#and i haven't made any intro posts or wip pages

[charlesjosephwrites]

The Snap That Changed Everything - WIP Intro

[image id: a selfie of a young woman with short hair and a goofy smile standing outside an antique shop. in the shop window, a man glares at her with a stern expression. the picture is currently just a pencil sketch because the idea of coloring it right now Does Not Spark Joy, but i may make a more refined version later]

trigger warnings: violence, murder, gang related activities

Bianca Bellini is a hitwoman from the big city, where she works for the mafia taking down targets with cold, calculated ease. Cam Snap is a small-town journalist who's made it her personal mission to bring joy to to the people of Snickerdale. After screenshot from a video on Cam's social media page turns into a viral meme and threatens to expose a hidden mafia associate, Bianca is sent to Snickerdale with an urgent mission: find out how much sensitive information is already out there and eliminate the journalist before she has a chance to expose them further. As Bianca cozies up to Cam in search of the information she needs, she's confronted with the realization that there's no way the overly-enthusiastic, happy-go-lucky Cam has any idea what sort of trouble she's gotten herself into. To make matters worse, Bianca finds herself catching feelings for this dork.

Featuring:

-> a campy, Hallmark-esque romance with a crime thriller twist

-> themes of found family, redemption, and finding love in unexpected places

-> morally gray women

-> cozy, small town vibes

-> a Christmas in July themed sweets festival

-> a very determined nine year old sleuth who keeps getting uncomfortably close to the truth

-> an Australian shepherd named Churro with a knack for herding the neighborhood kids

-> an excuse for me to post about the new WIP I've been hyperfixating on

(I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to keep a taglist for this WIP yet, but you can let me know if you'd want to be added to a potential taglist just in case I decide to make one in the future)

[ace-malarky]

intro post 2024

sup lads, it's been like two years and I figured the pinned post probably needed updating

wait it has almost exactly been two years that's hilarious

Anyway. some things haven't changed. Name's still Ace, no matter what I write on the notes I send to my old library

I'm always up for tag games and random asks!! throw 'em my way as you like :3

pronouns are in flux! predominantly they/them, sometimes it, occasionally he. It varies on the bit, but you probably can't go wrong tbh

we're - we're going to say early 30s. it's not wrong and it's better than this being outdated in a little over three weeks when it all changes once again

no I did not plan this, no I can't do a basic formal outline, I have to ramble. what did you think i wrote for.

Other Places I Can Be Found include twitter & instagram under more or less the same username

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Writing Focuses!

Everything is fantasy, everything is queer. Excerpts can be found under Writing Pieces

I'm largely jumping around between vaguely connected scenes and character work right now, but there's definitely a pattern!

mainly;

Shapeshifter WIP - when things start getting tense between neighbouring countries, Syn volunteers to slip across the border and pass information back in an attempt to avert the looming war. They may have underestimated how hard it was going to be to go back when no one recognises them and their own best friend hates them (ft. pining, friends-to-lovers of the star crossed variety, hand wavy world building, questionable morality, questionable spying techniques, A Certain Level of Dumbassery, some Fucked Up Shapeshifting)

So the Bran Rhi Sings - a Welsh inspired tale of Fair Folk and prophecies, found family and finding family, name games and hidden identities (ft. the Wild Hunt, one Feral Mage, a pair of raven siblings, and the Fair Folk urge to adopt every lost child in sight)

Dumb of Ass, Snake of Tits - a DnD story of a dragonborn monk who leaves their monastery to see the world, ends up with a Morally Dubious Courtesan for a travelling companion, gets cursed (twice), has a slight corruption arc, but somehow still comes out better than they started and with a boyfriend to boot (ft. travelling, fights, the unwillingness to wear a shirt in camp and making that everyone else's problem, other uses for bras when you don't have tits, revenge, What Sharp Teeth You Have, unquestioning kindness until it isn't kind, overthinking but eventually manage to communicate about it, slight pining, one vaguely horny dragon)

Soul of the Party - when a series of mysterious thefts sweep across town in the weeks before the annual summer festivities, Solaris is removed from the duelling tournament to avoid bringing attention to his cousin's family. Instead, he and his cousin and a band of Feral Mages investigate on their own and find a plot targetting one thief from Off-World (ft. four separate magic types, light crime, sword fights, mistaken (secret) identity, curiosity almost killing the cat)

and, you know, the usual. Fair Folk, Superheroes, Pirates, WereCreatures, Winged Folk, Storytellers, Dragons, Vampires, Curses, Even More DnD. All of the WIPS can be found on this page and some of them are in this definitely out of date post here

I'm always up for answering questions about any of them, even if some haven't been touched in literal years. They're still growing mould somewhere in there. Branching out in ways I didn't conceive of.

