#hels worldbuilding

[silverskye13]

I am turning EB around in my head like a microwave and I have a couple questions:

What is EB and EX's relationship like? I know they view each other as family and EX gets EB's booth, but will we see how they interact more?

Did anyone wind up telling EB that hels!zedaph is dead? If not, does he have suspicions that he is?

and a more general Hels question (that is totally not related no siree) - what is the upkeep for the remembrance walls like?

EB and EX are on friendly terms! They previously saw each other,,, not as rivals in the traditional sense. They didn't openly attack or oppose each other. But EB viewed EX as a challenge: How do I stay distinct from my brother's shadow? Anyone looking for it would find it obvious. EB got Bigger and Louder whenever EX was around, and he used to be much bigger and much louder than he currently is. It's less that he was mean, and more that he was prideful. Becoming friends with Helsknight changed him for the better in that regard. Since he's mellowed out, he and his brother have become closer. They enjoy visiting with each other during Colosseum matches [EB will often stand with EX in the box and talk both before the events, and during intermission] and EX invites EB to a lot of parties, where they shit talk the guests together. We'll see them together once during RnS, but EB is a secondary character, and outside of the one appearance, I don't intend to have EX very involved in the story. He's kind of the unspoken god of the world: he gets a lot of mentions because he's very important to hels, but he's not very important to the plot lol.

Someone did wind up telling EB about hels!zedaph, though yes, he did suspect before he was told. EB hadn't gone looking for HZ for a reason. He didn't want to be the one to find out he was gone. If I can't see it, maybe its not really there.

And the Remembrance Wall Ramble got long so its under the cut!

[Hello future me cutting in here because I just realized you were probably talking about what individuals like EB would do to upkeep a name of a loved one. Mostly it involves regular visits. Keeping the stone clean, replacing it if it gets cracked, making sure it doesn't wear down. Nether bricks to me are a bit brittle, and the ones on the bottoms of the walls will crumble and break down over time. Most of the time, the Order of Remembrance is pretty good at getting them replaced, though they encourage individuals to do it themselves, to decorate the stones, paint or carve them, and overall keep the care personal. People will also sometimes leave gifts of food, flowers, and favored items at walls where loved ones names are kept. Walls are very colorful spots in hels, full of a lot of care.]

The Remembrance walls are, basically, graveyards. Alongside friends and family, who will make sure loved ones names are put down and remembered, the Order of Remembrance manages all Remembrance Walls in the city. We'll get into it a little in the upcoming chapters, but the Order of Remembrance church, and its knights, have a very active presence in hels. They are the cloaks seen most often roaming the streets, in twos and threes. They have regular routes they walk, with walls they are assigned to tend. They make sure the stones are stacked straight and don't fall, replace broken ones, and help people carve names. Many knights have prayer chants where they intentionally try to memorize every name on the wall. Their focus is on the idea that no helsmet is truly gone as long as some memory remains of them. They welcome helsmets approaching them with fond memories of loved ones, and will take testimony from people who know their time is coming. Their church is a glorified library and house of memorization. Part of their worship in remembrance of people is also in the remembrance of history, and they have at least one copy of every book, memoir, and journal in hels they can get their hands on. They have one private collection in the church, and one public library in hels, which they regularly update with copies of originals from the church library.

The only place outside the Order of Remembrance's domain is the shady side of town where Cleo's gangs keep the peace. For control reasons, Cleo doesn't like any opposing force on her claimed land, which includes Order of Remembrance knights. She does still have Remembrance Walls on her side of town, but they are up-kept by the people that live there as a community project. People get together once every few weeks, make food, talk about those that are gone, and make sure none of the stones are broken or stolen.

Erasing memory is a big taboo in hels, understandably. The universe is already cruel enough in taking people, and people, once taken, are woefully easy to forget [they were never meant to exist in the first place, after all]. On the sides of town where the Order of Remembrance upkeeps the walls, anyone caught stealing or destroying stones is tracked down by their paladins, and subjected to community service under close supervision. They're often roughed up in the process, but the paladins won't kill you for breaking a stone. Depending on whose stone you break, and how angry hels is that day, the same can't be said for anyone else who catches you. Repeat offenders, or people who destroy many stones at once with the express intent of erasing memory, are branded by the Order with a mark somewhere visible, normally on the hands. Anyone with that unlucky brand will see increased hostility from their peers, ostricization, lost of livelihood and home -- it's a great way to make everyone in hels hate you. Anyone on Cleo's side of town caught destroying a stone is hunted actively in the streets, and leaving her side of town will not save them. She offers high bounties for that kind of thing.

#rns asks #evil xisuma #evil beezuma #remembrance walls #hels #hels worldbuilding #aloe-vera-ghost #sorry you activated my trap card #i have a lot of thoughts on the Order of Remembrance #They're very very good guys #They're some of the few people in hels everyone likes #There is also an unspoken rule you don't mess with [attack or rob] Remembrance knights #because if you do that gives them a reason to forget you #and to make sure the world forgets you #to anyones knowledge they've never done that before #but then again -- if they did how would you know?

[aquaquadrant]

pearlescent moon….. hmm.. opalescent sun? IS the sun in hels? i think pearl has a helsmit here but 👀

actually yeah, hels!pearl is opalescent moth, the giant moth monster lady that showed up briefly in part 2. i use a variety of different approaches when coming up w hels names: opposites (ex. mumbo jumbo - clear cut), inversions (ex. BdoubleO100 - Dboublel011), helification (ex. iJevin - iHelvin), and extremes (ex. Renthedog - Rendthewolf). pearl is an example of the latter. the naming convention i choose usually has to do with what traits i’ve amplified or twisted in the hels, whether they end up as fundamentally different than their counterpart or just a more extreme version.

and hels does technically have a sun as well as a moon, but they orbit far beyond the bedrock ceiling, so no hels resident has ever seen them. they only know about them through the existence of clocks, and the data related to mob spawning in relation to day/night cycles.

#hels to pay au #HTP worldbuilding #HTP cast

[whereserpentswalk]

When the human known to us as Christ arrived in the underworld, gods and shades alike were horrified. It was always a big deal when demigods arrived in the underworld, but this one had died so brutally, a young man, not even old enough to grow a beard, tourtued to death at the will of his own divine parentage, the blood dripping from his shade's hands.

