#wip: iqrus

[jacqueswriteblrlibrary]

EYEING YOUUUU

BRO.

Water rumbled quietly. The waves had reached out as enormous fingers, stretching forward in the distance. They licked the solid metal, swallowing more and more of it, almost touching Dane’s feet as he sat on the ground. It wouldn’t have mattered, though. He was wet already, anyway.

yeah you start heLLA STRONG WITH SETTING THIS SCENE.

the physical sensations you use intermingled with the introspection is GREAT

"All the people playing God up there."

"He tried to think about pulling his pulled-up legs closer to his chest, but he couldn't. His body wasn’t under his control now. Fright ruled his blood. There was nothing he could do about it."

^ IM BOTH LIKE. YESSSSSS. but also like WHAT HAPPENED.

and then their (Dane and Auva's) whole exchange made me so curious, I couldn't stop reading??? All the tension between Auva not even needing to force Dane to make a decision, because maybe she trusts him to make the right decision? And she knows he will?

And now I can't wait to see how Adran dies?? saving everyone??

Also??

Winning. There was no winner in matters like these, was there? And whatever he was ready to do, one question still remained unanswered: if he was ever ready to take up the burden of making things right so his brother’s death won’t be for vain?

I absolutely love endings and thoughts like this. I love when characters realize, maybe they did win, but was it worth it after everything they lost? After everything they will lose? Who really won?

Anyways i love those questions.

Oh! this is the blood-drinking scene I read earlier! So THIS is where it fits in!! Tbh with this context, it helps being everything together a lot more and i love it. I love seeing the scenes you talk about come to life like this!

“ᴏᴘᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇʏᴇs,” she murmured, her voice sounding like a… prism. It belonged to her yet echoed on a thousand other.

yo i felt my eyes open a little here too omg

An intricate, vast room that contained everything he called his world. A room made of a prism. The walls reflected the sky, expanded horizons before Dane. All the layers of the images he’d seen opened up for him; the clouds’, the sky’s, the water’s and everything’s outlines splitted into hundreds of their own reflection, into shapes and colors he’d never seen before. Dane could see, feel and hear everything around himself. His vision, hearing and ability to feel erupted and expanded into something that made him be aware of all the happenings of the world. To feel every person and every living thing as if they were a part of him too.

Dane became the beating heart of Aetherius.

BROOO THIS WAS COOL AS FUCK.

Quills cascaded around her shoulders, blanketing her upper body, a featherless wing-like extension growing out of her back as a cape would.

He could use only mortal words to describe her, even though she was so much beyond that comprehension.

“ɪ ᴡɪsʜ ɪ ʜᴀᴅ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ᴛᴏ sᴀʏ,” whispered Dane. His voice similarly echoing in a thousand other as well.

KSDJHKSJDFHKKLAJSDHFKSDJHF AND THEIR WHOLE EXCHANGE AFTER THIS???? cool as fuck cool as fuck cool as fuck

“ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss.” That wasn’t it exactly. “ꜰᴜʟʟɴᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴ sᴇᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅs ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴᴇ. sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ ᴏɴᴇs. ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴏɴᴇs. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ sᴇɴsᴇ ᴍʏ ɢʀɪᴇꜰ ᴛᴏᴡᴀʀᴅs Aᴅʀᴀɴ ᴀɴᴅ Eʀᴀɴ’s ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴏᴜʀɴ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ, Aᴜᴠᴀ. ɪ ᴅᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ��ᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ. ɪ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇᴍ. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴍᴇ.”

THIS HURT MEEE HKAJDHJKDSD I LOVE ITTT

Dude?? You're insecure?? ABout THIS?? you tackle such huge topics such as change, What God should be able to do, and how humans can experience it in your world with its rules in a really tangible convincing way. and how Dane was able to change the rules??? and bring a new era to what guardians are able to do?? basically in the blink of an eye??

Idk it just makes me fall in love with Dane just a little but more now that I've seen how he reacts to all of this!!

ANYWAYS THIS WAS COOL AS FUCK

A Wishing God

To break my absence, I leave here a possible ending of IQRUS. It's fun to explore all the things I was just contemplating yet. This piece also started as an attempt for one of the Flash Fiction Friday prompts, Expanding Horizons, but it ended up more.

DANE AND AUVA | ANGST | IQRUS ENDING EXPLORATION | WC: 2,476

Water rumbled quietly. The waves had reached out as enormous fingers, stretching forward in the distance. They licked the solid metal, swallowing more and more of it, almost touching Dane’s feet as he sat on the ground. It wouldn’t have mattered, though. He was wet already, anyway.

The Aquor Sector’s ankle high water level’s surface let him see the solid floor under him.

He couldn’t move his muscles as he sat in the liquid. Mind filled up, overflowed with everything he wanted to keep it in the pit of his existence. He came here for a reason, yet he wasn’t able to get further than tiptoeing to the edge of the Trashland and finally let his legs to give up under him. All the turquoise, slightly translucent hell surrounded him in the moment he reached the ground. His pants soaked through immediately, his mechanic leg getting tighter around his thighs as liquid terror seeped into the fittings. He knew he should have been afraid of the mutation.

