#blind-the-winds

[afoolandathief]

Trick or treat! :D 🎃🎃🎃

Muahaha! The tables have turned! Now, I too shall turn this around on you with a trick!!

[rustbeltjessie]

🎵!

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Diggin’ the New

Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues

Urban Heat - Have You Ever?

Fugazi - Arpeggiator

Depeche Mode - Moonlight Sonata

[druidx]

[Muse Monday!] Nessy! Do you have any coworkers, or is it just you and your boat for your boat tours? If you've got coworkers, have any of them come close to discovering The Truth about you?

Ahoy there.

Aye lassie (//squints// or is it laddie? Anyhoo...), I've co-workers (family too, but I'm sure you're not as interested in my wifey and not-so-wee bairns). The company I work for has 3 great boats we rotate through the season, and each can carry up to 200 passengers. I'm but the guide and storyteller; the young lads and lassies (and Ol' Petey) are the ones that keep us sailing.

As for discovering me truth... //scratches at his chin// If anyone's got their suspicions they've not said as such to my face, neither've me and the missus had any ill dealings with folk making accusations. I reckon if anyone's had any inklings it'd be Ol' Petey. Known him since we was nippers and worked the boat for years too. But as I said, the old man's kept shtum.

Ye have t'understand, m'wee friend, I'm not the first 'Monster of the Loch', and with grand-babbies on the way, I doubt I'll be the last. After Aunty Aileen's little debacle back in the day, we like stirring up a bit o' mischief every so often. Gotta keep the tourists coming back, aye?

Thanks for the chat, hen. I'd best be getting on...

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

Trick or treat! :D :D

👻 Trick! :D

[mouseycakes]

Aaaand was waiting for that reblog! :D Trick or treat! 🎃🎃🎃🎃

OHO I COME PREPARED LUCKILY!!

And the randomizer of truth picks Treat!!

From my private planning Discord, a snippet list of characters from me and my partner's story of fae, circle of life deities, and everything in between: "Embroidered Tercet" [My side being more of a spinoff buuut, meaty nonetheless!]

Dionaea (Or Ona, for short) [She/Her]: The eldest both of all the siblings and of the two girls born. Despite the carnivorous plant she was named after, she lives the most "normally" out of the family, interacting mainly with the upper class out of interest in learning more about politics and the economy- in terms of war especially. She carries an air of grace and independence after having been the one to raise her siblings once her parents had passed. Not that she holds resentment either- she loves her siblings more than anything (at the moment), but the way of the Death nation's idea of freedom carried into her own ideals.

Dove [She/Her]: Second oldest, born with the condition to physically be unable to feel fear nor anger. Heavily neutral, after having been sidelined and looked past compared to the interests of her other siblings. She lives closer to the heart of the Rebirth nation with her assistant, Pigeon, once her condition halted her grieving process for her parents completely.

Saturday [He/Him]: The second youngest, he takes a deep interest in death and dying, and the various practices and psychology that accompany it. The umbrella he totes everywhere was a gift from their father before both parents had left for the war- its heavy shade helps his sensitive skin from harsh outdoor light. The umbrella itself is a deep purplish black, with each section adorned with a stylized evil eye.

Coprinus [They/He]: The youngest of the siblings, currently in a state of comatose due to his abnormalities. It was uncertain how they ended up with likenesses similar to an inky cap mushroom, but their body is currently perfectly sustained in a glass terrarium-like box within Saturday's home. Very rarely does he awaken from this comatose state, only on the rainiest autumn-like days. Even when he's awake, he stares wistfully off out the windows of the house, as if he were still in a dreamlike state. Saturday occasionally finds these waking days a nuisance, since Copri tends to drip some sort of inky black substance all over the floors from his hair and eyes.

In order of age currently: Ona - Late 20s, 30 even Dove - Mid 20s Saturday - Mid 20s, just a year or 2 younger than Dove Copri - Early 20s, 21 even

[skyderman]

[Muse Monday!] Hi, Carmen! If you could summon one person back to the world of the living as a ghost, who would it be and why?

friend, i can't tell you how ironic it is to ask carmen in particular this question. and i won't. here's her answer:

"A ghost! That's fun. It would be fun to believe in ghosts. I think I read something about Shadow Mages being able to communicate with spirits once. Let me see...

