#this post is gonna age badly by the end of this book isn't it

[kats-chaotic-wonderland]

*Slams book on desk*

You!

*Pointing at everyone in the Warhammer fandom*

I've got a bone to pick with all of y'all! How come the fandom representation of Fulgrim is so damn empty compared to his actual novel depiction!? Why did no one tell me about all the people on his damn ship pre heresy?!?!?

All anyone ever talks about with Fulgrim is the hee hoo slaanesh primearch, or the smug artist boy. But no one has mentioned that the first description of his eyes is that they're friendly. Or that he's introduced in his horus heresy novel by walking in and gently asking a wonderful musician to continue her concert after a noble disrespected her. I know about all the creepy and horrible shit. But why did none of you ever mention he's absolutely sweet?!?!?

*takes a deep breath*

Anywho, I'm reading Fulgrim visions of treachery, it's pretty good.

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How dare none of you mention Ostian, Serena, or Bequa! Those three goobers are exactly what I wanted in a Warhammer novel and they deserve more attention!

[deadwrites]

Well I was set to keep going on in the tags of the prev post but I think what I need to do is just make a seperate post.

The Tales of Nocturna-Illume (through the shadow of the sun) will be a pretty short cut and dry slavefic story, definitely self indulgent and the court of the gods origin story that is referenced in FNV and all other fics in my what, deadverse? how edge, I like it. It's about a secret prince slave, greco-roman-persian-egyptianesque inspired. Very self indulgent and cliche. I live for trying to make the cliche feel fresh. We see Emryth, the mc, in FNV a couple times, Book I and Book II. TTSOTS is going to be novella to novel length. I hope.

Even fire will burn itself out is euro-medieval era-ish, having Étienne--a dragon-burnt slave--going on a bit of an adventure (I HAD been considering following the hero's journey template but boy does that stress me out) that ends with him and a dragonshifter together. There are dragon hoards. There are wars. There are lots of godstouched creatures in it. Weird dragon sex. You name it. It's gonna probably be a trilogy.

Lead Bodies is what's going on on the human side of the dragonic war, specifically in the warring nation's court. It's court politics and forced relationship, with the mc, Aris, being the royal favorite/obsession. He had kids and a bad case of OCD and runs off with a knight (will not spoiler besides for saying it ends badly). I like this one because it isn't going to be an epic insomuch as the story of the grand battles etc go to Étienne in even fire will burn itself out. For Aris, I am thinking of less of what's the most epic thing happening in the world rn, and more of "why is THIS the part of Aris' life that deserves to be told". There's a fun little incubus-imp critter that he ends up with in there. It should just be a novel. A long novel.

(Man I would love to write a baroque/age of enlightenment/maybe french revolution? inspired story. I have a lot of french and euro art history under my belt so I tend to draw a lot of inspiration from that. But I need to chill with the stories until I FINISH something. Hmm. Plague, philosophers or alchemists, beheadings, powdered faces, maximalism...).

Next is The Lighthouse, which I started publishing then took down when I got serious about FNV, because it's not gonna get written anytime soon even though it's meant to be quite short (50-60k?) and is noncon FREE (?!) and about a pretentious existentialist gay guy who, in a lenin-era-russocommunist world, fucks a siren. Very fun, very much an introspective piece about loneliness and PTSD.

And then we have the siren and under the earth, which are modern era and may or may not ever see the light of day again.

Lastly, modern era, is Booters (working title), that is a novella tragedy pet whump story because I dislike pet whump as a whole and hate bad endings. But! I read a compelling essay by Arthur Miller (after reading death of a salesman) and found the idea that he proposed of a tragedy being great because it shows the tenacity of the human spirit in spite of impossible odds to be quite inspiring. We do live in an era of impossible odds, don't we? So anyway, pet Daisy works at bussy Hooters and had a bad ending. But at least he tried. I want to post an excerpt sometime. It's a novella, maybe short story, only has 3-4 chapters.

I am pretty terrible so I have about 20-60k written for each of these stories, sans Booters, but certainly most of it will get tossed by the time I am ready to get serious about them. Anyway that's the tour of my rough drafts. Don't get too excited (congrats if you read to the end of this) because it'll be ages before they get posted bc I am unfortunately a slow long format author.

[burritowitch]

Okay going to continue my explanation of young: just us with an explanation of season one!

so since a lot of the early yj stuff was very secret focused, season one is focused on Greta. So after the series premiere, as documented in my first post about this, we come to episode five, where the team has their first encounter with Harm. During this fight, it is made very clear that Secret is uncomfortable with Harm but isn't sure why. The team isn't sure what to do and they're losing pretty badly, tim is being thrown around, cassie isn't doing all that much damage, bart is lying face down on the road, kon's ttk isn't doing all that much, all of cissie's arrows are being thrown back at her, he's dodging all anita's attacks and her powers aren't working on him, slobo got thrown into the sky and hasn't come down yet, shits hitting the fan. so tim makes an executive decision to book it and no one is complaining.