The high gods of the underworld brought him up to their tower to figure out what happened. Christ had recoiled from them at first, thinking they were Devils, but had to take Anubis's hand to ascend the tower's steps, as his legs were badly wounded. The gods of the dead looked at him with both sympathy and horror, it was the first time a he had seen a god look at him with either of those emotions.

Hades swore that this was his brother's doing, but even then it crossed a new line. The description of a god impregnating a young girl in Bethlehem fit what Hades knew of Zeus, but to harm his own son in such a way, as part of a ploy to try to gain all of Rome for him alone, had proven his brother's reign growing darker. Still, he took mercy on the young man, promising him at least three days safety in the underworld without his father trying to claim him again. Hades wondered if the poor girl knew when she held her child that he was born to suffer and die, just as the mothers of great heros knew their destiny. Hades hoped Chrsit would have a chance to stay longer, his wife would return in the fall, and he had the same kind eyes as her, she would probably like to know him.

Hel came to comfort Christ once he had a chance to rest. She helped tend his wounds, and pet his head, and for the first time christ was held by a divinity that didn't expect anything from him. And she told him stories of her father to cheer him up after meeting with such a horrible fate. And she told him that no father should ever do such a thing as what his father had done to his child, that if she had known in time she would have saved him. And she let him be comforted as a human, instead of being a lord of all humanity. And for a momment he didn't have to be the son of god who felt alone while bleeding and dying, but the son of the carpenter Joseph who had been reminded of home when he felt the wood of the cross.

He wasn't allowed to stay, his father wanted him back, back to be the bleeding prince of a new and lonely kingdom. And the underworld wept for him, not because the underworld was deprived of Christ, but because Christ was deprived of the underworld.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #writing #my writing #my worldbuilding #urban fantasy #myth #mythology #norse mythology #greek gods #greek mythology #norse paganism #norse gods #paganism #hel #hel goddess #hades #jesus #jesus fandom #short story #short fiction #flash fiction #gods #anti christianity #christanity #bible fandom #bible fanfiction #mythology and folklore #folklore

[redstonebug]

A couple of doodles i made a little while back brainstorming Helsmit thoughts off the top of my head, including just for fun some... Vault Helsmits? Hels Hunters? you get it.

#mcyt #hermitcraft #vault hunters #helsmits #there is in-depth explaination for each of these designs but most of them amount to ''what is semi-opposite of them thematically speaking'' #so sheep > wolf / dog > cat etc. its hard to tell but instead of flowers Hels!Stress has thorns #also half of this was born out of hels worldbuilding and trying to figure out how things would actually function #which is why there's vault hunter helsmits cause theyre kind of patching bits so society in hels can actually function #only did a couple of designs that i had clear ideas for though #CPK is also a hyena like Fundy cause again fox > hyena since those are opposites in my brain #but i couldnt figure out while doodling these how to have Hyena still read as CPK #Helsbomb is a long story #bug report #cochineal

[blorballs-of-yarn]

Quick and dirty sketch for the helsverse (SMTYH). Realta is Grian's hels.

#smtyh #Hels grian #watcher grian #watchers #grian #worldbuilding #hermitcraft

[wardenwyrd]

happy WBW! i am so intrigued by prisma and wonder if you could go into a little more detail abt the colour coding? :)

Thank you for the ask! Conveniently, this is actually the subject of my brainrot and thus you are a very kind mutual. Sorry if this is a bit incoherent btw. I'll deep-dive the specific components at a later date.

The colour coding is a huge part of Prisma both in it's conception and worldbuilding. Each story revolving around their respective protagonist is coded a colour (I.E, Jack's story and red); themes, ideas, and symbolism regarding this occur both in a meta way and in an in-universe way.

Neat fact: Prisma is a play on the word "Prismatic", nodding to the fact that white can be split into the spectrum of colours by a prism.

Quick Breakdown of Prisma:

Prisma is the setting of these stories, and colours - hues are the primary power/magic system. A surreal other-land where figurative can become literal and vice versa. Hues are it's fundamental building block, existing both as an abstract but also a resource. Here is where our three protagonists come in: at some point in their stories they become 'Key Figures', a facet of that colour embodied in a person. I'll elaborate on that particular concept in another post.

I'll give you the rundown on each protagonist and their relation to the colour coding. These aren't the only aspects of the hues, but the main ones.

Jack, Red -

“It doesn’t matter what powers you hold, or the trials you’ve faced; as long as I reach into the four corners, my Judgement is tangible irregardless.”

Red watches over rules and conventions. It's a hue of hierarchy, of domination and submission, of judgement. It works with the pre-existing fabric of things, tending towards tangling things in it's rules rather than violating it's own tenets.

There's also another aspect integral to red: Mediums. In Prisma, a Medium is not someone who merely gazes ghosts, but possess sight that stretches past horizons; the domain of a medium is to wrench meaning from things. Mediumship as a quality is inherently linked to the hue of red.

What this means for Jack, my favourite red-eyed little bastard, is that his power is in pulling at exposed threads. People constantly transgress all sorts of rules - personal, natural, even physical rules; it just isn't noticed. Jack as a key figure is an Arbiter. By acknowledging a transgression the appropriate punishment is applied automatically as a principle of Prisma itself.

He can gaze at the True Names of things, unravel their nature and bring forth what lays dormant.

As a whole it also ties in with Jack's character and background. There's more to it but I'll elaborate on a dedicated post.

Hel, Blue -

Blue is to expand and grow endlessly. It's boon and plight is that everything that that it is will behold genesis, but all that they are is the horizon's boundary

The sky, the ocean; a roiling pit of genesis from which life sprung. Blue is desire and manifestation - the self crystalised into something tangible. In it's purest form as a hue it is creation unbridled. However, blue - deep, roiling blue, horizon spanning azure - is crystallisation of self. It's dominion ends past the boundary of self, past the ownership of such a minor existence.

Blue can create vast shapes and forms, even spring life to being with it's lustre, yet it has no control over that which it did not create.

Hel first wields this hue in the form of the Principle class artefact 'The Flask', a portion of the sky stolen and inverted long ago, bound by it's own genesis. Hel's character arc is about identity and assumptions, of presumed boundaries and humanity. And how enough imagination can transcend flesh.

Absorbing The Flask at the precipice of death something much vaster, and above all free. The key limitations of this hue remain true, but post-rebirth Hel's entire body is comprised of blue, they let it seep into the ground and spread themselves vast and wide. Something brilliantly inhuman.

