Tailspinner's Ink

Hello, My account isn't very new, but I am trying to be more active on here. I am Dustin I am an aspiring writer, my current genres are Fantasy and Sci-Fi, I have been developing my craft for a year, but writing stories since I was five years old, it was mostly fanfiction back then, lol.

About me

I’m a 26-year-old college student, writer, and aspiring storyteller. I have Asperger’s Syndrome. When I’m not busy with school assignments, I’m juggling two part-time jobs, taking care of my dog, and my parents at home, or working security at my church.

Writing is my passion, and I’m currently developing several projects, including an epic fantasy series, a superhero series, and short stories for my main blog, Talespinner’s Ink on blogger. My blog features original tales, DnD-inspired stories, and poetry influenced by Psalms, Proverbs, and one by 1 Kings 19. I’m also working on launching a podcast to bring my stories to life through dramatic audio renditions which should be out mid-July.

Outside of writing, I’m an Eagle Scout and have a background in survival training and martial arts. I’m always striving to grow as a storyteller and connect with others in the writing community, so if you have any feedback or advice, let me know.

If you’re passionate about storytelling, fantasy, or writing in general, I’d love to connect!

Upcoming Projects

I have several exciting projects in the works and want to share updates on what’s coming to the blog over the next few months. Here’s what to expect:

Mage Slayer Series Part 5: Set to release March 4, 2025 (if I manage to get everything together for this installment).

Biblical Stories Suffering Servant: Coming February 4, 2025. This is a standalone story about a young Jesus.

Blood Covenant: Legacy of the king: In the third century Rome, when the Jews were being persecuted for their heritage and Christians told to distance themselves from the Jews one boy Lucious Petrus would discover a secret hidden by the church that would shake the foundation of Rome itself.

Projects Without Set Release Dates

Tera Panthera An action-packed tale of anthropomorphic lion gladiators. In this world, wars are decided in the arena through gladiatorial combat between kings. The story follows Kion, the son of a defeated king, as he challenges this brutal tradition and fights to end the cycle of violence.

Blessed Child This trilogy follows Abner, the red-haired ancestor of the Yahra'Haba people. Abandoned by his tribe due to superstition, he is raised by panthers and later called by Eloh (God) to challenge his people's elders, offering them a chance to return to the truth.

Synthetic Souls: The Emulate Paradox A sci-fi story set in a world with robot police and human-AI hybrid programs that promise immortality, but only reward death! The protagonist, Benjamin Carter, uncovers a dark secret at Imortex that forces him to question his reality.

Future Releases

Confessions of a Time-Traveling Serial Killer This story is slated for publication in the Badelynge Review (tentatively May 2025). I plan to release it on the blog after its debut in the magazine.

Books

Time-Travel Romance Inspired by Vikings, this story follows William Norman, a descendant of Rolf of Normandy, who is accidentally transported to the Viking Age. With awkward charm, he helps Rolf navigate courtship and politics, ensuring history stays on course. I am also working on a teaser poem based on the traditional Viking style, written from Rollo’s perspective.

My Epic Fantasy Series

The cornerstone of my writing, this epic fantasy series is still years away (expect the first book in about five years). The story centers on Ari Griff Yahra'Aslan Cameron, a young man born of a political marriage, who must navigate the conflicting loyalties of his dual heritage and lead his people against the oppressive Septuni Imperium.

Side Projects

Cult Hunter A thrilling series about a government agent who infiltrates and takes down dangerous cults.

Purpose I enjoy writing stories full of action and violence. While the characters may not seem "Christ-like" on the surface, the underlying messages are deeply biblical and explore themes of redemption, justice, and faith.

What I am looking for:

I am looking for feedback on my work because I want to improve, myself as a storyteller, I will be writing and scheduling my main stories ahead of time to drop automatically throughout the next eight weeks of my semester because I want to keep the blog I started growing. On tumblr, I will be posting different writing exercises that I will do throughout the semester to improve my writing style and voice, as well as activities that me and my creative writing club will be doing on Thursdays.

