#flyandfall

Chapters: 3/8 Fandom: Horizon (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Aloy/Kotallo (Horizon), Aloy & Rost (Horizon), Aloy & Varl (Horizon) Characters: Aloy (Horizon), Kotallo (Horizon), Teersa (Horizon), Rost (Horizon), Erend (Horizon), Sona (Horizon), Varl (Horizon) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Ancient Greece, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Retelling, Blood and Violence, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Prophecy, Fate & Destiny, More tags to be added, Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses, Canon-Typical Violence, Adventure, Family Secrets, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Romance, Canon Disabled Character, War, Blood and Gore, Game: Horizon Zero Dawn, Corruption, Game: Horizon Forbidden West Summary:

Red, boiling sores seemed to bear into the earth like infected roots, snaking across the landscape. The earth was blackened around them, webbed fingers reaching out and killing all that it touched. It seemed to hiss, a steaming heat of infection and sulfur swirling up around her, stinging her lungs, burning her skin.

 Horizon reimagined in Ancient Greece.

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This year has been a revolutionary, reformative year for me when it comes to writing. I didn’t write or publish anything in 2023. And yet, in 2024 I published 126,456 words, more than double anything I had done in the past. Writing that many words, publishing that many words, I could hardly believe it, and I just really proud of myself. For taking risks this year, for finding a community, for really prioritizing the things that make me, me. All I can say is thank you for every single interaction, I would not have made it here without it.

(Sappy nonsense below the cut)

@flyandfall and @foibles-fables tagged me to share the last six sentences I wrote? (How fun, thanks guys!) More work done on the Jade Shackle AU of the Kyoshi novels.

The glasses and cutlery bounced from the force of her palm hitting the table. A tipped cup rolled, leaving a bloody trail of wine across the lacquered wood they were dining off of. Kyoshi’s hulking form loomed over Tagaka, having lost her patience with the Queen’s tirade. The sound of blades hissing out of their sheathes echoed in the suddenly quiet tent. “You will not address my bodyguard or her mother again,” She said in a tone that felt unlike her own. It was laced with a cold promise, nonnegotiable.

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