#they all have different kinda fae lore bc there is so much

[1captainjordan4]

Some faery requests over in twitter :D

[vhvrs]

needed a more accurate ref sheet for these two so u r looking at that!!!! simplified some details to be less overly complex n tightened up the palettes in the process

additionally comments including previous info i dont wanna link to and way too much world info:

as b4, rick is a normal human. morticia is a half-witch - jerry is the witch bloodline in question (agony to rick bc he was hoping this was a verse beth DIDNT marry jerry when he found out). witches live in a kindve attached dimension to earth. magic shit. he likes collecting witch literature bc theyre so fucking weird n usually infused w weird magic.

rick is v nice by rick standards n also a major creep lol. the medical shit does weird most ricks out n also they think hes a pussy for caring so much abt kerping morticia safe n sane (except for x-143 on both 😘)

ricks science tends to focus on biology n hes REALLY excited by medical procedures n discovering how different soecies function. he does regular rick shit on occasion but hes kindve too lazy n comfortable to do shit morticia isnt up for too. hashtag most normal rick. used to be more dickish but he got humbled fast by the world lol. they do bicker like regular rick n mortys though. still very much has the capacity to be a normal rick if provoked.

these two are in an oc verse i have too much lore for so i could really go on all day abt the specifics but to be vague witches are a subrace of things called shadows. considered humans while humans are considered mortals. lifespans are expanded. harder to kill. witches even half witches typically have grey skin too but i needed morticia to be visibly herself. witches are the only shadows who can do magic from birth, while other shadows (its pretty much just witches, fae folk, and deathwalkers/normie supernaturals) have to learn it n usually HAVE to use channeling devices like wands while witches use their hands. magic users typically have an element they naturally are good at n can learn others - these other elements are usually what wands are for.

public displays of magical scars is considered like. uncouth. even the hand ones, thus gloves are a societal default and otherwise ur supposed to cover up or charm evidence away. rick obviously does not give a shit n it makes him stand out a LOT more than he should. bc of this, morticia is a lot more comfy around him n more confident as a result. ricks also the only person whos seen her hands ungloved bc of needing to patch her up after backfired adventures. highly personal thing in witch culture etc.

as the last scarring is also considered improper to show off bc 'only non-witches fuck up magic enough to get scarred' witches are v high-society pretentious types, usually high in the government etc. other shadows dont give a shit lol.

scars in question are all from morticias electricity magic kindve exploding on them during a really high stress situation. yewouch!

uh oh morticia goes to a mage academy. public educations kinda meh among shadows but witches have fancy magic schools. full-time magic users are called mages (pc term bc witches used to just claim it b4 other ppl started doing magic too) bc everythings complicated w shadows.

[dearreaders-things]

rambling directors commentary of my vampire!au julian x mc fic? yes? yes.

i mentioned it on ao3 but: inspired by the lovely vampire headcanons post from @iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia bc who doesn't love a vampire's s/o offering their blood to be drunk?

title! bittersweet ugh this one absolutely fell into place while i was writing, i loved it and immediately went in to make sure it was like a recurring motif through the whole fic

i did consider spelling it bittersuite, shout out billie eilish, but ultimately decided against it because the "suite" doesn't quite fit or make sense with the story. however i LOVE that song and listened to it a lot while writing. probably the vibes match.

that one tumblr post abt julian saying upsy-daisy when someone's fallen? yes.

but i love writing him as like a Doctor!! that man is a Scientist and i'm tired of ppl pretending he's not! all the talk of recessive genes and unfalsifiable hypotheses and scalpels, yeah that was a nice lens to look through

dude maybe the most fun part of writing vampire stuff is deciding what lore to fold in. completely disregarding things if you feel like it and getting to add whatever you want? very cool. i mean, such is the nature of folklore :D

i think the vampire backstory of this was also inspired by ali hazlewood's novel bride. shout out to that.

the "metal burns you" stuff i'm pretty sure is from fae stuff? anyways that was a cool association. i also really liked finding a reason to give astrella, my oc, scars in this au. i feel like my fics lately have been a big flashing sign saying "author has dermatillomania!!!" but anyways

also the symbolism with astrella touching something she shouldn't?? mhm mhm that was such a good moment when i noticed it

also also it gave me a reason for her and julian to have matching gloves, which is an image that held over from a different fic of mine (obv in that one it's canonverse so the reason for it was they were both plague doctors. but still.)

sensory description is big in this fic and i love it. also the different kind of levels of mental awareness, going from kinda sixth sense for heartbeats stuff in the beginning then going into the full on psychic bond by the end? chef's kiss. i got a chance to use sooo many tasty words.