Dorothea, Purple -

Pocket watches running in parallel and paradox to the march of moons

Such an awfully royal colour, and so fitting is it for sovereignty to be it's domain. Many things hold power over others: the moon over night and the passage of time, the land from which things sprout, and of course what every person owns: themself.

Dorothea's sovereignty is to fragment - split things into parts, isolate them and take ownership. If she wins ownership over something she can even fragment it's time; send things backwards, freeze things into a single state, steal something's time spent.

Red, Blue, and Purple form a colour triad, and one of purple's specialities is 'borrowing' from these. Out of all the hues Purple is the only one able to use aspects of another by collecting fragments belonging to them.

To the Lilac Sovereign what may be someone's present is merely a puzzle to rearrange to their whims.

Without subjects sovereignty means nothing. Thus, in pursuit of her own royalty Dorothea fragmented herself to become her very own pawn.

Extra Tidbits :

The powers a hue possesses has a lot to do with the associations and symbols connected with them, and while each hue has a scope of it's own they can present in several ways. A key figure is a pure manifestation and expression of the hue, often taking a specific thematic direction. Hues are used by others in the form of materials imbued with it naturally, artefacts, or by acquiring it as a part of oneself.

Red as a hue is violent and bloody and passionate, essential yet bitter like blood. That's kind of why I went with hierarchy/rules. Also got some prey/predator stuff going on.

Blue, to me, is a colour of imagination, creation, and things so vast it's terrifying. Think like life arising from the sea.

Royalty for purple, obviously, but I think it's a very moon-ish, celestial and mystical colour. Time, both as an invention to understand the passing of events better, and as a natural mechanism are very big here.

There are other hues and such and they do stuff but I'm focusing on blue, red, and purple as they're the colours of the respective protagonists.

The colour triad dynamic is kind of:

Red is concerned with rules and convention, judging and causing conclusion in the present.

Blue is creating things anew in the present that persist.

Purple isn't tethered to present: rearranging and altering the state of things.

ALSO: I really didn't want to do like "Red=Fire" or something and I wanted something symbolic to fit my surreal little world so the hues do not function in such a straightforward way.

#writeblr #fantasy writing #worldbuilding #WIP: Prisma #asks #uhhh this may be incoherent rambling #vibeful worldbuilding and nonconventional magic systems my beloved #extra hidden lore: the setting was created by the hue [WHITE] which scattered into the primary and secondary hues now present #There's so much stuff I'm not gonna bring up because I'll just ramble again #OC: Jack #OC: Dorothea #OC: Hel

[bat-connoisseur]

Spare hels thoughts?

ohohohohoho oh boy lets go anon. So disclaimer these are all based off of uhhh Blood Moon, an au with a bunch of. specific headcanons really. Anyways. Headcanons.

It's important to note that my Helses aren't just personality or trait inversions, for the most part. They are more worst case scenarios for people similar to the hermits, or them lacking care for other people.

warnings for vauge, non detailed body horror or gore based things. Mostly for my Hels Iskall and Tango.

Let's start with the classics.

Helsuma: Evil Xisuma is not Xisuma's Hels. Xisuma's Hels is Helsuma, the ex-admin of Helscraft. Unlike X, he threw his weight around with the admin stuff, relishing his abilities and ruling the server with an iron fist. Everyone fucking hated him, and eventually, in an act of serverwide cooperation that is very rare for Helscraft, they forced him into a glitched chunk boundary in The End, allowing him to fall forever, unable to escape, since not only can Helsuma not die, if he did he would just respawn somewhere else. EX is a clone of Xisuma designed to replace Helsuma as admin, since all the Helsmets knew it would be a bad idea for one of them to be in charge, and that they would eventually end up with another Helsuma. EX is designed to be like X, which is why he's... kind of a pushover, and not really evil. EX is a shapeshifter like his hermit namesake, whereas Helsuma is... well he was human once.

Helsknight: Helsknight didn't exist until the moment Wels made his clone, as in the grand scheme of things The Universe (its own sorta... sentient guiding force) knew the clone would happen and be the perfect opportunity to have Hels be created. Hels, after loosing Wels' rap battle, fled into Hels and was promptly contacted by Helsuma, who tricked him into helping him escape. Luckily, the Helsmets caught wind of this, attacked Hels to keep him from getting Helsuma out, and gave him a quick history lesson before banishing him from Hels forever. This Hels is a Many-eyed Siren, a quirk of the cloning and a side effect of a non human soul being put into a human vessel.

FlimFlam: ok, into original Hels territory. Flim is Hels Mumbo, and like Mumbo he is a brilliant redstoner. Unlike mumbo, he deliberatley builds his machines as shittily and cheaply as possible, sells them for high prices, and when you come to what you thought was his house to get a refund when it breaks, he will be nowhere to be seen and his house gutted. He is essentially a scruffy scam artist. He built a different Hels, Kokhet, to act as a bodyguard after he pissed off the wrong people, people who wouldn't stop at knocking at his door and would follow him as far as they needed to to get him.

Kokhet02: Kokhet is the hels Iskall. Created by FlimFlam as a bodyguard, Kokhet is a testament to how Flim is, really, a very skilled redstoner. He is very loyal to FlimFlam, and they both know its because he wants to be, and he could change his mind on that any time. With sentience came his own desires, and Kokhet has a constant craving to be organic, to wear flesh over his fairly bare metal frame. Being built to hurt, and kill, if needed, this is very concerning, and like. 90% of the reason Helscraft is so afraid of him. He is like a termanator, but if the terminator wanted to wear your skin and had knives for fingers and a dry hatred for most people. Above all, he wants Iskall's flesh and, well... There's a reason Iskall's missing an arm and an eye.

FoxTrotFilms: Foxtrot is not a Hels. Call him a hels and he will get very, very angry at you. Tango is the hels, but he left a long time ago, originally simply hellbent of breaking and destroying things, he found that he also liked to create, and create things to destroy, and that he was lonley. He went and found his way to the Hermitcraft server before Fox ever did, and due to his frequent death games and strong friendships, he managed to fill both of their roles, taking Fox's place. Most Helsmets want to live their Hermit counterpart's life, and for all his good he is the most successful of them all. Fox was sidelined, no longer needed, and so he was secreted into a little pocket of unreality, unable to live but unable to die as well. His body rotted with him inside it, until one day he escaped, hellbent on revenge against the man he knew took his life and existence, but who's face he does not know. He's fairly sure it should look like his, though.

