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Author author you're back! Any chance of dropping in on WLB too?

it’s good to be back, dear bonnie. i had a really good support system to fall back into after the whole doxxing arc, and now i think it’s high time i slowly start being active again. i’m currently working with three very talented individuals to work on projects so needless to say the whole break was pretty productive.

idk about dropping in on the WLB blog as it seems to have attracted the most trolls but i’ll look into clearing that up sometime later. let’s hope things go better this time around 🤞🏻

#asks #teamwork really takes a load off your shoulders #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie

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🎵 sidelines by phoebe bridgers

when you meet your star-crossed soulmate again underneath dazzling flashes of lights and despite the ache of every one of your heart strings, you can’t let yourself be wanted by them...

#S went through a couple of changes #one of them being more level-headed and stoic #never expected them to become a slowburn but there you go #ro: s bakkoush #these crimson strings #ro edits

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DEMO UPDATE

AAAHHH!!! chapter 2 is out!!!! finally!!!! i know i took my sweet time with it and made you guys wait A WHILE for it, but if any of you are still here after all this time i hope you'll enjoy the new chapter :D

big big thanks to @kamanok (fim, they/them) for coding everything (and super fast too!!). i really appreciate all the help, i can always count on them to do a great job🫶🏻

this update includes:

- chapter 2

- plaguing nightmares of ... eyes?

- your old life is haunting you!!! you can't escape it no matter what you do!!!

- a very serious talk with Caerus about what happened at the Revel.

- Zale being stressful. or sweet. depends on if you like him or not 🫣

CHAPTER 2

#BABYYYYYYYY #I'M SO PROUD OF YOU 🥹🫶🏻 #Y’ALL BETTER BE PLAYING THIS RN RN 🤬 #demo update #interactive fiction #cog if #cog wip #if wip #a court of serpents #a court of serpents if #acos #interactive novel #interactive game #shameless reblog cause i love my princess 🫶🏻

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Hi, what happened to the Percy Jackson IF? I can't find it in your itch.io profile

i decided to do a complete rewrite since some people have informed me that it’ll infringe on copyright laws. even with proper credits and disclaimers, it will be liable for legal repercussions since it technically counts as me distributing the source material out for free (with or without monetisation). and because i have no wish to tussle with disney’s lawyers, i’m going to do a rewrite more along the lines of differing from what rick riordan has already wrote.

the storyline will be the same, but the overall wordings will be different. i don’t think the updates will take too long and i’m open to any suggestions you guys might have (discord: @fall3ngods) as this is largely a fan-made project.

#asks #big thanks to alby for putting it into perspective because i realised copyright laws are pretty rigid even for original fanfictions #the whole ao3 fiasco that we won’t talk about #the lightning thief #bonnie nonnie #other ifs

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this has been my wattpad baby for a long time and now i’ve given it an interactive makeover. @albywritesfiction and i have been working on coding it and after a lot of trial and error, we finally made a decent demo out of it!

i won’t be making any blog for this as it’s just a fun interactive fanfiction project which we’ll be updating on the side, but it may change in the future, who knows. for all the percy jackson fans, i guess this will be a bonus on top of the new PJO show.

this was first released on wattpad back in 2014 (yes, i was like 12 back then) and since then, i’ve converted it into something in which readers can actually play as the protagonist. although my old wattpad account was deleted (rip kissmylefttoe), i’m happy to say that i had my old cringey drafts to recover and edit 😭

huge thanks to alby for actually making a coherent product out of all the messy ass codes which she had to sort through 😭 without her, this project wouldn’t have seen the light of the day at all. i love working with her and this collaboration has been overall stellar!

explore the world through new lenses as you tackle fighting Greek monsters and gods who want you dead.

customize your name, gender, pronouns, sexuality, and your godly parent out of the Big Three.

zeus, of the sky, thunder, lightning, kingship, honor, and justice.

poseidon, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and horses.

hades, god of the Underworld, dead, and riches.

get expelled for the ninth time in a row.

unravel dangerous prophecies and find out why the Fates should stick to playing bingo in a retirement home.

make some friends and some very dangerous enemies.

visit a casino, fight Medusa, and a chihuahua.

destroy a national monument.

take a trip to atlantis, hell, and heaven (sort of).

prevent another civil war from happening before the summer solstice.

lace-up your shoes, grab your pen and shield, and embark on a quest to retrieve zeus’s master bolt before he gets very, very angry.

sounds like a party you’d be interested in? play it here

#reblog #the lightning thief #interactive game #interactive fanfiction #interactive story #itch.io #twine #collaboration #interactive fiction

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Imagine if the Ro’s were to see a flashback of their past selves slow dancing with MC in the dark.