But he couldn’t care less about that.

The day of him getting the Caelus Sector offered modifications burnt into his mind. All the serums, plays with his genes, protection he got. Immunity for the top of humanity, they dared to say.

All the people playing God up there.

He tried to think about pulling his pulled-up legs closer to his chest, but he wasn’t able to do that. His body wasn’t under his control now. Fright ruled his blood flow, all of his big and little muscles, his mind. There was nothing he could do about it, only acknowledge it. He was paralyzed. By shock or trauma, he couldn’t tell anymore.

The waves pulled back, slowly making space between Dane and them. The touch of the liquid swayed around his lower body. Every tiny movement of it made something twitch inside him, building up a feeling he didn’t know how to control now or ever.

He wasn’t planning to move, however.

Even if he could have, he was sure he would have been just sitting in the water, watching the far horizon of endless waves and light. There was nothing at the other end. No land, no building, nothing.

Tender swaying and quiet splashing signaled Auva’s arrival.

She didn’t say a thing, only stood beside him for a second, then slowly sat down. He lowered his head, letting it drop between his shoulders. He couldn’t bear the sight of that infinite horizon anymore.

“What now?”, he asked eventually. He wanted to squeeze his eyes together, but he couldn’t. Dane wanted to stay aware of Auva’s presence by his peripheral vision.

After everything had been done, he wasn’t ready to just drown in his darkness, alone.

Because he was like that. Alone. Finally, and completely. No Adran, no Eran, not even Icharo. So much good for one evil to fall. And so, their most dire problem hasn’t been solved by the sacrifices. Was it really worth it then?

Auva shifted, and Dane could see her hand reaching over to touch the waves that came back to them again.

“Now, you must become a Guardian. Properly.” She tenderly caressed the surface, her fingers parting the water ever so slightly. It didn’t leave a mark, only its echo on the froth. “That would be the ideal. That would be the end of my task. But you must choose it willingly. “ She paused for a moment. “And I am not forcing anything.”

Dane exhaled. A long, stretched out breath. Then, after closing his eyes for a second, he opened them again and looked at Auva.

She didn’t force him to choose. She should have, yet she didn’t. A strange, heavy weight loomed over Dane, as he sat under the open sky and watched this figure beside him who he still couldn’t fully fit into his mind. Into his heart, yes, but not into his mind.

Dane wasn’t sure if he wanted to be something like her. He had no idea what that would mean. Icharo… Lero was her kind too. Whatever they were truly, they had powers he didn’t know he wanted to deal with.

He still felt his mind numbing ever so slightly, only just thinking about what he went through and saw.

Save them.

Adran’s last words bubbled up from his tensed muscles into his mind, showing him the memory of their last moments. His brother. His savior.

Everyone’s savior.

Dane’s left eye twitched a little. He wasn’t the one who should be a Guardian of people. Ionera should be safe after Adran’s sacrifice. They won, didn't they?

He snorted at this thought.

Winning. There was no winner in matters like these, was there? And whatever he was ready to do, one question still remained unanswered: if he was ever ready to take up the burden of making things right so his brother’s death won’t be for vain?

“So be it,” he said, his voice even. “How does it work?”

Auva nodded ever so slightly, an almost reluctant acknowledgement. Then, she pulled out a little glass bottle from the tiny case attached to her belt.

Something gold swayed within.

“You need to drink this first. Everything else is up to you after then.”

“What’s this?”, Dane asked as she handed him the bottle. He hasn't taken it yet.

“A substance that flows in my body and keeps it moving.”

His eyelids fluttered closed for a moment as he gulped.

“So, it’s your blood.”

Auva glanced at the far horizon beside them, lost in thought, before she guided her gaze back at Dane and the liquid.

“That’s an accurate conclusion, yes.”

“And you want me to drink it?” He heard it the first time too, but he needed to make sure. And if Auva didn’t quite understand why he needed this confirmation, she hid it well. As well as any human would have.

“It’s not about what I want, Dane. The world depends on it. Your world.”

The water reached for them again, swaying closer and closer, almost reaching his legs. And the gold swayed with it in the bottle. Auva didn’t move her hands, yet the liquid twirled and twisted. Its metallic shine absorbed the light around itself.

Dane could feel the faintest unease in his mind.

A familiar feeling at this point. Something that made him sick.

He forced his gaze at Auva.

At her, who was the bearer of this thing. This something that changed his world at its core. This thing that those carried in their physical bodies too that killed his loved ones and doomed humanity.

Dane curled up his toes in his fully soaked shoes. His hands were white from all the force he was gripping them together.

Auva was one of them, yet she was so much different. She was here to help. She did not ask anything from him. She let him choose.

Choose something he always strived to reach. Saving everyone. Saving Ionera. Protecting the ruins of their world.

Dane wasn’t the right one for this responsibility, but he was the only one left for this world. So, with heavy hands, he slowly took the bottle, closed his eyes and snapped his head back so he could swallow everything.

Then, he let his hands fall back down and nervously waited.

Waited.

And waited.

Nothing has felt different. The water still licked his sides, he might not have been as cold as before, but other than that; nothing.

“How long does it take to begin?”

