Yep, it’s that time! I’m (re)introducing myself, yet again!
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So hi! I’m Locke!
➺ I’m a 21 y/o rising senior in college, majoring in psychology
➺ I’ve been writing for nearly eight years now, and after all that time, I actually have some idea of what I want to do with my work
➺ When I’m not writing, I draw, play video games, read, cross stitch, bullet journal, and dabble in photography during my free time
➺ Some of my favorite games are Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Coral Island, Guild Wars 2, Spiritfarer, and The Evil Within
❝ worlds are burning, my child.
gods alone cannot suffocate the flames.
My Writing
➺ My work probably fits quite loosely under fantasy, but I often dip into all sorts of genres, including but not limited to poetry, steampunk, dystopian, science fiction, supernatural, and more
➺ I’m polyamorous. My characters are polyamorous. Relationship webs are complicated and I love them dearly.
➺ I have quite a few WIPs on the backburner due to my rather chaotic writing style, with only one being a finished first draft. I adore them all and I can’t yet bear to part with any of them, so you’ll probably see some ‘new’ wip snippet pop up occasionally
➺ Lore and worldbuilding makes up most of my word count and takes up most of my time; it’s the most consistent thing I do!
➺ That said, it’s also my current focus, so expect a lot more of it!
my works // world anvil // north haven discord // pinterest
WIP // Fable
➺ My tale is an old one. That much should be quite clear. It is not, however, as it has been told... For in a memory as old as mine, there is a truth worth seeking; a light worth following. Perhaps in the candor of my tale, others will find the necessary inspiration to continue on toward their own light.
Summary
A fairytale retelling in the form of a journal come to life. Written by Myhren, or ‘Merlin’ as they may be better known, Fable contains lifetimes of experiences and the truth behind the fairytales we all know and love.
Fable mainly focuses on the stories of King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, and associated characters. It is written from Myhren’s point of view, with some discrepancies due to the nature of their immortal life and their experience within a time loop. Entries are not all seemingly in order. Instead, the writings follow Myhren’s stream of consciousness.
Status
This is an ongoing, very long term WIP of mine. I’ve written some pieces, and brainstormed others. I’ll be releasing new entries as I complete them.
Phase: It’s complicated.
wip page / cast page / character intro
WIP // The Minutemage Compendium
➺ The MinuteMage Compendium is a browser-based RPG concept presented in an old-school rpg field guide format. Explore the world of Iane and discover its secrets!
Summary
A clock is ticking in the mist and fog; people have begun to vanish right off the streets, and dark knowledge is kept from the common folk. Thrust into an unknown world, it is up to you to bring corruption to light and save the clockwork city of Iane. Can you find the Minutemage Coin and open the doors before it's too late?
Status
Phase: Brainstorming. I’ll be designing items, NPCs, locations, creatures, enemies, and more. Eventually, I plan on making it into a physical guide and an RPG!
WIP // A Ghost, a Quill, and a Mockingbird
➺ Something in her remembers her past; a part of her that stands tall in the face of another's rage. Mountainous strength, hidden within a mouse. Confidence born of past instinct, of power, of creation and abandonment; Yet her conscious betrays none of it. Her spite does nothing to reveal what she had been so desperate to forget; what her rage continues to remember, impressively extreme for such tame, conscious memory.
Summary
Ghost has lived her entire life in an underground bunker on the planet Serus. The last of her kind after a swarm of vitians invaded her world and slaughtered her people, she spends her days in blissful spite where the vitians are unable to reach her.
It's not in any way peaceful, of course, to hear the screaming from outside the bunker, but as long as she has her music and drink to keep her company, she figures she'll be able to live a nice, conflict free life.
That is, until her simple day-to-day life becomes a bit more interesting; a little more chaotic. Her god has returned, and he's not at all what she expected, nor does he seem all that keen on leaving her alone.
Status
I’m proud to say that GQM, while my eighth existing wip, is the first to have a completed first draft!
