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[tryingtimi]

Hi Darmon 👉👈

Describe your ideal partner.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? (on vacation or permanently!)

What makes you laugh?

Are you a spiritual person?  If yes, what do you practice?

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?

@bloodlessheirbyjacques

@bloodlessheirbyjacques 😎❤️ Asks from this list.

He stands beside a fully packed table — colourful tarts, fruits and drinks everywhere — when you enter the room. “Welcome, I hope you had a safe travel.” He bows a little, smile nowhere to be seen on his face, but he does seem open to your arrival. He gestures towards the free chair which you see have some weakly glowing crystals attached to its legs and back. You sit down, and notice the faintest beam of golden light coming around Darmon’s fingers as he twirls them to guide them behind you and make your chair gently move closer to the table. Only then he takes his seat too.

He leans closer on his elbows on the table and his waiting features make you start eventually.

"Describe your ideal partner."

He seems lost in thought for a second. "Hm, I haven't given too much thought to this before. You see, I'm determined to be careful with idealisation. Whatever can seem to be an admirable trait in someone, the context of their actions where they use it is what..." He pauses and looks at you. Then, in a barely visible, sheepish manner, continues. "I'm sorry for the lecture. I took this a little seriously, haven't I? The truth is, I do not remember my preferences. The last person who came close to be my partner lived a... very long time ago, to say the least. The only thing I vaguely remember about him is his smile and the way he took care of the elderly back then." He pats his thumb with his other finger, then a ghost of a smile appears in the corner of his lips, as if he just remembered something. "Although, I'm surely drawn to a forthright and tenacious companion. Honesty is the most important for me, thus I can live with a fiercy kind of it as well. As for appearence and such, I truly not care for anymore. I'm not sure I ever did in this matter."

"If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? (on vacation or permanently!)"

"I would like to visit Nareethi’s home someday. She talked a lot about it and it sounds like a very fascinating place. Yaran is how their current location is called. I say current location, because the Shar-Dlin is a wandering nation, as it was brought to my attention by her. They built their society around these city-sized beasts — I think they referred to it as djaanvar —, whom they track until it settles down to die and let itself turn into plant-like organisms, basically. They use its remains as the base of their homes. The specific example she used was its lungs, that's tissues crawl under the desert's soil and grows vegetables and fruits there. It doesn't last forever, however, because the maintinace of these remains lasts approximately 100-200 years only. So, before they would run out of food, the Shar-Dlin begin to search after another beast that plans to settle down." Darmon's face glows with excitement, even though, he does not smiles still. "It would be great to take a look at these creatures, Nareethi's culture and respectfully study how the djaanvar works."

"What makes you laugh?"

Darmon starts to tap his thumb with his other finger. Some minutes pass before he speaks again. "Eldnar's and Drehana's provocative retorts. Also Cronyl and Bra'aka could perform as comedians sometimes."

"Are you a spiritual person?  If yes, what do you practice?"

"I was an active follower of the Three Goddess of Everything, in my ancient times. I do not use past tense, because I stopped believing in them. I only neglected my practice, when I joined Troghrun. Now, I'm afraid I can't fully go back to them, though. With everything happening in the worlds, my knowledge towards some of them faded and I can feel it fading further away day by day. But, I do work on keeping what's left of it alive and teach to as many people as I can."

"What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?"

Darmon leans back in his chair, one hand on the armrest, one reamining on the table. He stays quiet, eyes looking at the corner. He doesn't stare into nothing, though, but into a place long forgotten; into an age long lost. Then, his non-crystal eye wander back at you and as if he just doesn't want to burden you with the weight of his choices; he smiles a little, eventually. "This interview."

#AY IT’S DONE FINALLY #the djaanvar is a placeholder but watch me getting attached to it #also the concept of them can change too #THE WAY I WAS SWEATING BLOOD TO FIND HIS VOICE LMAO #idk if i succeeded but it was fun #TOO MUCH FUN #thank you love 💗 #oc interview #ask game #Darmon Strotagor #My Love #lot of plot and worldbuilding crumble #Project Metalsea

[margridarnauds]

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🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?

6, probably. It isn't my favorite bit, because it's harder to tell when IT'S done VS when the overall plot is done, it's much harder to constantly reread what you've written and go "did I do what I set out to do?" I think that with my last thing, I spent more time editing than writing; there was one part that required the whole scene to be rewritten about three times. And it's never fun to have a part that you really liked and then have to cut (there was one line in my most recent one that KILLED me to cut -- it's safe in another document so I can use it down the line, but still). On the plus side, it's also where I get to fill out parts, add things to suit the mood, build atmosphere when I feel like I need to do that.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

...oh. God. WEIRD, hm. I guess that depends on how you define "weird" -- for some people, authentic Old Irish is weird, but for me, that's just bringing my job into my fanfic. But I suppose for things that are far away from what I would usually do...

For anything set in the Toho RetJ world, I actually did look at pictures of, say, Chernobyl now, to give myself a template for how the world would look like. I looked up different predictions for how the world would look after a certain number of years, including weather patterns, natural disasters, etc., looked at videos like "Life After People" from the History Channel (which is...the History Channel, but gave me some inspiration), looked up photos of crumbling apartment buildings and how they look and the kind of natural decay that settles in, while also hunting down articles on the Shakespeare so that that could inform some of my characterizations.

Likewise, for my Terra Nova fanfic, I often found myself looking up fossils from the Cretaceous period, both plant and animal, trying to integrate them into the world of Terra Nova, looking through pictures of the sets so I could try to do some worldbuilding for how the world of the show works.

For my BG3 things, I have, like, 4-5 lore books on my computer, and I've looked up everything from, say, how to kill Lolth to drider transformation to Drow foods in the Underdark to Drow burial rites to coming of age rituals to necromancy to whether Devils in the world of DND eat mortals (...undecided) to Cambion biology (answer: they'd have to be able to decide on what a Cambion IS first) to what body temperature a Drow VS an Elf would have. I've looked up the ingredients to various potions for the sake of Kitrye's alchemy, common traits among albinos IRL VS the Szarkai in DND for Malla (Malla's eyesight is too good, but it's essential to her character, so sure), and real-world contracts and the language involved to write Raphael's deals. For a non-DND player, I've had to dive as deeply into the lore as possible (and often, esp. with regards to the Drow, going "that's stupid, I'm doing something better".)

