Mïrmylana

And, if you're anti-AI, sick of Grammarly ads, want to scream at every Google Gemini ad, and would like to support a flesh-and-bone creator Trying Their Best, then you have also come to the right place, because same. Don't worry—any weird errors and inconsistencies you find here were made ✨organically✨, as nature intended. And you can pry em-dashes out of the cold unfeeling hands of my skeleton before I give them up.

[Note: I do, sadly, often disappear for stretches at a time. I'm working on being more consistent, but in the meantime rest assured that I will always come back—for ArtFight and Inktober if nothing else. Also I see your tag games and asks and I love you so much and one day I hope to reply]

Current WIPs:

A Four-Dimensional Plot

In one dimension, an agent is trying to hide an interdimensional fugitive she's been harboring; in another, a scared kid tries to find the courage to investigate the dragon shape-shifter his grandmother made a deal with.

Semi-interactive serial story, urban fantasy with horror elements. Released monthly via email newsletter and, a month behind, on my website.

Tips and Tricks for Surviving a Time Loop

Every morning, Zo waits for Lyn to wake up so that he can let her know they're trapped in a time loop, and then they can get on with the rest of their day... which he only remembers half of. All they know is that, besides them, everyone has disappeared, and the answers they're looking for hide in the twilit city across the desert—and that something is deeply wrong beneath the world's shifting surface.

Completed Stories:

Terrarium Lights (novella, first draft)

Mission: Fallen Star (short story)

Whumptober 2021 (well, they're individual scenes, but I completed the month, so--)

Upcoming Projects:

Right now I've got the serial story going, but once I can figure out my routines and time management enough, I'll be moving on to the first Faultrunners series (formerly Rifters), an audio version of A Four-Dimensional Plot, and maybe even a consistent posting schedule.

Faultrunners: Prime, Book One:

In a world newly-saved from destruction, the right-hand servant of a powerful supervillain is sent to infiltrate a hero training guild for two purposes: uncover what the council of heroes has hidden there, and discover the true identity of the superhero responsible for ending the apocalypse. Things instantly go sideways when a Brazilian girl his age finds him, brings him to the guild ahead of schedule, claims that she's from a different world, and promises him (against his will) that she's going help him make friends at the training center. Despite their drastically different goals, intuition tells Eabennor that this girl is also hiding something, some key to the hero council, some valuable secret—so he might as well play along with this friend thing, for extra intel. Just for a few weeks. What could go wrong? (The setting is steampunk/superhero, with sprinklings of eldritch horror and other, equally strange worlds)

Links:

So if anyone is interested in doing battle, you can find me at >>here! Also for uh potentially spoilery info on my brain blorbos, if that's more your speed

Happy Valentine's Day! Featuring Jeanne and Stanton (or at least their hands).

Urban fantasy and features an... upset sorcerer.

It's with these two losers (affectionate):

I've also been working on giving this story a NAME and have been proverbially smacking my head against a wall about it for AGES, so if anyone has an opinion they want to share, here are the top 9 out of *checks notes* I don't want to count that many but it's at least over 40 of Wildly Varying Quality.

For further information, the tone starts out lighter and gets more serious as things get more dangerous, but it also depends on who is narrating. Also, their "plot goal" from a physical standpoint is to make it to the center of the time loop, since they suspect that's where they'll find answers.

New chapter out >>here! Rhys struggles in the aftermath of a very long night of danger and fear. And on top of that—someone broke into his room?

Even before we’d finished pulling out of the driveway, I could tell Grammy was looking me over from the corner of her eye. Curling my toes tighter against the floor until they ached, I sat still, with as clear an appearance of calm as I could manage. “Did you have a good time?” She asked conversationally—but I could hear the undercurrent of a more pointed question. “Yeah, it was nice,” I said noncommittally. I flashed a subdued grin. “But we stayed up later than we meant to—Mara was showing me some movies—so I’m pretty tired this morning.” As if on cue, I felt a yawn coming on. I maybe exaggerated it more than I needed to, but well, I was tired. “How did stuff go for you last night?” I chanced a look at her as she focused on driving around the mountain’s curves. She hid it well, but she was bone-weary. Her pose was stiffer and more held-up than it normally was, and there were faint shadows under her (slightly) bleary eyes. “The job went well enough,” she said once we’d passed the worst of the curves. “There were a few trails to follow.” But she hadn’t found the most important one, had she? There was a sudden tightness in my chest, like I was half-way up a cliff and shouldn’t look down. “Was there anything… interesting out and about?”

Full chapter out >>here! For more information on the story, you can find that >>here!

This is the newest installment in my serial story, shared via newsletter, about a washed-up agent trying to save a fugitive, a Warden-in-training investigating a shape-shifting dragon, and a secret in the woods.

Inktober Day 23: Firefly In Which I Rolled With Vibes

It's a little hard to see, I think, but the wings are shaped like flames and are supposed to be kind of flickering. The bugs are also supposed to be iridescent—however, I am not good at that.

Inktober Day 22: Button In Which I Use Song Lyrics

I can't actually remember if I have this song on my Lyn playlist (I Pushed the Button by Stephanie Mabey), but if not, I should. It fits her really well (rip).

Inktober Day 20: Rivals In Which Lyn Tries to Pretend She Doesn't Have a Nemesis

Tabarin is a bit... not right in the head, and since his power is consuming energy and Lyn's is producing it (plus a few other things like their alleged villain/hero dynamic), he's decided that they are ✨Nemeses,✨ destined rivals, important to each other and the balance of the world.

Zo is confused, because he wasn't there when their "Fated Meeting" happened.

Lyn really would just like to have a normal day sometime.