happy things ; music and piano, the colour red, reading, autumn, puns, reinaeiry, learning, and writing of course
fiction favs ; moral ambiguity, queer themes, fantasy, historical fiction, found family, complex relationships, enemies to lovers, literature references and parallels, tragic lovers, fantasy politics, eldest sisters
other ; tag and ask game friendly, open ask box, and pls send me your wips!
fav reads ; much ado about nothing (shakespeare), ballad of songbirds and snakes (collins), as old as time (braswell), the false prince (nielsen)
main plot → eris ; lyssa harland could almost be good: she’s determined, hardworking, honest, reliable... except for the teeny tiny little fact that she very much craves power above all. (board below)
wips //
the kingdoms ; my indulgent sprawling medieval fantasy world with no plot. includes fantasy politics, diverse cultures, conlangs, and a large cast of lovable fiends mostly centered on the terakk continent. never officially on hiatus; it's been my blorbo world since i was thirteen and i think about it all the time. (eris is set in this world too, across the ocean from terakk).
long live the queen ; a regency-adjacent royal murder mystery. it's five years after vallera's civil war, and tensions are still running high. when the queen suddenly dies, her oldest daughter believes there was more to it than simply illness. themes of grief, familial bonds, loyalty, coming of age, politics, arranged marriages, and what it means to be a just queen when all you want to do is protect your siblings. (wip intro) [hiatus]
disney but gay ; shamelessly inspired by reinaeiry's but it's gay covers. disney retellings where i try to draw more from the folktales themselves and everyone's sapphic. things i love about this series: sleeping beauty is a dream-sharing soulmate au, belle has anxiety, snow white and flora are exes, and the beast's name is amarante after patricia mckillip's "lady of the skulls". [hiatus]
if you have wips with any of the above themes, tag me! i'd love to see them :)
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as a notorious Warrior Cats Kid(tm) from age 8, i am obligated to stop and do oc generators whenever i come across them. i did one the other night and now i have a new oc and y'all,, her voice is so funny and i'm having a blast writing her.
(btw to set the scene: she's a housecat swept away by a flood + has been clinging to a broken pool noodle going down a river. she's saved by a couple wild cats and sapphic panics immediately. also her name is okapi bc if i had a cat looking like her, that's definitely what i would name her)
here are some choice lines:
She knows of the river's secrets, how it could tug her below the surface before she could cat her first waul.
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She notices the tall molly first, her white fur curling thick around her face and speckled like stars in a strange sky.
“Erm,” she says. Real eloquently, too.
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Strikingly Beautiful Molly speaks next with a hint of a rasp that Okapi wants to sink her claws into. Just a little bit, mind.
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The tall molly continues, casting a glance over Okapi’s form. It’s more dubious than interested, but a cat can pretend.
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“Bet she hasn’t even unsheathed her claws before,” he says and it sounds like a thousand wasps nested in his throat and had their little devil babies.
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Okapi feels her neck fur ruffle in what could be called embarrassment, were she any other cat.
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There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.
Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.
And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.
Rules: fill in the blanks with as much or little detail as you would like and tag some writer friends to play too. (you can find the original post here)
Hello, there. My name is Lena. I'm a writer of the fantasy, fantasy-adjacent, romance, and poetry genres (is poetry a genre...?) and I love to write about queer women, grief, moral ambiguity, family, and finding where you belong in a big, demanding world.
I am SFW and write about grief, death, and war in my current WIPs, so just be aware of that. I also write about panic attacks, anxiety attacks, and on-screen premeditated murder in other projects, so they may show up at some point. Tropes you will never find in my writing include a goody-two-shoes hero saving the world, sci-fi, or great power imbalances in a romantic pair.
In my humble opinion, my best work I've posted is a poem I wrote last year because I thought it was exquisite, it got published, and I won an award for it. I'm not sharing it, however, because it has my real name and location attached. My all-time favorite character I've made is Nika! She's mentioned in this post and I can't wait to share more about her. The best way I could briefly describe her is that she's sunshine with trauma and a scholarly upbringing.
Something I'd love for you to know about my writing that isn't listed in this game is I can't write typical cishet relationships. Erin and Theo — Theo loves Erin and she cares deeply for him, but doesn't love him the same way. Nika and Kalden — she's pan and he's something something not straight. Don't know yet. But yeah, I am unable to write cisheteronormative couples as main characters and that's fine.
Also I'm like Cécile in that I don't usually stick with a project for a long time . . . I'm surprised I've been working on Long Live for as long as I have. So please don't be surprised if I change tracks lol
Thank you for reading and now I (softly) challenge the following people to fill this out: @lyssa-ink, @revenancy, @nightinthebuilding, @zmwrites, @reneesbooks, @ethaeriea if you haven't done it yet + anyone else who'd like to jump on the bandwagon :)
haha no longer entirely sfw. first of all, graphic depictions of violence and other mature content (viewer discretion is advised lol). second, eris now canonically will have at least one sex scene crucial to the plot and themes
Perspective | Nonlinear // Third person present tense limited //
Genre | Political Thriller // Character Study // Dystopia // Drama // Erotic Horror //
Story | Twenty-seven-year-old Eser Ilsek is shot through the head after a half-decade of working for the secret police of the Republic of Kigrak. Through the eyes of the worst man to ever do it, we follow a nation as it collapses into fascism, as its infrastructure of terror and violence consolidates, and as its urban guerilla movements.