Thank you for your time,

Dustin T. A. Cooley

Credit for my template: @milosometimeswrites

LOGLINE

In 2220, a young man discovers he is the culmination of a 270-year genetic conspiracy, bred across ten generations and psychologically conditioned to believe he is the reincarnation of a long-dead Russian aristocrat and must decide whether the "past-life memories" compelling him toward immortality are real, implanted, or something far more dangerous.

ELEVATOR PITCH

THE PRESTIGE meets DARK in this psychological sci-fi thriller where eugenics, false memory, and occult delusion collide across three centuries.

In the 1950s, a Russian émigré billionaire, convinced he is the psychic reincarnation of the Viking founder of Russia, creates a breeding program to resurrect himself. He impregnates 150 women through a fertility clinic deception, establishes a cult called "The Architects," and tasks them with orchestrating marriages across ten generations to genetically recreate his body and psychologically recreate his mind.

270 years later, the plan reaches fruition.

Our protagonist is Generation Ten, the genetic convergence. Raised under invisible surveillance, conditioned through Eriksonian developmental psychology, and implanted with false memories through childhood subliminal programming, he begins experiencing vivid "past-life memories" of medieval Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, and building an empire in 20th-century America.

The Architects tell him: "You are the Master Architect reborn. Your soul has returned. Accept your destiny."

But when he investigates the dreams that feel too real, he uncovers the conspiracy, a multi-generational cult built on one madman's delusion, sustained by true believers, pragmatists, and profiteers who've spent 270 years engineering the perfect psychological copy of a dead tyrant.

Now he faces an impossible choice: The Architects present him with 46 genetically compatible women and the keys to a global empire. His biology screams yes, he feels the pull toward genetic legacy, the hunger for immortality, the compulsion to restart the cycle. Every cell in his body was designed for this moment.

But if he accepts, he erases himself. If he refuses, he must destroy the only identity he's ever known, and fight a cult that has backup plans, backup lineages, and 270 years of momentum.

The question isn't whether he's been manipulated.

It's whether choice can exist when your genetics, memories, and circumstances have been engineered for a single purpose.

GENRE

Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller / Conspiracy Horror

THEMES

Free Will vs. Determinism: Can agency exist when biology and psychology are engineered?

Identity & The Self: If your memories are false and your DNA is designed, who are you?

Generational Trauma & Cults: How delusions become institutions across centuries

The Ethics of Genetic Engineering: What happens when eugenics meets occultism?

The Horror of Legacy: The recursive nightmare of men trying to resurrect themselves through their descendants

DARK meets DUNE

Like Dark: Multi-generational conspiracy, determinism vs. free will, "Everything is connected"

Like Dune: Selective breeding program across generations, engineered messiah figure, question of prophecy vs. manipulation

THE PRESTIGE meets ALTERED CARBON

Like The Prestige: Obsession with resurrection/immortality through science, cost of the "trick"

Like Altered Carbon: Questions of identity, consciousness, and whether copying someone equals resurrection

WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE

The Scope

Most conspiracy thrillers span years or decades. This spans 270 years and ten generations—a conspiracy so long its original architects are mythological figures to the people executing it.

The Villain

The antagonist has been dead for 243 years. The "villain" is a delusion that has become an institution, a cult built on one man's psychotic break that infected hundreds of people across centuries.

The Science

Grounded in real genetics (chromosomal inheritance, genetic recombination) and real psychology (Eriksonian developmental stages, false memory implantation), but pushed to horrifying extremes.

The Stakes

Your childhood was a laboratory

Your parents unknowingly followed cult protocols

Your memories might not be yours

Your desires might be programming

🔨⚡ ARONDOR CHRONICLES: Torston Becomes the Thunderfist ⚡🔨

When loyalty demands the unthinkable... heroes are born from broken hearts.

Coming September 16th to Mimtory! The origin story of the gentle giant who becomes a legend!

