Hello everyone, my name's Alina (Twenties, female), and if I'm not studying I'm likely on here (or writing, lol). I've had this account for a while now, I use it for posting my stuff as well as the lovely writings of others.
I now have an Ao3 page too! As of writing, I'm fairly new, and I'll be gradually uploading my works onto there as well :D
And here's what can be found on my blog:
- My writing (see below)
- Other people's writing
- Writeblr things I think are neat
- Eurovision posts (lol)
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🤡 What would your main character look like if they were on a child's cartoon?
🎶What is your main character's theme song?
🎠What kind of repetition or repeated motifs are visible in your wip?
Yay, thank you as always for the ask!! <333
🤡 What would your main character look like if they were on a child's cartoon?
I think the best way to describe this would be a style reminiscent of early 2000's animation, a cross between 2D animation and Fortiche's current painterly style (like their style for Arcane and some of their modern music videos for League of Legends, for example).
So my main characters would have some exaggerated proportions, but their clothes would have a certain level of detail. Not quite Arcane-detailed, but more detailed than a typical cartoon. Almost anime-esque, in a way.
🎶What is your main character's theme song?
For Eshani, this was a hard one to decide. I have a number of songs on my playlist that suit her, but they all encapsulate different aspects of her and her relationships. So I'm going to break the rules a bit and list two
^^ This was the song that inspired part of the core essence of her character, back eons ago when she first came into my mind (yes, she appeared in a dream!). The reason red is Eshani's signature colour is because of the music video xD
In terms of the sound and intensity of this song, I attributed it to Eshani instantly. The reality? The translation of the lyrics shows that it relates to Cerigo's feelings about Eshani! He's conflicted because he does have feelings for her, somewhere, yet he's afraid of what she has become. He struggles to reconcile the two sides, especially if Eshani is in his presence.
As for Alycja, I found a pretty strong pick just a few days ago. This one strongly resonates with the disillusionment that Alycja feels with her religion and her community, as she's being condemned for doing the right thing (using the Chalice to stop the skeleton).
The bridge of it even reminds me of the conflict that Alycja feels, as she knows who she's meant to be loyal to, and what she has to do, but she realises she's living her dream of becoming a(n apprentice) mage, and maybe doesn't want that to end yet.
🎠What kind of repetition or repeated motifs are visible in your wip?
The repetition of certain numbers comes up a lot in A Healing for the Birds, as a nod to mythology doing the same. Typically, at least in Irish mythology, it would be 3 that appears a lot, but in this wip, I picked 7.
Seven is the number of provincial courts that founded Helinda, as is the number of nymphs which once guarded the Chalice.
Most notably, seven is the number of High Councillors. A decent number of facets tied to them are split 4/3, such that if the meeting scene between them at the beginning-ish of A Healing for the Birds (preview here) ever got made into something animated with music, the score for that would have a 4/3 signature.
Some of the 4/3 facets are major spoilers for A Healing for the Birds (and This Blood-Stained Charcuterie), so I'll only list some 👀😉 (sorted by surname)
Four women (Faison, Emar, Varesh, Sarivauke), three men (Ailkouri, Melaushe, Darüven)
Four born outside of Helinda/Morilaste (Faison, Emar, Varesh, Darüven), three born within (Melaushe, Ailkouri, Sarivauke)
The 'foreigners' are also the majority voting group (barring the odd deviation, usually on Darüven's part 👀)
Four wear bright colours (Faison, Varesh, Melaushe, Sarivauke), three wear dark ones (Emar, Darüven, Ailkouri)
Three hold parallels with the original founders (Faison, Emar, Sarivauke), four don't (Darüven, Varesh, Ailkouri, Melaushe)
Three are known for some form of magical (re: unethical!) experimentation (Varesh, Sarivauke, Ailkouri), four are not (Faison, Emar, Darüven, Melaushe)
Four have been High Councillors for more than 100 years (Emar, Varesh, Ailkouri, Melaushe), three have been for less than that (Faison, Darüven, Sarivauke)
Okay first off, all of these songs are bangerrrr. I might look at the first and third ones fully, because (Trader oc talk whoopsies) the vibes of In The Name of Love gave Ryan and Ruby after Ryan's secret is revealed and things are tense and broken between them... and I looked at the lyrics of Void and it seems very much like a Sam Allen song 👀
The numbers importance like mythology does is super cool! I do like that the 4/3 facets aren't all just like, the same 4/3 people each time, and they tend to mix! That's very neat!