This is where things start getting less fleshed out lol

ExeD: Short for Executioner, XD is Doc's hels. He is essentially Doc, but without the self control and care for his friends he holds. He is destructive with no respect for anyone else, and terrifyingly efficient with it. No one gets on XD's bad side. They know they will regret it if they do.

J_Valley and VexMerne: Valley and Merne are the Hels Joe and Cleo. They run VexCorp, the ConCorp equivalent of Hels and dominant force in Hels. They sell anything you need, for the price they name. Valley and Merne are as much scam artists as Flim, but they are far better at making people not realise it. They even scammed the Vex they made a deal with for power, and managed to get it with far fewer strings attached than they should've. Valley and Merne are equally the brains of the operation, but you're much more likley to see Merne coming around your house to break your legs if you try and wrong the two of them. If she doesn't come then.. they have something much worse in store for you. There is a reason Flim had to build Kokhet to stay safe. Why are they like this? Because I can imagine nothing scarier than Joe and Cleo as venture capitalists.

Zedaph: Zedaph has no Hels. Zedaph has no Hermit, either, but he's not going to tell you that.

NerveVS: I have no lore for him I just have a name. NerveVS. Like Nervous. geddit? please does this make any sense

YXBreaker: Another that is just a name that I thought was cool. Hels XB.

Jello: hels jellie. exactly the same (vaugley powerful cat) except this joke only works if you're british doesn't it. does it? Anyways she hangs out with badtimes or whoever ends up being my hels scar.

#Hope this was fun anon! Ough I need to do more Hels worldbuilding #there are so many more hermits.... #and by extention so many more fucked up and evil ideas #also yes. NerveVS is alone in Hels. what's more fucked up and evil than just having the I in ZITS? #what would it be. I mean at best FN so they weren't doing too well anyways #ask #anon #Helsmits

[at-thezenith]

writeblr intro

hi! i’m hel, i have a ba in creative writing & film, and i’m currently studying a publishing masters. i am currently creating a drive of my notes from this degree, you can find that post here.

i love sff, literary fiction, and anything kind of weird. my favourite series is the wayfarers by becky chambers, a sf series that has fantastic worldbuilding, alien societies, complex inter-species relations, and just a whole lot of beautiful writing.

my main wip is called the faery children, a broody, morally grey fantasy story about elemental witches, which you can read about here. 

i have just started outlining/drafting a short story called baby, let the band keep playing, we’ll keep swinging ‘til last call. you can read about it here and here.

i’m an editor (unprofessional)! i love reading other people’s work and am always looking to help people with their own writing. if you're interested you can contact me on here. i have experience with essays, fiction and non-fiction articles, and i have spent the last two years as an editor on a creative arts magazine.

i also beta read! that does not need to be sought after on a separate site, feel free to drop me a message or an ask and i will quite literally drop everything to read something. fully not joking.

i would love to make more writer friends of any form or genre :) ask and tag game friendly!!

#writers on tumblr #queer writers #writeblr #writeblr intro #writing community

[marztheincredible]

The Story

“Come one, come all for on this night a story shall be told!

One, for children, witches, demons, and even hags of old!

I sing to you a tale about the Bloody Eye!

One the Titan lost fighting, due to petty lies!”

“The Titan had a sister, Hel her Given name!

The Titan had power, one Hel had to claim!

The siblings fought, fairly matched, neither one could beat!

The siblings fought, fairly matched, until Hel’s deceit!”

“Through trickery and illusion, Hel made a single strike!

The Titan’s eye was gouged, and thrown into the night!

Enraged by betrayal, the Titan fell to his knees!

His tears falling freely, making the raging Boiling Sea!”

“Let this be a lesson for those who crave deception!

Do not be caught like Hel, do so with discretion!

Or if you seek the truth, like the Titan beneath us lies!

Do not fall for duplicity or you will gain a Bloody Eye!”

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You’ve read The Story before! How about again with some visuals?

I commissioned @kgproductions-tmblr to draw out two stanzas from Bonesborough Story told this year at the Lunar Shadow Festival! They did an AMAZING job drawing the mural style we see Eda’s presents as King’s “origin story” in Episode 1!

And if you like Worldbuilding they have something fantastic in the works involving the expansion of Titan culture! And a what if question of: “What if the Titans weren’t extinct? Just hiding?”

Keep an eye out for their Concealed Kingdom AU! Its going to be something amazing!

#the owl house #toh #titan’s blessing #toh fanfic #fanfic #toh fic #fic #toh fanart #The Titan #the titan toh #fanart #commission

[silverskye13]

hello hello :) I suddenly became curious about the durability of Tanguish’s spike thingies on his back (definitely spurred on by how lizard coded he is). The way you draw them seems to resemble sculk shriekers which is pretty neat if that’s the case :3 Do you imagine them about as strong as keratin or softer? Do they shed? Anyways, this is such a small and probably insignificant detail but I’m curious about your thoughts 🎤

See his little back spikes are actually in a really funny place for me, because in the context of art, they're there. But in my mind when I'm writing him, they're not there. Schrodinger's back spikes. They're gone until you can see them--

That being said! I always imagine them a lot like Godzilla's crest funnily enough. They're somewhat hollow on the inside, with a lot of veins, which I think would follow then that they could be flushed with color? Like how they used to [and still might I'm not into the paleobiology scene] think Stegosaurus spikes could flush with blood and get more colorful. The idea that The Little Guy could suddenly blush and all the spikes on his back would turn red [or maybe light up and glow like the spots on sculk] is very amusing to me. Mood ring lizard spikes.

As hollow keratin bits, they probably bleed a decent amount of they're broken off, ouchie, but he probably does shed them naturally every once in awhile? Imagine him getting really itchy one day and the spikes fall off, and Helsknight is left going, "What the heck. Are you okay. You are falling to pieces. Help. What is happening. Oh my god."