Auva smiled. He didn’t know how he could know this with his eyes closed, but he did. For certain.

“ᴏᴘᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇʏᴇs,” she murmured, her voice sounding like a… prism. It belonged to her yet echoed on a thousand other.

He slowly lifted his eyelids, seeing nothing different over the horizon then before. A touch of early morning mist, endless water and small waves… in a room.

An intricate, vast room that contained everything he called his world. A room made of a prism. The walls reflected the sky, expanded horizons before Dane. All the layers of the images he’d seen opened up for him; the clouds’, the sky’s, the water’s and everything’s outlines splitted into hundreds of their own reflection, into shapes and colors he’d never seen before. Dane could see, feel and hear everything around himself. His vision, hearing and ability to feel erupted and expanded into something that made him be aware of all the happenings of the world. To feel every person and every living thing as if they were a part of him too.

Dane became the beating heart of Aetherius.

And with that, his core fright from before — that was so deeply a part of him he couldn’t acknowledge it fully — towards death evaporated into nothing. He knew he won’t die anymore. That he can’t die. Fear and death turned into mere concepts in his mind.

Then, he turned to Auva.

It wasn’t her true name. That wasn’t something that could have been spoken out loud. Dane stick with it, though.

The air wobbled around her figure that did not wore the features he was used to seeing on her. Golden bronze skin without a face, although Dane knew it wasn’t a skin exactly since it flowed in her physical form as well. Quills cascaded around her shoulders, blanketing her upper body, a featherless wing-like extension growing out of her back as a cape would.

He could use only mortal words to describe her, even though she was so much beyond that comprehension.

“ɪ ᴡɪsʜ ɪ ʜᴀᴅ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ᴛᴏ sᴀʏ,” whispered Dane. His voice similarly echoing in a thousand other as well. He wasn’t sure if he was capable of feeling anything at all, yet he knew he would feel awe if he would be his self from before.

Auva smiled. Dane could tell she was, no matter her faceless form.

“ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴅ.” Her voice still ethereal, the language they spoke celestial, if it was a language at all.

“Is ᴛʜɪs ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs sᴇɴsᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ?” Dane needed to ask. There were things that did not ease with his ascension.

“ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ Gᴜᴀʀᴅɪᴀɴ. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀsᴛ ᴡʜᴏ’ᴅ ʙᴇᴇɴ Mᴀᴅᴇ, ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴍᴀᴋᴇs ᴍᴇ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴘᴇʀᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs. sᴏ, ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴇ, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪs ɪᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ sᴇɴsᴇ?”

What was he sensing? How could he describe it? He should have been overwhelmed, but he could not experience life as before. Eternal things laid before him, more than his world only. He won a glimpse of the other worlds that had burnt into his mind; people with pointy ears, monster-like creatures, black suns, violet moons and so, so much more. He’d seen a fraction of all the different sides of that infinite prism that his world reflected it too. He couldn’t be sure what he sensed actually.

He knew what he should have reacted to, though.

“ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss.” That wasn’t it exactly. “ꜰᴜʟʟɴᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴ sᴇᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅs ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴᴇ. sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ ᴏɴᴇs. ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴏɴᴇs. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ sᴇɴsᴇ ᴍʏ ɢʀɪᴇꜰ ᴛᴏᴡᴀʀᴅs Aᴅʀᴀɴ ᴀɴᴅ Eʀᴀɴ’s ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴏᴜʀɴ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ, Aᴜᴠᴀ. ɪ ᴅᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ. ɪ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇᴍ. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴍᴇ.”

Some kind of wrongness nested in his core also. A plague, a reversed black hole. Aetherius’ doom, the dimensional tear that let the terrors pour into his world.

It had been hidden from him, but now he could sense it. The calling of the ocean, deep under all the monsters and darkness; the portal slumbered there, out of the reach of any mortal. But not his, not anymore. And so he could have a chance to extinguish it. Or begin to do that.

Auva nodded, excitement reflecting in the vibration of her magnetic field around her.

“ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʀᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴀs ᴀ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ, ᴇᴠᴇɴ ɪꜰ ɪᴛ’s ᴛʀᴀɢɪᴄ, ᴛʜᴀɴ sᴛᴀʏɪɴɢ ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟᴍɪɢʜᴛʏ.”

“ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ.”

“ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴇɴ,” She extended her hand. “ɪᴛ’s ꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ ɪs ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴏʀᴀʀʏ” And with that, Dane’s senses began to shrink. Whatever he experienced, it did not leave him, only made him more and more anxious. He couldn’t put his finger on what he’d seen in the next second, when he stopped feeling everything.

Minute by minute, he gained back that core terror of death and the dreadful woe that nested in his bones. He got back his grief and his mourning. His ability to remember and love. His focus wasn’t on all living things anymore, he wasn’t everywhere all at once. And he saw Auva only as a woman sitting waist deep in the water.

“How could this happen? I thought being a Guardian is a permanent task.”

Auva smiled and glanced at the bottle in Dane’s hand. He mirrored her movement, realizing he wasn’t paralyzed anymore, even though all his grave emotions only multiplied in his chest.

