#space gorls

Standing as a (self-proclaimed) beacon of freedom against the Golden Fleet, the Bastion is a barely functioning station being held together by spite, spit, and a handful of very determined mechanics. As it comes up on its one year anniversary of foiling a coup that aimed to put them under control of the long reach of the empire, things begin to break in new and alarming ways. To top it off, there's a strange visual phenomenon that doesn't register on any station scans, and there's mysterious outgoing data files with no known sender or recipient. Struggling against heightened paranoia and ghosts from the past being less dead than they should be, a small group who call the Bastion home (to varying degrees of sincerity) have to decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to save the one place that will accept them. (purchase via patreon || itch)

OH WOW OH WOW HERE IT IS THE REAL PROMO POST!!! Since I had to make a cover in order to upload to itch, I would get some mileage out of it and use it here as well.

This is what i've been working on for the past uh like year and a half! Almost two years now? (I was doing character profiles and voice tests as of Nov 2024, so, good lord.)

This wouldn't be possible without @ftlcast and SPECIFICALLY @strangeharpy, @jadeoxfordrose, and @citadelofswords, the fellow gorls.

It is around 95,000/350 pages and is available for purchase via my patreon or my itch. Patreon does require you to have a patreon, even for a one-time purchase, so that's why I've also gone ahead and posted it up on itch :)

Alrighty y'all, @littleladymab tagged me in this and who am I to resist a challenge that involves picrews or heroforge :)) Taking inspo from Mab, here are 5 ships involving characters of mine getting their smooches in xD

Adelaide Sylvestri nee Ontano & Thea Cuore (Il Covo Nostro:Court of Blades)

(Thea is my character, Adelaide is her paramour who is an NPC played by Zach) So these two haven't actually kissed yet in canon but the yearning, oh the yearning! Still, I'm hoping that there will be a chance soon xD Their situation is complicated to put it mildly- some of it can be found explained in my 'Thea Cuore' tag.

Max Valera & Merrill Whitmer(Space Gorls)

These two have it all - childhood friendship, faked deaths, pining, the slow rebuilding of trust, banter - and I miss playing them. Merrill is @citadelofswords's roller skating jewel thief of a dream girl and Max is my sarcastic to a fault mechanic.

Davey-Jane & Theo Delaney (Multiple FTL universes)

Sometimes they are a less tragic version of Hamlet & Horatio in ✨Space✨, sometimes they are a version of Orpheus & Eurydice, sometimes they're youtubers (one hunts ghosts, the other does crafts) - regardless, they always give me feels. Davey-Jane is @littleladymab's character (I'm sorry the picrew does not show how truly beautiful he is Mab), Theo is mine and I cherish them deeply despite my continuing to put them in awful situations.

Arkady & Arctorus (formerly of Stormhold | Fall of Magic + Mages Against the Machine)

These two began life as Fall of Magic characters played by me and Zach respectively, who came from the same place and from that came a goldmine of character fuel. Amusingly, I didn't even realise I'd started shipping them until after we wrapped the game - I blame the sheer number of delicious tropes that provided ship fuel we hit upon the way. They've only been played once since, and Arctorus (renamed Arthur in a new universe) was more of a cameo but the relationship was officially canonized xD Characters that I need to do more with to be sure.

Benny LaFontaine & Dante Voight & Kel Mahoney (Dumb Kids Playing Hero)

Oh my wonderful, messy, complicated Team Chaos (played by Richard as Benny, Bryan as Dante, and myself as Kel). A slow-burn of an OT3 despite active shipping from multiple people, all I can say here is please go listen to @dumbkidsplayinghero - it's Animorphs inspired Boston college students in the early 00s and I'm supremely proud of the story we all told together.

Alrighty, I've said enough - tagging anyone who fancies having a play in picrew and talking about their OC OTPs xD

I was tagged by @mysticstarlightduck (please check out her rad post for her project, CRASH STARDOM!)

Rules: Make a moodboard for your WIP, a playlist (3+ songs/music will suffice but it can be as long as you want) and describe the Vibe of your WIP.

So, let's go again with the gorls ;) so also, WIP intro post fr?!

🌟THE STARS WILL CONSUME US🌟

✨Moodboard✨

✨Playlist✨

"Freeze the Fall" by One Left Standing

"Terraforming, One Bullet at a Time" by Justin E. Bell

"Lepidopterophobia" by Skye Lewis

"Built to Kill" by Oleksa Lozowchuk

"The Voices Return" from Arcane

"Sleeping in the Cold Below" by Keith Power

✨Vibes✨

Run down space station just doing its best against the tyrannies of a distant empire, pirates, and its own inhabitants

You look into the void of space and the void of space looks back

When all that is strange and unknowable becomes the shape of a girl, an even stranger and greater unknown

If something knocks on the other side of the airlock, don't answer the door

Sapphic yearning

What happens when everyone you thought you knew turns out to be a lie?

"Turns out you can punch a ghost."

and, most importantly:

I'm giving special shoutouts to @strangeharpy, @citadelofswords, and @jadeoxfordrose for the use of their gorls 🤭

Taglist, if you would like to do this or just see about my project!

@bottlingsound (i've been meaning to make something with knight lite!),

@krisseycrystal @rkmoon

@sentfromwolves @ybotter

@luukeskywalker @scribble-dee-vee

@redtailedhawk90 (you did give me 👀 on the wip word game! surprise!)

I got tagged by @redtailedhawk90 in the Word Train Challenge (you can find their post here)!

Rules: Post a sentence from your WIP starting with each letter in the word given to you!

I got the word WEIRD

I am too lazy to dig through all my WIPs so I'm gonna cheat a bit and instead just use my outline for upcoming project! So here's a sneak peak at some stuff for the gorls fic I'll be writing ;)

W - "Why does everyone treat me like the bad guy when you're all insisting on staying here and ruining yourselves and dragging everyone else down with you?!"

E - Everyone: shut up kestrel. (listen, it counts)

I - "I'm not saying if you left, it would be better, but the station is reacting to you."

R - Rehashing the plan: Kerri doesn't LIKE it at all because it's uploading her own AI system onto the whole station, and she admits that it's not big enough to manage the whole station as it is, it will just be a stop gap and she will have to monitor it constantly. (5k words in this outline and not a single actual sentence starts with 'R')

D - Davenport, over the PA system, "Oh, I can ensure you that it does very much, Miss Barlow."

Taglist: @bottlingsound @krisseycrystal

@rkmoon @jadeoxfordrose @sentfromwolves

@ybotter @luukeskywalker @scribble-dee-vee

@mysticstarlightduck and whoever else would like to give it a go! (or lmk if you'd like to be added to/removed from the tag list)

Moon: Does your character have a dark side? What makes their dark side come out?

Thank you for the mystery question! 🥰

I was originally going to answer for Elzibeta since she's always on my mind lately, but hehe that's spoilers for future episodes so instead I'll answer for Kerri, since I'm back to working on gorls!

I don't think Kerri would say she has a dark side, because she is a deeply pragmatic person and also, who honestly knows what is going on with her emotions. She sure as hell doesn't.

The only way you'd get a "dark side" out of her is just seeing her at her most ruthless efficiency. She won't let a thing like """emotions""" get in her way to get what she needs done! And the easiest way to trigger it is just to be so wildly inept while ignoring everything she brings to the table -- to your detriment!