“Who decides when the war ends? When the queens and the lords sign their treaties, does it erase the anger? Is the thirst for vengeance quenched? Is the hunger for justice sated? I know the people wanted peace lass, but I think you’ll find there are a fair few amongst them who’d rather freedom.”
It begins, as these things tend to do, with a gamble.
It’s been 15 years since the last war ended and tensions are running thick between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Old gods are stirring, and a fateful coin toss throws Elodie Ferodeus right into the thick of the tangled mess of Unseelie politics.
Elodie is an outsider to the Court. Weighed down by the legacies of her parents she walks a knife edge between hero and traitor.
The Captain of the Queen’s Guard offers Elodie a quest. One that will bring glory to her name and peace to the two Courts. Elodie sets off with a handful of hopeful heroes, each with something to prove, in search of a long-forgotten crown. But who will wear it when the day is done?
Characters:
Elodie Ferodeus Youngest daughter of Amadeus Ferodeus, legendary warlord and Daphne Ferodeus, famed healer. She’s ambitious, gifted with a blade and level-headed in the face of danger. She’s also argumentative and rarely thinks things through but, nobody’s perfect. (x) tag
Nereida Frostfury Seer acolyte with a heart of gold. Fearless selkie, as much a fierce hunter on land as she was in the sea. She’s bossy, but her advice is always sound. Firmly believes that the world is inherently good. (x) tag
Hadrianus ‘Adrian’ Marsh Schemer. Gossip. Thief. The best person to have on your team, the worst person to have as your enemy. His moral compass doesn’t have a truth north, but when everything goes south, he’ll fight tooth and nail to keep the people he loves safe. (x) tag
Elliot ‘Jaeger’ O’Connor Half dragon, half human, all disaster. Tries so hard to be the man his dads want him to be. Usually has the best intentions, results may vary. Stubborn, loyal, and snarky as hell. (x) tag
Cadence Arronach Sugar and spice and a knife in the night. Tries so hard to escape the legacy her mother left behind. Her impulse control is non-existent, even whens she’s pretty sure things are going to go badly, she tends to do it anyway, just to be sure. (x) tag
Regan Maneo Cat person with an incorrigible sweet tooth who loves tea and sunsets. Also a necromancer who can sever her soul to raise the dead. Or, she could, if she wasn’t terrified of her power. Aloof, ethereal, hopeless romantic. (x) tag
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I taught one of my ranching buddies “it fucken wimdy” and now he says it around his older more established ranching buddies
The exhilaration I get- upon hearing an old rancher (I’ve never met before) in cowboy boots and a cowboy hat while on a horse, grimly saying “it fucken wimdy” in a thick west Texas accent as he looks down upon his cows- is incalculable
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the thing about the hobbit movies is that even with all the extra bullshit they added to have it stretch across three movies, richard armitage is giving a legitimately heartbreaking performance as a noble king trying to reclaim his home and eventually falling to greed and madness. like he's killing it. he's carrying those movies so hard i dont even remember giving a shit about thorin in the book but i was fully crying when he died in the movies. he put his whole thorussy into that performance if we're being real
sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison
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the hard part about writing is literally writing a banger sentence n then having to be like. do NOT share it. dont share it. dont share it. just wait. its not as good outside of context. just WAAAAAIT. when its like. if i dont get attention right this second im gonna stop writing forever my hands will turn to stone & my brain will fall outta my ears n go rolling around on the floor & down the apartment stairs & out into the cool night air never to be seen again
one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.
in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.
I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.
When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.
In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.
finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.
A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.
I've said this before, but "fanfiction" is how storytelling worked for most of human history, and intellectual property law and the idea of characters being literally "owned" is new and weird.
When you hear a story about a Guy, wanting to tell a story about them is the most natural thing in the world. That's how mythology and folk tales happen.
IMO the idea of fanfiction being "bad" or "cringe" as an artform is related to how activities have to be profitable to be considered valuable, but further than that it is related to how "owning" is considered to be preferred over "caretaking" or "stewardship" where you do not own, you just participate
I believe ultimately it is an outgrowth of land ownership vs. land stewardship to be quite honest... a consequence of our culture
Y’know an awful lot of Terry Pratchett’s books are concerned with how powerful women are when they get angry and how important anger is as a driving force to defend what is right and to tackle injustice.
A lot of his most interesting and most deeply moral characters are angry ones. Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching. All are to a large extent driven to do good by anger.
Terry was an angry man. This is not the same as saying he was a bad man. He held a righteous fury, the kind that comes from looking at the world, and knowing just how much better it could be if only we stopped being bastards. He held a genuine belief that people can and do change the world for the better, not by big things, but by the little. He believed in the kindness of others, and that kindness means more than wishing well and prayers. He knew the difference between being good and doing good, and that you technically couldn’t be the first without the latter.
He was angry at the world because he loved it, and he wanted us to feel the same, to not feel helpless, to know that something can be done, to know that anger is not just the tool of abusers and tyrants but the chisel by which The People might chip away at oppression and fear and bring it crumbling down. He gave us the drive needed to believe in hope. because he wanted to make the world better with words and not violence.
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just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews
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