For weirdest research OVERALL, definitely probably walking up and down a ~16th-17th century fortress so I could get a feel for how the Bastille might have felt.

...actual 18th century smut and how gay men in the 18th century usually conceived of sex. Opera schedules from the 18th-19th centuries, so that, when an opera's mentioned, it's usually something that was either playing at the time or plausible.

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

God, I've gotten to see a lot of really good fanart, and, especially, now that I'm doing BG3 things, I am really routinely being spoiled. I'm going to give a list, just because I think that there are worse things to spill a lot of ink on than giving people their proper due.

First of all, propping my friends, @hotelfgirl did a piece of Kitrye that lives rent free in my head. She has that specific sad girlfailure vibe that I love to see.

@drewsaturday did some Morléans fanart for my birthday that also lives eternally rent-free in my head; it really captured part of the appeal of the ship (besides the tragic ending), which is the level of trust involved, the intimacy of it.

For Irish Myth stuff, even if it's always slightly awkward to call it "fanart" in the same way that, say, BG3 things are fanart or things for my musicals are fanart, anything by @amylouioc, absolutely wonderful interpretations of medieval Irish figures by a modern Irish artist, my favorite is probably Nuada over here. I love the lighting, I love the color scheme, I love the detailing around the arm, especially the little blue tatoos...and, admittedly, I also love that Nuada's a KILF (King I'd Like To--terrorize the Fomoiri with) because I am, at the end of the day, a simple woman. (You all thought it was going to be Bres, didn't you?)

@aodhan-art - WONDERFUL pieces from medieval Irish lit; the first piece of his I was aware of was this one which...well. He knows the context, but it was a very memorable part of a very memorable trip for me. There's this real...sassiness Áed in particular has that I love, this real sense of personality. I also have to talk about this; it isn't often that we get Bres/Sreng fanart (or anything about Bres at ALL), so I love seeing him memed; I'm glad someone put up the money to do the commission and I'm even more glad he did it, it's perfect for both of them. Lest anyone think I'm forgetting Bres' better half, though, I love the work done on Bríg here; I love all the little detailing, all the textures, the little freckles on her skin, the clothing ITSELF looking like something from medieval Ireland.

Speaking of which, @violetcancerian's drawing of Bres and Sreng here, like. Look at them. It's Christmas. They're happy.

For BG3 fanart...

@lemmeurs Raphael fanart here is great; I love anything that captures the duality of Raphael's character, I love the use of lighting and shadow in it, the single strand of hair hanging over his face in both the Cambion and Human forms, the sharp edges of his cheekbones, the overall color scheme. Legitimately have not stopped thinking about it for days.

@shahs1221 ANYTHING by her is great, I really love this one here. For obvious professional reasons, I can't engage with any Professor/Student Raphael content on here (nothing personal, but if I don't engage with it, I have nothing to hide if anyone decides to link my fandom life to my academic life...which has happened before, regrettably), BUT her Professor Raphael art, both this and the follow-up, live rent-free in my brain (I will also note, if any colleagues, mentors, undergrads, potential peer reviewers, etc. should FIND this, they will note that it is based on a wonderful fic series where Raphael is dating someone who is NOT a student). LOVE the cozy academia vibe, especially the one in the follow-up where he's sleeping in a nice, incredibly comfortable looking sweater. (The real question in life: Do I want Raphael in this art or do I want to BE Raphael in this art?) Also...the baby cow eyes paired with sharp cheekbones are in full effect, causing me to briefly have my IQ drop into the single digits.

@adarlingmess WONDERFUL Raphael content in general, but I think I lean towards Dadbod!Raphael in the bath . I love it for the...plot? ("The plot" in this case being "Those cheekbones + a soft stomach"). I love the atmosphere, the kind of haze created by a combination of the steam + candles, Raphael looking relaxed for once in his immortal life, the way the candlelight plays on his face, the railing in the background (...not...that kind of railing...the railing from the game. The metal railing that is in the game.) Overall, it just really captures the feeling of that area of the Boudoir very well, it brings in a lot of small details, AND Raphael looks very good.

@potatocrisp Absolutely LOVE the dynamic that their Tav has with Raphael, the kind of push/pull dynamic on both ends, the way the two of them are both compromised for one another but are extremely stubborn about it (favorite Tavphael dynamic, ngl), the way that her Tav very clearly has the upper hand over this immortal, ancient being. I love her character design, I love the detailing on his doublet, especially the little shine of metal at his wrists, the little lace edging at her stockings.

@infernaldaydreams Hahaha, BG3 fanart that is NOT Raphael. I love everything I've seen of hers, but this one is probably my favorite, not the least because it was the first one I saw. I love how bittersweet it is, I love the tenderness, the focus on hands, the way that Gortash's face gets overshadowed and then lightens up for her, I just...God, these two rotten people have me in a chokehold, I love them. (But also, in the nicest possible way, fuck you for making me feel THINGS, knowing how Durgetash ends in canon.)

#long post #thank you!

[eridanidreams]

for the fic asks-

25 -What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

35 - What’s your favorite fic you’ve posted? (perhaps chapter instead of full fic?)

58 -Do you have a favorite piece of figurative language you’ve written?

72 -What’s your favorite writing compliment you’ve gotten?

25. What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

I would say worldbuilding and writing are tied for first, and that's because for me, they're heavily integrated. As often as not, I'll be in the middle of writing a scene and something will come out that the back of my brain's been working on; I'll step back and take a look at it and then do some more worldbuilding around it. (The hat Sam gives Cait is an excellent example of that--I hadn't consciously thought of that ahead of time, but once it came out onto the page it made so much sense, and gives me a fuller sense of Sam's mom. Which will undoubtedly come into play in later chapters.)

35. What’s your favorite fic you’ve posted?

Ooooh. I don't actually have one favorite, because different fics/chapters do different things, and I have to break it down by category…

Favorite action: Chapters 11-12 of Odysseus Gambit. The KGB office fight, followed by the bike chase; I was very happy with how those came out. Especially Sloane's "come with me if you want to live" moment and Adam's unexpected revelation.

Favorite fluff: No contest, Chapter 22 of stars. I really ought to send that out with complimentary fluoride tablets, it's so sweet.

