Writers of Color Archive

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i put in my info myself, but the formatting was a little funky on the sheet when i looked at it afterward

Oh, yeah, the form for some reason doesn't follow the formatting we set for each column, no matter what we do, but we'll check the sheet periodically to set the formatting manually. Sorry about that!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

My name is Elena, I'm part Italian, part Thai :) I'm working on a gothic fantasy which focuses mainly on my thoughts on fear and experience with abandonment, a narrative that covers pretty much my teen years.

I will try to write down the plot shortly:

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

Most readers tend like my main couple Astrea and Elijah! [link to an intro to their romance]

Astrea is a mixed bastard princess banished from her home. She has mixed magic that has been seen as a curse.

Elijah is a scoundrel of a pirate that stumbles into her path one day

They have a few adventures together before they accidentally become annoyances to lovers.

They find love and acceptance in eachother.

They learn that if they worked together they could actually change the world for the better. It won't be perfect. But it'll be better.

[also Elijah is openly bisexual and Astrea is demisexual]

But there's a lot more cool stuff! Magical settings. Corrupt Magic. Monsters. Land magic that comes to life. Criminal Underworlds. Political Intrigue. Pirating. Multiple characters of colour. Multiple lgbtq characters. Heavy Angst with its respective comfort.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

The project I’m working on at the moment is Iron and Gold, a historical noir-inspired mystery set in 1920s Berlin about the mysterious death of a journalist, and the private detective whose task it is to solve the case.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

anyway! my current current wip (and what i’ll be working on for nanowrimo) is stealing gold! it’s set in a world where mythology mixes with humanity (low-mid fantasy, i’m pretty sure that it counts as that) and how a thief stealing a relic can cause way more problems than he thought it would.

anyway, here’s what i got.

Blasted Scorn is a fantasy story with a chaotic pirate crew. a black nonbirary pirate that’s a part of a tag group with teammates that’s fully poc. they team up with two knights to rescue a princess with ulterior motives. they just get involved into so much trouble. they’re an established found family, who may or may not add more ppl in it. i’m on a stand-still on this story bc i’m slightly out of touch in terms of writing fantasy. 🤧 however, the link contains shorts and character facts i’ve posted.^^

Lines of A Script to Ignore is a NA contemporary rom-com with desi lesbian and japanese-korean pan leads! it’ll have supporting characters from different circles of life. tegan’s a theater actor + screenwright (???) and hwan’s arc involves on learning the worth of a college degree. it’s got lady falls for best friend’s lil’ sister vibes. i have yet to introduce this story since i might work on it as an unofficial nano project. i also have character study shorts of them. x, x.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

Anyway, my name is Gab, and I’m Puerto Rican! At least, on my mom’s side I am. Besides writing fanfiction, I also write poetry sometimes, but I don’t really post that, especially since I’ve fallen out of practice. I’m slowly getting back into it though, so we’ll see :)

I’ve also had an idea for a fantasy trilogy that I want to write eventually some day that keeps going on and off hiatus since tenth grade which was about 7 years ago? And the idea has evolved so much until I scrapped basically everything except the bare bones world building, but I still want to play in that space and do more solid world building before I figure out the actual new plot and characters lol

What I do have solidified is that the story and the world is going to be based off of a myth I made up where the world was created by phoenixes who were born from a great fire/the sun, and they’re the gods of that world. They eventually create sentient races like humans, elves, dwarves, nymphs, trolls, etc.

There is also a king phoenix who was born first, and he had a best friend who was his right hand man, and the king took most of the credit for these creations even though his best friend helped a lot too, so the best friend got jealous, and he left to make his own creations (i.e. monsters). That wasn’t enough to satisfy him though, especially since the monsters weren’t as sentient as the aforementioned humans, elves, dwarves, etc., and his jealousy consumed him enough that he transformed into a dragon. He then started a war with the other phoenixes to destroy their creations and them themselves, and the war devastated the land to the point where, at the end of it when the phoenixes managed to trap the dragon inside a mountain, there was almost no life left.

In actual history, the phoenixes decided to dip and start again on a different continent and left that continent to die out, but the survivors of the war not only managed to survive the war, they also survived this basically mass extinction event, and they brought the land back to life and built thriving civilizations.

The story is going to take place thousands and thousands of years later, and the end of the myth that gets passed down through the generations and is made the pillar of the main religion in the region is that the gods are still here watching over them, they just don’t have as much of a heavy hand in steering how life evolves because they aren’t battling a war anymore.

I know that the main conflict is obviously the dragon has to come back, but I have no other ideas beyond that right now lol

Anyway, the stuff I’m actually actively writing right now: taz fanfiction lol

You can find my writing here on tumblr on my taz side blog @liltaz-asatreat​ under the tag #written works of Gab (I don’t know how people link their tag in posts, sorry :( I didn’t even know that was something people could do in the first place until recently lol)

You can also find it on my ao3

Right now I have three wips, one of them is a one shot Kravitz origin story fic that will get done eventually lol The other two are multi-chapter fics that I’m not posting until I’m done writing them, but one of them is a Julia survives Raven’s Roost AU and the other is an 8th bird AU except the 8th bird is an OC, and the OC has two bodies linked to each other by one soul. One body lives in the Material Plane and the other lives in the Plane of Logic, and Meadow switches between the two by falling asleep in one body and waking up in the other body. You can find more information and some snippets I have shared in ask and tag games in the tags #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore and #Double Troubles

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

I have many WIPs that explore mixed-race identity but I don't actually share stuff about them here oops

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

Most readers tend like my main couple Astrea and Elijah! [link to an intro to their romance]

Astrea is a mixed bastard princess banished from her home. She has mixed magic that has been seen as a curse.

Elijah is a scoundrel of a pirate that stumbles into her path one day

They have a few adventures together before they accidentally become annoyances to lovers.

They find love and acceptance in eachother.

They learn that if they worked together they could actually change the world for the better. It won't be perfect. But it'll be better.

[also Elijah is openly bisexual and Astrea is demisexual]

But there's a lot more cool stuff! Magical settings. Corrupt Magic. Monsters. Land magic that comes to life. Criminal Underworlds. Political Intrigue. Pirating. Multiple characters of colour. Multiple lgbtq characters. Heavy Angst with its respective comfort.

It’s not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.