Got a tag from @no-relief-next-to-me (and you can see what to expect from his stuff over here!), and I'm passing it on to the usual suspects as a no pressure tag @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes plus and OPEN TAG for anyone who has anything to share
So here's five things you'll find in Shackle and Noose:
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Got hit up for this by @wildgeraniumwrites (here), @starwright (here), and @author-a-holmes (here), and you should give all of their playlists a listen! You're only supposed to tag as many people as you have letter in your username, but this one is fun so I'm tagging the whole squad for this, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes, plus and OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants in on this!
EDIT: LOL FORGOT THE INSTRUCTIONS!
Write out your username, then list a song that starts with the first letter of each letter in said username! You can use whatever random songs you want, or have a theme going with them, dealer's choice!
I pulled all of these from my Shackle and Noose playlist, which ended up being more orchestral than I planned lol
S - Salve, Terrae Magicae
O - Original Medley
D - Deku Palace
A - Again
L - Lacrimosa
I - I Was Lost Without You
T - Trouble at the Docks
E - The Ecstasy of Gold
S - Still Human
K - The Kiss
U - Uranus
L - Liberi Fatali
L - Lightning Returns
Another purge from the stockpile, this time tagged by @winterandwords (here and here!), @nossumusstellae (here and here!), @forthesanityofstorytellers (here!), and @leahnardo-da-veggie (here!)
Tagging @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @traderotales, @vyuntspakhkite-writes as well as leaving an OPEN TAG if anyone has something they wanna share!
This bit comes from part 16 of Shackle and Noose, Mecha Combat
"This lifestyle really isn't for me," V'tala agreed, "I'm glad you and the others went Kith instead of merc."
"As am I." Pryseia said with a private smile, reaching over to clink their glasses together.
Pryseia tipped her head back to finish her drink, eyes closed and hair falling loose over her shoulder, her horns coming dangerously close to the wall behind her. V'tala found her gaze drawn to the curve of Pryseia's neck, the way her throat bobbed as she downed the last of her alcohol. V'tala's blood felt like kerosene in her veins, her heartbeat ringing in her ears over the pulsing sounds of the dance music that filled the activity centre. She knocked back the rest of her own drink, and the motion had her equilibrium sloshing in a way it shouldn't have. Licking the last of the sweet concoction from her lips, V'tala admitted, "I think I might have overdone it with these things."
"Has nausea come to claim you?" Pryseia asked, her voice pitching low in concern.
Taking a breath as she took account of herself, V'tala replied, "Not yet, at least, but I think I can feel how fast this planet is rotating under our feet."
Got a tag from @no-relief-next-to-me (see their own quick summary over here!), and I'm cheating with the instructions because this one's fun, so hitting up @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes plus and OPEN TAG if anyone else wants to share!
Rules: Describe the plot of your story/WIP in five words or less, then tag five people!
Shackle and Noose, because my mind is one track at this point :P
lol so whoops, I let these pile up, so there's going to be 8 of these things under the cut!
Tagging the usual suspects @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @traderotales, @vyuntspakhkite-writes, and also leaving an OPEN TAG if anyone else has a hankering to play along.
If you do, your word will be OVERDUE
(everything's pulled from Shackle and Noose because I'm 400,000+ words deep in this thing!)
From @writingrosesonneptune (here!) there's WHIMSY
W - When the call connected, the first thing they were subjected to was blinding light streaming in from a large window, glinting harshly off an assortment of machined parts strewn across some sort of workbench, before a voice from just outside the view of the camera grumbled, "Oh, wrong way!"
H - Her hand snapped up on instinct, clenching the wrist of whoever it was trying to stab her, the leathery material of the jacket they wore flexing in her grip as something clamped around her own throat.
I - "I'm guessing a Zahhak is bad, but what flavour of bad are we talking about?"
M - "My hope is that if we can find out where it's going to emerge ahead of time, we can put an end to it before it has a chance to pick up much momentum."