Favorite horror: Chapter 13 of Odysseus Gambit, currently. Fucking Chernoboar. I was doing my best to channel some Arthur Machen there… but we'll see how I feel when I get to the Vanguard arc in stars…

Favorite smut: I haven't published a lot of smut yet (but that will change, I have several WIPs), but Disciplinary Action takes the cake right now. That was a lot of firsts for me: first published fanfic, first slashfic, first published smut… That was where I learned that I simply cannot write porn without plot. It was supposed to be a light joke prompt, and turned into gasp character development.

58. Do you have a favorite piece of figurative language you’ve written?

Yes! This is from a future chapter of Odysseus Gambit, when that mental box Adam's shoving all his problems into shatters and he has a full-on breakdown.

It was like the walls of Panchaea crumbling, cold ocean boiling in through the gaps, dark and relentless; the bitterness of years roaring out of the breach in his defenses. Words floated like detritus on the current of his anger. “Sooner or later, everyone betrays me.” By the time he realized what he’d said, it was too late to claw the words back. It was unjust—he knew it, but he didn’t care. No, that wasn’t true; he cared too much. A voice echoed in his head. You’re a ghost. A fuckin’ tragedy. Everything that you touch—everything that touches you—dies. Maybe that was why he was doing his best to blight this—whatever it was between them—before it could root any deeper into her heart. Yank it out by the roots, ignore how his own heart bled. She’d hate him for it, but she’d be alive to do it.

72. What’s your favorite writing compliment you’ve gotten?

My answer to this on @a-cosmic-elf's ask was my favorite overall kind of compliment, so for this one I'm going to go with my favorite technical compliment. It's voice. When people tell me they can 'hear' my dialogue in the voice of the character in question? That's incredibly uplifting to know that I'm capturing the characters that well.

#starfield #deus ex mankind divided #deus ex #starfield fanfiction #fanfic #eridani writes #writing

[nataliescatorccio]

Hello, Becca! I hope you're doing well! Bit of a random question perhaps but since you are a woman of great tastes, I am curious: What are your top 10 favorite shows?? Feel free to add what you like most about them! Thanks for indulging me and keep being amazing <3

hello phoe! hope you're well too<3 i'll be honest, whenever i get this kind of question my mind immediately goes blank and i forget any show i've ever watched, so this is by no means a 'definitive list' because there are definitely things i love that just slip my mind, but here are more shows i've really enjoyed this past year:

the witcher: for the women who take shit from no one and kick ass, but also for the found family vibes. the witcher will always have a special place in my heart, the characters are both fantastic on their own and interacting with each other, and this show will always feel like home to me

shadow and bone: just because i've giffed it a lot this week and it brought back all the feelings. comedy mixed with action, it was just an adventure and a joy. shadow and bone brings back the young adult fantasy nostalgia my brain craves, but injects a freshness of sarcastic comedy into it with the addition of the crows (my beloveds)

yellowjackets: rewired my brain chemistry. it was the biggest surprise of a show for me because i actually thought i really would not vibe with it as it's marketed towards horror and i am a scardy cat who does not vibe with anything horror. and yet, from the first episode it completely grabbed me. the wanting to know what happened next of course, but mostly just getting to see the intricate relationships between girls. there is nothing out there quite like yellowjackets, and for that reason it really is a special one

house of the dragon: divorced lesbians let's go! i love a show that's a tragedy. i love a show where i know the ending and it's inescapable. i love watching everything crumble whilst knowing there is no way out, and yet begging at every second for something to somehow change. just fantastic worldbuilding, fantastic characters, and fantastic relationships to watch burn. if you like angst and pain this one's for you!

our flag means death: i don't think anything exists quite like our flag means death. it's a breath of fresh air in the tv world. there's a character for everyone to love, whatever archetype you fall for. and it's guaranteed to be a rollercoaster of emotions: this show has made me laugh and cry but most importantly it never disappoints

the last of us: show of 2023 for me. i knew very little about the last of us game watching this, and for that reason i was hooked the second i started watching because i just had to know what happened. i still have to know what happens, the wait for 2024 may kill me. just a great action-packed show with the most beautiful acting in existence

good omens: good omens was just a little bit of light in my life this year. where a lot of shows in the currently tv world rely on heavy action sequences, or gore, or even sexual content, good omens challenges that perfectly. it's a light-hearted relief, even silly at times (in the best way possible), but also knows how to make you think and make you cry. i just adore how the plot is done, with a 'present day' storyline but also several stories that run in the past to see how the characters got to where they are now, it's a trope that i very much enjoy

bridgerton: i absolutely love a good period drama. i grew up watching many a jane austen adaptation with my mum, and so there is something incredibly comforting to me about adaptations set in this time. bridgerton is just a good vibe, i know it will make me feel warm and fuzzy inside no matter what drama it also serves on the side. plus kate and anthony? rewrote the definition of chemistry

the umbrella academy: honourable mention to my little superhero show of chaos. if you like superhero shows, watch the umbrella academy. if you don't like superhero shows, watch the umbrella academy. it's a chaotic mix of found family and time travel and trying to save the world and that makes it perfection

merlin: shoutout to this classic because i've been rewatching it lately and damn, they just don't make tv like they used to in the mid to late 2000s. at times it's cheesy, at times it makes you want to bawl your eyes out, and you know what? you'll never know which one it's going to be. it's absolutely ridiculous but entirely fun. once you accept that the bad cgi is hilarious you'll be guaranteed a wonderful show, just take your tissues with you for the sudden gut-punches of emotion it provides

#takaraphoenix #i hope this helps and isn't just me rambling as i often do anyway lol

[mintytrifecta]

Okay. Okay. So. I’ve seen you tag so many posts with code name:Lenore and for the longest time I thought it was a piece of media I just happened to not have heard of, but somewhat recently I remembering you saying it was your original project and jfjddkdkdk okay pls do not feel pressured to answer if you don’t feel like it or anything but if you would like to share I’m asking, I’m asking SO LOUDLY about it cuz the little context clues I think I have picked up the vibes make it sound SO NEAT so yeah if you would like to share anything about it I would love to hear :3

DUUUUUDE I'D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT IT HELL FRICKIN YEAH!!!!

