#wip re-introduction

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

WIP Re-Intro: Herald At Dawn

Title: Herald at Dawn

Genre: Steampunk fantasy murder mystery

Status: 30k, draft 0 mostly finished

POV: Third person limited, multiple POVs

Setting: A steampunk city called Volimere, loosely based on victorian/edwardian london. Fashion is 1890s based, technology is, uh, wherever I think is coolest before the 1940s. Technically, its set in september & october of 1891, but thats largely because any later and the sleeves on women’s shirts get unmanageable. 

Universal TW/CW: Murder, corruption, legal systems being really really shit at their job, implied homophobia, cheating/affairs on spouses (past), bribery, death, implied past sexual assault, severe injury

Plot/Synopsis: 11 years ago a woman named Marisol Ekker was murdered by the wife of her son's father, Evelyn Belmont. Despite all evidence, Evelyn Belmont was acquitted and faced no punishment. Nearly a decade later, investigative reporter Alexandrina McLelland approached Marisol Ekker's son, Nathaniel Ekker--who was 12 at the time of her death--, to write an article about the corruption in the case. It is published in The Clockwork Herald, the newspaper where Alexandrina works, and exposes the dirty laundry of one of the city’s wealthiest families, the Belmonts. Soon after a string of murders begins. At first suspicions point to someone entirely unconnected with the Ekker trial or Alexandrina’s article, but as the pressure mounts (and the danger gets much closer to home), it becomes clear that the article and the deaths are far more connected than anyone initially thought.

Main Characters & Important Side Characters (Character Into links to be added):

Alexandrina "Alex" McLelland. 31, she/her, aroace. Investigative reporter at The Clockwork Herald and the narrator for this story (most of the time. sometimes there's another narrator)! Possesses a strong sense of justice and a weak sense of self preservation. Firmly believes in pockets. She wants to finish what her father started and expose the crimes of the city’s wealthy and powerful. This is, unfortunately, going rather slowly.

James Blakely. 32, he/him, gay, editor at the Herald. Alex's childhood friend, and Leo's partner. Is best described as a golden retriever with anxiety. He worries too much for his own good. James inherited editor-ship of the herald from his uncle 10 years ago, but he had been working there in various capacities since he was a teenager.

León "Leo" Rivera. 33, he/him, bisexual & bilingual. Writes the pages on politics at the Herald & is James' partner. Leo wrote the original articles on the Ekker trial 11 years ago; he used to be a court reporter. He does his best to not get hurt by his job, but sometimes he’s terrible at it (Chapter 10. Chapter 10 is when he’s really, really terrible at it. Though to be fair it is not in any way his fault). 

Nathaniel Ekker. 23, he/him, queer. Tailor, and the son of the woman whose murder was the focus of the Ekker trial. He agreed to do Alex's article on the condition it would be anonymous (and it was). He was 12 when his mother was killed by his father’s wife. His aunts raised him, and he only returned to Volimere 4 years ago t0 reopen his mother’s shop. 

Arthur Hall. 30, he/him, cishet. Investigative reporter at the Volimere Daily, and Alex's (mostly friendly) rival. Also one of her closest friends. Despite this, they have a lot of disagreements. He was supposed to co-write the article with her but ended up not doing that.

Ronald Wilks. 65, he/him, bisexual & polyamarous. Sports & Entertainment reporter at The Clockwork Herald. He used to work with Alexandrina’s father (Donovan), before Donovan died. He was not supposed to be as plot relevant as he is and I do not have a lot to say about him (yet).

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[drchenquill]

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Hello lovely person who stumbled upon this blog! I'm glad to have you and I welcome you to my writeblr! Let's start with a little writer introduction, shall we?

About me~

✨ 21+

✨ she/her

✨ You can call me anything you want! I don't have preferences in names!

✨ Animal lover! (proud owner of three dogs and four cats!)

✨ English is NOT my first language. Motherlanguages are Italian-German.

✨ I only write in German so everything you see here got translated.

✨ You can go check out my Pinterest where you can find boards of some of my OCs!

About my writing~

My favorite genres to write in are fantasy and romance (I dabble in other genres, but those are my main ones). I just love the fluff, the angst, the magic, everything to do with those genres.

I have a lot of WIPs, and I won't bore you by listing them all (because, let's be honest, the number can change at any moment.) But I do have some stories I've finished and translated that I can list!

Who's to judge?

"Humans, vampires. They always existed, they always fought for a place in this vast world. Some succeed, some lose themself in the journey to freedom. Thana was different. She never fought, she never stepped out of line. Thana gave up. She had nothing to fight for, nothing to hold onto.

But what would happen if one accident forces her out of her comfort zone? What would happen if she had to fight for something she had long forgotten? Fight for people she thought meant nothing to her?"

Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Vampires

The Monster's Pearl

"There was once a castle. It was huge and dark, not a soul dared to go near it. It was called "The Gate of the Underworld" because a lonely man lived there. Rumor had it that he was a demon who had crawled out of hell.

There was once a simple family. They had a healthy boy. He had black curls. They were so dark that even the night was afraid to get lost in them. His eyes were so bright that even the sun had to look away to avoid being blinded. His voice silenced the birds so that they could listen to him.

The little boy grew up healthy, unaware of the background to his birth. On his eighteenth birthday, he received two suitcases and a letter that would change his whole life.

Will he be able to adjust to his new life, or will he throw it all away?"

Romance/Drama/Fantasy/LGBTQ+

The Shadow of Her Dreams

"Molly Potts is an ordinary young woman who lives with her family in a small village in the middle of nowhere. Despite her peaceful life, she feels a great need to leave, to go somewhere where she can experience something instead of dying of boredom. But her monotonous life is quickly thrown off course when she and her brother discover something that will shake up their entire lives. And who is this woman who keeps appearing in her dreams?"

Fantasy/Adventure/Romance/Greek Mythology insipired

Short Stories

"As the title already explains, this is a collection of short stories that are too short to become a book, but still wanted to be told."

a lot of different genres

Foliè

"No one knew when it had begun. No one knew when the world had decided to destroy itself. But everyone knew that it was no longer safe. She thought she was safe, she thought the madness couldn't touch her, but all it took was a faint whisper, a tender promise, to drag her into damnation. Will she be able to free herself? Or will she discover things she is not up to?"

Dystopian, Mystery, Drama

WIPs

There are some WIPs I mentioned here and there, so I will make a little introduction for those~

Him and Me - Bound by Fate

"Leon Martens. A young art teacher ready to start a new life. He has a new job, a new apartment and maybe a change for peace. Sure, he struggles with human interactions and he'd rather not meet any humans in general, but he's happy with what he has. But since fate was something Leon couldn't prevent, he was thrown into a whirlwind of situations that made him question reality and, more than once, his own mental stability."

Fantasy/Mystery/Romance/LGBTQ+

Daisy

"Daisy ran, she ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She fled from a fate that was being forced upon her. She fled from her pack, or rather, from her alpha. The young Daisy was an omega. Ever since she was born, she knew that being born an omega was a curse. Her alpha believed that she belonged to him, that he could mark her, but Daisy wouldn't let that happen. Daisy wanted freedom, but what if her freedom led her into another pack? Will they be the same? And who is this nameless alpha that is considered as monster but manages to make her forget her fear?"

Werewolves/Romance/Drama

The Memories of The Future

"Sophie is an easily excitable, cheerful young girl. She lives with her aunt after her parents tragically passed away. Unfortunately, she doesn't remember much about them since she was just a baby. Her aunt and her border collie, Pepper, are the only ones Sophie has in her heart, and she'll spend the rest of her life with them. The only problem with her idyllic life is that little old Sophie has the attention span of a squirrel and it's hyperactivity. She misplaces, forgets, runs around, misplaces again, and those silly dreams and sudden flashes don't help. Also, who is this tall man who suddenly appears and claims that Sophie has visions? No, those are not visions, she just has a very vivid imagination, right?"

Fantasy/Adventure/Comedy

Adelaide

"Adelaide Blackmore, the gossip of all Povington. Growing up as the youngest of four children, with three full-grown and well-behaved sons, she was the worst thing that could have happened to her parents. Wild red hair that the maid had to style every day in vain. Her chemise dresses always had to be dark in color, as she didn't feel the need to avoid puddles or stay out of mud. The look in her dark eyes was penetrating, never receding. She grew up with three brothers, her whole childhood was spent fighting with the boys, so her noble mother couldn't expect her to grow up as a lady, not when she had to assert herself on a daily basis.

But Adelaide must be married, or her poor mother may never rest in peace. Enter Mr. Duncan Gilingham. A young man in his early 30s, he has just moved to Povington with his dear mother to find peace in the country. How nice, he was not married yet! But… oh dear, no wonder he is not married, the poor man was blind. How will Adelaide deal with this? Will she have pity on him, or is not even his blindness safe from her sharp tongue? How will she react when she finds in him a match for her rude nature, a man she thought incapable of taking care of himself?"

Romance/Drama

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I am not a big rambler because I don't want to annoy anyone but I'm always open to questions or any sort of interactions. Also, i'm very tag game friendly!

Thank you for reading this far, I appreciate it! You are an amazing human being, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

[henrike-does-writing-sometimes]

To The End, In which four friends try to defy the laws of the universe to escape a time loop that is slowly eating away at both them and their timeline. 

Current Stage - Third Draft

Genre - Horror | Low Fantasy

Setting - Small town by the west coast, somewhere in the world

Synopsis - The fabric of the universe is the fine craftsmanship of the Keepers. Woven with precision and care from the frail strings of time— an art that has been upheld for longer than one ought to remember. 

Occasionally, a string might split into multiple. Occasionally, strings will entwine and merge into one. They’re both harmless and natural occurrences. Humans barely notice them. The only danger is if it results in a tangle; a rouge split or merge, which defies the laws of the Keepers. If left to be woven in with the universe, it will tear it apart.

It is thus up to the Keepers to unravel it. A process that might take millennia. But as said before, humans don’t notice. So long as they’re not the cause of the tangle. Then they might experience some… peculiar side effects. 

Main Characters -

Samir Hazeef: The shy bookworm with a love for cats and all things culinary. Precise, observant, and organized, he’s very kind-hearted and is always there if you need to talk. Even if he won’t mention his own problems and insecurities. A fantastic and capable leader, he just needs a little push to the frontlines to show it.  Eric Louviere: A romantic optimist, lives for poetry and romanticizing the mundane. Nosy and dramatic with a love for gossip, even if he has no idea who the person being gossiped about is. Though he always tries to give people the benefit of the doubt, given his distaste for conflict. He’s witty, creative and clever. Thea Rivera: While easy-going, friendly, and charismatic, she has a pretty short temper and is very competitive. An athletic powerhouse who can either beat your ass or beat someone else’s ass for you. Assertive and stubborn, but with the right people she’s also patient, incredibly loving, and protective. Asher Chiu: Unpredictable and smug yet fiercely devoted and dependable. Artistic, eager, and impulsive, he would steal a star just for you and help hide a body no questions asked. Knows his way around mechanics but his passion lies in art, specifically tattooing.

Themes - Time loops | Found Family | Unlikely Friends | Questioning Reality | Mental Health | Defying Fate | Existential dread | Hope | Morality | The cruel indifference of the universe vs. The indomitable human spirit 

Main Theme - Sing Me To Sleep : Alan Walker

Warnings - Violence | Death | Existential dread | Manipulation | Abuse | Ritualistic murder | More May Be Added

What I Got To Offer? A N G S T, diverse cast (LGBTQ+, ethnicity, etc.), friends from different timelines, young adults telling the universe to go fuck itself, ethereal beings who are absolute bastards and accidentally gave the main gang magical powers ( they’re called Martyrdoms :D )

Tags - wip : To The End

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[khufiya-khaufnak-antariksh]

So earlier today I introduced some of my WIPs to some new people, and I realised that many people might not be familiar with those two WIPs.

Kriya Petri: fantasy (with body horror & dystopian elements). Setting: A country called Fillor on a planet called Thuluke. In Fillor, to bind yourself to the one you love, you require a trinamate potion to seal the bond. 'Trinamate' is marriage (though that is a rather crude translation of the word). But to get a trinamate potion legally, the couple needs to be… acceptable. A man and a woman who plan to have at least one child. Yes, it's been 1000 years since the global apocalypse, but 'sufficient reproduction' is still a concern among the Filore people (plus it's a moral virtue for the Divine Monarchy, who reside on the cloudlands, with an iron grip on the institutes of Fillor). A potioneer wants to elope with their lover, but the pair is, let's just say, not acceptable. So what are they to do? The potioneer brews a trinamate potion on their own, finding the closely guarded methods & ingredients for the potion through who-knows-who, bunch of shady people. The potion explodes. The potioneer knows the punishment for something like this. They'll be condemned to Kaewoe (so will their lover, if anyone finds out), a realm so deep below the ground that it's close to the core of the planet. Kaewoe, where the mind & body are destroyed by the horribly high concentration of magic. Kaewoe, the names & lives & loves of all who enter it, all slowly turned to unknowledge. Good thing stealing identities is absurdly easy in Fillor! The potioneer wipes all memory of their crimes & love (or else the Thought magicians would know), flees to the city of Naebo. Their name is now Kriya Petri,

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Welcome To The Real World: scifi, fantasy, surrealism, horror, tragedy

This one's in very early stages Inspired by Frankenstein Setting: The Great South Asian Rip in Reality, where physics (time & space both) is just completely twisted. The year is sometime in the 2070s. Sometimes it's the 2040s outside the Rip. Depends when/where you step out. Moh-maya, reality's very fabric & everything that keeps up the illusions that comprise reality, are very malleable in here. Main character: Kabir aka Moksh. A closeted Indian trans man who lives a double life, perhaps even a triple life. One in which he's a cis woman & a regular bright STEM student (STEM studies also include study of moh-maya). Another in which he's just some guy with good friends (the most authentic of his lives), where he goes by the name Kabir & uses moh-maya to present as his true self. If only temporarily. (it's painful, mentally & physically, whenever he has to revert to the female form). The third is some mad scientist bullshit, he's going by the name of Moksh among his fellow mad scientists & his main project is a moh-maya Frankenstein's monster that others can share their consciousness with, such that they can experience shape-shifting more easily & go where they physically aren't, do things they physically can't. Let's simply call it the 'entity'. Due to many reasons, creating this entity is pretty illegal. Hence the new name & collaboration with fellow shady people. the plot, put shortly: he starts doing vigilante justice w/the entity & then goes far & gets more & more consumed w/work & things go verrrrrrryyyyyy wrong despite starting with (dubious but) good intentions.

in this second one i neglected to mention the fact that you, as the reader, get front row tickets to the main character's spiral into madness & justifying murders thru the entity + the entity is a whole person & has opinions + a whole lot of other stuff, I DID mention that this WIP is in very early stages but holy fuck i could go on & on about it (just not in a way that can be packaged in a structured & sensible introduction)

[crkfragmentedsouljams]

fictional cookies suffering? oh myyy 🙃

Last Updated-3/27/25 (Added Smilk & Misty down below, updated general)

| Fragmented Souljams AU! — Introduction/Masterpost ig-

(FSAU for short)

This crk au is basically: What if the ancients loses to the beast and is now under their control? :)

| General Info:

Blog is owned by @cheesymellow (MINOR!) :D, so no weird stuff please 🙏

Fanart & Fanfiction are COMPLETELY OKAY!! (TAG ME IN IT!) Aslong as its sfw. And heck you can send it to my inbox too if you want!

This is still a massive WIP and i dont have that much planned rn for this. But feel free to ask questions in my asksbox or in the comments-

Sometimes im either really active or not at all. If im ever randomly missing probably means i got alot going on in my personal life/school

| Asks Info :

You can ask any sfw questions in my askbox!. I wont reply if its nsfw or anything weird like that

If you want you can ask stuff to the cast (Any cookie related to BY!)

Ex: “Empty Vanilla how is it like in the spire?”, or “Soulless cacao, Do you like peach baos?” <- already used questions. (Its optional to call the ancients by their AU name btw, you can still call them Pure Vanilla, Dark cacao, & Golden cheese :D)

i will most of the time reply with a doodle of the cookie but small chance it will js be dialogue depending on my day- I take a while to answer stuff so bare with me 🥲

Oh yea you can do anon names if you want. Like ✨ anon or smth i dont mind.

If you have any non-au related questions, Just ask in my main blog @cheesymellow

Eyy you interested? If you are, All character info & stories r DOWN BELOW!!

| The Lineup of characters!

—Designs & info may change in the future!

1st, Lets start off with.. The Ancients!

| Pure Vanilla/Empty Vanilla

(Ep7) Empty vanilla is now a shell of his former self. His souljam exploding unknowingly whilst falling down the tower. Injuring him in the chest and half of his face, even severely damaging his memories… Now with those damaged memories. He contemplates if he is “Pure Vanilla” or “Truthless Recluse”. Residing in shadow milk’s domain to find answers. (At least, thats what he’s been told.)

As for Gingerbrave, Strawberry, And Wizard cookie. They all are forced to reside in the spire. Reluctantly joining shadow milk TEMPORARILY obeying orders as they try to escape and recover Empty Vanilla’s memories. (cant think of a color palette)

– Extra Info!:

Empty Vanilla was given his name by none other than Black Sapphire! He found it fitting considering he doesn’t know what he is.

His personality is a mix of Pure Vanilla & Truthless Recluse. Kind and forgiving but sometimes rude and pissed (Mostly to Shadow Milk ☺️)

80% of the time you’ll find him sleeping. The 20% is him doing orders/chores

Also Re-learning both Light magic & Dark Moon magic. That wont go wrong right?

He can see WAYY better now and doesn’t need his staff to see! He only uses it to do magic. (which is barely)

| Golden Cheese/Lusterless Cheese

(Ep5) Burning Spice had TOOO much fun fighting with Golden Cheese that he shattered her souljam in the process. But even after doing that. He still continued to fight her until she somehow managed to escape. Crumbling and bleeding jam as she was holding a piece of her souljam. That had enough power to heal her but… She couldn’t reclaim it. For she has lost to Burning Spice. After that she manages to find Smoked Cheese and barely escape together… They’re now both lost in the desert trying to hide from the Spice Swarm.

Smoked Cheese is in worse condition. His arm almost falling off yet surprisingly still very strong. He still has the soulcheeses with him and vows to protect it with his life despite his dying state.

– Extra Info!:

Lusterless Cheese was a nickname given to her by the Spice Swarm after she lost to Burning Spice. She isnt really that shiny and golden now is she?. Only Smoked Cheese calls her Golden Cheese. (Also just a name so i can differentiate her from canon and this au)

Constantly gets reminded of that fight and is slowly losing hope

She took extra clothes from a nearby village due to hers being heavily damaged & dirty. And has wrapped bandages over all her scratches.

Her wings are slowly regrowing thanks to the bit essence of her souljam!

Speaking of souljam, Burning Spice is delighted by this change. Trying to find out what the shattered souljam can do.

| Dark Cacao/Soulless Cacao

(Ep3) Kneeling down infront of Mystic Flour as he accepts his fate and sees his souljam getting taken.. Mystic Flour attempts to turn him into flour for she feels pity for him. But alas.. No matter how hard she tried, He wouldnt disolve completely. Even after giving up. Until she realized his souljam was shaking uncontrollably, Then—Poof! Shatters unknowingly and simply loses its shine. She is lead to believe this is fate telling her that Dark Cacao could be of good use to her. So she recruits him to become his servant/devoted follower. He accepts willing to find a purpose.

As for his warriors. They are lost in beast yeast, Currently having made their own campsite while trying to find their king.

– Extra Info!:

Soulless Cacao was a name given by Cloud Hatae (Yes this 💩 is alive). Just a random nickname on spot since he has changed.

He dosent use his sword anymore. Doesn’t commit violence at all

As days go by, His memories fade away bit by bit.

He loves watering the plants of the ivory pagoda. And has made good friends with the guards and even Peach

Slowly becoming a peach bao lover..

Keeps his cape/cloak thingy as dear memory/remembrance

2nd, The beasts!

| Shadow Milk

Ever since Pure Vanilla has fallen under his control. Hes been more happy? than ever with a new comrade by his side! But even with all the pieces from the shattered souljam. Its power has.. vanished. He cant reclaim it back. Hes been researching on how he can re-piece its power back while also keeping an eye on what Vanilly’s doing. Giving him books and scrolls to keep him busy and to also try getting his memories back (but slowly reconsidering whether he likes him this way or not) Only time will tell i suppose? Overall still your same silly ol’ jester.

Candy apple and Black sapphire have been tasked to help out Empty Vanilla while hes busy. And lets just say they have mixed feelings about it.

– Extra Info!:

Hes been slowly growing paranoid over pu- Empty Vanilla for a while now. He just dosent feel like the same cookie to him.

Smilk LOVES making outfits for everyone. Hes the one that made Empty Vanilla’s , Gingerbeave, Strawberry, And Wizard cookie’s outfits! He purposely made them all match :D

He has very VERRY flowy hair, You can walk through it. (Sometimes he ties his hair up too when bored)

Gave everyone a plushie of him so he can track all of them anytime.

Everytime he lies, The eyes in his hair show his real emotions/intent >:D,

Shortest among all the beasts. And flies alot to make himseld appear taller (Still taller than EV/PV tho)

Cat pupils

| Mystic Flour

Ever since Soulless Cacao’s arrival. She’s changed a bit. Being less apathetic and more merciful than usual. Even after persuading Soulless Cacao to her side, She couldnt reclaim the souljam either. Unlike Shadow Milk who couldnt reclaim it due to the lack of pieces. She has all and yet all it’ll so is flicker slighty. It has little to no power left but she dosent thrive for the half of her power anymore. She’s just been chilling with the rest until their inevitable doom of disintegrating to flour.

– Extra Info!:

Shes been enjoying the stay of Soulless cacao lately. Feeling the joy of life

Has a spider form when shes mad or pissed, And hides her extra arms inside her robes >:D

Regularly lets Cloud Haetae and sometimes Soulless Cacao fix her hair

Secretly enjoys peach baos and its flavor. and is trying to secretly make her own garden-

Her eyes are scary to everyone except Soulless. And maybee cloud haetae but depends on the situation honestly

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Thats all for now! I am STRUGGLING ON DRAWING BURNING SPICE IM SO SORRY WAAAA THIS IS LIKE SOULLESS CACAO ALL OVER AGAIN. I MIGHT add burning spice’s info but without the drawing or only add it once i finally draw him. lmao we’ll see ig

LOOK- I MOSTLY DRAW FEMALES AND I DONT KNOW ANATOMY JUST BARE WITH ME BARE WITH M-

Oh yea have a lovely day

[moon-and-seraph]

Words into Potions: a month-long writing challenge!

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I absolutely devoured and LOVED your Johnny Bobby Ultimate WIP- thank you for posting that!! It was just amazing. I haven’t read the Ultimate F4 comics, are they worth a full read? Or if not, what are the highlights to see all the big Johnny moments?

Thank you so much! I have a soft spot for it myself. Love Ultimate Johnny, whose life is terrible even by Johnny Metrics.

Is Ultimate Fantastic Four worth a read? Short answer: Oh God, no. Absolutely not. It's garbage.

Long answer: Oh God, no. Absolutely not. It's garbage, but on the other hand there's nothing like a little dumpster diving.

Off the bat: Ultimate Fantastic Four is a bad comic. It is bad in almost every conceivable way. It cannot keep track of its own continuity. The writing is aggressively early 2000s and often not very good. The art? How do you like your most obvious of "this is traced off of porn, isn't it" Greg Land issues.

Is it like, weirdly compelling to me in spite of all of that? Unfortunately yes.

Ultimate Fantastic Four reimagines the Fantastic Four in the original Ultimate Marvel universe, which was originally envisioned as an updated version of their classic characters more suited for modern times. (Also they were going bankrupt.) Most popular for Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man, where Miles Morales would eventually take over as Spider-Man after Peter's untimely death, and The Ultimates, its take on the Avengers, Ultimate Fantastic Four was largely background noise in the universe. In Ultimate Fantastic Four, the Baxter Building is re-envisioned as a military funded think tank for baby supergeniuses, run by Franklin Storm. Reed, who built a machine to transfer matter between universes in his stepdad's garage, is recruited into the program, where he meets Sue, a medical prodigy, Johnny, not a prodigy at anything, and Victor, a hostile foreign recruit whose equations are the missing piece of Reed's puzzle. On the day of the test launch for the finalized version of his project, his childhood friend and protector Ben comes to see the launch, and, of course, everything goes horribly wrong. Forever changed, the Fantastic Four are formed under the strict if inefficient supervision of the US military. And Victor gets little metal goat feet!

One of the big problems with Ultimate Fantastic Four is that it doesn't know what to do itself. It recreates a modern day version of the accident -- exploring other dimensions instead of outer space --and then just kind of flounders around with itself for a while. Reed and Sue are a couple, because Reed and Sue are a couple in 616. Ben meets Alicia before the book forgets she exists. Johnny meets Crystal, etc. (I do appreciate how deeply weird the Ultimate Inhumans are, even by Inhuman standards, which are already Deeply Weird.) But unlike Ultimate Spider-Man, which like, okay, I am not the biggest Ultimate Spider-Man lover in the world, but it takes strides to tell a modernized version of classic Spider-Man canon. Ultimate Fantastic Four, for the majority of its original run, just kind of sits there and twiddles its thumbs before a wider Ultimate universe event forces its hand and sends its cast scattering in all different directions and onto different books.

And yet it is so hugely influential, for some reason, on the rest of the Marvel universe. Ultimate Reed eventually becomes the multiversal supervillain the Maker. Ultimate Fantastic Four was the first introduction of Marvel Zombies, with a zombie version of the Fantastic Four trying to invade the Ultimate universe from their zombie universe. And the plot of an Ultimate Fantastic Four arc was used as the base for the MCU's Avengers (2012). Ultimate Fantastic Four #33-38 features space whales, a Plot Important aspect named Tesseract, the cosmic cube, Thanos, one character (Ben/Hawkeye) getting possessed and attacking their companion -- it's the same plot elements, just assembled differently and featuring a different team. Which is just weird for a comic that, again, I have to point out is not very good.

So it's bad. I've read it like five times. For some reason it compels me -- I'm completely aware of its quality, but it's kind of fun in its inability to ever wrangle its story into something sustainable. I will say I think everything that's actually interesting with the Ultimate FF happens after the dissolution of the team -- basically all the Johnny stuff I covered in the Johnny/Bobby WIP was post-Ult FF. Peter dies and everything is so horrible for him from then until about twenty seconds before the whole original Ultimate Universe got blown up. More under the cut.

I can't advise reading Ultimate Fantastic Four. I'm not advising against it, either. Ultimate Fantastic Four is more of a thing that either happens to you or doesn't. It hugely depends on your tolerance for frequently terrible comics. (My personal tolerance is, unfortunately, huge. You give me a particular kind of terrible comic and I will happily read the whole thing.) But for Johnny highlights from the actual book itself:

(Ultimate Fantastic Four #13) "I notice stuff." Cute moment of Johnny telling Ben his eyes are still the same as before, and a look into his kind of general attitude with him not being particularly interested in whether or not his powers might kill him. An interesting thing with Ult Johnny is that, despite his dad being alive (at this point in time anyway) and present in his life, he has significantly less of a support system. His father doesn't understand him and is frequently frustrated in him, and he's never been "special" for anything before, not like Reed and Sue, who are both geniuses. He's been raised in a government think tank as, essentially, the dumb kid who is just there because his father runs the place. Because he's much closer in age to the rest of the team in Ult FF, no one else on the team besides Sue really views him as someone who needs to be supported or protected. He's a peer to them and not a kid, which I think makes him feel even more isolated than he does in 616, and it's why he was so much happier when he was living in May Parker's house.

And his "flame thing" does mess him up, btw, at least temporarily:

(Ultimate FF #15-18)

(Ultimate FF #24) Look at him being sooooo happy his terrible mom who abandoned her family to go look for Atlantis is back in his life to call him dumb. I'm obsessed with Ultimate Mary Storm, she's the worst. Ultimate Franklin is also the worst because when his wife left him he decided the best course of action was to pretend she was dead, up to and including throwing a fake funeral for her and making his young children attend it.

Great question, Sue. "A humanist service, as requested." Incredible. This Johnny and Sue had zero chance of being normal people. (I had the most fun writing Ultimate Mary in the JohnnyBobby WIP because she strikes me as the exact kind of person who would waltz back into her children's lives because she wants something, discover her son is gay, and proceed to be absolutely delighted about it because she views having a gay son as fashionable. She sucks! Women's wrongs! Abandon your children on the regular!)

Anyway, with parents like these, maybe it's not surprising Johnny gets Teen Pregnant.

(Ultimate FF #30) Sort of. Not with a baby. With an alien parasite that's going to kill him and also everyone else when it's born. "I knew this was gonna happen, but all those lying skanks said it was impossible." Incredible.

Because Johnny's alien parasite baby is going to kill everyone, Alien-style, the military decides the best course of action is to chuck Johnny into the Negative Zone so then only he'll die. Great plan, everyone!

Sue even tries to get Crystal to help, and Crystal basically goes, "Wow, that sucks. Not my problem, though."

(Ultimate FF #32) "Oh, I heard them, sis, and I'm cool with it. I mean, what's an idiot like me compared to all the people who'd die out there if this thing ever hatched?" Haha, hey, could any version of him value himself even a little bit? Like for ten seconds?

It's also just now occurring to me that this is the Ultimate version of Valeria's birth (life-threatening pregnancy solved via magic ritual) and also of the Egg Baby incident (Johnny's supposed offspring is actually a monster that will kill everyone if it hatches) just like, with alien parasite mpreg. And this is why everyone loves comics.

I'm skipping over yet another uncomfortable Johnny and consent plotline but rest assured it happens here, too. Staring out across the ocean.

(Ultimate FF #55) I know what the intent was here but Sue saying she needs to be more like Johnny by having "a boy in every port" is unintentionally very waves hand around. I will say that Ultimate Johnny is more aggressively "girl crazy" than 616 Johnny, where even the writers who have tried to push it the most ultimately give up, but like 616 Johnny it still feels very hollow. He'll brag about sleeping with hot girls and then turn around and do this on a date:

(Ultimate Spider-Man #129) To be fair, though, I do think Bendis had a more consistent personality for him than anyone writing Ultimate FF. The cuter Johnny stuff is honestly over in USM.

Ultimate Fantastic Four ends at issue #60, and has a brief epilogue with Ultimate Fantastic Four: Requiem. In it, Johnny has an argument with his father where his father says Johnny essentially says Johnny isn't "who he needs to be," and then immediately dies saving him. (There was a big wave that hit Manhattan and a lot of people died. It's important to the Ultimate Universe overall, but not important to our cause beyond "big wave killed people" so that's all I'm gonna say about it.)

The Fantastic Four essentially dissolve at Franklin Storm's funeral, when Reed proposes to Sue over her father's casket. Literally.

(Ultimate Fantastic Four: Requiem) Unfortunately I find this kind of funny. Reed moves back into his family home where he will eventually, uh, kill everyone in it. (Ultimate Reed is kind of an interesting thought exercise in "what if Reed Richards sucked exactly as much as people who don't read Fantastic Four think he does" and like, the thing is, the Maker is so utterly horrible he circles around to oddly compelling evil noodle, so it works.) Ben joins the military. Sue... does something. She ends up on an iteration of the Ultimates eventually. And Johnny? Johnny wanders directionless around Europe for a while, hating himself, before he collapses on the Parkers' doorstep.

(USM v2 #2) "He's just a baby." Thank you May Parker for being the only person to ever say it! He is just a baby!!

(USM v2 #3) "You're just a kid." I love May and Johnny so much in Ultimate. :( She loved him. :(

Johnny lives with May and Peter, along with Gwen and Bobby, because May Parker was taking in wayward youths like it was her hobby at that point, for a while and he's like, actually happy. (His alias at this point is "Johnny Parker." Do with that one what you will.) He dyes his hair! He goes to school like a normal teenager! He has actual friends! He kisses Peter's clone! He doesn't know she's his clone, but he very much kisses Peter's clone!

It doesn't last, of course -- when the Green Goblin attacks the Parker house, Johnny's fire accidentally makes him stronger, and while Peter defeats him, he ultimately dies himself literally underneath Johnny.

(USM #160) Which completely devastates Johnny, who admired Peter more than anything and -- look, obviously I'm biased, but I don't think it's a very huge reach to think that Ultimate Johnny was in love with Peter. At the very least, he was, essentially, Johnny's lifeline, and with him gone, Johnny loses any sense of direction he had.

(Peter was eventually resurrected. I don't know if Johnny ever found out. It doesn't matter because they blew up that whole universe anyway and that's how Miles Morales is a 616 character now.)

(Ultimate Fallout #1) Literally exploding in grief at the top of the Empire State Building on the morning of Peter's funeral. Johnny doesn't go back to May's house, feeling responsible for Peter's death, and instead ends up joining Bobby and Kitty's underground mutant militia, a fraught situation because Johnny is, of course, not a mutant, something that gets constantly pointed out to him. He stays behind on a mission to protect the mutant kids they've picked up, which is when he's captured and taken to mutant torture prison, which I discuss in that fic. He's saved several months later, spends roughly a year in a hospital before he's kidnapped out of it and modified by Evil Noodle Reed into his heat proof drone. Sue saves him and we see him like one more time after that in another comic before the Secret Wars (2015) blew up the Ultimate Universe. So his life is like, generally just terrible the entire way through, save for a brief bright spot when he was living with May and Peter.

I love him so much even if he's inconsistently written between various series. I am going to one day write that fic where, as a side effect of, I don't know, Franklin messing around with universes, Ultimate Johnny falls into a 616-adjacent style universe where Harry was Peter's tragic dead college love.

(USM #118) And he'll get to be friends with MJ again because they were cute. I just need to, you know, rip it up entirely and rewrite it first.

[hillstohaunt]

writeblr re-introduction: haunthill

hi all! my name is anja (or also known as haunthill). i'm a seasian writer, narrative designer & indie dev with a love for all things haunted.

this'll be the third time i've done a re-introduction. it's about time i do another one. my trajectory as a writer has changed plenty since the last few WIPs i've shared here since i wasn't a horror writer when i first started this blog, so i'm hoping to sort of carve a new path for this blog from this point on.

also i don't have any WIPs to share for now but there'll definitely be some in the near future!

things to know about me

i'm 25! i use any pronouns, prefer they/them most of the time

i love, love, LOVE all things horror! this is the genre i write mostly for

southeast-asian (parent to two cats!)

this blog won't just be for my writings. i do like to ramble about whatever media i'm into, so this is just a place for me to do that as well!

tag friendly & always open to questions! so please don't hesitate to tag me in stuff

i'm looking for fellow writers (especially horror, SF, scifi & fantasy writers) and perhaps even fellow game devs!

here are some of my works (mostly games)

larut (2024) - psychological horror visual novel retelling of the indonesian mythological figure, nyi roro kidul.

late night visit (2023) - a short horror visual novel about a stranger who comes to visit you late at night.

in the walls (2022) - a short horror interactive fiction about the thing that lives inside your walls.

devour - a short story about a deceptive, malicious spirit tricking a group of children into a binding contract. published in haunted words press.

disclaimer before following

i do engage in mature and horror related content and do my best to tag them properly. i primarily write horror so my works will also tackle mature and heavy subject matter. i prefer for my mutuals to be over the age of 18 (so no minors). i don't always write horror but my blog is and will be horror-centric, so keep these in mind before following!

other places you can find me

i'm also on bsky! you can check out my other games here as well. even so, i'm trying to be more active here!

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

WIP Re-Intro: Enna's Prequel

Title: Enna's Prequel (temporary title, subject to change)

Genre: high fantasy

Status: draft 1

Pov: third person dual POV

Setting: Halmond, a small-ish country in the world of Aqurah. The majority of the action takes place in its capital, the city of Halmire.

Universal TW/CW: Murder, complicated family relationships, necromancy, people murdering their own relatives, kidnapping, crime, swearing

Plot/Synopsis: When she was 20, Enna Helder-Kromlin ran away from Halmire, accused of murdering her own brother. Fourteen years later they've returned, at the request of their twin sister, Anne. But when he gets to the city Anne is missing, and has been for nearly a year. Enna must work together with Effie and Bezeo, two new friends Anne had made in their absence, to get to the bottom of just what the hell is going on--not only now, but also what was happening 14 years ago, and who actually killed her brother.

Notes: this is the prequel to Frost & Fire & is set 10-20 years before that story

Tags: #wip: ennas prequel, #c: [first name] + [last name if applicable]

Main Characters:

Enna Helder-Kromlin, any/all pronouns, ~34, half elf. The first of our two narrators, Enna is a thief, mostly, and sometimes a baker. A few weeks ago, Enna got a letter from her twin, Anne, dated almost a year ago, asking him to please come to Halmire because she needs to talk to them.

Anne Helder-Kromlin, she/her, ~34, half elf. Our other narrator, Anne is a thief, and the de facto leader of the second of two factions in Halmond's thevies guild--Oleski. A year ago, she left the city for her own safety, and was supposed to confirm her location within two months, but hasn't made any contact.

Effie Fisarnos, she/they, 64 (~33 in human years), mostly a gnome. Effie is an alchemist, who owns the potion shop The Broken Cauldron, which sometimes acts as a safehouse for the thieves guild. She is also Anne's partner/fiancee, but that isn't public knowledge, and not even Enna knows it. Anne promised to send her a letter no more than two months after she left, but Effie never got one.

Bezeo [last name], he/him, 68 (~36-38 in human years), dwarf. Bezeo is the owner of a traveling food cart that roams around the city. He also invented pizza, and works for the thieves guild Anne is in.

Zephyr Helder-Kromlin, he/they, deceased (died at age 24), half elf. Zephyr was the older brother of Anne and Enna, and fourteen years ago he was murdered. At the time, he was the leader of Oleski, the thevies guild. Enna (though innocent) was blamed for the murder, but she managed to get away. The actual culprit was never found.

taglist maintained below the cut! Ask to be added or removed!

@ihaveneverhadaclue @thelaughingstag @athenswrites

[words-after-midnight]

THE DOTTED LINE 🐍💀🪞 | wip (re-)introduction

There are questions it seems almost every person alive has asked themselves at one point or another – some rhetorical, but many not: when will I die? What is the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? Why do I act the way I do? What’s for dinner? Is a monster born or made?

Image sources (clockwise from upper left): 1 2 3 4 5 6

Status: Reoutlining/zero-drafting

Genre: Psychological horror

Summary: [A CLOCKWORK ORANGE x THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION] A young, emotionally challenged inmate navigates the perilous world of a medium-security American prison while plotting his escape.

Features: Villain protagonist, experimental, survival theme, queer horror, prison setting, bizarre greek mythology references.

Excerpt (TBA) | Instrumental playlist | Playlist with lyrics | Inspo tag

[somethingclevermahogony]

An Introduction to Myself and My WIP!

Hello everyone! A confession, this is actually a re-introduction. I've been here on Tumblr for a little less than a year now, but I haven't been the best about being active, life just sort of got in the way. As such I would like to reintroduce myself and what I've been working on.

For the purposes of Tumblr and in the interest of privacy you can call me C. I am in my mid-twenties, I use he/him pronouns, and I am happily married to my partner, who is also a C. I am queer, as is my partner. I enjoy cooking, fishing, Dnd(ing?), reading, and of course writing.

We both originally come from the US but we are currently living on the east coast of Scotland as I pursue my Msc in Archaeology.

I am trying to be a bit more active on here and I am always open to things like tags and asks, even if it takes me a bit to respond.

I think that's about it for me, and so without further ado let me introduce or reintroduce you to my WIP.

Testaments of the Green Sea

Genre: Epic Fantasy

Themes and Tropes (Or more accurately a random assortment of words vaguely related to the plot): Found Family, immortality, loss, love, war, power, memory, magic, insanity, The passage of time, growing up, queerness in the ancient world, violence, spirits, fantasy outside of medieval europe

Summary: Book one of the Testaments of the Green Sea (The lands of the Green Sea are pictured above) follows the journeys of the giant slave Narul and the princess Ninma. After unexpected tragedy forces the two to flee from the Great city of Labisa, they find themselves on a journey which carries them across the ancient lands of Kishetal. Along the way they encounter spirits, demons, war, gods, pirates, and slavers. TW for death/grief, violence/blood/gore, mental illness, physical illness, abuse, and cannibalism, awkward queerness, secondhand embarrasment etc, etc.

Excerpt( First Paragraph of Chapter 1): The blood dripped into the awaiting bowl, painting its alabaster walls crimson. The slave watched the dark liquid trickle down his arm, skirting past the hairs, rolling veins, and moles. Even after these twenty years of weekly blood lettings, he could not shake a creeping feeling of unease as his eyes followed the sanguine river creeping its way across his arm. His own face gazed back at him from the scarlet pool. He could not meet his own eye, could not stand to look that creature. He turned away.

Draft Status: The second draft of the manuscript is currently being edited, I will be looking for my first round of Beta Readers likely before the end of the year.

This is just part one of a much larger series. My partner is currently working on the beginnings of their own series, set in the same world but 3,000 years in the future, roughly aligning with our own Great War Period. I'm so excited to share more with you, and I love answering questions!

Narul and Ninma courtesy of @faeporcelain

[pigdemonart]

LOS BRUJOS PLOT AND CHARACTERS [ENG & SPA]

A brief introduction (re-introduction for some) of my story Los Brujos. All the comic pages will be shared on Patreon first! As well as any wips, timelapses, and other behind the scene stuff. Any support is appreciated as it will help me tell these stories to the best of my ability!! <3

As for tumblr, I'll be sharing the pages here too! And I hope you all enjoy my spooky ghosts stories and unhinged latino brothers. Patreon | Ko-FI

[chargoeson]

Hello! Writeblr re-Introduction

hiiiii pals! I made my writeblr introduction last year and it was such a good intro to the community! but as time goes on and organizations fall i want to re-introduce myself and my writing without any associations.

my name is Charlotte, but you can call me Char as well. She/Her, I'm 25, queer, and live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

I write literary fiction with a special affection for surrealism and dream-like vibes. I do have a couple soft fantasy and short story projects that I've made posts for, but I'll stick to my litfic on this pinned post as they are my passion projects!

themes I often explore in these books are: isolation, anxiety, complex relationships between mothers and daughters, bisexuality, winter, dissociation, and overall rural misery!

I have a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature and paid special attention to Gothic and Romantic movements.

on top of writing, I also love quilting/sewing, collage making, playing Stardew Valley and Baldur's Gate 3, and doing DIY home renovations.

Reading is my passion, even more so than writing! My favorite authors are Murakami, Mieko Kawakami, the Bronte sisters, Iain Reid, Han Kang, and Ottessa Moshfegh.

my three main WIPS can stand alone but are technically a trilogy. read about them after the cut!

The Ballad of a Blue Whale-- This novella was written in November, 2023. It follows Maren Hara, a recent college graduate who has to move back in with her father, a rigid and unfeeling doctor. To cope with the emotional distance of her father and the slow dissolution of her relationships she begins walking through the night. Both to be away from home and removed from her current life. It’s during these walks she finds a jazz bar in an adjoining city. The patrons, and especially the owner of this bar, captivate her. At the core of the narrative is her inability to open herself to others, and how attempts to do so are physically and mentally cataclysmic, although necessary. As she finds herself, she loses both her old life and this interim space. 

I Want to Build a Home with You-- This novel is in the first draft/development stage. I began in December, 2023. Its events follow Leonie Richards as she walks her grandmother, famed novelist Hellen Barnaby, through the final weeks of her life then inherits her home. Leonie, once an infamous performance artist, decides to settle into a life of portrait painting for a small but wealthy pool of clients left to her by her grandmother. Her old peers. After Hellen’s death, Leonie’s final connections to the outside world are her strange clients, the art store clerk, and her uncle Ox who is embittered by his lack of inheritance. The longer she stays in the home, the stranger things seem to be. She wakes up ragged, dirt under her fingernails with memories of a rock formation in the forest she has never seen. Forest spirits or generational curse, there is a limerence threatening her life. 

No Glory-- Special Agent Seth Barnaby has been tasked with investigating the mysterious, possibly cult-associated murders of young women across the state, but this one could be the key. To decode the newest set of clues he teams up with Director of Anthropology Dr. Miel Noh and they get into the field. The small town misleads them at every turn, from an odd boy named Calf to the corpse of a girl who was staying in his family’s motel. With Seth’s checkered past he recognizes the patterns, but time is of the essence and if they don’t find answers another woman could die. With no way out, they return to the only lead Seth knows: an institutionalized man who confessed to the first murder that brought Seth to the FBI years ago.

and that's a wrap! thank you for reading, would love to reconnect with writers from last year as well as new friends. feel free to slide into my asks, follow, or join the tag list.

tags: @annlillyjose @coffeeandcalligraphy @subtlefires @belovedviolence @onomatopiya @thelaughingstag

[dollyknight]

One May and June episode could be about their fears and insecurity joining the family (maybe involving FOWL remains), and how the clan tries to made them feel welcome and loved.

Since getting this ask I’ve thought of an episode where the two deal with this separately so here’s another episode description as a treat. Albeit slightly modified to avoid some spoilers 

May and June learn what it truly means to have a family. 

I've been doing a full re watch of Ducktales 2017 for both research and for fun and I’ve just finished the life and crimes of Scrooge Mcduck( the episode in Huey’s season before the finale being a Louie episode is a little annoying ngl) so I haven’t gotten to May and Junes introduction yet but the characterisation I have for them for is under the cut

June: I’ve kind of split parts of webby’s personality and altered them to give them each their own personality which is still a little bit of a wip for now. For June I gave her webbys initial season one enthusiasm if you know what I mean. She’s excited and bouncy and wants to try everything there is to try. I imagine she’d be interested in things like art and ballet as well as loving the ocean even if she’s not that good at sailing. She also has a lot of respect for her sister May, based on that one scene where she cuts the strings on webbys board because may said it was wrong, which leads me to thing she also does things without thinking she doesn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings she still learning. She seems like she’d be a good gift giver, the type of person who knows what people like because she wants everyone to be happy, which does sometimes lead to naivety( but don’t get it twisted she’s plenty smart)overcompensation on her part but she’s working on it.

May: mays a lot more cynical then her sister and is protective of her. She doesn’t trust easily on account of her entire world shattering. She’s got more of webby’s warrior attitude and has a similar way of looking at problems to Louie( he probably ropes her into his schemes). Even though she comes off as grumpy and cynical she loves her family and would do anything for them, she has a lot of respect for Donald and daisy as well as Mrs. Beakley and Huey( he is collecting little siblings like pokemon you guys). I also imagine she’d be interested in fashion like her mom daisy and debate. I think she gets lots of book recommendations from Huey so she’s always reading. She butts heads with Dewey a lot, partly because the entire cast kind of just gets along, they don’t often have different conclusions or shown opinions from each other( like they’re all obviously different to each other but you don’t really see them draw different conclusions from each other too often) and also because she kind of opposes his sunshine everything’s okay personality. 

[zmediaoutlet]

aw, @runawaydr3amerao3 (!!) tagged me to do a little fic questionnaire, which seems like the perfect thing for a springtime friday afternoon -- also a fun (alarming) trip to the AO3 statistics page:

1. How many works on AO3?

220

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

1,589,415

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos?

1. oh so good, oh so fine; 2. there will be better days; 3. see things so much clearer; 4. into the flood again; 5. side two, track one

4. What fandoms do you write for?

...Supernatural, lol. Although I also have dabbled in the usual suspects: J2 AUs, HP, MCU, Final Fantasy, etc.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Usually! Not if they're emojis, but if someone's left actual words I try to respond. I'm currently very behind, yikes, and the new rate-limiter on AO3 is not helping.

6. Angstiest Ending?

Hm. Probably a tie between cheyenne and the hollow summer; they're both no-hope spots, which I normally avoid like plague, but they were appropriate for those stories.

7. Fic with the Happiest Ending?

Arguably it should be any of the heaven fics, haha, but I think it might be the constant vow -- not because nothing bad will ever happen to them again (s7 is coming!), but because they're so tied together by the circumstances of that fic that I think maybe they can weather any danger.

8. Do you get hate?

Sometimes! Rarely regarding fic, though, and I've often wondered why. Maybe because my public-facing affect is so hard-shelled. You can't poke me, trolls. Sorry.

9. Do you write smut?

And well. :)

10. Do you write crossovers?

Only a few! I like them in concept but the only way I like them is if they're hard fucking work, lol. It's a fun challenge tho, sometimes.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

I know for a fact I've had a few lines plagiarized here and there, and boy is that a queasy-making experience when you notice. But as far as whole fics, idk. Whatever happens on wattpad can stay there.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, a handful, and the BEST thing is to then take that translated fic and run the bot-translation back into English. Some of the shit that happens is surprisingly poetic and some of it will make you laugh until you cry, haha. But I think my favorite is the translation of the heaven fic into Spanish, because the title became so beautiful: llegarán días mejores. <3

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Only once, and it was a shitty experience. Not just bc of other things about the co-writer but like -- I thought we were going to co-write and not what actually happened, which is that I wrote everything and the like two pages she contributed had to get re-written. :/ It's a fun idea in theory but the practice was. Bad.

14. All time favourite ship?

...guess. --ALTHOUGH if we get outside my own writing there are tons of ships I adore and just never feel the need to actually write anything. Shout-out Amram/Zelikman from Gentlemen of the Road.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I despair of my super long J2 AU that's the xover with the Kushiel 'verse, Nightblooming Flowers. What's there is fun and fine, and kind of works as an ending where it does cut off, but it was supposed to get a complicated knotty plot and... ugh. Also the writing style is a lot more flowery than I actually like to do -- appropriate for the subject matter but it's just not something I gear into easily. Maybe I should reread the book series and just lock in. (Maybe I should quit my job.)

16. Writing Strengths?

I think I'm really good at the balance of when to switch between summary and scene -- and from there pacing generally. To my credit, when it's fucked up in a story I do know; I just don't always have the wherewithal to fix it. :)

17. Writing Weaknesses?

PLOT. And also, as my bud has pointed out, I avoid shenanigans, and that's to my detriment actually. I never want to do cutesy shit -- twists, reveals, ticking clocks, villains, last-minute character introductions, etc. I think this is bc I really learned taste on literary short-form and including things that make reading actually fun is very looked down on, haha. Honestly I should make that a challenge. Shenanigans Bingo.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

It's great. I'm only comfortable enough to do it in Spanish pero no es algo debería disputar--debe escribir en el idioma apropriado para el cuento y los personajes. Although I'm never totally sure if I'm using por or para right. Once the entire conversation switches into another language I do prefer that the narrative just quietly indicate that now they're speaking French or w/e and continue in English; actually writing in the other language is most useful when you're obscuring information from the narrative POV (although becomes a nice Bilingual Bonus for the reader).

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Final Fantasy! I'm sure it was bad.

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Errr. In one sense, always the most recent one. But I think the actual writing in asceticism might be the best.

Now I get to tag other people, yay. Let's see: @enteselene, @hearthouses-admin; @flownwrong; @nigeltde-fic, @phynali, @quickreaver, @themegalosaurus

[megarywrites]

wip re-introduction — the Seafoam trilogy by Steph Megary

started — Sept. 2021 | genre — high fantasy | pov — single, first | status — 2nd draft | currently writing — The Unforgiving Sea, Part IV: Undertow | themes — grief, coming of rage, religious oppression, mother/daughter relationship(s), revenge, and lesbians | links — excerpts, artwork

blurb | Thala Galanis is coming of age and unmarried with absolutely no intention of remedying that. Which, in Grea, means that you’re a spinster and fit for nothing else but a life of silent service as a Stoli in Katania—the Haven of the Gods. When tragedy strikes her family with the untimely death of her father, she decides that there is no other choice for her but to resign herself to becoming a Stoli. Once she arrives in the capitol, however, she finds that what’s expected of the Stoli is darker than she ever dreamed it would be.

In a desperate attempt to escape, she takes matters into her own hands, only to stain them with blood. A stain that will never wash off the further along she travels down the path to vengeance.

Because what happened to her should never happen to anyone else.

And, if she gets her way, it never will.

excerpt | Blood really is the most beautiful shade of red, isn't it?

The metallic tang of it lingered in the air and on my tongue. I raised my hand to the dying sun, mesmerized by the carmine stain coating my fingers and dripping down my arm. It billowed in the sea around me, bright and sanguine and breathtaking.

I was practically bathing in it.

Sunlight glistened on my soaked hand, the blood almost sparkling in the last vestiges of day, and for the first time in a long time, I smiled.

Really, truly smiled.