#Ceph Rambles

[cephalog0d]

You know, I'm coming around on Gotham War.

Not in the sense that it's GOOD.

In the sense of being someone who hosts a weekly bad movie night and can identify a ridiculous number of Syfy Original Movies from about five seconds of footage and laughs every single time at the part in Girl In Gold Boots where the guy just teleports into the scene abruptly.

This shit has looped around and become fucking hilarious.

#This event is so clearly the equivalent of a college group project where everyone did their own thing and tried to staple it together #All the slides in the presentation are in wildly different styles and Jeff accidentally did the wrong part #But it's due in like two hours and it's 60% of the final so we gotta just try to make it work #Gotham war #ceph rambles #Zdarsky over here is trying to write his Very Serious Mental Breakdown and Howard is like 'Brucelina fluff!' #And then the side stories got left off the text chain and aren't sure which part they're supposed to do so it's just kind of scotch taped on

[samscartoonsofficial]

*sigh* *stares longingly into her weird peepers* Hai Evil ceph :3

AU nonsense I've showed the gang that's been eating away at my brain for the past two days.

more at 11.

#monkey wrench #monkey wrench oc #oc artist #cephany #oc art #shrike sanchez #monkey wrench shrike #evil ceph #au ramblings #AU

[ryderdire]

Anyways. I named the ocs! (With some help from some friends!)

Anyways here are their names and a like three word summery on their personalities

BorreaSpeak (Speak for short) (all pronouns they do not give a shit)

The chaotic yet kind..

(Princess) Aehlos RiverStone (elo for short) (she/her)

The Curious but naïve

And finally Ceph (she/her) (you don’t get to know her longer name hehehe)

The Pragmatic and cautious



What secrets do they hold I wonder.

#ryders rambles #ocs #my ocs #fun fact! ceph was almost a guy when I made her but I liked her better as a girl. so like yeah she’s trans #oc: Ceph #oc: Aehlos #oc: boreaspeak #brain go brrr at these guys

[cosmictap]

I love when i wake up to multiple messages from one person getting excited about something like please please share your joy with me i want to know plspls

#rambles #i love my friends #so much #ceph idk how much you vibe with me #but. ily /p #putting that there bc i know xe won’t find this!!

[dougielombax]

So.

What actually was the Manhattan Virus?

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #Crysis 2 #gaming #Manhattan virus #virus #ceph

[moon-and-seraph]

Directory of Writeblrs:

Fantasy

This is a directory of genres and the original fiction writers who tell stories in those genres. We hope this will help the writing community more easily find and support each other!

(Previously, our directory was a single post, but we hit the 50 mention limit within days and the 100 link limit shortly after. So this is our new format!)

How do I join the list?

To be added, reblog this post and let us know which of the genres above you’d like to be listed under in your tags or post. If your blog is 18+ and you’d like this noted, let us know that too!

Directories of Other Genres

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Contemporary, and Crime

Historical, Horror, and Literary

Mystery and Romance

Science Fiction, Thriller, and Urban Fantasy

Look through the directory below!

(paused for now! - updated as of: 11/19/2023)

—Fantasy

@saintedseraph

@365runesoftheamalgamations

@anoelleart (18+ blog)

@vandijkwrites

@moondust-bard

@amaiguri

@lorenfinch (18+ blog)

@m-r-levine

@stesierra

@waltzshouldbewriting

@acertainmoshke

@dyrewrites (18+ blog)

@starbuds-and-rosedust

@theimperiumchronicles

@akiwitch

@nettleandthorne

@aquadestinyswriting

@dragonthusiast

@aether-wasteland-s

@amrago

@sarahlizziewrites (18+ blog)

@blue-kyber

@tisiphonewolfe

@mxxnlightwriting

@bikaribechic

@innocentlymacabre

@blind-the-winds

@epnona-the-wisp

@gwens-fiction

@did-i-do-this-write

@sam-glade

@mayarab

@cdlua

@n1ghtcrwler

@ceph-the-ghost-writer (18+ blog)

@magic-is-something-we-create

@e-lisard

@avaseofpeonies (18+ blog)

@sparrow-orion-writes (18+ blog)

@liv-is

@writeblrboy

@1legitconnor

@k-v-briarwood

@harleyacoincidence

@wintersstreams

@serotoninshift

@olivescales3

@surroundedbypearls

@mischiefiswritten

@chiefwritesbook

@pixelw0rds

@apolline-lucy

@autumnalwalker

@halleyuhm

@ryns-ramblings

@alnaperera

#MS: Directories #writeblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #writing #writing resources

[kaylinalexanderbooks]

OC Picrew Tag

I did another Picrew here for Lexi, Robbie, and Carmen!