Meet Torston Cameron:

🏔️ Highland warrior with strength to move mountains 🧠 Autistic genius whose mind works in beautiful patterns 🐺 Wolf companion - Lull represents his pure heart ⚡ Light manipulation - Powers perfect for precision work 💔 Moral crisis - When serving your kingdom means destroying your soul

The Thunderfist Origin:

Torston starts as a loyal soldier following orders... until the day those orders demand he participate in something that violates everything he believes. The moment he says "NO" and fights back? That's when a gentle inventor becomes THE THUNDERFIST.

What Makes This Heartbreaking:

This isn't about gaining powers - this is about the moment when blind loyalty becomes conscious choice. Torston's transformation happens when he realizes serving his kingdom means being complicit in sending children to die.

The Highland Heritage:

🏔️ Cameron clan - Legendary warriors and revolutionaries 👑 Grandson of legends - Legacy weight on his shoulders ⚔️ Military tradition - Family expects perfect soldier 🔧 Inventor's heart - Wants to build, not destroy

The Autism Representation:

This isn't "autism as limitation" - this is autism as superpower:

Systematic thinking creates revolutionary inventions

Pattern recognition sees solutions others miss

Different doesn't mean broken

Special interests drive world-changing breakthroughs

The Revolutionary Moment:

When Torston becomes "The Thunderfist," he's not just rejecting orders - he's choosing to use his strength to protect the innocent rather than serve the system. It's the birth of a hero through moral awakening.

Perfect for fans of:

Gentle giant characters 💪💕

Autistic representation done RIGHT 🧠

Military rebellion narratives ⚔️

Highland culture and clan dynamics 🏔️

Hero origin stories with moral weight ⚡

Read it September 16th:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_xMJNMzXO

💕👑 ARONDOR CHRONICLES: Breena & Dan'el's Wedding Arrangement 👑💕

When political marriage becomes the foundation of a revolution...

Coming September 9th to Mimtory! The love story that literally changes the fate of kingdoms!

The Setup:

💒 Breena Cameron - 15-year-old Highland warrior princess 👑 Dan'el Yahra'Aslan - Heir to a divided house ⚖️ Political marriage - Unite two cultures or watch them burn 💕 Unexpected love - Sometimes arranged marriages work... who knew?

Why This Marriage Matters:

This isn't just "princess marries prince" - this union between Highland Noorai and Yahra'Haba cultures creates the bloodline that will literally save the world. Their son? Ari Griff - the main character of the entire revolution! 🌟

The Cultural Bridge:

🏔️ Highland Cameron bloodline - Warrior culture and clan loyalty ✨ Yahra'Aslan heritage - Spiritual authority and ancient prophecy ⚔️ Political necessity - Two oppressed peoples need unity to survive 💕 Growing love - Arrangement becoming genuine partnership

What Makes This Beautiful:

Breena and Dan'el start as strangers forced into marriage for politics, but they create something real. Their relationship becomes the template for how different cultures can unite against imperial oppression.

The Revolutionary Impact:

This marriage doesn't just unite two houses - it creates the next generation of leaders who will overthrow the Septuni Empire. Love literally saves the world in this universe! 💕

The Arondor Connection:

Part of the Fourth Age Revolution Era where political marriages, cultural tensions, and rising resistance movements reshape the known world. Every personal choice has historical consequences.

Perfect for fans of:

Political intrigue with heart 👑

Arranged marriage that becomes real love 💕

Cultural worldbuilding 🌍

Highland fantasy settings 🏔️

Foundation mythology for epic series 📚

Read it September 9th:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_dAXjbwXj

Do you think arranged marriages can become true love? How would you handle being married for politics? What if your personal choices determined the fate of entire cultures?

🔥😤 ARONDOR CHRONICLES: Jaakan's Hate - Religious Fire Meets Imperial Oppression 😤🔥

When faith becomes fury and purity becomes poison...

