#days of dusk

[sam-glade]

WIP Intro: The Prince's Shadow

(Original Fiction, Days of Dusk book 2)

Pitch: What do you do when the target of your revenge turns out to be immortal? Genre: sapphic adult fantasy Themes: revenge, grief, power Word count: 110k (expected) Status: Rewriting the latest draft for NaNoWriMo.

Blurb: Killing a Sword is tricky. First, you need to take into account the blast that will follow their death, which can level buildings in a hundred yard radius. Then, there are their combat abilities, and their inherent physical prowess, exceptional strength, supernatural healing speed...

Erya is never one to back down from the challenge. After ten months of stewing in grief and anger, revenge appears to be the only option, and so, with the First Prince's tentative support, she puts her plans into action. She doesn't care how the resident hero dies; all she wants is to see him turn to ash.

Note: yes, the protag of Gifts of Fate is now the antagonist. This is my NaNoWriMo project.

Features:

❄️ Revenge, no forgiveness ❄️ Secret identity ❄️ Spymaster x chessmaster ❄️ Angry butch x stoic femme ❄️ Cool Swords - with self-indulgent superpowered HEMA fight scenes ❄️ Protagonist with albinism ❄️ Trans love interest ❄️ Secondary world ❄️ Elemental powers

Content Warnings (CW) for recurring elements:

Gore, grotesque monsters, mind-affecting superpowers

I will post specific CWs with each snippet and update the list as the project progresses.

Days of Dusk taglist (please message me to +/-): @acertainmoshke @another-white-void @cee-grice @cljordan-imperium @elshells @poetinprose @sparrow-orion-writes

[turtleblogatlast]

I’ve remembered that colors exist

[gotchibam]

Espeon, Dusk Lycanroc, and Sylveon ko-fi doodle for Kaitlyn!

I'm accepting pokemon ko-fi doodle requests here! ✨

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Trans made TTRPGs

Due to… recent events that I would rather not talk about, today's post is a highlight of different tabletop games made by trans peeps! These games are fantastic in their own right, of course, but you can also know that they were made by incredibly cool and attractive people

(Also, these are flyover descs of the game, they'll get more in-depth singular posts later, this is because I am lazy)

Perfect Draw is a phenomenal card game TTRPG that was funded in less than a day on backerkit, it's incredibly fun and has simple to learn hard to master rules for creating custom cards, go check it out!

Songs for the dusk is fucking good, pardon my language, but it's a damn good post apocalyptic game about building community in a post-capitalist-post-apocalypse-post-whatever world. do yourself a favor and if you only check out one game in this list, check this one out, its a beautiful game.

Flying Circus is set in a WW1 inspired fantasy setting full of witches, weird eldritch fish people (who are chill as hell), cults, dead nobility, and other such things. It's inspired by Porco Rosso primarily but it has other touchstones.

Wanderhome is a game about being cute little guys going on a silly adventure and growing as the seasons change, its GMless and very fun

https://weregazelle.itch.io/armour-astir Armour Astir has been featured in here before but its so damn good I had to post it twice. AA demonstrates a fundamental knowledge of the themes of mech shows in a way that very few other games show, its awesome

Kitchen Knightmares is… more of a LARP but its still really dang cool, its about being a knight serving people in a restaurant, its played using discord so its incredibly accessible

https://grimogre.itch.io/michtim Michtim is a game about being small critters protecting their forest from nasty people who wish to harm it, not via brutal violence (sadly) but via friendship and understanding (which is a good substitute to violence)

ok this technically doesn't count but I'm putting it here anyways cuz its like one of my favorite ttrpgs of all time TSL is a game about baring your heart and dueling away with people who you'll probably kiss 10 minutes later, its very very fanfic-ey and inspired by queer narratives. I put it here because its made by a team, and the expansion has a setting specifically meant to be a trans "allegory", so I'll say it counts, honestly just go check it out its good shit

https://willuhl.itch.io/mystic-lilies

Mystic Lillies is a game inspired by ZUN's Touhou Project about witches dueling powerful foes, each other, and themselves. Mystic Lillies features rapid character creation and a unique diceless form of rolling which instead uses a standard playing card deck.