Phase: Paused. While I take a step back and move onto other things before revising, adding, and rewriting!
wip page / wip intro
OTHER WIPS // The Back-burner
➺ A list of WIPs I love very much and that have been set aside
It is worth noting that I tend to write a lot of standalone vignettes that don’t pertain to specific stories, as well as a lot of poetry that I like to call my ‘spout of bullshit’
Arcane // world anvil // tag
Alchemist // floating idea // tag
The Demon’s Eyes // world anvil // tag
Encounters of the Primal Sort // world anvil // tag
Faefinder // brainstorming phase // tag
Twisted Tales of Myth
➺ Ellyse of Wonderspire // world anvil // tag
➺ Servant to Dragon and King // floating idea // tag
Wane of the Lunar Human // floating idea // tag
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i know i encourage people to learn tree ID and bird ID and love the world around them but the one thing i never warn ppl about is how dramatically it narrows your suspension of belief when you’re watching a tv show filmed thousands of miles from where it’s supposed to take place.
was going bananas watching a show set in Oregon but they didn’t edit out a constant chorus of eastern pheobes in the background, but i persevered. bc one i don’t care THAT much and 2 it’s kinda a fun part of the je ne sais quoi especially if the show sort of sucks
but i do have my limits and when i was watching a show set in northern Ohio, filmed in BC I actually quit it permanently when the characters walked into a stand of coastal douglas firs.
frustrated further when i complained about this and someone from the PNW was like “yeah Ohio is so flat and nothing that was too obvious.”
☝️northern Ohio sits on one of the great lakes and was once home to one of the largest wetlands/swamps on the continent. colonial agriculture devastated it but its remnants have persevered. my issue was not that BC was too beautiful to be Ohio. It’s that Ohio’s beauty was not showcased.
STORY I NEED YOU TO READ THIS ARTICLE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INSANE EXAMPLES OF THIS PHENOMENON AND I LOVE HOW THE AUTHOR DESCENDS INTO THE DEPTHS OF MADNESS OVER IT.
reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore
So I just had one of those 'fall down a massive YouTube rabbit hole because it's too hot to do anything else' weekends and ended up learning about the Bricks and Minifigs vs. Reckless Ben legal dispute, which is now the ONLY currently-ongoing legal drama I ever want to hear about. For the uninitiated, Bricks and Minifigs is a chain of Lego consignment stores where people can buy and sell old lego sets (as the name implies). One particular Bricks and Minifigs store in Salem Oregon got a consignment deal with an elderly man and his son for a collection of Star Wars Lego sets that was worth roughly $200,000 total. The reason the family was selling the collection was to pay for the old man's healthcare. A few months later, corporate seized the store and used an extremely tenuous legal loophole to weasel their way out of paying the family per the consignment deal. When the family confronted the store about this and demanded to have their legos returned to them, they got banned from the premises and threatened with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of court battles.
Enter Reckless Ben, an investigative journalist/youtuber who is basically the real-life equivalent of Napoleon Dynamite fused with Sun Tzu. He's taken it on himself to get this family their legos back. His methods so far include, but are not limited to:
Going to the store and politely asking the manager to return the family's legos to them
Hosting a fake youtube challenge for the employees at the store and inducting the winner into a cult he created for the sole purpose of getting the new store owner's phone number, so that he can politely ask him to return the legos, since asking the manager didn't work
Creating an official, legally recognized company called We Steal From Old People, and selling their merch from a booth set up outside the Bricks and Minifigs store
Applying for a gambler's license and using The Church of Scientology Sucks (the legally recognized religion that he created during his Scientology investigation a few years back) to hold a lottery for one of the missing lego sets, thereby making Bricks and Minifigs guilty of stealing from a lottery, which is a criminal offense that the police are legally required to investigate
Having 9 of his friends each purchase $10,000 worth of the stolen legos from the family so that all ten of them could individually file small claims cases against Bricks and Minifigs. They won all of those cases btw. Bricks and Minifigs shut down the store in Salem before they could be forced to pay
Now it's worth noting that when he started this investigation, literally all Ben wanted was to get this family their legos back. But somehow this ended up snowballing into uncovering serious corruption within the American Fork Police Department, who as it turns out have been in the Bricks and Minifigs CEO's back pocket this entire time. Ben's had his car searched, his house raided, and been arrested and jailed without being told what he was even being charged with (which is a massive civil rights violation, and is supposed to be very illegal in the US). He's had to resort to hiding out in Mexico to get the Lego Mafia off his back while he lawyers up and prepares to go back to court against Bricks and Minifigs, because yeah, they still haven't returned/paid for the legos they stole from the sick elderly man, in spite of the fact that the entire world now knows what they did and hates them for it. In fact, they are now trying to sue the old man and Ben for 1.5 million dollars, for the heinous crime of....proving that they stole $200,000 worth of legos. Ben says he's still willing to settle with them outside of court however, provided they return the stolen legos and send him a video of the scummy CEOs verbally apologizing for their actions and doing the chicken dance as a show of good faith. Meanwhile, the American Fork PD is most likely going to be hit with a lawsuit of their own thanks to Ben's public documentation of their corrupt behavior, which includes initially redacted bodycam footage that shows the cops literally conspiring with the Bricks and Minifigs CEO to come up with reasons to have Ben thrown in jail.