Episode six they have a parent teacher conference <3 this goes roughly the same as it did in the comics but +agent fite. yaknow how it is, silly goofy fun camping times with the kids, everyone ragging on bonnie, kon seeming vaguely suicidal, tim being paranoid enough to wear two masks. just some team bonding and a look in on their home lives (or lack thereof)

Episode Seven they have to deal with something unimportant and in the background kon's trying to catch cissie's arrows because he thinks he should be able to (this will be important)

Episode eight, they meet with harm again while stopping him from killing the pope (wtf was the point of this???? gonna use it anyway). And everyones starting to feel somethings fucking off when hardly any of their attacks are working. Only Secret's. Anita is able to do a tiny bit of damage but not much. So Cassie says run and they run. (tims still the leader but people listen to cassie)

Episode nine theyre having a pool day but most of the team runs off, leaving greta alone by the pool. She's looking into the water and starts to see things. A brother. A sister. A stereo and a bathtub. She's terrified. Immediately runs to go find the others and tell them she knows who Harm is, who she is. And she knows something else, too. Harm is dead and so is she.

Episode ten is a ghost battle for the ages with the others running around trying to tip things in greta's favor. It's working, but barely. She's only just barely winning by an inch. At the end of the fight, they disappear into a cloud of dust. No one knows what to do so after hours of waiting in silence they just go home.

And that's season one :)

[prism-empurress]

story time, and this is gonna be a long one so buckle up.

This is the Nightmare Realm Arc. Idk when I'll ever write this as an actual story, idk where in the timeline it takes place, I've had this part of my story in my head FOREVER, ever since it was a vastly different one in it's conception but I'm gonna spoil the whole thing in this tumblr post. In short, PegaKitty's nightmares as a blossoming young girl are plaguing her waking hours as she's deep into a depression. In her nightmares, she's in a world similar to hers, but devoid of color and constantly raining. As she explores this chilling world, she hears many ghastly moans begging her for help. She looks around, crying, because she can't SEE who needs help. She needs the help of her friends to solve the mysteries of this realm. What is this place, who's in control of it, how can we vanquish the bad guy? uhm keep scrolling if you want to avoid spoilers.

So, after all the clues are pieced together from PegaKitty's cryptic therapy notes, Lady Greenfyre discovers that where PegaKitty goes to in her nightmares is an actual place. She gathers as much information as she can from Nicholas and countless books, and begins learning how to craft portals to other worlds in hopes of searching for the specific one that PegaKitty frequently has nightmares of.

After multiple failures, Lady Greenfyre is close to quitting when suddenly, during a stormy night, an asteroid crashes in her backyard. From that, a wounded alien close to PegaKitty's age seeks refuge and we learn that his name is Ganthor and he can dream-walk.

Dreamwalking is unheard of, as is dreamwalking with more than two participants.

With Ganthor's help, Lady Greenfyre is able to practice dreamwalking, but ends up walking into her own blacked out memories filled with choking smoke and screams. Terrified, she tells Ganthor she can't face what's inside the smoke. Ganthor tells her she has to, in order to save PegaKitty.

It's revealed that Lady Greenfyre was badly mistreated as a child, to the point that she sets everything on fire. But there's a silver lining, someone helps her dispose of her crimes. Someone who isn't around anymore.

Lady Greenfyre cries, relenting on how much she misses Lydia, the one who took her under her wing. She says she feels so lost without Lydia's guidance, but remembers she has newfound family now and realizes she doesn't need to be haunted by her past anymore.

The smoke clears, and Lady Greenfyre discovers her true dream; to help everyone find their own destiny. She forged her own, can she not help forge others? Her motto is "be who you needed when you were younger"

Meanwhile, Nicholas is doing intense calculations on a blackboard, and he breaks a piece of chalk. He groans, bending over to grab it, when suddenly he hears something. "Save them." Getting back up, and wondering who's voice that was, Nicholas looks back to the blackboard. The calculations are arranged in a peculiar way, making an image of a woman. He squints at it, then he's hit with a migraine. Nic collapses.

He has a peculiar dream where he's chased and trying to hide. But he can't run fast enough, and he's caught. Nic wakes up, head pounding, there's still the image of the woman on his mind. The headache goes away when he finally draws the image in an old sketchbook. He reflects on the dream, and theorizes if PegaKitty's nightmares are spreading to him. He knows she's calling for help, to whoever can hear her.

