#venera wip

[cepheusgalaxy]

Meet the wip: Venera & Clou

[PT: Meet the wip: Venera & Clou /end PT.]

Sinopsis:

Two people from very different places and backgrounds end up meeting and inciting rather...interesting otherworldly forces.

Extra info:

Tags: #venera wip

Genre: Low fantasy, paranormal mistery

Moodboard:

no moodboard squad unfortunately

About the setting: Just standard world + some bizarre shit here and there. Think Good Omens and you get a close idea.

Notes section:

The synopsis isn’t vague on purpose i just have that for a plot, really

Maybe I will include an angel

Previously used tags: n/a

Cast: Venera, Clou [protagonists]

Back to WIP Masterpost | OC Masterpost | Writing Masterlist | #venera wip tag | Meet the ocs of this wip! (unavailable)

[shellibisshe]

VENERA MAI. mortal kombat

I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king

[icons] [template by @unholymilf]

tag list! (ask to be added or removed): @bloodofvalyria @loriane-elmuerto @queennymeria @statichvm @jackiesarch @thedeadthree @chuckhansen @risingsh0t @nightbloodbix @confidentandgood @leviiackrman @florbelles @adelaidedrubman @shallow-gravy @blissfulalchemist @socially-awkward-skeleton @roofgeese @poisonedtruth @quickhacked @inafieldofdaisies @heroofpenamstan @deputyash @katsigian @benwishaw

[bustermachine19]

menacing....

[ficsforgaza]

for July 14 to July 20

Hi all—please check out this week’s Creator Spotlight! For anyone who doesn't know what this is: every week we highlight one creator with WIPs to sponsor, one creator with open requests, and one fundraiser that is in desperate need of funding. If this is your first time seeing our blog, welcome! Please check out our pinned post for more information about what we are doing to help the people of Gaza!

˗ˏˋ SPONSOR A WIP SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ @prettyiwa / Link to their WIPs

Ix writes for Daiya no Ace, Haikyuu!!, Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, and My Hero Academia. They have several WIPs for these fandoms. Here are two of their WIPs up for sponsorship:

“Please Look At Me” - Hanamaki Takahiro x Reader (ft. Matsukawa Issei)

“Is it okay if I have a taste?” Don’t you kids do anything I wouldn’t do. Takahiro’s seen Mattsun do a lot. He’s seen Mattsun in so many compromising situations throughout the years, he’s given up on keeping count long ago. And this? This is definitely something Mattsun would do.

“Hit Me Before I Knew It” - Bakugo Katsuki x Reader

“I’m sorry—can you repeat that?” “I’m not saying it again.” “No, please. I didn’t quite hear you the first time,” you push, trying to repress the uptick of your lips at Bakugo’s unexpected question. He looks at you and you can tell he knows it’s not quite the truth, but he obliges you. The peculiarity of it all has you struggling to process it just as much as he’s struggling to say it. With a heavy sigh, he tries again, voice lower than before. “I need you to pretend to be my girlfriend. Just a date or two to get my buddy off my back.”

˗ˏˋ ACCEPTING REQUESTS SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ @venerawrites / Link to their Rules Page

Venera is currently taking fic requests for Arcane and Naruto. Please head over to their blog and send them a request!

˗ˏˋ FUNDRAISER SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals for Help to Survive (currently 78,261kr out of 450,000kr goal)

They are @/samerpal here on Tumblr. You can read more about their situation on their blog post here.

Samer Abu Ras, his wife, and his three children have lost everything in the war: their home, their businesses, and their livelihoods. They’re currently living in tents with a shortage of clean water and food, and are having difficulty accessing healthcare. The money donated to this fundraiser will be used to help his family get to safety and get back on their feet. Please help them if you are able to!

[propalitet]

hi mewchies <33

I found a cute picrew

gonna tag some people; @mishkakagehishka @meowyoi @pikslasrce @tolovaj @kradljivac-kostiju @anatomska-venera @nijepodlibelu @love-n-purple @zvezde (feel free to ignore and if you're not tagged feel free to do it!)