My favorite part of this story, by the way, is the fact that the demonstrably villainous lego CEO actually has a Twirly Evil Villain Mustache.
The villain in this story, his name is Josh Johnson and comedian Josh Johnson did a whole bit on it that was quite a journey. If you didn't catch it on your YT rabbit hole, it's worth a watch.
Josh Johnson is a GEM.
I will add, you left out a CRUCIAL element of it all: Mormonism.
All of this happens in Utah, everyone involved, from the corporation to judges to police, is Mormon and protecting each other.
I recommend ex Mormon youtuber Alyssa Grenfell who digs up and explains wonderfully the immense impact of mormon culture on basically everything in Utah especially.
This week I’m reacting to Reckless Ben’s viral LEGO investigation and the surprising Mormon and Utah connections behind the story. What star
The whole bricks and minifigs rabbit hole is hilarious because it's a persistent dude who keeps asking for some legos, and keeps digging out mountains of corruption that far surpasses in scale the initial problem.
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ppl on ao3 should use the "this work was inspired by" option more. so many fics out there that put links to other fics in the a/n but theres a better option.....
important addition i forgot that not everyone might know. similar to how ao3 bookmarks work, you can also link to non-ao3 fanworks using this format. so, for instance, if theres some fanart on tumblr that inspired you to write the fic? you can link that fanart to your fic!
i hate that diet culture means all the tasty drinks everywhere are loaded with stevia now. this isn't even a stance about health, I just think it tastes so fucking bad
stevia is cross-reactive with a common environmental allergen: ragweed! if you've been drinking your fun little drinky drinks & have been feeling off there's a chance you're actually allergic!
I can't have artificial sweeteners because they give me migraines. I can't have stevia because I have an anaphylactic reaction. this new wave of "make everything 0 sugar" coming back into fashion could literally kill me if I'm not careful. nothing is safe, nothing is sacred, if I'm getting a little treat, better check the ingredients in case they changed em! :)
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Harry Potter is trending at #1 on tumblr so I thought I’d take the opportunity to say fuck JKR, fuck transphobes, fuck her stupid books, her theme park, her endless landfill fodder merch slop, and her fucking castle on a hill. Read another book yall!! Read another book!!!!!!!
At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes
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For a college game, I used an entire box of candy canes as a size colossal monstrous zombie grasshopper, and then when it died I ripped the box open and used the candy canes as size large monstrous parasitic horsehair worms erupting from its corpse. Nobody actually wanted to eat them after that so I took them home and ground them into a powder with a pestle, intending to add it to my hot cocoas. But I didn’t wash the pestle very well last time after using it to crush garlic and chilis, so I accidentally made chili-garlic-mint powder and then I tried serving that cocoa at a later D&D sesh, and we were all baffled at why it tasted so horrible until I was like oh my god it’s the ground up zombie ass worms. I contaminated them with garlic and chilis. And the group was like YOU GROUND UP THE ZOMBIE ASS WORMS AND FED THEM TO US which seemed like a lot of fuss over what would have otherwise been free and delicious cocoa. Then after that before taking any snacks they’d ask did you perchance put any zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder in this?, and then refuse to eat until I said None.
Which they thought was very funny, even if I was slightly less amused, but I bided my time until they got tired of the joke and stopped specifically asking. Then I poured all the remaining zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder into a bag of party mix. The first guy to take a bite spluttered, and I laughed, and everyone said WHAT DID BABS DO, and I said THE WOOOORMS… YOU FORGOT TO ASK… OHMYGOD… and then I laughed so hard I actually cried. Derailed the start time almost an hour.