#leapdayowo #rns asks #tanguish #this was a very fun thought exersize :3 #i want to doodle color changing tanguish spikes now #also apologies i know you sent this awhile ago #theres a lot of older asks ive been trying really hard to get to because theyre fun and interesting #hello im taking a pickaxe to my notes and youre up #hels worldbuilding

[aquaquadrant]

I gotta know. Since Tango's in hels, does that mean if the portal closes they're trapped? Or can they hypothetically create those portals with any player since they know how now?

the second thing! hypothetically, any player in hels can be used to open a hacked nether portal to their overworld counterpart, wherever they are in the universe. of course, the double lifers didn’t have to counteract the firewall problem when making their portal so that’d cause a bit of a snag. but since they come from a world where portals aren’t purely theoretical and much more is known about them, and they know about the firewall and how specifically to counteract it, i imagine they’d solve it much faster than hels tek did.

that’s also the main reason they were able to make their portal in a matter of weeks instead of years (which i saw lots of ppl laughing abt in tags and asks, RIGHTFULLY SO i might add). they knew what portals were and how they worked, they knew what sort of redstone circuits they needed, it was just a matter of actually placing down the blocks and debugging. to give an analogy…

the double lifers building a portal is like a big tech company, that regularly makes space ships and travels to other planets with ease, has to make a specialized type of ship to reach a planet that’s guarded by hostile solar winds. the engineers on the project are very knowledgeable hard workers who work well together, and know exactly what they need to do to make the ship and exactly how to reach the planet.

hels tek building a portal is like a big tech company trying to build the first ever space ship in a world where space and other planets are nothing more than theoretical concepts, even believed to be myths by a large percentage of the population. their main engineer left the project before it was done and the other employees can’t go more than a couple days without killing each other.

… it starts to make sense, right? 😂

ANYWAY. yes, the hacked portals will work for anyone. if atlas weren’t so obsessed w tango, hels tek would be out there in the universe right now wreaking havoc, but luckily that’s never been his goal or drive.

#hels to pay au #HTP worldbuilding

[genericpuff]

I love that you're acknowledging other religions, but this got me thinking, just how often do stragglers come into Hades' realm and what sort of relationship does he have with other death deities (Hel, Anubis, etc...), if at all?

In terms of Hades' line of work, it's not frequent that it happens, but it usually happens often enough that they have an entire department at the Underworld Corp. designed to deal with them and get them pointed in the right direction :> He doesn't have much of a relationship with gods from the other pantheons, nor does anyone really, as it's typically agreed upon as a mutual form of respect to not overstep into other pantheon's territories. The Greeks don't tell the Norse how to do their jobs, that sort of thing, they all mind their own businesses and let the mortals do the interweaving. Their pantheons tend to directly cross over the most when there are stragglers.

But when it comes to the afterlife worldbuilding as a whole within Rekindled, a combination of different factors (or lack thereof) can affect what afterlife someone may go to, accidentally or with intention. The usual way is to just end up in the afterlife of the territory you dwell in and aligned with the gods you worship (so if you're Greece, you end up in the Underworld). Some people will grow up a part of one culture and then end up in the afterlife of another because they practiced a religion that was separate from their own culture's primary religion (ex. if someone born in Egypt practiced Christianity). If they're not strongly spiritual themselves and don't align with any one religion or pantheon, sometimes they'll end up in the afterlife of whatever religion/spirituality their parent(s) practiced. Or, sometimes it can go beyond the spiritual - like if one dies on another culture's grounds (say if they were in Greece and took a trip to Sweden and either decided to stay permanently or died before they made it back to Greece) that could also result in them ending up in an afterlife they weren't expecting.

some people don't get an afterlife at all.

There are also... other fun ways for the afterlives to converge, but I'd rather show y'all that then tell you when we meet two other stragglers who are gonna make a little appearance. They'll just be a brief cameo, not an ongoing thing like Asmund the Viking, but I still love the idea of them ending up in the Underworld because it just makes so much sense for them to wind up in the wrong place LOL

#a greek hellenist walks up to the pearly gates #'you're not the big bearded cloud guy i'm looking for' #lore rekindled #lore rekindled comic #lore rekindled ama #ama #ask me anything #anon ask me anything #anon ama

[give-grian-rights]

Hermitcraft Fic Rec!

HELLO. i have hundreds, HUNDREDS of hermitcraft fanfiction bookmarked and living in my brain without rent. Breaking this up into categories for some of my PERSONAL favorite fics in the fandom- including categories for shipping, crossover, and worldbuilding.

Some of these fics are from 2019 but generally speaking you don't need knowledge of past seasons you should be able to pick up on just about all of them. a lot of these are mostly included BECAUSE they're older and therefore, harder to accidentally stumble upon. put in no particular order.

If your fic is on here and you'd like it removed, send an Ask with the fic, a dm, etc

World Building

The Parting Glass / To Pass The Jungle You Have To Go All The Way Around - Sekrap.

Doc has been trying to forget. He has done everything everyone told him he should do to make the memories go away. And still the jungle calls for him. / He was a monster. Then, a man. Now, a machine. Doc, once a normal Creeper, was not meant to live. Let alone become a Player. He learned to speak, he learned to fight, he learned to build. Some things stayed the same. aka- the Domestic Creeper au.

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Carpet Trick - CrazyCatMeow

You all know the double carpet trick right? What happens when that joint with a tired mad scientist meet.

Mob hybrids can't see carpets <3 extra silly and very lighthearted

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Window Pane - blueticked

Tango and Impulse discuss the brand new presence of Helsknight.

It's not a coincidence that all the evil personas have red eyes.

Tango is a Hels, struggling with self-acceptance and his place in Hermitcraft, which was never meant to be for him. in my head ALL THE TIME

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"I know" - KindaJustHere

Bdubs was used to death. He was used to being killed by his fellow hermits. He was very used to being killed by Grian. Maybe a little too much.

(This is based off Grian’s episode 61 of hermitcraft season 7 where Bdubs says “I know” and shoots himself) BDUBS SELF ESTEEM ANGST!! Griangst !!!! Emotionally fucked up Grian from YHS !!

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Hiss and Scratch - TheNerdyTurtle96

Doc is a mad scientist who isn't afraid of anything. Actually, that's not true. His only weakness is cats.

exactly like it said it is . SO GOOD AND CUTE

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For the Record - Anonymous

Tango shrugged. “Yeah, I guess I did. Xisuma’s teaching Impulse some Galactic Standard so he can cheat at enchanting or something. Apparently Xelqua’s, like, some sort of god in Xisuma’s culture? It was kind of unclear, I wasn’t paying attention when Impulse told me.”

“Huh,” Grian said vacantly. “How about that.”

oops! Grian is Xisuma's god. amazing

____ GrianMC - SixteenthDays

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Techno says frankly.