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/141424/nobilis-the-game-of-sovereign-powers-2002-edition I… want to do a more general overview on Jenna K as an important figure in indie RPG design, but for now just know that Nobilis is good

https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/apocalypse-keys Apocalypse Keys is a game inspired by Doom Patrol, Hellboy, X-men, and other comics about monstrousness being an allegory for disenfranchisement. Apocalypse Keys is also here because its published by Evilhat so its very cleaned up and fancy but I love how the second you check out the dev's other stuff you can tell they are a lot more experimental with their stuff, this is not a critique, it is in fact a compliment

Fellowship! I've posted about this game before, but it is again here. Fellowship has a fun concept that it uses very well mostly, its a game about defining your character's culture, and I think that's really really cool

Voidheart Symphony is a really cool game about psychic rebellion in a city that really does not like you, the more you discover for yourself the better

Panic at the Dojo is a phenomenal ttrpg based on what the Brazilian would call "Pancadaria", which basically means, fucking other's people shit up. Character Creation is incredibly open and free, meaning that many character concepts are available

Legacy 2e is a game about controlling an entire faction's choices across time, its very fun

remember to be kind to a trans person today! oh also don't even try to be transphobic in the reblogs or replies, you will be blocked so fast your head will spin

[lallelol]

The Clouds Collection [8 & 9]

Hey

It’s been a while

Sunset and After Dusk

Exams be kicking mi ass 👍 pray i survive mentally sound

[nobeerreviews]

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

-- Maya Angelou

[otaku553]

More doodles for the one piece spy x family crossover

[eggcromancer]

Last Line Challenge

Rules:

In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like).

Tagged by @starriegalaxy Thanks jestie!! It's my first time doing a challenge, I'm excited! ✨

Last Line: "It was an accident" <- from the @daycarefriendpickup magma sesh! Sun may or may not have lost control and y/n may or may not be bleeding out as a result (oops...)

Last Art: I've roughly 20+ sketches ongoing and 0 motivation to complete any of them so take all these wips! HYAHHHH!! 💫💥

Agent Dusk from @lavenoon's amazing Accidentally Undercover AU 💕:

Colour studies on Agent Dawn (same AU as Dusk) and the most mentally sound™ Sun:

More scribbles....

And ..... this.... (why did I draw this)

This is an open invite for anyone to do the challenge! (because I'm have crippling social anxiety and I don't want to be imposing ajdhska) If you are looking for a sign to do the challenge, this is it!! Time to get to it!!! 👉👉 (Or don't! I'm not the boss of you!)

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

The three emperors in Foundation, Dawn, Day and Dusk, is an insane concept and I don't think I've ever seen a weird sci-fi government premise so compelling before??

You've got 3 clones of the same Emperor from centuries ago, perpetually cloned, a kid, an adult and an old man, and each will be all three within his lifetime. When you're kid, you learn from the older ones, when you're adult you rule, and when you're old you guide. The old one, Dusk, has had the two clones before him - his "brothers" from when he was Dawn - die, and now he's them, and he has new, younger brothers. Each Day sees his own past in little brother Dawn and his future in Dusk. Each clone has been raised by himself and will raise himself. They watch themselves be born just before they die.

They're triplets and son-father-grandfather all at once.

The cycle has repeated for centuries and yet each generation obviously has its unique distinctions, each clone his individual life. The first emperor's way of becoming immortal wraps around to being a constant reminder of mortality, because he's dying again and again and again.

Their love - and hatred - for each other is such a weird and complicated thing I'm going crazy. FINALLY SOME CLONING WEIRDNESS WHERE THE IMPLICATIONS IN IDENTITY ARE ACTUALLY EXPLORED BEYOND JUST 'HAVING THE SAME FACE'

[brotherconstant]

FOUNDATION | S1 The Genetic Dynasty If the galaxy comes to believe their leaders are less than, rather than more than themselves, they may cease to follow. We are a glass vessel… spun with a fine hand. If the pressures inside start to swirl and we are not uniform… we may burst.

[sam-glade]

Hi verdance

I'm hugging you! Which of your blorbos needs a hug the most, and will you give it to them?

Hi Sleepy💜

Ianim, my precious anxious cinnamon roll always needs a hug. Objectively, he doesn't have it as bad as the others, but anxiety doesn't exactly make people objective. And yes, he'll accept any and all hugs. He considers the fact that hugs are often inappropriate one of the major drawbacks of being a prince.

I also want to give Lissan a hug before @i-can-even-burn-salad bites my head off for the dark, whumpy AU I put him through, which they've read. It's an alternative ending to Gifts of Fate, about 40k words, where a character making a different decision sends the plot tumbling in a very different direction.

[brotherdusk]

they're still the same man and unfortunately that man is deeply stupid

[uwhe-arts]

. . . | uwhe-arts

[anatomicalmartyr]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau + The Four Times of Day

L’Aurore (Dawn) - 1881

Le Jour (Day) - 1884

La Crépuscule (Twilight) - 1882

La Nuit (Night) - 1883

[fanofspooky]

Horror sub genres #6

Vampires:

Dracula - Fright Night

From Dusk Till Dawn - Near Dark

The Lost Boys - 30 Days of Night

[ivomagus]