#mspw: fantasy wip

[moondust-bard]

The Cruel Prince X Twelve Dancing Princesses X A Dark and Hollow Star

Her Enchanted Garden #1: Potent Poison, Treasured Tonic

Living, breathing symbols of a decades-old treaty, half-faery Elowyn Fleetwood and her eleven sisters exist between worlds: their powerful human father’s mundane modern kingdom of sleek chrome and neon lights and their faery mother’s ethereal ancestral realm of magic and mischief.

The Festival of Fortune— a celebration held once every decade to commemorate the pact between worlds— draws nearer by the day. Eight courts—four mortal and four immortal— will gather in the Realm Between— but this time, chaos will reign.

An eternal life will yield to a pilfered poison, and only Elowyn holds the antidote to peace—or ruin.

Themes

• magic vs technology

• family

• tradition vs change

• loyalty

• nature vs. civilization

• fame & power

• revenge

Current Stage in Writing Process

• world-building, plotting, and character development in progress

Want to know more? Find the wip intro here!

[antique-symbolism]

For Moon+Seraph Pitch Week on writeblr, I present to you...

Miniature Roses, a sapphic historical fantasy

Comp Titles: For readers who love stubborn, smart women with hearts of gold and for fans of remixed genres featuring fantasy, historical fiction, and romance. See: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite and A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Blurb: As witness to the unparalleled scientific progress of the early 20th century, there’s no medical solution Minnie Teasdale considers outside the bounds of possibility. With a sharp mind, a hard head, and a soft heart, Minnie doesn’t bat an eye when she discovers the strange case of Ruzena Vitova -- a reticent artisan with a peculiar affliction requiring her to consume human blood for nutrition. While finding a suitable treatment is tough in its own right, Minnie’s true challenge comes in cracking Ruzena’s cold façade... and revealing the soft, lonely heart beneath. 

Themes: discovery motivated by love; the vulnerability of the authentic self; determination in the face of adversity

Current Stage: editing 

WIP links:

Story Intro

Story Inspiration Tag

Character Inspiration Tag (Minnie)

Character Inspiration Tag (Ruzena)

Content warnings: descriptions of (surgical) wrist cutting and wrist wounds

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week

Comp Titles: Bridge to Terabithia (minus the child death) x Spider-Man (616 comics) x Endgame (mcu)

Blue like don't forget about me

A coming of age queer romance about two boys who lose touch as kids only to reunite on opposite sides of a super-powered battle for the city.

Themes:

Self-reliance vs. accepting help

Anger

Empowering the powerless

Good intentions gone wrong

Stage in the writing process: Drafting - 50%

WIP Landing Page

Nash Moodboard

Teddy Moodboard

Content Warnings:

child abuse

character death

graphic depictions of violence

Tag List: @wildswrites @themugglemudperson @the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see @theirtheretheyre @ploncc @thedumbestavenger

[valentinerose529]

This/that comparison pitch: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit meets Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows

Working title: Magicians and Puppet Masters

Blurb: After being exiled from his homeland of magic for his uncontrollable abilities, magic thief Elijah wants nothing more to do with fame and adventure. But Ixora, an expert Stormcaster and the proud wielder of bad puns, chases action and adventure like he can’t get enough of it. When an easy quest turns into a high-stakes race, this unlikely duo has to work together with a ragtag team of magicians and mischief-makers to take down the puppetmaster behind the scenes.

Current stage: first draft (incomplete)

Themes: high fantasy, urban magic, swords and sorcery, queer romance, the power of friendship, found family, rejected chosen ones

Content warnings: medium violence and combat, magical violence

[andromedaexists]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week!

It's time! I'm gonna talk about Call Me Icarus today

Lore (Alexandra Braken) x American Gods x Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Call Me Icarus

These monsters are in every corner of our society. They are heralded as Gods among men, but not for long. I am doing everything in my power to show who they really are behind their masks. Soon, everyone will see these nasty creatures for what they are…

A Tragedy following Icarus as he takes a look behind the curtain of the Elysian Program and sees the disgusting framework that he was disillusioned to. Now the only thing on his mind is bringing down the program and the entire ATLAS corporation. Will he be able to when the world and his body seems set against him?

Themes

Greek Mythology

Overthrowing A Corrupt Government

Social Outcasts/Found Family

Queer!