“You know,” Grian says again. “Your- Watchers.”

Techno squints for a moment before understanding visibly dawns behind his eyes. “Ohhh, you mean Chat?”

(On watchers, and Watchers.)

This IS technically a crossover but its more worldbuilding than anything else. its literally so funny. i love it

Crossover

These Days I Don't Feel Like Myself At All / Mercury (No One Can Unring This Bell) (Series Ongoing) - RoguishOne (DarkWolfMoon)

TommyInnit had died. Again. To Dream. Again. And it sucked exactly as much as he thought it would because he'd wanted to move on and have a chance to actually live this time. Seems he won't be getting that.

Then he gets pulled out of Limbo, but he doesn't wake up back in the cell with Dream or next to his bed on the server. He doesn't wake up on the Dream SMP at all.

Little does he know that this is the least of his worries.

i want to scream and cry and hypervenilate thinking about this fic series. literally cannot recommend it enough. your life will be ROCKED. THE WRITING IS SOOOOO OGOOOD . i just want to shake. i cannot put into words what this fic makes me feel.

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Shells in the Foam (a Hermit!Tommy fanfic) - Cedarwhisp21

When Dream attacks Tommy in Logestshire, Tommy runs. Badly injured, he somehow manages to slip between worlds and wakes up in a badlands biome, on a server far from home, with no other players in sight.

The Hermits are surprised when a new player logs in, and confused when no-one's at spawn. Five days later, after waiting for the new player to introduce themselves, Xisuma uses his admin abilities to access their coordinates. He takes Impulse with him to welcome the new player to Hermitcraft, but instead of the beginnings of a base, they find something a lot more concerning.

NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. the NUMBER ONE kudo-ed hermit fic . by my beloved. and using the one of the beloved au by pertrichormeraki . its so good and im sooo glad i was here for the ride of seeing it unfold <3

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let me give you a piece of my mind - Interjection

Dream and Grian practice building for MCC, and hold a conversation in the process.

Or,

Grian gives an outside perspective on Dream’s actions. Dream is having none of it.

Grian is a fucked up lil guy <3 Dream is a piece of shit

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He would not die - Nicoforlife

If phil could save only one person from this place, that would be enough.

Tldr I made phil a watcher :)

Watcher Phil and Grian !! ! !!

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Scared as hell - Nhi_theuserof_this

Grian was one of the closest people to Fundy at this point. He wants to be honest, really, but with the rest of his family history being a total train wreck, he spends an awkwardly long time dancing around what he wants to say.

Tldr; Grian is Fundy’s uncle, Fundy comes out to him

OK SO THIS ONE. WAS BASED OFF ONE OF MY AUS but i had to include it. ok .short and sweet

It was just a game - QuasarsFaults (UNFINISHED)

Taurtis Has been on the server awhile now, he's made new friends, a really tasty toritos shop, a new job working with Concorp, and he's even made this really cool pirate rollercoaster. So why did his and Scar's idea go so wrong?

OK. so i honest to god cannot remember if this is my au or if i just partook in it. i think its my au. who knows. either way seeing this again makes me want to work on my own Taurtis-Became-a-Hermit-Instead-of-Grian fic

Shipping

heartfelt confession - mysteryguest

it shouldn't come as a surprise to iskall, he thinks, when he finally settles on a term that feels just right. and yet, it is. and it's dreadful, feeling that urge, that need to tell someone, without knowing if they would accept you or not.

at least he knows the person he can trust the most with this info is his boyfriend, mumbo.

non-binary and bigender Mumskull !!! coming out. finding identity. finding pronouns.

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I Hate You (I Promise I Don't) - BewitchingNotes

If someone asked Grian why he was relentlessly pranking Etho now that he was finally back in Hermitland, he'd say it was just for pure fun.

To Etho, it meant Grian was mad at him.

To everyone else, Grian had a huge crush on the redstone user and obviously didn't know how to communicate it.

OR: Grian just wants Etho's attention, Etho misreads this as Grian being mad at him, Grian thinks Etho hates him because of his pranks and everyone else just wants these boys to communicate properly already. Grian's love language is pranks...i love it

____ A Study Of Love in the Universe Itself - 2point5

Love had a strange meaning on Hermitcraft, where everyone loved each other. 

OR

Joe looks into the different ways he loves some of his fellow members, and what that means for him as a human.

ITS A SERIES TOO AND ITS SOOOO GOOD i love it . Joe x Cleo x Bdubs x Etho . what more could you want. and their sexualities and how they perceive love is . OAUGHHGHGGHHGHGHBHGHFHHVIJXFSHDF IUSDHIUSAHDUIA

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft fic rec #fic rec #hermitcraft fic #hermitcraft fanfic #hermitcraft x dsmp #hc x dsmp #hermitcraft headcanon #hermitcraft worldbuilding #hermitship #mika-posts

[viky-somebody]

pretty cool fic list

dog at the door - fluffy_papaya (absolute fave. Red King)

I still Bleed When i Fall Down - Paranoid_Pug (MCC gets attacked by watcher hunters)

And The Universe Shifts - aayaptre (fandom history)

this is about a stuffed bird - Bee_4 (apocalypse, Mumbo and EX dynamic)

fixed and dilated - iamsolarflare (Hypno & xB special hybrid powers shenanigans) 

Cause We Are Whole - ooFFFF (Tango becomes a robot and finds a new friend)

Nothing But Flowers - nho (Etho & myceluim resistance +nho references, sadly unfinished)

Still the Echoes Give Us Light - doctortrekkie (VERY good watcher grian series, HC + Traffic life series events.)

Eldritch Horror Keralis - MawoftheMagnetar (exactly what it says. but also oh so much more)

prometheus and the livewire - storm_warning (Ren the king is struggling. Doc is quiet and theres no news from him)

They say that the world was built for two - GardenerGulfie (Ren and Martyn keep meeting in different lives. also aromantic Ren pog)

Torchlight - Skelew (Ren is a god of a dead city stuck in the form of a torchlight and Martyn is his only follower)

the last days of the free angel of carrows - Bee_4 (Joe Hills and Zombie Cleo run a paranormal activity agency in a modern city. Cleo is a literal undead, Joe is a renowned angel, and together they get tied with a conspiracy against the city mayor.)

