#wip: psi

[transman-badass]

My Lovecraftian horror novelette, THE DARKNESS IN OLD BELLBLACK, is out! The first in my Pharaoh Syndicate Investigation series is here!

Get it over on itchio!

[transman-badass]

From The Darkness in Old Bellblack

At the top of the stairs, a hole where a door once stood waited for us. Dirty papers scattered the wooden floor, and more waited inside. Sadie drew in a sharp breath. I stared at the remnants of chaos. Doors ripped off hinges, books torn in two, glass fragments lining the wall. Stepping into the hall, I looked within the nearest room, but the darkness revealed only a single empty bedframe.

“What the hell,” I mumbled.

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[amndees]

(full ver below) saiki wearing the outfit i wore yesterday :)

i thought it would be fun to do considering i also have magenta pink hair rn lol. my artistic rendition of the shirt doesn’t do it justice i love that shirt it’s just a littleeeee ugly (how i like it)

[transman-badass]

“You can't have her!”

October 1930

Arkham, Massachusetts

When the most powerful criminal in the city walks into a detective agency, only trouble can follow. Lazarus Core looks into Nathan O'Tipp’s eyes and half expects to be shot. He'd deserve it. Lazarus and his best friend Sadie have been getting in O'Tipp's way for months. But the syndicate leader has a different purpose for this visit: He wants Lazarus’s help.

O'Tipp, a follower of the “Old Ways”, sends Lazarus into the abandoned Bellblack Institute. A former sanitarium, closed for 20 years prior, Lazarus knows nothing about it. O'Tipp claims a book has been left within it, a book he cannot claim on his own. And he says that Lazarus must get it without Sadie.

It's clearly a trap. Lazarus and Sadie are sure of that. Disobedience seems the best choice; Sadie joins Lazarus on the midnight search. It's a choice Lazarus regrets. Something takes Sadie. It speaks with her voice. It knows his name. And nothing will stop Lazarus from saving his best friend from it.

Starring: Lazarus Core - Sadie Goode - Nathan O'Tipp - And Someone Very, Very Scary!

Vibes: Creaking floors and flickering lights + full moon and scattered leaves + ruined rooms, absolute destruction + glowing eyes in the dark + memories of family, biological and found + a hand that never healed right + a heart that never healed at all

Features:

Short story Novelette set within the Cthulhu Mythos

Found family - no romance

Transman protagonist

Villain you'll love to hate

Terrifying eldritch entity

Everyone has secrets - everyone

Plot twists everywhere

NO mental health exploitation horror!

Status: third draft

[transman-badass]

I'll do this for my other project later but for now lemme show y'all some stuff from my Cthulhu Mythos project, Through the Yellow Window

Here's a post about the King in Yellow in this story Here's a post written from the post of my eldritch OC, the Sleepwalker Here's a queer non-canon scene with the protagonist and his love interest Here's a scene with the protagonist and the mafia boss he works for And here's a scene with a very important side character talking to his father, a Classic Mythos character, about the protagonist

And just for the hell of it - my buddy Rev over at @tenebris-metallum draws Cthulhu Mythos art! It's not specifically for my book, of course, but I do have permission to use their darling OC, the Duke of Carcosa. Check out this picture here, then go to their blog and look at their cool takes on the King in Yellow and Cthulhu himself! You can buy stickers from them, too! Highly recommended!

EDIT: Also for anyone that plays Call of Cthulhu, the ttrpg - my other buddy @darkersoul has a sale going on for his scenario The Things We Feed! Check it out!

okay so every couple of weeks i have the thought 'wow people dont reblog writing like they used too anymore' and it's true but what's the point in having that thought and doing nothing to change it?

you all should reblog this post and share some of your writing or art or moodboards or fun facts off of it! give me something to look at and reblog!

even better, try and check out the notes once this gets spreading, and do the same!

[waxyfir]

I’m kinda behind on posting so have this WIP :)

[bbq-potato-chip]

wippy

[tigerbubbles]

wip - dark!saiki (?)

[transman-badass]

Okay let's give this a try

So I accidentally recreated a major plot point from one of my favorite slasher movies in this. It's too good to spoil but like. You'll know it when you see it

Since Harbinger is AWOL, his boss sends one of his best friends out to bring him back - and he's a Classic Mythos character!

I haven't talked about him much on this blog but the King in Yellow is terrifying. Body horror, existential horror, and mindfuck horror all in one set of robes with too many empty, tattered, fluttering sleeves

Silent Hill has proven to be a big inspiration in creating my interpretation of Carcosa. Direct quote from my outline: The Duke paused, and pulled the wine glass from his lips. “Monsters?” He said, looking at his guest. “They look like monsters to you?”

Another quote that I don't know if I'll put in and haven't actually shared with anyone iirc: "if the Duke had a womb I'd have three times as many siblings as I do now."

