a writing sideblog, for posts about the writing process, reading, and maybe even publishing. who knows? i work primarily in contemporary fantasy, but i'm also into science fiction, horror, and genre erotica. he/him • 18+ please • i follow from werewolfhooligan
i've seen other people do these recently and didn't realize this was something people did here, so i'm sort of excited to introduce myself!
i'm caspian rhys, i'm 28, and my pronouns are he/him! i'm a writer and artist who reserves all of my brain power for original stories, and everything else is a godless stream-of-consciousness landscape of text-lingo word vomit. i refuse to stop.
the genres that i most like to work in are contemporary fantasy and horror, trying to balance plot and a character focus. more often than not my stories involve themes of mental illness, personhood and morality, gender and sexuality, family (close interpersonal relationships of all sorts, really), romance, and horrible violence. almost all of my work includes explicit sexual content, so this blog will be 18+. sorry.
wips include (stars for which ones are the most active atm lol):
a wolf's tooth for revenge, a revenge quest novel about a pod of werewolves (a sub-group of a larger pack) on a cross-country road trip to kill the alpha of a rival pack ⭐
devil dogs, a book about a werewolf biker gang + a father-son werewolf-hunting duo with a freak christian lean ⭐ [WIP INTRO][WIP INTRO 2]
fixed, a book about an underground werewolf fight ring. as in the werewolves are fighting of their own volition, but the betting is illegal and also they're werewolves so it's not like they can register to do this legally.
the daring fiasco and the safety of the realm, about magical scientists who happen to be cat people, feat. secrecy and betrayal
what wolves can't eat, about the world's first werewolves, or wolves given human form by the moon herself, who go on to become menaces to society and need to be celestially punished
the hopeful, about a vampire hunter going undercover as a turn-ee hopeful to see what the FUCK is going on in this fucking city lately, and needing to commit hardcore to the bit
i'll be posting wip excerpts for that sweet validation with their individual wip tags, which are most often an abbreviation of their title. #awtfr for wolf's tooth and #tdfsr for fiasco, for instance
writinglittlebeasts is a side blog! my primary blog is @werewolfhooligan, so if that url crops up in any replies, it's me, lol
i am super down to answer asks at any time or be tagged in tag games, it might just take me a while to respond (sorry)
current fixation: devil dogs, a story wherein a werewolf and the fledgeling werewolf hunter who let him live sixteen years ago reunite and blood gets Everywhere.
side quests: resident evil or one piece fanfiction lmao
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i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that
Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that will companies are still trying to stomp out.
wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts
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honestly i think everything that you said about him sounds cool--not to be presumptive but he seems like a very very wet dog and honestly obsessed. esp with the pining over someone he shouldn't want top tier!
some more q's:
why should he want hazel (if you're cool with sharing cuz if its spoilers and u don't want to thats ok!)
does hazel want him back or is he like not interest in him at all?
does it affect him that his parents only see him as a tool and not a son? do tell about his complicated feelings <3
oh he's very wet dog. he's pathetic. a thirty-year-old man who hasn't made a single decision about the direction his own life is going to take + who kills people because daddy and the town priest said god said it's the right thing to do, even if it makes him personally feel like shit. my absolute beloved soggy towel on the bathroom floor but a man.
(+ i don't really care about spoilers too much, it's more that i think the way i convey this information in the prose itself is more thoughtful than just saying it outright here. so i will answer lol)
like, morally i dont think he should want hazel; firstly he got that guy's family killed in front of him and then brained him with a big rock, and in the present hazel has been brainwashed into seeing ramsey as his hero and savior and therefore whatever relationship they have cant be normal and healthy unless they do a lot of work that i know as their god they're not going to do. hazel is easy for ramsey to manipulate, even though ramsey doesn't want to manipulate him, and ramsey has never known what a good and healthy love looks like; he can't give hazel what he needs, which is patience and time and space-- because hazel doesn't want that stuff, he wants ramsey's attention, and ramsey finds that disturbing but also can't bring himself to be without hazel anymore. uhh but if i were to list hazel's good qualities as reasons why ramsey should like him, he's kind and intelligent and he has warm hands. hazel was his best friend! sort of his only friend. hazel didn't look down on him.
