#project: cannibalism

[marlowethelibrarian]

Title Change!

I'm changing the title of Project Cannibalism! I've been feeling like it hasn't really been representative of the plot or tone of the story, and every time I've talked about it I've felt the need to add that it doesn't actually have that much to do with cannibalism.

It's more about family and death and survival and food and society, and a huge part of the world building is the salt mines, lakes and springs in the area that require rare magic to manage so I think I'm going to be changing it to Project: Salted Earth

[marlowethelibrarian]

Thanks for answering! These were very useful resources, and that article about the man born in the 30's is so, so sweet.

Hi! I'm looking into writing a character with Treacher Collins syndrome in a fantasy world. Most modern accounts of the syndrome I can find often talk about extensive reconstructive surgery, but that kind of intervention isn't possible in this fantasy world. Do you have any resources on life without Treacher Collins without surgery?

Hi!

A lot of the necessity of reconstructive surgery depends on the severity of the symptoms. So for example, if your character had their bones underdeveloped to the point of breathing problems, they would kinda need something to help with it (unless something as simple as a tracheostomy would be feasible in your setting, it's an incredibly old procedure). But if they're on the milder end of the spectrum, they could go without surgery at all. Sometimes TCS could mean the facial structure being underdeveloped, but not enough to cause major problems; this article on TCS mentions that there are parents who literally don't know they have it until they have a child born with it as well. So that happens too, sometimes it's just brushed off as Looking Different without any kind of diagnosis being made because there aren't any problems.

Here's one account of a man with TCS who was born in the 30s and didn't have any surgery until he was ten (and to my understanding, it was only for cleft palate - something not all people with TCS have), warning for the r-slur being used in a quote and the kind of ableism you might expect from the timeframe. (I think it's also a nice remainder that there were always families with disabled kids who were inventing solutions to help them, even almost a century ago:) )

I would try to figure out first what symptoms your character specifically has, you can always just pick ones that would be more survivable in a less medically advanced setting. Many people will have issues with feeding or breathing, but not all will; your character could be one of the latter - or you could have a Fantasy Nutrition Tube and/or the truly ancient tracheostomy I mentioned. When you see the "and then the person gets [something that doesn't exist in your setting]" try to be creative and think what would otherwise happen - the eyelid problems that lead to infections, maybe your character could not experience them, or maybe they would be visually impaired from having them; maybe if there's no hearing aids then their community would have to learn sign to communicate with them, etc.!

I hope this helps! I really appreciate the thought of including a character with TCS in the type of settings where many writers would just go "nahh they wouldn't survive it". It's nice to see :-)

mod Sasza

[bananafire11]

Buncha freaks

[tearwolfe]

Oh, your heart Aortic work of art My love, my knife To carve it out, your life

[marlowethelibrarian]

From my WIP Project Cannibalism!

Old Mala is an elderly trans woman with Ehler Danlos and is deaf. She is also an asshole, and an alchemist. She's the main character's mentor!

Dunelae is dyslexic and highly anxious, she's a high priest with Issues and is one of the few people in this society who is trained to use magic.

Amla who is in line for the throne has Treacher-Collins, is hoh and is probably autistic as well. She's also a mage, though that's not really what it's called in the story. She's also the romantic interest, tho it's not really a book focused on the romance.

Rakani, my MC, an alchemist exile definitely has some PTSD and will eventually [REDACTED].

tell me about your disabled characters!

[und3ad-me0wnz73r]

Saturn Devouring His daughter Son

happy belated 15th hybrids 👊💥👊💥👊💥

[cannibalmeowmeow]

to shauna from beyond the grave:

[marlowethelibrarian]

This isn't really available yet, but here's a snippet of some fucked up religious stuff!

The twin boys wailed to the skies as their sobbing mother closed the coffin over them. This was not the place for Okono ne' Silaena Rakani, errant alchemist, though they stood to the back of the crowd, disappearing into it. The group huddled under the growing grey clouds at the Temple's funerary grounds, with a priest to receive the soon-to-be dead. The mother's left hand, bared vulnerably for this ceremony, had the Upe clan’s sigil tattooed on the largest finger. Her two smaller fingers were swollen from a fresh tattoo needle, her third finger ringed twice for two children and her pinky marked twice for two dead. Twins were a bad omen. Twins meant change, sometimes calamitous change, and tradition said that returning them to the dead womb of the Great Mother was best for stability. Rakani had always thought that was somewhat ironic, considering their revered Suyo had allegedly been an elder twin. Legend had it that the Great Mother had died in explosive childbirth, bringing forth Suyo and her twin. The land they stood on was nourished by Suyo tending to her mother's body, until cloud forests grew in her vacated womb and mangroves clustered at her corpse's feet.

