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the woman who holds the moon

prints available here. my cover for this month's issue of baffling magazine.

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Writeblr Intro

Hello! I'm Leo and I am returning to the writeblr community after a good long break. This specific tumblr is new, I figured I'd have a new start! My pronouns are she/her and I am currently 29 years old. I'm always down for chatting. I promise I don't bite.

Some genres I'm especially fond of:

Fantasy (All, especially Urban)

Scifi

Historical fiction

Trope subversions

Fairy Tale Rewrites

Horror

My Current W.I.P.'s:

Anomalous

Vladmire had founded Haven's Nook under the idea of creating a place for other Supernatural folks to build a community. A home of their own, even. It was a place to raise their own families without fear of being chased or lynched.

And, centuries later, that's exactly what it has become. Between the local werewolf pack and witch coven, there is no safer place for the supernatural. There was little capable of threatening their peace.

That is until Vlad's family finally finds him. His parents and siblings have decided to visit Haven's Nook. Their excuse? His long term lover, Aerin, has finally proposed.

Now Vlad must ensure his family does not destroy his home and life's work while planning his own nuptials.

Main Characters:

Vladmire Skoll (Vampire; Founder of Haven's Nook)

Prince Aerin (Fae Prince)

Side Characters:

Arthur and Damien McClellan (The Vampire twins)

Craig Ethan (Alpha Werewolf)

Aaron Stevens (Craig's 2nd in Command)

Tabitha and Sean Schmidt (Werewolf Couple)

Russell Kwiatkowski (Tabitha's Human Nephew)

Meredith Lusk (Spiritual Leader; Coven Leader)

Telly Migdal and Charmaigne Bolvick (Witch Cousins)

Details:

Stand Alone Novel

Urban Fantasy; Romance; LGBT+

Currently being Written

The Dragon's Suitors

Weylan, the current Settlement Dragon of Sylian, has five suitors. Becoming a Settlement Dragon's Spouse is a great honor after all. And now it is time for Weylan to choose her own.

Main Characters:

Weylan Drake

The 5 Suitors:

Catherine- Local Baron's Daughter

Iris- Son of the advisor for the Local Duke

Vesper- Renowned Blacksmith

Astor- Heir Apparent

Tildy- The King's Bastard

Details:

Stand Alone Novel

Fantasy; Romance; LGBT+

Currently being Written

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Dracula Daily Year 1: Aww, our good friend Jonathan is poor little meow meow.

Dracula Daily Year 2: Our good friend Jonathan is in a legit horror story, and I have literary analysis to share.

Dracula Daily Year 3: We have created a metanarrative wherein not only is our good friend Jonathan in a legit horror story, but he is also cursed to live in a horrifying time loop until we stop doing this.

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Jonathan Harker: I am having a horrifying experience full of wolves and superstitions and danger

Jonathan Harker: ....maybe this is just how being a lawyer is.

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1770s-1790s

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camellia sinensis, chinese variety, 十八学士shi ba xue shi (eighteen scholars)

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Just to let people know I won't be abandoning this writeblr but I will be primarily moving on to a new one. See yinz soon.

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Generic Medieval Fantasy™ role reversal where the royal chancellor is a jocular goofball with a strange preoccupation with dad-joke-level puns and the royal jester is just intensely sinister in ways that only outsiders ever seem to notice.

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A king is arranging a marriage between his heir and a princess from a neighboring kingdom. While the negotiations are being finalized, he discovers that his heir had went and eloped with a noblewoman from a powerful family. What would be the consequences of this decision? Would he disown his heir, begrudgingly accept the marriage, or force him to annul the marriage and marry the person he was supposed to?

He would annul the marriage as fast as he could. This actually happened with George IV. He married a Catholic woman without his father's permission, so George III put pressure on him to agree to annul the marriage

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How did farm girls dress in... let's say 1400s?

First there's the chemise (like a massive shirt), then there's the kirtle, there's the actual dress and then probably something to wrap up warm with. And she'd be wearing something to cover her head too.

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What introductions or societal niceties would a Crown Princess have to go through when at a sort of welcome home banquet?

For context within my WIP, the Crown Princess has just found out her status while coming to petition the court for aid. She’s just proven her status with a blood test and the lords of the court insisted on a banquet before answering her request

She would be publicly introduced as Crown Princess X (Titles, titles) and then once seated, nobles would come to pay her their respects. They will bow, greet her and exchange a few short words if permitted. Generally a lady in waiting or an aide would keep things moving.

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Hello. I was the anon who asked if someone like the great grandchild of a younger son of a king would have a Prince/Princess title. I was looking up the Austrian and Russian royal families and noticed that even more distant descendents of monarchs received the prince/princess title or archduke/archduchess title. Was there a reason they were more liberal with distant relations keeping those titles?

Not really. You see the style of Prince is different there than the one you're probably used to knowing about. It's not just a royal style but a noble rank. I go over it here.

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cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.

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please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

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The moment where he calculates.

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Stray cat breaks into Lynx’s enclosure at zoo

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