SO Codename: Lenore is a hypothetical novel I'm developing!!! Right now I'm just in like the plot development and worldbuilding stage so the story isn't fully concrete ^^; HOWEVER I DO HAVE SOME LORE >:DDD AND ITS GOING UNDER THE READ MORE CAUSE I HAVE. A LOT. SSNSGHND

Lenore is a robot built of embossed brass that's long been oxidized who wakes up in an unknown era in an unknown, tiny spaceship with only one universal truth present in her head.

She has a mission to find and record every folktale she can, before time runs out.

She doesn't know why, or how, or where this idea came from, nor does she know why time is running, but she knows she has to do it.

It's lonely, at first. Every planet she visits locally in her crumbling ship seems... empty. Devoid of any life. She spends who knows how long going to whatever area of a planet seems the least in ruins and tries to grab whatever she can but there's not much. There's barely one full legend anywhere and everything she finds she has to fill the blanks in. Although, a lot of them do seem to have the running theme of light in them. Light and grief and storms and anguish and so much pain with no real explanation.

It's only after she finds this pattern that Lenore notices the space around her is just as desolate as the planets she visits. Barely any starlight around and what little does show up is red and flicker. Finding this out, Lenore goes to a nearby star to investigate, one that barely has any shine to it.

As soon as she gets close enough it explodes and sends her unconscious and flying back who knows how far.

Next thing she knows Lenore wakes up on an unfamiliar ship with three people staring at her waiting for her to wake up.

Lenore is, understandably wigged out.

But they smile at her anyway and introduce themselves as the Lightspeeds!! A group of Star Hunters and Speedship racers who've been tracking the stars in this piece of space.

The "leader" of their group is the speedship racing pilot herself and head of navigation is Mairin!! Hothead, spirited and quick to make friends but prone to impulse. She welcomes Lenore to their ship with open arms, exclaiming how relieved she is Lenore is alright.

The engineer and head Mairin's partner lurking off to the corner is Khyun. He's closed off and cool but not neccesarily snappy. He's the one who got Lenore back up and running, claiming that they're lucky he likes history as much as he does, or else he wouldn't have recognized any of how Lenore's systems work.

Lastly, the botanist and head of oxygen and survival resources is Elise. She smiles, claiming she's the one who found Lenore's ship careening out at insane speeds and got everyone to help rescue her.

They explain that as Star Hunters, their mission is to find, record and track live stars and ghosts in the universe so that anyone else who's ship-born knows where's safe to stay for a while and what volatile spaces to avoid.

Speedship racers are a bit of a niche sport/subculture for Star Hunters. They compete in laps around stars of different sizes to see who has the fastest and smoothest ship and he winner gets to claim the biggest star found for their Star Hunter team and put it on the map under their name. To enter a speedship race you have to fill a certain quota of living stars found around a specific area and chart them under the name of your team. In this case, the Lightspeeds.

After a bit of talking they strike a deal with her. Lenore gets to help them find stars and work during their races and in return they help her search for folklore on any system-stars they come across.

A while passes and Lenore's officially a member of the Lightspeeds and she's building up a considerable portfolio of folklore. They haven't stopped though, with the theme of grief and stars, which is kind of suspicous to Lenore. They've traveled pretty far from where she was originally at and she gets that similair themes can occur in different cultures, but this is way too often to be mere coincidence.

Then it hits.

The stars are dying. They're dissapearing faster and faster than they can keep track of. The universe is collapsing in on itself with barely any time to preserve everything that's still here.

Lenore and the rest of the Lightspeeds have their work cut out for them.

That's the synopsis and a little bit of the plot I guess gshsnsn I've got more but if I kept going this would be too long so uuuh I'll leave it at this:

In the story there's a lot of themes and allegories to ghosts. Pretty much everyone in the story is haunting or is haunted in one way or another, narratively or not. With all the stars dying, their light still remains, all the planets are gone but stories they've made get to live on, Lenore is a robot, built and decorated with a story so personal to a society long, long gone. Isn't that a ghost?

Well yeah there's metaphorical ghosts but there are also literal ones >:))

See, sometimes when a dying star sends out a solar flare or explodes in a supernova, it'll reach people living on nearby planets. Caught in that light, they die, but their bodies last second absorb that light and essentially become it. Living afterimages of the people they were made out of pure light. They keep "living" for ages after, holding onto themselves as much as possible, but it doesn't always last.

If you're made of light, it's easy to forget what it was like when you were more then that. It's easy to lose memory. Lose shape.

As time goes on it's harder and harder to keep a solid form and idea of who you are. As this happens, as you slowly fade, your light... shifts. Less solid, blue glows become yellow. Slightly transparent and with some strange shifts of appearance, sure, but you're still fine. The real danger starts when you begin to shift red.

Closer to red means closer to dead. You begin to become transparent, unable to be seen under harsh colored lights. Your memory isn't what it used to be and now that you can barely see yourself its hard to hold shape.

Thank goodness none of our cast is that right :)) Thank goodness nobody in the Lightspeeds is hiding this in any kind of shift from yellow to red right :)))))) We certaintly wouldn't want our resident botanist to be hiding something like that from their friends right :))))))) Wouldn't want our resident folklorist android being an amnesiac of one, her creator, stuck in a metal shell with no way of knowing what she really looked like and who she was before she was :))))))))) Wouldn't want a group hellbent on desperate survival and worship of gravity and black holes to force people into becoming those to praise the gravity of a singularity and turn into light as a way to live as one with a decaying universe :)))))))))))))))

#I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO SAY BUT TUMBLR HAS A WORD LIMIT DAMMIT #IF YOU WANT IT HEAR MORE UUUH IDK SEND ANOTHER ASK ABOUT A QUESTION OR DM ME??? DNSJJSJD #That's my bootleg space Nascar crew story <33 the basic rundown of it anyway cndjsjjs #Codename: Lenore #Please ask me about the agriculture of this universe ask me about how they make clothes ask me about how they measure time ask me about- #ASK ME ABOUT LENORE'S CREATOR!!!!

[signalhill-if]

🖊 the city, given that you've talked about how it's a character

I didn't get to this because I got a bunch of (nice) hatemail after, sorryyyyy

So I wanna use this as an opportunity to talk about the idea of location as character and how I'm trying to implement that in Signal Hill?

Specifically, the city of Revachol, and the way it is characterized in Disco Elysium, is a huge inspiration. Revachol is a place with a past, needs, desires. It is fractured by war, struggling to maintain itself, on the edge of collapse- a mirror to our main character. Or arguably, our main character is a mirror to Revachol.