Coming September 2nd to Mimtory! First story in the Arondor Chronicles: Fourth Age Stories collection!

Meet Jaakan:

⚡ 17-year-old Shimori fire-wielder with a serious attitude problem 🔥 Religious fervor that burns everything it touches 😤 Imperial hatred that consumes his every thought 🏛️ Purity obsession that sets him on a collision course with reality

What Makes This Story Hit:

Jaakan isn't your typical fantasy hero - he's the guy whose religious devotion has curdled into dangerous extremism. His fire powers respond to his emotions, which means when he's angry (always), things tend to... explode. 💥

The Cultural Clash:

Set during the Revolution Era in Arondor, this story explores what happens when:

Religious purity meets political compromise

Ancient traditions clash with imperial occupation

Young idealism faces brutal reality

Fire powers meet uncontrollable rage

Why Jaakan Matters:

This isn't "magic good, empire bad" - this is "what happens when oppression radicalizes the oppressed?" Jaakan's hatred of the Septuni Empire is justified, but his methods? That's where things get complicated.

The Arondor Universe:

This is part of my massive 4,000+ year fantasy epic spanning Nine Ages! Fourth Age is the Revolution Era where everything changes and the old world burns (literally, in Jaakan's case).

Perfect for readers who love:

Morally complex protagonists 🔥

Religious themes in fantasy 🏛️

Fire magic with emotional stakes ⚡

Cultural worldbuilding 🌍

Coming of age in wartime ⚔️

Read it September 2nd:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_L0Rn0WJ5

🕰️💀 CONFESSIONS OF A TIME TRAVELING SERIAL KILLER: Revelations 💀🕰️

When your favorite author is actually a time-traveling psychopath... and he might be YOU.

Coming August 26th to Mimtory! This psychological thriller is about to mess with your mind in the BEST way! 🧠💥

The Premise That Will Haunt You:

📚 Dave Keller - Struggling writer drowning in rejection letters

📦 Mysterious package - Manuscript from his literary idol... who's supposed to be dead

🕰️ Glowing watch - Because time travel needs accessories

👁️ Victorian London - Where Jack the Ripper vibes meet time paradox horror

What Makes This Terrifying:

Dave receives a manuscript that contains intimate details of his own life written as if he's just a character. When the supposedly dead author shows up in his apartment, very much alive, Dave realizes he's been pulled into something way worse than writer's block.

The Time Travel Twist:

Our heroes get yanked through time to Victorian London where gaslight, cobblestones, and fresh corpses await. But this isn't a fun historical adventure - this is psychological horror where the past might be controlling the present.

The Identity Crisis:

"I am you in the future, and you are me in my past."

When your literary idol tells you that you're destined to become him... and he's a time-traveling serial killer... that's when the real horror begins. 😱

Perfect for fans of:

Psychological thrillers that mess with your head 🧠

Time travel with actual consequences ⏰

Meta fiction where stories control reality 📚

Victorian horror aesthetics 🕯️

Identity crisis narratives 👁️

Read it when it drops August 26th:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_7KXmMaXp

💔⚔️ MAGE SLAYER: Battle for My Homeland - The Pain is REAL ⚔️💔

When giants attack your home and take your mother... heroes are born in blood and tears.

Part 4 just went live on Mimtory and I am EMOTIONALLY DESTROYED! This is where Jack transforms from farm boy to warrior and it HURTS SO GOOD! 😭

The Heartbreak Menu:

Adoptive father confrontation - Family secrets exploding everywhere

THREE GIANTS FALL - Jack's grief-fueled rampage

Village under attack - Everything he loves is burning

What This Chapter Does to Your Soul:

This isn't just "hero gets power-up" - this is "hero watches everything he loves die and channels that pain into devastating vengeance." Jack doesn't triumph here; he SURVIVES, and barely.

