#the lucent vexteria

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New Tier Art on Patreon!

Hi folks! The absolutely incredible @morbidlizard did some new tier art for my Patreon, because the old squares are being made redundant as Patreon moves towards a new fixed theme of 'thin rectangles.'

I thought this would be an awesome time to introduce some new tier art of some of our favourite (and some of our upcoming) couples! And I thought you might all want to enjoy it here too because man, the art is so freaking good:

We have: 1. Lewis Mount & Mallory (from Mallory & Mount) 2. Mosk and Eran (from The Ice Plague) 3. Augus and Gwyn (from canon Fae Tales and many AUs) 4. Gary and Efnisien (from Underline the Black) 5. Vexteria and Evan (from Vexteria)

The rainbow effect is intentional! These are already all up on Patreon.

For folks who have ever had problems signing up to Patreon, I'm going to be creating another (identical) subscription account soon so you'll have options. When that's ready to launch I'll let you all know!

Also, Silvia is open for commissions, if you ever want graphics like this - she is the perfect person for them :D

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Some more Vexteria excerpts? Please? 🥺

I haven't written anything new since the last excerpts anon! That's very much like, at the bottom of my writing priorities pecking order, and I haven't been able to get to more of it because I pushed Constellations (the Gwyn + Efnisien Falling Falling Stars epilogue) a little higher and wrote 4 chapters of that instead.

BUT

I can still get u a lil excerpt :D

From chapter 2 of Vexteria (working title:)

There were only two people in the room. Only one that mattered to him. The Lucent was impossible to look away from.  The Lucent sat indolently in a chair, robes draped over his slender body, hiding most of it with pretty white and violet fabric embroidered with purple orchids and white fancy flowers that Evan had only seen once or twice at the florist's and didn't know the name of. The clothing made him seem like a girl, but the face - with its sharp jaw - was male. At least, Evan thought so, it was hard to be sure. The Lucent had hair the colour of Terrei lilacs, opaque at the roots, and clear at the tips, see-through lilac in between. It was long, straight and most of it was piled up at the top of his head, secured with an ivory hairpin. Earrings of lavender-coloured crystals dangled in silver chains from his pierced ears. Bored violet eyes considered him, and Evan tried his best to look as gormless and stupid and unnecessary as possible.  'Is that...some violet in your eye?' the Lucent said with a soft, amused voice. It was seductive. Reminded Evan of how some of the hookers talked when he walked by them sometimes in the streets, or when Franco had a few up in his tower.  The Lucent stood, walking over to him. He was elegant and Evan realised he knew how to move in all that fabric. If Evan was assessing him as an opponent, he'd think this one was like Wirrell - easy to underestimate, and probably shouldn't. The Lucent touched fingertips to the bottom of Evan's right eyelid, pulling down the skin.  'I'm blind there,' Evan said. 

There we go!

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Hi Pia

If you dont mind sharing, is Vexteria gonna be going to me an enemies-to-lovers story like Game Theory was? Or is it going to be something completely different?

Thanks x

Hiya anon!

Definitely enemies-to-lovers. And enemies-to-lovers-to-friends lol. It will probably be the closest thing to Game Theory that I've written since, er, Game Theory. I've changed a lot as a writer since then, so I don't know how similar it will actually be even with many of the same tropes.

There's a bit more information over here if you want to check it out!

It is an entirely new world though, and I can confirm we get sexual content in chapter 3, so it's definitely not a slow burn on that front either. It'll be a 'I don't see how these characters could ever have any feelings for each other and I hate this one he's awful - to - Oh my god they're so ride or die for each other it's hard to believe it was even possible' kind of story, but with some murder attempts along the way. :)

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Omg Vexteria's design!!😳😳😳 He looks SO amazing! The aesthetic/mood of that pair kind of reminds me of Iason and Riki from Ai no Kusabi xD Ah but all the couples look fantastic, it's so nice to see Gary as well! And Mount's shit-eating smile! I'm very excited about the future couples^^