Every encounter in the city, while many do serve to push the plot forward, is inherently there to characterize the city itself. The doomed commercial district where any attempt at building something new crumbles, the piers where rich outsiders felt they could change this city and neber succeeded, the rotting corpse in the yard where abused children hang around all day doing drugs. Yes, all of this is part of the plot, but it's also all such an integral part of the city. It's all telling a story about who the city is, and what its future holds.

I will never claim to be on the level of Disco Elysium, haha. But their approach is very inspiring to me. While creating the world, I took a whole lot of time with each addition to think "What is this saying about the city? How does this serve the city?"

I've definitely not gotten it perfect yet. There are a lot of elements of the worldbuilding that are hard to convey all at once, without their own dedicated stories. Over time you'll have to work to reveal those, and I believe they'll add to the world over time as well- for example, Reese is going to bring you to one of his old haunts when you go out with him again, and you're going to unlock that as a location you can go on the overworld map. I'm hoping to over time create an evolving view of the city as you get to know it better. Whether I'll succeed in that, I guess that's up to interpretation, haha.

#ask #anonymous #ask game

[wuahae]

ok writing ask!!

my favorite fic of yours - obviously the APPLE PIE doyoung timestamp u wrote me like at the beginning of our friendship /////j although that one regularly makes me extremely sad and tender and im not ashamed of it. my REAL answer is gravity!! i think it was so masterful how you bounced from past to present and for a fic that has like ... a LOT of introspection and vibes it kept me engaged the whole time. the prose was chefs kiss brilliant. there r still lines i think about and i LOVEE the central metaphor of the gravity that pulled yn/sunwoo tgt. and i felt like it was just so authentic of a conflict. it didnt feel contrived or immature--everything was well thought out and i really could empathize and understand with all of the characters!

8. what i like most ab ur writing - i feel like its really hard to pick one singular thing but i think one thing that stands out the most is how realized yn's inner world is. like its clearly really well conceived and i love how inspired their characters/motivations are!

11. ok my little pipe dream is that u write a fantasy or mystery fic....like i know we've been rolling the idea of a mythology au or something around but i think u would really excel at worldbuilding and the complex imagery needed for a non-real world fic!!! alternatively an e2l fic but i know u arent gnna write that one HAHA

HUUUUUUU YOUUU………… honestly i wld not blame you if apple pie doyoung was a legit choice HAHA like i still deem it one of my favs to this day, not to mention it was the fic that got me in ur dms 😚😚 but also your pick being GRAVITY is sooo. HUU gravity is just so personal to me 😭😭😭 sometimes i go back to read it and im like Hm maybe i was just microwaving w this one but to hear u say this abt it means the world to me ☹️☹️ i also go back to read your review of it MONTHLY im so serious .

and GAH!! im so glad to hear you say that actually because i always Try to make yn seem believable and have the conflicts not only reflect the character themselves but write them in a way that makes them feel tangible :”) i try!!! i really do 🥹🥹

FANTASY OR MYSTERY……,hu…….well you can maybe get a Dose in my dolily fantasy drabble slow cooking in the crockpot but . its actually so funny to hear you say that because originally i started out writing original fiction and All my plotlines were set in fantasy worlds 🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️ i’ve since become too smoothbrained head hurty to really establish a good fantasy world and magic system within it BUT! maybe one day . maybe one day… and also e2l HELP like HONESTLY i would love to be able to pull off writing an e2l but even halfway through thinking of the plot i’m like. WHY FIGHT! WHY NOT LOVE…… and then the au crumbles to pieces

but moreover TYSM FOR SENDING THIS IN…….ive been mulling over how to respond to this all day even as i was waiting in line at the concert but i don’t think anything i say Here or in our dms can truly convey how grateful and thankful i am that you are my friend 🥹🥹🫶

#iiiiii think . that mythology au we keep rolling around……… #i have a juyeon drabble set up and MAYBE it can be a series but idk. idk……. #maybe ill bring a skeleton of a drabble over to u ….One day #q&a — lily ♡

[ceph-the-ghost-writer]

Wednesday Writing Log Aug. 30

Word Count Roundup

Phagophobia: 40,193

The Primrose Path: 7,591

Last Week's Targets

✓ Finish sketching out final chapters of Phagophobia

✓ Write a little bit of Primrose Path

New Week's Goals

Continue writing final chapters of Phagophobia (finish if possible)

Start learning how to make one of those Neocities sites we've heard so much about

Bonus: Write a little more Primrose Path just because

Rambles and excerpt below the cut

The end is nigh. Or, well, something that vaguely looks like a conclusion is. It's enough closure for me to feel satisfied that I can go back to rewriting Apophenia/Phagophobia anyway.

Even in their fragmented states both stories combined are now just over 50k in words. I'm expecting that to grow in future drafts to maybe 65k-75k. Enough to call it a novel. Eventually.

But that's jumping ahead again. After I write down the rough final chapter(s), I have to go back and outline a new draft. For realsies this time. Normally, I outline a few chapters, get excited, start writing, then everything falls apart because new ideas pop up. This time, though...this time I'm going to outline from beginning to end. Will things still shift unexpectedly while I'm writing? Undoubtedly. But I'm going to have to grit my teeth, go back to the outline, and see how that affects things when changes pop up. It goes against my pantser nature, but if I ever want to self-publish something in an official capacity...I need a plan to get there.

As for The Primrose Path, I decided to just jump around as far as scenes go. I have no set plot for this one yet aside from "Sun Priest meets Death Deity and they fight/kiss about the state of their world a lot". There's something in there about Shadyrus no longer wanting to be a god--the job kinda sucks actually, and they're smart enough to realize it. The trick is finding out how all this fits into the worldbuilding/cosmology.

Looks like I'm going to need another outline.