[handsome-edvard]

List Five Songs You Like

OK YEA HI SO

I was tagged on my main by @ellasinnombre who said I’m a cutie patootie mootie 🥹 thank you as you are also a cutie patootie in fact the most cutie patootie to ever mootie 🩷

I listen to these songs at least twice per day if not more because they were on the playlists I rotated the most when I was writing the book I finished in July, or when I was thinking about another WIP/making a playlist for it, and when I was studying a whole other book, so the vibe is all over the place ~

Tagging my favs if you wanna, I wanna see what songs you’re liking these days or listening to on repeat @gangstertogangster @somewhat-intelligent @snailsandpuppy-dogtails @nys30 @deagle @do-androids-dream-ao3acc

[twistedsongstressofstarz]

Twisted Wonderland OC Masterlist (WIP)

NRC

✨️Airina Yurielle Illuminante (Yuusona!!) || 🔖Yukiss

💐Mio Daisis Venera || 🍰Enana Blancherie || ☀️Solian Aderina || 📕Chiriqua || 🎟️Rurianne Flora Delarosé

🦈Reo Azareno || Iono

❤️‍🔥Koi || 🪳Zenon Anzra || 🩹Anetta Liss

🌠Kayliore Amaria Kathlena (twstsona!) || 🍫Karchile Chocolat || 👑Rey Showenth

🎀Irina Youemis || 💃Illyra Youemis

🔗Gehenna Astremia || 🪞Phennel Astremia || 🔮Krinsey Adealis || 📸Gammon

OTHER

Millenium Chronicles Academy (leadz to separate masterlist that iz yet to be posted)

(Secret :3) (same w thiz)

CHARACTER PLAYLISTZ (WIP)

[bardic-tales]

Loneliness

Title: Loneliness

Word count: 607

WIP: Cold as Ice

Warnings: Depressive Thoughts

Premise: Old Mum reminisces on what it was like as a younger woman during the Festival of Fire.

One-Shot Stories Tag List

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LONELINESS

1.

The aging woman stared into the fireplace. She watched the blaze leap and dance, the flames kissing the log as it swirled in its mystical sway.

Outside of the crackle within the hearth, the home was silent. How long had it been since the young master and mistress each ventured from the Covelli estate into the world? When they were little, they would stay with her as their parents attended the festival — the seductive dance around the pole filled with colorful ribbons — in the valley.

As they govern over the duchy, societal obligations expected Master and Mistress Covelli to exchange a set of white flower crowns and offer a devotion to the chief vener and venera to start off the festivities. She could never imagine how it would feel to have so much depend on her. Old Mum would never wish to change her life with one of her employers. She was comfortable as a wet nurse, taking care of the children.

She picked up the silver-plated chalice and briefly glimpsed the old woman in the reflection. For a moment, she didn’t recognize the person: the wrinkles around her eyes and mouth deeply set, the beige tunic hung off her thin frame, and silver strands of hair sparkling in the dim light glowing from the fireplace.

There was a time when I would not have been alone this night, she thought. She frowned, the wrinkles around her mouth defining more as if they were rivers darting down her face. Time eroded the human spirit as it rose the great mountain surrounding Olessa.

Before the Mistress bore the Duke his twin children, Old Mum would have asked permission to leave to attend the Festival of Fire and flitted between suitors. Each vied for her attention. She could never choose between them.

How long ago was that? A decade or two, surely. Once more, time stolen joy from her, as it had a tendency to do for other people. Old Mum had never considered herself special in that way. She was only a woman who looked after other people’s children.

Her body ached for companionship. She slumped her shoulders forward and rested the silverware on the immense, oaken dining table. Her beauty faded many years ago, and she knew she wouldn’t attract the people she had in her youth.

She heard footsteps on the other side and a paper slip beneath the bottom of the door. Old Mum wondered who it was for as she and other servants were the only ones presently within the estate.

Old Mum walked over to it. Her footsteps echoed in the vaulted ceiling as she quickly crossed the space between her and the door. She picked the letter up.

Someone had folded over the thin paper and secured it with a large glob of crimson candle wax. It was obvious to Old Mum that the author did not mean the seal to hold long, and seeing as she was the only occupant of the room, they meant it for her.

With trembling fingers, she broke the seal, cursed her hands’ shakiness, and read the contents.

