#that is a problem for Future Me

[honeybyte]

oh god mom get them OUT of my brain

[worldbuildng]

THE ARTIFICE OF ETERNITY : a wip intro

"O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity." --W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”

genre

high fantasy adventure

summary

Disgraced solider Galen Maadawi finds himself in possession of a forbidden ancient power, and suddenly every eye in the empire (and more than one sword point) turns towards him. With the brunt of two royal families bearing down on him and the threat of inescapable change nipping at his heels, Galen is desperate to get rid of this strange magic before the fate of the continent comes crashing into his hands.

He learns two things very quickly, however: that some wheels have been turning far too long to be stopped now, and that it isn’t always the heroes who get to go on adventures.

pov characters

GALEN MAADAWI is an exiled imperial soldier resigned to fade into obscurity. A chance encounter puts him at the center of a bitter struggle that spans centuries and begins to dredge up ghosts he'd meant to keep buried forever.

BEHROZ LAKHANI has spent more than half of his life as a political hostage in the imperial capital. His desire for the empire's downfall is challenged as dangers both internal and external threaten to upend everything he's ever known. (absolutely stunning portrait of behroz by @kittensartswriting !!)

ASENOTH LAKHANI roams her ravaged country repairing the damage caused by decades of war. When her brother the king is found dead, it falls to her to face the consequences of not only her family's past wrongdoings, but her own as well.

info

status: editing draft 1 excerpts tag: #writing:aoe content warnings: graphic violence, war, mentions of corpses and bones, tba

i'll be posting bits and bobs as i work through edits, lemme know you want to be on the taglist!

[sanpape]

ah my new best friend. not checking my whatsapps

[bluestone-dragon]

Found this in my Google Docs as an outline I made after writing Chapter 6. There were... significant deviations.

Chap 7: Milena taking Percy to seamstress so he gets new clothes, then pools, talking things through with Percy. Map of the Continent during a council meeting, Percy turning to Geralt and saying, “Can’t you just conquer it all so I don’t need to remember the country names?”, little bit of history? Percy asks if there are fish around. - not human safe pool, idiots

Chap 8: milena thinks an excursion is a great idea, arranges to take ciri, geralt, eskel, a couple cranes, gweld? Lambert? To the lake so ciri can train swimming and fighting in water while the others relax/have a picnic lunch. Breathholding contest? Under the sea?

Chap 9: time jump? someone does an idiot thing, witchers move out, percy convinces geralt to let him come with, preparations for war, percy just going around like “man would’ve been nice to have that during my war” and the witchers getting angrier and angrier which is conducive to fighting. No one’s sure if he’s doing it on purpose or not. If not broken off into another chapter end with water rushing towards them cliffhanger? Or with percy raising his hands? Idk

Annabeth pov interlude of visiting Athena’s library

Chap 10: continuation of chap 9. Percy passes out i think. Last sentence is demigods coming in

Chap 11: demigods come. Maybe found by a witcher on patrol? Bc teleporting is finicky. OH MY GOD they come when percy’s still passed out. It’s been like. Three days or something. (or maybe a couple hours?) The witchers drag them to the bedside and annabeth says oh easy can someone get me some water? Then dumps it over him. He sits bolt upright. - why were you unconscious now i can’t judo-flip you the moment i see you Percy immediately tries to get up to let annabeth judo-flip him and four diff people (triss, will, annabeth, gweld) say NO

[wackyattack]

Guys I am getting a tree shipped to me and i got an email that it is supposed to arrive in 2 days and when I tell you I am so excited????? I am obsessively checking its tracking number

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[jainkoa]

Just bought (I used afterpay) a $300 internal hard drive for my ps5 because the almost $1000 video game console can’t handle 10 video games

[kennexara]

I got $325 glasses frames for $80 sometimes life is GOOD

[anxiousapplepie]

okay. maybe creating 4 new ISAT AUs at the same time was a lil silly, but you know what?? I'm gonna commit to it! I was bored and wanted a new hyperfixation to keep me entertained, anyway! Expect more concept art or random sketches for..... ANY of these AUs, I guess! It's gonna happen, whether any of us like it or not!!