If you've made it this far, have a snippet:

Despite the lack of any other living soul, the grassy area above hadn’t grown wild. A slim path of white bricks, swept clean and only slightly mossy, snaked its way further in. Belly full of dread but heart driven by determination, Ân followed it to a small, crumbling stone temple. A storm or maybe just age had sent a large tree branch crashing into the roof, caving half of it in. Vines dripping with bell-shaped white flowers were busy pulling down the walls. The anxiety that had been poisoning him for weeks drained from Ân. This? This collapsing hovel was the symbol of Shadyrus’s glory? He could demolish what remained with a few good kicks. “Welcome, illuminator. We’ve been expecting you.” Ân tensed at the crackling rasp in the otherwise mild voice. One that spoke Heaven’s Speech just as naturally as he did. He directed a glare at the figure in white robes he caught leaning against the wall by the arched (and doorless) entryway. This revenant had once been a man old enough to be a grandfather. Its jaw and cheeks were coated in a close-cropped gray and white beard. A crown woven from the wall’s small flowers sat atop its soft cloud of similarly pale hair. Despite the creases in its skin, the creature’s back and shoulders remained straight and strong, letting it tower over Ân. “I take it your god is somewhere in this heap then?” he said, refusing to be intimidated. With its lids half-closed over eyes gone the same blue as the sky, the revenant took on a dreamy look when it smiled. “Shadyrus is waiting for you below, yes.” His heart gave a nasty lurch. “Below?” “Take the winding stairs behind the altar. They go down into the vaults.”

#writing process #wednesday writing log #to the vaults! #it's really not that scary #unless you don't like being underground #or in the dark #or surrounded by the masks of deceased people #or mushrooms #they grow mushrooms down there too

[jule1122]

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

Thank you for asking!

🌈is there a fic that you worked really fucking hard on that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

I would have to say not letting what we built up crumble to dust. The plan was to write a short ficlet about Michael restoring a piano for Alex and it turned into a more complicated story about their relationship. I spent a lot of time reading about piano restoration so that part could be semi accurate. Writing that fic in general was difficult. I was really struggling with writing and by the time I finished it, it felt more like a failure than anything. it was that well received and for a while I was convinced it would be my last fic.

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

100% characters. Anyone familier with my writing knows there is rarely any plot and descritions are minimial. Want to know what they are wearing? Your guess is as good as mine. All I really want to do is make them talk and love each other and be happy.

#fic meme answers #my fic

[jpeg-dot-jpeg]

🌈 💞 and 💌 for the asks!

(It's @bibatboy and I was hoping you'd reblog that ask post so I could prod you for answers too 😂)

thanks for the ask bestie <3

meant to answer this earlier but then life got in the way

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

I'd have to say the fic I struggled the most with was probably Karyogamy. It is, to date, the longest fic I've written and the first longfic I've made. I did a lot of deliberating about how I wanted to alternate universes to differ and the whole thing came out much longer than originally intended. Chapters 3 and 4 especially beat it out of me. Before then, I didn't really have any experience advancing plot so it was a challenge, but I'm really proud of how it turned out!

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I've answered questions like this before and my response is always different lol. I guess I'd have to say the relationships between the characters are most important to me when I'm writing. I mean, I am a ship writer so that comes with the territory, but I always worry that the relationships between characters seem rushed or underdeveloped or not explained well.

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

okay so I literally have 18 wips rn plus 4 fully completed works that I just haven't posted yet, including that JayTim abo fic I posted a snippet of in a previous ask, a JayTim fluff/cuddle fic, and a smutty prequel to The Lost Art of Minding Your Goddamn Business, but I think this time I'm gonna tease you with a little angsty Bart Allen-centric piece I'm working on <];)

The physical sensation of it is unlike anything Bart has ever experienced before. The memory of his death haunts him. There is the fire searing his skin to ashes, boiling his blood, muscles contracting and shriveling and crumbling away all at once. It envelops him, like being shrink wrapped in a sheet of lava.

Almost as bad is the force of the fireball slamming into him. His bones shatter. His insides fold in on themselves. Bart has gotten smacked around a lot, thrown in walls, punched, kicked, even flattened a time or two, but none of that compares to this. This is the kind of blunt force that on its own is enough to beat the life out of him in one swift strike, one spectacular bang.

Bart isn’t sure which killed him first: the heat or the hit.

#ask #ask answered #JayTim #TimKon #fic rec #Bart Allen #🅱️🦇🅱️

[jlilycorbie]

Spite can be a great motivator, and honestly, anything that gets you moving is good. For me personally, I’ve found that spite doesn’t provide much fuel, but it can absolutely be an ignition point.

I’ve got two (currently backburnered) WIPS that I think have the most clear parallels between the thing that made me mad enough to start worldbuilding and the work that came of it.

The first started with Ready Player One. I’m not going to dive into what I didn’t like about that story or why, but I will say I spent a lot of time with friends working through all the holes that...frustrated me. And now I’ve got an untitled cyberpunk story.

I wanted a not-too-distant future, and I didn’t want a full dystopia. I’d like to think as we all shamble forward, we’ll make more gains than we do losses. So not a utopia either. Just the world, where a lot of people still call it a dumpster fire, but it could be worse.

The story happens in a future US that, following a civil war and plague, is no longer a world power (I started working on this in about 2017, and while it initially felt uncomfortably prescient, I think really it was just a case of reading the room. Also, I figured the social structure would need the damage from an actual war in order to crumble enough to fail to stop or control a plague, and well...somehow no matter how little faith I think I have, I can still be let down). It’s set inside and outside an arcology. One character lives outside of it, in a public housing building known as the Hive, where anyone who needs it can have a room, and there are shared bathrooms and showers. There’s supposed to be city-wide internet available to everyone, but the signal inside the Hive goes down a lot. 

There are night markets that run almost entirely off barter, and stone soup kitchens that also run off of trade, often food for food. There are rations available, but they don’t take into account allergies and other needs, and the stone soup kitchens help meet needs.

Public schools are available both in person and virtually, and parents and students choose which you attend, which allows allocation of resources that makes schools more accessible (supposedly). Students can provide their own supplies or the school will issue them, and even in virtual school with standardized avatars, it’s obvious who needed school-issued tech. 

My main character is struggling her way through virtual school that was supposed to erase any inequities between students, and her best friend in the world lives in the arcology, but they’ve never met in person. She assumes it’s because she’s too poor to be allowed into the private sections of the arcology, but it’s really because her BFF has severe agoraphobia and can’t leave her bedroom and she doesn’t want anyone to know. (She is not, in the course of the story, ever forced to leave her room or ‘overcome’ her phobia, but she does play a crucial role from her room, and they do get to meet.)

The two of them end up semi-accidentally uncovering a plot to plant bombs in several maintenance levels of the arcology, and they have to dig deeper to find who was really going to benefit from this bombing, especially while there’s legislation in the works to essentially allow a company town/indentured servitude system in arcologies. 