I love messing with numbers too lol, some numbers are super important in Souls of Black 👀:)
The thing about the 4/3 split is that most of them are an accident! I never really intended it that way and yet, at some point in the past few years I first noticed it and I was like "wait a minute..." :0 🤣🤣🤣
🤡 What would your main character look like if they were on a child's cartoon?
🎶What is your main character's theme song?
🎠What kind of repetition or repeated motifs are visible in your wip?
Yay, thank you as always for the ask!! <333
🤡 What would your main character look like if they were on a child's cartoon?
I think the best way to describe this would be a style reminiscent of early 2000's animation, a cross between 2D animation and Fortiche's current painterly style (like their style for Arcane and some of their modern music videos for League of Legends, for example).
So my main characters would have some exaggerated proportions, but their clothes would have a certain level of detail. Not quite Arcane-detailed, but more detailed than a typical cartoon. Almost anime-esque, in a way.
🎶What is your main character's theme song?
For Eshani, this was a hard one to decide. I have a number of songs on my playlist that suit her, but they all encapsulate different aspects of her and her relationships. So I'm going to break the rules a bit and list two
^^ This was the song that inspired part of the core essence of her character, back eons ago when she first came into my mind (yes, she appeared in a dream!). The reason red is Eshani's signature colour is because of the music video xD
In terms of the sound and intensity of this song, I attributed it to Eshani instantly. The reality? The translation of the lyrics shows that it relates to Cerigo's feelings about Eshani! He's conflicted because he does have feelings for her, somewhere, yet he's afraid of what she has become. He struggles to reconcile the two sides, especially if Eshani is in his presence.
As for Alycja, I found a pretty strong pick just a few days ago. This one strongly resonates with the disillusionment that Alycja feels with her religion and her community, as she's being condemned for doing the right thing (using the Chalice to stop the skeleton).
The bridge of it even reminds me of the conflict that Alycja feels, as she knows who she's meant to be loyal to, and what she has to do, but she realises she's living her dream of becoming a(n apprentice) mage, and maybe doesn't want that to end yet.
🎠What kind of repetition or repeated motifs are visible in your wip?
The repetition of certain numbers comes up a lot in A Healing for the Birds, as a nod to mythology doing the same. Typically, at least in Irish mythology, it would be 3 that appears a lot, but in this wip, I picked 7.
Seven is the number of provincial courts that founded Helinda, as is the number of nymphs which once guarded the Chalice.
Most notably, seven is the number of High Councillors. A decent number of facets tied to them are split 4/3, such that if the meeting scene between them at the beginning-ish of A Healing for the Birds (preview here) ever got made into something animated with music, the score for that would have a 4/3 signature.
Some of the 4/3 facets are major spoilers for A Healing for the Birds (and This Blood-Stained Charcuterie), so I'll only list some 👀😉 (sorted by surname)
Four women (Faison, Emar, Varesh, Sarivauke), three men (Ailkouri, Melaushe, Darüven)
Four born outside of Helinda/Morilaste (Faison, Emar, Varesh, Darüven), three born within (Melaushe, Ailkouri, Sarivauke)
The 'foreigners' are also the majority voting group (barring the odd deviation, usually on Darüven's part 👀)
Four wear bright colours (Faison, Varesh, Melaushe, Sarivauke), three wear dark ones (Emar, Darüven, Ailkouri)
Three hold parallels with the original founders (Faison, Emar, Sarivauke), four don't (Darüven, Varesh, Ailkouri, Melaushe)
Three are known for some form of magical (re: unethical!) experimentation (Varesh, Sarivauke, Ailkouri), four are not (Faison, Emar, Darüven, Melaushe)
Four have been High Councillors for more than 100 years (Emar, Varesh, Ailkouri, Melaushe), three have been for less than that (Faison, Darüven, Sarivauke)
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I don't know what was up with the row of stalls over on the left. It just felt like...something was going on over there. Do you think there was a ghost over there?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Are there any ghosts in your story? Are there any ghost stories?