"Oh, what am I thinking? I would bring back Leone Kaya, of course! He was the original konyenon. Because of him, 'Valerius rises,' as the Archmages would say. There's quite a bit written about his sacrifice, but nothing in detail. Accurate detail, anyway... it's a lot of poetry and song. But... if I'm to be the konyenon, to carry on his legacy... I think I should know what he gave, so that I can properly raise Valerius too. And imagine the insight-- the inspiration-- he could bring us! Yes, there's simply no other option. That's my answer. Thank you for the question!"

[memento-morri-writes]

Hello hello, and happy STS! :D For a WIP of your choice: If your main characters were sucked into our world, The Devil Is a Part-Timer-style (i.e., dropped into our world without the resources/status they had in theirs, transformed into basically human with no powers, and the only thing they've got are the clothes on their back and their memories), how well would they fare? What would they do to survive, who's failing at adapting and how, and most importantly, who is working at McDonald's?

Ooh, this is actually a really fun question!! Thanks for sending it my way! I'm going to answer for Call of Shadows.

Dorian would honestly be relieved to not have his powers or his status, as both of those things have really only brought him harm in the past. He loves learning new things, so though the adjustment would be a big one, after the initial shock, I think he'd like exploring and learning about our world. I've said before that maybe he would be a professor or something in our world, so I can totally see him going to college. (Which would probably also make him the person working at McDonald's, not gonna lie.)

Ashlin would probably be a little worse off than Dorian. She's a talented thief, but her ways aren't going to work in the age of modern home security and credit cards. Also, they would not be a fan of cities, and how they are now, because in her world, even the biggest city has less than 100,000-ish people. They would probably pickpocket people for a while, since that's what they grew up doing, and it's what she knows best. But that would only work for so long.

Theo would absolutely hate our world. They're autistic, and everything about our world is incredibly overstimulating, even if you've grown up here, let alone being transported here from a house in the woods on the outskirts of a tiny, tiny village. They would definitely be very, very overwhelmed, and it would take them a very long time to feel even somewhat adjusted. Also, for them, their magic is a very important part of them, and they would feel kind of lost without it, at least at first. They would definitely want to live as far out in the middle of nowhere as possible.

[antihell]

Trick or treat! 🎃🎃🎃

you got...

a trick! hit me with a treat and also take this:

[thelittlestspider]

I'm a simple person. I see an ask game with a question about becoming a monster; I ask it. 8) 🐾 for an OC of your choice? Also throwing in 💀 for the same character. 8) 8)

🐾 - what would your character do if they were turned into a werewolf or some other monster? would they fight it, embrace it? lose themself?

i think carter and javier would have fun as werewolves, provided they didn't have to eat people. carter would probably have trouble with the eating meat aspect bc of trauma reasons, but they would probably adjust to it eventually.

💀 - is your character afraid of dying? if so, how far would they go to cheat death?

at the beginning carter would've probably been relieved at having a quick, clean death. just to be free from everything. but i think now carter would go down fighting with everything they have, because now they have a life to live for.

javier wouldn't even consider anything like necromancy or anything like that, because it's strictly against his beliefs. he wouldn't want to die, but if it was his time he'd probably accept it.

i think peter always thought he'd die some horrible death when alastair got tired of him. so the thought of a peaceful death wouldn't seem that bad. he'd be more upset at the thought of leaving carter and javier than anything.

[shardkeeperwip]

I *was* gonna return fire on that ask you'd sent me today, but reading over your blog, I realize it's been a while. :') :') :') ERGO, CHALLENGE: POST YOUR FAVORITE LINE(S) YOU'VE WRITTEN RECENTLY. 8) (Do *not* make me whip out last line tags on you, lmao)

Haha, I'll admit I've been struggling with my current chapter. I'm redoing a scene where two separate groups of characters have to get each other up to speed, so balancing how I let them exchange information with trying not to make it a pure exposition dump is something I'm a tad self-conscious about.