“Even before you knew what I am. How many times have you offered up your neck for my teeth?” was the first line i had in mind for this fic. i mean you can see why. look at it.

ok if you made it this far thank you for coming to my ted talk, can you tell i had so much fun writing this

let me know if you enjoyed this rambling, i might write up some more thoughts on the other fics i've written recently! (they probably won't be anywhere near this long lmao i just have feelings)

[zai-doodles]

Hi, I really love your art and you are just so talented and I really really try to be patient but please pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty. Please tell me the Lore with Levy and her pen. I can’t wait any longer. I’m just so curious and so excitedto know how you wrote her magic the Lore you have for her but if you don’t want to that’s OK anyway I hope you have a nice day. Bye ❤️ 

lol sorry for ignoring this i fr couldn't figure out how I wanted to word this and it requires some context for my world building which idk if anyone cares abt but whatever I'm gonna pop off

summary of the magic system is that there r 3 types of magic, innate, holder and patron, they r all v self explanitory

script magic is innate, it is also the overall category for any magic that deals with the actually written symbols of magic (curse and rune magic r both branches of script magic basically)

And for context in my rewrite I have it so fairies r the ones who gift humans with magic to begin with and eventually people started being born with like pointy ears and higher affinity for magic and thats how the pixie race was made

its a pretty common form of magic

ok onto levy specific

my idea for levy is that shes half pixie half hybrid (basically this world's version of furry there's lore for it but that's all u need to know for now)

ANYWAY

All this to say that levy is a very skilled wizard with a love for books and reading and by the time canon starts she's basically the best script mage around, mainly bc she experiments with offensive script magic where as before the magic type was usually reliant on someone else with a more offensive type

This is because script mages need to actually write out the runes and symbols with some kind of Wand, which takes a sec to set up and even then its hard to hurt someone with a word if they have time to move, this also differentiates it from curse magic, which is entirely oral and is overall less refined (most of the time but ill talk abt that if I talk abt freed lol)

Like it's much easier to use a curse than to do script bc script is containing a spell within the lettering rather than like, attacking the person's magic core kinda???

Idk how to explain it but it makes sense in my brain

So buffs and support r the most common for script mages but levy is my Mary sue and I love her

So basically because she's mastered so many languages she's basically invented her own form of magic language for her spells, not unheard of in this world since it's also like a form of short hand that can usually tell u who wrote those runes

However this is usually only based on one or two languages since mixing different styles of like, characters? Can take more time and cause the spell to take even longer to cast

I'm explaining this terribly and making it seem so complicated

But its literally just levy teaches herself her own little language to writer her spells in that's basically magical cursive so it prioritizes speed above all else, that means it's sometimes kind of destructive and not as precise but she's working on it

Eventually tho, when they find tenrou island and have a huge lore dump abt Mavis (who is a fairy), levy is able to get her hands on fae language and magic runes and begins incorporating them into her spells and it's the final things she was looking for to make her spells more stable

The pen was something her and droy collab on basically, due to how unstable script magic can be she needed something able to handle the full brunt of her magic to essentially be her arcane focus

The pen is made from a tree droy grew himself, slowly feeding it magic, somehow dont ask me idk, so it could eventually handle levys power

The idea was from an offahnded comment levy made in an attempt to show droy the potential of his magic since in my lil hc he feels like the least useful member of the 3 (which is dumb and he isnt) and levy hit him and was like no u dumbass magic plants r dope and rattles off weird theories on how it could be used in different ways

hope this was at all comprehensive!

[atomatowriter]

Hi! I'm Alex, she/her, 32 years old. I was a member of the writeblr community a few years ago, though I never made a proper writeblr introduction. I stopped being active around the time of the pandemic, unsurprisingly and for a number of reasons. Now that my life is back together and the internet is...the way it is, I decided it was a good time to come back here. I love interacting with other writers, gushing about our stories and swapping worldbuilding questions. I also have a discord for indie fantasy writers (published and unpublished) if anyone is interested in joining that.

What I Write

I am a self-published author with a debut novel that released in May, The Wounds of Wisdom. Wounds is the first in a YA romantic fantasy trilogy with court intrigue called the Time's Sacrifice Trilogy. I currently expect the second book to be out in September of 2024. You can read book one for free on Kindle Unlimited.

My stories feature messy, emotional characters coming together and learning to lean on each other while unraveling still messier truths about the world around them and the people who hold power. I also write about the queernormative worlds that I want to see, and draw much of my inspiration from years of playing tabletop RPGs.

WIPs (buckle up, folks, there's a bunch).

The Time's Sacrifice Trilogy - A would-be knight, a reluctant prince, and a prickly bodyguard from an enemy nation, each gifted with mysterious divine powers, find themselves thrown into dangerous intrigue when someone begins killing their fellow Wise Ones and they learn that the history they've been told is far from the truth. YA, Arthurian vibes, political intrigue, polyamory.

The Fox Eyes Duology - A young woman looking for the lost realm of elementals in hopes of saving save her uncle and the dying forest she calls home crosses paths with another young woman who would give anything to escape the elemental powers she considers a curse. NA, campfire talks and traveling shenanigans, dark gods and darker humans, elemental magic.

Seasons of Terrafae - a quartet of companion novels, each taking place in a different continent on the world of the Fox Eyes duology, where each continent represents each of the four seasons. Elemental magic, D&D vibes.

Siren Star: The Last Defense of a Notorious Pirate - An aging pirate captain looks back on her career, focusing on her greatest crime of all, the theft of divinity itself. Pirate fantasy, worship of the stars, flying ships, gryphons.

Wildery and Wolf - Friends-to-lovers-to-awkward-exes, Wildery and Wolf unfortunately still have a magical bond due to an experiment with a forbidden ritual a couple years ago. They embark on interdimensional shenanigans together. NA, contemporary fantasy, Bee & Puppycat vibes, not a second chance at romance but a second chance at friendship.

[Working Title] Fake Transcripts for Vampires - An upcoming webnovel about a floating music hostel for creatures of the night, that also offers fake transcripts so they can blend into the human world. Being Human meets Hotel Del Luna, episodic, vampires and werewolves and fae and demons oh my what is that.