Personally, I don't believe in ghosts, but the concept of them are present in my story.
They're not really called 'ghosts', more 'spirits', or 'souls', and the general idea is that these spirits are the souls who wander around in the fabric between the physical world and the afterlife.
Usually, there is a veil that blocks people in the physical world from seeing into the fabric, and by extension, from seeing the souls who linger. This veil can be broken by magical spells, but this takes a lot of magical strength and practice, as the fabric rejects physical matter.
That being said, those who teleport do go through the fabric to reach their destination, so perhaps something could be said on them having an effect if/when trying to breach the fabric...
A notable ghost story concerns the main library in Verlas, of which was a supposed location where the veil thinned and as such, the library was said to be haunted. The typical presumption was that the library was magical, such that if you wanted a book and had the thought in your mind for a particular book, or information you wanted to know, the book would land before you. But while everyone saw the result, there was one particular young lady who noticed the process.
Any time she teleported in the library, she heard whispers. She thought it was the whoosh of her mind, or perhaps the sound of people whispering in the library. But she did it when no one was around, and she heard them. One thing lead to another, and she found out that it was the souls trapped in the library who fuelled the order of things.
The other people who worked in or otherwise attended the library warned her not to enquire further, even as the whispers grew louder and the veil grew thinner. She got frustrated with their warnings, but compromised that she would fulfill her marriage to Romerius Verlova and have a child before investigating further.
The end result was that she left him with a daughter, Aurandra, and disappeared months later, becoming venerated as the guardian of the library.
Fair warning, this may/may not be that concise, we'll see 👀
But first things first, here's a portrait of her, courtesy of @starwright :D
This is my Claudia, also known as the crow lady, or High Councillor Emar, depending on who is referring to her.
She's one of the seven High Councillors of the Court of Morilast, most renowned for her murder of crows, her household's blood wine and being generally ruthless and manipulative. The other six High Councillors all toe in line with her and/or absolutely hate her, but either way she's pulling their strings.
She gathers information from her crows and orchestrates efforts that amount to interfering in not just her own court's politics, but that of Helinda's (the country/rivals south of Morilaste) too. And she also managed to organise trade agreements with the country north of them (Feudrain), who also happen to be Helinda's other sworn enemy (and where Claudia was born).
Interpersonally, she exudes a cool aura and comes across as calm and collected. If one manages to anger her, she will either snap hard or react in a cold, calm manner that foreshadows awful consequences. That being said, she's very loyal to those who earn her respect, and there are a small few people of whom she would do anything for.
Case in point, The Bloodcarver. (The title was actually his idea, Claudia thought it sounded ridiculous). He's her childhood best friend and the two of them have stayed with each other through everything, even after almost 300 years.
The two of them are physically similar, in that they're crow-shifting fae. Claudia's bird form is that of a rook, while The Bloodcarver's is a raven. (I decided to make Claudia a rook as rooks are one of the most common and ordinary crows in Ireland, while I let The Bloodcarver be a raven as they're very majestic birds.).
The inspiration for her came from a thought I had after reading Six of Crows, in which I thought "what if I had a character who literally had crows, rather than in a metaphorical sense?" And boom, the image of a crimson-haired lady in a cloak of crow feathers was born! (That cloak is made of the feathers of dead crows, by the way). She's also partially inspired by The Morrigan, on account of the crow imagery and her demeanour. Some depictions of The Morrigan even have the same hair colour!
For one reason or another, she appears in a lot of my wips and short stories, because she's always doing something. Most notably, she's in A Healing for the Birds, my main novel, and she also has a side story all of her own due to getting her hands on the daughter of Helinda's High Minister 👀
I saw your summerfest reblog and now I'm curious, tell me more about your Claudia project? 👀 (one, the concept is cool, and two, I have an oc of the same name, lmao)
i feel like i say this a lot when answering this kinda question but this one i think is the biggest can of worms ever in terms of me and my personal obsessions with things so i will try my very best to be concise lol.
so to tell you the incredibly short version of things, there are a lot of things about the roman emperor Nero that don't really add up about the whole "evil guy who burnt down Rome" reputation that he's gotten over the years.
