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kirby. it/he. this is my writing/inspiration blog. both fanfiction and original fiction. header by mariaanhawke. follows from gay-nidoking

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Resource Tags

resource: general: general tag for advice, tips, and how to's

resource: encouragement: tag for encouraging words

resource: editing: advice/tips/resources for editing

resource: beta reading: advice/tip/resources for finding beta readers, responding to beta critiques, and how to be a good beta reader

resource: publishing: advice/tips/resources for publishing

resource: world building: advice/tips/resources for world building (sci fi, fantasy, historical, contemporary, and more)

resource: character building: advice/tips/resources for creating a character

resource: historical: historical and cultural references, usually for world-building purposes

resource: disability: advice/resources for writing disabled characters

resource: culture: resources for specific cultures for

resource: links: any links from the above tags (websites, google templates, notion templates, etc.)

Misc. Tags

dnd inspo: stuff that inspires me for my various dnd campaigns and/or my original campaign setting

cos inspo: stuff that inspires me for my curse of strahd rewrite

divine inspo: stuff that inspires me to create gods, deities, and other divine beings

prompts: general tag for prompts, tropes, cliches, etc.

kirby gets creative: my writing

other people's writing: other people's writing

WIPs

Andromeda in Chains: Mass Effect Fanfiction. An Andromda rewrite.

The Apocalypse Before: Homestuck Fanfiction. A fanadventure starring a cast of Beforan fantrolls. Will never see the light of day.

How Elusive Paradise: Sleep Token Fanfiction. Sleep Token Teeth of God comic meets Cult of the Lamb. [AO3 Link]

If Life Ain't A Joke: Original fiction. A dark fantasy. On the thirteenth anniversary of her mother's disappearance and death, a young person sets out to uncover the truth of what happened to her. As his journey stretches on, he uncovers a disturbing truth not only about his mother, but about himself. And just when it seems xe can't sink any lower, the man xe suspects of murdering xir mother appears before them, with a story…and an offer.

I Know Your Act is Staged: Resident Evil Fanfiction.

The Kids Aren’t Alright: Homestuck Fanfiction. A prequel series focusing on the dancestors. [AO3 Link]

Last Bus Home: Original fiction. A horror novel. A family is hunted by The Stranger, a dark suffocating presence that is slowly consuming their small town.

Mad Gods: Original fiction. A dark, eldritch erotic romance. A divine soldier falls in love with a dying poet that has been marked for death by the gods for stealing the divine tongue and using it to write his poems. The soldier spirits him away to a hidden oasis, hiding them both away from the eyes of the gods.

The Ragnarok Cycle: MCU Thor Fanfiction. A rewrite of the trilogy, featuring an attendant of Death and an ancient prophecy that shakes Asgard to its core.

Silver, Crimson, Black: Dragon Age Fanfiction. An Origins-era mage rebellion fic featuring my Surana. Abandoned.

Vessels of Divinity: Original fiction. A solarpunk/lunarpunk eldritch fantasy that takes place on Naowei, a tidally locked planet. Mazin, a nyx from the dark side of the planet, stranded and alone on the bright side, serves the ruling family of an isolated island nation. When Fate comes for the ruler's young heir, they are forced to reckon not only with their own isolation but an impending eldritch threat.

Wolfskin: Original Fiction. A dark fantasy. A young man in a world where monsters are strangling the world, kept at bay only by a pantheon of five divine beasts, travels from his remote home on a journey to empower the exiled sixth beast, the wolf, by killing and devouring its enemies and gathering its secretive worshipers.

The Worst of Us: Original fiction. A slasher romance novella.

OCs

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[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[srosehh]

people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

[cha-melodius]

Bringing this out of the tags:

A fic written 2 years ago is NOT OLD. Two years is nothing. Two years ago was yesterday.

Also I don't care if a fic is 10 years old. Leave those comments!! Even if you think the author isn't active, or moved on from the fandom, I promise you it will make them smile.

