So hi! Iβm Locke!
βΊ Iβm a 21 y/o rising senior in college, majoring in psychology
βΊ Iβve 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
βΊ When Iβm not writing, I draw, play video games, read, cross stitch, bullet journal, and dabble in photography during my free time
βΊ Some of my favorite games are Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Coral Island, Guild Wars 2, Spiritfarer, and The Evil Within
β worlds are burning, my child.
gods alone cannot suffocate the flames.
My Writing
βΊ 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
βΊ Iβm polyamorous. My characters are polyamorous. Relationship webs are complicated and I love them dearly.
βΊ 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 canβt yet bear to part with any of them, so youβll probably see someΒ βnewβ wip snippet pop up occasionally
βΊ Lore and worldbuilding makes up most of my word count and takes up most of my time; itβs the most consistent thing I do!
βΊ That said, itβs also my current focus, so expect a lot more of it!
Β my works // world anvil //Β north haven discordΒ // pinterest
WIP // Fable
βΊΒ My tale is an old one. That much should be quite clear. It is not, however, as it has been told...Β 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, orΒ βMerlinβ 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 Myhrenβs 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 Myhrenβs stream of consciousness.
Status
This is an ongoing, very long term WIP of mine. Iβve written some pieces, and brainstormed others. Iβll be releasing new entries as I complete them.
Phase: Itβs complicated.
wip page / cast page / character introΒ
WIP // The Minutemage Compendium
βΊ 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. Iβll 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
βΊ 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
Iβm 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 // TheΒ Back-burner
βΊ 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 donβt pertain to specific stories, as well as a lot of poetry that I like to call myΒ βspout of bullshitβ
Arcane // world anvilΒ // tag
Alchemist //Β floating idea // tag
The Demonβs Eyes // world anvilΒ // tag
Encounters of the Primal Sort // world anvilΒ // tag
Faefinder // brainstorming phase // tag
Twisted Tales of Myth
βΊ Ellyse of Wonderspire // world anvilΒ // tag
βΊ Servant to Dragon and King //Β floating idea // tag
Wane of the Lunar Human //Β floating idea // tag
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to give some entirely bizarre context, nigel farage (extreme cunt) has stepped down from his position as MP for clacton (due to a scandal where he received Β£5 million from a crypto billionaire that could have been laundered) only to run again so that he can prove people like him. and the only person running against him is count binface. who has been a staple of british politics for many years. and now the british press is forced to interview him seriously while he sits there with his binface.
For context Farage can't be prosecuted for this while not in office. His tactic is to be re-elected to show he is a man of the people beating all other parties (and therefore laws don't apply??). Other parties have chosen not to run ostensibly because it lends legitimacy to his stunt but more likely because it is a Reform stronghold and they are unlikely to challenge him anyway.
Except in the hour of need, a binface stepped up.
So either he gets in and is prosecuted, or he loses to a bin.
When Zuko apologized to uncle Iroh in the tent cause he was so ashamed of his actions and what heβd done to the only person who unconditionally believed in his ability to do good >>>>>
So okay, Iβve given this rant before but this is another good time for it.
Structurally speaking, ATLA did something important with Zuko that, in a purely mechanistic sense of narrative development, I think a lot of people donβt notice immediately, and that even fewer people who want to emulate what was done with him get.
Which is Zuko is made a protagonist VERY early, and the show goes out of its way to continually place Zuko into situations where the audience empathizes and roots for him.
This happens in literally the second episode of the series, if we count the two-part premiere as a single episode, which I think we should. The A-plot of that episode, βThe Southern Air Temple,β is Aang reckoning with the genocide of his peopleβ¦ but the B-plot?
The B-plot is the introduction of Zhao, and more specifically, his introduction in a way that is calculate to shift the audience, whose introduction to Zuko did NOT engender a ton of sympathy to him, directly and forcefully onto his side. They want Zuko to kick Zhaoβs ass.
This continues all through book one and book two. Remember, Zuko is never, ever the main villain of this series. Thatβs initially Zhao, followed by Azula and Ozai. (Plus various temporary players like Long Feng.) Whenever Zuko isnβt placed into direct conflict with the other protagonists, heβs always written and presented in a way that is careful, VERY VERY careful, not to make him too monstrous, and to make us root for him. Heβs placed right next to Iroh, who is designed for people to like, and that reflects back onto Zuko; we want Zuko to be better than he is because we want Iroh to have good things.
