#flock from the void

[did-i-do-this-write]

Hi! Happy WBW! This week I've been thinking a lot about religion so... What is considered sacrilegious in your world? Is it common to encounter such a thing or is it punishable (or maybe both)? How do religious institutions react?

This is almost a month old at this point, but I still appreciate the world building question, thank you! 😊

Religion is interesting in Paragon because it is just set on an alternate Earth, the only difference being the existence of paragon.

Some religions are indifferent to paragon powers. Others see them as demons sent from hell to destroy their religion, so they have a lot of prejudice against them. And some even see them as guardians and/or saviors meant to protect them and their message and their religions. A subsector of those religions, however, see paragon of other religions or no religion as traitors, leading to some prejudices in different ways.

The religions that see them as demons also see them using their powers as sacrilegious, so there is a "as long as they don't use their powers and show us who they are, then I don't have a problem with them" vibe.

This ask motivated me to write 100 words for Home is Where Your Light Shines Brightest.

Experiment Total: 88,169

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

Vampire Hunter Steampunk Story-Victorian Era? 👀

so, the funny thing about this one is that, in its current state, absolutely *nothing* in the title is accurate anymore. except the steampunk part, that's still accurate.

the other funny thing is that whilst i was typing out my answer to this, i had an Idea, and so now everything I was going to say has changed!!!! (except the title being mostly inaccurate. that's still the same)

the loose plot is that you've got these two people, Alexandrina (Alex) [LASTNAME] and Asa Tyler, and they're friends, and Alex is an investigative reporter type person, and Asa is some sort of artist (?) type person, and Alex is investigating/reporting on a thing (yet to be determined), as one does, and there is A Mystery (yet to be determined). Because Alex is extremely curious and also somewhat stubborn, she intends to solve this mystery, or at least follow it. Because she is his best friend (and he's also curious), Asa is going to help.

EDIT: fun fact, I thought I posted this a month ago, and was under that impression until I went looking for something in my drafts just now, i am very sorry, i hit the wrong button!! (save as draft not post). I intended to hit the post button!!! (this now has a wip intro--)

[trixierosewrites]

Happy late STS ahaha...

anyways! two questions, as promised! do one or both, whichever you like<3

1. You were cursed by an evil curse guy and now your WIPs have to change genre. What new genre do you pick for them? What does that change about the story and characters?

2. Do your OCs like to travel? What is your preferred method of travelling? How much travelling is there in your WIPs and do you like to write stories which focus on travelling?

Happy even later STS answer!

Picking number one for this :3 My gut instinct is, as always, to say comedy, because you can turn the horrific into the absurd very easily and I write a lot of horror (and the number of kinky sex dungeon jokes I could make with a room of beds and shock collars is. high.), but I think honestly if Memento Vivere were a romance (big jump, I know) it could've gone pretty far; Dante is of course easily in love, and Miriam and Isabella have their thing, and it could possibly have saved them, which I think would be an interesting twist. Of course, Nate Pearce, local aromantic, would be doing 🧍, but hey. At least he'd be alive.

On the other hand, something like The Wasp would shift pretty significantly based on genre, because it straddles two genres in being a crime-romance; changing anything even slightly changes the plot by... a lot. Even just removing one of the two would change it significantly, I think, but to circle back round to me writing horror, I think I could do something really awful with that. Hmm. That's an idea, actually...

Thanks for the ask!

[bleaksqueak]

It is so unbelievably frustrating how the algorithm timeline keeps defaulting in a place that has been free of algo bullshit for so long. I cannot tell if it’s a glitch or if they’re just pushing it intentionally. It’s at least easy to go back to the following feed, but with bluesky users more and more depending on the discover feed and tumblr defaulting to the algorithm timeline it just feels like ‘be twitter’ is the shitty destiny being pushed everywhere.

Important video anyone should give a watch:

[the-twisted-truth-au]

Welcome to the Twisted Truth au!