S - Swinging over to hover near her, Viatrix said, "The Kith actually have a pretty sophisticated system for finding Leviathan, so I can see about digging up something bigger than a Lambda."
Y - "Yeah, I've still got all the research notes from when I built personal stealth units for our heist on Ritroser, so it shouldn't take me too long to fabricate and install what we need to make that shuttle stealth too."
From @willtheweaver (here!) there's CLAIM
C - Completely at odds with the frantic beat of her own heart.
L - "Looks like the party is really popping off in there - the guards are hanging out more around the doors than the ships to keep an eye on everyone."
A - "All of us were. Recovering from that, I'm finding, is going to take more than decent food, rest, and exercise."
I - "I know," Rhea replied, her voice thick as she held Pryseia tighter, "We'll just have to figure out how to wean you off it as we go"
M - Malakh made a questioning noise in the back of her throat, too groggy to be coherent, and Rhea leaned down to whisper, "I've got it," against her lips before placing a soft kiss against them, reluctantly sliding out from under the covers and padding over to her ringing console.
From @cat-esper (here!) there's GROTESQUE
G - Grasping V'tala by the shoulder, Rhea tilted the both of them forward, and with a retch, blood flew from Pryseia's mouth, scalding across her and V'tala's legs.
R - Rhea said something she couldn't comprehend then, Malakh darting between Nevara and Elytra as Rhea eased V'tala back, Pryseia heaving for breath against her.
O - Opening them again, she asked, "What happened?"
T - The memory had V'tala gripping this assassin by the snout and the ridges on the back of their head, twisting until a wet crack sounded from within them, and they became a dead weight in her arms, little more than a marionette with its strings cut.
E - Eyes wide and wild with fear, so different from the distant gaze in the throes of her panic attack, Pryseia's hands were clutching at her throat, as if trying to pull away something that wasn't there.
S - She didn't break stride as the door to the suite as a whole slid open before her, or the door to the bedroom she was drawn to after that, her hands clasping together and rising over her head before it had a chance to fully pull back and reveal the nightmare taking place inside.
Q - Quickly, gently, she shoved V'tala towards the head of the bed, gripping Pryseia by the front of her shirt and hauling her into a sitting position while she ordered, "Get behind her, prop her up."
U - "Unfortunately, it's not something I'd be able to do with the tools we have on hand."
E - Even if she'd been exhausted past her limits, injured beyond ignoring, if V'tala had been given an order, she would carry it out, regardless of how badly it ended up harming her.
From @lamuradex (here!) there's GRAND
G - Glare turned to Pryseia, mouth opening to ask a question, but it never got the chance to launch from their tongue as the overwhelming presence of the Storlayacas drove the air from their lungs, the polite welcome of the Hyttan mechs filling the cargo hold like a fog bank.
R - Relief was the first thing that they felt when they emerged in the cargo hold, a wave of it breaking against their shore as they stepped off of the chartreuse dematting zone.
A - "A slight that doesn't require forgiveness," Rhea's eyes were bright with tears, her smile fond, "I know you weren't in your right mind, given the circumstances."
N - Nevara just heaved a sigh, briefly touching Pryseia's cheek before moving away to take her seat.
D - "Don't remember any of the details, but it felt like my mind had been running the entire time."
From @forthesanityofstorytellers (here!) there's WONDER
W - "Well, it's not exactly a body," Rhea corrected herself, her voice coming to all of them over their Longan Units, "The armour's made of self healing material too, so whoever died in this thing was just broken down in order for the suit to maintain itself over the ages."
O - "Oh yeah, tons," was Viatrix's sarcastic reply over the speaker system that ran through the halls of the Pelekys, "Fought off like a billion Leviathan, discovered a new alien race and became the queen of them, I developed telekinesis of my own so watch out, and someone dropped off a deliver of chocolates! I already ate them all."
N - "Nice, I've been on the lookout for some of these!" Was Rhea's delighted cry as she hoisted one of the pods out of the container it had lain in for millennia, "Shock of shock, they're way more efficient than anything we have kicking around in the modern age."