hazel loves ramsey more than anything. like, he'll stick up for himself if he's feeling really beaten down, but ramsey is The person in his life and has been all along, even when he wasn't there
creed has always been indifferent to ramsey The Boy, if not outright hostile. before they were career werewolf hunters, creed was in long haul trucking, and so spent a lot of time away from home, and when creed wasn't home ramsey and his mother, amanda, were practically normal. amanda loved him, he was her baby, but she also married creed in the first place, and shared a lot of his conservative values, and what creed said went (past tense of says goes????? lmfao?????). very top-down power structure in the household from man -> wife -> child. mother -> child could sustain themselves, but when creed would come back into the mix he'd bring a lot of anger and impatience. ramsey speaks very slowly and stares too much, and he's afraid of dead things, and his fucking dog is too loud, and he's holding hands with the boy next door, and creed tolerates him until he doesn't. and creed tolerates amanda's patience with him until he doesn't, and then amanda would have her own frustrated explosions, and physical stuff wasn't off the table for either of them. anyway, ramsey told them about werewolves and whatever the hell i named the priest told them they couldn't let them live and suddenly creed was, like, Important. not that important, like, he was the father of the important one, but stupid children like his son can't decide what to do on their own, so he was important by proxy, and suddenly ramsey was useful. he's always been at once afraid of what creed will do to him and wanting his approval. now as an adult he wants that approval less, and is more just trying to survive as whatever creed wants him to be. i make jokes about how he's a pathetic little shithead, but creed has made it incredibly difficult for ramsey to leave him-- not only does he have him convinced that this is all the right thing to do, but he makes sure ramsey has very little money in his own wallet, keeps his documents fucking Somewhere that ramsey doesn't know about, has him driving the world's worst and most ancient truck (that he needs creed to buy gas for), and of course is not above beating him to absolute shit. ramsey doesn't have a high school diploma let alone a higher education and he has very few practical skills. finding werewolves is the only thing he can do.
is there a particular oc that's on your mind rn and anything cool you'd like to share about them? (i'll ask more q's after this one just kinda wanna give u a starting rambling point!)
ramsey is always on my mind ❤️ i love how abnormal he is about hazel, i love the way he's attached to hazel because hazel was the only good thing in his life, and after hazel nothing was ever normal again, and he's spent years of his life missing hazel and wishing he could talk to hazel and feeling ashamed because hazel is, of course, intrinsically evil, and he shouldn't want him at all, let alone this much. and i love how normal he is about other people, because after hazel and rumors about the ashforts' killing nobody wanted to look at him except his crazy zealot despicable parents, and even then it's a stretch because he understands that creed sees him as a tool rather than a son. i don't know if this is considered cool. i just love him lots 💕💫💕💫
what's a new development with your ocs you're excited to tell people about?
i'm whittling away at the necromancer thing while im avoiding writing dd and ive decided that in the fantasy country or whatever where the characters live the ruler has died and lacking a system of regents the person on the throne is literally, like, nine. and the villain is going to be that boy king's estranged mother. i just have to figure out what exactly she's trying to do and what, exactly, character a (i havent named anybody) overheard that made her place a fucking curse on everyone he knows. trying not to make the necromancer just ramsey but to the left bc i love writing stoics, so im just making him Actually Kind, which is really funny to think about. 'how do i distinguish him from ramsey?' well, what if he were considerate
screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i'm very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to
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A questionable holy man, a '90s metalhead ghost and a skeptic gun-for-hire travel across the country fulfilling uncanny missions given to them on an old, pink flip phone.