The way Jack holds his dying mother while giants destroy his village? That's the moment a farmer becomes a legend. 💔

The Giant Battle Breakdown:

When three giants attack, Jack doesn't fight them strategically - he fights them with pure, grief-driven FURY. It's not pretty. It's not heroic. It's RAW and desperate and absolutely brutal.

Why This Chapter Destroys You:

Personal stakes that make every sword swing matter

Family trauma driving character development

Giant lore that's actually terrifying

Celtic mythology woven into every brutal moment

Coming of age through absolute loss

This is where the Jack the Giant Slayer legend meets real emotional weight. No magical beanstalks here - just a boy who lost everything fighting monsters with his bare hands and boundless rage.

Read the devastating chapter on Mimtory:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_40JgpK2r

🕐✨ KILL BIN LADEN TO DESTROY 50 SHADES ✨🕐

THE SETUP: Four drinking buddies discover that 9/11 indirectly caused Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey to exist

THE LOGIC: 9/11 → Gerard Way witnesses it → forms My Chemical Romance → MCR inspires Stephenie Meyer → Twilight → 50 Shades fanfic

THE "SOLUTION": Obviously we need to time travel and kill baby Osama bin Laden to prevent sparkly vampire romance

THE PEAK ABSURDITY: They're planning to assassinate history's most wanted terrorist... but NOT because he killed 3,000 people, founded al-Qaeda, bombed embassies, started two decades of war, or reshaped world history. No, they want to kill him because he INDIRECTLY caused romance novels they don't like.

LITERALLY EVERYONE WATCHING: "HE'S AN ACTUAL TERRORIST WHO KILLED THOUSANDS!" OUR IDIOTS: "Yeah but have you READ chapter 3 of Twilight? This is important."

meet our magnificent idiots:

DANTE - pretentious literature snob who hates love triangles (while being in one). treats preventing twilight like his doctoral thesis. has a manifesto about "cultural pollution"

ARCHIE - gentle giant scientist who built the time machine to help humanity, watches in horror as his friends use it to debate vampire romance

HUNTER - andrew tate wannabe convinced that twilight personally destroyed masculinity. has elaborate theories despite never reading 50 shades

IRIS - waitress who discovers their plans because these idiots leave time travel schemes on bar napkins. somehow gets swept into enabling baby murder over romance novels

peak comedy moments include:

archie suggesting they prevent ACTUAL TERRORISM and mass murder

dante screaming "FOCUS! DO YOU WANT SPARKLY VAMPIRES OR NOT?"

hunter blaming edward cullen for unrealistic male body standards while ignoring actual war crimes

iris pointing out they're planning infanticide over BOOKS while bin laden literally killed thousands

them having access to time travel and using it for the most backwards priorities imaginable

accidentally being heroes (stopping a terrorist) with the worst possible motivation (preventing fanfiction)

the complete moral disconnect of obsessing over fictional romance while ignoring actual human suffering

THE ULTIMATE IRONY: they're doing the right thing (eliminating history's most dangerous terrorist) for the most ridiculous reason possible (cultural purity about vampire novels)

this is coming to my blog as a 5-part series:

the napkin discovery

the planning committee from hell

actually executing baby murder for vampire prevention

realizing they made everything worse somehow

going back in time to stop themselves (ultimate self-own)

THE GENIUS: this is the most authentically HUMAN thing you could do with omnipotent technology - accidentally save the world while completely missing why it needed saving

they're literally planning to assassinate the founder of al-qaeda, the mastermind of 9/11, the man who killed thousands and changed history forever... because they don't like twilight

we're all just one time machine away from becoming these idiots and that's what makes it perfect

coming soon to tailspinner's ink because apparently my brain produces nothing but chaos ✨

I work concessions at a movie theater for a living while working through college and let me tell you about what Disney Studios pulls behind the scenes that nobody talks about.

So you know how theater employees traditionally get to watch movies for free? At my theater we are able to watch with a plus 1, it's literally one of the few perks of working for minimum wage while dealing with sticky floors and entitled customers all day. well guess what Disney Studios decided to do???

