My old pinned introduction was 2 years out of date, so I'm replacing it at last!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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~~Writing~~
I'm really into world building, and I used to find myself getting caught up far more on that that the characters or the actual narrative. Although this is probably still the case, I do actually write actual stories much more than I used to. Despite this, sometimes it can still get off its leash when I try to keep it under control!
I swap between a couple of projects here and there depending on what mood takes me, so progress isn't always a straight line. Anything relating to my writing can be found tagged with #Trance's Tales, and several of my existing projects have their own tags as well:
• #🌓The Veiled World🌗 is a fantasy world with magic and stuff, where they had to invent a second magic system because the first one started going wrong.
• #🌌 The Trace Systems is my dystopian sci-fi setting in which a security company has complete control. This also has supernatural elements to it.
• #⚰️ Aikaterini is a contemporary real world setting. A light-hearted(?) spin on occult and cultist themes. Unlike the previous two, this one is an individual story rather than a wider world.
There are a couple of other projects which currently hold my focus, but we'll wait until they have more development before they get their own tags!
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I'm always up for a chat about stuff so feel free to pop me a message if you want to chat!
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Here's the thing. You said a "wyvern is a dragon." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a 1k MMR feeder who studies dragons, I am telling you, specifically, in dota, no one calls wyverns dragons. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "dragon family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Varanidae, which includes things from wyverns to eldwurms to drakes. So your reasoning for calling a wyvern a dragon is because random people "call the flying lizards dragons?" Let's get gyarados and charizards in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a noob or a feeder? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A wyvern is a wyvern and a member of the dragon family. But that's not what you said. You said a wyvern is a dragon, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the dragon family dragons, which means you'd call eldwurms, drakes, and other flying lizards dragons, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know? Anyway none of this matters, it's just a long-ish copypasta I needed to let you know that you've been gnomed, me ol' chum.
That's a lot of words for someone within un-gnoming range.
What about a vampire who bites her prey, but then finds out that her prey was already a vampire.
It turns out the prey was a vampire hunter who is also a vampire. She doesn't hunt them to kill them she just likes getting her neck bitten but she is afraid of intimacy. Instead of pursuing a relationship with physical intimacy, she pretends to hunt vampires to justify getting near to them so she can get neck bites without any awkward questions or uncomfortable intimacy.
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Done any dialogue lately? Any hot (hot like cool, but whatever works) lines you've put out recently that you wanna share?
Hey Trance! Currently going through my asks to try and motivate me to write stuff. So I wrote this snippet (if you can call 2,000 words a snippet) for a writing job application, and as much as I cringed writing some of the dialogue, it could fit some other people's tastes.
[Scene context: man spent all day trying to make a shelter and get food in the wilderness, woman comes up and wants to take his stuff cause she's trying to survive out here too]
"Perhaps I could make it worth your while some other way?" [I asked.]
She made her way closer, not lowering the gun an inch. "What's that supposed to mean?"
I really didn't have much to offer. A few copper bits and some cooked fish weren't enough to be a bribe, and I sure wasn't going to part with my only means of survival. Not that it would've done her much good anyway. The only thing I really had left was, well, myself.
"Well," I hesitated. "I don't know how much you've gotten around, but I highly doubt you've come across anybody else out here. Not to mention, it's hard to come across your basic survival needs out here. Food, shelter… warmth." I tempted to shift forward with the softest smile I could give. "Natural human needs that would making living out here all the better. How does that sound?"
She gave a sharp inhale. "Sounds like you have a death wish."
"I'm just trying to make you an offer. I'd much rather live through tonight, and if it means giving myself away, I have no problem with that." That was a lie, but I've already committed to this excuse. This is all I knew how to do, anyway. Sometimes it was all I could do. That's what got me places.
All she did was scoff. "You're either really desperate or really stupid."
"You know what," I said, "yeah I'm fucking desperate. I'm exhausted, my crewmates left me for dead, and I've had to survive out here with nothing but a damn hand ax by myself. At this point, I'm half tempted to let you—"
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Does anyone think "hey its [holiday] i should write a piece about [holiday] but then youre like, well [holiday] wouldnt exist in my world, Jesus wasn't born in my setting" and then you're like, well i cant have the actual holiday but I also dont want some copout knockoff like Dragonyule, so you have to come up with a whole new holiday?
Anyway, Landfall Day is the day that Humans first arrived in the Starstruck Realm. This day is celebrated by Humans and Civic Elves by gifting presents to one another, to symbolise the unique things that Humans brought to the land when they first arrived.
Recently I've been writing a crossover piece with one of my friends' setting and characters, which is quite interesting.
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!"
Hello, I wrote a thingy so i thought I'd share it. This is set in an original fantasy setting which I've been tentatively calling "The Starstruck Realm" long enough that its probably gonna end up being its ongoing name.
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.
Just a little piece to introduce two of my characters: Alison Fletcher, and Acer.
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.
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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! Tell me more about the project(s) you’re working on right now! What aspect of your current WIP excites you the most, and what inspired it?
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.
In terms of inspiration, its a funny thing, because as I said, it formed around the character Velvet. She was literally just a throwaway character I created in Soul Calibur 6, but when I used her, one of my friends said he was a "big fan", which enticed me to give her some backstory. She became a vampire who used illusions and manipulation to lure prey. Then, she developed to be a minion of a greater vampire, Count Corduroy, which I thought was funny at the time because of the theme of fabrics and materials (he has another minion named Latex). At some point I decided I wanted a pantheon, partly inspired because I'd been playing Age of Empires 2's Battle of Greece, I think. Then I had temples and priestesses, and Fey came into the picture because who doesn't love nature spirits.
Anyway, the strongest inspiration for me comes from positive feedback from friends, since the whole thing came from one offhand compliment from one friend!