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Since I’ve finished the second draft of His Majesty’s Starship, and have scribbled a few more chapters on my perennial projects Dressage Dragons and No Man’s Sky… Time for a shiny new novel!

A four-armed giant with anger issues, an anxiety-ridden cat burglar, a manipulative mastermind, a ditz of a mod-addict and a mostly person-shaped cloud of nanites walk into a bar. They’re the Vultures, a gang of all-lady con artists-come-thieves, and they have a plot to steal the most powerful AI in the galaxy out from under its own (figurative) nose. 

With big guns (i.e., each of Buck’s arms), big dreams (only slightly drug-addled), and three brain-cells for the entire team (all of which are stored in Vash’s head) some of these idiots might even make it out alive.

A space heist with a 100% WLW main cast, VOLT features:

Gross creepy biotech surveillance! By which I mean space stations are literally giant floating brains in space! Ick!

Fun neuroscience-meets-scifi-meets-compsci jargon!

Team as family!

Friends to lovers! (no, seriously, the will-they-won’t-they is gonna slay you)

Queer women everywhere! Queer ladies as far as the eye can see! Butches! Femmes! Trans women! Enbie women! Women who are hella sexual but still chug that Respect Other Women juice! Women who aren’t sexual at all! Fuck! Yes!

High stakes!

High tension!

Dramatic betrayal!

…

…wait who said that

Oh yeah and did I mention the huge cyborg space-brains that are watching your every move

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log line: The COTA  follows M, a green witch, throughout her journey in NYC as she befriends Chris, an NHL player who tries to avoid magic at all costs.

word count: 786

triggers: mentions of death

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“They say our people first came from the stars. Us, we’re stuck now, tethered to the earth. But the chimeras find their way back. They have constellations in their skin.”

WIP INTRODUCTION: DECADENCE (TAKE IT ALL)

GENRE: fantasy/magic realism* POV: second person** STATUS: writing first draft, editing outline THEMES/TROPES: it takes a village to raise a child, character growth is continuous, finding solace, breaking the cycle, names are power, “you don’t need to do this alone”, sentient magic  WARNINGS: suicidal ideation, mild body horror (ymmv)

Take heed: what magic wants, magic gets. Even if it’s lonely—perhaps especially so.

Servitude loses her family during the 18th century vampire hunts. Her family’s murderer loses her compass—her last connection to that past—a century later. When they finally part ways, a strand of magic loses its last speakers and is forced to fall dormant. 

Here comes the 21st century and, with it, Silicone-heart: the only other person who can hear that strand of magic. 

CHARACTERS:

storm-speaker. grew up in a family with a weather affinity. patient, optimistic, and by appearances alone, the most trustworthy person you’ll meet. wants: to find their sibling. 

silicone-heart. reawakened one of magic’s dormant languages, though it came with steep consequences. distrustful, but a romantic at heart. wants: to leave. to make it stop raining.

servitude. unaffected by time, though can be killed through other means. has a one-track mind. introverted. wants: to live, and to remember. 

chain-seeker. blindly follows the compass without knowing where it leads. easily influenced. the chosen one, if there were such a thing. wants: to be responsible.

trauma, identity & dissociation, pt 1.

Original Character: Kamran (Ron) Shaikh, from Devida & Goliath Occupation: Engineer and Businessman | Age: 26-27 | Ethnicity: Indo-American of Mixed Descent (Malagasy x Persian)


“With unwieldy shoulders strapped into a jodhpuri and unruly curls wrapped atop his head, he could’ve almost passed as a seasoned gentleman of the Maharaja’s cortège... Almost, had it not been for the verdant glint behind his monolens – a glint I should’ve known to be synonymous with mischief.”

“The electricity controlling alien that’s been terrorizing our entire city for months, the cause of thousands of injuries and a near apocalypse… is an innocent child!?”

- CIRCUIT, a WIP about humanity, morality, responsibility, and other important ‘-ity’ words.

