#ssll duology

[transmasc-wizard]

can i please hear about ur duology with the pretty name 👀👀

im assuming u mean Stealing Sorrow/Leading Light bc im pretty sure thats the only duology i mentioned (my brain is akin to a turnip tho so if its not... i apologize) (also this got Long, whoops)

so Stealing Sorrow is technically already written, but it's a short story i wrote for School Reasons and therefore had a 2 week deadline and an expectation to shove a variety of vocabulary words in it that otherwise would not fit. I'm not entirely fond of it as it is because its a first draft i had to show people, and i couldnt put in violence or swearing. However, the idea itself is something i love:

a prince and princess are betrothed, but because theyre both gay as hell, they run away to leave their respective kingdoms for basically the first time Ever. Along the way they come across the lesbian's cousin, Larceny, who left a few years back. Larceny reveals the problems in the kingdom, and Sorrow (the lesbian) and Artie (Arthur Light, the gay dude) get Larceny to guide them out of the kingdom, where they see the world is largely dead.

That's the short story right there. When i inevitably rewrite it as a novel, that will only be the first couple chapters. The rest of it will explore them finding other people, unravelling exactly why they weren't told by their royal family that the WORLD is DEAD, and learning new bits of recent history that had been dismissed by their families as conspiracy. It's largely about examining the problems with monarchy, how isolation can be dangerous, and the way parents who isolate their children can absolutely become brainwashers and cultlike. (Think antivaxx Christian parents who homeschool their kids and dont let them learn the word "fuck" or "gay" till theyre 20.)

Its got very punk vibes, also a pinterest thing somewhere that i cannot find at the moment, also there's fairies and explosions and magic.

(thats all i can say without nosediving into spoilers territory, but i hope this was interesting!)