Lady Cleo, King Ren, and the Trials of The Midwest - storm_warning (Cleo and King Ren get teleported to Ohio)

Against The Clock - Leopardmask (Set in season 8, Evil X got possessed and the Horse Head Farms plus Wels and Jevin decide to deal with that) (Jevin is a slime & vex hybrid)

The Sky Weighs Heavy Tonight - MaoftheMagnetar (pilot au, set in a world with genetic mutations caused by a past war. gone emotional)

Joehills' Moderately Haunted House - zombiiehorse (Modern au, Joe buys a new house for a suspiciosly low price)

Monsters Splitting Hairs - Silverskye13 (Ren, Doc and Gem live in a village, forced to disguise as humans, bc of the history of the town) (great worldbuilding)

Lonesome Dreams - doctorletmebebrave (Jimmy Solidarity gets separated after the dragon fights and accepts a deal from the Listeners)

Lend Me A Hand - SolSearchingNights (Ponk sneaks onto hermitcraft and vents to Doc about their relationship with Sam)

Redstone and Skulk - Silverskye13 (Tango's helsmit Tanguish & Helsknight, delicious hels worlduilding)

Åttiofem - MawoftheMagnetar (Iskall has a terrible day getting kidnapped and finally discovers something about his past) (slight Stresskall shipping)

there are many downsides to being a marine biologist - donnerstag (modern day au with hybrids, Doc is a scientist studying a siren!Martyn whos been newly caught for their facility) (DOCMARTYN FISH YAOI LETS GO)

Ad Nauseam - mycelium_menace (Dawndragon) (Joe Hills is stuck in a timeloop. One day, a wild Cleo appears to shake him out of his apathy)

Black skies have changed into blue - GoodTimesWithScar (Oli Orionsound finds a wild Martyn, whos been reverse isekai'ed back from the datastream)

(i'll tend to the flames you can worship the) ashes - darubyprincxx (amazing post-rapture season 1 empires work. Fwhip and Gem survived and are on the run. They find a Pixlriffs, who's been missing for 8 years.)

misc., *mostly* smaller fics

Empires & others

Ghosts in the Sky - trafficpose (space au Martyn/Docm)

Kids in empires, what will they do?  - Faffodill (Hermes, Michael and Grumbot messing around)

food IS a love language and i will fight you on this - darubyprincxx (Hermes overhears a discussion between his parents)

Empires Strike Back - Leopardmask (A retelling of the Hermempires crossover)

Count fWhip Fails a Blood Test - darubyprincxx (set in empires season 1)

survivorship bias - Bee_4 (Jimmy wakes up in a city of New Pixandria, after the season 1 Rapture, with little to no memory of who he was before)

Fuck Around and Find Out - Moonstone_Kat (Sheriff Jimmy wants to finally end all the jokes about him being a toy and decides to pull off the most elaborate prank on his friends)

hermitcraft

a not so calculated catch - vexberries (Mermaid Scar and a sceptic Cub, who does not believe in mermaids but gets a crush)

Four Hearts - PieOfDeath (Jlethubs valentines day fluff)

Wind Back The Clock - guy56 (Bdubs and Etho have existed in many worlds and timelines yet they still keep meeting each other)

Hermit City Heroes series - 2point5 (Superhero AU) (actually pretty long)

What's The Letter That Starts The Alphabet (Ayy!) - Darubyprincxx (Team STAR look at Rens Very Bad presentation)

Joe Hills, Joe Hills, Joe Hills - leopardmask (the guy gets possessed)

The Rising Moon, The Setting Sun (series) - Dillbug (Watcher Grian, worshipper Xisuma, runaway s9 Pearl + Bonus Drista)

We're not that different, you and I - swemae (grian and scar talk about vex magic)

cmon mumbo dont tell me youve never heard of a stable time loop - Sixteenthdays (Mumbo gets his soul back)

bad things come in small packages - kiwinatorwaffles (Jimmy is a Watcher and vouches for Grian to become one as well)

Found - sparxwrites (Grian saves Scar from the Boatem hole)

I lost the old, guess I need something new - SkyWillSomeTimesWrite (Grian needs glasses)

What Does It Mean To Truly Live? - Wrenny_Fang_03 (an okay Watcher Grian thing where Xisuma is also an ex-Watcher. not my thing tbh but it was alright)

A Dog's Nose - dontrollthedice (Ren asks about Etho and Beefs relationship)

Guys and Dolls - Leopardmask (cool Doll Grian concept)

Sticker War - darkleweather

Name-Calling is NOT supposed to suck this badly (One chapter with a cool concept. Grian hears everyone who says his true name)

Buddy System - (Ren & Grian in the End)

Healing Is a Four Letter Word - Hypno_cat (Grian is a cryptid, joins hc in secret and hides in the woods)

an observer in a land of none - jaysflight (vague fantasy, watcher Grian (Veld) and Scar) (really loved this)

Inversing Allocation - Interjection (5+1 watcher Grian stuff)

Following in Pandoras footsteps - Paranoid_Pug (Grian gets a surprise present)

send me a wave via subspace - FangirlOfPower (Joe is stuck and communicates with Cleo via voicemail)

When This World Is No More (The Moon is All We'll See) - Silverskye13 (Season 8 moon crush, sad)

To Convey a Certain Brilliance - Bee_4 (Joe dies repeatedly while trying to find hermits after the moon fell)

An Inhuman Waltz - MawoftheMagnetar (Jev stole one of Cleo's armor stands for unknown reasons)

It Takes Two to Tango - EyelessFog (Tango realizes he might be a system)

The Guppy Geiser's Miraculous Return - simplydm (the guppy geiser returns!)

Investigative Journalism - jaz_it_up (Pix and Sloy explore ruins of the season 8 world to find if anyone survived)

Heart Storm - Duchess_Of_Dumpsters (one cool chapter of Joe and Wels shipping)

The guy who conquers death- ooFFFF (Zedeath tries to hunt down Joe)

The Orange Promise - bloop_im_a_frog_now (Cub and Scar are forced to get engaged by Cub's rich parents)

dream smp~

passerine - blujamas, thcscus

His Curse of Binding - bari_astralis (greek mythology themed au with reincarnation into modern times. the events of the early dream smp seasons are ancient history) (cried my eyes out)

Incarnate Inchoate - underoriginal (Dream is sent to hermitcraft and is forced to rethink his life choices)

Up For a Fight? (Tommy escapes the server to live a life by a fighting arena, changes in a lot of ways) (some typos in the text)

Black Bird Fly - MollyPollyKinz (everybody has wings and magic powers and tommy is a kidnapped prince)

It Feels Like Murder (Dream finds Sams body in the prison)

something you can’t bottle up - doingthewritethings (Tommy is slowly dealing with trauma)

Watch Untill The End - Noem (Dsmp fic in czech, a small reimagining of how the server was created, tied in with Evo and Tekkit lore)

#fic recs #mcyt fics #fics i enjoyed ^^

[bearbythebench]

Helsknight! More specifically, the Helsknight from "Redstone and Skulk" by Silverskye13 on AO3! (You should go read it, by the way. It's so good!)

