the star maker says it ain't so bad
the dream maker's gonna make you mad
the spaceman says everybody look down
it's all in your mind
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I think it was year of the tiger when I was doing this or something.
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Betrayal. Longing. Deep-seated hatred. Desperate, aching love. When Tiger is confronted by the man who ruined his life and left him for dead, he didn't expect a greeting like this.
Read chapter one of NEON TIGER, available now! Written by our author @emilyoracle and illustrated by our artist @zaaly. 18+ only, m/m SFF romance.
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A little something for the 10th anniversary of my favorite local tattoo shop
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Hello hello and Happy WBW! I see you write about time travelers 👀 Tellus a little bit about how time traveling works AND about those "people who keep the timeline in check"? Who are they? How did they get put in charge of doing just that? -@athenswrites
The answers to these two questions are actually closely connected and asked in the perfect order! Haha
(Also holy shit this answer got away from me and is crazy long I'm very sorry everyone, I AM however trained as a historian so that's my excuse lmao)
So because this is sci-fi fantasy I don't actually delve too deeply into the scientific aspects of time traveling (sorry everyone! not my cup of tea!). But, essentially, there are people who are born "important" and whose existence or death (or both) directly affect history and the timeline in the way it is "supposed" to be. And then there are people who are born "unimportant" whose lives (or deaths) are completely inconsequential to time continuing as it's meant to. These unimportant people have the ability to time travel.
Unimportants (as they're called, to the absolute GRIEF of autocorrect) and their choices cannot affect history, if they were to live their life as normal. But they actually CAN affect history, quite drastically, by abusing their time travel.
In the past, LOADS of people could time travel but as the world has become more globally connected, less and less people are being born with the ability because the chances that SOMETHING in your life, whether it be an action or inaction or word or purchase or etc, has an affect globally, gets exponentially higher. As opposed to like, yknow, an ancient Roman peasant who doesn't leave their 3x3 mile community. And because past time travelers tended to be both 1. illiterate and 2. xenophobic, they often didn't use their time travel much or use it to much detriment. This changed around the start of the 18th century, when literacy and globalization was on the rise. Shit started hitting the fan, because it was a perfect storm with still plenty of people who could time travel, but they were usually also literate to some degree and much more adventurous and independent from their home communities, thus... havoc. The timeline was constantly being changed and bouncing from one direction to another. It created a rift in time, essentially a bubble that existed inside time itself, and every traveler got sucked into it. After some chaos, one person rose above it all and became a sort of leader, delegator, and a general consensus was formed that this person and a group of elected officials from each major region, would form a committee, a "Headquarters of Time," that would manage the actions and choices of travelers and prevent such insanity from happening again. Thus Headquarters was born.
I could go into further detail about how the "rift" in time works, how the Under Realm is actually a branch of HQ that split from them to go rogue in the 1800s, and the "founders" of HQ, etc, but um. This is already crazy long so I won't.
I'm sure you weren't expecting to open this bag of worms with your questions :D;; but thank you. Very little of this (or I guess, a very shallow version) is touched on in the story/narrative itself so it's fun to be able to talk about lol.
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Dead Mall Art Print
"Darker dreams await beneath the former Lakeview Mall." Art print on thick, archival matte paper.
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Chapter seven of NEON TIGER is available to read now! Tiger experiences his first black-tie party and gets to see a new side to Dragon. You can read it here!
18+ m/m romance featuring outlaws and time travel. Emily Oracle's $5 tier grants access to the illustrated NEON TIGER updates as well as all NT bonus content!
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