He furrowed his brows when he saw the golden blood still sway in the bottle. He could have sworn that he swallowed all.

“It was. Before you’ve changed the rules of turning into one. What I’ve said previously was something I only came to know the moment you made up your mind. And so now the rules are letting Guardians choose after they experience what it's like to be one. You’ve created a new concept. A new era. Change is never immediate from now on. It needs time and so you could have only one drop to begin with.”

Dane tightened his hand around the bottle.

“It sounds like I’ve modified space and time in a blink of an eye. That is something only…” God should be able to do, Auva. He stopped himself before he could finish his sentence like that. He couldn’t deny it anymore. He was one of them for a short period of time. If it was a short period of time at all, since time itself lost its meaning for him in that state. Or that’s how he could describe it if he attempted to put it into words.

A soft touch on his hand made Dane shiver slightly. He glanced at Auva’s tender gaze that was full of comfort, yet reflected something deep that he couldn’t really grasp. As if the cosmos itself had been captured in those eyes.

“It must be a lot.”

It was. Dane couldn’t deny that either. But there was also one thing that stayed with him the most after the experience. Something that made him confident enough to hold Auva’s eyes.

“I’ll take the role temporarily. I’ve seen the tear, so I need the power to unravel it, to find it again and close it. But as soon as we’ve reached that, I’ll find someone who’s worth enough to take this role properly,” he said and with that, he flipped his hand to took Auva’s in his too.

[tryingtimi]

Hi there everyone, I decided that now I finally made a WIP intro for my current project, I might as well make a long overdue re-intro too.

About me.

I’m Timi, a late 20s central european adult who tries to finish a book for the hundredth time. You can find me sharing bits of my projects here, as well as spreading my friends’ and other creators’ art of every kind. Occasionally ranting a little bit about life, current media or music obsession.

My intrests are very much revolve around fantasy, sci-fi, litfic, horror, romance and everything inbetween. Can’t be too specific because I enjoy a variety of genres, depending on my mood lol. My all time favourite books are the whole of the Stormlight Archives, the whole of the Green Bone Saga, Interview with The Vampire and Memoirs of a Geisha. Hope that helps (I know it doesn’t, I’m sorry.)

Other intrests. painting ∘ animation ∘ languages ∘ knitting ∘ martial arts ∘ dance

About my writing.

I tend to write what I enjoy comsuming, therefore every kind of fantasy with a pinch of romance and a handful of horror — be that any kind. Plus I sometimes tiptoe into sci-fi territory.

Current work.

PROJECT SASIN ⬑ urban fantasy. crime. romance.

wip intro ∘ wip tag ∘ 40k in 42 days challenge

Later sometimes I might expand the Sasin intro to something like the old ones I made, but I wanted to deliberately keep it lowkey for now. I also have three more projects shared on this blog, that I will not list because of space saving purposes. They are also in the backburner for now, as I try to concentrate solely on Sasin this year. However, there is a lot of content for them from last year if anyone's interested, so.

old wip intro | project Lonel | Metalsea series | project IQRUS

Other blogs.

reblogging other's snippets | reblogging writing help material

[tryingtimi]

Hi Timi!✨

I'm really curious in particular for your answer to this ask since Lonel and IQRUS share a world of what I understand which makes this very interesting...

If you were to write a story in your setting, which would occur at a point in time other than the current time for any of the particular WIPs (or a point in time already covered but within an entirely different region and focusing on entirely separate events), what would it look like? Why would this time/place be interesting to write? If happening before the WIPs current time, would it tell of history known to the current time? If told after, would the events of the current WIP be known history to the characters? Would any characters/objects carry through time?

Hope you enjoy!

~ Circa✨

Love you for this it’s such a fun question, thank you!

Funny thing, I have actually three story planned in the world of IQRUS.

One before Lonel (so far it’s called Sasin but it will change in the future), then Lonel and lastly IQRUS. Sasin will be a story about mafia clans having magical abilities and separated by those, plus a detective who will be deeply connected to them. There, the detective will get a little knowledge about zaphrins in the end of their storyline and stuff in Auris, so they will appear in Lonel later. Because those two are taking place in different countries but slowly get connected by the strange phenomenons like constant raining (which wouldnt be as weird in Auris, Lonel’s country but it is in where Sasin takes place), and the water acting up or not usual. Sasin will have more knowledge of the, lets call it “intergalactical” picture and they want to spread it or get help, assemble force, idk yet. Meanwhile somewhere around where the main Astin Tower will be built, Icharo (IQRUS’ villain) does his thing to flood the planet. That’s what the other countries experience as weird little changes.

However, Lonel and Sasin’s story isn’t widely known to the history of IQRUS, because they are pretty secretive things. But, Adran and the Deep Corps memebers all find many little relics and stuff from the places those stories took place in. That was my first little motivation at the beginning to be honest. To have some Easter Eggs in IQRUS from other stories, like paintings with Selys' name on it that the Deep Corps found in the sunken cities or something like that.

Also, I think what Icharo begins, will mute every supernatural aspect other than his eldritch horrors. So, whatever was with Lonel and Sasin, those powers will be blocked or surpressed almost completely. We’ll see. Because IQRUS revolves around techonolgy that is so advanced it feels like magic. But there is no true magic to where Dane and Adran lives. On another Towers tho… who knows. They might meet Selys at some point.