Still, I like how the transition from the action scene to the information exchange scene turned out:

“If you want to talk, All-spawn, then prove that you’re different!” shouted Rik. Light shimmered and the rocalyucar reappeared in the middle of the field. They held the ray above their head with two arms to show they weren’t aiming it. “How?” I called. Shard rippled. “Leave your puppet. Crawl out of that body,” said the other rocalyucar. Ekver. He dropped his camouflage and stood back-to-back with Rik. I felt Shard sink. WE… CANNOT… Do you really need me to see and hear? With the way you changed me earlier surely you… NO… WE MEAN WE… WE REALIZED IT WHEN WE TRIED TO TAKE THE SHELL… TO GO WOULD BE TO BRING YOU WITH US, said Shard. WE ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE YOU. “What? No, no! You have to be able to leave,” I said. “There!” Rik fired the ray and Shard dragged my body low to the ground just in time to avoid the strike. “Rik, that’s not talking!” Ekver shouted. “It’s just the stun setting,” said Rik. “We can talk when it wakes up again.” “No. No!” I screamed. “I can’t do this!” I could hear the rapid leaping and landing of the rocalyucars moving toward me. My limbs stretched and contracted like gel as Shard prepared us – “STOP!” I was on my feet, my arms bent at the elbow and hands level with my head. Shard had stopped. So had the other two. So had time, for just a moment. The rocalyucars held still and watched me. The ray pointed toward the ground. “Shard… the All-spawn wants to run,” I said. My voice shook. “I want to talk. Neither of us wants to fight you.” I could have sworn I could hear the blood flowing in my neck. The sounds of wildlife became muffled. I was hot. Overheating. I needed to stay calm. BREATHE OR WE WILL LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS, said Shard. I was breathing, wasn’t I? I inhaled extra deep just to prove it and realized that I hadn’t been. I took a few more deep breaths and steadied myself.

I guess I need to actually post excepts more often (or just... actually use this blog more often in general, haha). Thank you so much for the ask, especially since I have a hard time figuring out how to talk about my WIPs unprompted!

[olimpias]

Heeeey! I'm catching up on tags, and I came across your WIP titles one! :D Mind if I ask about "ada the unhinged assassin and her softie bf elliot"? (I'd ask about all of them because your titles are *fantastic*.)

oooh thank you so much!! i love talking abt this one especially since i havent introduced it here yet but there is a lot of stuff in my head soo

it’s a sci-fi dystopian thriller thingy that takes place in the unnamed capital of an unnamed country with an authoritarian government that relies on terrorising the people and threatening them with human experiments (and actually going through with it).

Ada Speer, our main character, is a resistance fighter who lives with her best friend Jaz (a night club singer) and Timmy (a hacker) in the basement of the club Jaz works in. Ada and Jaz met a few years ago when Ada was 16 and killed a guy who tried to molest Jaz and then they somehow moved in together.

Ada is actually unhinged. Like my girl has some serious mental problems and also an unnaturally close bondage with her knives but it’s not her fault ok. When she was 5, her brother (i still have to decide what to do with him) sent her to a girls’ boarding school that was Actual Hell. She had to share a room with a girl who despised her and bullied her in a truly awful way, she saw some of the girls she had become friends with be taken away in the middle of the night and she also had to endure the teachers’ horrible treatment and yeah. All peaches and cream right?

However, during one of her various attempts to run away, she meets a former knife-thrower from a circus and learns how to defend herself and fight (with knives. she hates guns). When she’s 16, she kills her roommate, cuts her hair like joan of arc and runs away for good. She comes to The City, meets Jaz and works on her plan to kill government officials and overthrow the government.

At some point, she meets Elliot in a casino (i yet have to decide why she’s there), a gambler who fights against the corrupt politicians by inviting them to a game of poker and cheating. Hehe. But hes a real sweetheart and hates violence (when he has to do it himself. when ada does it it turns him on tbh) and just wants to have world peace. He btw doesn’t have any less trauma than ada, it just shows differently. But explaining all that too would take too long now.

And yeah, they join forces and they are both into each other but ada is a really difficult person to like. Bc she doesn’t even like herself so. I don’t know how it’s going to end yet but that’s it so far. i love them a lot. very very much

(also here’s an excerpt as a treat)

The first time Ada Speer killed someone, she was sixteen years old. She stabbed the girl with a pair of scissors that she had just cut her hair with and it was insignificant, really. It was a necessity. She had it coming. (Thinking back, Ada was not sure if she would have done it again. Something she had noticed during the years was that people disliked being killed.)

The second time she killed someone was in a dark alley in The City. She was still sixteen but she felt like forty-three at least. A man was molesting a girl in a green, sparkling dress but Ada was wearing black so they only noticed her when she slit his throat. 