My Dearest Annalise. Tonight is a night to celebrate the love and desire we feel for one another. On the stroke of midnight, find me in the chapel where we discovered how we felt for each other all those years ago. I await you with bated breath. ~~F

Old Mum smiled. Thoughts of this man always brought a smile to her face. He was the only one that she chose all those years ago. She also cursed the fact that the Master also employed him and forbid relationships between his staff.

[hydralisk98]

Brainstorming Venera for 'Linux Game Jam 2023' (WIP)

Overview: It is a first person perspective game (solo, coop, LAN, massively multiplayer or DAO?) made in Godot with Qodot & SimpleFPS addons, aiming to be a cozy heartwarming 'manifestation toybox game'. Ideally avoiding shooting violence and horror-related mechanics entirely in favor of social linguistics & space-timely explorative ones? In the likes of 'Quadrilateral Cowboy', 'The Stanley Parable' & the overall "game tourism" thread-wheel trend. And, of course, to be made available as a open source game with decent Linux builds & packagings.

General suggestions (strikethroughs being pushed away of the jam demo release and question marks being features to be cut first when necessary)

Photography + cozy socializing mechanics

Socially-oriented encyclopedia (MegaOCEAN NPCs & real agents async)

Decentralized DAO-oriented P2P home servers

Multi-lingually diverse communications

Short data processing tasks around physical media (?)

Quake-style movement speed, field-of-view and feel but more granular

Library economy & Turing-Complete-ness by knowledge-seeking, through questions, prompts & queries as gigs (?)

Y2K translucid geometrics (?) & NPR+PBR ray-marching shaders

Neue Georgism, Liberty & Syndicalism themes (?)

Open culture & public domain waiver

Animated textures, interactive JIT compiler & live geometry editing from the sidestream Ken Silverman works for BUILD(2) engine

Hot-swappable assets and customizable skins for multi-agent homesteads

Journaling, mindful note-taking & timestamps (?)

Timely action recordings and macros (?)

Try using some F#, Nim/C & Common Lisp in the codebase

Taking implementation hints from "The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall", "Garry's Mod", "Neos VR Metaverse", "VRChat", "Paradise" & "ZealOS"

"Shoshoni Union's Nucleus Radio" aka SU~NR game levels (possibly six shareware "levels" and towards 48-288 content levels by official paid release?)

Panel Complex aka RustRed (between Volkshalle decaying urban center and paper-panel japanese-styled castle dungeons) stylized modular panels / short collaboratively cubicles & data processing tasks

Woodland Park aka OliveGreen (Maskoch forested bosquet?) flora and fauna exterior and communal feel

Haven Lights aka TealCyan (floral waterpark?) water channels, clear sky, much teal / cyan clear waters + dome.

Mainframe Analog Electronics Manufacture aka AmberGold (synthetic factory and data processing office-space hub?)

MetaMall Video Rental Library aka GlowOrange (library economy workshop & communal activity center?)

NeueSphinx Manor aka OldPlasticCream, plastic-based Y2K translucid modular homes onto cozy smooth geometric shapes

Agents

Nil, the player insertee agent.

"The Curator", the game master-style director

Props

?

Mechanics

Explore the level (by walk and by bicycle)

Take photos

Document with time-stamped notes

Listen to its environment mindfully

Schedule your discovery time? (Real-time events)

Chat with NPCs? (MegaOCEAN NPC factions integration)

Curate & hack existing media? (Turing-completeness)

Build additional geometry? (live constructs' geometry editing)

For Linux Game Jam 2023

[atimefordragons]

Wir sind nicht frei in unserem tun, denn wir sind es nicht in unserem wollen. Wir müssen dem folgen, was in uns ist.

☾♔; May 17, 2021 ☾♔; 12:00pm ☾♔; sotd: Mata Hari by Efendi ☾♔; cotd: Pat Springleaf ☾♔; For the Crown ☾♔; Dark AU

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: From Dark (Netflix), translates to "We are not free in what we do, because we are not free in what we want. We cannot overcome what's deep within us."

A sort of conceptual set? Don't ask about the layout. I don't what that is. I'm not really in a set making place, but I have too many windows open in photoshop and I'm avoiding switching to it 'cause I still have so many esc moodboards to make. Procrastinating. And all of that went around in many circles leading to an FTC AU I'm fixating on, wherein Nika gets stuck in a timeloop/quantum entanglement ala Dark and is stuck between two tragedies, the deaths of his family or his kids. I cast Freddy Carter and Freya Allen as young Nika and Vera, respectfully, and that is basically as far as I've gotten. Also translating the quote. Shoutout to @.eternal for helping me with the Russian. <3 <3 <3

[cepheusgalaxy]

The OC Masterpost (2.0)

A while ago, someone asked who were my ocs, so I made a big post introducing them. Since then, the post became outdated so i decided to make a new one. They are separated by wip.

main wips

1. Ein

2. Meine

3. Totsuka e Jandir (updated with Jandir's new name!)

secondary wips

4. Trisaster

5. Snow White

6. Little Red Riding Hood Cyberpunk

7. The War Of The Human Throne (now with picrews!)

8. Unchosen One

9. Across Time and Odds

10. 9 Gates of Hell

11. The Witch's Paladin

12. Rumplestiltskin's Child

coming out eventually

13. Clou & Venera

14. Elysium

15. Gate

16. Rosered

wipless ocs (they need a whole other post)

Petrichor - (he/him/it) Witch guy in witch uni. He is a stoic and playful dumbass who thinks he's funny (x <- link to his design sheet)

Jake Valentine - (he/him) You will never hear about him from me but here he is

Gesse Valerie - (they/them) Jake's fuckbuddy

Michael Mia - (he/they/any) Ask me about him ask me about him

Yohann - (he/him) He's just a little guy, really

links:

OC Gallery [to be made] - Old OC Masterpost - WIP Intro [to be made] - My Silly Selfsonas Intro [to be made] - OC Trivia Bingo (original ask game) [to be made]

Feel free to ask me about any of them! ^^ I love talking about my ocs, and I also have a bunch of ask games saved you can pick an ask from.

[ps-nippets]

WIP Progress as cake baking:

1. Grocery shopping (you have the basic idea, a general sense for the main characters & a few jumbled scenes which you’ll have to sift through)

2.  Scattered Ingredients (You have nailed down the setting, the plot direction, the names of the main characters and an outline)

3. Raw Batter (You’ve combined the  ingredients. You’re steadily working on the first draft and have a few thousand words on it.)

4. Half Baked (Halfway or mostly done. Struggling with how to wrap things up or just feeling unmotivated. At the stage where you are doubting your ‘cake’)

5. Frosting (Done with the first draft, editing in progress or if you’re like me and you edit as you go along then you’re on 5th draft)

6. Taste testing (Looking for betas and feedback)

7. Packaging (You’ve followed the general formatting guidelines and your book baby is ready to be set out to publishers, editors and agents)

Thank you so much @thescribesloft for tagging me! Be prepared this is gonna be long!

1. Tunnel at the End of the Light:(Raw Batter)

Genre: Low Fantasy, Political Form: Novel POV: Third Person Limited Main characters: Yan, Zor Synopsis:  The empire’s conquests have ceased, a semblance of peace made home in its heart. Yet one day, out in the open for everyone to see, two Ministers of the Royal Council were executed. Accused of helping the revolutionaries that The King dismissed as useless peasants. Yan Krylin, the young Director of the most renowned trading company, curious for the truth, chooses to investigate. His choices send him on a path that he desperately tried to escape all his life, but his best friend Zor Grizeis, hungry for the power and promise of a better future, burns all the bridges they cross. 

2. Valse Macabre:(Scattered Ingredients minus the outline bit)

Genre: Fantasy, Political, Romance Form: Novel POV: Third Person Limited (or First Person I haven’t decided yet) Main characters: Venera, Dragomir Synopsis: Every person, had the Gift, the gift of shape-shifting into a unique animal which manifested by the time they were eighteen. Those who didn’t were outcasts. But that was how society worked, technology flourished, wars ended and begun. Since Venera was 10 she knew what she had to do. She had to sneak into the palace and kill the King. She is now twenty and the first part proved to be easy just a few days ago... She had the rarest gift of all. She could shape-shift into people. But does she have the willpower to kill the person who truly sees her for the first time?

3. Avelin:(Scattered Ingredients and again minus the outline bit)

Genre: Low Fantasy Form: Graphic Novel/Comic POV: Third Person Limited Main characters: Cissa, Volshe Synopsis: Cissa, a deaf Vietnamese girl, was always determined to capture the world around her: Photographs and Art. Those were her domains and she was determined to be the best. It is days before she has to submit her project to one of the most prestigious universities in Prague. So she goes out hunting for inspiration in the maze-like streets of the old city. In an odd, tucked-away antique store, she finds a ring with what the store owner assured her was a natural garnet stone. In the comfort of her home, she accidentally shatters the ring and is transported into a world of colors and blank eyes, ruled over by the Volshe. The Volshe is but a man trying to escape the world he had created and the only way he could be freed... is for a person to fall in love with him, and be the one to kill him.

4. Spice Boys:(between Grocery Shopping and Scattered Ingredients)

Genre: Crime/Heist/Comedy Form: Script/Screenplay POV: First Person Main characters: Meric, Ender, Kesar, Vasily, Pepa, Ani Synopsis: This was a spontaneous idea, a very very ambitious one too. Steal the cursed crown jewels, which are kept under seven locks in the Prague Castle Treasury, whose keys are carried by the seven most influential people of the country. They had a plan, one that would have worked. But the jewels have already been stolen just as they managed to infiltrate the last security barrier. On the stand, lay a pack of spices: Turmeric, Lavender, Saffron, Basil, Pepper and Anise. The infamous trademark of the a band of thieves nicknamed by the authorities “Spice Boys.” But they were not the ones to steal it. They got caught at the crime scene without committing the crime. They escape and are competing against the police to find out who was the one who framed them. 

5. Tale of the White Cathedral:(Grocery Shopping)

Genre: Folk Tale Form: Screenplay/Animation POV: Third Person Limited Main characters: Father, Mother, Daughter, Slavic mythical figures(clearly haven't decided on the names yet) Synopsis: A girl blessed by the Moon and the Sun was born to an old couple. She was perfection, golden curls, silver eyes, laugh as bright as the moon and heart as warm as the sun. Her family was as happy as they could be living close the edge of the forest, tending to the fields. She falls ill, nearly dead. Her distraught mother cannot bear to leave her side. The devastated father begs for guidance from the Knower of Paths, the Crescent. The Crescent promises to help his godchild, by guiding the man to the only place he would be able to get a cure: a flask of water from the spring of the White Cathedral.  But all the perils of the path, the Father must face on his own.

6. A Drop of Ink:(Grocery Shopping)

Genre: Fiction Form: Poem(short novella) POV: First Person Main characters: Idea, Boy Synopsis: An angry apprentice to the Church hides away in the dusty library from his father. He hears the rustle of the words jamming themselves into his mind, none of them making sense. A faint clarity in the chaos shines through he follows it to a dropped book on the floor. A voice now loud and bright, inside his head tells him of a beautiful future where no one needs to be hurt, where he can be the best. But as he grows, he gives his own meaning to the pure Idea, corrupting its words, twisting his world... becoming a monster, the one whose name people would whisper forever.

So these are all I have for now and a lot of work is meant to be done. Although, I am mainly working on Tunnel at the End of the Light, I am so excited to see them all through :D

I tag: @odessawrites, @phoenix-the-write-thing, @phoenix-the-write-thing, @crossyoursins, @blueinkblot, @incognitxburritowrites, @nappyfreesince2003, @theollinshist

[bustermachine19]

Next up in my mission of drawing refs for all the relevant Seeker characters: Venera, an antagonist (ish)

her clothes are baggy bc they're full of schemes and secrets

v different silhouette from my usual characters, I'm liking this a lot

[ferociousqueak]

Last Lines Meme

Three people have tagged me for this meme—@forlornmelody, @ripley95things, and @theherocomplex, thank you, lovelies!—and it just so happens that I have three different WIPs I’m working on :D

From All’s Fair:

Hannah stood in front of the mirror, smoothing the dress and fussing over the lines crisscrossing her chest and stomach.

Her hair, normally pulled back in a tight bun low at the nape of her neck, now cascaded in gentle finger waves over one shoulder, a single diamond-encrusted clip keeping everything in place.