Version 1

Thanks @mk-writes-stuff here, @pluto-murphy-writes here, and @saltysupercomputer who I send my sincerest apologies to not getting to this since May here.

Rules: use this Picrew to create a couple OCs!

Maddie Morgan, Kelsey Newman, and Akash Singh

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Maddie: OC in three, two truths and a lie

Kelsey: filled-in bingo

I haven't done anything for Akash yet??? I am ashamed

Version 2

Thanks @badluck990

Rules: use this Picrew to create a couple of OCs and yourself!

Me (Kaylin), Gwen Amante, and Jedi Moon

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Gwen: OC in three

Jedi: Smash or Pass (acearo version)

Tagging softly @atelierwriting @awritingcaitlin @ceph-the-ghost-writer @buffythevampirelover @little-mouse-gardens @blind-the-winds @little-peril-stories @sleepywriter00

TSP intro

TSP tag list (ask to be +/-): @thepeculiarbird @illarian-rambling @televisionjester @fairy-tales-of-yesterday who as always can join in

#the secret portal #tsp #teaspoon #my ocs #picrew #picrew tag game #writing tag game #maddie morgan #kelsey newman #akash singh #gwen amante #jedi moon #writing blog #writers on tumblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #writing on tumblr #writeblr #writeblr community

[cljordan-imperium]

Friends, Followers, & Mutuals - THIS is what my notifications have looked like for about the last 36-48 hours....that's all the same post if you can't tell what they're reacting to. For the near future, please also tag @theimperiumchronicles if you need me. I know I normally ask you to tag here, but right now, I won't see it. A post I made in August, about how being a writer makes you search basic things, has escaped containment and...yeah

I will still be posting to this page as normal, I just probably won't see any tags or replies, so feel free to hit my inbox or my messages if you need me to see something. I don't bite or hex unless necessary. I normally have tea and cookies laying around though, I am a Southern Lady after all.

Tagging those I know tag me most often (if your're tagged more than once it's cuz tumblr is an ass and I don't know where you'll see it either) - @saltysupercomputer @blind-the-winds @aziz-reads @cillmequick @raincoffeeandfandoms @zablife @pheita @writingmaidenwarrior @look-at-the-soul @runnning-outof-time @moral-terpitude @toribookworm22 @sleepyowlwrites @korblez @outpost51 @spookyceph @ceph-the-ghost-writer @flowerprose @peresephones @autumnalwalker @thebejeweledwatercat @peakyscillian @forgottenpeakywriter @dandelionprints @evita-shelby @julyzaa @lya-dustin @call-sign-shark @there-goes-thefighter @dreaminggoblin @careful-pyromancer @sam-glade @mjjune @aestatismors @pluttskutt @oh-no-another-idea @clairelsonao3 @ryns-ramblings @words-after-midnight @aether-wasteland-s @crowandmoonwriting @frostedlemonwriter @a-had-matter @cherrybombfangirlwrites @gypsy-girl-08 @sarah-sandwich @sarah-sandwich-writes @coffeewritesfiction

#CJ is lost in notifications #help #writeblr #writeblr community

[theimperiumchronicles]

Happy STS! (Shh, I'm a day behind.) And because of that, today's a free space! Use it to ramble as you please! ♥️

I am a week and a day behind, but I'm still going to ramble...and tell you about yet another new WIP that is coming up.

Mysts Of Time

Lemures in Roman mythology are spirits who were not given proper burials and are pissed off/vengeful.

In my story, if someone dies in such a way that their body cannot be found, Pluto (Roman God of Death = Greek Hades) offers them the chance to become a Lemure Agent. Lemure Agents can see wandering souls whose bodies have not been found and can help find them, and help the police find who killed them if they were murdered. There is always a Lemure Agent in big city police dept in the Homicide Unit.