PegaKitty doesn't wake up. But she's not dead. She's still breathing.

Nic gathers Lady Greenfyre and Ganthor in PegaKitty's room, and tells them that he needs to come with. Without dreamwalking practice, Nic's dreaming brainwaves could disrupt PegaKitty's nightmare realm, forming it into something even more malicious.

Aware of the risks, of him potentially being a liability, Nic says that PegaKitty's antics make him smile, and he'd risk everything he had to bring her smile back.

The dreamwalking process begins. But Ganthor finds himself alone...in his ship that he stole. He's wandering the cosmos again, but the ship controls keep changing. Assuming the ship to be either stuck or on auto pilot, he leaves his seat and explores the other rooms of the ship.

He encounters three rooms, and enters the first one. In it, he sees himself, with longer hair, cooking calamari with a giant whose face is obscured. All is well, until multiple hands spring from the floor and grab the other Ganthor, including his long hair. Ganthor screams, grabbing a knife, and cuts his hair to escape from the arms coming from the floor.

He shudders as he remembers his home was destroyed, and sometime after that, he was kept to his room and not allowed to leave it except for a few times during the day. Behind the second door, Ganthor encounters a hallway. He goes down it, and arms spring from the floor again, reaching for him. Summoning a spear, he stabs all of the arms. He asks outloud what the hell the hands are supposed to represent, then he rubs his own arms...to find they're covered in large bruises.

He remembers being harshly dragged to his room, arm being squeezed so tightly he felt it was going to pop. He remembers fighting back one day. He then remembers not all of the bruises are from being grabbed, but the rest are from escaping.

Now the room is shrinking. And getting darker. Ganthor continues booking it down the hall, and escapes.

The final door, well...when he opens it, he's bathed in a gentle light and reaches for it. He grabs the hand of PegaKitty, except she looks different than in the waking world. This wingless PegaKitty is in a hospital gown, and apologizes profusely for making everybody worry about her so much.

Without knowing her very much, he pulls her into a hug, and tells her she has nothing to apologize for. Wings sprout from her back, and suddenly they're falling from the sky. PegaKitty and Ganthor are still holding onto each other, and are afraid to let go. PegaKitty says she's not sure she can hold on for much longer, Ganthor encourages her to keep flapping like her life depends on it. PegaKitty tells Ganthor about her insecurities, about how everybody must believe her to be incredibly stupid. She believes she has no place in this world, and that she burdens everybody she comes across. Ganthor tells her that from what everybody's told him about her, she's a loving, crazy, creative girl who shines on everyone's lives.

"I want to know more about you. the real you. in the waking world." "Promise?" They hug again, and Ganthor's back in the pilot seat... his arms tingle longingly for her embrace. No more bruises. Okay this post is getting crazy long so stay tuned for part two where there's an epic battle and shit.

[lecoindecachou]

Virgin River Thoughts Episodes 2-5

Can't believe Dead Mark is Elijah Mikaelson... Someone who cares about this show more than me write a fic where Mel is a Mikaelson by marriage

Not quite sure why they replaced Cheryl with Charmaine...Were they worried that having Jack fucking the 'town drunk' would reflect badly on him or something? Charmaine is okay but I always liked that Cheryl got a happy ending of her own despite being written so uncharitably early on.

Wait I did not realize that one old bitch is Lizzie's grandmother?? Wow the adaptation was not kind to her, she is heinous.

It was kinder to Hope McCrea though, she comes off as more no-nonsense than truly annoying like in the books.

I *knew* this show was gonna make Doc Mullins and Hope exes. There was just something about the bickering! Also not in the books but romance show gotta romance show.

This show really likes its lovable misogynists, huh? There's Doc, and then this dude comes in, insults Mel for being...a woman who's a nurse (what lmao. Isn't that profession traditionally filled with women? Maybe if she was a dirty lady doctor) and then starts waxing lyrical about how he was adopted, bitch? I don't care, fuck off.

Okay, am I remembering wrong that Lily didn't have post-partum depression in the book but was just embarrassed about having a baby at her age? Also don't remember a dead husband but admittedly it's been forever.

Loved Joey in the book, love her on the show.

These people are so smug about how nice and helpful they are compared to 'city folks.' You just know if this was real life they would be the most racist, worst people you know

"But pot's legal now!" Yeah, I feel like that really fucked up their plot lmao, wouldn't those illegal pot farms be made redundant?

I *am* enjoying Mel and Jack's romance so far. I like that there's tension but they're also kinda becoming friends. Something something two broken people finding each other