[tryingtimi]

Happy Blorbo Blursday! ✨

IQRUS/Project Icarus really caught my eye, and so I’m curious! Aside from Acharo and Lero Astin (Funnily enough, I was going to name Antris in my Untitled WIP Astyn before I changed my mind), are there any key important figures in the word, modern or historic?

I’m talking all kinds of importance, political, influential, religious, innovational, popular! I’d love to hear if you have any characters like that!

- Circa

Happy Blorbo Blursday to you too Circa! Thank you for the question! 💙 (Astyn sounds such a magical name tho, it would have been fun to have a connection like that between our WIPs hehe) <- typed up in the ancient times when I got the ask lmao.

And sadly, my answer is that I really don't have any more yet. They are the key ones so far, and since my focus was on other stories in the past almost ?2 years?, I haven't developed any more things for IQRUS. Will do soon tho.

[tryingtimi]

HAPPY STS!

What are your writing goals for 2023?

Hey, dear, thank you for the ask! <3 I'm usually not too big on setting goals at new year btw, but I've planned to do a lil list this time, so it's the perfect opportunity for that. Although, I'm taking the liberty to include some art goals in general.

GENERAL WRITING AND ART GOALS

Starting and finishing the first draft of IQRUS

writing at least 500 words a day

Sketching up the main locations of my WIPs

TUMBLR RELATED GOALS

Clearing out my drafts – answering worldbuilding, OC questions and finishing up every prompt

Posting a wordbuilding and character masterlist

Sharing some original artwork about my world and OCs in an in-world "travel journal" or encyclopedia style

[tryingtimi]

Song for IQRUS: Red Lights by Maximum Love! c:

Hey @rsdan 🥺❤️ How did you know the way to my heart is giving me song recs for my WIPs? 🥺 You’re the first one to do it, but now I know my love language.

Thank you so much for the song rec dear, this is SO FITTING! I just love it! And ngl I’m already having snippet thoughts, so YOU’RE A GEM! 💕✨💯

[tryingtimi]

Find The Word

Thank you so much for the tag @aschlindartroom!! It was a very fun one! I got all of these from IQRUS and actually from the same chapter, so I even arranged them in order lol. My words were: touch, target, took, time, teach and tough.

Open tag to everyone, but I'll also tag @bloodlessheirbyjacques @jess-p-edits @friendlyneighborhood-writer. No pressure tho, just saying hi and hoping all of your weekend is a blast! <3 But if you participate, here are the words: worn, wise, window, wreck and wildflower.

TOUGH

"Incredible," Eran's voice came through the nanophone. "I've never seen such flor before. At first, it looks like the ones closest to the sector, but if you pick one up, you can feel it's much more tougher, like a thousand times and it still bends easier compered to those at home. They stronger and weaker at the same time." Adran looked around once more to check that nothing had escaped his attention. He noticed only then, that a figure on the outskirts of the city, wearing a diving suit of their corp, had fallen headlong into a nest formed by the strange seaweed at the protrusion. Even through the bluish-purple view of his Deepsight, he could see the red color of his friend's suit.

TOUCH

A faint outline of another figure emerged in the center of the city before Adran's eyes. Thaddeus' massive size was still noticable despite the distance, as he slipped out of the broken window of a once convenience store's ruins. His shoulders almost thouched the frame. However, it were the glowing locks on the boxes swimming behind him that widened the smile on Adran's lips. They shone only when they were packed half-full.

TEACH

Adran got no response, but he could see as Eran began to pick up some florun for sample, still mesmerized by the strange, glowing seaweed. New discoveries may have easily distracted him, but experience was an affective teacher, however little someone had. Adran did not need to remind him of the dire consequences they might can suffer.

TARGET

"Movements nearby. Origin: unknown." A small, round crosshair appeared in front of Adran's eyes, after the robotic voice in his ear died out. The sign jumped straight into the right corner of his sight. He swam aside, instantly reaching for his laserblade attached to his back. Reflexes. It was good to have them. Hilt in his grip, he finally glanced at where Zynx – the assisting AI – was pointing. The veteran saw nothing. The endless, dark depth of the ocean hid nothing notable. At least that's what his ordinary, human senses would have made him to believe. Adran began to swim towards the target. He didn't have to go too far, since it was still on the highest platform above the ruined, sunken city. Zynx pointed behind a little mountain of a rock, so he got around that, while he lightly squeezed his eyes to turn on the Frost-Vision in his Deepsight. His view turned bluish, so the thing still functioned well. The veteran's hand tightened around the hilt of his weapon as he finally reached the target and got a glimps of the "unknown origin".

TOOK

It took Adran a solid minute to get his sight back and fully comprehend what just happened. The nest exploded. The city rumbled beneath him as the stone of the cliff cracked everywhere and began to destroy everything that left of it. All the floruns were gone and Eran was nowhere to be seen. But there was no body either. Good sign.

[tryingtimi]

But his job wasn't for human eyes.

More of his friends were gone than it would have been comfortable to keep track of, and it was impossible to get used to this.