just a few of the things are : 1, he diddnt burn down Rome at all, this has been all but proven by a few different factors that i wont go into here. 2, he did not like death in the gladiatorial arena or elsewhere. 3, he was actually very popular amongst the common people of Rome. (my sources are Suetonius, Tacitus, and Mary Beard.)
it just so happens that the only surviving histories we have of the guy are from people who disliked him, and even then we don't have any primary source histories from his time...at all. (which if you don't know what a primary source is its just a source that was written during whatever thing it is you're looking at.) also other historical biases around him exist that i will not talk about here, though its not hard to guess what they are.
and so my personal conviction about the man was that he wasn't that bad. insane? yes. a brat? yes. an asshole? absolutely. evil wife-killing, Rome-burning-down man from hell? .........no.
i mean, his teacher/friend (Seneca) was the self-proclaimed hypocrite king of "do what i say, not as i do". he was never going to be normal.
anyways, i wanted to write something with him in it that doesn't paint him as the worst guy ever for once. and so the Claudia universe was created. which is funny considering it focuses more on the women in his life then him, but i think that's my personal bias coming through lol.
the universe as a whole will have a few different series in it, but two (at least anyways) of the books are planned as prequels to the Claudia books themselves. those prequels are what I'm working on right now.
but the actual series/book/whatever is going to be an exploration of Ancient Rome if Nero's daughter had not died at three months old from an illness like she did in real life. also if Nero was never overthrown that is kinda linked to his daughter surviving...its a whole thing.
so Claudia Augusta is my main character and i don't want to overly spoil everything but it explores the idea of what it would have been like to be a woman with power in Rome. what that would have meant, biases against it and a myriad of other things. it also goes into a lot of questions about power in general, and what it means to have it? as well as some fun parallels, a whole lot of death and random historical figures (hi, Nerva).
i will not be talking about certain topics in the Claudia series itself since i think that one is going to be a little bit more lighthearted (by series standards anyways so, still pretty dark actually lol), but the prequels (based around Acte and Poppaea respectively) are going to get into some...really not so great stuff since i am trying to be as accurate as possible with them.
if you have any more questions, ask here or dms! I'm always happy to ramble!
also pretty dresses, long insane names, tigers, massive palaces, Pompeii, and a woman who erased herself from history....because that's important too.
(image is Claudia and her dad's pet tiger, Phoebe. the makeup is not accurate to the time but it is in my alt history because i said so.)
Fair warning, this may/may not be that concise, we'll see 👀
But first things first, here's a portrait of her, courtesy of @starwright :D
This is my Claudia, also known as the crow lady, or High Councillor Emar, depending on who is referring to her.
She's one of the seven High Councillors of the Court of Morilast, most renowned for her murder of crows, her household's blood wine and being generally ruthless and manipulative. The other six High Councillors all toe in line with her and/or absolutely hate her, but either way she's pulling their strings.
She gathers information from her crows and orchestrates efforts that amount to interfering in not just her own court's politics, but that of Helinda's (the country/rivals south of Morilaste) too. And she also managed to organise trade agreements with the country north of them (Feudrain), who also happen to be Helinda's other sworn enemy (and where Claudia was born).
Interpersonally, she exudes a cool aura and comes across as calm and collected. If one manages to anger her, she will either snap hard or react in a cold, calm manner that foreshadows awful consequences. That being said, she's very loyal to those who earn her respect, and there are a small few people of whom she would do anything for.
Case in point, The Bloodcarver. (The title was actually his idea, Claudia thought it sounded ridiculous). He's her childhood best friend and the two of them have stayed with each other through everything, even after almost 300 years.
The two of them are physically similar, in that they're crow-shifting fae. Claudia's bird form is that of a rook, while The Bloodcarver's is a raven. (I decided to make Claudia a rook as rooks are one of the most common and ordinary crows in Ireland, while I let The Bloodcarver be a raven as they're very majestic birds.).
The inspiration for her came from a thought I had after reading Six of Crows, in which I thought "what if I had a character who literally had crows, rather than in a metaphorical sense?" And boom, the image of a crimson-haired lady in a cloak of crow feathers was born! (That cloak is made of the feathers of dead crows, by the way). She's also partially inspired by The Morrigan, on account of the crow imagery and her demeanour. Some depictions of The Morrigan even have the same hair colour!