DETAILS:
🩸 genre — supernatural, horror, urban fantasy, mystery
🩸 themes — (forced) found family, belief/faith, destiny vs. free will, beauty in the monstrous
🩸 status — in progress
🩸 medium — mixed medium
🩸 wordcount — TBD
🩸 warnings — assume everything's in here pls
Story Tag | Playlist
Summary, Characters & More Info under the cut:
SUMMARY: The world is a minutely-designed machine, giant and endless, that runs and breaks and gets fixed and runs again in a relatively smooth routine. Sometimes though, anomalies with no known solutions appear: lingering spirits, stretching doorways to other planes, uncanny creatures that challenge the limits of our beliefs, and everything in between.
To reconcile these anomalies is Father Mateo Santiago's Holy Mission, which he's guided through by an old, pink flip phone he simply can't get rid of. He takes out its battery, smashes it, throws it out of a moving car, drives over it, yet every single time, it materializes back into his possession, sending him tasks and directions he can't help but think are divine. Together with a vengeful ghost he promises to help and a morally-defective hustler he can't shake off, Mateo chases the messenger on the other side in the hopes he could hand in his resignation from a job he's never asked for, though the road is long, challenging, and full of perils he can't even begin to reason into reality.
CHARACTERS:
Mateo Santiago: A priest God never paid. Literally, so he gets by on what he calls "a social experiment in human kindness", though he's not as gullible as he'd like people to think he is. He more often than not sides with the anomalies as opposed to the humans claiming to be terrorized by them, and while he calls his mission holy, the physical and mental sickness he suffers from whenever he ignores the phone drive him more than any faith he may or may not have.
Billie Quinn: Once stuck as a haunting echo, the more she helps with the Holy Flip Phone cases, the more she regains the shape of her former self. She considers her soul being bound to Mateo's bible to be punishment for all the violence she caused in her ghostly rage, and her imprisonment as his partner makes her desperate to find her remains quickly and pass over, though the phone has other plans for her.
Jude Bellamy: Markets himself as the world's best errand boy. You pay him, he does it, whether it's your grocery shopping or icing your enemies. He considers himself a consequence of people's actions and is happy to provide for whichever side, but can't wrap his mind around the supernatural being more than a fairytale until he becomes unexplainably intrigued by Mateo and his weird mission.
Nora/Cora: Wherever there's an anomaly, there's also a friendly face. Whether she's Nora the sweet Waitress, Cora the sharp Librarian, Maura the snarky Tattoo Artist, or any other variation of herself, she's a beacon of safety and aid should she be needed in the Holy Mission of the week. But who is she outside of her given role? Are they sisters? Clones? And where does she go when the case is closed?
Andrey Roman: Trained in the art of hunting Evil since he was a kid as a family affair spanning generations, he now finds himself alone, far away from home, and a member of a hunter group that isn't quite a fan of his origin or superior skills. Once he runs into Mateo & Quinn and learns of their less-than-conventional methods and unlikely partnership, his unshakeable belief that anomalies must be eradicated is pushed to its limits.
The Narrator: Our guide through the tale of Mateo's journey, its context, subtext, morals and lessons. He's the bridge between our viewing pleasure and Mateo's trials, though his initial objectivity and omnipotence slowly dissipate the deeper we go into the story, where his origin grows more and more questionable. Is he simply just a storyteller, or is he part of the tale himself?
MORE INFO:
The Inspiration: Nostalgic and quite sad at Supernatural's wasted potential (it's a great show when it wants to be, don't get me wrong, but we're on tumblr, most of us are bearing the scars of what it was like when it was bad lol), I wanted to come up with something that could scratch that itch the early seasons did, but in a way that would stretch the limits of what that kind of world could offer - and obviously embracing the gay, duh. This whole story started out as an AU of Metanoia, but quickly evolved into its own thing that's slowly consuming me, and I love letting it fry my brain on a daily basis.
