SunshineWoods

These started as Mucha studies, and then I got wildly sidetracked with emotions for Murderbot, as one does. (Will also post them separately, so tumblr doesn’t eat the quality. Tumblr, please. >.>)

About The Gentle Wolf

Omega Aodhan Donne has buried his past, his life revolves around his chocolaterie, Little Star, a place where he creates sweet and happy memories. Demisexual, and used to being shoved in the friends category by the time he falls for someone, he throws all his energy into creating romantic moments for others in his store, neglecting his needs. His highlight for two years has been the man who visits his shop every Tuesday. Beta Thomas Wilson is an historian who believes the past should be unearthed, working as the curator at Western Australia’s only shifter museum, educating children and adults about shifter history. Quiet and hard-working, he allows himself to visit Aodhan at Little Star once a week, as a treat. When Aodhan decides he wants to get know Thomas better, he offers him a window into a complicated history that influenced the lives of shifters in the whole of Australia, and faces the possibility of Thomas learning too much about his dark past. After deciding to take it slow, their unconventional relationship becomes a whirlwind, sweeping them up together and blowing open the doors hiding their painful pasts. They couldn’t face their truths alone, but if they’re willing to face them together, Aodhan and Thomas may get the love they’ve always yearned for.

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The Gentle Wolf by Pia Foxhall (Perth Shifters #2) - Can be read as standalone! - Each book in the series focuses on different characters Queer (gay/demisexual ace spectrum character) m/m contemporary paranormal romance Set in Western Australia 99,800 words // 252 pages Cover by TiferetDesign Character art by Em Subscribe to the Foxhall Newsletter!

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Five random things about Aodhan and Thomas

Blackwood (Perth Shifters #1)

so a pal of mine who wishes to remain anonymous asked me for advice re: what to write for maximum selfpub sales, how to go about it, tips and tricks, that sort of thing. their first book took a few weeks to write, has only been out for a few days, and is already in the top 2,000 500 selling books on all of amazon right now, so i count that as a success!

i’m going to share my tactics with all of you because it’s entirely replicable and all of you are better writers than i am, so there’s no reason why you can’t smash it out of the fucking park too

this assumes you already know the basics of writing and all that jazz, and don’t find it too hard to write 30-50k stories. okay? okay. here goes!

Fandom:

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Steve’s Sketches: Bucky Barnes

Here are ten questions to ask that will not put your friend in a tough spot, but will still give you some useful input on your novel:

1. At what point did you feel like “Ah, now the story has really begun!”  2. What were the points where you found yourself skimming?  3. Which setting in the book was clearest to you as you were reading it? Which do you remember the best?  4. Which character would you most like to meet and get to know?  5. What was the most suspenseful moment in the book?  6. If you had to pick one character to get rid of, who would you axe?  7. Was there a situation in the novel that reminded you of something in your own life?  8. Where did you stop reading, the first time you cracked open the manuscript? (Can show you where your first dull part is, and help you fix your pacing.)  9. What was the last book you read, before this? And what did you think of it? (This can put their comments in context in surprising ways, when you find out what their general interests are. It might surprise you.)  10. Finish this sentence: “I kept reading because…”

Your friend is probably still going to tell you, “It was good!” However, if you can ask any specific questions, and read between the lines, you can still get some helpful information out of even the most well-meaning reader.

All this stuff I don’t know for sure, because I haven’t written it, and because I never really planned to write it, so…I don’t exactly know?

That being said, the other Lone Wolf ask this week got me thinking about it, because I started wondering like, how Gwyn would come across Augus and if there would ever be a reason that Gwyn would seek his services.

I don’t think Gwyn would be a very sexually aware person under the tutelage of the Raven Prince. He’s probably tried it a few times and thought ‘what’s the big deal’ (because I don’t really headcanon Gwyn as having a particularly high sex drive in general) and the Raven Prince being asexual likely swung Gwyn away from that and told him not to focus on ‘physical pursuits.‘

So if any attraction between Augus and Gwyn were to spring up, it would likely come not from Gwyn seeking out his services, but from the two of them encountering each other in some other way. Maybe the Raven Prince wants Augus for his Court and - thwarted by Augus being like ‘fuck the Court’ - he sends Gwyn after him or something, or sends Gwyn to get to know him (and silently intimidate him lol).

Or maybe Augus wants to spite the Raven Prince, and decides to seduce Gwyn just to prove that he can. Gwyn finding out that he’s sexually submissive, as well as a masochist, outside of just…thinking he’s serving the Raven Prince, would be a hell of a shock to him. I think in needing construct an extremely arrogant facade around the Raven Prince, and in being very arrogant in his day to day with others (this is a Gwyn that definitely has servants), he’d find it hard to experience his submission around someone who didn’t rescue him as a child. I mean, to him, the Raven Prince is essentially his saviour. Outside of that, there’d be an emotional struggle that might even eclipse what’s in the canon? I’m not sure there. It’d definitely be difficult for him.

The Raven Prince is prone to jealousy, usually if someone attempts to take something or someone away from him that he perceives as ‘his.’ That very much extends to people. And he can be petty and spiteful (as we see in the canon, and also in The Lone Wolf). If Augus succeeded in seducing Gwyn or mixing up his loyalties, well, that’d be…well…

I’m just trying to imagine a really confused kind of triangle between Augus and Gwyn and the Raven Prince because firstly the Raven Prince is asexual and secondly Augus is not a believer in monogamy (he offers monogamy because Gwyn wants it, but up until that point in the text, he’s always wished for Gwyn to have more friends and even lovers if that was what Gwyn wanted), and Gwyn wouldn’t really see any conflict because Augus fucks him but the Raven Prince doesn’t and he loves both of them so where is the issue he’s happy with two masters.

Okay so I kind of answered your questions. But tl;dr I still don’t know for sure because I haven’t actually written it out. So this is just…idk, thinking out loud? Until it’s written, anything could happen. And I didn’t have a plan to continue that AU.

Oooo, okay hmm, as for favourite fanfics, I have a bunch bookmarked over at AO3: 

Fanfics I like to read.

Unfortunately most of them are private bookmarks, but I think I still have over 100 or so that are public. (And something like 500 booked in total).