[angelnumber27]

[littlebirdofprey]

me: wow I wonder how many thousands of words I've written so far

word count: 373 words

[alexanderwales]

Salt was hugely important before refrigeration, and one of the ways of getting salt was from the sea or from brine springs. There were a few ways of doing this, which depended on the natural resources available in the area. You could put the saltwater into a large, flat pool and wait on dry air and the sun to do evaporation until there was no water left and you just had the salt, or you could boil saltwater using enormous quantities of fuel to get rid of the water.

But in places where big pools weren't feasible, they did everything in their power to reduce the amount of fuel required for the production of salt, because fuel takes a lot of time and effort to collect and drives up costs.

Enter the graduation tower!

The idea is that you take some source of salty water, pump it up to the top of a wooden tower filled with brushwood (typically blackthorn), then let it trickle down, which greatly increases evaporation by maximizing surface area and exposing the water to the wind along the way. When the saltwater reaches the bottom, it's saltier than it was, and you can send it through again until it's reached the point of saturation. If you do this with ocean water, you can reduce the amount of fuel needed by a factor of ten.

Plus it looks and sounds awesome - these were sometimes called thorn towers.

And at the start of the 20th century, when other forms of salt production had skyrocketed in efficiency, the graduation towers began to be used for healthcare, because as you might imagine, the air next to the graduation tower is very salty, more than it is next to the seaside. From what I can find it seems like the main thing it does is thin mucus, though there are a lot of other health claims.

There are still a few working thorn towers that you can go visit, mostly in Germany or Poland, but they're either historical curiosities keeping a tradition alive, or health and wellness centers, distilling down a brine spring for supposed special properties.

[minovskyy]

yes this is an exploration of guilt and culpability but it could also be a sex thing if you just give me a minute

[jasperrwrites]

“are they lovers?” worse. they were supposed to be and never got the chance to

[dreemurr-skelememer]

anyway,. back to your usual queue'd posts.

[veyoux]

when you wrote ✨the scene✨ and want to show it to someone but it has absolutely no sense without explaining 30 hours long lore

[twinkhole-destroyer]

It’s not senseless violence to me, not if it’s you

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[cosmic-dichotomy]

in case anyone was wondering 😌

[heyhoneyfox]

"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.

[scribeherself]

Write the scene (!!!!) the one you keep replaying in your head while trying to sleep. the confession. the reunion. the devastating argument. the moment they realize they are loved. there is no feeling quite like finally reaching the part of the story you have been starving to tell.

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long

[gay-nidoking]

How Elusive Paradise

Rating: E

Warnings: Explicit Sexual Content, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Minor Character Death

Relationship(s): Vessel (Sleep Token)/Original Male Character(s) IV (Sleep Token)/Original Male Character(s)

Tags: Background Polyvessels | Polyamorous II/III/IV/Vessel (Sleep Token), Alternate Universe - Post-Apocalypse, Non-Human The Vessels (Sleep Token), Cults, Manipulation, Power Imbalance, Body Horror, Vomiting, Blood and Gore, Blood and Injury, Minor Character Death, Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Memory Loss, Paranoia, Lovers to Enemies to Lovers, Polyamory, Bondage, Sadism, Knifeplay, Impact Play, Biting Kink, Blood Kink, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Dry Humping, Black Character(s), Transgender Character(s), POV Third Person Omniscient

Summary: A man wandering the land after an apocalypse is saved from death by a cult with a charismatic and mysterious leader. Despite his intents to leave quickly, excuse after excuse comes up that keeps him in place, until his own heart betrays his intentions to move on. He knows there is something sinister going on in the isolated cult, but he must decide if it is truly worse than what is happening in the world outside.

Author's Notes: This will be a relatively dark and adult work, and I encourage you to mind the tags. There will probably something close to a happy ending. This project is the one that I work on when I need a break from my main original fiction projects, so updates may be a bit sporadic. That said, I have several chapters written in advance, and will do my best to keep to a chapter every few weeks at the very slowest.

Read on AO3

[cosmic-dichotomy]

Chapter 1 (actually Chapter 2, due to the prologue) is no longer crappy 🫡