Tell me a line from one of your wips that you have memorized. I'll start.

[Smoke] filtered through her lungs by way of pain, and she thought she deserved it. She probably did; the list of her faults was long.

[tryingtimi]

Taglists for the WIPs in the individual posts. To sign up for any of the taglists, please fill out this form. I will also share snippets and crumbs from projects other than these three as well. Those will be tagged with timis other stories, but I'll make them a masterpost someday for organisation purposes. ♡

〄 METALSEA SERIES settled with this one for now

When Cronyl, the exiled young driadlin man tries to fight against a fairly corrupt kingdom alone in a reshaped world that no longer bears humans on its back; an unexpected Turn of the Metalsea happens to upset everyone's plans — and life itself on both half of the planet it holds together. Confused and disoriented, Cronyl teams up with the people who he stumbles upon in the chaos and they begin to wander together, revealing more and more secrets about their roots and the world they thought they knew.

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SNIPPET | CHARACTER | WORLDBUILDING

genre: epic fantasy, adventure, with a sprinkle of romance pov: past-tense, third person limited, also a lof of character (i think i have at least 5 MCs) setting: fairly typical high fantasy, but i try to come up with as much original stuff as i can — hopefully original races for example, also a little bit steampunkish later in the story status: slowly starting the first draft — when i can finally stop worldbuilding plus note: i plan this to be a series of 4 or 5 books, because i can't write short stuff if i happen to start writing tag: #Project Metalsea

◉ IQRUS temporary title, sometimes I call it Project Icarus

A slowly growing, great gap separates the two borther, Dane and Adran Cohren, when they begin to fight againts Aetherius' otherwordly horrors on the brink of human extinction.

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SNIPPET | CHARACTERS | WORLDBUILDING

genre: sci-fi, fantasy, eldritch-lovecraftian horror or thriller (not sure yet), probably a little grimdark pov: past-tense, third person limited, more than one character pov setting: cyberpunkish, futuristic, deepwater stuff and a fair amount of bullshit science status: outlining and drafting plus note: i know the description is very vague but i couldn't write one without too much worldbuilding (yet), so i'll make it up some later, maybe when the individual post is up already tag: #IQRUS

☏ LONEL settled with this one for now

Lonel has two secrets. One, he is the last of his kind since his mother was killed. Two, he is certain a vampire is to blame. These, however, are secrets he can’t tell anyone about. Vampires do not exist, and he can't be sure if his mind could be trusted anyway. Until one day, during his daily forensic cleaner job, he witnesses a scene that changes everything.

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SNIPPET | CHARACTERS | WOLRDBUILDING

genre: neo-noir, thriller, urban fantasy pov: past-tense, third person limited setting: Wolf Among Us and 1960s-esque city with full of crime and all. status: brainstorming and outlining plus note: i need to come up with a better summary, but all in all this is it. everything is subject to change, especially since i may or may not want them to be vampires or werewolves but something a bit more unique, even tho the base concepts are the same. tag: #Project Lonel

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TIMISRECS. I reblog works from here to keep others' works I enjoyed in one place. TIMISHELPSAVES. The URL says all. I reblog writing advice, helpful tips and such from here.

#timisramble | #get to know timi | #timis general worldbuilding

[tryingtimi]

Happy WBW! Can you tell me a little bit more about each of the sectors in your IQRUS WIP? Do you have maps or like a general idea of the layout of each? What's a fun fact about each area?

Heyo! <3

I love talking about the Sectors, and I also got an ask about it the last time, so here’s a link to that. This time, I'll focus more on its aesthetics then, and give you some visuals. Even tho I don't have actual maps yet, I plan to make a 3D model of the Astin Tower in the future, but it's hell of a project, so I'm really preparing myself for it lol.

Enough talking now, here are the aesthetics from pinterest (none of this is my art ofc):

The Aquor Sector Fun fact: If you happen to fell asleep on a landfill – which is rather common because everyone wants to be the first one to get to the newly arrived batch of trash tech stuff in the morning –, then you most likely will lose a well-functioning mechanical arm or leg or basically anything that can be detached from you. People will steal the good stuff even off of the living.

The Terrana Sector Fun fact: There are places that you can find only if you're a Restored or if you've been invited there by one. That fact that you've found the place is basically your ticket to get in there. Also, some people think the caelusian are gods, so there's a church for them here.

The Caelus Sector Fun fact: Some augmentations contain harmful tools hidden inside. It's a kind of open secret which people will discuss shadily during social gatherings. ;)

[tryingtimi]

Happy Blorbo Blursday! You asked me about one of my ships, so tell me about one of yours! What is one of your favorite WIP ships? How did they meet? How do others see them?

It took me a little while, but here it is. Thanks for this question! <3

One of my fav is probably Dane Cohren x Auva Knox in IQRUS.