This was how she met Jaz.

Later, when they were sitting side by side near the river, Jaz said: “Look, I appreciate you saving me and everything but did you really have to kill him just like that?”

Ada looked at her in astonishment. “What else should I have done? Beat him up? He probably wouldn’t even have been grateful. And it wouldn’t have changed him either.” She wasn’t entirely sure if Jaz understood her reasoning.

What Ada just couldn’t process was why exactly people hated being killed so much. It wasn’t like they had any say in the matter. 

Ada had learnt very early in life that it was better not to be angry about things you couldn’t change. She stopped wondering why certain girls disappeared sometimes without an explanation but she figured that they would stop disappearing if the teachers were dead. This was something she would take care of later. 

At first, Jaz was a little hesitant to let Ada sleep in her room and Ada couldn’t really blame her for that. She liked Jaz and so she refrained from threatening her and in the end, Jaz saw that letting Ada stay with her was the best outcome for everyone.

Sorry if i went a little overboard here lmao i hope it doesn’t bother you but i was DYING to talk about it!

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

Heeeey, Midnight! One prompt for TSS: Lyric, Ottava, and the Titania, with something involving autumn? :3 (I know it's space, but still.)

Hey Jax!! Thanks so much for the ask, and happy Tiny Scene Sunday!~

Stars, Bits, and Bytes: Autumn prompt: (This prompt takes place in an AU where the cast are older!)

The Titania had been on a journey around and outside the kids' home star system, Stella Concordia, for about ten months by now, but after that long adventure they were all glad to be finally home, with no distress signals to answer. As Lyric settled down on the nice leather couch, he pulled out a picture from his backpack that he had brought along with him, and shed a tear when he looked at the picture. It involved young Lyric and Ottava holding hands and smiling together while Arietta and Quintus stood behind them, in the clearing of a picturesque forest during the onset of autumn.

He lightly chuckled to himself as he remembered that taking the photo was harder than it seemed. After all, it was him who had to converse with the cranky AI Intra to try and get this family memory to be preserved. For all he knew, the AI could have just as easily wiped that photo from their family history, but after much prodding, the AI obeyed him and took it.

The metallic voice coming out of Intra's speakers was still fresh in his mind. "Look at the camera and say cheese!" The cadence of it's voice wasn't that clear, it was garbled and warped, but he paid no mind to it, of course.

Looking further at the picture, he remembered back then that both him and Ottava grew up together, from the time they first did a science class together to both of them hugging each other in a warm embrace after graduation from flight school. Though nowadays, Ottava was no longer home much anymore. She was content working as a teacher for flight school to lift other childrens' dreams of becoming star-faring pilots, for shifts that were as long as 12-14 hours, with the latter part being spent doing administrative work.

Arietta and Quintus however, had long since retired their professions as pilots, but a nice perk is that upon retirement, the Titania had now officially become their own ship that they could park at their house, in an underground clearing of concrete.

Lyric thought that with the autumn weather, he should take Ottava there for a chat and a hangout, though he wanted to wait for a day where she was free from her shift.

[nikkywrites]

Hey, Nikky! Happy STS! :D Hope all's well in your corner of the woods! That said, catching up with the WIPs that popped up while I was gone, and this question popped into mind and won't leave. If you took the cast of Calypso's 'verse and plopped them into Superhero World and vice-versa, what would happen?

Hi Jax! Happy STS, my corner of the woods is doing well (I’ve written words!! Words of. literal homework assistance, but they’re words and it’s sweet). Hope all is well in your bit of the woods as well

Ooh, that is a fun question!!!

Calypso would be a villain, causing chaos for the fun of it. Hades would sorta be like Query, in which he’s housing a bunch of troublemakers (Thanatos, Styx). Speaking of them, Calypso would drag Thanatos into chaos causing and Styx would be causing her own. No prompting needed. Hades would… not do a whole lot (maybe he grew up in a Super family/team with his siblings and took the fall for a mission gone bad and this is his ‘retirement’). Amphitrite would have a little business going, would have thieves and such for hire. Davy Jones would just. Be a very unlucky civilian that Calypso drags into the dark side because he like. cracked a joke in the middle of a robbery of hers or something. Leucothea’s a vigilante who helps out people when fights break out, though she still knows Calypso. And Scylla… hmm. Scylla would be a hero (and most compared to Celeste), until she loses control of her power or stumbles into her power or just. Gets sorta villanized for something and despite her attempts to fix her reputation, she falls off the bandwagon and ends up working alongside Charybdis, who runs a larger organization/is a big villain figure who has some control over smaller villains that’s country wide. One will work on the eastern side, other on the west. Didn’t put it into words super well, but they would be those not-known-except-by-name scary figures. You know what I mean.

