#unofficial wip intro

[klywrites]

thank you @astressedlittlejaybird for inadvertently enabling me to make this

[ominous-faechild]

WRITEBLR INTRO

Once again, I cometh here with yet another new Writeblr Intro. The previous two were sloppy—sloppy, I tell you!—so here we go again!

(for more details, check out my first intro)

ABOUT ME:

✦ Barlowe (she/her)

✦ In my early 20s

✦ A writer of 10 years ✦ working on novels for 6 of 10!

✦ Less dedicated to—but still interested in!—drawing, animation, photography, and cinematography ✦ currently a digital arts major in college

✦ AuDHD and a grey lesbian (aka I'm leaning asexual) ✦ (my writing may or may not be a special interest)

FAERIE'S DAWN

⚜ my main, current wip ❤️ ⚜ accessible: ⚜ here (color-coded outline) ⚜ on ao3 (default-color outline) ⚜ on tapas (narrative prose) (pending)

⚜ story introduction ⚜ navigation

Following the Shattering of Reality, the world was plunged into what came to be known as the Faewildes: an ever-changing world suffused with magic and danger. Humanity crumbled under the weight of the new reality while fae—and the archfae above them—emerged to rule over the new world. Humans couldn't compete against the fae's sheer magical prowess, and soon built strongholds in territories with weak magical presence to stand against them. Now, so many generations later, humanity has finally learned of faekind's weakness: metal, which weakens fae and blocks their magic. A war is breaking out between humanity and fae, with gods each picking sides in the conflict. Between faeries Nova, Cloud, and Sky, and the human settlement Eve and Asa protect... who will win?

NAVIGATION:

WIPS:

⚜ Faerie's Dawn ✦ Modern Existence ✨ [What Lies Beneath]

🌹 Sub Rosa ♞ [Order's Chosen] ❧ The Arcane Rifts

✦ Sun and Shadow 🍂 Rising From The Ashes 🌊 Waves of Misfortune

[] surrounds unofficial titles & coloration this is the likely release orders of each work

GENERAL:

✦ how do you do gradients?

✦ #the faechild original ✦ #the faechild writes ✦ also @the-faechild-writes ✦ #the faechild prose

✦ #the faechild speaks ✦ #about the faechild ✦ #behind the scenes ✦ #the faechild shitpost

ABOUT MY WRITING:

My Writing:

✦ main genres: ✦ fantasy ✦ high ✦ action ✦ urban/rustic (depending on story) ✦ mystery ✦ political intrigue ✦ horror

✦ includes: ✦ lgbtqia+ ✦ neurodiversity ✦ especially: ✦ autism, ADHD, & PTSD ✦ racial/cultural diversity ✦ disabled characters

✦ themes: ✦ accepting yourself ✦ discrimination ✦ trauma ✦ the experience, ✦ aftermath, ✦ and recovery thereof ✦ poverty ✦ political corruption

divider from @cafekitsune

[yourpenpaldee]

·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ A BRIEF WIPS OVERVIEW.

Hello! I am not good with deadlines, especially when I set them myself. This post was supposed to be up three days ago, but it’s finally here! I’m very excited to share these projects as they were all created from different periods of my life, going back four years at the most.

These will be very short intros, but each WIP mentioned here will have a proper, detailed post when it’s time. The projects also aren’t listed in sequential order of when I’ll post about them with the exception of the first WIP.

A heads-up, most of these are romance since I used to write only romance. It was only about two years ago since I decided to finally branch out, and those stories will be coming soon! For now, I still have to figure out how to write characters that have a way higher IQ than I do…

On we go to the WIPs!

WHEN ART TALKS

— currently undergoing the first draft. — first person — a college romance where a reserved poet who is afraid of public perception connects with an outspoken musician due to their preference on using words as their art medium. — contains late night walk convos, cigarette smoking, passionate rambles, and microwaved meals. — “‘Why do we care about them when it’s our story to tell? We live our truth, we speak our truth, and we have to trust that it’s good enough because it’s all we got. The message will be received by those who are meant to hear it.’”

BLIND SECOND CHANCES

— currently undergoing the first draft. — dual first person — an adult romance in which ex-friends turned (unofficial) ex-lovers from high school decide to explore the old feelings that resurface when crossing paths eight years later. — lots of reminiscing, betrayal, weekly wine nights, and fancy dates. — “‘You’re holding onto a love from a situation where we didn’t even know our place in the world yet. We spent nearly eight years growing into the people we are now, so you need to be prepared for our dynamic to look and feel different because we aren’t the same kids we once were.’”