Me rambling, below the cut

I never drew an armored character before, so I'm kinda proud of how this turned out! No helmet tho, because I'm a coward.

Drawing aside, that fic has consumed 90% of my brain in the last few weeks and I'm not articulated enough to explain how much I love everything about it. The worldbuilding, the writing style, the themes, the characterization, the descriptions... Everything.

Also, not really a spoiler, because it's literally in the summary of the chapter, but... RIP Hels' best armor. We never found out if you were actually netherite or just dyed diamond, but you shall be missed. o7

#helsknight #redstone and skulk #bearbytheart #bearbythepost

[wardenwyrd]

Writeblr Introduction

Dotted in secret stars and whispered moons lies The Warden O' Wyrd; too bright smiles and sharp eyes linger on her skin, miasma orbiting their visage. When dusk's hands sweep fluttering eyes closed her shackles, in turn, loosen.

Greetings and welcome all, I am Wardenwyrd - connoisseur of messy queers, the freaky & occult, and all things speculative fiction! I am freshly new to Writeblr and am keen to dig my claws so fellow denizens of Writeblr interact if you enjoy my vibes < 3

Open to ask and tag games !

◈What I write ◈

Anything and absolutely everything speculative, weird horror, all shapes and forms of queerness, and a metric ton of worldbuilding.

Genres: Fantasy (Low, high, dark, fairy tale-esque, etc), Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Romance, Horror, Mystery

Fantastical, often ethereal and treacherous worlds flavoured with flowery prose

Queer, neurodivergent, and disabled characters and themes. All kinds of diversity really. Always looking to broaden and grow my noggin' with wisdom

Gender queer characters. An UNBELIEVABLE amount of dyed hair and pronounces.

Body horror: elegant body horror; gross, grimy body horror; wonderfully queer body horror 'til I burst at the seams; all sorts. Twisting of the body into something other than human as a form of beauty my beloved < 3 < 3

Characters who desperately need therapy (That would be my fault)

Rich settings and worlds. Give me intricate magic systems !!! give me ecology that could be shown in a nature documentary !!!

🌔About Me 🌒

Goblin in my (late) teens. I've been writing for a whiiiile but started really getting into it about half a decade ago. I will ravenously consume all forms of creative media.

⭐Likes ⭐

Favourite colour: Purple my beloved Favourite band: Mili (I'm so normal about them) Favourite genre/s: Gothic lit, Fantasy, Horror romance, whimsical fairies Fav insect: Moths/Butterflies

Stats:

Creative writing college student

Panromantic Ace | Queering my gender to the max

English (Regrettably)

Autism kreachure

Revolving door of hyperfixations on science-y stuff

Purple hair (Not beating the stereotype allegations)

WIPs

[Note: I am very bad at deciding on WIP names]

Prisma

My surreal fantasy WIP comprised of a collection of different stories linked by a unifying setting.

Colour-Coded to the max. Each central story focuses on a character assigned a colour, differing in tone, POV, and focus. Main three are purple, blue, and red.

Literal becomes figurative, and figurative literal

Charms and incantations of old swirl in from afar, weaving our hands together with something much deeper than flesh – a curious sentiment oozing from the recesses of Damsel’s cloak as the feeling of moss and stone wove through my veins; cold and refreshing.

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‘What absurdity’, The Arbiter would think to himself. After all, those carmine red eyes of his delve into the primaeval madness: in their muddy depths lies the shivering madness - Fear. From fear is the knowledge wrenched from uncertainty and bloodshot eyes. Dread is the light; tugging on world-weary watchers. 

Sort of portal fantasy, sort of not. The stories in this WIP span across many eras and places, yet often find themselves connecting and mingling. Incredibly queer.

Main characters:

MC of Red, Jack Pronouns: He/Him Bnuuy ass trans Victorian boy. Pasty and WILL combust in the sun. Autism creature. He gets a himbo bf and sick asf t-surgery scars as a treat &lt; 3 Character Playlist

MC of Blue, Hel Pronouns: Any/All seemingly innocent girl but remove the innocent and girl part. Kind of an eldritch horror after a character arc but like, that's the good ending. So old surnames weren't a thing in the era they're from. Character Playlist

MC of Purple, Dorothea Pronouns: She/They Gatekeep, Gaslight, Girlboss. Autistic adhd precocious mess who WILL make it your problem. Genuinely manipulative but has great hair so it's fine. Character Playlist

Other notable mentions

[Note: I will elaborate on all of these later]

Witch WIP

My beloved blorbos < 3 Once I figure out how to frame and present it in a more refined way I like I shall be posting about this.

Personal & Cultural struggle within a fantasy context | Disability & Identity as a main theme | Aroace protagonist and Queerplatonic relationship | Magic inspired by folklore and myth | Found family

Low Fantasy setting in a somewhat alternate earth

Sprawling magic system

Conventional fantasy groups but with a spin: revamping those vibes

Witches aren't just funny flying women but genuinely inhuman creatures with spicy shit going on

Demons and angels but: demon is the colloquial term for a class of magical beasts characterised by dense essence, not like hell demons. Angels are living algorithms born from patterns and don't have an actual association to any gods.

MC Playlists:

Branwen | Ingram

Five Steps From Hell

Biblically Accurate Angelic-Flavoured paranormal apocalypse

Autistic MC

More horror oriented than action

Lots of vibes.

MC becoming something not very human, but they're more worried that they aren't worried too much about it

I've got some dastardly plans for this one. Vibes and atmosphere whilst the world falls apart and neurodivergence is a great combo.

#writeblr #writeblr introduction #writeblr intro #writeblr community #queer writers #trans writers #writer #writers of tumblr #fantasyauthors #fantasy writing #creative writing #Connoisseur of messed up queers #Feral gays all day