Trance's Tales

My old pinned introduction was 2 years out of date, so I'm replacing it at last!

~~About Me~~

I am Trance (he/him), and I am a 31 year old writing hobbyist. I write stuff, though as much as I like to talk about characters and settings, I often lack the confidence to share full pieces. I'm open to asks and tag games and all that, though! Most of what I write is fantasy, with some sci-fi stuff, and the occasional contemporary setting.

Outside of writing, I am interested in ants 🐜, and otherwise I like to play videogames. I enjoy strategy games and things I can play with friends. The thing I like best is just to chat with people and make friends, though. Everyone has a story that they're already writing, and I think there is so much you can learn from listening to what other people can tell you. I hope one day to have a rabbit when my living circumstances can accommodate having one (or two, ideally).

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That's a lot of words for someone within un-gnoming range.

For a long time I was averse to working with someone else's characters, for not being able to get into the right headspace for them. Still now, every piece is like "hey I hope I haven't defiled your characters here please tell me if you hate it"

So far he's liked every segment, but I still can't settle in and stop thinking "but what if I'm mischaracterising in this context!"

This was the first piece I wrote featuring the two characters and it was, as much as anything, an introduction for myself into the head spaces of them.

I'd like to introduce you to a couple of the characters from my Velvetverse setting. The excerpts below introduce Alison Fletcher and acquaintance of hers, the dryad Acer.

They get along okay, but they have slightly different ideas of just how well they do actually get along. Acer is a dryad from the Autumn Forest. They were born with the birth sign of the Boisterous Comet. Alison Fletcher is a human from the area around the Stellar City. She works as a bowyer, and was born with the birth sign of the Covetous Moon.

Hello hello!

My main focus at the moment is provisionally named "Velvetverse" solely because it originally formed around a character called Velvet.

Honestly the aspect that excites me most about it is that there's no overarching narrative, so I can just kinda write whatever. Its like a cartoon where each "episode" can largely have whatever going on and its all fine at the end of the piece. Its honestly quite liberating in a way because I'm not having to spend the whole time thinking "how am I going to get from here to there?" or "whats the climax, how do I write out this villain?" or whatever, I don't have to write everything with an end-goal in mind, just maybe some progressive characterisation without significant narrative progression. At the end of the day, they will escape the evil Count Corduroy's clutches until the next time! Though it's actually a lot more mature-themed than it sounds. It also an excuse to write some kinda smutty stuff too, as well as some dark stuff.