Rapid Onset Cannibalism

Stevie* - 28 - they/them or zie/hirs - I've been working on the same WIP on and off since 2011, when I was 14 years old, now everyone in it is queer and it's still about vampires. Welcome to hell. Header image is a photo I got of a lightning storm in July of 2023. I can be found on AO3 and on fandom tumblr @oldestenemy Feel free to message me here, there, anywhere about my characters and stories, or about your characters and stories, I live for that stuff!

[memories]

It was @flyingbananasaur, in the parlor, with a #character ref ir.

[memories]

Pour one out for #shed shed shed shed shed.

[memories]

You ever just... yell about #daniel @ jesse??

[foxhero-moved-blog]

*browses own blog* amazing

[iamafkrn]

writing foreshadowing is so validating. like I DO have a plan thanks for asking 💕💕💕

[bardicbeetle]

A voice in the dark,

Nerves fire signal stuck somewhere,

Between self and not.

I don't know how to do better. I don't know how to make my brain work again. I don't know how to act any differently when all my time is spent recovering from being. And all my time spent being is exhausting.

I know it seems like it isn't.

I know it seems like so much is happening for me.

But I cannot cradle the feelings of other people. I will dissolve under the pressure. I have done that before and I will not subject myself to it anew. I am trying. I promise.

But I have lost all willingness. I have lost all ability. Even the easy is a mountain. Simple things a sheer cliff as slick as ice.

Shared spaces with voices I do not want to hear. Things crushed to endings I didn't want to stop but felt I must and have been unable to answer for. Bitterness and spite are unkind things. Silence can sound the same as dislike if you let it lie long enough. I am an unkind thing. I know.

I can count too many spaces I have lost.

[albatris]

*staggers out of the word document covered in blood*

RENTALCAR IS FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!

[bardicbeetle]

HOLY SHIT CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

[hawkesalad]

*points to my oc who’s backstory I wrote* who did that to her

[orivu]

youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

[natequarter]

the grim reality for a lot of nonbinary people is that their options are closet themselves and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large or be out and proud and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[mmedemerteuil]

Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

[kedreeva]

Back-to-back repeated words that resulted from sentence rearranging or start/stop editing have been cleared.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

Title has been applied.

[bardicbeetle]

you guys i might be so fucking back

[pnglove]

[softwaring]

by tucker

[bardicbeetle]

“I—I was told if—” Poe seems to lose his will to speak under Eric’s direct gaze.

“Go on,” Eric lets the corpse fall from his arms, “please don’t think you’re interrupting anything. Speak.” A flash of brighter gold.

“I was told if I brought enough vampires to make tonight a mess—I could be turned—I could—”

Eric laughs, sharp and short, it rings out like a gunshot in the dark. “Then you were played kid, hate to break it to you—we don’t—” He stops for a moment, looking Poe up and down. “—you know what—to hell with it. Alex, come here, a gift for you.”

Some of the glassyness in the eyes of Eric’s companion have faded now that they are away from so much of the carnage. Sill stiff and stilted with starvation, their movements still a touch on the outside of normal, more wild animal than a monster playing at personhood. Grey eyes flicker to Eric, then Poe.

“Something supposed to be special about him?” A voice hollow and dead with disuse.

“Oh, not really. But he seemed your type.”

“Don’t.” It’s the harshest thing they can manage. It’s the most they think they can get away with.

“Oh don’t tell me you don’t see it”—he steps towards Poe, who is too slow to back away before his face is caught in a grip that feels more like steel than flesh—“a bookstore, a family of hunters, and a black sheep.”

“Eric.” his name comes out of their mouth like a growl.

“Take him home.” Another flash of gold against red. Eric lets go and Poe stumbles forward in an attempt not to hit the ground face first. “If he’s useless, you can have him—I’ll allow it.”

[foone]

The thing about people saying "masculinity is a prison" and "femininity is a prison" is that both can be true and untrue simultaneously:

anywhere is a prison if you're locked inside.

[demilypyro]

vampires are so full of shit. "oh the human race is beneath us, you're just livestock to us" I don't think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that's not what a higher being does. that's a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off

[raevenlywrites]

...I just had a flash of understanding grid city lay outs like tidy rows of monocrop fields but i'm too doped up on dayquil to follow the thought all the way to the end