D - "Don't worry," Viatrix assured her, "Kith scramble the metadata on everything they upload - the system does it automatically - so even if people go digging around in that sort of thing, there's no way they're going to know its you unless they were there in that system while you were flying that thing around, creeping behind an asteroid to peep on you."
E - Even swiping through the site as she was, she felt a warmth coil low in her belly that had absolutely nothing to do with the heat of her bath water, a far cry from what the novel she'd been reading had been able to bring out of her.
R - Rotating one of the pictures around to see it better, V'tala asked, "Did the pirates give us any information on this mansion's defences?"
From @rayne143 (here!) there's ABSOLUTE
A - Aside from Elytra, who looked as stunned as V'tala felt, the others in their crew lit up at this revelation.
B - By the time she was done with that, the humans had calmed down enough to actually speak in complete sentences, and they made their way over to the table where the rest of them had gathered.
S - Standing from her seat, Pryseia said, "Given Captain Shinju's recommendation, we may as well reach out to the Gorgon."
O - "Oh I get plenty of medical practice in, don't you worry," Rhea chuckled darkly, casting her gaze over her crew mates, "I've had to play doctor for every single one of them."
L - "Let me get in there and see what else got changed about it."
U - Uniformity over self actualization, conquest over cooperation, subjugation over freedom, the Thalatte were everything that the Kith weren't.
T - The four shouting humans had drawn the attention of everyone in the pub by then, including a pair of baithaizans wearing badges and uniforms she didn't recognize, the both of them with their hands braced against the table and chairs they were seated at like they were preparing to spring into action at a moment's notice.
E - Either finishing up or cutting their own tasks short, the crew of the Pelekys met up at a human-style pub called the Relic and Remnant, which had been built to resemble an ancient, wooden public house, the antique decor of it somehow blending in seamlessly with the rest of the district's eccentric storefronts.
And from @nossumusstellae (here!) there's either HOCKEY or LESBIANS, so as a queer Canadian, it is my duty to do both! heh
H - Her avatar spinning in excitement, Viatrix said, "I can definitely do something about that"
O - On the main view screen, the bridge of the Salsica came into view, a bright and chaotic space that was at odds with the serious expressions of the two people on screen.
C - "Captain Killzar Pryseia of the Pelekys at your service," Pryseia said, "What can we assist with?"
K - Knowing she wouldn't sway Elytra on that subject, Pryseia sighed, instead saying, "My experience is hardly unique, for in some form, we've all gone through something like this."
E - "Everything about these haulers was built to deter others from coming after them."
Y - "Your people do have a saying, about killing two birds with one stone, yes?"
L - "Looks like our medical equipment has been upgraded too."
E - Everything back in order, she gave Kaizoku a slight nod before walking out of the room.
S - Stripped of her elaborate armour and crown, she wore a dark jumpsuit and sturdy boots, her mechanical eye throwing a beam of light across her surroundings, while the device on the side of her face blinked in a clear indication that it was scanning as she went along.
B - Bathory let out a scoff at that, swiping a hand down to shut off whatever it was she was seeing, before she pointed a thumb back at a scanning alcove behind her.
I - "I can only assume it's done the same to the Program, making it just as impossible to understand as Hyttan data is."
A - "And what about now?" Grim asked as she typed something up on her console, eyes intent on some detail on the view screen.
N - No longer glitching and garbled, the Program's voice was smooth, steady, its previous undercurrent of malice nowhere to be heard.
S - Silvery light caught on the rows of weapons and armour neatly stacked in their rightful places, and seemed to make the Knight of the Tomb's complexion glow.
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Got hit up with a tag from @willtheweaver (see what his character dynamics were like over here!), and I'm passing that along to @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes plus and OPEN TAG if anyone wants it!
Going with the Shackle and Noose crew, because duh!
Rules: Imagine your characters are the ideal friend group, or they may already be one. What would the character’s role be in the friend group?
The Leader - Oh this is absolutely Pryseia!
