think So.

What happened this week:

Now playing as Bertrand for his bachelor party? Oh, HELL no. Paying for a yeehaw outfit for him? Even WORSE! Enough that it justifies me typing in all caps, and I hate using all caps in reviews! And they go CAMPING. I did not need Bertrand being an uncomfortable dudebro wannabe, because I see it in every other chapter/book anyways.

PB really thought we were gonna pay to serenade Savannah, didn’t they? Clowns. She’s the most annoying character in this book.

A… a bear attack? Out of nowhere? And because of the bear, the guys just decide to sleep exposed in the middle of the forest? What about the bugs? The cold? The other wild animals that could find them and eat them? Honestly, they deserve to be eaten because of their clownery at this point.

Bertrand apparently used to be into motorcycles so Maxwell decided to hunt down his old one and bring it to the middle of the woods in Texas? This book is now officially on my last nerve.

The Beaumonts’ father is alive and I can’t sympathize with him because I remember nothing about him. Also I’m done with daddy issues after sitting through the Walkers’ last chapter.

Thoughts:

I’m back from an amazing week at camp and this is what I return to? I can’t believe I’m committed to this blog. To be honest, I kinda didn’t wanna continue it because production has been really shitty lately.

This review doesn’t deserve any more of my time.

[isaacathom]

anyway in my own creative news, i had an epiphany re: the vosti emperor stuff ive been mulling over

so. the line is steady from Zaloren ‘The Conqueror’ I, from 600BC to around 400BC. Very respectable. Then a very bad plague sweeps across Abravost, and due to some very poor decisions made by the Emperor at the time, the entire immediate imperial family ends up dead or extremely sickly. this ist even known for a little bit because part of the bad decision was isolating the imperials, so noone outside.... knew anything. until like a month had passed with no word and it was very bad. that house was burned to the ground, is allllll im saying. nasty.

anyway now there is a succession crisis, on two fronts. the first front is that with the immediate family dead (including first cousins), the closest relatives are second cousins, which is always gonna be weird. the second front is that,. up to this point, there has never been an Empress of the Vosti, just because of chance. By the roll of the dice, all the heirs presumptive have been male, for 200 years. So noone is actually sure if women can inherit?? Women have been able to inherit lower noble titles (duchies, marks, etc), but the vosti have never seen a female or even just non-male leader of a country. and, well, of the three branches that can contest (that is, that the grandfather of the ‘last’ Emperor had three younger siblings), the eldest two were started by women. so it was That Emperor, His two younger sisters, and his younger brother.

and everything just goes to shit. the heir of the eldest sister claims the throne by absolute primogeniture, the heir of the brother challenges on the grounds of male preference primogeniture, and a sooort of civil war ensues. i mean, it IS a civil war, but its referred to as a ‘succession crisis’ or ‘war of succession’ rather than ‘the vosti civil war’, for organisational purposes :P

the end result of the succession war, which goes on for like 60 years and like 10 separate rulers, some multiple times, the heir of the middle daughter (Askila) wipes out the eldest daughters branch, marries herself and her younger brother to members of the younger son branch, and declares herself Empress, and it finally sticks. That’s Askila I, baby, the empress who ordered the city of Fovenis to be built. very nice. she might have assassinated a lot of people but to be fair, the empire was both used to that and into it as an extension of the weird ‘justice’ thing. it was a lot

the third epiphany is that i can write about this for the conflict prompt, because the war of succession established that the throne of the Vosti, and by extension all lower nobility titles, operated on laws of absolute primogeniture and bloodline superiority rather than any gender preferences, which probably pissed a few people off but was ultimately okay. an extra consequence is that Muna Shonyul (in 425 now, we’re going into The Future) definitely tries to position herself as a sort of ‘Askila II’, ignoring the fact there have been two more Askila’s after Askila I (Askila III was the last absolute-primogeniture Empress of the Vosti, as all subsequent Emperors have been elective). or i guess she would want to claim that, that Askila I was the first Empress Regnant (no doubt about it this time) and Askila III was the last, but not for long If Muna has anything to say about it. Empress Muna, first of her name, Duchess of Shonyul. yeehaw

[isaacathom]

hintero as a 75% chance of having bastards on account of just being, a Fuck, but what impact that would have a different matter. I don’t think any of his bastards are currently on the chart, or at least i hope not because that means he’s been fucking /other peoples wives/ which is definitely one way to punish your wife for infidelity, i guess. fuck other peoples wives instead. boy howdy right. plus some of the kids in the right age bracket end up marrying his legit kids and boooooyyyyyy fucking howdy id pay for that ntot o be what occurs. some are also absolutely 100% not Shonyul bastards - for instance Lord Taren Ishir is 100% Larions’ legitimate son, because Hintero would never go so far as to even consider fucking Larion and she would probably murder him before he could.