I keep imagining Sugiwara with their long hair shining under the moonlight and MC just completely enchanted by them which is truly ironic considering how the one with superpowers here is them.

what if i told you it was possible in the game 🤭 i will say that some ROs will not be very happy to know that MC loved a version of them which they’d met earlier, even tho logically and spiritually, both the versions are the same person at the end of the day. it’d get pretty angsty but there will be a whole reassurance scene dedicated to that it’ll only strengthen their relationship

#asks #some ROs are just a tad bit more insecure about it #i imagine i’d be too if i was in their place #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie

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My MC's hobby is playing 'true or false' with James. It's when MC says something that happened somewhere in history and makes James guess if it actually happened or not. Of course, James will never know if he was lying or telling the truth when he said something was 'true' :))

james’s knowledge of history, while better than most historians, is not even close to the same level as MCs. mostly because compared to the MC, james is essentially a baby 💀 i imagine it’d make him so annoyed that MC will ask him to guess if particular events in history actually happened and he’ll get it wrong because some of them are too outrageous to have been real 😭

#asks #he does NOT like thinking that he’s the babie #but he is a babie #these crimson strings #ch: james whelan

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Are the ROs onboard with getting married to the MC, both the versions of them. What about having children?

lawrence/ronan: definitely on-board with marriage and children. laurie will be a bit more reluctant than ronan on the children’s part because of the circumstances of his family, but once he’s reassured about you wanting a family with him, you’ll need to get ready though cause he’s not only going to settle for just one or two 💀

juliette/célia: célia? 100% okay with marriage, and although she’ll need some convincing on the children part, she’ll eventually come around. juliette is tricky because of the whole situation with viscount phillipe. but in the end, she’ll wholeheartedly agree to both as she does want to get married and have a family to her one true love.

A/S: S had a wedding outfit and names of your possible future children ready after your first date. as for A, it’ll be harder for you to convince them about both marriage and children as they strongly fear that it’ll cause their career to decline. unexpectedly angsty, i know, but give them time to come around to the idea and they will.

sugiwara/tachibana: sugiwara and their reincarnation have opposite stances on marriage: first one believes marriage is a lovely way to further connect two souls, while the other thinks it’s all pretty unnecessary but would eventually warm up to the idea. as for kids, they both aren’t too thrilled to have kids in a world like this (makes sense tbh) but reassurance and understanding will make them less likely to completely reject the notion.

#asks #also forgot to mention: WLW and MLM will have a bit more angst (as a treat) #but not a lot cause while i love making my readers suffer #i also don’t want it to be 100% historically accurate lmfao #i promise you will be able to marry them in the game tho #regardless of anything #ro: ronan bennett #ro: célia dupont #ro: s bakkoush #ro: i tachibana #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie #interactive fiction

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What happened to the Hunting Season IF ): I was looking forward to it

hunting season was a project my boyfriend (@thesecrimsonstrings-if) and i worked on together. however, we wanted to do so many things with it and had so many ideas, we kind of underestimated the size of it and the time we'd need to put into it.

we're both busy students with our own personal lives, so we decided to scratch that project for the time being!! we apologise to anyone that was looking forward to it, but we hope that we'll be able to get back to it later on when we have both the time and motivation to go through with it!!

and we hope that anyone that was interested in hunting season will still be here for when it comes back!! thank you!! <33

#don’t worry tho y’all #we’re just choosing to focus on our individual projects rn and not add to our workload #we’ll definitely visit it once we’re at a happier place with what we’ve finished writing #other ifs #acourtofserpents #interactive fiction

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I can't tell which route will be the most angsty but I am eyeing Juliette/Celia because I've never came across any route like her before. We're gonna live our cottagecore farm life in the french countryside without her soon-to-be ex-husband bothering us

juliette tends to the flowers diligently, almost as if they’re her own children. the thought makes you smile and you remember her joking about how you’ve both become parents within a couple months of knowing each other. of course, you knew she was referring to her small garden filled with flowers of various kinds and the two stray kittens you rescued from the alleys of the sunday market. but you take your role as a ‘parent’ very seriously, and so does your beloved.

“what are you thinking of?” she asks with a smile as she walks towards you, your adopted kittens following after her.

“about how happy i am,“ you reply with earnestness, making juliette’s smile wider.

“and would you care to share what has got you so happy, mon rayon de lune?” she inquires playfully, sitting beside you on a spare chair.

you smile at her and shake your head. “you’d find it laughable, darling.”

