Cass Ward

blog for me to shitpost about my writing :) 21 || she/her Website

[cassandraward]

What's written so far:

Tapestry

Tapestry is a universe focused on a woman named Nastja Sokolova and her descendants. Due to a deal she made long ago, she and her descendants are blessed with great power, however, they all suffer a terrible fate in exchange. The series shows how the members of the family live with the consequences of this deal. The story is heavily influenced by Abrahamic religion. Updates are ongoing.

The Book of Inheritance

Family Ties - Emel Durmaz meets Nastja Sokolova.

I Could Never Stand You Sober - Mary and Noah Harrow endure their monthly catch up.

Cat’s Cradle - Nastja teaches Emel her first lesson

It’s About Devotion. It’s About Fear. - Mary fails in her responsibilities (contains discussion of teenage pregnancy & abortion as well as an implied threat of rape).

Man Hands on Misery to Man - Lying in the aftermath of the worst day of his life, Lukas finds a mentor (1st draft finished)

Mortal Coil - Nastja thinks that Emel needs some more practical lessons. Emel has her doubts. (1st draft in progress)

This House Is Haunted - Noah is stalked by a child (1st draft in progress)

Oneshots

Your Heart in My Throat - 16k A story about a genuinely awful person, the fucked up things she does, and how she falls in love. Enemies to lovers, before I gave it an actual title was saved as “murder lesbians” in my docs.

Sunk Mortality - 7k A story about the trial of a witch and the lives of her two children. Involves the horrors of immortality and ridiculous quantities of religious trauma.

Apple Flesh - 2k A story about two women who meet in a Wetherspoons bathroom.

[a-study-in-bullshit]

[valtsv]

okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism

[valtsv]

like yeah the monster is a representation of your unresolved trauma and guilt and a manifestation of the sins of your past but it's also a real creature and it's going to fucking Get you

[valtsv]

honestly my only writing tip is to have a ghost show up and see how your characters deal with that. it worked for shakespeare with hamlet.

[mechabarbarian]

Cyborg Frankenstein.

[hadleyfrasergender]

things that are gay sex:

cannibalism

surgery

russian roulette

braiding/brushing hair

fishing

hunting

gutting animals

stabbing

drinking blood from the wrist or neck

autopsies

shootouts

boxing/wrestling

digging in the ground

[nerves-nebula]

horror and erotica are the same thing. flesh and meat and intensity. do you get it.

[movie]

Take a moment to appreciate Rob Bottin’s special effects for The Thing (1982)

[cassandraward]

Today has been a vicious day. It has had its teeth in me.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[saltmalkin]

metastasis

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Andrew Blucha

[fallingtowers]

bro this rends flesh (new way of saying something is really good)

[thesiltverses]

Can I ask if there is any sort of visual map for the world of TSV? I am sadly a poor sense of direction/maps and trying to figure where the Linger Straits is compared to the Peninsula and all the other locals?

Hello!

There's no official map, which from our perspective is mostly a good thing so we can keep building on the story without writing ourselves into logical corners or late-era GoT-style 'how the hell did they get there so quickly' plotting issues (@skyberiart very kindly drew a map for our Patreon back in S1 which you can see in part here, but even that I think has been rendered out-of-date.)

But if we all agree to quietly ignore any considerations of accurate distance, scale, or realistic river flow, this is my bad attempt to sketch out how I'd very, very broadly see things sitting in relation to each other. Hope that helps!

Currently the action is all further south, in the Lower Delta, other than Hayward and Paige's shenanigans in Nesh.

[Desc: A map of the Peninsula. The White Gull cuts the nation in two: it begins in the north-west, a hilly section of land called 'the Polluted Lands'. Along it are markers for Bellwethers, Marcel's Crossing, The Paraclete's Gulch, Angel in the Caves, Acantha's Lych-House. To the east lies Glottage. To the north-east, separated by a channel of water, are the Consolidated Linger Straits. Nesh is marked as close to the channel. Far to the north-east lies Tementry Isle.)

[cassandraward]

Attempted to recreate this masterpiece in inkarnate as a part of the powerpoint i'm subjecting all of my friends to in preparation of forcing them to play the silt verses rpg

[riso-wizo]

[snailfen]

collection of posts that have made me yell YOU NEED TO PLAY RAIN WORLD out loud

[fallingtowers]

bro this rends flesh (new way of saying something is really good)