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[batryz]

@solangeloweek — reverse tropes (6/25)

(the sun burns out) (but) (the star will always be waiting)

Pushed out a small comic in a few hours to contribute!

Not sure if it fits the theme but the comic is basically a reverse on the 3 day in the infirmary trope. (unique to them ofc!)

Read right to left!!!

[wienners]

"dude its not that embarassing to rewatch some creepypasta stuff you liked as a teenager" the character i imprinted on like a baby duck at 16 was a demon from new jersey that acts like the humanization of every offspring song and canonically listens to scissor sisters. His favorite color is purple and his favorite pokemon are gengar and haunter. He leaves people notes with emojis on them. He acts like a beetlejuice scare actor at halloween horror nights. His catchphrase is "feeling sassy?" Hes (allegedly) worked with every war criminal throughout history and been every serial killer. even the gay ones. He ate a baby. His animal motif is a rabbit. Hes kind of based off the donnie darko rabbit. He almost exclusively wears merchandise of the quentin tarantino movie death proof. One of his biggest kill scenes is (kind of?) a reference to reservoir dogs. he talks to his cats in a baby voice. He wears a white fedora that makes every video he wears it in feel dated by like 7 years. Hes 5'3. Hes from new jersey. He hacked a girls tumblr blog so he could post about how awesome he is. He added a laugh track over a video of him killing people. He named a chainsaw rex. He torments people by playing frank sinatra at them. His name comes from an animal collective song. His creator drew his "true form" as a wolf anthro. Theres a (semi)canon blog entry where he makes the speakers blare rob zombie before he enters a room, then holds a guy at gunpoint to describe what he did to to him while "making sure to leave in all the cool parts". He has radioactive blood. He tried for like five whole minutes to pick up a bottle of ketchup with a grabby hand. Hes kind of suicidal.He can be reasonably compared to pretty much every major tumblr sexyman. His actor has gone on record saying heath ledgers joker inspired his acting choices. Sometimes his voice gets distorted and it makes him sound like bill ciphers first year on HRT. Hes basically like my artistic muse. For some fucking reason i associate the song cake by the ocean with him. I firmly believe that if everymanhybrid didn't require a masters degree in creepypasta autism to comprehend, he would've caused more teenage stabbings than the slenderman incident and more kin war tumblr scenarios than nagito komaeda.

[driftingballoons]

Female treecko hero thought process

Bonus:

[hinamie]

@philosophiums and i have been nursing the beginnings of an atla au so have some preliminary designs while we cook :>

[skellagirl]

Back in winter 2022 I started working on a comic of one of my favorite nsfw oneshots, Practical Demonstration, made like five pages, and then promptly dropped it cause I was still in the midst of Art Block From Hell, among other reasons

but the fic series recently got an update and I read it on a flight last week, which has renewed the brainworms :)

The comic's FAR from finished (I've thumbnailed the entire thing and it comes out to twenty-eight pages, while I have thirteen of those pages in varying stages of completion) but I've been having a lot of fun working on it and forcing myself to try and learn new things (backgrounds/environments, in this case) in the pursuit of Harvey Smut LOL

I thought I'd post some WIP shit here, in case ADHD gets my ass and I end up dropping it again 😭 pray for me

[deadofreddo]

Who fw my admin designs

Individual refs + notes under the cut!!

Here they are!! I wanted to give them all animal features for funsies

Romeo is a goat purely because of his goatee lmao. He's also the only one with animal legs, I like to think he gave himself them to make himself taller and he's actually the shortest. If you're seeing this post again and wondering if something changed about him I decided to give him yellow trims LMAO

Fred is a mooshroom, for reasons that are probably obvious. I don't have much to say about him other than everytime I look at his starry eyes so filled with kindness my heart shatters into a million pieces

Xara is a bird, maybe a feathered dragon? Idk I knew I wanted to give her an elytra and other End things but couldn't quite lock in on the dragon vibes. Wanted to give her horns but it didn't work with her hair </3