TO NEW BEGINNINGS

— brainstorming complete, drafting to begin soon. — third person, still deciding on the type — an adult romance story of a woman who decides it’s time to start over on a blank canvas, and meets a booked and busy workaholic along the way. — roller skating, painting, solo adventures, and plant shopping. — “‘It’s scary to deviate from your current life and start anew when your life no longer serves you or your purpose. But I’m not equipped for misery, so I’ll be damned trying to save a life that lost the chance of saving forever ago.’”

UNTITLED ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

— currently a 3am one-liner, brainstorming begins soon — pov to be determined, leaning towards third person limited. — an apocalyptic fiction where a teenage girl fights everyday to survive in an ongoing zombie apocalypse with hopes of finding her younger sister. — found family, zombie slaying, survival vs. morality, and, uh… death. — “She looked at every colorless home she walked by and wondered what stories could be told. What every stored memory that slipped through the cracks consisted of and the emotions they’d provoke. If the lives that once occupied these spaces were unfortunately fortunate enough to make it out like she did. If they constantly watched the memories flash before their eyes as they realized those would be the last batch of joyful, painless memories; how remembering became torturous and insufferable, but is all they have to remind them of their own humanity.”

UNTITLED TWISTED BONNIE & CLYDE

— currently a 3am one-liner, brainstorming begins soon — first person peripheral or third person limited — a dark and twisted romance where two toxic lovers are at the beginning of an inevitable end and play fire with fire the entire way through. — manipulation, heists, lies, and expensive jewelry. — “The venom drips off of every word she says. She watches every last drop seep into my skin and become one with the blood that runs through my veins. How it attempts to shut down my body in hopes that I’ll beg for mercy in my final moments of weakness. That I’ll surrender my life into her hands as those soulless and apathetic eyes beam with some sick and twisted excitement. But I am sick and twisted too. We are two bodies wrapped in the same snake skin, and a snake cannot get poisoned by its own venom.”

PAST LIFE LOVER

— redoing the brainstorm process — first person or objective third person (quote will be in third person) — a soulmate, young adult romance in which a girl who no longer believes in love suddenly gets pulled in by the new barista at her favorite hangout spot. — love at first sight, breakfast deliveries, denial, and baking. lots of baking. — “Then there it was. The locking of the eyes where the inability to look away grows more and more intense with each passing second. They didn’t even know each other, but something in their eyes told them that there was a home waiting for them within each other’s souls.”

ANGEL AND KEN*

— currently on the backburner, brainstorming resumes once past life lover is complete. — prequel to past life lover. — *very much a temporary title — first person or objective third person — a 50’s historical romance where a pessimistic single mother is convinced to see the greener side of the grass by a jazz musician who looks at life through a rose-colored lens. — jazz clubs, slow dancing, tea parties, and red corvettes — “‘Why shut yourself out from the world when there are people like me that have waited for you to waltz right into their life? I know, the modern day world is frightening and filled with so much hatred that it’s hard to find happiness through it all. But people find a purpose to wake up every morning because of that one person that casts the brightest light. You’re my sun in a world full of darkness, and I hope to be the moon that reflects your light when you’re no longer visible in the sky.’”

I know I keep saying it, but I truly can’t wait to properly share these projects. I just hope everyone will enjoy reading it all and find comfort within these characters :)

I will post the the detailed summary for When Art Talks either on Monday or Tuesday (please yell at me if i don’t follow through omg), and the character intros should follow closely behind!

divider creds to strangergraphics ♡

[winterandwords]

✍🏻 WRITEBLR INTRO

👋🏻 Hi, I’m Winter (she/her). I write dark, emotionally intense, queer fiction with characters to go feral over, inspired by city streets and stormy seas, scars and synchronicity, synesthesia and l’appel du vide.

💬 I'm writing-related ask and tag game friendly and I love reblogging your WIP snippets.

📚 You can read my stories on 🔗Patreon. It's the only place they're available and nothing is pay-walled. Everything is free and publicly viewable. More information about each story can be found further down this post.

☕ My blog and online tip jar also live on 🔗Patreon and I'd love for you to join my cosy little community there. You can offer support with a monthly contribution or one-time donation if you like, but there's absolutely no expectation at all and you're more than welcome to follow along as a free member.

📱 I also do writing community stuff with bonus pet pictures as winterandwords on 🔗Bluesky.

🌈 It always makes happy to encounter queer characters whose identity and narrative aren’t limited to or by their queerness, so I’m writing the characters I want to see in the stories I want to read.