The alien? Her name is Tilly, by the way. Turns out she didn’t mean to hurt people–she escaped a terrible homeworld was “sent” here unaware that the planet was teeming with devices that would harness her power and stretch her too thin to control her own mind. The fall-back on her instincts forced her to protect herself from any potential threat, a category that included innocent people just trying to do their jobs.

But now she’s alright! And she’s nice! And very lost and very scared. Unfortunately, G.R.I.D., the agency responsible for her sanity restoration… doesn’t really believe her. And they’re… not very nice.

Cue the focus shifting to an ordinary person by the name of Frankie. They’re one of G.R.I.D.’s agents. Initially, they’re of the same opinion as the rest of their team. But then… things change.

And now they’re on the run from their own people with a little alien.

genre – Science Fiction, LGBTQ+, YA pov – First Person Limited, Multiple features – LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and MCs of colour. Cool gadgets and cooler people, the most adorable alien ever, and friendship and family and finding a home. content warnings – Violence/death, mind control, fire/explosions, references to an abusive family. status – Currently outlining! playlist – HUMANS - KLOUD // The Mind Electric - Miracle Musical // It Makes No Difference Who We Are - Celldweller // Blackstar - Celldweller // TRIALS - STARSET // Just Breathe - Rival x Cadmium ft. Jon Becker

WIP Title : Afterlife Genre : Supernatural, NA  Summary : Silvia has seen the dead for as long as she could remember. What, or rather whom, she can’t seem to shake is Alina, a ghost that can’t remember who she was but needs her help. Reluctantly she agrees to help. 

Blood Upon the Altar | Building Elidone | Countries: Edhel

Edhel the forsaken lands

Government | Dukedom, Totalitarian? Capital | Pirivik Motto | In Unity, We Thrive Status | Occupied Symbol & Colors | Lynx, Purple & Blue Climate | Freezing, long winters & mild summers Animals | Rabbits, coyotes, foxes, lynx

Characters from Edhel | Aston, Aleksandra, Sariel

Edhel is a small country far north, known for its freezing winters and mild summers, they are typically thought to covered with wintergreen trees with the looming mountains and deep valleys surrounding them. They are, for the most part, separated from the rest of the continent due to how strictly they are run.

The people of Edhel are typically humans, but due to being closer to the mountains, where Sirieon is found, some villages sometimes harbor wanted criminals such as assassins and thieves. It is said you can also find dragons within the mountains as well. Sorcerers and witches are also known to live among the people of Edhel. And on a rare occasion, you may come across a vampire within its capital.

They are also kind and inviting to outsiders, always looking towards the light at the end of the tunnel. They will give all they have, even if they have very little. They are humble but a broken people in general. They try to be as self sufficient as possible and cling to the possibility that Sariel will one day return to help them from the neverending nightmare.

let me clarify this: if you really want to improve your writing, focus on the things you want to improve. take that out of your writing and only do that. for me, i’ve always been bad at dialogue. so i’ve started writing in the form of a play script. 

an example of something bad you probably unconcsiously do: i hate worldbuilding. very much. i used to just put it off, focus on character interactions instead. this is the issue: i wrote a lot, but it was always the same thing.

there came a point where i just couldn’t keep going if i didn’t know important parts of my world. so lately i’ve been working on magic systems, and i’m actually starting to like them. next step is the government. i’m going to keep going from there. 

Character Introduction // Jael Linwood

Name  →  Jael Linwood Birthday  →  2 October 1866 Age  →  22 R/S Status  →  Courting Alexander and Nathan Occupation  → Lady Jael Linwood, Detective Sergeant Hobbies  → Reading, horseriding, singing, playing piano

Lady Jael Linwood is the daughter of The Most Honourable Marquess of Winchester, which makes the life she is hiding difficult. 

Character Introduction // Jacqueline Crest

Name  → Jacqueline Crest Birthday  → 12 October 1863 Age  → 25 R/S Status  → Single ‘Occupation’  → Lady Jaqueline Crest Hobbies  → Charity work, dancing, playing piano