The other story is tentatively called Magic School Dropouts, and of course it had its seeds in long conversations about Harry Potter. Those started before the author came fully mask off with her hate, but the pieces didn’t coalesce into a world and characters and story until more recently.

There is a magic school in a remote part of the US. It recruits students from both alumni and from regular families who don’t know magic exists (but crucially never from magical families that have never attended the school, which it doesn’t acknowledge exist). It’s unmappable, impossible to find without an invitation, and deeply insular. It teaches its students that practicing any type of magic without graduating is a crime punishable with summary execution, and there’s an extensive network of magic police who track down anyone foolish enough to break magic laws.

That is, of course, a complete lie. But my main character doesn’t know that, nor do most alumni, who are taught to carefully isolate themselves so they don’t ever come in contact with the huge, diverse magic community that does exist and thrive.

While she doesn’t know much of the truth, she does know that bad things happened in that school, and she ran away/dropped out, and she’s been on the run from the school and the magic police ever since. 

She meets someone who uses magic and has never heard of this school before. And just as she starts to learn a little about who things really work all around her, she gets a call from her old best friend’s sister. Her best friend dropped out when she did, but she didn’t know her friend was pregnant at the time. She had her baby, tried to go back, and disappeared. Her best friend’s older sister took in and raised her niece, who was later recruited to the same school. The aunt, not knowing any better, let her go, and now the niece needs help, and the main character is the only other person the aunt knows who went to the school and so might be able to find it and help.

What’s really important about these worlds, and about any other story I’ve started that sparked from spite, is that at some point I stopped caring about “fixing” anything about another story that upset me and started building my own world. I found my own characters, and they found their way into their own stories. The spite faded away and love for this new world took its place.

#writeblr #worldbuilding #wips #wip stuff #spite for kindling #love for fuel #fantasy #cyberpunk #magic school dropouts

[dinoburger]

another tangent about conceptualizing game stuff

I have been spending a lot of time while bed ridden doing more research into how to approach physically disabled characters, because this is something I realize I've been lacking in prior - like I think Bugsly may be the only explicit wheelchair using character I've written at least in recent years, and it sucks.

They were also going to have more of a plot beat where the fictional augmentations they have are not viable and they have to rely on a wheelchair instead, but I think having it be innate that they alternate between relying on the fictional aid and the real one feels like it would just work better and maybe be a touch closer to how ambulatory wheelchair users irl rely on different types of mobility aids for different occasions.

I also realize how dicey it is trying to "cure" disabled characters in fiction too, so presenting their augmentations less as an absolute cure and more as another type of aid with it's own advantages and drawbacks just works better in that regard

but also the more I research and the more I think about it the more oversights I have in my worldbuilding too like, in this crumbling world how to people with mobility aids navigate? the communities these characters live in should be accessible to them, things like makeshift ramps are feasible but there's less likely to be stuff like elevators unless they're pulley operated.

What about actual repairs for Bugsly's wheelchair? who fixes it? how do they find parts?

these sorts of logistical challenges feel like ones worth dealing with properly, because I don't want to write settings that exclude disabled people.

also I've been looking for insights from as many disabled people as possible but OakWyrm in particular analyses fictional setting disabilities a lot, which I think is super helpful for writing disabled characters in less realistic settings - his essays are just really fascinating in general. also cool to see more trans men video essayists out there

[hadoriel]

Finished the campaign in Last Epoch last night. I'm a big fan of weird timeline nonsense, so I had fun with it. I'm spoiled by Blizzard having epic boss fights and cinematics, though. There's two major boss fights in the campaign and I wish their moves were telegraphed better because I died a lot to just things I thought weren't going to hit me. It was unfortunate all I could really do was kite and run in circles while my mob of skeletons fought. They were still neat fights in concept, but I shouldn't have to dodge a frontal cone attack when I'm behind the boss, you know? It also ends in a really weird place. I don't know if they mean to add more story later, but it drops you right at a big twist and plot height. I get that it's a good point to usher you into 'well to go after that evil lady, you need to do dungeons of timelines that are messed up and gain power!' But it's very anticlimactic by doing so and leaves pretty much all of the story up in the air Nonetheless, the combat is fun and responsive. I wish the map didn't fully reset every time you use a portal but I learned to deal with it. I'd recommend it for anyone into ARPGs like Diablo, but tbh I don't know how many people here like those games. I like the same feeling from Warriors games where you just shred through groups of enemies like butter, plus RPG elements, so I enjoy them a lot. It's a perfect in-between for Path of Exile and Diablo (the former of which was way too complex in its skill trees for me to even attempt)

Oh I also liked the worldbuilding but feel like it just scratched the surface. I'm huge into 'the world is separated into the domains of specific gods' and one phase of the world is like that, but kinda throttles itself on the lore of them. Like all I could really glean is Lagon is a tentacle mass of the moon, seas, storms and his people are merchants and sailors? Rahyeh is a fire bird of the sun but doesn't seem to have much else? Majasa is a naga of opulence, but her people are mostly scholars? Heorot is an ice elk centaur of the hunt, snow, nature and his people are warriors and druids? Like there's some odd overlap (specifically of merchants) and Rahyeh is only ever seen with mercenaries and bird people, not humans, unlike the other three. It feels like there's so much there but it just got stunted somehow. There's also Eterra and Orobyss who are life and death, light and void, no real explanation needed. And the way that void crumbles life as the gods war with each other is super cool but… The story literally ends on that note of figuring out it all .w.;;;;

#personal #last epoch

[piacemia]

top 10 books 2023

a lot of the judging for ranking was based on which books i really loved talking to people about. i've gotten to read some incredible worlds this year, and got to hang out with some compelling and complex characters. that sounds like every book, but this felt like such a special reading year looking back. i feel like i rekindled some old loves, and so much of the joy in books.