📝 I write for an adult audience, but my stories don’t include explicit sexual content because it’s not my vibe (not a genital in sight here, folks). That said, if you’re uncomfortable with fiction that's frequently dark, sometimes spicy, and often chemically enhanced, I might not be the ideal writer for you to follow. Not everything is for everyone and that’s OK.

🛑 I would prefer minors didn't follow me. I don't follow minors, at least not intentionally. Sometimes it's not obvious and I'm not the age-in-bio police. In the kindest possible way, if you're under eighteen, my writing is not for you and I'd rather engage with other adults only.

💜 My reblogs tend to be writing-related, with a few exceptions. My likes are (mostly) non-writing-related things I get a kick out of, or personal posts that I want to acknowledge but that don’t feel appropriate to reblog.

💌 If, for some reason, you need to contact me outside of the hellsite, you can do that at winterandwords[at]gmail[dot]com

🌊 NOVEMBER BREAKS (complete)

BASICS Genre: Transgressive, literary Audience: Adult Length: Approx 52k words Working title: Project Storm Tags: #november breaks and #project storm More: Story summary

💻 To read online for free, please visit my Patreon

VIBE Crime, weather symbolism and questionable life choices. Hurt me, I need to feel alive. Violence is a drug. Also, drugs are drugs. This is a love story like crude oil is a tea. #ThatShouldNotBeHot. Nothing’s real anyway.

INTRO No conscience, no problem. Noah kills for money. Brett hides a life of crime behind a successful career. Officially, they both protect people from people like themselves. Unofficially, everything is falling apart. Until they meet. And it all gets worse.

💀 SPIN CYLINDER (complete)

BASICS Genre: Transgressive, literary Audience: Adult Tags: #spin cylinder More: Story summary

💻 To read online for free, please visit my Patreon

Spin Cylinder is the sequel to November Breaks, which can be read here.

VIBE Slice of life, but life is drugs and crime. They deserve each other (derogatory). Violence as a substitute for therapy. Very elegantly wasted. My favourite mistake, my weapon of choice, and the parts of ourselves that we can’t leave behind.

INTRO Bound by desire and destruction. Contract killer Noah and white-collar criminal Brett retire from successful but stressful careers to build a home together on a foundation of obsession, shared secrets, and murder. But when they start to feel restless and the downward spiral beckons them deeper, how far will they go to find their way back to themselves?

🗡️ BRIDGE FROM ASHES (complete)

BASICS Genre: Cyberpunk, neon-noir Audience: Adult Length: Approx 70k words Working title: Project Frequency Tags: #bridge from ashes and #project frequency More: Story summary

💻 To read online for free, please visit my Patreon

VIBE High-rise buildings and low-life scum. Everything hurts, but not enough to feel good. Yes, that’s a gun in my pocket and no, I’m not pleased to see you. If mind control is real, why do I still have to make decisions?

INTRO Too useful for prison and too dangerous for freedom, underworld assassin Rafael Turner is sentenced to serve in a secretive military agency. When a mission to infiltrate a criminal operation drags his past to the surface and someone he thought he’d lost forever unexpectedly returns, how much is Rafe willing to risk to settle old scores and have a chance at a future he’d given up hoping for?

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE (currently posting)

💻 To read online for free, please visit my Patreon New chapters go live every Sunday and Thursday, from 15th June - 12th October 2025.

BASICS Genre: Cyberpunk, neon-noir Audience: Adult Working title: Project Aria Tags: #name from nowhere and #project aria More: Story summary and tag list

Name From Nowhere is the sequel to Bridge From Ashes.

VIBE Found crime family. Memory is a curse, but it’s also a weapon. What doesn’t kill you makes you deadly. No identity, still a crisis. Because fuck you, that’s why.

INTRO Imprisoned for a crime or five that she definitely committed, Aria makes it through her sentence remembering more than she’s supposed to but not enough to make sense. An illicit trade syndicate gives her a fresh start and the acceptance she won’t admit she craves, but her blood family’s betrayal is seared into her mind and revenge is only an opportunity away.