The Parent - She's not the mom friend, but Rhea is very much a parentified eldest daughter type (lol even though she's the baby in her family)
The Tired Peacemaker - Rhea and Elytra tend to lean towards mediation, but I wouldn't really say they're tired about it???
The Troublemaker - Viatrix probably comes closest
The Cinnamon Roll - A tossup between Viatrix and Elytra
The Comic Relief Who’s Secretly Depressed - I think the closest to this would be Pryseia??? She tries to keep things light, but there's a deep well of sadness within her. I wouldn't call her really the comic relief though
The Quiet Observer Who Knows Everyone’s Secrets - Nevara and V'tala for sure
The Charming Trickster - Malakh, maybe??? It's not really a perfect fit for her
The Strong Protector - Kind of everyone, to be honest. But Pryseia and V'tala are the type to throw themselves in harms way the most
The Creator/Artist - Malakh's more of the tinkering type, while Nevara makes music, Rhea writes, and Elytra films and edits
The Smart One Who Has Answers For Everything Except Social Situations - This is Nevara. She can't stand a crowd!
The Disaster - I don't think anyone's a full on disaster??? I think the closest would be Malakh, and that's more due to the fact that she can get a little too in her head about things
The Unpaid Therapist - Rhea and Elytra share double duty with this one
Got a tag from @nossumusstellae (see what her facts were over here!), and I'm passing it along to @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @rosesonneptune, @savvyminnow, @theheartofsanlobato, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes, and an OPEN TAG just because!
Pretty self explanatory, just list some facts about your OCs of choice that don't or won't come up in their stories. I'm going with the Shackle and Noose crew, because duh!
Malakh - She had a very lawless childhood, getting up to all kinds of criminal annoyances just because she could, and graffiti was something she was quite adept at. If she decided to pick up painting of any sort, she'd find that she's still good at it.
Rhea - She hit her growth spurt young, so she was always tall for her age, and everyone told her to play sports because of it. Incessantly so, to the point that even if she had a passing interest in a sport, she wouldn't play it out of spite. She skipped out on a lot of PE classes in protest as well, the only black mark in her academic career.
Nevara - Like the majority of her race, she was raised in a communal care facility throughout her childhood, and she considered everyone she was raised alongside to be her siblings. So even though they weren't genetically related to her, she's got hundreds of siblings.
Pryseia - There was a long ruling dynasty on her homeworld that was wiped out generations before she was born, and there is a long standing belief in her people's pop culture that a survivor made it out and fled to live in peace on one of the colony worlds, something along the lines of Anastasia here on Earth. Only in this case, this myth is true, and though she doesn't know it, she's a direct descendant of this escapee.
Viatrix - She likes to comb the area of wherever their ship happens to come to a rest for stray communication signals from ages past - stuff like radio or television. She really enjoys seeing these glimpses into a time long gone.
Elytra - She's got an unusually high pain tolerance, to the point where she can ignore an injury that would have others of her kind incapacitated with agony. She's led a relatively safe life, up until her capture and subsequent escape, so she never got injured seriously enough to notice this fact.
V'tala - She has always been able to lucid dream, and assumed that all people could dream the same way. None of the people she knew before the crew found her in stasis bothered talking to her as a person, so her dreams weren't a topic that ever came up.
Got tagged a while ago by @writingrosesonneptune (see her out of context line over yonder!), and I'm passing the no pressure tag onto @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @cat-esper, @cheshirewrites, @chinchinwrites, @inadequatecowboy, @kitcatling, @lamuradex, @magnus-sm-writes, @moltenwrites, @nerasnotes, @no-relief-next-to-me, @nossumusstellae, @rayne143, @rhikasa, @roselinbooks, @savvyminnow, @thesorcerersapprentice, @toribookworm22, @vyuntspakhkite-writes, plus and OPEN TAG for any and all
Another Shackle and Noose line, because yee :)
Malakh shot her a flat look that clearly said, "Be so fucking for real right now."