As for the super people (well, Masks and Trust/Celeste and Vega-adjacent people) moving into Ancient Greece (sort of? Not really. Uhh— super people into a god world that is not quite Ancient Greece but a parallel version of it): Vega is an older goddess, probably like Nyx: a goddess of the night or something similar. She takes (or has?) a few smaller god(desse)s under her wing. And… vague introduction to the kids (I should do that, huh?): a knowledge/prophet goddess who sparks wars/feuds (she’d be responsible for a Cassandra situation), a god of the monsterous within the humane, a god of desperation or determination. Things like that. Anyways. She’s an older goddess, once super revered until she got bored and stepped back, let those she mentored run as they please. She takes a mortal-seeming form and bumps into another little-known goddess, Celeste, who would be… a goddess of something niche. I thought of stars but it’d be reflections or hope or something. Something small no one pays much kind to but is super present in one’s life. She’s a minor goddess only because she holds reign over a niche and she’s content (in a settled-for-this-and-like-that-I’m-helping-but-sorta-hate-it-isnt-doing-anything-to-change-it way) with the few sacrifices and pleas she gets. She’s content, but not all that happy. Bottom line, you know.

That was fun to answer! Thanks for the question :D

[emeraldmew]

🎶✨when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

Thanks for the ask!

To be honest I tend to listen to music whenever someone else puts it on rather than actively putting the songs on myself, but I do have a fair few I enjoy.

Oops, all Mechanisms.

Rose Red (The Mechanisms)

No Happy Ending (The Mechanisms)

Peacemaker (The Mechanisms)

Losing Track (The Mechanisms)

Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser (The Mechanisms)

[meerawrites]

Hi there! :D 5, 13, and 15 for the end of the year ask game? (Might be looking for recs with that last one. ;) )

Already answered 5, here. 13, how did I change as a writer?

I stopped caring what people who aren't me think, in short form, I write for me, if you feel seen by it, that's great, but, art for arts sake, or something, I do this for me.

15, shameless promo time! (this ad writes itself), do you like vampires, the 18th century, 'objectionable' characters on all fronts who are still 'charming'/‘pretty', philosophical and religious themes with p.orn, fluff, angst, war and more? well… here you go.

Anti-hero: ao3 link.

[antihell]

Hi, I'm using the colorful writeblr ask game to harass you about the new Jesus and Judas WIP. :D Dusty Rose, the second Forest Green (the one about drinks), Strawberry Pink, Leather Jacket Black, and Morning Grey (and if yes, can I be on it because I am dead serious about what I said yesterday).

!!! screams! 🥺🥺🥺 your interest and support mean the world to me!! thank you for sending this in!!

Dusty Rose: Your personal favourite character in your wip

omg these are gonna prompt so many headcanons, so again ty for sending this in. you probably thought i was gonna choose jesus or judas huh? aha not so fast! it's mary magdalene. did i just introduce a love triangle? polyamory? but then would it still be referred to as jesus & judas?? tune in to find out !!!

Forest Green: Of your main five characters, who is a tea, coffee, water or soda person?

ooooooh i'm gonna go with the main 3 chars because the other ones are fighting for the other two spots and they just need to chill for a bit. jesus: water judas: soda mary: coffee

Strawberry Pink: Ship trope you have in your book

most prominently, the whole "true friends stab you in the front" thing? they love each other so much but in the end one of them has to bite the bullet and either sacrifice themselves or stand alone. — also it just being doomed from the start.

Leather Jacket Black: Anything you think I left off!

hmmm i guess there will be more to come so stay tuned!

Morning Grey: Do you still want people to join your taglist?

💯💯💯 please reply to this or send me an ask if you'd like, this is a brand new project so let me know if you want me to keep you up to date! thanks so much jax, i'm so glad i have someone excited with me!

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