#threads: amber.

[lvciddreamt]

@wildhcrses

“wow. didn’t think i’d find you in this part of town.” amber’s tone was mocking, all bravado and bitterness as she stepped closer. she’d come back to get the last of her clothes from the motel room, but clearly she wasn’t the only one with unfinished business. “i got a fancy new place now.” she was clearly bragging, even if she tried to play it cool. “you wouldn’t believe it was mine if you saw it. especially after months of living in this dump.” disdain filled her voice as she smacked the bedside lamp to the floor, shattering it. “so what are you doing here, huh? come to kiss and make up?”

[hyunpic]

not him trying to seduce stay to get drenched in water..

[mythrilthread]

These past months I’ve not been dead, but rather multitasking (making author’s copies of books I’ve bound previously to send a box of them to the US, experiencing a severe depressive episode, and also, working on this!). And now: Behold, the best fucking thing I’ve made in my life so far! ✨

These two books are basically step-fanfiction, or maybe fanfiction times two, seeing as it's the story (co-athored by my darling spouse and I) featuring NPCs from our long and passionate TTRPG campaign (played in the setting of Tessa Gratton’s United States of Asgard). Do not be fooled by the books’ papery appearance, they are primarily made from my heart’s blood and tears.

🌟 The story takes place in 6 (ish) locations over the course of a year (and that year is 2000, which is why people are still into paper maps), with one of the protagonists being very fond of various maps and the other keeping his notes in a Pigpen-style cypher, which informed a lot of design decisions. The constellation (featured on the cover and on the title page) is formed of all the mentioned locations as marked on the road map (which I stitched from two pictures and painstakingly edited all the state names, some borders etc etc to replace the actual US names with the ones Tessa mentioned in her books and some that we came up with as the need arose). Every chapter starts with an additional map, marking the location and date, and with coded (and decoded) prompts from the Star-Crossed TTRPG that we used for inspiration.

🌟 It’s a bit of a tradition that spouse and I use different fonts when writing together, with their usual font being Arial and mine (surprising absolutely no one) Georgia, but for this I wanted a more matching pair of sans/serif fonts, so the body text fonts are DejaVu Condensed.

🌟 The title page illustration is by the fantastic @erebus0dora (my request was basically that I wanted it to look like one of the Bridgerton promo posters but less glossy, and oh, they delivered! The Major & I (referencing, of course, The Duke & I) is a joke name for the hypothetical crack version of this book where every chapter ends with “And then they fucked.”) When we finish the definitive edition (with many deleted scenes and other bonus content), it is also going to be on the dust jacket.

🌟 All additional illustrations are ephemera that I made for the story, added as extra-illustrations in my copy, and as scanned images in the spouse’s copy.

🌟 The bookmark charms are actual (plot relevant, of course) apricot pits, sanded, polished and waxed by hand.

[medievalthymes]

if anyone was wondering how my read of the liveship trader series is going… it’s… uh going

EDIT: UPDATE for when i got to THAT part (I literally started pacing around the house i could not handle it)

[eliotquillon]

after watching 4 whole seasons in less than 2 weeks i think house md is maybe the perfect example of why we need to bring back 20+ episode seasons. like yeah sure there's a very clear formula but: there's time to add sub-arcs! motifs! weird experimental episodes! the season finales actually feel like season finales because there's enough episodes in the rest of the season for the characters to have chances to breathe without sacrificing the momentum or wasting time. it actually feels like there's a passage of time happening without the need for explicit mid-season time skips or exposition dumps because, guess what, the season is long enough that time actually IS passing. when characters change their hair or visibly start to age it feels normal because again: time is actually passing in-universe. i yearn for the days when television actually felt like its own distinct thing!!!!!!! i also yearn for lisa cuddy but that's not the point here.

[lxvenderhxzehv]

Where: The bar

Who: Amber and Noah (@thirtecnth)

Noah had drank a bit too much and Amber could tell. She giggled a little and wrapped her arms around his waist "Baby, I think you might have hit your limit....why don't we get you some water..." She said with a concerned smile. She never wanted to overstep, but of course she was going to look after.

