25 year old ADHD & Autistic Writer who loves the odd and monstrous. Writing is always ultimately hopeful. Trans rights / TERFs begone. Let light shine through the cracks
I'll be putting easy access to different stories into this post, so it's easy to find the ones you may want to read.
As for introductions:
I go by Queen Orion but you can call me Orion ^-^. I absolutely adore writing, and I have a fascination with anything otherworldly or monstrous. You'll find me reblogging everything from Star Trek, creative prompts and story snippets to criticism of the deeply flawed society we live within currently.
I live with my pupper and two kitties, and more often than not, I'm a bundle of stress trying to get through university. I study international business because I believe that in order to make a change, I have to understand the system we live within, and I'm from Denmark.
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The story that started it all, Take Me To Olympus
Greek Deities are stranded in the contemporary world without their powers, and they land smack-dab in the middle of poor Julia's apartment. Julia would definitely rather be doing everything else than helping the deities get home and possibly prevent an apocalypse in the meantime.
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The space adventure, Glimmer
Glimmer is a fast paced science fiction story with a dash of humor. It follows a group of monster hunters aboard their ship as they struggle to survive - gaining insight in a plot that they never thought they’d uncover. Having to run for their lives, they now have a choice - stay and fight for what’s right, or tuck tail as they always have, saving their own skin.
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Because I'm a fan of the monstrous, Prophecy of Stars: The Blood Ball
The fae world has been ruled by tyrants for centuries, with revolutions trying and failing to topple the current queen. Daeryanna ran to the human world in order to escape the madness and the cruelty of the Fae world.
Here, she's been gathering strength to come back and lead her people against her mother, who keeps the realm in a vice grip.
She learned their rules, learned their games. Learned how to beat them and leave it all in the ashes.
And now she's back to end it, one way or another.
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Scribbles and snippets will be gathered here below as they pop up.
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If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)
The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.
If some tech billionaire who makes a million an hour stopped doing his job for two weeks, nobody would notice... well, some might notice because things would suddenly improve across the board.
Trash pickup people did strike here - it took barely two weeks before they got better conditions + pay and they've got some pretty good ones now in Denmark as far as I know.
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
I do this but instead of color I have vibes. Al my books are placed based on the individual association I have with them and I have over 400 in different languages and so on. Everyone always hates my bookshelves for some reason *shrug*
Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.
If I may add some ideas:
The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it's shit sometimes.
The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you're running out of time.
The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don't hit the number in the sequence, you can respond "DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU"
If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you're looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.
I would like to gently advise any Tumblr users to absolutely the fuck not try to attempt that "Fibonacci challenge," because it means that your goal for the month of November would be to write 134,692,200 words.
favourite rpg trope is the merchants in incredibly hostile environments. we are at the evil curse mountain and youre just selling me items normal style
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i LOVE the idea of "i can't win, but you can lose" in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.
i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.
like it? LOVE it !!!! i have read a bit ahead of what i've sent you, and this is a note i have on chapter 51, but now seems a good time to share this sentiment :D (plot specific comments redacted for now lol)
i think it's good to seek to improve one's craft and to look beyond ao3 or one's general zone of comfort for inspiration altogether. but ill always die on the hill that it is not a moral fault to be a bad writer or artist overall, especially when it's for one's own enjoyment and hobbies. there's a conversation to be had about what forms of art and writing are getting lost, which are privileged over others, how and why they are commercialised—i don't think any art made for any reason can also be exempt from critique and pushback either. but i also do not view making good or bad art as a fundamentally moral issue.
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There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.
Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).
Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.
You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it
you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.
Also gotta be able to move on afterwards and resolve to do better. Beating yourself up over and over for it will only serve to bring you down. Don't make a fanfare, just fix it
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