You'll find my actual original fiction and TTRPG things here, but I also reblog a lot of inspiration and sometimes just chat about my work casually. Check out my main blog @aesethewitch where I post about witchcraft and the like. And click through to my website for collected details about characters, lore, and more! (:
The tags for my original works are #spilled ink (general writing tag), #rambling (talking into the ether, putting thoughts down as I hash out details), #the coming storm, #mother may i, #house rules, and #the inner sea.
Note that here be horror content, some of which is tagged only by the story it belongs to. Check below for specifics.
Note also that my works include explicit, 18+ material. Minors will be blocked. Strangers with no age may be soft-blocked.
Active Projects:
The Coming Storm. A D&D-inspired fantasy adventure novel about love, grief, guilt, politics, pirates, monsters, time loops, mysteries, gods living and unliving, magic, and world-altering artifacts. This is the first book of what I anticipate being two books total (though maybe three if things go that way). It's also my main project currently!
All Aesind wants is to cross the sea and start his new life. But the past has sharp claws, and it's not so easy to just walk away. He's already tangled up in the political scandal of the century with a hefty price on his head, and now, he has to contend with a mute runaway, a stubborn navigator, and a mysterious time-walker who simply will not leave him alone. It's do or die for more than just Aesind and his hopes for a fresh start as the world he thought he knew only gets stranger and stranger.
Tags:
#the coming storm - main tag for general inspiration and snippets from the first book
#aesindcore
#emryscore
#archimedescore
#ashcore
#riyahcore
#liuciennecore
#aesind x archimedes
#aesind x emrys
#aesind x emrys x archimedes
#emrys x archimedes
#smut - explicit material, including actual sex scenes
Worthy: A The Coming Storm AU Story. I got bored/distracted during NaNoWriMo a writing challenge that shall not be named and accidentally wrote an enormous fantasy romance AU for The Coming Storm. So that I could ship my blorbos in all new ways. Yeehaw. This is strictly a guilty pleasure project.
I'm gradually publishing this over on my website!
When he's injured on a ghoul hunt, Emrys is rescued by the godkin Archimedes and taken back to his manor home to recover. As he heals, Emrys finds himself falling for not only Archimedes but for Archimedes's partner, the magician Aesind. While it's true that Archimedes is expected to take a second mate, Emrys is a lowly monster hunter -- not at all worthy of a godkin lord or a powerful magician. As the three grow closer despite a regular rotation of noble suitors coming to call, the threat of ongoing, intensifying ghoul attacks on settlements in Archimedes's territory looms over them all.
Tags:
#au nonsense
#au emrys
#au aesind
#au archimedes
#au trio
#smut - explicit material, including actual sex scenes
House Rules 2.0. A horror TTRPG in the Call of Cthulhu system. I'm taking it from the top with a new party, now set in 2024! If you're one of my players reading this, block the tag "#my players look away" or risk spoilers! If you hate horror that involves Creatures, Cosmic Terror, Eyeballs, Ghosts and/or Ghouls, and Moderate Body Horror, blacklist the #creature inspo tag.
In this House, we follow the Rules... Paranormal investigating has never been so popular. There are dozens of channels boasting ghostly content, but your group's YouTube channel is on its way to being number one. You just need one big case, something no one else has managed to cover. Your group found the answer in a town called Evermore Rest located in Upstate New York. There's a house that's locally (in)famous for its spectacular, nigh-unbelievable, and reportedly deadly haunting. Creatively, the locals just call it The House. No one's covered this place despite the evidence around it, because no one can get in... until now. A broken window spotted by one of your group offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cover a place that's the stuff of legends. Will you capture enough evidence to give your channel the boost it needs? Or will the mysterious hunger lurking in The House claim new victims...?
Tags:
#house rules
#creature inspo
#aesthetic inspo
#my players look away
Inactive Projects:
The Inner Sea. A sweeping seafaring D&D 5e campaign I'm running for my partner and best friend. Definitely inspired by One Piece. What can I say? I really like pirates. On semi-permanent hiatus, even if the world keeps expanding.