Tiny worldbuilding detail for better understanding. Water flooded the world a long time ago, and since then the water level is constantly increasing. People live on platforms that attached to one gigantic tower that can transfer these platforms higher, when a flooding comes again. It’s necessery because monsters appeared in it and touching the liquid results in mutation. Not necessarily major mutation, but their skin becomes slimy, or scaly, or membrane sarts to grow between their fingers etc. Lovecraftian deep water creature mutation you know. Depends on how much time the person spent touching the water. So, the lowest plaform (they call these sectors) is basically in constant danger and most of his people got some mutation from previous flooding, when the trasfer of the platform was too slow or something. The population drastically decreased, and the highest platform almost reached the top of the tower, so very soon, there’s gonna be nowhere to go.

Dane is one of the main characters, who freshly got his PhD, and is applying to be the representative of his and the lowest sector in the Divum Council. Auva will be his supervisor, and kind of his partner in their department. They both want to solve this water problem and raise some awerness in the highest sector, so they can change the lower sector’s life into a better one and, well, keep life up at all. Their start is pretty good, because they have the same goal and they try to achive that in the best possible way. They’re great at working together. But, as they begin to getting to know each other, they realize how much they differ and everything gets a little bumpy. Dane is a very down-to-earth person with a lot of emotional baggage and trauma. He likes to focus on his goal, and he’s a man of science and logic. Unlike him, Auva is a very open-minden personality with the itch to understand human nature, so she’s more focused on people. She also loves to question Dane’s stubborn resentment towards belief. They’re debating constantly, but never argue actually. Which is an important aspect, because Dane talks about these stuff only with his brother and it never ends peacfully from his side. They also always question each other, keeping the other one checked on the right motivation, morals and everything.

Oh and she also has an aspect that messes with Dane’s morals, ideals, his head in general, but that is a huge spoiler (but I mentioned in one wbw already I think lol), so I’ll just leave here under a cut.

How do other’s see them is a veeery good question and I really love it! Most of the people see them as two equally competent person who can work together efficently. But those who know Dane will think it’s weird how long Auva can stay by his side without either a rejection or getting frustrated by his comments on scientific stuff and straight up just quit. Those who know Auva will be only very interested in Dane, beacuse they will see the changes on Auva – this one’s explanation is under the cut too!

She’s not human. She is literally a kind of “higher” being, but not a god. So, how she percieves the world is very different than any other character’s and actually that’s why she is that interested in human nature. Also this is one of the reason why she and Dane works. She geniuenly wants to understand Dane, and by questioning a lot of things, she forces him to think outside his bubble. In the end, they kind of help each other become more human, I guess.

And those who know Auva are similar beings too, so they are fascinated or threatend by Dane. But they collectively amazed, how more human Auva gets to act by getting close to him, so they just stand around him and basically start to study him, when she introduces him. They throw some random questions at him, try to figure out how his influence works etc.

[tryingtimi]

You guys are so sweet, thanks for the recs 💕 (yes i'm very late)

How are you?

So-so. Autumn melancholy hitting me hard and this staying at home for a week because of sickness took a toll on me. Kinda detached from reality at the moment. But, also excited to start a new (but old project related) piece.

What wip are you working on?

Still trying to finish at least one on-going snippet for either Metalsea or IQRUS, but since it's literally two days and October's here, I also want to dive into that IQRUS side project I want to submit to a competition.

Do you recommend any writeblrs?

Everyone? Will tag some, but seriously, all of my mutuals and those who I follow/ they follow me. @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @writingonesdreams, @aninkwellofnectar, @the-void-writes, @blind-the-winds, @aschlindartroom, @jess-p-edits, @approximately20blorbos, @friendlyneighborhood-writer and so so much more!

Who is your favourite oc?

Uh-oh, at the moment I think it's Thaddeus from IQRUS, since his dad's gonna be in the novella and he's in my mind recently.

Who is your favourite fictional character from any franchise?

Kaladin or Adolin from Stormlight Archive? I have a lot of favs, so I just leave this here.

Who is your favourite author?

Brandon Sanderson. Probably half the planet knows this already now lol.

Can I come into your inbox and ask questions?

Always. 💕

Its been a while!

So I have some questiona

How are you

What wip are you working on?

Do you recommend any writeblrs?

Who is your favourite oc

Who is your favourite fictional character from any franchise

Who is your favourite author

Can I come into your inbox and ask questions

[tryingtimi]

Hey friend :3 Happy STS!!

Pick a song(s) that represents each WIP and what would play over the trailer? (:

@bloodlessheirbyjacques ✨

Heyho, friend, happy STS!! ❤️❤️

Thank you for the ask @bloodlessheirbyjacques!

Uh oh, you just chose my absolute fav thing. I can't write without having the perfect music for my WIP's (or whole playlists tbh, no question why I have like a thousand playlist on spotify), in fact, usually my story ideas come from lines from lyrics or whole songs (or mishearing something because I'm very big on that one lol).

For Project Metalsea is Brave New World by Kalandra is the one that represents it and the trailer song is Hidden Machinations by Eternal Eclips.

For IQRUS is Here We Stand by Hidden Citizen and SVRCINA is the one that represents and for the trailer is Shimmering Cities by Pawel Blaszczak.

[tryingtimi]

Tune Tuesday

I'm late a bit I know lmao but in my heart everyday is Tune Tuesday, so. I'll go with a separate post, because I'm probably gonna write a lot and it's better that way then.