For one reason or another, she appears in a lot of my wips and short stories, because she's always doing something. Most notably, she's in A Healing for the Birds, my main novel, and she also has a side story all of her own due to getting her hands on the daughter of Helinda's High Minister 👀
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Fanfic writers, reblog if you’re okay with people sharing the links to your fics to their friends and/or for fic rec posts without having to ask for your permission first
(I saw a debate about whether or not it was okay for people to share fic links around without asking the authors first, since some authors may not be comfortable with the links to their fics being shared around on twitter or tumblr. so I thought this post could be a blanket permission for authors who were okay with the links to their fics being shared around!)
I saw your summerfest reblog and now I'm curious, tell me more about your Claudia project? 👀 (one, the concept is cool, and two, I have an oc of the same name, lmao)
i feel like i say this a lot when answering this kinda question but this one i think is the biggest can of worms ever in terms of me and my personal obsessions with things so i will try my very best to be concise lol.
so to tell you the incredibly short version of things, there are a lot of things about the roman emperor Nero that don't really add up about the whole "evil guy who burnt down Rome" reputation that he's gotten over the years.
just a few of the things are : 1, he diddnt burn down Rome at all, this has been all but proven by a few different factors that i wont go into here. 2, he did not like death in the gladiatorial arena or elsewhere. 3, he was actually very popular amongst the common people of Rome. (my sources are Suetonius, Tacitus, and Mary Beard.)
it just so happens that the only surviving histories we have of the guy are from people who disliked him, and even then we don't have any primary source histories from his time...at all. (which if you don't know what a primary source is its just a source that was written during whatever thing it is you're looking at.) also other historical biases around him exist that i will not talk about here, though its not hard to guess what they are.
and so my personal conviction about the man was that he wasn't that bad. insane? yes. a brat? yes. an asshole? absolutely. evil wife-killing, Rome-burning-down man from hell? .........no.
i mean, his teacher/friend (Seneca) was the self-proclaimed hypocrite king of "do what i say, not as i do". he was never going to be normal.
anyways, i wanted to write something with him in it that doesn't paint him as the worst guy ever for once. and so the Claudia universe was created. which is funny considering it focuses more on the women in his life then him, but i think that's my personal bias coming through lol.
the universe as a whole will have a few different series in it, but two (at least anyways) of the books are planned as prequels to the Claudia books themselves. those prequels are what I'm working on right now.
but the actual series/book/whatever is going to be an exploration of Ancient Rome if Nero's daughter had not died at three months old from an illness like she did in real life. also if Nero was never overthrown that is kinda linked to his daughter surviving...its a whole thing.
so Claudia Augusta is my main character and i don't want to overly spoil everything but it explores the idea of what it would have been like to be a woman with power in Rome. what that would have meant, biases against it and a myriad of other things. it also goes into a lot of questions about power in general, and what it means to have it? as well as some fun parallels, a whole lot of death and random historical figures (hi, Nerva).
i will not be talking about certain topics in the Claudia series itself since i think that one is going to be a little bit more lighthearted (by series standards anyways so, still pretty dark actually lol), but the prequels (based around Acte and Poppaea respectively) are going to get into some...really not so great stuff since i am trying to be as accurate as possible with them.
if you have any more questions, ask here or dms! I'm always happy to ramble!
also pretty dresses, long insane names, tigers, massive palaces, Pompeii, and a woman who erased herself from history....because that's important too.
(image is Claudia and her dad's pet tiger, Phoebe. the makeup is not accurate to the time but it is in my alt history because i said so.)
reblog if you are blown away over and over by the talent of writeblrs and wonder how they come up with fascinating and original plots and lovable and interesting characters,,,someday i’ll see your books and your names at the front of the bookstore and think, “wow i knew that book when it was still a wip”
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Weeks and months of spell practice boiled down to this one night, when Alycja aimed to get her rune and make her family proud. But when crows and a towering skeleton gatecrash her ceremony, Alycja takes the Chalice they sought into her own hands, and stops the night from getting worse. Now faced with a fight for her innocence, she must decide where her loyalties lie as everyone clamours for the Chalice, before the country spirals onto itself.
