Bodh's Writing

My writing so you don't have to wade through my TikTok comedy Main Blog: Bodhran Comedy, bow_asintakea_rawn on TikTok (The Deaf Vampire/Doctor Who/Greek Sailor Who Keeps Getting Shipwrecked Guy) Current WIPS Arcane Skies Trilogy (Tocktick, The Drowned Rook, Lanterns Fuelled By Falling Stars) Nostos & the Filigree Lantern Flies in Amber

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[hope-chest-resources]

ID: A screenshot of tags left on the tumblr post. They read "#it's actually kind of a reverse Chekhov's Gun #Chekhov's Gun says "If there is setup there must be payoff" #Asimov's Tail says "if there is payoff there must be setup" #and I think the tail is also important #a tail is not something you'd expect to see on a character unless explicitly pointed out #someone stepping on the tail not only reveals its existence but also tells us things about it #eg it's floor length sensitive and the character either can't or won't keep it out of the way of foot traffic #the upshot seems to be "acclimatise your audience to things they don't understand before you use them" #you don't need to explain how a gun on the mantelpiece works in the same way you need to explain how your protagonist's tail does" End ID.

[bodhranwriting]

Random Snippet from Kasparov & Gander

It'd been easier, he had to admit, since Kasparov had attached himself. He didn't have cursed eyes for a start and, unlike Gander, he was good with people. Gander was good at people: reading their little twitches and accessories and tells that told you who they were. But Kasparov could talk to them and be trusted or despised at ever-changing will.

[bodhranwriting]

Oh, but that’s unrealistic!

Listen, if the Fast and Furious movies are allowed to do All That, I can have some midair airship fight shenanigans.

[bodhranwriting]

Still stretching writing muscles: pick a character to get drunk.

Clueless shy quarter-naiad Gann

Reckless traumatised old man Sixsmith

Laidback emotion-bottling mercenary Kasparov

Mercurial harsh self-critic seamster Gander

Voting ended onMay 15

[bodhranwriting]

I want to loosen up my writing muscles with some short scenes from my worlds. I need rescues. Vote for:

Tocktick: Cool old guy (Sixsmith) rescues sweetheart aeronaut son figure(Emmett)

Tocktick: Emmett rescues Sixsmith

K&G: mercurial seamster/mage (Gander) rescues laidback mercenary (Kasparov)

K&G: Kasparov rescues Gander

Voting ended onMay 14

[bodhranwriting]

Describing harpies is actually surprisingly difficult.

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Especially when they’re kidnapping your protagonist and he doesn’t know what they are.

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Spiritually speaking, they’re these guys except they can fly and are moderately stupider.

[bodhranwriting]

Describing harpies is actually surprisingly difficult.

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Especially when they’re kidnapping your protagonist and he doesn’t know what they are.

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Describing harpies is actually surprisingly difficult.

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Ten Thousand Fathoms Isle is in progress. Slow progress. But progress.

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Basically how my WIP Tocktick goes.

[bodhranwriting]

Give me the last paragraph you wrote in your WIP

“You’re a fortunate man that I’ve taken an interest in furthering your education.” Kasparov’s hand landed wetly on the top of Gander’s head and ruffled his curls. Gander let him. It was less effort. “So where now?”

[elbiotipo]

remember when I made that post that basically said "don't forget about a southern hemisphere when worldbuilding" and a lot of people said "ahhh but what if my fantasy world is flat or shaped like a kia sorento? checkmate I Write What I Want" and then you go and find out that people actually forget that the southern hemisphere exists in real life, like right now here in earth

[elbiotipo]

my worldbuilding posts have two key components:

here's a thing you should think about to make your world more believable and cohesive :) it could really enhance your plot and characters and it's also fun to think about it, when you know how the real world works you can make more vivid fantasy worlds!

and you also should think about it so you think about something else that isn't your own fucking hemisphere pedazo de gringo imperialista

[corn-pit]

So half of the fantasy planet needs to be experiencing summer when its winter in the north? Is that the endpoint of this post? An episode of the magic schoolbus?

[elbiotipo]

I don't know what to tell you. Read the post again.

[headbenzhawk]

[bodhranwriting]

“What do you even know about this man?”

Gander pursed his lips, brow furrowing in thought. “He slurps his beer,” he said finally. “He favours green over red and he likes cats and is so carefully and perfectly scruffy. He enjoys hot baths and cold pies. He did something in his past that he’s so deeply ashamed of that he keeps almost killing himself to try and make up for it.”

Hob leant forwards. “That’s what I mean. You have no idea what he did. What unforgivable sin Kasparov committed.”

“But I know he thinks it’s unforgivable,” Gander replied quietly, “and maybe, right now, that’s all I need to know.”

[bodhranwriting]

Script talk.

[bodhranwriting]

Kasparov & Gander Blurb Attempt One (1) - I struggle with blurbs.

It’s a gentleman’s agreement, of sorts.

Gander won’t pry into Kasparov’s odd tattoo if he won’t ask what Gander is tearing through black-market auctions to find. Kasparov can cross off lives saved in peace, while Gander wrestles with the implications of his curse. And, despite a mercenary and a seamster being far from gentlemen, it’s worked well enough the past three years. Thirty-four burglaries, eighteen extortions, nine murders, and five kidnappings all successfully resolved will attest to that.

But an entire village has just been fossilised. That should not be possible. More disturbingly, both men have their own dread of who could be capable of doing so.

The nightmares of their pasts have finally reared their heads – and declared outright war against each other. It’s a country-wide arena of clockwork alchemy and lunar sigils, damn any civilian unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire.

It’s up to Kasparov and Gander to confront the ones who made them who they are, without destroying what they so desperately strive to be.

[bodhranwriting]

Ah, the yearning between Kasparov & Gander.

[soup-mother]

Hello welcome to my world building project. We've got painstakingly accurate pseudo polish-lithuanian commonwealth between exactly 1612-1650, and then to the south we have polynesiarribbean, where people have boats and do trade and stuff.