[thechosenanubis]

Fabian in S1 be like:

[ofyorkshire]

ouhh, what i wouldn't give for someone's face to soften completely when they see bj and coo a quiet, warm, "hey, baby."

[thirtecnth]

@lxvenderhxzehv / closed starter / amber ryan setting: noah & amber's place

After the news, Noah was walked to his house by James, eyes on him since he couldn't be trusted. He hadn't talked much-- his brain was fried and simply didn't want work at all. He really hadn't known when the shift change occurred or what Amber might've known about what was going on... He was just simply there. Seething but blank. "He just put them in the ground," he said, swallowing hard. His knee bounced with anxiety. "Torn to pieces. With no stone, no flowers, just fucking earth."

[everyxthingxisxredx]

Where: Amber's Apartment Who: Amber and Rhiannon (@chaosandcrimson)

It was getting late Rhiannon and Amber had just gotten back from a party and she was fixing to go to bed. She hadn't indulged. actually she was Rhiannon's DD usually in these cases "Hm?" She turned to look at her friend who had popped out on the deck with her "Oh! I wasn't thinking about anything...nothing in particular I was just getting some fresh air. Everything okay?"

[emblazonet]

Honestly the thing that is starting to impress me the most about Pern is how wide a cast of characters Ann McCaffrey is constantly juggling and how consistent they are from one book to another. Not just that, but constellations, planetary bodies, seasons, all these tiny worldbuilding details.

Meanwhile here I am writing my novels by changing spellings halfway through, forgetting what gender various characters are, and barely remembering who said what.

What system of organization did she use? Spreadsheets? What is her secret???!!!!

[inklver]

@dutystricken and i's beloved fish boy

[mythrilthread]

So, today I found out that I never posted the first iteration of this project here, so I guess it's time to remedy that.

The Vampire Box is a remix of Tessa Gratton's short story by the same name, written by me and my beloved spouse. It was inspired by ttrpg characters very near and dear to our hearts, and a screenshot from Castle Rock because fancasting actors as your NPCs will get you like that. It is a story about growing up and learning what's important to you, and also about keeping a vampire in a cage in your basemet to bring your family prosperity. It's short, and sweet, and I love it.

The original version (the one with a cage on the cover) is one of my first projects in general (so it was made about a year ago), and my first ever A6 book. It was a lot of firsts—first debossing on the cover, first quarto, first book printed on that good white paper to make the illustrations (there are two, the second one is a full spread) pop. I made it in a frenzy, as my darling was returning home from a trip and I wanted to give them a surprise gift, and I messed it up, and they cried anyway, and we made the version in the pictures together.

The second one also gave me hell, I think I redid it three or four times? I finished it about a week ago. It's ridiculously tiny (this is the format that prints 60 pages per side of A4 sheet, it's like an inch and a half tall). I used a different approach to typesetting: the vampire's pov is set in red, and not in a cage like in A6 version, I dropped the illustrations here. But I still love that they are very obviously the same book while also being different.

[demongemz]

I’m seeing visions. ( amber ) @daydrcamings

Abigail found herself taking a moment to assess just what was before her, she’d started prowling around the other. “Well clearly imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I don’t like the idea of another walking around with my face.” She mused, stopping her prowler to face the other “Who put you up to this little plaything? Taunting me isn’t something that can be easily ignored so paint me curious why someone is daring to walk around with my face in this weird little place we now have to call home.”

[lxvenderhxzehv]

Where: Huntsville Lake

Who: Amber and Noah (@thirtecnth)

Amber walked around town holding her ice skates. She came up behind Noah and wrapped her arms around him "Hey there handsome" she teased. Taking one of his hands placing a gentle kiss to it. "Are you going to join me on the ice?" She looked up at him with a bright smile. "I'll catch you if you fall...."

[oftatteredwings]

for: @drcamland​ ( kirby ) location: outside a support group

"Hello stranger. Haven’t seen you here for a while...” Amber’s comment was said in jest as she stepped out into the corridor. Truth was, she hadn’t been there all that much herself either over the last year or so, she could hardly judge him for anything.