Set in St. Louis, MO, Renata died in 1897 when she fell into the Mississippi River after a party at Lemp Mansion celebrating a wedding. Offered the deal of becoming a Lemure Agent by Pluto, she was trained by Dante and Traverius over the coming years. She and Dante are VERY close, and there are hints that something could be developing between them in the present. It took a full century for her to get over her husband and children. She couldn't let them go and watched from a distance and in the shadows as they aged and died, even doing so to her grandchildren before finally letting go completely.

Enzo is the boss of all of the Lemure Agents and believed to have been the original one, although no one is sure or brave enough to ask. For some reason, he has never met Renata, something that is unusual. He normally is the one to do their training and offering of the deal. No one knows why Renata was different. Now he has been sent to St. Louis to help with a child that they are having problems finding the body, and no one wants the poor kid to become a shade (what happens if the body is not found and they can't/won't become a Lemure) . When he first meets Renata, he is stunned because she is the exact doppelganger in all ways to his wife who died in the Great Fire of Rome. BOOM!

Why that is...well...Pluto has a HUGE hand in that...and it becomes complicated as the story goes on.

So now, Renata and Dante, who also happens to be Enzo's best friend, may have something developing while Enzo is facing the mirror image of the only woman to ever have his heart. Traverius is observing from outside the situation, and sees the disaster that everyone is heading for and wonders if there is more at play than just Plato's meddling with time and heartstrings.

@blind-the-winds @saltysupercomputer @pheita @writingmaidenwarrior @dreaminggoblin @thebejeweledwatercat

@outpost51 @ceph-the-ghost-writer @aziz-reads

#sneak peek #new wip #ask answered #answered ask #teaser #coming soon to a wip near you #coming soon #writeblr #my writing #my ocs #writers on tumblr

[thatndginger]

Get to Know Tag

thanks to both @touloserlautrec and @serenanymph tagging me in get to know me games <33 I'm so slow at tag games and asks right now, but I'm here!

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: married ^.^ his internet nickname is Cryptid, you might see mention of him occasionally here

Favorite color: orange-brown, like burnt umber or rust or bronze

Song stuck in my head: Ophelia by The Lumineers. my brain likes to supply it's own wake-up soundtrack and today it's Ophelia

Favorite food: currently, egg sandwiches

Last song listened to: Sophie by Bear's Den

Dream trip: if I could stomach the air travel, Ireland. But since I am scared of both planes and oceans, I'll stick to cross-country roadtripping with Cryptid. we are that couple who genuinely enjoys being stuck in a car together for hours at a time

Last tv show/movie: One for the Money in all its early 2010's crime-com glory

Spicy/sweet/savory?: savory for sure

Last thing I googled: "NWHL salary" because Cryptid and I were discussing the many joys of hot lady hockey players and neither of us could remember what the new salary rules were for the league

I shall tag @ceph-the-ghost-writer @rosieartsie @theskeletonprior @trancetales @nettleandthorne @clairelsonao3 @theroseempress @m-r-levine @surroundedbypearls @ryns-ramblings (no pressure of course!)

#tag games #i have so much happening the first four months of this year #all of it varying levels of stressful #but dammit i miss my tumblr friends so i shall valiantly attempt to be on here more

[cephalog0d]

Thinking about the Ghost!Steph AU again (which I am still determined to actually write at some point, when I've had a chance to do the hefty amount of rereading and note-taking necessary) and Steph's reaction to Jason's big plan to go beat up the current Robin to make a Point.

And on the one hand laughing in his face and pointing out that she got actually killed by an actual villain instead of just beaten up by a theater nerd with guns and it didn't seem to make much difference to Batman, so good luck with that, bud.

(And on the other hand thinking that maybe it would be different if it's Tim instead of her. Batman might actually give a shit then.)