Mental Health (not recovery, but learning to live with it)

Physical Disability (and learning to live with it)

Current Stage In Writing Process

Writing! I am over halfway done with this draft, then just one final look over/edit before starting the query process

Art Related To WIP

A Moodboard for Icarus, the main character:

WIP Relevant Links

WIP Masterlist Icarus Docs CMI Info Page Taglist Signup Picrews!

Content Warnings

Listen, CMI is a dark tale. It is heavy and I want to make sure I get everything here, so please be mindful of the content warnings. I do not put them here for shits and giggles

Depression/Anxiety/Hallucinations

Blood/Gore

Child Abuse/Physical Abuse

Death

Fire/Immolation

Police Brutality/Violence

Sexually explicit scenes/Slut Shaming

[tate-lin]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week

Hihi jumping into pitch week with day 1 - stories about characters of colour!

Joker of Ashes

You set me on fire. You can’t abandon me.

Burnt alive and left for dead by her own mother, Minh wants one thing and one thing only—to get down on her knees and beg for forgiveness. Now on the hunt for a woman long presumed dead, she has to lay low and away from her powerful and influential foster family if she wants to stay ahead of the search. She has the wit, she has the power… But none of the right skills needed. Alone and resourceless, she‘ll have to get creative. A phoenix wasn’t reborn from the ashes that night. A monster was.

Themes: Family, love, what it means to be alive & a person

Current Stage: Prepping! Gonna start my first draft during Camp NaNo this year

Content Warnings: Graphic violence, child abuse, mental illness

You can find out more here! 💖

[basalamander-corner]

Moon and Seraph Pitch Week

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The Tiger at Midnight x We Hunt the Flame x Beasts of Prey

The Shifting Tides

The blood of the innocent is always spilled by tyrants. Those who wish to fight have no choice but to continue the cycle of violence and death to survive. But there stands those who want to put an end to it all, regardless of how much of their soul they must sacrifice. And if losing their souls means they gain peace for their loved ones, so be it. Sometimes, we must fight for a future we ourselves cannot see.

Project Themes

Found family

Fighting against oppression

Friends to enemies to lovers

Self discovery

Rebellions and war

Trauma recovery

Current status

Draft number three in progress

Rough draft, first draft, and second draft finished.

Content warnings

Childhood abuse & trauma

Physical & mental abuse

Violence, torture, blood, gore, and death

Queerphobia

Sexism (against women)

Xenophobia

Racism

Project links

Side blog is @the-shifting-tides-wip

Pinterest

Spotify

Want to be added to the taglist? Like, or reply to this post!

[yors-truly]

Around the World in 80 Days x Amphibia x Life of Pi

Beyond Time and Space

IT'S A JOURNEY - A RACE - BEYOND TIME AND SPACE.

When an often-flighty young girl is conflicted by her desire to express her capabilities and her fear of doing more than what she can handle, the moment arises when a team of brave individuals are needed to carry out a quest to explore and gather information on alternate universes. However, the drive of another blocks their path in reigning successful; so much so, the team is left to go on a journey that’s much longer than they wished. 

Themes

courage and bravery (as a catch-all term for several possible themes, as well as being the main theme)

coming of age

hope

friends and family

love (and letting it go)

power (and the lack thereof)

loyalty and commitment

Current Stage in Writing Process: LOTS of world-building, episodes 1 and 2 outlined (and still drafting ep.2), first season plotted

Art related to wip

^ A relevant poster for Beyond Time and Space season 1, created March 16, 2023

^ An outdated but still relevant poster for Beyond Time and Space season 1A, created October 10th, 2022.

Wip-relevant links

A PDF preview script of the first episode of BTaS; the first draft of a complete rewrite

A wikidot blog I (ideally) update every two-to-three weeks covering my progress on BTaS; currently considering on moving it either to tumblr or dreamwidth for the sake of faster and easier access, so it hasn't been touched in a while

A toyhou.se profile for all BTaS-related art, simply for the purpose of (1) storing it somewhere without having to worry about storage and (2) having shareable links

The Beyond Time and Space side blog, where you can learn more about the series and join the taglist

Content warnings

fantasy violence

metaphorical and literal displays of mental health topics (ex: depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.)

mentions of war

character death/harm

discrimination

fictitious religions/practices that highly resemble real life religions

[cee-grice]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Comp titles: D&D x Minecraft

When White Crows Cry

Waking up from death in the city one had been exiled from would be a concerning situation in and of itself. Quilin, a gifted yet disgraced mage, soon discovers those are the least of his issues, as Endra, his lover, who, two years ago, had seeked him out in desperation to find a cure for his magical affliction, was now missing and had Quil’s former magician community after him. As Quil tries to find common ground with the people from his past and piece together what had happened in the year he’d been dead, he is forced to face everything that had culminated in said death.