This is a blog following an au of Cookie Run; Kingdom made by two goofballs that love angst and vanilla milkshakes!

You may refer to the mods out of character as Light of Truth (our dear Shadow Milk player) and Caramel Dragon (our Pure Vanilla player, you're free to shorten it to Caramel)!

You, as the folks interacting, will have to find things out on your own! We, the mods, won't be outright spilling anything off the bat! (For continuity sake, Caramel will keep a log for you all of what you've found out, it will be linked within the assets section of this post.)

Our custom tags! au specific names; imitation vanilla cookie, shining milk cookie, answered asks; 🐑🎭 imitations of the truth, ✨🥛 knowledge from the fount, roleplay interactions; 🐑🎭 to play charades, ✨🥛 your guide to knowledge, magic anon events; 🐑🎭 lost in elation, ✨🥛 mishaps and false knowledge, anons; 🐑🎭 the mindless flock, ✨🥛 questionably curious students, other blogs; 🐑🎭 half baked thieves, ✨🥛 fellow seekers of the truth, random posts and/or starters; 🐑🎭 a shepherd's day to day, ✨🥛 a professor's day to day, event/story posts; 🐑🎭 i am not the cookie you knew, ✨🥛 but i will fall in love with you again, mod posts; caramel screams into the void, truth chews on the souljams,

AU Assets

-- Pure Vanilla's design -- Shadow Milk's design -- The story thus far

(Psssst hey light of truth here…)

(…Gay gay homosexual gay)

(There’s nothing to see here move along)

[incandescent-creativity]

Hi, happy STS!! I'm making myself a tea and looking outside at the snow, happy that I have my blanket. This made me wonder: what warm drinks are common in your universe and/or what do your OCs like to drink during the cold season?

You sound so cozy! I made this for you:

[savage-rhi]

My legs and arms hurt from the climbing I did to get some of these views, but it's well worth it.

[cepheusgalaxy]

Happy STS! I guess it still counts because it's Sunday? Idk

ANYWAYS today's question: do you have or want to have any merch connected to your story? What would be most fun? A plushie of MC or maybe a hoodie with some characteristic logo? Or maybe something completely different?

Oh, fun one

I don't think I want to have any merch but IF i was to make it I think I would want to make keychains and buttons with art and symbles and logos, that kind of stuff. I think it's charming

[triptychofvoids]

Medic tries to avoid parks and stuff because as soon as he enters he's swarmed by hordes of friendly pigeons. Sure, pigeons are lovely, but it's just So Many and they try to follow him around all day

medic goes to parks and stuff specifically for this reason actually. youre saying he can not only be greeted by his own flock when he gets back to base but he can also befriend the local birds? that these animals that are so quick to startle would choose him as company? what bliss!! and a massive ego boost he really doesnt even need. and if he just so happens to arrive wherever hes headed in a flurry of wings it certainly isnt his problem, but he will make it everyone elses

[crowavius]

Only 3 Slime art reblogs? Your slacking OP /j.

im looking for specific art </3 now im tempted to spam reblog out of spite though

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

Hi Copper! guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hi feather!! i'll do this for alex from herald (selected via spinner wheel)!

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

she handles her guilt by trying to avoid it. this does not always work! actually it almost never works. alex is mostly guilty about going into the exact same job that her father had (which killed him), because she doesn't want to hurt her mother anymore than her mom's already been. she has been trying to avoid this guilt for 10 years and she has been failing to do that for almost exactly as long!

[trixierosewrites]

Hi! Happy STS! Welcome to Feather tries to get active in the community again program!

The world got to see your story and oops video essayist discovered it. What type of essay are they making? Is it a deep dive? Is it a rant about “controversial” parts? Is it about how the story got popular? Taking apart every single sentence? What are they focusing on?

Happy STS!! And what a question, omg. I think I could definitely get called out on the glorification of violence (in Memento Vivere, a lot of people die, and pretty horribly, but it’s a horror-thriller so I dunno what people expected) or alternately “bad representation” because my gay people are evil gay people and so forth. It would be nice if someone picked up on all the hints I’m dropping about people’s characters, especially as it’s a novella in which most people are hiding secrets we get to find out pretty soon before they die, so a deep dive or characters would be fun!

Thanks for the ask, this was a fun one!

[walkman-cat]

Hi! Happy STS! Welcome to Feather tries to get active in the community again program!

The world got to see your story and oops video essayist discovered it. What type of essay are they making? Is it a deep dive? Is it a rant about “controversial” parts? Is it about how the story got popular? Taking apart every single sentence? What are they focusing on?

hihi! happy very late storyteller saturday (perhaps even a storyteller sunday :o)

i think with eidolon vetch theres a couple options for things to focus on:

a deep dive into the worldbuilding/history of the setting (Yes i have thought about the past of the story more than the actual story's plot. it's a problem) especially the traditions and fashion!

2. going into the trans text/subtext (because i accidentally made a character who is trans also have a very trans arc separate to his transness, which is silly.)

3. just. going through and breaking down the tropes used surrounding gentleman thieves and detectives. i'd love a multiple hour video essay comparing eidolon vetch to its influences because it is nothing without my love of gentleman thief and detective media!

[mecharose]

Hi! Happy STS! Welcome to Feather tries to get active in the community again program!

The world got to see your story and oops video essayist discovered it. What type of essay are they making? Is it a deep dive? Is it a rant about “controversial” parts? Is it about how the story got popular? Taking apart every single sentence? What are they focusing on?

welcome back to the writeblr community uwu, i hope you've been having fun :D

for RCU - the rando cinematic universe™ is a bunch of isolated short stories that all take place in the same world (kind of like a fantasy Black Mirror).

the video essay would be someone conspiracy-style putting together the overarching story of that world, and theorizing how the characters and events in the stories connect to each other! (there is lots of hidden material there, if someone in the future does this for real ;P)

for Court of Ruination - theorizing why the fuck Brett and the Lord of Ruination are fated soulmates in the first place. (there is a real reason! but I only reveal it in ~subtext~)

[angsty-prompt-hole]

Hii, happy STS!! Because I didn't send an ask last week, this time you get two questions, hehe. You can do one or both!

1. What au for your story you think would be interesting to explore? Have you ever written a, hm, fanfiction? authorfiction? about it?

2. What major would your ocs pick in collage? It can be an irl major or related to your universe! (eg. elvish literature)

Happy STS! Thank you so much for the ask! I'll keep it to my Dimension Jumpers story for this ask.

1.) So I am obsessed with AUs, and I have a TON I think about regularly ngl. I explore alternate timelines and stuff in the series itself but I have been known to write self-indulgent crossovers from time to time. I dont typically do much with actual AUs except brainrot over them for a week or so and do a bullet point summary of what it would probably be like, but there's a couple ive considered writing stuff for before (Hellraiser AU my beloved).

2.) Pickle and Carter will never in any universe go to college fjdkfkgk. Carter would go to a technical school for mechanic work but Pickle is just grateful he graduated high school. Emily would KILL to major in interdimensional veterinary science, and Kira would probably be very interested in interdimensional conservation science or wildlife biology. In canon, Kira gets a degree in wildlife biology and management and Emily goes to nursing school.

[incandescent-creativity]

Happy STS! I guess it still counts because it's Sunday? Idk

ANYWAYS today's question: do you have or want to have any merch connected to your story? What would be most fun? A plushie of MC or maybe a hoodie with some characteristic logo? Or maybe something completely different?

Now this is a question I’ve never thought of before

The only thing with a logo I have so far is for Agau Laboratories, and I could definitely slap that on a water bottle and/or make stickers.

Other than that, maybe some sort of ship in a bottle thing for FLOAT? Either already made and just like a desk decoration/paper weight, or a puzzle to build. And maybe some plushies of the evil fish, too!