Come Home - A boy finds out he's a changeling and plunges into the enchanted forest surrounding his hometown to trade himself for the sister he never knew. His older brother follows after him, unwilling to lose another sibling. YA, Brother centric, ace sex averse MC, scary fae woods, there's a cute puppy.

Asha Crowe Mysteries - A whodunnit murder mystery series in a high fantasy world. Asha Crowe has been chosen by the God of Death, so deaths just kinda happen around her. She gets fed up and starts investigating them. Reluctant protagonist, gods fucking with people's lives, immense fantasy world.

And some more that aren't mature enough to describe yet!

What I Love In Books

Found Family bc who doesn't

Expansive worlds with chunky lore

Friendships and family relationships that are just as intense and obsessive and messy as the romantic relationships

But also yes some good good romance

Messy politics

Full and hard-fought redemption arcs

Characters learning how to people or how to relationships

Adventure stories with lots of travel

High stakes mysteries and intrigue

Probably more idk I read a lot

What I'm Looking For Here

Honestly, I'm an extrovert and I just really love yelling about our stories with my writer friends. I'd love to find some critique partners, or just to hear about what you guys are working on! Just consider this me running up to you on the playground and shouting "HEY CAN WE BE FRIENDS."

[lolly-047]

current newest brainrot is diluven as fairytale everythings

I mean like - fairytale AUs. ALL the fairytale AUs - og, disney, reworked, e v e r y t h i n g

So far i got:

Cinderella/Fae AU (totally not in the process of writing that one, nope, not me) - just. Venti in a pretty dress, yes pls (also lots of probably not-that-true fae lore, bc i am a beginner with fae lore but once i grab an idea i grow several wildly different things out of it, oops)

Tangled AU with Diluc as the princess for a change - babyboi be struggling with expressing his need for freedom and Venti!thethief helping him (yes to all the musical scenes) - i have this really strong image of Dottore as Mother Gothel (bc of the manga, where he was being very predatory towards my poor boy Diluc) also Corona/whatever the name of the kingdom is def has a missing person poster left up for Diluc (his fake/new name could be Phoenix? Bc that sounds vaguely science-y and i don't wanna name him after a vegetable) and Crown Prince Kaeya (also Captain of the Guard aka, taking the role of Max the horse in this) spends half the runtime trying to figure out if Venti is scamming him with Diluc or if that introverted idiot is really supposed to be his older brother (the answer is yes. Yes he is.) I have no idea what to do with the magic hair bit, but i am sure it can be worked in somehow - i am really hoping my hoe of a muse won't decide that i wanna write this one, i am in the middle of way too many projects

Mulan AU, bc we love that one too - i admit, i don't really have the logistics worked out, even in my head, but i got this image of putting people in squads - like Anemo, Pyro, etc... Poor Venti wanting to be in a squad with hotguysecondincommand!Diluc but gets stuck in the Anemo squad instead (i have no idea where that one would go or even who would fight who, or even how the plot of Mulan - og ballad or rework - would fit into it, but i can hear BE A MAN be sung by genshin characters and that is a GOOD image)

Little mermaid AU (yes Venti as a princess again. We love Venti in pretty dresses!) - basically usual premise, but couldn't leave my fav princess story out - would have a bit more time for the bois to fall in love tho bc yes, we love some extended date scenes (no idea who Ursula/the sea witch would be or if they were even malevolent or benevolent in this story, but... yeaaaah. The rest of teh Archons can be mermaids too, cause why not, there's supposedly 7 of them anyway)

Beauty and the Beast - kinda more like the og tales (aka Venti!Belle is not an only child, there isn't really a Gaston character, etc... i might end up writing that one if i am not careful enough xD) - fairy!Lumi gets drunk and curses Diluc, bc everyone's fav redhead is a mess when it comes to love... Nobody turns into furniture, instead, they are locked in paintings (only one painting per person, meaning they can't even reach anyone! So sad, but hey at least they can gossip with Belle!Venti about the master of the house... i put way too much thought into this help xD

Just. All the fairytale AUs. I need more and even more than that

[rocksanddeadflowers]

AAAAAA WAIT OKAY ONLY JUST NOW SEEING THIS!!!! GOING BONKERS !!!!!! I LOVE ALL THIS SO MUCH!!!!!

I don't think I have anything interesting to add to this but first SOUTHERN JONNY!!!! I love southern Jonny so much....... (Side note I can't help but picture Jonny having come from a decent home financially? I mean like, where his parents get on his ass for being improper like traditional Southerners can be.... so him running off and doing all that Lore he's like "finally!! adventure!!! freedom!!!" then the world reminds him he is in fact twelve. Then landing in a castle he's like "fuck there rules again. at least there's food too I guess." Idk if that made any sense but also I only absorbed half of what I read in this thread so .....

Everything with him stowing away and the storm and!!!!!! Imagining that travel took a while with Carmilla before they reached the castle again so there was at least one time they stayed at an inn or something during a bad storm and it was the first time Carmilla or Nastya saw him not being bitchy or snarky, just kinda curled in on himself. When either of them try to check on him he just pushes them away bitterly saying he's fine, so instead Carmilla tries to distract him with little magic tricks and stuff or something!!!!