Hey writeblr! I’ve been struggling to sit down and read lately and I need something to put breaks in my endless scrolling and also my Job Hunt From Hell.

So, this is a call, send me excerpts, tag me in things if you want, or reblog it here, or DM me a link to a piece you’re proud of! I’m a tag rambler, I love horror, the supernatural, fucked up religious themes, sci-fi with a focus on the unknowable expanse of space, the deep sea, and any character so pathetic you can’t decide if you want to see them grow and be better or die tragically.

[marlowethelibrarian]

ok im already behind on my wordcount for november, but I did re-outline this whole ass book and I just need to write it now.

Why is this so fucking intimidating. I hate this.

[skylessknights]

THE TRILOGY

"Whenever there's a looming presence of either of us anywhere near each other people get uncomfortable because we've pushed the line so far. Many times went over it. People know anything is possible. Anything. There's nothing off the table when it comes to me and that man." — Swerve Strickland [x] [x]

Swerve & Hangman + Gothic Series

[marlowethelibrarian]

Enemies to siblings twin shenanigans complete with identity theft, sacrificial magic and matriarchal theocratic politics.

make me want to read your book in one sentence.

[firestorm09890]

Limbus Company is just as horny as every other gacha game except instead of the usual skimpy outfits and overinflated breasts it’s exclusively horny for freaks

[akheku]

LOVESICK CANNIBAL!! alt variants beloww

[ashenquill]

Assorted conversations from the Batfam group chat, in no particular order:

Tim: I discovered the key to the fourth dimension

Steph: the fuck

Dick: Tim, have you slept recently?

Tim: No. But I have been awaken, not by daylight, but by the ear splitting shriek of the universe as the stars are blotted out, leaving us to our fate on this cold and inhospitable planet. Are you ready for this reckoning? For the end of all you could ever know?

Steph: 🪕

Steph: ^certified banjo moment

Duke: 🪕certified banjo moment 🪕

Tim: 🪕 🪕 🪕

Jason: IM TRYING TO SLEEP ASSHOLES

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Jason: my life is a tragedy. Not a Greek tragedy, because I’m not Greek. A Mexican tragedy.

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Tim: have you ever seen Shakira and Shakespeare in the same room?

Jason: STOP DESECRATING EVERYTHING I LOVE

Duke: 💃 Shake-speara Shake-speara 💃

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Tim, sick of his stockholders’ shit, ready to start throwing fists if he has to sit through one more board meeting: what if I blew up my entire company

Jason: Based?

Dick: Put down the dynamite and drink water/eat food/rest

Tim: wildly different responses. Thank you

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Duke: sometimes I Kolbe, sometimes I helicopter

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Steph, suffering from blood loss, a concussion, and 37 hours of no sleep:

Steph: time

Steph: TIMMM

Steph: update

Steph: I’m going pire 😭😭😭😭

Steph: met payechey was only 200 Donald’s

Steph: shot

Steph: that’s not how’s you spell it

Steph: my paycheck was only 2200 dollars

Steph: 200*

Tim: are you okay?

Steph: just peachy

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Tim: this is why I didn’t have birth siblings

Jason: said with the confidence of someone who had literally any say in that decision at all

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Steph: [image of a Minecraft chat log]

[Transcription:

<PurplePplEatr> cook those too

<redrobinYUMM> I’m a 50s housewife

<PurplePplEatr> in the flesh

<redrobinYUMM> I’ve got your lunch sweetie

<PurplePplEatr> im at work bitch wife

<redrobinYUMM> I wish you could roast carrots

<redrobinYUMM> give me a proper cooking sim, Minecraft

<redrobinYUMM> cowards

<PurplePplEatr> zanahoria more like zanaWHOREia

<PurplePplEatr> boom roasted

<redrobinYUMM> *sobs*

<PurplePplEatr> ugh youre such a typical woman

<PurplePplEatr> rah rah misogyny ]

Steph: some weird-ass rp in the Minecraft chat

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Steph: I’m a trendsetter

Damian: Brown, you learned about that from me.

Steph: I’m a ✨trendsetter✨

[marlowethelibrarian]

Oh this looks fun! Thanks for the tag!

The prince and the pauper if they were both the evil twin in a secondary world fantasy with sacrificial magic, alchemy, and complex politics in a matriarchal theocracy.

Tagging @fortunatetragedy and @drchenquill if you guys wanna take a shot!

Writers, tell me about your story in the dumbest way possible

I’ll go first:

Superhero princesses save the world with the help of that one straight white guy who’s just happy to be here, couldn’t have done it without the fortune of a white woman defying all the odds by deciding against a gender reveal party

[cannibalmeowmeow]

to jackie from the land of the living: