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Heads Up Seven Up

I was tagged by @writingpotato07 and @on-noon to share the last seven lines of the last WIP I was working on, so I'll combine them to share lines from the last two WIPs I've been working on. Thank you both for the tag, and the chance to share my work!

I'll tag: @junypr-camus, @starlightscribe, @saltysupercomputer, @inkspellangel, @365runesofwriting, and as always anyone who wants to join in can say I tagged them!

The last (more than) seven(ish) lines from my novel WIP "Apricots":

"I know the slim odds of successful magic re-regulation can make a new contract feel pointless. I promise you aren't the first witch's partner to feel that way, it's a perfectly normal concern. It's also completely natural for your own inherent lack of magic to make you worry that you won't be compatible as a contracted familiar. That said, I think that making an effort to be an active participant in Mr. Marsh's recovery is what will be most helpful to everyone involved. Mr. Marsh. Mr. Bailey. Yourself. Ms. Ritter's loss is clearly still affecting you three deeply, and I truly believe this can help you all heal," the doctor's smooth, almost practiced lecture is quickly cut off with a small cough, "Not that I'm trying to pressure you to make a decision one way or another. Like I explained earlier, there are several other treatment options that could prolong Mr. Marsh's expected lifespan, and you obviously need to take time to think them all over and come to terms with this situation for yourself. You've been clinging to that mug of tea hard enough to crack the handle, after all." Dr. Jones laughs lightly, creating faint cracks in her own professional atmosphere. She adjusts her thin, almost invisible metal-frame glasses as if to try and rapidly repair the break in her office persona.

The last seven(ish) lines from my short story WIP "Hidden Talent" (where the main character has used "hunger" as a metaphor for the creative urge to paint):

Again, for the second time in a single afternoon, Rowan has surprised him. Even now, they aren't joking. Even using the word that's only half-accurate, they're still taking this explanation at face value and trusting that they'll understand it when they see it for themself. True to their word, Rowan isn't brushing their best friend aside.

"I mean, it's pretty late in the afternoon now. Usually I do get, y'know, 'hungry' around now. This paint's been here for awhile, too, so I could, uh... paint over it?"

#sonder stories #sonder snippets #tag games #sonder heads up seven up #eicenrell archive #apricots novel #sonder short stories #hidden talents wip #these lines might not show up in the same place in the next apricots draft #which might be started soon #not because the current draft is done #but because I need a new approach #but they'll probably still show up

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Find the Word 2

I’ve been tagged by several people recently to find select sets of words in my WIPs, and this time I’m not combining them since those posts tend to get a little too long. For this post, I’ll find some words that @aohendo chose for me. Thank you for the tag, for your patience waiting for me to respond, and for the chance to keep playing my favorite game!

My Words: reflect, reach, raise, rely, rampant

I’ll Tag: @on-noon, @perasperaadastrawriting, @maybenow22, @inkovert, @inkspellangel, and as always anyone who wants to join in can use the following words and say I tagged them!

Your Words: stable, shift, reflex, start, influence

As always, I’ll put the excerpts themselves below the cut for readability. 

I found reflect(ed) in my Danny Phantom fanfic “Lingering Scars”:

"It's not just Vlad, either! Every time we fight together, someone else finishes the fight! Strong core? Stability? None of that even comes up! I only have fewer injuries than you because I've already been pulled out of the fight by the time things get serious! I'm always being protected, so of course I'm not getting hurt! Ever! You always keep me safe in dangerous situations!" Dani's eyes flash green, her palms glowing with an energy she immediately snuffs out as soon as she catches it in her peripheral vision. The growl he's been feeling in his own chest and throat echoes under her voice now, like the anxious rumblings of some kind of juvenile big cat -- something large and angry, but not yet grown into its size or its rage.

"Okay! Alright! You're mad! But you're in a house of ghost hunters who would shoot on sight if they caught you in my room, so keep it down!" Danny whisper-shouts back at her, that same growl reflected back at his little sister to drive his point home. It doesn't work. 

I found reach in several of my WIPs, including my short story “Kiyo”:

My sleep comes with dreams. I'm not the type to dream often, but I usually know when it's happening. I get the feeling that something is off. Shifted. Tilted diagonally, just a little. I can feel that now, in an apartment without Kiyo. I go over to her usual spot, wondering what kind of subconscious-fueled nonsense I'll see in her place. A black hole that eats everything that gets close, maybe. A well, full of water I won't be giving to my roommate at dinner time anymore. I drag my feet all the way there, somehow knowing that the dream won't let me do anything else until I've seen whatever it is for myself. When I finally get there, I don't see a black hole or a symbolic well or even an empty plant pot. I see a note, too small to have possibly been printed through a regular printer but too neat and uniform to possibly be handwritten. I don't need the dream to prompt me here. I just reach for the note on my own.

I found variations of raise (raised, raises, etc.) in almost all of my WIPs, including my novel “Apricots”:

"Alright. Okay. I'll say the thing. I... give me a second, it feels weird to say something like that so suddenly," he laughs under his breath, the sound a mask to hide his doubts about this whole situation, then straightens his spine and mimics the expression that Noah had made when he'd said the line initially, "'I walk in the direction of truth.'"

"Thank you," his friend sounds so relieved, it takes Ian a second to notice that there's something on his wrist that wasn't there before. Noah's own hands are raised on either side of his head, almost like he's apologizing. He takes a step back from Ian, who takes a step toward him to close the distance and instantly regrets acting on reflex. His leg jerks when it doesn't connect with the ground, his whole body lurching forward as his stomach tries to drop out of his abdomen. The sensation makes him dizzy, everything spinning so violently that he has to shut his eyes. All he knows is the sensation of falling, without ever landing.

I found rely in my novel WIP “To Be Honest”:

In fact, he'd prefer to avoid today's meeting altogether if he could. Keep studying on his own. Repeating the steps exactly as he reads them in his textbooks. Figuring things out without any outside input. Getting it wrong. Getting stuck. Having to retrace his steps and start the same spell over again. And again. And again. If he keeps going at this pace, he won't even pass the basic refresher course on bloodline spellcasting until he's cleared every other class Dawnriver has to offer. He'll never graduate. Never become Centerpoint. Never be in a position to actually negotiate on equal footing and get his answers. He can't afford to rely on himself alone this time. As much as he hates doing it, and as bad of an idea as it is to go when he hasn't had time to prepare, Micah needs a tutor. He needs help.

I didn’t find rampant, so here’s a fun fact related to the previous excerpt:

I’ve mentioned it before, but Micah is a Bloodline Witch. This means his magic is inherited as a natural-born ability. Having this type of magic also means he can be called a Circle Witch. The title of Circle Witch refers to the circles of influence in which these magical bloodlines operate. Every family that mutates the ability to use magic will also have branch families, allied neighbors, and magic users they're on friendly terms with or have authority over in some capacity. It's similar to an ecosystem, where every animal living in a tree has its own role to play and offers something to the tree but would be vulnerable without the tree's protection. The Renner family is the tree for branch families like the Ritters, and allies like the Path family of werewolves. Within every core bloodline like the Renners, every sheltering tree, there’s one individual who holds the most power and influence over everyone else in the bloodline and its extended Circle. This individual is called the Centerpoint, the core of the core of a family’s Circle. In the canon of "To Be Honest," the Centerpoint of the Renner family is going to step down in a few years. Anticipating this, Micah and his two cousins are all in training to take a test that might just earn them that coveted position within their family and its larger Circle. By the end of the story, one of them will become the new Renner Centerpoint. 

I’m not entirely sure that fun fact made sense when shared on its own, but it’s something I’ve been meaning to clarify since the on-page revelation of Centerpoints and Circles in TBH unfolds somewhat slowly. Thank you again for the tag, it was fun to find these words!

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Find the Word 1

I’ve been tagged by several people over the last… 3.5 weeks to find select sets of words in my WIPs, and this time I’m not combining them into a single post. That would be endless to scroll through. So I’ll start with a tag from @inkspellangel and find those words first. Thank you for the tag, for your patience while I was away from Tumblr, and for the chance to play this game!

My Words: hate, understand, bridge, against, people

I’ll Tag: @on-noon, @saltysupercomputer, @calicojackofficial, @midnight-and-his-melodiverse, @junypr-camus, and as always anyone else who wants to join in can use these words (or words from my other upcoming FtW posts) and say I tagged them!

Your Words: pretend, accept, offer, aware, hollow

I have a lot of backlog to get through, but I’ll still put the excerpts themselves under a cut as always. 

I found hate in my Danny Phantom fanfic “Lingering Scars”: 

"As much as I hate to say that you're ever right about anything..." he fakes a shudder, overplaying the movement just enough to earn him a classic Jazz Fenton eye roll, "I definitely would've kept quiet if you'd let me, you're not actually wrong there. I'm the type of guy who's bad at... not doing that. I don't know if it's good or bad that you made me talk, but now that we're digging into the really secret stuff... I have to do this right. There's a place where I can do that, but it's not here. If you can trust me long enough to go there, I'll tell you both what happened to my neck and some other stuff I tried to cover up. I'll show you why I won't disappear on you, or leave either of you alone." 

I found understand in my novel WIP “Apricots”:

Ian takes another long, deep breath. He's not angry now. He's not even annoyed, not really. He's... is there a word somewhere between determination to help someone you care about and resignation to sign yourself up for something you don't fully understand? His emotions are somewhere in that area, trying to settle into something more defined. Not unclear, but... imprecise. It's probably the best he can manage. 

I found bridge in the rough draft of my Given fanfic “Present Tense”:

The height of their hands shifts as they lean to look into his eyes. Disrupting the flow of time he's been watching. His vision is filled with silver instead. A kind of silver that should have its own separate word, as a color all its own. There are places where the silver itself seems slightly worn, seems grey or almost black. This is the bridge that goes there, to the place in their hands that holds time itself. This is how they pull everything into their grasp. Through this silver that isn't just silver. Through these eyes that aren't usually eyes. Looking at the world in a way Mafuyu would never think to try for himself. Still unable to speak, he nods thoughtfully.

I found against in my short story “Hidden Talent”:

After all, rather than emptiness within Vance himself, it's more like an awareness of all the empty spaces around him. He doesn't need to fill himself with something that's missing. He needs to do something about that awareness itself. Noticing the empty places in a room or a building or even a park, the areas that look blank or vacant. It's those blank spaces that are hungry for something to give them color or presence. They're fading away. They need something to anchor them, to bring them back, and he becomes so hyper-conscious of that need that it makes him hyper-conscious of his own presence, too. His head so full of thoughts, his chest so full of emotions, he ends up feeling like some kind of moving painting himself. Standing out against these spaces that have nothing. It gets under his skin every time, to the point he starts to feel sick with the infuriating need to balance the vibrant and the vacant. The bright and the blank. Give a little paint from the place that has too much and deposit it in places that don't have enough. Wash the excess layers of it off himself and reset. Recolor. Rebalance.

I found people in my Given fanfic “Present Tense”:

A Gibson Hollow-Body, Uenoyama-kun had said. It's been awhile now since he first heard the term, but it still rattles around in Mafuyu's head sometimes. As if his head, too, is hollow and he's desperate to fill it with words -- with the ideas and voices of other people. Maybe that's the right way to learn an instrument, or to have friends, or to be a lover. Maybe it's just a way to distract himself. Maybe it's a way of collecting things that someone else has said, until he can say something on his own. The way he does when he sings. The way he gathered so many of Ugetsu-san's words and his band mates' feelings to make his last song. He's not sure what he's actually trying to do, one way or the other; but he can feel the downward slope of this particular word as it settles into a more or less set position in these early morning thoughts. Hollow.

It took me a long time to get to this one, but I did find every single word on the list – the words against and people showing up so often they stopped looking like real words – and I had fun figuring out how to keep my excerpts short while also sharing what I want to share. Thank you again for the tag!

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Heads Up Seven Up 1

I’ve been tagged several times over the last 3.5 weeks to share the last seven lines from the WIP I was working on most recently --I'm counting "recently" as "closest to the time I was tagged" and starting with a tag from @late-to-the-fandom. Thank you for the tag, for your patience waiting for me to post this, and for the chance to share my writing!

I’ll tag: @talesofsorrowandofruin, @satanic-goth-writer, @wildjuniperjones, @lunarmoment, @pandawriterstuff, @365runesofwriting, @writingpotato07, and as always anyone else who wants to join in can say I tagged them!

Here’s the last seven lines of my novel WIP “To Be Honest”:

The sight makes him clench his jaw, feeling a familiar tension in his throat and ache in his temples. They're the usual precursor to -- no, he won't cry here. Not over something so asinine. He refuses to let that dream win over him. It might have come from his subconscious, but it has no more authority than that. It's only a coincidence. An indicator, if it indicates anything at all, that he'd heard this creature in his sleep during the night.

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Friday Kiss Tag

Tagged By @writingpotato07

Tagging: @kayedium-writes @residentdormouse @perasperaadastrawriting @late-to-the-fandom and an open tag for anyone else who wants to share some smooches!

So my writing the last two days has involved precisely zero kisses and a lot more shouting... So I'll give you an (abridged) snippet from a future chapter of All Tied Up when the baby is finally born.

“Oh my god Zi. You made that. A whole entire human.” Cautiously he traced a finger over the damp curls. “Hi, baby.” He kissed Ziva’s temple. 

Ziva laughed wearily again, before bursting into tears. “She is so beautiful.” She sobbed, lowering her face to the top of the baby’s head, and pressing several featherlight kisses on her daughter’s brow.

“You’re incredible. She’s incredible.” Tony kissed her again. “Zi you are... you’re like nothing I’ve ever known. Holy shit... you did that.”

“Tony...” Ziva hiccuped, interrupting his babble, her lips still on the baby’s head. “Shut up.”

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The Sound of my WIP

I was tagged about a month ago by @on-noon to summarize my WIP(s) with a single sound and tag others to keep the game going. Thank you for the tag, this game is really interesting and it’s fun to think of my stories in such an abstract way. The sounds here reference 3 novels and a collection of short stories/novellas that I'm working on for this year's NaNoWriMo.

I'll tag: @btranwrites, @satanic-goth-writer, @aohendo, @junypr-camus, @pandawriterstuff, @365runesofwriting, @inkovert, and as always anyone else who wants to join in can say I tagged them!

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The sound of "Apricots":

I can best summarize this novel WIP with the sound of a small branch being snapped off of tree, with that distinctly sharp crunch and tear as it separates from the tree itself and falls toward the leaf-strewn ground. 

The sound of "To Be Honest":

I can best summarize this novel WIP with the sound of measured footsteps breaking into a run, quiet and regular until they suddenly jump in intensity. 

The sound of "A Place to Return":

I can best summarize this novel WIP with the sound of pages being turned rapidly in a book, a deceptively light and airy noise that hides the anxiety of thinking you’ll miss something important as you skim through the text itself. 

The sound of "Love as Indicated":

I can best summarize this collected story WIP with the sound of tiny tools aligning tiny gears to wind a watch so its hands sit in the right position to move forward at a pace that suits the watches wearer as perfectly as possible -- whether it's actually telling the "correct" time or not -- a sound that feels rare and unusual and small, but feeds into something familiar and comfortable and all-encompassing for the specific person wearing that specific watch.

Thank you again for the tag and for the chance to play a new game! Also, thank you for your patience in waiting for me to play. I didn't expect to take this long, but I'm glad I didn't lose this mention over the last month.

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Find the Word 3

I’ve been tagged by several people over the last month to find select sets of words in my WIPs. This time, I’ll find a set of words from @crypticcodexcreations, who tagged me awhile back. Thank you for the tag, and the chance to play this game again!

My Words: riveting, important, correct, halt, light

I’ll Tag: @late-to-the-fandom, @writewithfire, @i-can-even-burn-salad, @dumbthunder, @moondust-bard, @junypr-camus, @did-i-do-this-write, and as always anyone who wants to join in can use the following words and say I tagged them!

Your Words: false, side, tension, fade, worth

As always, I’m not sure how long this will get so I’ll put the actual excerpts under this cut.

I didn’t find riveting, so here’s a fun fact:

My current NaNo WIP takes place in a group of worlds collectively known as Ait'kulith, where several deities governing fate/destiny have given humans indicators to help them find their soulmates. On Ait'kulith 1B, that indicator is the voice. Hearing and deafness work normally for all other sounds, but speaking voices can only be heard between people who are connected by fate. You can hear yourself speak or sing, your fated connections speak or sing, and a small number of special exceptions can sing to the whole world but not speak outside their own fate. As a result, signed languages are the default and entertainment has taken on a slightly different form from what it is on an Earth world. For example, movies are usually either signed or "false captioned" – a term that means the actors are speaking their lines, the script comes up as subtitles on screen, and everyone has to suspend disbelief to pretend they can hear words that are actually silent to them. It's a controversial way to shoot a movie, but it's exciting and compelling to those who enjoy its fantastical reality of a world where everyone speaks without any fate-related caveats at all.

I found important in my novel WIP “To Be Honest”:

"The Island," some call him. Apparently, it's an allusion to the way he's supposedly "stranded" between places he could reasonably call home. Loyalty is the most important, the most sacred value of circle witches and it's expected that every witch is strictly loyal to the family who shares their blood. All clairvoyant Renners are loyal to their fellow clairvoyants, consulting each other about their prophecies and making decisions as a family based on the things they've predicted. All empathetically manipulative Shepherds are loyal to their fellow empaths, keeping each other's magic in check so that the family's affairs run smoothly. An empathetically manipulative Renner, following the examples of his elders and peers, should be loyal to... which side?

I found correct in my short story WIP “Kiyo”:

"I didn't mean that," I correct myself with a lie, hearing that heavy feeling in my quiet self-admonition, "You can do whatever you want, Kiyo." I make sure to use her name, too. Whether it's to show her she's seen as more than a supposedly non-sentient plant or to show I'm taking my own words seriously, either way it works. I think. She uncurls some of her vines. Disentangles them from each other. I think it's like a human sighing and letting go of the tension in their shoulders when they hear something reassuring.

I didn’t find halt either, so here’s another fun fact:

In Ait'kulith 1B, it's possible to stop hearing your fated voices. Your romantic soulmate's voice might gradually fade as your relationship deteriorates, your true family's voices might suddenly go silent when fate realizes you're meant to be somewhere else, your platonic soulmate might try to talk to you after years apart and find their voice no longer reaches you. Some say this proves that fate is fallible and shouldn't dictate your life. Others have a more pro-fate stance. Most of those who lose their fated voices just wish it didn't happen at all. In fact, one of the stories in my NaNo follows an orphaned boy who lost the voices of his parents and now assumes any adoptive parent's voice, even if he can hear it, will inevitably fade away – leaving him lost all over again.

I found light in my novel WIP “Apricots”:

"You don't have magic. None of the versions of you I've met have ever had magic. You might have close relationships with magic users -- Jess and Kade and me -- but as far as the Jaspers are concerned you're not a threat. You're not worth looking at, even. You acting unusual is just a human having trouble managing their little human emotions or having their brain fried after being overexposed to magic or whatever those arrogant, 'humans are lesser than us' Jaspers think separates witches from other people. You can go wherever you want, do whatever you need to find Jess! You can save her, and they won't give a single shit! Probably," Noah gently, urgently grabs Ian's left wrist -- his expression like someone lost in the dark, anxious that the light he's chosen to guide him might disappear. Ian doesn't shake him off, just uses his other hand to seal the heat in the mug.

I found fewer words than usual, hopefully my NaNo-based fun facts make up for those gaps. I did have fun finding all the words that were in my WIPs and coming up with fun facts, though, of course. Thank you again for tagging me!

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Update:

There are other forms of heartbreak in these and my other WIPs, this is really just the quickest summary of the main three.

In one shelved WIP I've considered bringing back, the main character's heart is broken several times over and he eventually retreats to a place where even he can't find himself anymore. His heartbreak comes from homesickness for the home he's had to run away from, betrayal by family, loss of friends, loss of lovers, loss of family, and loss of people he never really got the chance to know. It's a big part of his character and his story. His main love interest is always on the edge of heartbreak, a firm refusal or sudden attack away from rejection or loss, but always believes in the main character and trusts that both the main character and himself will end up where they're supposed to be with their hearts as close to intact as possible.

In my Love as Indicated WIP, which I've been considering redoing from the ground up with a new format, heartbreak is featured at the whim of fate -- it's almost always accompanied by spite toward fate or a loss of faith in fate itself, and a questioning of the narrative the characters are almost aware they're being written into. It's almost always repaired in some way, but the things that were broken along the way may not follow suit.

Many of my non-novel/non-collection short stories also end up featuring heartbreak, but not many of them are romantically broken hearts -- those are saved for the novels, apparently. Most of the heartbreak in my short stories, and woven into my novels, involves forms of grief or fear that usually don't have much of anything to do with love in the romantic sense.

Anyone in your writing suffering from a broken heart? What caused it?

Thank you for this ask. It took me a long time to get to it, but I found it in my inbox and finally got to answering it.

Several characters in my WIPs have broken hearts, actually. Some have had a long time to get over it, others are just coming to terms with it.

Ian from Apricots loses one of his lovers right before his story starts, which led to him being dumped by another member of his polycule, and his heartbreak and grief over compounding loss is central to the novel.

Micah from To Be Honest lost a close friend and his brother years ago, when they both went missing in the woods. He's still processing that heartbreak when he meets the other main character of the novel. River, his co-main, is trying to recover from a much more recent heartbreak where his lover rejected him and he lost a part of himself.

Owen from A Place to Return is heartbroken after losing contact with the one person who truly understands him, and lets this heartbreak spiral in a way that's key to his side of the plot. Leo, the one he loses contact with, also becomes heartbroken after they stop being able to communicate. He handles it a lot better than Owen, and that contrast is a big part of their novel.

#sonder stories #eicenrell archive #eicenrell info #a place to return novel #apricots novel #to be honest novel #love as indicated wip #stray identities novel #it's not a lot of writing what you know #in the sense that little of my own heartbreak has been classically romantic #but it's also a lot of writing what you know #in the sense that I got to look at my own heartbreak and the heartbreak of others and the heartbreak I read in books and saw in movies #and yes my family and friends and headmates and partners past and present all count as others #and I got to make the connections between them #and understand that heartbreak isn't just one thing #and explore that and learn more about it by writing it #so now I write kind of a lot of it #intentionally and otherwise

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Update:

This continent and the cities and towns on it still don't have names since I answered this ask, but I can clarify that the word "hall" in my reply refers to a building or small set of buildings designed for a specific purpose and owned by a specific guild or group.

A hall is meant to keep everything nice and organized -- and, of course, contained whenever there's need of containment. The main characters of A Place to Return have very different emotional attachments to halls, but both agree that they're managed way too strictly and actually prefer the way most towns on Earth are organized.

❤️ Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday! ❤️

What are your cities or towns like? Feel free to talk about the layouts or the people or the architecture, etc. and to talk about more than one if you'd like!

Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday (what's left of Wednesday where I live) and thank you for the ask, this was really helpful to think about! It actually answered some of the questions I had about the plot of A Place to Return, one of my novel WIPs I've been stuck on for awhile.

It's long-winded as usual, so I'm putting my answer under a cut.

As a refresher for those who've seen me talk about it before and a quick summary for those who haven't, APtR is about a pair of boys who live on different worlds: a version of Earth similar to ours and a fantasy world called Ryedenne. When they're still preteens, they switch bodies and the story revolves around them growing up in cultures that are completely unfamiliar to them and having to pretend that they understand how these worlds work and that they belong in lives that aren't truly their own.

A lot of that story takes place on the (unnamed) main continent of Ryedenne, and the towns and cities there are what I thought about to answer this question.

A lot of the culture on [unnamed continent] is defined be 2 things: people's occupations and a berserker curse that affects people and animals almost entirely at random. It manifests at any age, hitting its most violent and unpredictable stage in the summer months. As a result, the cities here are shaped around career schools (called training halls), headquarters for specific careers (work halls), and the facilities (sealing and sanctuary halls) used to quarantine the cursed during violent surges and protect the non-cursed.

The average village has one sanctuary hall, the average town has a sanctuary hall and at least one work hall, and most cities have at least one sanctuary hall, at least one sealing hall (an official one that isn't just someone's house or a blocked off cave), at least one work hall, and at least one training hall. Sealing halls are typically situated on the outskirts of towns and cities to they avoid casualties if the cursed escape and to act as barriers against new arrivals.

The bigger the city, the more each work and training hall gets to diversify. Instead of occupational categories being grouped together in wings of a building or in singular offices, they can each have their own independent halls. This means that bugger cities are more valued, and those who got their training done there are more desired by customers, clients, etc. Smaller cities are seen as way-points and places where traveling workers gather temporarily. Towns are often seen as places for the untrained and the retired. Villages are seen as resting places for merchants and shoddy sanctuary from the curse and not much more.

Leo, the APtR lead born on Ryedenne, grows up in a village and has to travel to a distant city for mercenary training -- just like his older brothers did for medical training. Owen, the lead born on Earth, doesn't see this village for years. By the time he does get to visit, he prefers to stick close to cities in case the curse that manifested in him as a teenager spikes and he has to turn himself in to a sealing hall for a few weeks or months to keep others safe and avoid legal punishment.

I still have a lot of development to do for these cities, this continent, and the APtR story itself but this really helped me put their hierarchy and facilities into perspective and give me a better hold on Ryedenne as a world. So again, thank you for this ask!

#eicenrell info #sonder replies #sonder stories #a place to return novel #I said I was long winded #but I feel like I didn't explain much at all #in retrospect #I should make new posts about this world too

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Happy Destiel Day?

As someone who left both the Supernatural fandom and Tumblr before Destiel was canon, experienced the DestielPutinElection Event secondhand from other social media sites sharing its chaos after the fact, and only returned to Tumblr this year... November 5th being an anniversary of something I was once attached to then later moved on from is weird.

In honor of said anniversary, though, here's the one and only Destiel fic I've ever written. It was published 7 years ago after a week or so of dedicated writing, as a farewell to a show I'd loved but couldn't bring myself to continue. I saw no hope of anything I actually wanted out of the show ever happening on-screen, so I wrote something canon-adjacent but just a little self-indulgent so I could feel like I was leaving the fandom on a somewhat satisfying note.

I reread it (but didn't do any edits) today, and cringed like anyone would when reading their own work from 7 years ago. Still, I liked enough of it and felt it captured the spirit of how I viewed Dean and Castiel as characters back when I was still watching the show, so I figured I might as well share it here. Happy Destiel Confession Anniversary, I guess. Enjoy some human!Cas, nurturing Dean, and mild 2014 fanfic writing conventions.

This is a comfort/fix-it fic that contains a few curse words and some reference to off-screen injury but nothing more graphic than that.

#sonder stories #fanfiction #supernatural #spn #destiel #eicenrell archive #archived fanfic #it's not november anymore #but going through my tag on my main blog #it's the next thing to archive #so archive I shall

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Update:

This is still largely accurate to my magic systems, but readers should bear in mind that it's a very simplified version. There are exceptions and differences throughout the Eicenrell universe, and what's normal under one of these magic systems in one world might be considered absurd or even impossible in another.

Also, I tend to write a lot of stories that mix and match these systems and play with their compatibility with each other as needed. There are some combinations that work very well together -- with or without effort -- and others that are downright dangerous.

Magic is also influenced by culture and society, with some worlds being very guarded about keeping their magics separate or off-limits entirely and others being more curious and willing to see where mixed magics can take them -- metaphorically and literally. Some make their magics a sacred practice, sole a business, and others a matter of everyday life. Every world is different, and so is its interaction with the four main magic systems.

Sonder Magic Systems

A Reddit post in r/magicbuilding suggested making bite-sized TLDR descriptions of members' original magic systems. I liked how mine came out so well, I decided to post them here, too.

I have 4 magic systems across different worlds in my original stories -- some worlds have/use just 1, other worlds have several systems overlap. Some even study magic specifically to combine systems together efficiently. Here are my bite-sized Sonder Magic System descriptions. Feel free to comment/send asks about any of them, if they catch your interest!

Fae/Wild Magic TLDR: magic is a living thing, but has no drive to do much of anything on its own besides aimlessly floating around; if you let it live in your body as a symbiotic parasite & feed on your desires, it'll give you magic energy to reshape yourself & your reality -- as long as you don't go overboard & accidentally engulf a city in insta-grow plants &/or turn yourself into a feral, desire-driven monster. Use your magic as a fae witch freely, but not so freely that it starts to use you instead.

Blood/Circle Magic TLDR: magic is a biological mutation of the blood that can be inherited from parent to child; you have a specific ability from that mutation (like Ritter witches being telepaths, Kilner witches being pyromancers, etc.), & if your blood leaves your body you can use it as a catalyst to cast any other spells you want -- as long as you know how to follow the steps your ancestors figured out by trial & error back when they first mutated thrir magic powers. Study hard to become a versatile circle witch, or just use your bloodline ability casually... if your family will let you choose.

Rune/Tech Magic TLDR: magic is a divine energy the gods put inside specific materials (on some worlds it's rocks, some it's metals, etc) & to draw that energy out you have to follow specific formulas to shape the materials into items & encode them with directions so the energy has a specific path to follow -- anyone can use these encoded magical objects to do magic, but only those who study or receive inside info from the gods can craft them. It may take you years or even decades to master, if you want to make your mark on the world through new magic inventions as a runic/tech mage.

Soul Magic TLDR: magic is a living thing that specifically resents mortality & binds itself to the spirits of the dead to keep them on the living plane; if you have the ability to see & communicate with those spirits -- usually you get it after a near-death experience, but nobody knows the exact criteria -- & give them a vessel to work with (there is a specific category of soul mages who sew plushies for their spirits to inhabit, for instance), then you can use anything from gentle coaxing to strict command to make these undead creatures manipulate magic energy & cast spells for you. Side-effects may include losing the ability to speak human languages (aside from signed ones like ASL), losing your sense of time, believing you're also an undead being, & forgetting the value of human life. Tread carefully if you find the path to being a soul mage open up before you, because your life will never be the same!

#sonder reblog #eicenrell info #worldbuilding #magic systems #original writing #ky of sonder #I could make a whole other post about the stuff I brushed on in the update #maybe multiple posts

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Welcome to Ky of Sonder's Eicenrell Archives!

Like the description says, this is a side blog for @kyofsonder that's specifically focused on my writing. While I enjoy mixing my writing work with more passive reblogging and not-fiction-related personal posts on my main blog, it can get frustrating not having a central archive of the stories/poems/writeblr things I've posted to Tumblr. To solve this problem and give readers a place to just easily rad what they want from my works, I've created this archive.

There's no requirement to follow my main blog in order to follow this one, and I couldn't enforce it if there was. It's also perfectly fine to address writeblr ask and tag games here, but know that if you ask anything that's not writing related I'll answer it on my main blog (or another side blog if I make others).

Content Notice:

All writing will have content warnings where applicable, if I ever forget or if a reader has a specific thing they would like included in these warnings (ex: I don't think birds need a warning, but someone with a phobia of them might prefer bracing themself before reading descriptions of them) please send an ask or message and I will fo my best to add it to my warnings in the future.

Commission Info:

I'm currently rebuilding my writing habits and haven't had time to do research on standard commission rates, but I'm open to taking a commission or two from those willing to discuss price in messages until proper rates and slots can be decided. Thank you for your patience, and please reach out if you are also willing to be patient about price negotiations.

Tag System:

Spoons providing, I tag my work for organization purposes first and give my thoughts in the tags after. These tags include

sonder stories - all prose, including any asks or tags involving prose, and OC development

sonder songs - all poems and lyrics, including any asks or tags involving poetry, and poetry development

sonder solos - all prose created/assisted by playing solo TTRPGs involving mechanics like flipping over playing cards, rolling dice, drawing straws, etc.

sonder snippets - all excerpts and short content taken from longer works and/or works in progress

story link - all fully finished stories presented in the form of an external link to a site such as google docs or AO3 or somewhere else

eicenrell archive - all archived copies of writing, most posts should have this tag

analogue media - all screenshots of handwritten prose, poetry, etc.

eicenrell info - all worldbuilding related to the eicenrell universe where my stories take place

eicenrell worlds - when specific worlds from the eicenrell universe are mentioned by name

eicenrell magic - when specific magic systems from the eicenrell universe are mentioned by name

night write - all transcriptions or photos of prose and poetry handwritten in a journal on a (mostly, spoons and other factors permitting) nightly basis

sonder speaks - announcements and personal info, while this is largely restricted to the main blog it'll come up here sometimes

tag games - all content responding to or joining in tag games from various corners of the writeblr community

ask games - all content responding to or joining in ask games from various corners of the writeblr community

a place to return novel - all content related to a novel wip of mine titled A Place to Return

apricots novel - all content related to a novel wip of mine titled Apricots

to be honest novel- all content related to a novel wip of mine titled To Be Honest

stray identities novel - all content related to a novel wip of mine titled stray identities

love as indicated wip - all content related to a story collection/novel wip of mine titled love as indicated

Other Tags Pending...

OC Masterpost

Pending...

#sonder speaks #eicenrell archive #eicenrell masterpost #eicenrell reference #I'll do my best to keep this archive orderly #it should be easy when my main blog exists to hold the not orderly posts