the winners: we cannot stress enough how this story and this author rings like a bell through my center. in seconds, in a sentence, i'm crumbling with love and grief and triumph. i am only full of love for the people, for the style of writing. multiple times i'd be sitting on k's couch and he'd look over to me sobbing. i can't believe i have to say goodbye to this story, i know i'll be back in beartown soon

tess of the road: WE LOVE FANTASY AND DRAGONS. WE LOVE WORLDBUILDING. i have not felt so encapsulated in a new world in so long and the story of tess and her growth / coming of age is such a simple theme that becomes so large and important and special. this book brought back such wonder in reading, and i am so grateful

fatty fatty boom boom: the first book of the year! the story of rabia chaudry aka THE LAWYER FOR ADNAN SAED. didn't know that till she revealed that at the end of the story. another classic story of woman's life in a body and her relationship to food. of course its so much more, but she writes with such clarity and charm. its not something i would gravitate toward but i just loved it

middle game: YEARS in the making, roger and dodger via audiobook. dark fables, a repeating timeline, we've done this before. it got wobbly in the middle and we came out the other end with a full experience. i loved it, can't wait to read it again some day.

the bandit queens: WE LOVE A LADY MURDERER. i just want to tell people about this story, its wild and compelling and gives us a glimpse into the very real lived world of people. taking your life into your own hands even in the most restrictive circumstances and coming out with power. good for her, good for them.

piranesi: sweet piranesi stuck in the labryinth alone with us in his head. to follow along, to find the clues, to be on this journey together. the first time we got to talk to the man!!! another incredible world i loved to join.

bookshops and bone dust: the charm, the warmth, the love that pours from these stories. i do not care if the stakes are low, i do not care that this is not the real world. there is always a place for loving, caring, heartfelt stories and they are not any lesser than gritty painful ones. we deserve these stories more than ever.

lovelight farms: oh luca and stella, on a christmas tree farm. with a bakery, charming friends, and love. not the most effective or best written, but potentially some of the loveliest characters and a setting that could be cheesy but just...wasn't. well done

finlay donovan is killing it: i know people obsessively read these whodunnit mysteries, and i absolutely looked down on them a bit. guess what, they're so fun. i love finlay, i want a million books with her and i absolutely get why everyone loves this genre

the bodyguard: katherine center is a powerhouse in the romance world. she bring the stories more in to general fiction because they're so fleshed out as stories that have romance, rather than just a romance with fluffy details to further the relationship plot. she's creative and interesting in how she tells romance and i will pick up whatever she writes.

#2023 #it's a recap #books

[hectormcfilm]

INVINCIBLE

The first half of Invincible season 2 just wrapped up and I am raring to talk about it. I watched season 1 of Invincible week to week back when it first came out with my Dad and I still remember what an impression the first episode made, creating a well realised superhero world, having a great family dynamic of Nolan (Omni-man) Debby and mark within one episode then ending it with one of the most shocking and violent scenes in recent television history. Season 1 was an exciting and refreshing superhero project, there were some weaker episodes, most noticeably the mad scientist making cyborgs at the college Mark and his friends were viewing was very average and contrived BUT for the most part it was a great season of TV. The best part was easily the final episode and the conflict between Mark and his own father, their battle was relentlessly brutal, the scene of Omni-man holding Mark by the head as a train crashes into them at full speed, tearing through and murdering everyone inside was beyond shocking and traumatising. Besides the amazing action and impactful death and violence the emotion of the final fight was stellar having Mark still illustrate his love for his father despite everything, it was just brilliant.

Now season 2 has released its first 4 episodes and I'm ready to discuss them. (As a side note the second half of the season isn't releasing until February which is really irritating and I wish they released it all at once as this split over months really kills the hype and momentum of the show). I think so far season 2 is just as good if not even better then the first season honestly. There are lots of unchanged and improved elements with only some downsides. To start off the worldbuilding is still great. I love how this is a fully realised superhero world with locations like Atlantis being known and normalised, having an entire working civilisation there. Similarly, the multiple worlds across the galaxy all feel real and believable, I appreciate the way things aren't being discovered for the first time or created they feel like they have been around for centuries or millennia, realistic and soft worldbuilding.

When it comes to characters Mark and Debby have easily been the best this season. Mark's want to not be like his dad after everything but needs to become stronger and being pushed to kill, the arc being built for him is great so far and Steven Yuen is still great a portraying a wide range of emotions. The star of the show for me however is Debby, Sandra Oh has such an emotional and grounded performance its honestly beautiful. Debby's struggle to come to terms with Nolan's betrayal is so engaging and seeing her breakdown and crumble is perfectly disheartening. My favourite moment of this season so far is probably the parallel between Debby and Nolan, both wondering alone and lost. there are some weak characters like Rex is still annoying and some of the Guardians of the Globe in general need development as at this point the story only really focuses on their relationship problems which feels like such a waste, they also need more action scenes and a bigger stake in the plot as they feel quite tacked on and unnecessary this season.

One of my main worries with the show so far is the introduction of multiverse. Granted it has only just been introduced and it is all great so far but I am anxious where it will go. Multiverse allowed for an incredible opening to the season having Mark and Omni-man tearing through a destroyed Earth and hunting down the characters from season 1, murdering everyone, it was striking and confusing, the audience only realising it was an alternate reality at the end of the episode. HOWEVER, besides the spider-verse films and Everything Everywhere all at once thriving off the concept of multiverse many superhero franchises like the MCU and DCEU have completely failed at it, leading to the concept destroying all logic and demolishing the stakes, making everything too big and hard to comprehend or care about and making it that if any character dies they can come back. Basically so far the short multiverse teasers have been intriguing but I am weary.

The final elements I want to talk about are the more formal filmmaking aspects. I think overall the show has pretty great cinematography and framing especially for action and flight scenes, the music has been a standout this season having a very sombre and depressing atmosphere perfectly reflected by the music choice. I also enjoy that the show allows for silence and doesn't always use music when its unnecessary. The animation is unchanged from season 1 meaning it is decent but has some disappointing scene where some fights turn into a slideshow, making them feel like they have less motion then the comic book it is based on.

[reviewsthatburn]

BLOOD HEIR is set in the same world as the Kate Daniels books, and serves as both a sort of sequel and as a new story which can be enjoyed by readers who are unfamiliar with the earlier book. It has its own story with Julie, renamed Aurelia Ryder after she left Atlanta at the conclusion of the earlier series. One of the draws to this book is that it continues a world readers will already know, but there have been a lot of changes in Julie as a person and in Atlanta as a city so this is very approachable for new readers. 

Full review at link.

#BookReviews #Fantasy #Recommended #Kate Daniels #Aurelia Ryder #ilona andrews #blood heir