“mon amour, i’d never laugh at your honesty.”

but still, you do nothing but merely gaze at her with love-filled eyes, and wordlessly she understands the reason for your happiness.

juliette’s kiss singes like hot amber, and the feeling is not unpleasant. it consumes you irrevocably and irreparably.

you want time to be frozen right now, right this instant where everything was perfect and she was warm and alive against you. you wish to be frozen with her for centuries on end.

the philosophers were wrong. the world began and ended with her.

#asks #you can enjoy whatever time you have together before it’s BBQ hour (: #ro: célia dupont #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie #interactive fiction

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Wait so have to have had a relationship with Juliette? Or is it optional

célia is juliette’s reincarnation so yeah, you’ll have to romance her to romance célia. the same goes for the other ROs, romance lawrence for ronan, A for S, and R for tachibana.

#asks #it’s pretty linear path #you choose the route you wish to go for and that will automatically carry you to the modern-day reincarnate of the MC’s soulmate #these crimson strings #ro: ronan bennett #ro: célia dupont #ro: s bakkoush #ro: i tachibana #interactive fiction #bonnie nonnie

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Does MC knew Juliette was married before they started pursuing her? I don't like the cheating trope but so I'm hopefully curious about how you're planning to go along with it

ah bonnie, cheating is an automatic ‘no’ for me irl but in fiction, it’s more of a grey area. i won’t sit here and tell you that it’s 100% a-okay, but context does matter and that here is that juliette’s marriage to viscount phillipe is built on nothing but monetary ties and the boost of their respective patriarch’s status in the french society.

MC will be made aware of juliette’s marriage and also that there wasn’t, and has never been, any love between her and the man she’s married to; viscount phillipe doesn’t even know what juliette’s favourite flowers are and expects her to shut up after he sends his servants to pick out random ones and throws them at her face as a gesture of ‘care’. he himself says that he likes visiting brothels more than he likes spending time with his wife.

trust me, the only reason he even cared that juliette was having an affair in the first place was because it made him look like an idiot in front of everyone. the people working in his estate highly prefer juliette over him, which is saying something since he’s the one paying them 💀

#asks #he’s also very disgusting and just a plain incel #glad there’s no reincarnation of him #ro: célia dupont #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie #interactive fiction

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Francesca by Hozier really fits all the ROs my god 😭 It's your fault for creating such a good IF with such compelling characters that now whenever I hear any kind of love song it makes me think of this story.

thank you so much 🥹 i personally have a list of the songs which would be playing in every chapters, but they’re a subject to change since who knows what will fit the vibe more as i get into writing. hozier songs are definitely gonna be on the list tho because he literally has the soul of an immortality god trapped in an irish man’s body who’s in his 30s 💀

#asks #all the love songs i hear remind me of my girlfriend hehehe 🤭 #these crimson strings #bonnie nonnie

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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

#timeline cleanse after that dreadful ask 😇 #these crimson strings

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I love your stories so much that I want to juggle your balls and suck on them like theyre a pair of ripe cherries on a spring afternoon

that’s it, i’m going back to hiatus

#asks #chat is this real #chat is this really happening? #☹️☹️☹️

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HELLO??? WHY DID THIS MAKE ME SOB WTF??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU LITERALLY BROUGHT THE SCENE TO LIFE WHICH WAS LIVING IN MY MIND RENT-FREE

I truly hope you will forgive me when I confess that I have forgotten what your beauty looked like.

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célia dupont is from @thesecrimsonstrings-if (hi me again)

#expect to see my therapist’s bills in your mailbox next week 😤 #ahhhhhh célia and gay angst is so delicious #ro: célia dupont #these crimson strings #crying screaming throwing up #fanart #ro art

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Why does MC live in the US? :v This is a bit disappointing because literally every modern-world game I've ever played is set in the United States. It feels like any other countries don't exist.

while i understand your frustrations, do keep in mind that this is my story and a US-based setting was the one i felt most comfortable with. there will be plenty of flashbacks where MC has travelled to different countries and continents throughout the ages, but they’ve ultimately settled in the US because that’s where most of the supernaturals are able to integrate into the society without much prosecution.

sure, you have hunters there too but they’re mostly government-employed and only go after rogue supernaturals. plus, independent hunters like tachibana are few and far in-between when compared to other countries. the only country i can say has as much supernatural integration is australia, but with the abysmal heat there, MC would probably have a killer headache for months on end.

#asks #overall i reckoned it was a safe choice to go with the states #i’m also too far in deep to change anything now #these crimson strings #interactive fiction