The greatest pirate of all time, Captain Nephrim O'Shea, has died at sea. His First Mate and heir, Kiriel Drachen, has taken over his ship, The Silver Lady. Before he went overboard, O'Shea left a letter to the world. The treasure that made him so powerful has been hidden somewhere in the world. Whoever finds it may claim it and become the New Greatest. In a mad scramble, every pirate (and non-pirate) in the world has gone looking. The players are crew on The Silver Lady, helping their captain seek out the treasure. Along the way, they'll uncover the truth of the Inner Sea's creation, O'Shea's death, and the meaning of friendship.
Tags:
#the inner sea
#location inspo
#creature inspo
#ttrpg ideas
Mother May I?. Another horror TTRPG using the Call of Cthulhu system. This is the sequel to the original 1.0 House Rules campaign; it may get revamped when House Rules 2.0 is finished.
(the original synopsis) In 2018, a crew of paranormal investigators went missing while investigating a haunted house in Evermore Rest, New York. In the years that followed, there's been a boom in reported hauntings and cult activity all over the country. Our investigators are part of a secret society of occultists, historians, and paranormal researchers all working together to discover the root of these occurrences and prevent as much damage as they can. Join them as they solve puzzles, unearth clues, follow leads, and battle Pure Evil (tm) in a cross-country investigation.
three person poly relationship made up of two people who are already dating trying to coax someone with horrific self worth issues into a loving relationship. stray cat style
they’re all laying together in bed and the couple are both thinking to themselves like good, he stayed the night to cuddle and talk when we offered, he should know that we genuinely care for him and want this to be more then a handful of one night stands. and the stray cat guy is like wow this sure is nice i think i’m falling in love with them. it’s really too bad that they don’t actually give a fuck and hate me and probably want to kill me with hammers for no reason
What I mean by this is that a book may have “feminist” female leads who are strong, competent, complex, whatever, but how do they portray women just...existing in the world? Are there women in the background, or is the fantasy novel with its strong independent Action Girl protagonists set on a background of generic male soldiers, guards, councilors, shopkeepers, messengers, and wizard apprentices? Are minor characters ever women when there’s no particular reason for them to be? When women appear in the background of your story, do they have any unique qualities that hint at a complex picture we’re not seeing or do they slide seamlessly into Pampered Noblewoman, Prostitute and Vaguely Maternal Older Woman Who Runs A Tavern Or Something?
If your protagonist is a fighter or magic user, do you show other women in those roles? If your society is more relaxed about sex discrimination, have you built a world that looks like it?
Have you built a world where your female characters don’t all have to be The Best At Everything, or is almost every female character placed where she can be extraordinary next to a bunch of male counterparts? Are you comfortable letting a female wizard or warrior be average or unimportant, or does she have to be one of the most skilled and powerful of them all, able to match or best all the men around her? On the other hand, are you comfortable having a female wizard or warrior be indisputably the most skilled or powerful out of the wizards or warriors, without drawing attention to her gender, placing her in competition with men, or having her be an exception to the rule because she’s female?
Are you letting your female characters be mediocre and un-extraordinary? Your world is full of powerful sorceresses, fierce battle maidens and calculating noblewomen, but do women do things in this world other than be Exemplary and Great and Awesome? If you’ve established that women do business and fight, do you have female soldiers carousing at bars and vaguely dull female Evil Minions Of The Dark Lord bumbling around doing evil bidding and female apprentices slacking on work or is every background woman we see competent and controlled and intelligent and doing whatever it is she’s doing without error, whereas only men are allowed to be foolish, impulsive, mess things up, or just be shown unflatteringly during the couple sentences we know them? In other words, does the world show women being unapologetically human beings or are all your female characters basically making up for being women by not doing anything that would badly represent their gender?
In particular, if you’re trying to show a society with gender equality, that means the dark lord is willing to hire women who are bumbling idiots as guards, and not just that some female wizards climbed their way to the top and became As Good As Men because they’re so badass they can snap god like a bunch of uncooked spaghetti.
You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?
he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.
give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.
while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.
highly recommend: making that character’s mourning WORSE!!!! make them play pretend with that corpse. make it seem like they’re moving on until they start telling the new person to start dyeing their hair the color of the person they lost and start calling them their name to make it clear that they’re hanging out with this person now to try and make them into the old one. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they die to prove it was unpreventable. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they live to prove that it wasn’t doomed to happened. make your grieving characters actively harm the people around them and the memory of the person they lost. I love you morally dubious grieving characters