#is this AU partly just an excuse for me to get all up in my Steph Feelings maybe don't judge me #anyway i haven't really stopped thinking about it it's just been backburnered a little. but it's still there. lurking. waiting. one day. #i finally got physical copies of War Games that i can stick bookmarks in while i go through it so like. i am actually taking steps on this. #(and then i just have to heavily note-take...everything immediately after and UTH and probably Lost Days too and some Robin and-) #me: it's an AU i can do what i want #also me: but it's a canon-compliant-to-a-specific-point AU which means i have to be Very Exact #stephanie brown #ghost!steph AU #ceph rambles

[ryderdire]

Thinking about the cy trio again my brain is spinning

#ryders rambles #cytr #ocs #ceph oc #speak oc #elo oc

[elshells]

Last Line w/a Twist

Thank you to both @writernopal and @dragonedged-if for tagging me in this!

Rules: Make a new post and post your latest line from your WIP & tag as many people as there are words.

This is from a very, very out-of-context chapter, since I'm not writing in chronological order. So, you're getting this gem today:

"Fine," Sophia muttered under her breath. "You're the one dying, not me."

Tagging (with no pressure, especially if you've already done this):

@bitchin-beskar @ceph-the-ghost-writer @e-klair @sam-glade @shayandas @mariahwritesstuff @damnitmyradio @ryns-ramblings @tisiphonewolfe @talesfromaurea @outpost51 @lynnedwardswrites

#tag game #last line tag #writeblr #writeblr tag games #wip: agent ace #current wip #ella's writing

[autumnalwalker]

Magic System Inspiration Tag

Thank you for the tag, @blind-the-winds.

Passing the tag to @cljordan-imperium, @talesofsorrowandofruin, @ceph-the-ghost-writer, @writernopal, @druidx, @anthros-vanitas-archive, and an open tag for anyone else who wants to share.

Rules: list the inspiration(s) for your WIP's magic system and, if you want, go into detail.

So, both The Archivist's Journal and Empty Names qualify as fantasy and have magic, but really only Empty Names has a "magic system" per say.

The Archivist's Journal is more like "try to keep individual elements internally consistent but otherwise throw supernatural odds and ends at the wall and see what sticks." How or why anything magical works in that world is intentionally meant to be ultimately unknowable and barely comprehensible (at least to the Archivist) and making peace with that inability to know is something that I've come to realize wound up being something of an overall theme. And whether anything really even is magic and not some combination of placebo effect, hallucination, and/or disguised/misunderstood science and technology is a bit of a recurring background question.

In that vein then, I suppose one might point to some Lovecraftian cosmic horror influence, but with the twist that the unknown has just as much - if not more - capacity to inspire wonder and whimsy as it does horror and madness. Meanwhile, things like the nature sprite's fey trickster vibe and the tendency for objects to take on unusual properties after being cared for for a very long time have any number of precedents in folklore and pop culture, so it's hard to point to any one source of inspiration.

As for Empty Names, well, at the end of the day there's really only one magic system/concept at the core of everything, but it's one that can be extrapolated out to a number of things, allowing me to play fast and loose with "rules" for magic and enabling what looks like multiple conflicting magic systems to be running at once.

Going to hide the rest of this under a "Keep Reading" line because I expect this to turn into a rambling essay.

The core magic system:

So, anyway, the core "magic system" in Empty Names is that reality is influenced and defined by belief and perception, both of the individual and of the collective human consciousness. This ultimately started as me trying to come up with an explanation for why magic stuff needs kept out of the public eye in an urban fantasy setting. That explanation being that having an entire "anchor world" full of people that fundamentally believe the universe to be stable and bound by physical laws gives enough stability to allow other worlds to be more fantastical without reality breaking down altogether. It was an idea that I'd sort of played with of and on over the years in various iterations when trying to come up with ideas for TTRPG campaigns to run, but it wasn't until I came across a certain Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) image gallery (those are something of a guilty pleasure of mine) that made use of this concept in an extremely similar way that I found a good way to properly define and articulate it.

Once I had that down, everything else magic-related in this setting was ultimately able to tie back to that. All the different magic systems at play here are essentially just "it works this way because the mage using it expects it to work that way, and so do enough other people that follow that tradition of magical practice." There's probably more than a little bit of the Warhammer 40K Ork tech principle in that idea's genealogy.