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World Building

also a big ol' thing here, the main tag is world building but that isn't just my stuff in there, it's also a lot of reblogs

largely centered around the Mist Worlds which is where most of my WIPs are set. There is an Overview post, a Magic post, a bit on the Mist Itself, and also the Worlds (and a page where this is collated)

some bits are incredibly handwavy and made up on the fly, other bits I have been thinking Too Much about for Too Long

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Characters

Oh boy we got 'em. Occasionally can be found via rambles on Sundays (Thursdays, under new management) under the tag So It Ends

Syn and Maverick are competing for blorbo of the year right now and if a wip or specific characters aren't mentioned, these are probably who I'll answer ask games for

Syn - a distractable and mischievous shapeshifter who volunteers to be a spy because "pretending to be someone else is what I do" no we're not going to unpack that right now. they/them, big fan of antlers. also goes by Vale or Lance

Maverick - a frost dragonborn who's a little bit naive to the ways of the world and prefers to assume the best of people if they can. Likes to help, doesn't question as much as they should. Not quite an "everything happens for a reason" mentality, but certainly thinks that they got what they deserved at points. they/them, has been known to act without thinking on a number of occasions

Also a special shout out to Llinos and Kaua, who are eternally the ace lesbian wifeguys of my heart <3

[marewriteblr]

Last Line Tag

thank you for the tag!! @writingamongthecoloredroses

A chuckle resonated in my head like a strange echo, and the light of the stellar trio resembled the swell of an ocean in time to their words. That is the price you had to pay. But rest assured, Salaya: the answer will present itself.

I snorted. Such an ominous prophecy was hardly any help at all. “Well, great. Thank you very much.”

[cherrybombfangirlwrites]

Hey guys, thanks for everything this year.

I haven't even been on the writing side of tumblr for a whole year, and it feels like I've been here all my life. This feels like home and I have made so many writer friends <3

This year has had it's ups and downs, but you guys were definitely one of the best parts for me. We are all so supportive of each other and it feels so great to finally have so people to talk about my writing to.

Thank you to all of my followers, everyone who has ever commented on my work or sent me an ask about it, and thank you especially to @rose-bookblood , @bloodlessheirbyjacques , @memento-morri-writes , @mr-writes , @italiangothicwriteblr , @friendlyneighborhood-writer and so many more people (i'll never be able to tag all of you, but if you see this and you have ever had a friendly interaction with me about writing, consider yourself tagged) for welcoming me into the community, being my writer buddies, fangirling over my stuff and letting me fangirl over yours, and most of all helping me gain confidence in my writing. You guys are the reason I finally started drafting Fractured Stars Falling after years of it just being an idea that not making it beyond some bullet points in a notebook.

I didn't really have any goals for this year, other than to actually start putting my ideas down on the page and start drafting, but I've already accomplished so much more than that.

Writing Goals for 2023:

Finish at least 1 first draft for one of my books in Fractured Stars Falling (it's probably going to be Snow Knight or Sleeping Beauty's Bodyguard), and make a little progress on the others.

Start drafting The City is Ours and Burning Stars (I revised the title)! I'm so close, I just have to give the outlines a little more structure ( really want to do some writing exersizes in January)

Start outlining my witchy wip and vestal virgin historical fantasy wip (and flesh out the characters and name the projects!)

New intros from my blog, WIPs, and characters!

Also masterlist for the writing i've posted on here!

Write something down every day. Even if it's just one sentence for the day.

Make even more writer friends

Hope you all have a good 2023 and Happy New Year!!!