Put aside for the moment whether any specific character, including Zuko, deserves their redemption. If youβve decided youβre going to do that, you have to erect the proper narrative scaffolding around them, and it extends to far more things than βdid this person not do things that were too horribleβ and βis this person genuinely sorry and is working really hard to atone.β Thereβs a difference between protagonist and white hat, but if you want someone to eventually wear that white hat, you REALLY need to establish them as a plausible protagonist early on.
vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects
I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.
Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? Iβd be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.
Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. Itβs a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey
they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom.Β
Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because thereβs so many lies. And to go one step further because itβs such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they donβt want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.
β¦ butβ¦ Bees consent. NO. IβM NOT KIDDING.
How? Bee hives arenβt kept on leashes. Theyβre outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesnβt like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more spaceβ¦ then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.
The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper itβs because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.
Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.
I feel compelled to explain the misconception part for anyone who doesnβt know anything about beekeeping and finds any of this confusing. This might be a little redundant, but Iβm scratching an itch.
Harvesting honey does not murder bees.
The device pictured above does not mash up bees or their hives.
Thereβs no ethical concern when it comes to eating honey, itβs totally ethical as food is concerned.
Bees manufacture honey using pollen. They store it in the cells of their hive, where itβs used as food for the colony, particularly the larvae growing into the next generation of bees.
When you harvest honey, you remove parts of the hive that are being used to store the honey, without taking any bees along for the ride. Those parts of the hive are then put into a device, like the centrifugal extractor shown above by gemstone-gynoid, where the parts are spun really fast to pull extract the honey. The honey gets collected on the walls of the extractor, drips down, and can then be filtered and bottled for human use.
So.
It turns out that bees love making honey and can make more of it than theyβd ever need. It also turns out that beekeepers taking care of hives and harvesting their honey keeps bees healthy and thriving, more so than theyβd normally accomplish on their own. And we really need bees healthy and thriving because they help us grow an astonishing amount of food by pollinating plants.
Like, thereβs no need to have a conversation about this, anyone who claims that harvesting honey requires that you kill bees is lying. Either they donβt know anything about beekeeping and are just repeating a lie someone else told them, or they know that theyβre lying and theyβre just straight up trying to deceive people. Neither is a good look.
the only unethical beekeeping is colonial beekeeping with kept honeybees being introduced outside of their native biospheres which can outcompete and harm native bee species
but hey, even then the bees being kept are not the ones being harmed, theyβre complicit in the harm lol
(as much as animals can be at fault for being an introduced invasive species)
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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesnβt turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! Iβm not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a βlazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. youβre supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and thatβs uuuuuuh whatβs the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and youβre done.
0 products also works great
because Iβm gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but itβs really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but thatβs up to you
Iβm sorry if I didnβt express this clearly enough in the original post but Iβm not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how itβs Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be βrequiredβ to have βa minimumβ of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so likeβ¦β¦. what youre saying isβ¦β¦. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 insteadβ¦ i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but thatβs just my personal opinion
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The internet used to feel like a place you could wander. Then somebody built fences.
Code for the People is a new documentary short about the open web: the people who built it, the walled gardens that swallowed it, and the open source movement quietly holding the door open for everyone.
As one voice in the film puts it: "We have this Promethean task to take the fire from the gods and bring it to the people."
It's streaming now.
The web belongs to all of us. Pass it on.
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Humans are pretty prone to mimicking noises. like even subconsciously. sometimes we even unintentionally pick up entirely different accents. and you literally can't tell me you've never meowed or woofed or chirped back at a cat/dog/bird at least once in your life (unless you are physically/audibly unable to do so).
So Grace 1000% starts picking up and mimicking Eridian noises.
One day, Rocky will be working on something, only to freeze as he hears Grace behind him suddenly exclaim in fluent Eridian "SHIT!"
Turns out Eridian swear words are usually expressed in the same decibel that humans can whistle in.
Human Is is a 1955 Ray Bradbury sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.
And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:
Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."
The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."
Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.
"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."
"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."
And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.
And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Ray Bradbury story but something about it is making me lose my mind