They're literally THREATENING to pull their movies from theaters if employees get to watch their films for free during opening weekends. like imagine being that petty. imagine being a multi-billion dollar corporation and being mad that some teenager making $9/hour gets to see your superhero movie without paying.

And the worst part? when people call them out on social media, their PR team is like "we totally support theater workers 🥺" while their actual contracts are basically holding theaters hostage.

My managers were so stressed about this because they're caught between wanting to treat their employees like human beings and not wanting to lose the biggest movies that actually bring in customers.

This is the same company that built their empire on "magic" and "bringing families together" but apparently that magic doesn't extend to the people who literally serve the popcorn that funds their yacht payments.

Disney really said "the real magic was the employee benefits we crushed along the way" huh

If they had been upfront about what they were doing I can respect (not admire) that, but my issue is the fact that they are trying to hide it with this bullcrap (see the articles at the end of this post).

⚔️💥 MAGE SLAYER: Attack of the Giants - The Mentor Dies! 💥⚔️

The training is over. The giants have come. Everything changes NOW.

Part 3 of Mage Slayer just went live on Mimtory and OH MY GOD this chapter hits HARD! 😭

What Just Happened:

🗡️ Fremde reveals he's LANCELOT - The mentor twist that changes everything! 💔 Lancelot's death - Because of course the wise teacher dies (I'm not crying, you're crying) 👑 ROYAL BLOODLINE REVEAL - Jack and Dredmur are sons of THE KING ⚔️ Jack's first real battle - Three giants vs one angry farm boy with a knife

The Emotional Devastation:

This chapter is PEAK "mentor dies just as hero understands his destiny" and I am NOT OKAY. Lancelot finally tells Jack his real name right before... well, you'll see.

And that royal bloodline twist? 🤯 Everything about these brothers makes so much more sense now!

Why This Chapter Slaps:

Arthurian legend fully integrated with Jack the Giant Slayer

Training montage that actually matters to the plot

Emotional stakes that make the action hit different

Family secrets that reframe everything we thought we knew

Jack charging a giant with just a hunting knife while holding his dying mentor? PEAK fantasy right there! 🔥

Perfect for fans of:

Arthurian retellings with fresh twists 👑

Mentor-student relationships that break your heart 💔

Giant battles with actual emotional weight ⚔️

Royal heritage reveals that change everything 🏰

Read it on Mimtory:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_KV2Q5l2p

⚡🌟 MAGE SLAYER: The Calling - NOW LIVE! 🌟⚡

When destiny comes knocking, sometimes it brings a sword...

Hey everyone! Part 2 of Mage Slayer just dropped on Mimtory and the plot just got COSMIC! 🌌

What Just Happened:

🌟 Nimue Appears - The mysterious guide who changes everything! ⚔️ Jack's True Destiny - He's not just fighting giants... he's chosen for something BIGGER 🌑 Dredmur's Dark Path - His brother has been chosen too... by "The Balor" ⚡ The Cosmic Conflict - This isn't just about family drama anymore

The Stakes Get Higher:

Jack learns he's been chosen to fight giants and protect the realm, but his brother Dredmur has been touched by dark forces. The boys who grew up together are now on opposite sides of an ancient cosmic war.

The Question: What do you do when the person you love most becomes your greatest enemy?

Why This Chapter Matters:

This isn't just about good vs. evil - it's about family, choice, and what happens when destiny tears apart the people we love most.

The Celtic mythology deepens, the Arthurian elements strengthen, and the Christian allegory becomes more apparent as we see the cosmic struggle between light and darkness playing out through these two brothers.

Perfect for:

Anyone who loves complex family dynamics in fantasy ⚔️

Readers who enjoy mythology and legend reimagined 📚

People who want their action with emotional depth 💔

Fans of chosen one stories with a twist 🌟

Read it NOW on Mimtory:

🔗 https://mimtory.com/chapters/chp_dk2Vx8XV