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Get to Know Your Mutuals Tag

Got tags from @nossumusstellae (here), @cat-esper (here), and @leahnardo-da-veggie (here), and passing it on to @author-a-holmes, @axl-ul, @bi-focal12, @byjillianmaria, @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

Currently Reading: I'm a couple chapters into A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft, and I'm really liking it so far!!!

Last Song: Too Long by Daft Punk, because I just watched 👇

Last Film: Interstella 5555, which is basically one long music video for Daft Punk's album Discovery. It's that anime with the blue aliens in yellow jumpsuits in a band, you know the one!

Last Game: Resident Evil Requiem 😈

Last Series: If game, Resident Evil. If movie, Underworld. If TV, Space: Above and Beyond. If book, Redwall.

Coffee or Tea: I'm double fisting both of them!!!

Five Words Tag

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

Acrostic Tag(s)

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!)

!!!-------------NO SOLICITING------------!!!

If you're contacting me with the express intent of pitching some kind of service, be it editorial feedback, artists commissions, collaboration requests, or whatever else to try and get money out of me, I AM NOT INTERESTED.

ANYWAY. I'm Steph, a she/her lesbian adult from Canada (lol I'm old enough to drink and that's all I'm sharing), and I hate writing about myself, so I write about other people instead! My genre of choice is sci-fantasy, and everything I write is gonna be about queer women, because that's what I want to read about.

Tag game and ask friendly (lol so long as you aren't a scammer that is), and if you want off or on my taglist for games, drop a reply over here.

My main WIPs are below, Shackle and Noose being the one most of my focus is on at the moment, while the others are a little more all over the place. They're all linked to proper info pages if you wanna find out more!

We Stand Between the Shackle and the Noose A space opera about a group of escaped slaves who stole an experimental stealth ship and an ancient mech, then joined up with a group of space pirate livestreamers in order to make money while they hunt down more ancient mechs, because the one they have is compelling them to do so. My plan is to write something in this setting every single day for 2026, and I'm posting as I go over here.

Silent Island of Crow | Island of Crows | Starcrossed Cycle An old forum RP I'm editing into coherence, the remake of said RP my best friend and I are working on, and the history of my characters for this reboot. Across them all, these sci-fantasies are about strangers who are drawn together by some unknown force, and have to deal with the chaos that followed after them. Updates on all of these are pretty sporadic.

Fragment 48 A supernatural romance where a woman becomes obsessed with tracking down the beautiful stranger she happened to catch a quick glimpse of at a party, her driving force being that she's been dreaming about this woman ever since she was a child. Her journey will lead her down a bloodier path than she could have imagined, but she won't hesitate to tread it. Got a couple chapters done with this, but I won't be posting more than snippets until I get it done.

Oaths A sword and sorcery fantasy where a knight errant rescues a mage from captivity, and the woman swears a life debt to her. They get up to an assortment of adventures as they travel across the land. This one's very loosey-goosey in terms of just about everything, from the planning to the writing, so your guess is as good as mine for when updates are going to happen for this.

We are but Smoke and Shadow A romantasy where a vigilante who somewhat unwillingly works for the rebel forces trying to overthrow the corrupt monarchy of their land is forced to go undercover in the castle to see if either of the twin heirs will be someone the rebels can bring to their cause, or if both twins should be assassinated. The male heir quickly proves himself to be as bad as his reputation, but when the vigilante is taken on as the female heir's lady-in-waiting, she'll uncover secrets that could lead them both to an early grave. I'm mostly poking away at the outline for this one, so don't expect a lot from this for the time being.

Abyssal Scrutiny An urban fantasy where a group of people receive strange powers from an unknown source, and get pulled into a secret underworld in order to fight it. This one's very much on the back burner at the moment, so updates for this are going to be few and far between.

Friend Group Dynamic

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

Obscure OC Facts Tag

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.

Out-Of-Context Line Tag

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 :)