the kerinston kids are a different matter in that they COULD probably be shonyuls bastards, but one would Hope they aren’t. Particularly Yumi Kerinston, who married Daleon Emaldo. While that would explain the early death of their son Brimeon Emaldo, its kinda Fucked and im not down for it. Even if Yumi was basically the last like, ~eligible maiden~ for a perpetual bachelor dickhead like Daleon, if they were actually half siblings even Hintero wouldve gone ‘surely theres Someone else’ and Yumi wouldve gone ‘yea I’m sure theres someone else. what about one of my Zubris cousins?’ and we would have avoided it. Even if Yumi isn’t aware of the relationship she wouldve tried to dodge anyway (she DID try to dodge, for what its worth)

Glorion Kerinston is safe re: incest shenanigannery but also What would be the point of that. not to mention I don’t even thing Undara would be particularly interested in fucking Hintero on principle, unless she was deliberately trying to fuck over her own husband. and while thats possible considering she’s an Ilnon supporter instead of an Ishir-Kerinston supporter? I don’t think she would tbh. 

he probably didnt fuck his sister in law. probably.  actually yea no he didnt fuck his sister in law. thank god eh. cucking his cousin is also unlikely even IF Stelia is the right age to potential be one of his bastards. Her being one of his bastards would not really change anything (Stelia and Brandeon still aren’t related) but it WOULD be kinda fucked, so, im gonna say he didnt fuck his cousins wife. He definitely didn’t fuck his actual cousin Riala - Princes Zaloren and Treveon are definitely not his kids. Theres 0 chance Riala would cop to that.

point being its... mostly unlikely he had bastards with anyone on the chart, so noone on the chart is his bastard. god bless. there is arguably room in the Tellis chart (specifically than Hintero fucked Marchioness Hana of Tellis), which would actually make Grelan probably his own son, which is a Fuck of a Way to go about it honestly. that would be funny... like extremely hilarious. because even though Grelan is like, 9 years younger than Muna and is not a succession threat, he would be a Shonyul and boy would that fucking shatter the Shonyuls, right. itd be fucking hilarious. whether that is a realistic series of events is a different matter entirely. its in character for Hintero to do it, and it perhaps adds an interesting twist to the idea of the Shonyuls deliberately betraying Brimeon (ie that it was actually a miscommunication between Hintero and Muna, with Hintero being genuine and Muna being insincere in her support of Grelan). Whether Hana would go for it? eeeeeh? She’s not exactly a character so I don’t really know what the fuck her deal is. Maybe she’s down, maybe she isnt. By the time she would be clowning around with Hintero (like march 392 or so, since Grelan and Brandeon are actually born the same year) she already has one kid, Lady Idena. There’s no issue in the succession way, and even were something to happen to Idena, Hana being the title holder (presumptive, her dad didnt die for 23 years after that) would keep her bastard son in succession so long as she claimed him as legitimate. Issues only arise on Hintero’s side as to whether he claims Grelan as his legitimate son.

plus theres the very nice fact that Grelan wouldn’t look out of place if he was hintero’s bastard. The only reason it was obvious that Brandeon was a bastard was because his presumed father, Brasteon Dovaldun, was from a family with a very distinctive appearance, with their red eyes and hair descending from notable Suungkee ancestors (elves, yall). Hintero and Hana, as probably full humans, have no such strange distinctions and its not as though a hair colour difference would be noteworthy. Both have brown hair, so the worlds your oyster in there. eye colour might be more of a tell, as Hana and her husband Yola have fairly light coloured eyes and Hintero’s are quite dark, but its something that can be hand-waved. if the politics or genetics were ever discussed, they would not have posed an issue. it honestly just boils down to whether Hana was down to clown, and since Im the Bitch in control here, I say why the fuck not. I think its fun. I think it plays more into the Hintero vs Muna dynamic which evolves over the course of 425 and the Second Vosti War. its fucking Great, yall. yeehaw. i just think its Neat. it doesnt even need to become public knowledge - all it needs to do is inform public actions. which it would :)c

he would have other bastards tho. is Yola Tellis another of his bastards, or just Grelan? In the 9 year gap its possible Hana and Hintero sort of fell out and that Yola jr is genuinely Yola sr’s son. since Yola jr isn’t Hintero’s kid at all. His other bastards are spread out elsewhere and are likely less relevant overall due to the smaller status afforded by their parentage (aka as not being imperial or imperial adjacent, unless some of them are Zubris or Birtons, who are just as imperial adjacent as the Tellis family). I don’t have charts for those families tho and i dont Plan to Make any. We’re gonna be chucking the other bastards in some minor families for ease. Too lazy to do it any other way :P

so the tl;dr Hintero definitely has bastards outside of Brandeon Wardis (who isn’t really his bastard, rather his wifes, but counts as his because like, legal shit), notably Brimeon IV’s legal heir, Lord Grelan Tellis. This will impact some of the character motives heading into 425 and the Second Vosti War :3c