📇 TAG INDEX

#the shit in my head | rants, rambles and writer life

#november breaks and #project storm | WIP excerpts, updates etc for November Breaks (working title Project Storm), the prequel to Spin Cylinder

#spin cylinder | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Spin Cylinder, the sequel to November Breaks

#bridge from ashes and #project frequency | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Bridge From Ashes (working title Project Frequency), set in the same world as Name From Nowhere

#name from nowhere and #project aria | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Name From Nowhere (working title Project Aria), set in the same world as Bridge From Ashes

#my writing | snippets and other wordstuff

#your writing | other people’s words

#writeblr tags | tag games and memes

#answered asks | replies to your questions and messages

#writeblr connect | boosting writeblrs for the community

#reblogs | what it says on the tin

#reblogs plus | reblogs with my additions

#tumblr meta | hellsite stuff'n'things

#calmwrimo | info, updates and reblogs for CalmWriMo, a chilled-out November writing and self-care experience

📸 IMAGE CREDITS

Profile picture My own

Header and background Original photo by Yaroslav Shuraev on Pexels, edited under license

November Breaks My own

Bridge From Ashes Original photo by Drew Dizzy Graham on Unsplash, edited under license

Spin Cylinder Original photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash, edited under license

Name from Nowhere Original photo by Wilmer Martinez on Unsplash, edited under license

[illarian-rambling]

Thanks for the tag @corinneglass!

WIP Intro Tag

Rules: Fill out the questions for your wip!

Title: The Mystery of the Mortal God

Genre: Steampunk fantasy

Audience: Adult, I think?

Tags: Girl, I don't tag shit :(

Stage of the Writing Process: Beta reading

Synopsis: Astra DuClaire is a witch - in fact, the best witch of the borderlands, a lawless strip of swamp nestled in between two mighty provinces within the human empire of the Republic. She seeks to earn her official mage credentials in an effort to get better gigs so she can pay off her mothers' debtor contracts. However, an opportunity to do this comes not in the form of money or a job, but in the discovery of a mysterious piece of tech.

Detective Ivander Montane is cursed. Death tugs at him with every step and breath. He had resigned himself to his fate until news reaches him that a string of occult murders once believed to have gone cold have become quite hot again. With the help of his trusty arcane rifle and the gifts of an otherworldly benefactor, he strikes out on an unofficial investigation.

Mashal is lost. He is cold. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from. All he does know is that someone deserves to die for what was done to him.

All three shall meet on the trail of a singular target - a mage of incredible power and mysterious intentions. Perhaps they'll be able to band together to get to the bottom of the tangled web that surrounds them. Or perhaps they'll let their selfish hearts get the better of them and be caught within the twisting strands of fate and hate.

I'll tag @elsie-writes @the-golden-comet @tildeathiwillwrite @rkmoon and anyone else who wants to play :)

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Title: Genre: Audience: Tags: Stage of the Writing Process: Synopsis:

[rita-rae-siller]

Draft 1 Intro: The Lies They Tell

Genre(s): Dark Fantasy, LGBTQ+

Status: First Draft Incomplete

Current word count: 34k words

Synopsis: A life lived in service to her country and emperor never seemed all that bad to Alura at the start. As the emperor's Right Hand, she lives in finery beyond compare. Whatever she wants is hers with a snap of her fingers. Almost. Life as the unofficial heir to a nation comes with a great many trials and hazards. With the empire on the brink of collapse and the emperor's mental health in serious decline, the fate of her nation rests solely in her hands. But Alura isn't the only one with potential claim to the throne.

The Cardinals of the temples circle the emperor like vultures, hoping to bring about his demise quicker so that they can return to a more traditional empire. They have their own puppet they seek to install upon the throne; Alura's ex lover and colleague, the emperor's Left Hand. The tension between the two women is reaching a breaking point. Sooner or later, one of them is bound to snap, and the end results could be murderous.

Alura now faces two options: stay and keep fighting the same pointless battles she has been for decades and risk assassination or sparking a civil war, or leap to freedom and leave the empire and the emperor that raised her to their fates.

WIP Master Post

[veneritia]

when comes the dawn monthly update { 9.30.23 }

And here's to the revival of WCTD and the first ever WCTD monthly post! But first things first, let's get some basics out of the way

↳ WHAT IS WCTD?

FENICE VI AETIER, a portent of ill omens and the estranged daughter of the Vasilier, ignites a dangerous succession game between her and her half-siblings, where losing means death and winning means an empire. But to compete in this game requires the acknowledgement of the Vasilier himself, one that he isn't willing to give Fenice unless she gives him something in return: the head of the deposed king of Hesperia.

When Comes the Dawn is a new adult fantasy court intrigue novel featuring succession battles, an aro/ace lead, shifting alliances, cut-throat relatives, and a family that's torn themselves apart in the name of ambition for eons. You can find the wip intro here or follow the wip's main tag (#series.wctd)

↳ WHAT IS WCTD MONTHLY?

