Laera E.K. Ori

Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet! My penname is Laera E.K Ori, or you can call me Leko for short :)

I'm a writer and have been writing on and off since 2018! I mostly write original fantasy, and currently I'm work on wayyy to many WIPs (there's eight of them)...

What to expect from this blog:

My writing, its process and progress (or lack of lol)

Vague-posting about most of my WIPs

Posts about Celestial Bane

General writing stuff and randomness

Tag-games (both writing related and not, so feel free to tag me in anything if you want :D).

My asks are also always open, so if you have a question, feel free to send that in!

So anyway, a little bit more about me includes:

Interests:

My hobbies include, obviously, writing and reading. I also play a few games such as Genshin Impact, Minecraft, Terraria, and others but I've mostly been playing those three at the moment.

Shows and animes that I watch include:

HTTYD

BBC Merlin

Gintama

Heaven Official's Blessing

MDZS

Link Click

AoT

Frieren

TBHK

Spy family

Eight-six

And a bunch of others, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.

Dislikes:

Generative ai. I personally don't believe it has a place in any creative space.

Any dickhead behaviour (homophobia, racism, and anything of the like).

Andddd that's pretty much it out of me I think lol.

Thank you so much @aalinaaaaaa for the tag!

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Last Song: The Day I Die - Daughtry

Favourite Colour: Purple

Currently Watching: Our Planet, Assassination Classroom, and The Ramparts Of Ice

Current Obsession: Genshin Impact probably lol

Currently Reading: Of Jade And Dragons by Amber Chen & Malice by John Gwynne

Currently working on: Celestial Bane primarily, but also a few other projects

Last google search: Toxic plants

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Awe, thank you so much!

Lysanias is the main character of Celestial Bane, and he's the ruler of an Empire named 'Mintalis'.

There's a lot of I want to say about him, but it all contains some pretty big spoilers... He is a villain protagonist though!

Lysanias has morals, and his high moral standards is exactly what drives him to act, even if his methods can be considered questionable (he's not just a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type of person, there is a reason but I'm going to keep that a secret :]). He's very forgiving to others, but once he's had enough, it's over.

Get that gen slop producer out of that creative writing course. Get it out of that philosophy course. Get it out of all of them.

You telling me you don't know how to think?

Like, with that philosophy course, there's a learning activity that is apparently needing gen AI to write a deductive argument... Are you telling me you cannot write a simple deductive argument on a claim that the earth is flat for example, or you can't even come up with some other theory to then analyze and evaluate in order to identify the thinking process behind? What happened to group work? Write a paragraph and swap, then boom no gen ai needed. I never liked group work, it was the bane of my existence, but I would much rather work in a group than even touch generative ai.

I kept telling myself I wouldn't worry about it, that it could be a second draft problem, but yeah that failed and all afflicted chapters must be sent to the Hall of Rewriting immediately.

My beloved em dash.

Pry it from my cold dead hands. I dare you.

Thank you so much for the ask!

I was just thinking about making a post about this project's origin and inspiration, so your ask is perfectly timed!

Celestial Bane was actually inspired by a whole slew of conspiracy theories surrounding aliens, hence the "outer space-y stuff"! I got the idea a while ago when I was talking to a conspiracy theorist after watching a show (I think it might have been Stargate SG 1?)

So anyway, this person started on a spiel about Earth not being the only place to hold intelligent life and that any other civilisation was definitely staying far away because they didn't want to deal with us. We discussed a whole bunch of things that I won't list right now otherwise this post will go on for ages, but one of the things he said that really stood out to me in that moment was that Stonehenge looked to him like a landing pad.

It all quite literally just made me think "these things would be fun to put in a story :))" so I started to give thought to why earthlings would be a threat to civilisations that are probably more advanced, then I began to wonder, if they knew of us like he seemed to suggest, why didn't we know them? Of course, I answered that myself almost immediately with a gleeful but silent "BECAUSE SOMEONE STOOD IN THE WAY!!"

I'm currently working on 8 WIPs, seven of which I don't want to spoil a lot of yet and will just continue to vague-post about, but for that last one---thanks to a friend who chose between them all based on title---I will now introduce you to:

Celestial Bane

It's a sci-fi fantasy (my only sci-fi project) and its written in the third person limited perspective.

Sitting in my "story ideas" document, its blurb is:

Outerspace-y stuff.

because I have to delete 6k words from one of my WIPs and transfer it into its scene-graveyard, and revise and rewrite a whole 13k in another... neither of which I want to do right now, so I'm wasting time here :))

Anyways, April was probably my most productive month in like a year. I added a total of 11,111 words combined to my WIPs, with 1,000 words being the average, and though a couple were a little under, the two I added more than 2k to make up for them lol.