#vivian and sarcinia

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GUESS WHAT BITCHES (AFFECTIONATE) WE'RE COOKING WITH GAS!!

Transcript under the cut. Original post/idea.

All bad stories begin with a summoning circle.

That’s what Ramira do Monte had scolded when she caught Vivian in the Directed Study section. 

She puckered her lips like she’d just had a sour draught of potion while her eyes tooled Vivian head to toe. They lingered at the dismal shape of her hair, the dirt beneath her fingernails, and the muck flaking off her boots. 

Finally, her gaze came back to the spellbook clutched in Viv’s ashen hands. Bronzen leather embossed its seams, its title scrawled in Old Xelan. a complex lock which possessed no keyhole clamped its pages shut. 

“Let me see your DS slip,” she puffed, hand extending vexedly. “No professor in their right mind would sign off such a tome to a baccalaureate.”

Viv shoved her fist deep into her robes and produced a crumpled scrap of parchment. Ramira brought it excessively close to her fleshy nose and stared at it long and hard. 

“Professor Lambright?” she said suspiciously. 

“I’m apprenticing his research,” Vivian said, careful not to reply too quickly. 

“I won’t be doing anything unsupervised, Ramira. I mean, c’mon, without a Tombkeeper’s License? Do you really think so lowly of the dear Professor?”

Ramira’s lips pressed so tight they might well fall off. Her folly was and always would be an utter faith in the hierarchy. She thrust the tattered Directed Study slip back into Vivian’s calloused hands.

“You know what they say,” she harrumphed before repeating the immortal words.

It was easy to dismiss at the time. However, keeping the warning out as she traced sigils in goat’s blood was another task altogether. 

She hadn’t lied. Well, not technically. Lambright had asked for the book. He had wanted Vivian to get more hours into her apprenticeship docket. And sure, he’d be pretty pissed if she knew she had followed their lesson by drugging his tea and taking the book for herself.

But what else was she to do? It had been an insane gambit to even convince him a baccalaureate was ready for this kind of training at all, let alone make him think this particular book was his idea. She couldn’t chicken out after all she’d been through.

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ohohohohoho >:3c we are getting somewhere, impeded only by my big project hubris

if you buy me a ko*fi (.com/eloquent) you'll get additional (high resolution!) updates on this project in the coming weeks. and, you'll be the first to see the finished projects! unlike a pat*reon, no subscription is required--it can be a one-time tip :3c

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Vivian WIPs! Mara and Sarcinia to come soon. Full-res and more rendered images will be posted at a later time on my Ko-Fi.

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phew, okay! i may be two weeks behind on calmwrimo updates, but at least im making progress, right?

yall wanted to see the anthro worldbuilding most, so i've worked on it and it's about halfway, maybe 2/3rds done? my hope is a kofi release for pwyw in early december.

now [rubs hands together] i have vivian and sarcinia brainrot so i gotta give into the urge. is anyone interested in being added to their taglist or having it serialized on ao3?

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i love how w most things, i started w a clear idea of sarcinia's first full piece, and then hastily diverted into different branching styles, and now i have like 3 pieces of concept art and one illustration planned. good thing i have the next two weeks off of work :V

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Hi meria

In honor of Thanksgiving (for me) what are some things your blorbos are thankful for?

Thankful for your asks sleepy 😌

I'm going to do this for Vivian and Sarcinia because I have fucking brainrot!!!!

Vivian is currently very pessimistic, but if it had been before her sister's death, she would have said her sister and her progress in her education.

Sarcinia is a VERY grateful person. She just effuses gratitude. If you gave her a blank cheque, she'd go on for a while. She's grateful for mushrooms, and her patron animal, the vulture. She's grateful for people who want to be buried in natural Graves or coffins and she loves people who compost. She's also incredibly grateful for the cycle of the day and night. She loves watching the days pass from dawn till dusk till dawn.

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I'm so excited that it's the weekend and I have no plans 🥰 I'm going to do artsy stuff and relax and do chores and be cleannnn!!!!!

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bluesky ✧ tiktok ✧ ao3

current projects

✧ kiralli-verse

large world project / multiple stories ⋆ high fantasy ⋆ status: building world wiki

✧ hill to die on

novel ⋆ speculative fiction ( jewish supernatural thriller ) ⋆ status: "unfinished object"

✧ vivian & sarcinia

serialized web novel ⋆ romantasy ⋆ status: active drafting

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Vibrates w a mighty need

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SOOT - What is the core of your WIP?

i love this bc!!! it truly makes me think of the reasons why im writing in the first place and what draws me to my wips.

kiralliverse is sitting this one out because it's a universe without a set number of wips yet so it's cheating.

hill to die on's core is twofold: 1) sometimes surviving is as much the horror as death, and if i lose touch with my humanity, am i still alive?; 2) jewish joy will always persevere, even if we try to fetishize jewish lives as pure suffering.

vivian and sarcinia's unnamed wip is the simplest, i think. decay is part of the circle of life. you can't escape it any more than you can escape the grief of loving and being loved.

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Vibrates w a mighty need

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Vibrates w a mighty need