I've had this wip for a long time but have never made much significant progress before shoving it to the side because of work, school, life, or just being burnt out. WCTD Monthly is my way to try and motivate myself by giving myself a space to talk about all of the different work I've done on this wip. (And to pressure me into actually working on it so I have something to talk about.) You can follow along with my updates with the #wctd-monthy tag

↳ NOW, ONTO THE SHOW

outline → the first 9 chapters have been outlined. outline document is currently at 4k+ words. The main plot beats for Act 1 and Act 2 have been outlined

notion → I rebuild and organized my wip notion, as well as all of the character pages

series → because of the different character arcs and plot beats that I wanted to explore, I decided to officially make WCTD a duology as opposed to a standalone like originally planned. No official title for book two as of yet, though Crowning of the Sun is a tentative one.

worldbuiling → realized that the majority of book 1 takes place in the now subjugated kingdom of Hesperia as opposed to Aetier, where I focused the majority of my worldbuilding. This means that I'm starting to worldbuilding from...almost the ground up. It helps that I'm mostly focused on the province of Isidore.

characters → the vi Aetier family has been expanded! Fenice and Charles now have 3 other half-siblings (Euphemia, Konstantine, and Basil) as well as their siblings' respective mothers. I've added 9 noble houses to form the unofficial oligarchy of influence in Isidore, and I've given Leda a rival-turned-girlfriend-turned-ex to help flesh out her character.

extraneous content → attempted to make the vi Aetier family tree starting from the beginning of the vi Drochona dynasty (I'll probably clean it up and post it separately at a later date). I also added another god to the pantheon (Heleia, goddess of the wild nature, the hunt, liberation, and childhood), and finally re-introduced wctd (linked above)

events → I participated in WTW's character event week! You can find all posts here: protagonist / tropes / representation / antagonists / relationships / traits / wildcard

↳ WHAT'S NEXT?

I'll be using preptober to outline as much as I can for nano! My goal is to finish outlining act 1 and my stretch goal is to reach half-way to act 2

posting 1 or 2 character intros or worldbuilding posts

Find more WCTD content with the series tag #series.wctd and keep an eye out for monthly progress updates with #wctd-monthly

↳ Taglist under the cut (ask to be +/-):

GENERAL → @charlesjosephwrites | @bearunicorn154 I @seasteading| @writting-in-blood | @trapped-inadystopianovel | @inky-duchess | @thats-my-type-writer | @serpentarii | @myhusbandsasemni | @aphaimaniis | @writinglyra | @belialwrites | @amoranza | @pseudepigraphic | @mel-writes-with-her-dragons | @uppoffringar | @fantasydisease | @sourrcandy

WCTD → @zmlorenz | @andiwriteunderthemoon | @ryns-ramblings | @marchdove | @cielnocturnes | @wren-is-writing | @lord-fallen | @tragicbackstoryenjoyer | @bloomingwrites | @kaatiba | @writerjodie | @worldbuildng

[anakabura]

Crown of Blood (unofficial title)

WIP Intro

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Suspense, Political Intrigue

POV: First person

Warnings: Blood, violence, death

Setting: Pseudo-Medieval European and Japanese fusion fantasy kingdom

Summary: Kairi never considered what would happen when she died. She always figured she’d find out when the time came. She never realized that time would come so soon. After a freak car accident, she wakes up not only in a life not her own, but in one that is all too familiar. 

She finds herself in the world of the last book she read as none other than the main antagonist, the dreaded Princess Adrasteia. Now, Kairi must scramble to not only survive a new and dangerous life filled with more enemies than allies, but to change the course of her own ending. But nothing-and no one- are as they originally appeared, especially compared to what Kairi remembers from the novel. And as for Adrasteia… it seems she isn’t as “gone” as Kairi might have thought.

(Pictures aren't mine)

[whimsy-of-the-stars]

writing update idk

hi ppl!! a while ago, as in, the end of March-ish, I “finished” the first part of my apocalypse wip, clocking in at just over 25k words!! IMO I think it needs a partial rewrite and a heavy, heavy dose of fact-checking (I need to figure out how people can survive in the wilderness xd),,, but it’s decently resolved enough for me to take a break!!

Now, I’m working on my unofficial Camp Nano project (tracking words thru an extremely clunky google sheets thing!!) and I’m over 6k words thru it! I realize now that I’ll probably not hit my goal of 20k at this pace, but it’s still progress! I’m still writing! And I’m on track to pace this draft better than the earlier one!

It’s the romance about the two guitarists who enter a demo album competition together, if y’all remember that from my writeblr re-intro?? It’s weird, cuz I realized that in the original draft, it was summer vacation… which equals no school friends for my characters to interact with! So, I set this one during the school year and created two friend groups for my characters to have — one sucks, and the other is awesome.