Ohhhhh, I didn't think of that, but yeah I can totally see the Ai no Kusabi aesthetic! Tbh there's some similarities, but then also some pretty big differences too. I do love some of the yaoi tropes though :D

I was so happy to get Silvia drawing Gary, that honestly made me thrilled, she did such an amazing job of everyone. When I saw Lewis Mount for the first time I about screamed, I have a bunch of sketches of him in different poses behind the scenes, and maybe Silvia will let me share them one day. He's wonderful :D

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@freyadragonlord replied to your post “Some more Vexteria excerpts? Please? 🥺”:

I was already very intrigued by this story but all that purple and violet just stole my heart xjdmmdmdmdm Also aahhhhhhhhhhh 👀👀👀👀

​Vexteria is 100% always cultivating a look and it's like... god tier lmao.

I can't wait to start seeing (and also personally drawing) some art of him!

If I had to compare him to someone, I'd say he's our new Game Theory Augus. But worse. Like if Smoke in Autumn Augus was both immortal and could do very powerful magic and was treated like royalty by an entire city and believed slavery for the purposes of sexual sadism was just fine actually.

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Is Vexteria gonna be the villain of the story? No pressure to answer if it's too spoilery. I just was really intrigued by that excerpt

Yeeeesss? In a sort of 'he's the villain but also the main character' kind of way, lol. In a sort of 'he's part of the main pair in the series.'

He's a Smoke in Autumn Augus type.

There'll definitely be other villains who aren't main characters/the love interests!

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Masterlist of playlists for the writing of Pia Foxhall / Not_Poignant / thespectaclesofthor

So here’s the currently complete list of Fae Tales, SAL and other fic playlists that are publicly available (casual reminder that you need to be a member of Spotify to hear these I’m pretty sure? I’m sorry Spotify sucks that way):

Underline Series:

Underline the Black

Underline the Blue

Underline the Gold

Underline the Red

Underline the Silver

Fae Tales Stories

Game Theory (based on the first half only, afterwards I transitioned to listening to character playlists because Augus’ perspective was hard to ‘feel out’ at first.) The Court of Five Thrones The Ice Plague The Ice Plague (instrumental) The Ice Plague #2 The Ice Plague #3 Strange Sights Hard Edges (never written) The Spoils of the Spoiled Falling Falling Stars

Constellations Tradewinds (unpublished) Sealstorm (unwritten)

Fae Tales Characters

Gwyn ap Nudd Augus Each Uisge Augus & Gwyn (mostly angst or love songs) Ash Glashtyn Gulvi Dubna Vajat Mosk Manytrees Eran Iliakambar The Raven Prince Julvia Dubna Vajat The Nightingale Terho the Mouse Lad Mikkel the Reader (this playlist never failed to make me cry, because I always shaped it with his whole arc in mind).

Mallory & Mount

Mallory & Mount - Woodsinger Mallory & Mount - Lewis Mount Mallory & Mount - Mallory

Other Original Fiction: (unwritten)

The Lucent Vexteria

Daemonos

Glamour Gods

The Zoo of Last Wonders

Rise of the Guardians

The Golden Age that Never Was From the Darkness We Rise Into Shadows We Fall SAL Jack Frost SAL Pitch Black / Kozmotis Pitchiner

Other fanfiction A Stain that Won't Dissolve Palmarosa

Stuck on the Puzzle

A Game We Can Try Cold Red Light (unwritten, but playlist is fleshed out for when I’m ready to start) The Beast that Chose Its Own Bridle Eversion

Perth Shifters

Blackwood (Coll/Braden) Gentle Wolf (Aodhan/Thomas) Hunter’s Luck (Hunter/Luuk) Seamus and ??? Hardy and Dazza

Jesse and Mal

You can also search me by username: Pia Ravenari. I have other playlists public too. I’m a huge playlist/music person basically.

I honestly thought way more of these were public, so I suspect that Spotify glitched at some point and made over half of my playlists private. *sighs heavily* Oh well, links are up! I also have playlists for other original stories that I’m working on, like The Zoo of Last Wonders.