In a world menaced by an invasive insectoid species, the best bet to stop the encroaching Hivelands from turning the Overside into a barren wasteland is a group of horny weirdos. Ain't that just the way.
ORIGINAL TEXT: Okay, some background.
For some time now, I've been working on a new original work. Borne of me realizing that I had a lot of adopted characters sitting around that I wasn't doing anything with and a desire to make Hornier Art, I started workshopping a fantasy story using these adopted OCs. What started out as "excuse plot to facilitate a bunch of fantasy sex and violence" eventually spiraled, as it often does with me, into backstories, worldbuilding, character arcs, narrative themes, etc etc you get the point.
While I do want to work on a larger piece that tells a grander story, I've started by writing some short 4 to 8 page scenes intended to introduce characters, concepts, and just establish the world's status quo. I've been posting these pieces over on my Bluesky along with writer commentary discussing what each piece is meant to explore or accomplish, what the process of creating each one was like, and challenges faced in constructing the events in the scene.
Below the cut I'll be linking all the scenes I've written so far, plus brief introductions to the characters. I'll keep this list updated as I write more and will also include links to the commentary thread on Bluesky for each one that has one.
The current scenes, in order of completion:
Blood Pumping (Writer Commentary)
A Failure of Negotiations (Writer Commentary)
Matters of the Heart (Writer Commentary)
Familiar Skies (Writer Commentary)
Blood of the Covenant (Writer Commentary)
Unorthodox Applications (Writer Commentary)
Torture Interrupted (Writer Commentary)
Sins Unforgiven (Writer Commentary)
To Stalk a Dragon (Writer Commentary)
The Long Walk Home (Writer Commentary)
A Favor to You (Writer Commentary)
First Meetings (Writer Commentary)
Void-Like Dark, Darkless Void (Writer Commentary)
The Right Fools for the Job (Writer Commentary)
The Fifth Wheel (Writer Commentary)
Frenzied Forest Fracas (Writer Commentary)
A Shift in the Shadows (Writer Commentary)
Your New Old Friend (Writer Commentary)
The Melancholy of Xora Kordov (Writer Commentary)
Once More, With Feeling (Writer Commentary)
Hive Sweet Hive (Writer Commentary)
The Endpoint of Desire (Writer Commentary)
In the Court of the Bandit King, Part 1 (Writer Commentary)
In the Court of the Bandit King, Part 2 (Writer Commentary)
When Scorn Falters (Writer Commentary)
Maybe You Deserve This (Writer Commentary)
Companionship: An Interlude (Writer Commentary)
Our cast of weirdos:
Tira Masca, axe-wielding horsekin. Somewhat prone to injury and, on occasion, death. Seems weirdly fine with it. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Zadak Vintasal, haughty elemental mage dragonkin. Doesn't like it when you call his brat routine a "brat routine," but also possible that's part of the bit. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Avalon Loch, pugilist shadowkin. Hailing from the Underside, has impressive physical capabilities but lacks confidence in himself. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Xora Kordov, healer dragonkin. Prodigy in healing and resurrective magics, mostly due to the questionably ethical experiments she's performed in the past. Original design adopted from @sugaryrainbow.
Illustration by @witchzilla
Character art by @ginnungagay.
Two more named characters dead, one on the Forever Boat, and Everyone Hates Rachel. It's time to see what could POSSIBLY happen next in Silent Hill: Ascension on the Sharkstream! Hope to see you there!
Two more named characters dead, one on the Forever Boat, and Everyone Hates Rachel. It's time to see what could POSSIBLY happen next in Silent Hill: Ascension on the Sharkstream! Hope to see you there!
We take a quick break from our parallel Nordic and Pennsylvanian horror soap operas to check in on what's happening in Tural as we take a look at some new 7.55 stuff in Final Fantasy XIV! Hope to see you there!
me and m were playing The X-Files: Resist or Serve and he kept beating the shit out of zombies instead of shooting them and said it was Scully's madness that was making her do it
We take a quick break from our parallel Nordic and Pennsylvanian horror soap operas to check in on what's happening in Tural as we take a look at some new 7.55 stuff in Final Fantasy XIV! Hope to see you there!
I want to write about the lore regarding the guy in the third panel:
You guys are right that the guy eating food IS the dad from Crayon Shin-Chan. There is an official spin-off that is a gourmet manga starring Shin-Chan’s dad.
The silent man in the third panel is a reference to a certain artist on Pixiv who became a meme because he kept posting gay fanart of himself together with Shin-Chan’s dad, titled “Hiroshi Nohara and me”. Sadly it seems like his account is deleted now.
How many more injuries must Rachel sustain in failed rituals? Will Astrid survive the wrath of CPS? Just *what* is the magical orgy supposed to accomplish? Maybe we'll find out as Silent Hill: Ascension continues on the Sharkstream!
How many more injuries must Rachel sustain in failed rituals? Will Astrid survive the wrath of CPS? Just *what* is the magical orgy supposed to accomplish? Maybe we'll find out as Silent Hill: Ascension continues on the Sharkstream!
extremely underrated subgenre of tumblr post: when someone makes a general statement about something, and another person offers a counter-statement that's just completely nonsensical, and the OP just agrees instantly even if it makes no sense at all