The Intentions of Form & Storytelling: This story is meant to be quirky in all the right ways. If parts of it feel better written as a theatre play, that's what they're gonna be. Some bits I'd love to turn into a graphic novel. Some bits could be upside down, mirrored, incomplete, tangled up. This is a playground where I'm not just allowed to experiment with my weirdest, darkest, most reality-stretching thoughts, but I'm encouraged to. My grand vision is to make this into a TV series eventually, where (the universe willing) I could bring back "fillers", 24-episode seasons, longer story arcs spanning several episodes for some of the more complicated cases, and where we can play around with form, style, and do things we've always wanted to do, but couldn't. Sky is the limit here.
IT IS MY BIRTHDAY. I AM 29. FEELING VERY JONATHAN LARSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TICK TICK BOOM ABOUT POTENTIALLY TURNING 30 WITHOUT EVER HAVING FINISHED A PROJECT, SO THIS IS GONNA BE MY YEAR. THE YEAR I FINISH DEVIL DOGS. WE'RE DOING IT FOR REAL THIS TIME
Wolventraum, a fantasy novella written by me entirely, including edits, including cover, including formatting and associated temporary mental breakdowns!
COMING SOON TO ONLINE STORES EXCEPT AMAZON BECAUSE FUCK THAT COMPANY
Professional monster hunter Reaper needs to get to Marthburg for a spot of medical treatment. But instead of the kingdom’s capital, they find a ruin. A thrall ambush on the road was just the beginning. The vampires have started an offensive to conquer humanity.
In the ruined city, Reaper finds a diary and its echo: the ghost Vivi, who has a final wish Reaper is willing to fulfil. They aren’t alone, either. Their best friend and fellow monster hunter Lucie joins them despite her reservations about the village of werewolves they’re headed towards.
Little do they know they're about to forge the bonds that will put an end to the vampire threat.
With Vivi and her werewolf husband at their side, Reaper and Lucie take the fight to the vampires, and to the traitors in their own ranks.
Sometimes I wish life was less full of bullshit so I could make more time for the marketing side, but alas, it is what it is. It's currently awaiting manual approval by tolino media. I will yell in another post when it's officially out. The site was wigging out on me so I couldn't set a pre-order period, but hey, Digitalisierung and all that.
Also if you hear distant screaming: I somehow in all my edits missed a single typo IN THE BLURB don't mind me while I crumble to dust from shame. Bring me a steamroller and flatten me into 2D.
It is a very deliberate decision to not put it on amazon, even if that theoretically means fewer sales. I'd rather try to stick to my moral and ethical prinicples, thank you.
rest assured there will be YELLING and edits to my pinned post when this firstborn book baby gets approved. no clue how long that'll take but hey, after all the Formatting Fuckery it was a painless process.
I am so proud of you in a unremotely condescending way. Ahhh!! The cover looks awesome. The blurb is hooking. Its perfect. Consider me a happy fan already. I can't wait to dive in and read about your Vamp.
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[1] forces himself to one knee beside the body of his [captain], his eyes trained not on the man's face but the tips of his fingers. The flesh itself is pale, bloodless, but a mesmerizing stratum of darker pinprick holes decorate the fingerpads where [burrowing insects] have eaten it away. There are like patterns across much of the [captain]'s head and neck, but these are much deeper, and in fact much of his face is altogether gone. He seems to sag where he meets the ground and come to points on his horizon, like a mountain range.
"Don't kneel there for very long," [2] calls from some distance away. When [1] looks, he isn't looking back. He's foregone smoking to smother his nose and mouth with the end of his sleeve, casting his gaze from a body on his left to a body on his right and back again. "They're cursed-- all of them. The stink is oozing from the corpses."
"A little respect!" [1] snaps, drawing [2]'s lethargic attention. "They are my friends!"
[2] holds his eye for a long moment. He adjusts his weight onto his back foot. "I apologize," he says, in the same tone of voice that he says everything, "but this is the curse you carry."
got a comment on a fic today that was just... So kind . i love writing impactful pornography and i love when my fellow horndogs take a moment to appreciate the line level prose