Themes

morality of science

the darker aspects of academia

bodily autonomy

mental deterioration

love, obsession, and the line between them

death and grief

“what goes around comes around”

Current stage in writing process

Deep into the first draft

Art related to WIP

WIP-related links:

WIP intro

Content warnings:

suicide ideation

PTSD, depression

anxiety, panic attacks

death

(light) body horror

[starlightelegy]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week

The story was revealed to me in a dream (you can just consider it a mix of all the space operas I've watched so far)

Starlight Elegy

What could happen when the forces of the universe bring two people together? Starlight Elegy is the story of Nyx and Ganymede, two people with only one thing in common : their love for the cosmos. But when the fate of the stars is being threatened, this love turns out to be the key. It all began with a simple voice, an echo of the stars, then the tale became a legend.

Themes

Fate, self-discovery, becoming a better person, not everything is black or white, friends to lovers, soulmates, rebellion/war, mad scientists

Current stage in writing process

Draft of the first book is yet to be finished. I have currently 15 chapters roughly written and have a few left before going for the editing part. Then I have two other books planned for the main story and there's a possibility that I will write more for the extented universe.

WIP-relevant links

My ko-fi page, if you wish to support me financially

If you wish to apply to be a beta reader

Content warnings

Anxiety, depression, panic attacks, PTSD, violence, blood, religion, mentions of abuse/childhood abuse, discrimination

Note: the religion in question is entirely fictional. The characters casually mentions it from time to time and it is an important part of the lore.

[new-royston-cursebreakers]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week:

Comp titles: Gulliver’s Travels and Hadestown

The Curse of New Royston

The small town of New Royston is cursed: wealth correlates with physical size. 20-foot-tall Gio Violett, a sophomore recovering from a near-death experience, encounters 1-foot-tall Cricket Collins, a freshman who’s been left to fend for himself as his parents try to save up enough money to bring him out of town. Fed up with the town’s unofficial segregation, the two of them agree to try to break the curse.

But the closer they get to their goal, the more they uncover the town’s gruesome history. Danger stems from the least likely places, from political conspiracies to supernatural forces, from the shady figure that seems to always be on Gio’s heels to the reason why Cricket’s parents left in the first place; soon, it becomes clear that their, and their friends’, lives and livelihoods depend on breaking the curse.

Themes

Trust

Family, both blood and found

Identity/self-perception

History, discovery, and retellings

Community

Current Stage in Writing Process

Currently on third draft, ironing out scenes and fixing grammar, spelling, and tone.

WIP-Relevant Links

Sideblog is @new-royston-cursebreakers

Content Warnings

Violence (asphyxiation, blood, gore, amputation, burn wounds, assault, child abuse, police violence)

Discrimination (classism, ableism, queerphobia, ageism)

Religion

Strong Language

Mentally-disturbing content (dissociation, unreality, paranoia, claustrophobia, anxiety, trauma, brain injury)

Bugs

[thecrookedwriterspath]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Comp Titles

Arkham Horror (board game) x Betrayal at House on the Hill (board game) + 1 eldritch moose

Title

Songs of Decay

Tom moves to a small town with his daughter to reconnect with his dad, a retired bodyguard, and find a better life. Unfortunately, the eldritch abound in this town and he's soon helping rhe local Eldritch Anomalies Department (EAD) investigate a murder. Local widow Esther is determined to find the culprit as well, as the body was on her land. She does NOT get on with the EAD though, which leads to some of its own problems...

1910 or so, with a few automatons. Elritch inspired audio drama. Cowriting with 1 author.

Themes/Tropes

Paranoia

Curiosity

Mental health and illness

Dealing with and caring for those with illness

Content Warnings

Murder

Eldritch/paranormal creatures

Mild gore/body horror

Abuse (implied)

Mental illness

Societal misunderstandings and labeling of illness

Hunting

Messy legal dealings with family

Writing stage

Midst of 3rd draft.