The rulers having lamented and worried about having heirs and upon Carmilla's return being so concerned she just snatched some random children bc she's fae lmao losing it over that. Also how chill they are about everything like Carmilla showing up with random orphans she found from completely different countries and they're like overjoyed at the notion. God they're so cool (<- they are automatically doomed by the narrative for being cool)

Everything with Nastya's backstory!!!! idk her canon lore every well either but!!!! (the drawing- losing it knawing and biting this drawing and this whole post) And with them becoming siblings like.... sorry I don't actually have that much to add lmao I'm just losing it rn!!!

but OH on a similar note... do we have any ideas for Aurora? How did the castle become sentient, become her? How did Nastya start dating Aurora?? That's just something I haven't figure out yet lmao... Curious if y'all have ideas!!!!

I WAS RESTRAINING MAKING ANOTHER THREAD CAUSE I'M DOING THE OUTER GOD'S WORK AS-IS BUT I NEED TO PROPOSE

So!! If we're going with adopted Jonny and Nsatya because I refuse French Jonny, we need to give them backstories.

MFS. WE. CAN. MAKE. HIM. KINDA. SOUTHERN!!!!!!

Born in England but taken overseas to live in South Carolina before he could speak. He probably gained a British accent from his parents, but a southern drawl which was starting to emerge around the 1700s. (Your Southern Jonny headcanon has done this, Rocks). He probably lived there until he was a teen and then was like "I hate this place", hijacked a ship, and tried to sail to Europe. This ended with him washing up on the shores of France where Nastya would find him. WHAT WASHED HIM OFF THE SHIP WAS A STORM, THUS WHY STORMS SCARE HIM!!! And also, what if his father was some kind of boater and he killed his father to get the ship he hijacked?

Then we'd have to come up with something for Nastya but I personally know less about her because I'm a heathen lmao

This all suggestions though!

@rocksanddeadflowers and @unsat-and-strange since yall are running this shit with me and I can't do it without you :)

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

Ok I hope this is ok and not like super weird and rude. But I was stuck in like Insomnia Land(tm) a few weeks ago and was thinking about Janus in Pieces and Durant in laoft and wanted to share some of my thoughts

Cus middle of the night me was like “oh I wonder if/how Janus will ever be added to laoft, I really love how Violet writes him in pieces” bc I just.... lowkey forgot Durant was pre-name reveal Janus lol. And then I remembered but then i was like... well what if he just added him anyway??

And then bc it was the middle of the night and I have adhd I just started brainstorming that idea so ima leave it here. (Again hopefully that’s not rude I don’t wanna seem like I’m trying to take over ur AU or anything!)

Anyway here’s my rambling/brainstorm:

- so u know how Virgil is literally born of shadows and fear? Janus is the same, but with deception

- specifically the deception when Durant poisoned Virgil. The betrayal was so strong it literally spawned a whole new fae

- except this fae is a little.... off.

- he comes to consciousness rather slowly. It’s like a few weeks of this hazy in between of not quite existing but also not quite not existing. But when he eventually wakes up in the clearing where Durant poisoned Virgil he remembers Durant’s deception.

- Janus looks very similar to Durant. There are only slight differences, his eyes are slightly brighter and his hair is slightly darker. He looks a bit younger too. The most obvious is that where Durant’s scars were, Janus has discolored scales in a matching pattern

- the other major difference? While every other Fae can only speak the truth, Janus can only speak in lies. He is literally deception givin form. Literally Deceit.

- any fae he meets in the forest is pretty hostile to him because they see him as “cursed” or “unnatural”, since he literally somehow inverted one of the rules of their world

- so for the hundred odd years Virgil is sleeping Janus just kinda fucks off as deep into the forest and as far away from other fae or humans as he can

- he specifically tries to avoid both Virgil and Durant. Virgil bc he figures “who wouldn’t hate the physical manifestation of that time their brother attempted fratricide?”. And he avoids Durant bc he knows the Truth and knows Durant would probably kill him to keep him quiet

- he’s not necessarily guilty about being born from Durant’s deception, but he is far from proud of it

- anyway Janus does a decent job of hiding from the majority of fae, untilllll he meets Remus in the woods. Oops?

- this is like. Post-therapy Remus so he’s at the point where he sees “Dee” and is like U BITCH and just immediately attacks him

- and ofc he’s like “dee how tf are you alive?”

- poor Janus WANTS to say “I’m not him” but what comes out instead is:

“Yeah hi I’m definitely Durant.”

Bc he’s just panicking and his brain automatically just takes true statements and flips them and that’s basically what he says to people

Anyway it’s very confusing for a hot minute but they eventually figure stuff out. Remus probably wants Janus to go meet the others while Janus definitely does not want that. It’s also mildly triggering for Remus, Roman and Virgil but ya know they figure stuff out and it’s all chill in the end!