The Autogenesis Principle:

The Autogenesis Principle (or just "autogenesis" as it more often gets referred to in the text) is probably the most original thing I came up with for the setting. Taking the "reality reflect perception" idea and applying it on the individual level instead of to the world so that the internalized view people have of themselves physically manifests as changes to their bodies. I think I originally came up with it as an explanation for Eris having the superhuman strength and durability to be able to throw down with monsters barehanded and then ran with it as an excuse to give Lacuna alternating hope/angst about gender dysphoria stuff. Or maybe it was the other way around. And when planning on doing an episodic monster-of-the-week type of anthology (as was the original plan for the project), playing into the classic trope of "person who does monstrous things literally turns into a monster because of it" gives a convenient source of monsters to deal with. But similar to The Archivist's Journal recasting unknowability as potentially good and wondrous, that aligning of body with perception has the potential to be wonderfully affirming too (see again, the hopeful wish-fulfillment side of Lacuna's gender hope/angst).

Also, some of the capacity of autogenesis being tied to reality stabilization stems from the endless and tiring internet forum arguments of "Why don't people in <Insert Setting Here> just use magic to boil blood/cause an aneurysm/suck air out of lungs/<Insert Other Cheap And Brutal Auto-Win Strategy Here>?" The implicit explanation of "your self-image doesn't usually include being on fire, so autogenesis protects you from mages internally combusting you" preemptively fills that potential plot hole.

Crossherd and other pocket dimensions:

Crossherd, "the largest and most connected-to pocket dimension in North America" and "collective wistful dream of every small town that could have been a metropolis if only history had gone a little differently" owes its meta-existence to two primary influences. The first is from a campaign I ran for the "Glitter Hearts" magical girl genre TTRPG. That campaign's setting was a bit of a thought experiment of "What if a couple key local historical events went differently so that my own small hometown had grown into a major metropolitan center for the region?" and the name "Crossherd" is itself a butchered AU-ified version of my irl hometown's name.

The second major influence for the Empty Names version of Crossherd as a pocket dimension haven for the supernatural within the otherwise seemingly mundane anchor world is Three Portlands from the SCP wiki, particularly as it appears in the "Third Law" canon. Actually, a lot of Empty Names is influenced by "Third Law" and the adjacent SCP tales and canons, seeing as I'd just finished reading every article linked from that canon hub when I started jotting down the initial notes for this project. And while I'm at it, not technically "Third Law" or magic system related, but special shoutout to Aldon from the "Learning the Alphabet with Aldon & Finnegan" collection of SCP tales as being an influence on Lacuna's search for a way to get herself a new body after learning that magic exists.

Meanwhile, Carnette's eclectically adorned and bigger-on-the-inside Bridgewood Manor draws its biggest inspiration from the player housing in the MMORPGs AION and Final Fantasy FXIV and the exploits that some players would get up to in order to create far more impressive displays than the designers ever seemingly intended. And just like the high-end players who have saved the world several times over spending all their time post-campaign breaking the game to make the coolest house possible, Carnette Bridgewood - the world's most powerful mage - spent her days experimenting with how to best break reality itself over her knee for the sake of interior decorating. There's also traces of House of Leaves in the manor's inspiration. There's even a labyrinth out behind the house, perfect for a Minotaur.

Rituals, Enchanting, and Lacuna's tech approach to magic:

Another big magic sub-system for Empty Names is the use of elaborately drawn magic circles and long involved chants for rituals to produce magical effects without needing to be a full-fledged mage. That general idea of magic circles and slow elaborate rituals instead of wizards just casually tossing fireballs around has a long, long, history with any number of mythology/folklore/pop-culture examples, but I think the D&D 4e and 5e approaches to it as it explicitly being a way for non-spellcaster characters to do magic is the most immediate influence for me here. And then there's plenty of RPG (video game and tabletop) influence on being able to use rituals like that for drawing glyphs onto objects as enchantments to buff equipment.

Lacuna's particular method of using a digital projector to perfectly draw her ritual circle in the first chapter and then her later work with using AI to make real-time adjustable circles and sped up computer-generated chanting to do ridiculously complex rituals in a short amount of time once again draws inspiration from the SCP wiki, with similar technology showing up in the "Third Law" and "All That Glisters" canons. Also, the fleshy laptop Sullivan gives her is rather directly inspired by the so-called Osteotronic Cubes from the latter canon.