Tracing backward, forward and sideways from when eighteen year old Eser Ilsek first moved to the capital city, we watch as he rises through the ranks of the most infamous torturers of his day, and how all of this culminates in his brains blown out against the kitchen sink in the servant's quarters at the coastal second home of Kigraki dictator General Doreyar Artaran.
Themes | Street violence // Misogyny // Biopolitics // Filmmaking and Fascism // Resistance // Politics of Pain // internality of perpetrators //
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ahh these are always so fun, thanks @flowerprose for the tag ❤️ i'm pulling mostly from this scene of faithe and kal meeting for the first time, which is half prose and half stream of conscious. y'all don't really know these guys that well yet, but faithe has been kicking around for nearly a decade now so i figured it's time. i don't have anything for E/L though, so those are from long live
my word is PETALS :)
P -> “Princess, Highness,” he says, his words tinged with a lilting accent.
E -> “Everyone says even though it was a tragedy, he secured the royal family’s continued survival. That wasn’t it — he could’ve run away too. But he put his family first, he wasn’t supposed to, that wasn’t his job. He should’ve come with us.”
T -> The princess is beginning to unravel and had begun to knit herself back together when this happened.
A -> “Are you well, Highness?” he asks. (Capture one parrot and you must grab another, he thinks. He already made a stumble, so might as well gamble to see if he can turn it for the better.)
L -> Lady Pandora is about Zacharias’ age, at least if he had done his proper duty and lived to see the country through his rule.
S -> She stares at him, her mouth turned in a rote smile she’d give any noble without a thought. She’s not a reformed street dog, it says, a refute to those spiraling words from earlier.
inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture
It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.
Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)
Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*
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"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:
The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:
"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power.
I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large.
But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read.
The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact…
The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return.
Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story.
But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive.
We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies.
But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you).
The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take.
So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it.
That’s not why children read it.
We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson…
The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY."
- Joey deVilla, 2021
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/
Kids don't want to be Batman because he's rich, they want to be him because he's got tons of cool gadgets he invented himself, is a badass martial artist, is a genius on par with Lex Luthor, and uses all this to be on the same level as Superman despite having zero actual superpowers. They see the little boy who lost both his parents, decided nobody else should ever have to live through that, and want to be like that.
Kids don't want to be Superman because he's superior to humans(he isn't, that's always been a core part of his character that he rejects that outlook and it's always just Lex projecting his view of Superman onto Superman himself), they wanna be able to deflect bullets and shoot lasers from their eyes because Superman uses all that to show the best side of humanity, to show how humanity isn't even tied to actually being human but to how you act towards other people.
Wari exploded into a thousand colors that night.
And the temples followed, dancing in yellow and red. For the second time, the empty city of Isiguin burned.
project woodnote.
✿ genre: slice of life, soft high fantasy ✿ classification: new adult ✿ pov: third point of view
✿ synopsis: with the holy city of isiguin now trampled into ruins for the second time, the empire of agrada turned their eyes into building it again. angels and gods flocked over the sunken land to bless the waters. life started to grow along its water-buried trees. and yet, a spirit still lingers along the seams of isiguin, one that still holds contempt and fear over them. one that vowed vengeance onto those who has destroyed their home.
✿ themes: the fear of being unable to protect those they hold important, moving-on with life, how to take and use second chances, the heavy duty of being chosen, loneliness
✿ gardeners:
WARI: from the tagalog word, wari, meaning guess. suffers in fear and guilt of being not enough in the eyes of the holy. carries the burden of being a guardian of a dead land. starting on the book they learned to live life even for a little bit. ✿
PALAR: meaning fortunate. unlike his name, he is unfortunate enough to be burdened with the duty of destroying an already damned land. seeks retribution after failing to destroy isiguin for the first time. ✿
LIYAGA: from the tagalog word liyag meaning beloved. juggles being a student in highschool and being chosen to becomea vessel of a water god that also wants isiguin to be gone. enjoys drawing a lot. ✿
✿ i kind of stared in the distance of the sea and wondered what if there's a sunken city there, and boom, woodnote is born. there was something mysterious and interesting about spirits guarding a dead place on their own, even if nobody is offering anything to them as thanks. anyways i think i will post more if i want soon enough.
✿ there beneath - the oh hellos ✿ paradise circus - massive attack ✿ wolf house - rabbitology ✿ the bird song - noah floersch and em beihold ✿ thus always to tyrants - the oh hellos ✿ the hand - annabelle dinda ✿