Anyway that’s my little ramble lol I hope you found it mildly entertaining? I didn’t stick really as close to real fae lore (though I guess you could argue Janus still kinda has to tell the truth he just speaks in like opposite talk or smthn lol). Bshdhh yeah you don’t need to do anything with this I just figured u might find it interesting?? Sorry again if it’s rude I wasn’t trying to be hdhdhhhdhfh

V: i love this so much!! not presumptuous at all, i love recursive fic, tho i will probably never add a second deciet character to laoft myself

[divine-motion]

ranking the World of Darkness ttrpgs based on how much i like their lore (under keep reading bc i didn’t want to fill up people’s dashboards with my useless rambling)

Changeling the Dreaming/Lost: 8/10. i have a weakness for fun fae stuff and these are all pretty neat, and i’m glad the most recent book had a disabled person writing on how to approach disability in this like Urban and Modern Fairytale kind of setting. also the flaws are often neat, like how the sluagh can only speak in whispers, and i like how it’s basically “be an annoying shit but in a fae way”

Demon the Descent: 10/10. my absolute favorite. god is a machine that coldly calculates how to achieve its goals no matter how many people it has to sacrifice? angels are biomechanical horrors?? demons are angels who rebel and possess people specifically to hide from god while working against it?? you get to design your demon’s true form?? you hop around from your different Covers (people you possess) and can even just write a person into existence to be your cover??? this shit fucking rules

Hunter the Reckoning/Vigil: 6/10. “working class hunters” are always respected, the big organization hunters, not so much. it’s fine but it’s nothing new or groundbreaking in general

Mage the Ascension/Awakening: 9/10. mages literally just bend reality to their will but reality does Not like that so it might bend you to its will too. also you have a Hubris meter which i think all wizards should have

Mummy the Resurrection: 0/10. Haven’t looked at it bc i don’t like mummies to begin with, they feel very racist and extremely disrespectful

Vampire the Masquerade/Requiem: 7/10. i like its lore to some extent and i like that it’s bc the vampires are old as shit and take over corporations that they can control things somewhat, but i’m always wary of how “shadow organization”y it can get and the blood generation stuff can be a bit weird. however i very much enjoy that vampires are just undead bitches who aren’t even that powerful yet they’re the ones with the biggest superiority complexes around. everyone else has a grand scheme going on, vampires Just want to stab each other in the back and pretend they’re on the top of the world

Werewolf the Apocalypse/Forsaken: 1/10. this lore feels so all over the place, and a lot of it is so fucking gross and filled with appropriation of native american culture, from totems to naming one of the werewolf “tribes” after a spirit of greed that shouldn’t even be named. and then there’s the weird focus on breed and let’s not get into all that. all i can say is i like that werewolves are absolute powerhouses and it’s kinda neat that they’re born rather than made, and i’ll say i do think it’s interesting that they were created to do battle, but they never really go into how werewolves feel abt their existence as soldiers from birth. at least, not that i’ve seen. i kinda hope that the reason why the new book’s taken so long to get made is bc they finally got consultants who could fix all this shitty ass lore

Wraith the Oblivion: 8/10. can’t go wrong with ghosts.

[saddlepunk]

@iowasi I AM GLAD U ASKED

you wouldnt have heard of it bc its a story ive got in progress, and ive only mentioned it on my blog like... once, but its a historical romance novel!! basic premise is as follows:

There's this down on his luck human dude who goes by the name of Edwin Baker who catches wind of an opening as the valet for a merchant's son, so he goes to apply for the job. The one issue is that said merchant's son, a young man named Auguste du Chastain, is also a Fae, and Edwin has had like... no interactions with the fae ever in his whole life and is kinda terrified hes gonna get kidnapped or something. luckily for him Auguste is a dumb gay bastard who develops a crush on him pretty much immediately, which goes about as well as youd expect given that one of Edwin's duties as valet is "help Auguste get dressed bc he's got longass claws and cant work a button to save his life."

Luckily for Auguste, he manages to charm Edwin and they end up in a mutual pining thing. They'd totally just go for it, differences in station be damned, except... Auguste also has a fiance, a mid-level noble by the name of Vincent Coventry, who's kind of a control freak and just all around nasty dude. So the bulk of the story is Edwin and Auguste navigating their feelings for each other while also trying to get Auguste out of this marriage he really doesnt want to get into.

Other members of the cast include:

Davie, Auguste's little changeling kid. He is a feral bastard who likes to bite and roll in the mud and he'd think Edwin was the greatest thing since sliced bread except this takes place in the early 1800s and presliced bread wasnt a thing yet. Edwin is like, the only person who can wrangle him and Davie has some respect for that bc everyone else gave up after he bit them a few times

Anna and Justine, who tend to come as a unit. Theyre the maids, and theyre also married, and they want EVERYONE to know theyre married at all times. Anna is loud and boisterous and likes to tease both Edwin and Auguste about their very obvious crushes on each other. Justine is a little more tactful and reserved but she's also just as much of a menace when she sees a chance to get a dig on her friends.

Jules... is an asshole. He's the house steward and he's just kind of a snot about everything, but he's got Circumstances so he gets a slight pass.

Aaaaand Graham. He's the chef. theres not... a lot to say about him, he's just a regular guy. its fine. dont worry about it.

Ive got oodles of fae lore also, like how individual fae dont reproduce. instead theres a BUNCH of queens, one for each settlement who send out eggs for the fae to adopt. theres also the four High Queens, one for each seasonal court. they are Giant Women and also Bugs. I might end up typing up a whole official lore document on this world bc... i have a lot... but the story itself is the main thing its just like... mutual pining!! drama!! intrigue!! danger!! sometimes they just sit and drink tea but the important thing to know abt Edwin and Auguste is that theyre both kind of stupid and sometimes make bad choices because theyre lowkey horny and highkey in love.