Going back to the "magic works how your expect it to work" thing, Lacuna being a huge anime nerd with a fondness for Fullmetal Alchemist is low-key part of the reason the glyph-circle based magic works so well for her. And, drawing from some of my own irl experience with coming on board late into legacy code bases and programming, Lacuna's got no idea how the innermost workings of that AI system function, she just has faith that it does and knows what surface-level components she can modify and add onto without breaking it. This probably won't wrap back around to "belief shapes reality" and accelerate the AI system into a nascent machine god singularity or something.

Not quite Lacuna's field, but magic and tech related, there's some background worldbuilding of technically mundane tech in Crossherd being sped up decades ahead of the mundane world via techniques inspired by the Theosophical Society and attempts at Occult Chemistry to use clairvoyance to divine the atomic structures. RevaTech, the company that Lacuna left, is short for Revelation Technologies as a nod to this. Meanwhile, actual paranormal technology getting referred to as "paratech" is another SCP reference.

Ashan's magic:

The world that Ashan learned magic on is based on a homebrew D&D campaign I ran once and has some tendency to follow similar D&D-esque classifications of magic into schools/styles based on effect. The similarity to D&D's magic system mostly ends there though (aside from the aforementioned rituals). The real inspiration for Ashan's particular spellcasting style of drawing/painting his conjurations into existence comes from the trend of early games on the Nintendo DS and Wii to make gameplay gimmicks of incorporating the stylus or remote respectively to have the player draw things on the screen. I never actually played Okami myself so I might be off base with it, but it's the big one that always jumps to mind for me as an example.

That random necromancer Ashan fights in Chapter 2:

This particular application of necromancy as manipulating flesh and bone rather than raising the dead was mostly inspired by Tamsyn Muir's "The Locked Tomb" series.

Culescu and Flesh-shaping:

A world that gets mentioned a bunch in Chapters 8 through 12, known for its inhabitants' secretive mastery of a brand of magic that easily transforms and shapes living flesh in spite of autogenesis normally making that incredibly difficult. That was all born from a heavily reflavored (but mechanically unaltered) psion class character I played in a 4th Edition D&D campaign over a decade ago. Jero, who shows up in Chapter 12 is the most recent iteration of that character. I ended up reusing the character and the concept in several of my own homebrew campaigns over the years, expanding on it into a world/culture as I went (even if my players hardly ever directly encountered any of it).

The biggest inspiration on that is my own personal tendency to react to the body horror genre and Geiger-esque art with fascination instead of horror or disgust. Asking the question "What if instead of such dramatic bodily transformations being horrible, painful, and traumatic, they were painless and willingly initiated as a way to experiment with new physical sensations, explore the relationship between mind and body, and allow for self-determination and affirmation of one's identity?" "What if this was easily accessible, reversible, and normalized?" "What if it were elevated to an art form?"

The art of Lucian Stanculescu (aka hypnothalamus), particularly circa 2010-2014, was a big influence on how I'd often pictured such artistic application of flesh-shaping often coming out. Enough so that the name of the world is an homage to that artist.

Also, the manga "Franken Fran" is a somewhat more twisted version of this vibe and something of an influence on Jero's tendency to walk the line between chipperly helpful and deeply unsettling.

Cosmology and travel between worlds:

While I don't expect it will get too much screen time or explanation in Empty Names proper, aside from the early-mentioned bits about "anchor worlds" the biggest influence on my perception of some worlds being "closer" or "farther" from one another despite them being different dimensions/universes rather than a separation of physical space (and their surprising fragility) comes from the webcomic "White Noise" by Adrien Lee. I tend to imagine the stations in Crossherd for traveling between worlds as looking similar to the portal stations in that comic as well.

As for the space between worlds (and again, their surprising fragility) there's definitely a Lovecraftian cosmic horror eldritch monster all-is-the-dream-of-Azathoth type stuff going on. The "Void Without" that Sullivan swears by. Well, if I'm being really honest, it's perhaps even more directly inspired by that concept but as portrayed in the dream bubbles and Horrorterrors of the Furthest Ring in Homestuck.

