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Thank you! :D I have not and I enjoyed writing it very much!

Loud music blasts from “Record Mania” when the door opens. They’re gracious not to blast it so loud it shakes the wall of the building—again. Eddie pumps up the volume when he pleases and his coworker lowers it immediately. A most symbiotic relationship.

Their battle over the volume in the store continues over the day. He does give it a rest when a customer drops by but ups the volume when they leave again.

The only way to prevent this is if she switches music to something that doesn’t have loud drums and guitar solos, which is why when Steve opens the door to the store he’s welcomed by the tunes of “I’m So Excited” by The Pointer Sisters. It’s the first time he recognizes a song in the shop, but admitting that out loud won’t impress Eddie.

Eddie, who’s dressed in a red flannel with rolled-up sleeves, a leather bracelet dangling on his slim wrist, long fingers flipping through the vinyls on sale and sorting them right. His hair has grown longer during summer and he’s dealing with that by putting it up in a sloppy ponytail. Feeling eyes on him (something he’s gotten used to given the circumstances) he looks towards the entrance, brown eyes falling on Steve’s broad frame.

Is there anything in the worldbuilding process that you needed to figure out because it is important for the plot, but that you don't know how to imply?

This was another question left in my drafts because it was a really good question and my answer is a concept I still struggle to really explain/figure out!!!!!! ❤️ Thank you for the question which got me to really think about this through a little more!

So one thing I’m really struggling with is the fact that like...a primitive form of electricity (probably???) exists in the setting of The Hour of Magic. Basically everywhere but Crestwall uses it, and it was probably invented by someone in New Nobelia, using magic of some kind. It’s mostly used for lighting and maybe some basic motors for open/closing gates and powering small carts or something. Maybe. 

I don’t know what to call it, because “electricity” sounds way too modern but something like “lightning power” sounds way too try-hardy. I like names that sound original/have a fantasy flavor, but its at least somewhat obvious what it is after a brief explanation (For example, this world also has the equivalent of coffee, called “godsbrew”). 

I don’t exactly know the parameters for how it would work, its limits, etc. I don’t want to entirely lose the fantasy feel of the story, but apart from one setting, I’m not really going for a steampunk aesthetic either. The first part of the story takes place in Crestwall so I was able to push off figuring things out. But now I’m at a point where things being powered by ““““electricity”””” is another symbol of how Crestwall is allowing itself (literally!) to stay in the dark compared to how drastically advanced other civilizations are. 

🤫 - A big spoiler/piece of lore out of context

💡 - What inspired the wip? When/how did you first get the idea?

Hi! Thank you for the ask! :D I'll be answering these for my fantasy series~

🤫 - A big spoiler/piece of lore out of context

The Moon Goddess is seen as the mother of many things.

💡 - What inspired the wip? When/how did you first get the idea?

When I was around 12 it manifested into a proper idea as a fantasy world with realms in it. Back then, it was all one big world and characters could walk between the territories of the Spirits (Deities) and the conflict was different.

moonflower

genre: adult, fantasy, romance content warnings: abuse, torture, death tropes & themes: fae, royalty, hidden powers, betrayal, revenge, fucked up family status: first draft pov: third person

synopsis

In the world of Fae, humans are accepted, but they are servants and workers. Sometimes, those humans do something outstanding for the Fae that they are granted the same fortune as they have: become Fae. Adessa's great great grandfather is one such human. He was granted the opportunity to become Fae, but before that happened, he had a wife and a child, but the Fae aren't so kind to have his family become part of the Folk. Instead they were regarded as greater than other humans. They lived among the Folk (if they wished) almost as one of them. But such families weren't common. Although Adessa has grown up in similar splendour as the Fae, she has never gone out to interact with them. It was safer and easier to not get their attention. But things change after her best friend dies and she finds out who did it. Now she lives among the Folk, becoming close with the first prince, Nova, while her attention keeps going to Caelan, the second prince, the one ostracised by everyone, due to the lack of powers everyone else in the royal family has.