The only thing is, I keep procrastinating writing until later in the day, especially because all I wanna do after I get home from school is, well, nothing! Then I write at like 9:00 pm, which isn’t the best time to start, haha.

Also, I had a moment of clarity in my town’s new Barnes and Noble recently. I was looking at the young adult and middle grade books, and was just struck by a wave of how much all these stories and worlds and characters mean to me. I wanna write books that people can take refuge in and be nostalgic for and help them enjoy reading!!! I wanna be younger me and current me both’s favorite author <3

also! I am constantly filled with ideas for little tabletop games and tables and things! so that’s cool too! ALSO this Saturday I’m going to a huge book sale, let’s hope I get some great finds!!!

bye :)

[professors-polycule]

this blog is no longer active

Greetings!

This is the UNOFFICIAL blog of the Marawhetu University of Pokémon Science (MUPS)! I will keep this brief for the moment, because I'm not sure what to say right now.

My name is Professor Musa and i will be running this blog. At least i hope so, because i cannot say how much time i have at any given moment. Being director of the head of the University does that, i hope you understand. My partners will possibly be featured quite frequently as our research is adjacent in many aspects!

The Polycule: Musa (signing posts with 🍌), Cocos (signing posts with 🥥), Agonis (signing posts with 🌳), Kōwhai (signing posts with 🌸)

MUPS Mega-Stone Giveaway!

Adopt your Hybrid-Pokémon today!

Rhyperior-Aggron & Aggron

Ask games (open):

About Pokémon in general

About our own Pokémon

About Work

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OOC under the cut!

// Hi, hello. I run this blog as a side blog, so I'll like and follow from my main @fire-water-grass-core . I also run @koffing-time, you probably know me from there, honestly. If you need to adress me (the player/mun), I'm okay with any pronouns, and if you need a name you can call me Kama, Nox or Cheese. (And please exuse me if i sound harsh sometimes, or ask stupid questions)

First: this is obviously a Pokemon irl rp blog. As I and the people I'll mostly interact with will pretend that Pokémon are real, this is a blanket #unreality warning. I'll usually tag with at least one of the following three tags: #pokemon irl, #pkmn irl or #pokeblogging. I will NOT tag everything with #unreality.

Second: this blog is a place for both my fake region "Marawhetu" as well as an outlet for headcanons that don't really fit on Koffing-Time. This Fake Region is still WIP and it's made for a TTRPG, so don't expect actual fakemons because i will probably not make many (if any) of those. Instead, i'll keep to hybrids (see Musa's intro), regional variants or convergent evolutions. Posts about the region specifically will be tagged with #marawhetu lore.

Third: i won't go too much into detail on my tags and interactions and stuff here. I will basically use the same format as on @koffing-time, read the pinned post there and you're good to go :)

[pianisms]

NANO 2023 — THREE TRIES TO SAY GOODBYE (the unofficial intro)

picrew used.

brought to you by the clown who wasted nearly half a year thinking “how should my music student mc sound like” when they’re friends with a music student, i proudly present my favourite wip! featuring a glaring lack of romance plots and many, many letters.

TRIGGER & CONTENT WARNINGS: discussion of & attempts at suicide, self harm, death of loved ones

if you like your lie in april, this is how you lose the time war, star imagery, and sad stories about musicians, this one is for you :D

[acertainmoshke]

WIP Intro: Future Not Found (Cold Iron #4)

Ok obviously that’s a joke title, I don’t have a real one yet. I would use it but it doesn’t have the same intensity as the others. But maybe I will anyway. We'll see.

So. The year is 2028 and Shaka is 112 (34), Kris is 112 (47), Aaron is 45 (20), and Cassie is 112 (10). She loves living in the modern world, wearing cartoon t-shirts and bouncing on the bed and eating lots of smoothies and fries. She sometimes makes friends with local kids, but they eventually get older and then the family moves again. They have a real apartment now, though Shaka had to glamour the landlord since none of them have legal identities. Well, Shaka does but no one would believe them.

Their life is quiet except moving every 3-4 years. They were in the last place for longer than usual because of the pandemic, but they just moved again and Cassie and Aaron are busy making new friends. There's a new attitude towards changelings, a sort of idea that they are fantasy novels come to life. They're romanticized and fetishized, but it sure beats being treated like a monster everywhere you go. Well, there is still some of that too, some hypocrisy surrounding the idea that unearthly beings are fun to imagine but unpredictable and gross in real life.