Let’s follow that first prompt up, and take this chance to share some fun facts about our story! You can either do a five point bullet-style list of fun facts about what’s going on in your wip, or just use this as an opportunity to ramble!

Looking more guidance? Make them come from the center of the story!

[lazepolar]

Man..wip.. kusuke

[el-costae]

anger.

[hypesline]

Teruhashi things~

[transman-badass]

OKAY SO

This whole thing was inspired by a roleplay I did with my buddy Stella. It uses, with permission, characters made by my friends, so I plan on self publishing everything I write for it for free when it's finished.

The story follows Lazarus Core aka the Harbinger, and his best friend and surrogate sister Sadie Goode, after a failed attempt to free the city of Arkham from the clutches of the mobster Nathan O'Tipp. My current WIP is a novella (I think?) called Through the Yellow Window. In this story, the Harbinger is pulled in and out of Carcosa after seeing the Yellow Sign, and clashes with the Duke of the Yellow Court in his attempts to rescue his kidnapped childhood friend. Through the Yellow Window was originally a short story but I realized after finishing the first part that it didn't satisfy me in that form, so I expanded on it. And it really did expand.

Secrets are very important in this story. Pretty much all the main characters have traumatic backstories they don't wanna talk about. Disability rep also seems to be a theme - Lazarus struggles with speaking, one of the original characters is blind, and Walter Gilman is still very much deaf. Which reminds me, there are Classic Mythos characters present in this story - Walter Gilman and Frank Elwood from Dreams in the Witch House are part of the protagonists' group, Henry Armitage and the various professors at Miskatonic University are antagonists to O'Tipp and boy I'm excited to show y'all what I've done with Randolph Carter.

I have no idea if this means anything to you 😅 it's just, in the original stories these characters were rather flat. Lovecraft was a pulp writer so the quality of his work... Varies. (The aforementioned dreams in the witch house reads like they published the outline instead of the actual story.) And the racism in the original stories really is as bad as you've heard if you haven't read them yourself. So I'm trying to, to borrow a quote from Frankenstein, "reanimate the lifeless clay"

And knowing it would piss off the old bastard to have his characters used like this makes me happy. Really, there's a whole subset of nasty people I'm looking forward to pissing off. I'd like these people to know they're not welcome in the Mythos anymore. Lovecraft is dead and his beliefs need to die, too, and anyone who shares his way of thinking needs to get kicked the hell out so we can make something better and more fun.

I could ramble about this story all day but I need to find something to eat 😅 I've got another WIP as well that's in a different timeline for the Mythos, it's more dark academia than noir like PSI is. Maybe I'll tell you about that later if you like!

can y'all recommend some folks on tumblr that write and post their queer/lgbtqia+ fiction? if you are one of those people, rec yourself! send me your wip intros or whatever, I'm down for that, tag me in posts, whatever

I'm not saying I'm back-back but I want to like, dip my toes back into this thing in the hopes it'll help me get back into writing and I need writerly folks to surround myself with to get there

[clownz8]

A wip of the next drawing since I didn't have much time today

[banjotheturtle]

Being a Saikik fanartist is really cool and all…

But after deciding to draw Aren on his motorcycle I ended up doing way more research than intended while trying to find out which motorbike he rides and ending up falling into a rabbit hole on the history of the Bōzōzoku biker gangs of Japan ( similar to American greasers or British rockers ) and watching multiple documentaries only to change Aren’s canon bike to a modded mix mash of various old Suzuki bikes except still after all that I have no clue how to draw the engine.

Anyways here’s a photo of the the bike, I haven’t actually drawn Aren yet but we’ll get there. Also I may or may not animate it a bit:)

Something a bit sad to think about though is that Bōsōzoku culture was dying when Aren was in his gang because saikik is vaguely set in 2010 and that’s when there was a major decline so he was never there for the peak of Bōsōzoku culture which was in the 80s and 90s so it most likely wasn’t all too enjoyable. I imagine it’s kind of like being in a dying fandom where you want to go back to when there was hype around it if you were to try to make it more relatable.

[volivolition]

Another snippet from Meet the parts for wip wednesday 🥺?

I really want to read it when it's finished!

HELLO RED!! :] yes of COURSE, here's a long block from ency for you <3

ENCYCLOPEDIA – On April 2nd, you and Kim caught a culprit during a high-speed motor carriage chase using my knowledge of the higher-than-average PSI most Coureuse-Luxe 645S's are equipped with, Dreamer’s idealization of a movie featuring a similar getaway, the wind telling you of the road access cut-off set up the next block over, and Handsy shooting out the tires of the suspect’s MC before he could get away. This was all in the span of 10.2 seconds. You informed Kim as you were driving back to the 41st that it was “a quad-color compromise” due to one of each skill sub-type assisting you.