The rich, dark blue of the dress made her skin almost glow—all those creams had made her look like she’d never known a day of work in her life. The skirt of the dress fell around her in layers of delicate chiffon, and Hannah was certain she’d find a way to snag it on something before even making it to the ballroom.

Her face in particular was almost jarring to look at—dramatic wine red lipstick, smoky but soft eye shadow, lush eyelashes, and crisp eyeliner with short, sharp wings were all she could discern, but she could’ve sworn they put so much more on her skin.

Hannah hardly recognized herself. Instead of the practical, uniformed officer with only the barest bit of makeup she was used to seeing in the mirror, she saw an elegant knockout.

She felt ridiculous.

From Family Resemblance:

Alli began to feel nervous. She’d been looking forward to this trip for months, but now she was starting to question whether it had been a good idea in the first place.

As if hearing Alli’s thoughts, Ms. Sana put a comforting hand on Alli’s shoulder. “There are plenty of vendors here who offer human dishes as well. I checked ahead of time.”

With that reassurance, Alli could feel her shoulders relaxing and smiled a little more easily. Ms. Venera was nice enough, but she didn’t have a lot of experience with humans yet, except with Alli. With Ms. Sana watching over her, Alli knew nothing bad would happen to her.

The four of them stepped into the light of Parnitha, which tinged everything around them a shade or two pinker than the bright white light of the Citadel that Alli was used to, making the asari around her seem more purple than blue.

So much activity and energy flurried around Alli.

From the gift fic I’m writing for my Holiday Harbinger victim:

Even Joker had been bought, and all it took was a softer chair and a new Normandy—in theory, a replica of the original, but bigger, fiercer, rewired and refit with new toys and heavier firepower.

The elevator doors opened and Shepard stalked into her cabin, tearing at her sweat-dampened clothes and flinching when her fingers brushed along the embroidered Cerberus insignia.

Hadn’t she been bought too? No one seemed to want to give her details on exactly how she—her body—ended up in Cerberus’s possession, but one thing was clear: Cerberus had invested substantial resources into bringing her back—stronger, more resilient, enhanced—and they expected a return on that investment.

Half of her wanted to burn everything—her bed, her clothes, the whole blasphemous SR-2—and walk back to the Alliance naked as the day she was born. But the other half still had the image of all those empty cells, their insides smeared in a viscous blackness that Shepard tried not to think too hard about.

She could keep her pyrotechnic inclinations in check long enough to make sure the Collectors didn’t take even one more colonist. And she had a feeling the Illusive Man already knew that.

Now for tagging! How about @pagerunner, @servantofclio, @mordinette, @black-rose4, and @thievinghippo. Only if you want to, of course!

[castles-of-words]

WIP: As If to Touch the Sky

Summary: 

In an apocalypse-torn nation, Cam didn’t expect much from life. They were content with the bare-bones of survival as long as they had Jay and Noah by their side, even if neither of the two boys were satisfied with that. The three kids were Reapers, a class of people with nothing to lose and everything to gain. They worked outside the walls, guiding people to and from and doing routine patrols to clear out nearby Venera—deadly creatures who used to be humans, brains taken over by a mind-altering virus. Hunting was one of the only jobs the infected were allowed to do, and Cam and Jay were one of the unlucky few who had the poison running through their veins while retaining higher brain function. A different career wasn’t an option, not even for healthy Noah. When an opportunity for a dream job arose--good pay, companionship of experienced Reapers, and a chance to do some good--they were quick to take it. Everything seemed to be going alright. That didn't last very long.

Main Characters:

Cam: Cam is fifteen, nonbinary, and Cuban. They've never known a normal life, being born outside the walls soon after the virus was discovered. They refuse to talk about their past, even with the people who were there for it. They have PTSD due to both Venera and humans. They have a very complicated sense of self, to the point where they're not sure if they're even human anymore. They are blunt, stubborn, and can be cruel to those they believe deserve it. They hate their lot in life, but they don't believe it's possible to have a better one, so they don't try to fix it. They are infected, and their power is the ability to sense emotions and push their own emotions onto other people. They are the protagonist. 