I'll also give some new songs at the end just to keep this going hehe

Rules: Listen to these songs and describe your WIP/OC daydream as you listened to them. You can pick one song or do both and you can be as brief or descriptive as you like.

Thank you so much for the tag and this game @jacquesfindswritingandadvice! <3 <3

The Sound of Silence. This one gives me goosebumps every fucking time I listen to it and I love it. This song is also a tune for Adran, the big brother from IQRUS!

A lots of responsibility weighs his shoulders and some of them he took it upon himself voluntarily, but that doesn’t mean he can’t feel overwhelmed sometimes. But usually when he feels like that, he talks to (the IQRUS version is slightly different, but still) God and even though they never answers him personally, he feels better. However, when conflict comes upon conlict, God answers him the first time. Not gonna go too deep into it, because spoilers, but Adran’s head will be full of voices and whispers soon. I think you got an idea where this leads, but I’ll not spoil for now :D He slowly loses touch with his peers, his environment and his reality. From a point he just wants to find peace again. And in the end, when everything seems to fall apart, he will find it. For a moment, evertyhing will be clear again. He will find his peace and silence at last.

Man or a Monster. Definitely Darmon’s song!

When he faces the consequences of his action the first time is the one scene that came to my mind right away. He will look around in his environment with open eyes, seeing all the glossy eyes and empty faces he created through the years. He will walk faster among the “zombie-like” creatures. Every one of them awaits his order, not moving an inch by itself. Darmon feels sick. All the creatures, big, slender, draar, driadlin. They act the same when you rip their soul out. But it was for the right cause, right? He didn’t even know it won’t be reversible. Did he? No, he was very aware of that deep down and he still did it. At that point, he will reach the cages of the prisoners, and he needs to force himself to look at them. At the point ears, the too long arms and legs, the too slender or too bulky figures, at angry or frightened faces, at them whom curled into the corner of their cages, at… people. By the Three, they had souls to take and lives to fight for! He realises what he just did and then sees a kid too. He tries to change back whatever he did to her, but he just makes it worst and that’s when he losts it completely. He decides to free and warn the people (first time he calls them that) so they can save what’s left of the world from the monsters wearing the skin of men. Just like him. He also will learn some healing magic later on, so the "In your hands, there's a touch that can heal / But in those same hands, is the power to kill" line is just perfect for him.

All The King’s Man. This song is one of my all-time fav and I wrote a little novella for it in the past, but now with a different association, this one is also a Darmon song lol.

There's an event in Metalsea that will upset the world order and everything will change very drastically and fast. Some people even go kind fo nuts at some point and one of them will be Prince Urien who wanted to marry one of the MC's but couldn't because she ran away. So, when this event happens, Prince Urien kills his father to make himself a king and takes Syonehlia (the MC that ran away and Darmon's love interest) as a hostage to make her his Queen. Then Darmon finds himself in prison with every citizen of Evalon. He’s cluless about what’s the Prince’s twisted plan or motives, but he won’t sit in a cell while innocent people are imprisoned and Syon is in danger. He manages to free everyone from prison, however, the newly crowned King Urien has half an army of corrupted creatures with him that attackes them right away. Innocents die, while Syonehlia struggles to escape Urien’s grip. This overwhelms Darmon, he sees the product of his actions (because he created these corrupted creatures) and while he despises the idea, he uses his dark magic one last time and goes berserk. With feather light steps and seemingly choreographed gestures, he butchers the corrupts alone, barely keeping himself together. The shadows and whispers call him to join them, so when he’s on the doorstep of losing himself completely, he somehow wakes up from the dangerous haze.

And here are my songs for you guys <3

No pressure tag as always!

Tagging: @jess-p-edits, @aschlindartroom, @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @approximately20blorbos, @friendlyneighborhood-writer, @kjscottwrites, @author-a-holmes

[tryingtimi]

Happy Tunesday! 🎧

Rules: Listen to these songs and describe your WIP/OC daydream as you listened to them. You can pick one song or do both and you can be as brief or descriptive as you like.

I'm in a sci-fi mood today, so here all of this is from the IQRUS playlist.

Tagging: @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @jess-p-edits, @aschlindartroom, @aninkwellofnectar, @writingonesdreams

[tryingtimi]

Thank you for the trick, hehe! I'll leave here the beginning of a scene then, that I'm still working on. It's a cult scene from my sci-fi wip called IQRUS. The trick is: it's a non-canon scene anyway. 🧡 Also thank you, I am well! Hope you are too!

Iron grey clouds gathered around the horizon, shielding the sun and devouring its rays one by one. Cleaning them out of sight. Brother Noxton have been taught that this kind of a weather was the prime time of maintaining the holy duty.

When the world itself tried to look away.

He waited to join this voyage since he successfully has been Restored. He left the facility in the hope to be a part of Her plans and now, finally, here he was.

IQRUS taglist 🌌: @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @jess-p-edits, @circa-specturgia, @moonscribbler, @blind-the-winds, @odysseywritings

Hi hello!

🎃🦇 Trick or Treat! 🎃🦇

Hi, hello, Timi! I hope you're well today. I pick...TRICK!🎃👀