Also, they don't fight anymore. Like Althea, they are officially retired. Which makes it particularly ironic one winter day when without warning Althea knocks on their door and explains there's a desperate situation in which they need to fight. They suspect a danger like they've never seen before from the Fae, far more organized and targeted. It's a threat the VG knows they aren't equipped to handle on their own. They're calling in all the little rogue groups that they usually chastise for trying to fight in an unofficial capacity. And Althea thought Shaka might be necessary, too. Any changeling willing to help is.

So the family is off on one more road trip to save the world, full of shenanigans and thinking the threat is something entirely different from the truth. There are unexpected allies and, for the first time in Shaka's life, a flicker of romance. It can't be a good idea, though, and they're far too old to find kissing as the world burns romantic. But part of them isn't ready to succeed, save everything, and go their separate ways.

[cassyapper]

Cass I have yet to meet your ocs but they sound incredibly valid sometimes that happens and when it does it is better to have the courage to accept that you've just got new characters on your hands instead of denying it until your dying day.

Please OCpost if you ever feel like it we wanna see the guys!

HI ANON THANK YOU SO MUCH <3333

im still drafting everything out but i can give quick intro stuff for the guys i have some old art for (i technically began drafting this story in like 2019 but then The Jojoing occurred so i literally havent thought of them at all in the past 3 years until the past couple of months i've been able to devote Some brain power to them (just some))

we got the main character ai (wipe name but i might keep it as it is actually everyday i warm up to it more):

she's blind as u can see in her right eye. this happened when she was young though so despite this she is a veyr skilled swordswoman. in the same raid that blinded her, she and her mother lost sight of her brother, qiu (wip name). ai wanted to look for him but her mother, after already losing ai and qiu's father in the same incident, just grabbed her daughter and ran. ai never really forgives her for this and she's very bitter and upset about everything. when she grows up she joins the military so that she has a means by which to travel -- she doesnt really care about fighting or national identity, she just wants to find her brother, and she gets paid to do it this way, so....

ai is. a bit of a dick. she has a short temper and a big attitude and it's hard for her to get close to ppl (not that she like actively tries to avoid it but she just is hard to get along with LOL). she's jsut very narrowminded on finding her brother. despite this she doesnt want anyone hurt esp not kids so she does protect in comrades which is probs the only reason she hasn't been kicked out of the army for insubordination LOL

this is qiu. what happened to him during the raid is he lost his leg essentially but a dragon nearby heard the commotion going on and when she came to check it out, saw qiu being cornered by a solider and so she killed the soldier, cauterized his leg wound, and carried him to her cave to care for (dragons are sentient in this universe btw). qiu was very young at the time (like 7) and now newly traumatized and the dragons dont like humans as a general rule anyway so allll that combined made him honestly very nervous to return to human society so he asked if he could just stay with her and she was like aw. yeah sure. so he's basically just learning magic with his dragon sibs (mama dragon had some hatchlings) and chilling. lol. he's a bit blunt cause he doesnt know shit about social norms at all. he's a good student. he's very friendly. he's not really naive he just vibes is all. very relaxed

this is adalia, ai's unofficial protege. she's technically not in the army yet but she is training to be a soldier and she looks up to ai a lot. she's very young and very silly. she has a big fat crush on the princess. she kills a man at a pivotal point in the story

this is arha! she is a solider as well but there's a twist that im not revealing yet to it. she's very smart and gets a lot of her kicks by being contrarian and basically she's kakyoin. LOL. she hasnt really made friends with people until ai/adalia/william and it's smth she's still learning abt how to handle (maintaining a relationship that is). she and ai meet and fall into a homosexual in nature dynamic and arha is both veyr frustrated cause ai is so impulsive and very enamored cause ai cares so deeply and just god she has never seen someone wear their heart on their sleeve and yet be so angry about it. she wants to study ai on a lab table

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST....I DONT HAVE ART OF HIM...WAHH...but william is basically ai's commanding officer. he is the oldest but also the most naive of the group funnily enough. he's competent enough to be a decent rank in the military but too kind to be high ranking. he's not really a father figure but he does come to be family to ai. smiles

ANYWAY THAT'S THE GUYS. the setting is veyr fantasy as im sure u have gathered. theyre sillay

[luckyy19]

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Reiterating the reminder on the wip intro: all posts relating to this wip will be tagged with "wip: the zodiacs" after the previous title "The Zodiacs" because I didn't feel like retagging all the old meme stuff and tag games and in my head that's the series/unofficial name.