I've got a completed first draft sitting at 56k words altogether, and now im pluggin away at a second draft that might end up longer bc im cleanin up the story and adding in extra bits to strengthen some of the later portions and i just... i love it so much every waking moment for the past week has been dedicated to thinkin abt it-

[mikenewtonhateblog]

My oc’s aka too long of a gd post

The “BL” Crew (does not stand for boys love I’m just a moron who made that abbreviation before knowing what it stands for). My main crew and main series, a lot is a big WIP right now as I’m slowly redoing the first book and all the lore. Why? I love torture. Book is fantasy type but I won’t specify what.

Lacie, the protagonist. God tier idiot, bisexual bipolar depressed MESS, insomniac, former theater kid, doesn’t know what she wants out of life but currently it is not This(plot of book). Hot headed, impulsive, crude, rude, Mommy IssuesTM, would rather be taking a nap right now, rules are made to be broken, absolutely fucking FERAL, more bags under her eyes than the airport lost and found. 5’5, 130lbs, Aries, age 18, white as shit like literally the whitest human you have ever seen, strawberry blonde hair in a 2011 Hayley Willaims haircut with long bangs, the darkest brown eyes you’ve ever seen that stare directly into your soul. Lanky, no curves, body of a 12 year old boy but works out so she can and will kick your ass and thats a threat. Not human?

Josh. Soft boy, smart, Lacie’s cousin and only friend for like the first 18 years of her life, autistic anxious mess who’s special interest is anchient egyptian history, is in honors classes, despises math, passes out when his girlfriend looks too cute, just needs a hug. Can eat a whole carton of easy mac if left alone, whole wardobe is the same outfit just different colors/hoodies, sensory issues, seriously can someone give this guy a hug. 5’9, 150lbs, Pisces, age 18, mixed (half whatever flavor of white Lacie’s family is [they don’t even know its just some scandanavian shit and irish], and half mexican on his mom’s side), medium olive skin with freckles and moles, dark chocolate brown hair that’s a bit of a 2009 Beiber cut, warm brown eyes, not beefy, a lil thicc and self concious about it but squishy boys are GOOD. Gets bit by a werewolf so now he is one his mood on it is “thats a lot to unpack but let’s just throw the whole suitcase away”.

Zander. There is not one braincell in this man, himbo KING, pansexual dumbass with undiagnosed ADHD, no impulse control, head empty and full at the same time, PTSD, his fashion sense should be an actual crime, gets in fights to feel something, basic requirements for him to be attracted to you: kick his ass. Drinks his respect women juice, sees a folding table and must immediately launch himself on it, chaotic, cannot drive a car and will not, food aggression and eats enough for 3 people but never gains weight which is ILLEGAL, him and Lacie may be a couple.....but in this house we stan slow burn, he talks in caps and every sentence either ends with a question mark or exclaimation point, likes romcoms. 6’2, 190lbs, Sagittarius, age 19, austrailian roots and has the accent but is from [REDACTED FOR STORY REASONS], white, dorito shaped with long legs, blueish black hair that’s long and messy, dark navy eyes that match his hair, bigass neck scar from [REDACTED]. Not human

Peter. Gay dad friend who is TIRED of having to be in charge of a bunch of teenagers, only one with full functioning braincells, lowkey a genius who loves engineering, mixes magical technology with human technology because he likes to play god, is he ever sober? No one knows, will kill for a bottle of single malt, his fashion sense? Tastefully expensive suits perfectly tailored. Likes building his own weapons that no one else knows how to even use, generally non-threatening but can get scary if needed. 6’4, 140lbs string bean man, Scorpio, age 179 but looks early 30s, I know I said Lacie is the whitest human but he’s even paler like a literal sheet of paper with scandanavian roots/ancestors were vikings or some shit, blonde hair styled like 2013 Brendon Urie lmfao, light crystal blue eyes. He’s a vampire and was born one.

Danielle. Tiny, sweet, queen of girls supporting girls, comments on all her friends instagram posts with 20 emojis, LOVES fashion and has a wardrobe that would make anyone jealous, oozes feminine energy, only child and parents are in love still, gets exactly 8 hours of sleep each night and wakes up looking like a disney princess. Just because she is small and cute doesn’t mean you should underestimate her she WILL fuck your shit up. Quiet when angey which is terrifying. Josh is her bf and she loves him so much but also loves teashing the shit out of him. Legally cannot cuss, polite, used her high heels as a weapon once, speaks like 5 languages because studying them is her hobby, gardens, hugs everyone. 5’0, 110, Taurus, age 18, mixed (half french-american, half Korean-american), glowy skin always, PETITE frame aka the friend everyone can pick up when they hug, long past her waist curly brown hair, bright green eyes. She’s not fully human as she has fae blood in her and this gives her the ability to talk to and control plants. Flower crowns for everyone

Becca. Theater kid who would die to sing in Wicked and has the vocal range to do so, cannot wait to graduate and go to her dream college which she got into and a scholarship, closeted lesbian bc her whole giant family is extremely catholic and she feels like not dealing with it, “no boys allowed in bedroom” rule is her favorite joke, chill, middle child of 5 siblings and just wants some peace and quiet for ONCE. Her fashion sense is “I’m dropping subtle hints I’m gay but only to other gays”, has a black belt and took self defense classes. 5’6, 145lbs, Virgo, age 18, Latina (cuban and mexican mix), darker brown skin with light freckles over her nose, athletic build, eyebrows on POINT, bright caramel eyes, short light brown hair cut in a bob, has a tiny nose stud, always wears a blue friendship bracelet her gf made her. Human