Names and name-based magic:

Once again, there's no shortage of sources to draw inspiration from in pop culture and folklore when it comes to stories about faeries stealing people's names, or names otherwise being stolen or sold, often with the result being some combination of the new holder of the name controlling, taking the form of, or abandoning the original owner to be an empty husk. And once again, the SCP wiki's takes on this was one of the biggest immediate inspirations for how this plays out in Empty Names. The memetic geass NDA contract that Lacuna had to sign when leaving her old job was similarly inspired by the "Third Law" SCP canon.

The biggest inspiration for the workings and inclusion of nominative magic in Empty Names however are the various short stories, poems, and social media posts I've seen speculating on how such a fey theft or sale of a name might affect a trans person trying to get rid of a deadname. Lacuna going through such a bargain in order to bind a fairy into her service as a familiar by trading it her deadname was actually one of the first scenes I wrote a rough draft of. It'll be a long time until the main story gets to that point though.

Xenocolors:

There have been a couple of offhand mentions to specific weird colors that produce certain effects when seen. This is less "inspired by" and more "referencing" Fallen London's Neathbow.

Whatever is going on with Sullivan in Chapter 11:

Kirby, but simultaneously human-shaped and more explicitly Lovecraftian.

#tag game #writing tag games #The Archivist's Journal #Empty Names #writing inspiration #worldbuilding #magic system

[kaylinalexanderbooks]

OC in three

Thanks so much @thepeculiarbird for tagging me here!! Sorry I got behind in this

Rules: find three pictures that you believe fit the aesthetic of an OC! Please cite where you got the pictures and include image IDs/alt text!

Tagging @theelfauthor @theeccentricraven @blind-the-winds @little-peril-stories @little-mouse-gardens @buffythevampirelover @eccaiia @ceph-the-ghost-writer @sleepywriter00 @illarian-rambling @chauceryfairytales @ahordeofwasps @aalinaaaaaa or anyone else who sees this!

Maddie Morgan (TSP)

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If you have any questions about Maddie or the pictures I chose feel free to ask!

Already did her sister Lexi here!

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#writing blog #writers on tumblr #writing community #the secret portal #tsp #teaspoon #maddie morgan #my oc #oc in three #oc tag game #writing tag game #writers of tumblr #writing on tumblr #writeblr #writeblr community

[tragicbackstoryenjoyer]

Last Line/Heads Up

tagged by @just-an-elvish-poet. thank you!! <3

excerpt from blood of gods.

Ashala struggled to sleep, and not only for her usual reasons. She roused at the slightest cry or clank of metal, sitting up with a jolt and a hand on her weapon. She was wound tight like a coil, lying in wait for the moment a battle would begin. She was paranoid. A battle could not be fought in the dead of night. Probably.

But no battle came. She had expected war to be constant action and motion; facing enemies at any moment. Instead, it was a lot of waiting, the air thick with tension and dread. This did not mean it was deathless. Every moment standing still was another moment where someone fell victim to starvation or an illness they could not be cured of. The dead piled up in mass graves at the edge of camp, their funeral rites hastily done by a resident holy man.

Vesta and Ashala went looking for Chiaro as planned, but learned that his regiment was gone with Lucius. It seemed they’d have to stay inside the diseased war camp even longer. It seemed killing Lucius on Saarun ground and defecting to escape was still possible.

Though neither particularly wished to contribute, Ashala and Vesta were both expected to be helpful. A war was being waged through water; through the single freshwater river that made up Bulakaya’s water supply. Soldiers were put to work building up a dam with stones and boulders, while others built the new channel going out to the sea, missing the city entirely. It was nearly complete, and people said that it would be what would win them the battle. Bulakaya’s grain store was already empty, some said. Their wells would only last so much longer.

Of course, Ashala and Vesta were not expected to get their hands dirty with such back-breaking labor, it was Vesta’s mere presence as her people’s future queen that made the difference. If Ashala squinted, she could make out the tiny figures of Bulakayans atop the city’s double walls, angling their longbows at anyone who got too close. No one did. They were careful of that.

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