THE BASICS

Wip Intro

WORLDBUILDING/LORE The World (Coming Soon!) The Magic Gods Part I (Major gods & broad strokes) Gods Part II (Minor deities & death gods) Estra Factions

CHARACTER INTROS Viola Izmane Sasha Sinclair Cynthia Byrd Cyrus McCarthy Phoebe Evans Thomas Briggs

EXCERPTS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) Sasha's Arrival An Interrogation Viola & Phoebe Chat A Memory

[carmen-in-space]

UNOFFICIAL INTRO. hi im carmen i post mcyt homestuck splatoon and now also dungeon meshi. But those first 3 r here to stay. i write fics, have like a million wips in my brain, and am lowly working on a homestuck longfic i lovingly call couch boy. I also love my friends and if u ever wanna chat u can always dm me or send me an ask (even if we've never talked, or if we're not mutuals, or if it's not about any of the topics i just mentioned)(as long as ur not a bot)

my fav hs characters are rose and dave, my favorite mcyters are ranboo (idk if they still count as mcyt tho) and grian, and my splatoon mains are the tentatek splattershot, custom splattershot jr, and tri-stringer

and if i ever make an edit and post it here it's probably to dirt poor robins. because their music fucks

maybe i should just make an intro post. But that'd mean unpinning my current pinned post. And that one's just too iconic

[ajnata]

UNOFFICIAL,

↳ a w.i.p introduction by xiyais.

The wind howled and the wolves fought in disarray around the gardens, but Hyacinth paid neither any mind. Instead, she turned to Imay and asked, “What do you want more than anything?” She knew what their answer would be before they said it. “To win.”

INFO.

genres: paranormal fantasy, fiction, fantasy, mythology.

class: standalone.

perspectives: multi (third-person limited) + second person omniscient.

status: outlining.

triggers: manipulation, attempted murder, murder, death, sexual assault, imprisonment, substance abuse, arson, suicide, violence, abduction, human trafficking. (tbu)

featuring: found family, coc, lgbtq+ characters, morally gray characters, heartache, vengeance, the wind, a tournament, hindu myths, loss.

tags: main / writing / edits  

SUMMARY.

I: THE HILLS are a lush green, in contrast to the monochrome town below. A rosemary lined house burns and a girl smiles a dangerous smile. Hyacinth Aquino has ruined her hometown, wrecked her alliances, and is the most satisfied she has ever been. She is also lost, and a little bored. For so long, Hyacinth’s purpose has been to put an end to the horrors of Whispering Hills but now that it has been done, she does not know where to go next. Fate, however, strips that choice from her when she suddenly finds herself burning in a fireplace. II: RED SKIES rumble, blooming in the wake of an monarch’s anger. A shadow merges into a being at the heel of an heir’s throne. Imay Upadhyaya has been preparing themselves for this moment for a long time, but betraying their parent is still painful. The Zimba Games are fast approaching and with the fate of Xiyai on the line, there can be no mistakes on any of their parts. They hope they haven’t just made the biggest one. III: SHADOWS CREEK whispers to its students: run. They don’t listen. It has been thousands of years since Arnesh Patel has seen light. Stuck in his shadow, having to constantly listen to it’s ramblings, he is more than grateful that his exile is over — until he learns the reason why. As the wind howls itself into a new century Xiyai must find itself a new ruler, but as agendas clash and morals are put to the test, it is becoming unclear whether this will save Xiyai or result in its downfall.

CHARACTERS.

Hyacinth Aquino: she/her. nineteen. intj. tag. page. (cs) docs. (cs) ↳ Born in a town festering with either manipulators or the manipulated, Hyacinth has become an expert at pretending to be the latter. Ever since the age of nine, when her parents met their demise, she has been fending for herself. The things she has learned in the last ten years will be critical to her survival in Xiyai, but having pretended for so long, she finds it hard to distinguish between where the facade stops and she starts. 

Arnesh Patel: he/him. nineteen. infj. tag. page. (cs) docs. (cs) ↳ Shadows have been all that Arnesh has known for thousands of years. Being let out is one of the few joys he has felt in Xiyai, but it is short-lived when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of the Zimba Games. Now that he is free, he must do everything he can to complete the games with his soul intact: Arnesh can not afford to stay in Xiyai any longer. 

Imay Upadhyaya: they/them. twenty. enfj. tag. page. (cs) docs. (cs) ↳ Imay has always known they would participate in the Zimba Games. It has been drilled into their head during every life that they have lived: they are meant for greatness and greatness can only come if they win. However, they did not think they would be quite so young when they were to play. Nor did they think they would have to play along-side their ex-boyfriend. Or a human. 

TAGLIST.

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