Anika. Calling her a bitch/slut is a compliment, bisexual, a bit of a mean girl but she grows out of it give her time!!! Is always Too Much, the horny friend, favorite color is red so thats almost all of her outfits, loves to show off her body as much as she can because she’s hot and knows it and thrives in her own confidence. Her mom is literally like Regina George’s mom from Mean Girls but married a rich man 20 years older than her, Anika doesn’t know her bio dad but thats fine neither does her mom and her step dad is nice and does his best to be a dad. Becca’s gf, always hanging out at her home so Becca can get some quiet because Anika’s an only child and has a pool. 5’9, 135lbs, Gemini, age 18, white, long layered dark reddish brown hair, teal-blue eyes, swimmers body type (I normally do not mention bust size but she would want the internet to know she was blessed with big bahoogles so there you go), can sprint in heels. Half mermaid (boy was that a surprise considering her mom doesn’t know who her father is LOL)

Rex. Nb uses they/them he/him pronouns but honestly will respond to any, goth lite, only attracted to men and ace, can read minds so knows all your secrets, mischevious little shit, great friends with Zander and enjoys his dumbass thoughts and that he’s basically a human version of Jackass, wears too many rings, goth boots for kicking and fashion babey, always has the freshest memes and will not hesitate to roast in the group chat, hangs with the girls most of the time. Chaos god who loves making art, be gay do crime, skateboard and spraypaint. 5’8”, 165lbs, Leo, age 18, Native American, masculine frame, dark brown skin, blue eyes, firetruck red shoulder length hair that’s usually in a ponytail, knock-off gucci sunglasses just for judging their friends. Has magic in their blood so not entirely human and can cast spells and shit (don’t roast me its a wip and I’m doing my research)

Sam. Boho goddess, aromantic, makeup and nails are always instagram worthy, quiet and stoic type but losens up around close friends, Rex is her best friend, has some trauma and doesn’t want to talk about it, emotionally numbed out a bit and wants to purely vibe. Has seen some of the worst parts of humanity and wishes she hadn’t, finds no point in being bitter or resentful though because that won’t change anything, loves cats and once she moves out shes adopting one or three. Has wine aunt energy. 5’4, 200lbs PLUS SIZE QUEEN, Scorpio, age 18, Filipino (her parents are immigrants fun fact!), really olive skin sometimes has a grey/green tinge to it, dark brown almost black shoulder length hair, gold-hazel eyes. Sam’s the victim of a family curse that requires her to consume human hearts to survive, she can transform into a pretty scary looking being and uses this curse to hunt down pedoph*les, r*pists, murderers, and abusers. The less often she feeds the less human she looks, hence the constant grey/green tinge to her skin. 

Andy. Baby of the group, must be protected at all costs, 100% didn’t sign up to be in a friendgroup of 90% monsters but highkey loves it, trans, bi, anxiety MAXED, just wants to draw comics and cosplay spiderman, has to babysit his two younger sisters a lot because his parents are....not great, and as a result now knows all the lines to Tangled and The Little Mermaid. Big nerd energy, has to draw on everything including homework, gets inspiration for comics from his friends, awkward and socially anxious, drinks way too much tea and will accidentally steal your pens. Fears include: crowds, thunder, tall angry men, tiny spaces. Just trying his best. 5’2, 100lbs BEANPOLE BOY, Leo, age 16, white (irish and scottish roots), freckles absolutely EVERYWHERE, orangey red hair thats in desperate need of a haircut, chocolate brown eyes, braces, chronic nail biter. Human and kinda wishes he wasn’t.

That’s it for now if you read all this bless u thank u here is my whole heart. Please no discourse, literally these are fictional people I’ll never publish the books they go to.

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Some faery requests over in twitter :D

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alright well now that i’ve got that random bout of “god damn it balance team” out of my system,,,

h2o au lore time

i hit 235 pages the other night!!! this is the longest thing I’ve ever written. I thought my 100 page FFXV H2O AU would take the cake for a while there with 100 pages, but nope. Borderlands.

🥳 a snippet from Junpai-7, long before the events of BL3.

ahaha it’s not mermay anymore u thought u were safe NOPE im full of anxiety and cheese puffs and here to wreak havoc

ive been working on and off these past few nights. it’s been a rough time for... everybody and everything, so i haven’t really had the motivation to write.

but i’ve been playing thru the cartels event while i’ve got time and thinking about the different stones for different magics because obviously these eridium snorting badasses (the sirens, not the cartel) gotta have parallels right?

so obviously eridium is for sirens (and possibly anointed?? im still a little lost on them)

i was thinking for psychics they could have those red eridian crystals that are shown around nekrotefeyo (explaining why Troy has 2 hanging around his neck all the time) and also why his psychic powers are stronger than anyone else in the AU. 

but idk if they have a name other than Eridian Crystal, you know?? should I come up with a name??? because im really bad at that.

also you know how jack’s mind control collar turned lilith’s tattoos that pinkish red?

haha, yeah. maybe it was a mix of eridium purple/red eridian crystals. dunno where jack would’ve got his grubby little hands on eridian crystals, but if they were all the fuck over Nekro powering stuff up, maybe he was able to find ‘em somewhere in an Eridian ruin on Pandora powering, like, a giant fuckoff elevator.