Jay: Jay is seventeen, deaf, and a trans boy. He is infected, and his power is that when he snaps, it emits an ear-splitting screech that he can control (as long as he's not panicking). He has PTSD. He feels emotions quickly and strongly; he is prone to anger and panic. He is extremely intelligent, and if he was ever educated or tested he could have been classified a genius. He holds special interest in medical practices. He is of the firm belief that nothing you do can strip the humanity from someone, not even a mind-altering virus. He believes Venera are still human, and he will fight anyone who disagrees. He is a Reaper and kills Venera, something which causes much internal conflict. He believes the end justifies the means, whether that means hurting others or destroying himself internally.

Noah: Noah is a seventeen-year-old Black trans boy with a prosthetic leg and PTSD. He is not infected, and he was separated from his parents at an older age than the others. Cam and Jay look to him for guidance in the “real world.” He handles all of the trade, negotiations, and most other contact with other people. He’s terrified of trusting anyone, so he has a very gruff exterior. He would do anything for Cam and Jay, and he will always put them before anything else. He has a heart of gold, and he loves so deeply that it hurts. He relies so heavily on his relationship of Cam and Jay and his position in the group dynamic that he struggles to go about daily life without them (not that he would ever admit that). He thrives in social situations, though most of the time they involve dead bodies or breaking up fights between his friends and outsiders. He struggles to imagine a better life, but he will do his best to make their current one as pleasant as possible. 

Notes:

I have redone the plot many, many times, but I think I’ve reached the base of one that I’m going to write a rough draft for. I am currently working on a WIP page, and that should be up soon. 

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, send an ask my way and (as long as tumblr doesn’t delete it) I’ll do my best to answer. 

UPDATE: The WIP page is UP! You can find it on my blog or here. 

Tagging: @no-url-ideas-tho, @ava-burton-writing, @lady-redshield-writes, and @endlesshourglass. If you would like to be added to or taken off of the tag list, please let me know and I’ll be happy to. 

[thevikingwoman]

January Reading

The lovely @idrelle-miocovani has done a few monthly fanfic reading lists, and I think it is a great idea. 

I decided ultimately to do something slightly different; I am going to list any book or other published fiction and any completed long fic I’ve read along with a few of my favorite short stories. (there was no long fic this month though!)

I wanted to do this to keep track of my own reading, as I am trying to read more, and maybe inspire others to read and share. 

In addition, all short fic I’ve read and reblogged, as well as WIP chapter updates can be found under my new reading tag: Viking reads.  [almost works, I learned something new about tagging today :/]

I am not going to tag anyone to do this, but @galadrieljones per your interest, and if anyone else wants to do this, tag me! and come talk to me about reading :)

Under cut, because long. 

Published Fiction:

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. 

This is a strange tale, set in the swamps of Florida. The protagonist is a 13 year old girl, and the story is - more or less - about a family that falls apart after the death of her mother. It is not all there is, it is a little hard to explain. It is a little darker than I usually prefer to read, but very interesting. 

It is very meandering, a little too wordy and too slow for me, but a lot of the language is really strange and beautiful. It sucks you in too, and technically it is very interesting. I was completely taken by surprise at how much I got wrapped up in the narrator’s point of view, so much that I forgot to apply my own interpretation at times. It was very interesting writing, though I wished it would have been half the length. But then would I have sunk in so deep?

Short fic highlights:

Solas gets pegged and loves it - by @buttsonthebeach [Solavellan, nsfw] This is really hot and sweet and all sorts of amazing. I love the dynamic between Ellana and Solas, and how incredible well she takes care of him. This is incredible hot and so real and tender. 

Odd Sundays - by @kaoruyogi [Solavellan, nsfw] The language here is beautiful, poetic, rising in gentle waves. Stunning. Indescribable.  It is hardly fair, that Cullenites get both a marriage and a dog and also kaoruyogi. This drabble is set in an Old West AU, and Solavellan pairing here s a minor pairing in the story. 

Frozen In Ice, Revived By Fire - by @idrelle-miocovani [Solavellan] This is such a lovely little story. I love Venera’s development here, giving in and trying something new. It highlights her forceful, but also curious and intellectual personality. I love how you can feel her getting closer to Solas, how they bond. 

Passionate Kiss - by @buttsonthebeach [Solavellan, nsfw-ish] I loved the feeling of Ellana in love, how she realized Solas is not just anyone, but someone special to her. I love their passion and playful nature here.