Art

Public domain photos from the era (1910) for Tom and Esther found in library archives

Related Links

We have a whole wiki that needs some updates but the basics are all there:

[runner-owen]

BLACK VELVET: A RUNNER OWEN NOVEL

In a Victorian inspired world of eternal night, transman Owen Rosedown is a Runner - a detective for hire - in the employ of the Knight Hunters and their leader, the handsome but arrogant Lord Aurum Vim-Calyx. After a secretive mission at a ball goes awry, the infuriated Lord Aurum blames Owen, punishing him with temporary exile within the haunted halls of Black Velvet Castle. But when a powerful storm strikes, the infamous vampire god known only as the Scarred Man takes over the castle, intending to kidnap all the inhabitants, and claim Owen for himself. As the other humans fall into despair, Owen resists their captors, turning to his faith in the Goddess for strength, and the shadowed halls of the castle for salvation. Can Owen free them all, or will he surrender to the dark, unspeakable desires of the Goddess’ husband reborn?

THEMES:

captivity

the undead past

class differences

isolation and loneliness

desire and longing

CURRENT STAGE: In progress

LINKS:

@coffeewritesfiction - my main writing blog

CONTENT WARNINGS: Note that these apply to the story as I currently know it

Blood

Death/Murder

Slavery

Attempted Suicide

Rape, mentioned or implied

Victorian-inspired moral values

Gotcha hooked? Follow this blog or like/reblog this post for updates and more posts!

[italiangothicwriteblr]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Percy Jackson X Game of Thrones

The Traitor’s Heir: City of Marble Book 1

Novellia de Rege, daughter of notorious traitor Leonora, must protect herself, her family, and her heart while hiding her magical abilities at a court that fears sorcery

Themes:

Family

Rumors/Lies

Corruption

Love despite the odds

Betrayal

Current Stage in Writing Process: First drafting/plotting

Art related to story:

Relevant links:

WIP Tag

Worldbuilding

OC Asks

OC Faceclaims

Content Warnings:

Sexual content

Violence

Executions

Strong language

[andromedaexists]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week!

It's time! I'm gonna talk about Desecrate today

Good Omens x Marcionism and Gnosticism x Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)

Desecrate

What if Marcion was right about the Catholic religion? What if there were two Gods that created the Earth and everything on it? And what if the second God, the God of the Material, was imprisoned by their creation?

Themes

Queer! (not romance, but discussion of queer characters and acceptance by church figures)

Prophetic Dreams

Religious Overhaul

Current Stage In Writing Process

Writing the first draft! I am starting this book as a part of a class I am taking.

Art Related To WIP

A Moodboard for Kit, the main character:

WIP Relevant Links

WIP Masterlist CMI Info Page Taglist Signup World Anvil

Content Warnings

Blood/Gore

Death

Violence

Religion

Queerphobia

Skeletons

Starvation/Torture

[moondust-bard]

Demon Countess of Anjou X Margaret Rogerson’s Vespertine X European witch hunts

Unholy Covenant #1: The Bloody Divine

Mordelia, the sole heir of an infamously bloodthirsty Count, strives to undermine her father’s crusade against witches and unearth the truth of her missing mother’s identity, pitting her against the Count’s newest young bride, a daughter of nobility snatched from a dying, war-torn land. As the new Countess, Evanor is determined to provide her power-hungry husband with the male heir for which he has yearned since he learned of the curse placed upon him: to never bear a living son. Unfortunately for Evanor, none of the Count’s previous ten wives survived beyond a year of matrimony—and the life and freedom of Evanor’s favorite brother depends on her safe delivery of a healthy son. Meanwhile, in a crumbling temple hidden in the mountains, acolyte Vivaine must take up the mantle thrust upon her by her goddess and uncover a wicked god’s scheme to paint the known world in his image before the birth of his coveted prophesied child.

Themes

• nature vs. nurture

• women’s roles & oppression

• immortality

• desire vs duty

• love & sacrifice

• role of religion in society

Current Stage in Writing Process: fleshing out the draft

Content warnings

• Body horror

• Mild gore

• Death

• Implied sexual assault

• Religious trauma

Want to know more? Find the wip intro here!