obviously merfolk and werebeasts have the moonstone from TPS (because COME ONNN)

because its literally this game’s eridium and IT’S SO COOL

and as much as i don’t really like the mako mermaids lore additions, you gotta admit the moon rings are pretty dope

like come on

COME ONNNNN

i also like the idea that, well you know how on pandora originally the Vault colorings were these blue-ish white color? I like to imagine that Elpis (moonstone) played a part in stasis-ing the vaults and keeping them from turning the more Eridium/purple color (indicating that they are charging/opening). so elpis/moonstone was actually keeping the Vaults from opening before the 200 year charge period (and obviously sirens can charge vault keys as a catalyst w/ eridium so the fact that the Vaults turn eridium purple, since eridium is so closely linked to sirens, makes sense)

im not sure about fae tho. I want zer0 to have something cool :( I guess they could share with psychics (especially since Zer0′s whole thing is r e d) but I kinda want them to have something unique. like merfolk/werebeasts have that connection to the moon, the transformations, but idk about fae/psychics. it doesn’t sit right with me. 

oooo ooooohhhhhh i know, there’s one more I haven’t thought of. the green. yes. we know it’s canon and not just the bloody harvest event bc of guns love and tentacles. and the wisps/spirits we see in that DLC remind me a lot of will o’ the wisps that fae can be associated with. so sure. say there’s a green... crystal somewhere out there. that, plus its associated with the portals we see often in these events. plus as a dullahan, at least for zer0, that would make a lotta sense given they’re often associated with death. idk about the other fae tho 🤔 i would very much like to see an elaboration on dark maliwan and their research bc obviously there was something going on there. but alas. i have to do everything my damn self.

“I am eternal / death will never capture me / my skills exceed his” also has a much cooler meaning now that we know Zer0 is associated with the death dimension. dope.

also also

“They do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so (often a mark that they are among the next to die)”

hehe, death mark. 

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radiantanor replied to your post:                  I have a genuine question but with the sindar,...                

Great post :) What I also find interesting is the implication that (I think) the Plan has changed at some point between then and the 3rd age, bc the Elves all leaving seems like a given thing and the only good option for many of them. So I'm wondering if it means that it's possible for Eru's plan to change bc of such decisions

I think the elves leaving might be covered by part about how humans are supposed to replace elves in the end, i guess. after all humans and elves DO co-exist in middle earth and numenor for millennia. i think the whole thing of elves going to valinor after like thousands of years of enduring makes sense in the context of immortality in tolkien’s construction of the world, where enchantment and magical power increasingly dwindles and diffuses into real-world history -- sauron is the last Fantasy Evil Overlord, etc. elves going to valinor when they’re young isn’t a great idea, but when they’re really really old and weary enough to start fading and have sacrificed their rings of power and can no longer keep enchantment pockets replenished around them it’s a different story.

of course there’s SOME elves who still remain in arda and slowly fade away, as the enchantment in the world fades away like vernal pools slowly shrinking in on themselves, (*COUGH* smith of wootton major *COUGH*) and are responsible for lots of the later fae myths IRL and also continue to have a greatly lessened impact. ‘course that’s totally speculation -- i guess the real explanation for why the elves all leave is ‘well there aren’t any elves around here in the 20th century IRL soooo...’

(also it doesn’t completely discount the possibility that the elves might return to arda again sometime in the future -- something along these lines was part of jirt’s early drafts, called the Faring Forth. (also sry to be sappy but @ivanaskye is writing a fic kinda involving that premise lol)

radiantanor replied to your post:                  I have a genuine question but with the sindar,...                

   Which would be ironic seeing as Melkor spent so much time and effort trying to do that. Though I’m not sure if The Plan really changed, it actually sounds like it’s very flexible to begin with so any individual decisions can be incorporated (ie the Dwarves). What do you think?    

yea it does sound flexible! and as andreth says in the athrabeth, ‘we men had our own lore, and needed none from the elves’. not to mention the noldor going back to beleriand with all the advanced arts and powers from valinor was also a big leg up, since it was essential in holding off morgoth long enough for the societies there to solidify or change pretty pivotally imo, historically speaking. i def think that in the long term things really follow the whole thing wrt eru and melkor, about how all evil that happens, no matter how disastrous, eventually collapses in on itself and winds up becoming something that was good to have been:

Never since have the Ainur made any music like to this music, though it has been said that a greater still shall be made before Ilúvatar by the choirs of the Ainur and the Children of Ilúvatar after the end of days. Then the themes of Ilúvatar shall be played aright, and take Being in the moment of their utterance, for all shall then understand fully his intent in their part, and each shall know the comprehension of each, and Ilúvatar shall give to their thoughts the secret fire, being well pleased. (Ainulindalë)

For [the Dwarves] say that Aulë the Maker, whom they call Mahal, cares for them, and gathers them to Mandos in halls set apart; and that he declared to their Fathers of old that Ilúvatar will hallow them and give them a place among the Children in the End. Then their part shall be to serve Aulë and to aid him in the remaking of Arda after the Last Battle. (Of Aulë and Yavanna)

otoh that’s.....the 7,000 year perspective. like IRL i’m p sure the people living in 5,000 BC wouldn’t be particularly comforted by the idea that xyz catastrophes that befell them wound up as like, the impetus for incredible strides in foundational technology or whatever. i guess it really depends on how it’s framed to determine HOW ‘disastrous’ the valar’s intervention was