Eleanora Rose

Call me Eleanora [they/them]. I write fantasy. I’m 30, so please, no minors. My writing and my twitter DNI if you’re a fascist, TERF, paedophile apologist or any other wrong’un. This blog contains NSFW, adult, and triggering themes. All will be tagged. Tip me?

[eleanorawritesfantasy]

I’m re-writing my intro because I’ve finally come up with a title for my WIP, and I’ve got different graphics now that fit in with the dark fantasy that I write a bit better than loads of cutesy pink!

So, you can call me Eleanora Rose. I’m 30, from the UK, and I use they/them pronouns. I write dark fantasy, sometimes with a humorous twist, and sometimes with just pure grimdark vengeance coursing the the story’s veins.

I like cats, the dulcet tones of Hozier, swearing, spiting my enemies, and the combination of opals and garnets. My favourite book is The Priory of the Orange Tree and I love the Dragon Age game series.

I don’t like capitalism and my curious ability to kill any and every plant I try to grow (all I long for is to be a plant parent!).

On this blog, you’ll find snippets of my WIP as well as flash fiction based in its universe and posts detailing some of its worldbuilding. I’m also a big fan of shitposts and sharing tips and resources for writers.

DNI

Please, no minors. Also no fascists, no TERFs, and no paedophiles and their apologists, etc. You will be blocked on sight. Please send me a message if I ever inadvertently reblog from any of this lot.

Blood and Water: The Olrion Series, Book One

Braddik wasn’t like other dwarves. He was six foot two. One a quest to find his father, who he knows nothing about, Braddik must traverse Olrion. Picking up a rag-tag team of companions, Braddik begins to learn that the continent isn’t quite as bright as some would paint it to be—something he’s already familiar with from his native Dwarfesbörg.

Elenia, a mysterious and decisive elf with skin almost as dark as her jet black eyes, is Braddik’s first companion. But what is she hiding?

Retruk, a goblin that parted ways with their clan on terms worse-than-bad, also joins the party. They simply want a bit of company, is all. Plus they can throw a mean fireball, and surely that will help on our heroes adventure, right?

Join the queer-as-heck trio in their epic journey that span an entire continent filled with magic, mayhem, corruption, and a good bit of knowing humour, too.

[fandom-oracle]

queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[overpoweredoriginalposter]

I submit: character takes off their glasses when shit gets real, patiently cleans them, puts them back on with a weary sigh, goes completely feral

[verberation]

I just saw this ad and holy fuck. If you are prone to epilepsy or flashing light triggered migraines if you see the top of THIS ad -

[image of cropped tumblr ad. Text reads ‘sponsored by WordAds. 5 Unique and Awesome Lightsabers. Not all lightsabers are created equal.]

Do NOT pass go. Do not try to scroll past. It is LONG and consists of a single incredibly stretched gif of random moving and flashing lights without distinct colours. It is seems as if it was DESIGNED to tigger flashing light sensitive issues.

Anyway, fuck this ad & pass on the warning to any who see it.

[magneatio]

i wanna know what everyone’s majors are mutuals i want to know i love you and i’m interested

[sunflower-cane]

Hypervigilance can cause fatigue guys. PTSD can cause fatigue, anxiety and depression can cause fatigue, Bipolar can cause fatigue, any and all mental illnesses can.

Please understand if youre mentally ill and physically or emotionally fatigued, that is not you being lazy! It is your body and brain being tired of fighting your illness! You are tired because youve been fighting.

This struggle you are going through is real, please do not let yourself or anyone invalidate you further by saying youre lazy.

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

[makaylajade-author]

Reader: omg I’m so excited to read what happens next

Panster: me too

[jadeseadragon]

Kinuko Y. Craft (b. 1940), illustrations from “Beauty and the Beast.”

[librarycard]

its like i always say. at least theres bisexuality

[librarycard]

deep breaths everyone. at least we have bisexualism

[gailynovelry]

They say you should write every day, but sometimes a functional writing process looks like writing 1k in a sitting because you're getting a head of yourself, writing 500 words because you had a chapter to wrap up, writing 50 words because you felt too sad to write, writing no words because the state of the world overcame you for a few days, writing 1.5k because sometimes ennui turns into fury and purpose, and then 700 the next day because you remembered that there was a cool scene you wanted to get around to and—

[corrie-zodori]

Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

[writing-prompt-s]

“My lord, I know you are the demon lord and I am but a lowly advisor, but please listen to me. I suggest that instead of sending the hero slightly stronger demons to kill each time, we just send the strongest one right away”

[narnianvalkyrieofberk]

“Do you know why the heroes fight us, advisor?”

“Because…. because we threaten their homeland, my lord?”

“And why do we threaten their homeland?”

“Because Kushiel rules it and she exiled you?”

“Close. Because Kushiel rules it and she must be stopped. But we cannot stop her.”

“I’m… not sure I follow, my liege.”

“I am not surprised. This war started long before you were born, did it not?”

“Yes, my lord, at least a dozen centuries before.”

“And I was at least a dozen centuries old when this war began. We sent our strongest soldiers, our mightiest armies. And Kushiel sent children.”

“Children…? Then… how did we not win?”

“Would you like to fight an army of children? See the light that should have burned a century be snuffed out after barely a decade?”

“Well… not particularly, no.”

“Nor did we, and Kushiel knew this. She gives them no training for she knows the worse off they are the worse it will be for us to face them. This went on for several centuries. She fills her people’s heads with stories, false prophecies about how a child will someday defeat the tyrannical ruler who threatens them. And so, we are helping that prophecy become true.”

“Wait, what?”

“We cannot hope to defeat Kushiel. We do not know her with any intimacy. We cannot predict her movements. All we know is she will keep sending children. So we train them. We send out weakest soldiers, those willing to die knowing their sacrifice will eventually be her undoing. Someday, a hero will come who is able to defeat us. A hero who will slaughter our weakest, then our next weakest, and will continue to do so until even I lay dead at their feet. And then the hero will come here and sit in my throne and peer from my grand window. Sit. Tell me what they will see.”

“It…. It’s a graveyard, sir.”

“Those are the graves of all the children Kushiel has sent to die at our hands. Some became adults before they finally fell, but they were always children when they started. We bury them here. And someday a hero will come who will free us from this grievous task. They will take my throne, sit upon it, and see what Kushiel deemed a worthy price for this mere chair. And then the hero will realize who they must fight next. And thanks to us, they will have gained the strength and training necessary to make sure the prophecy is fulfilled and the tyrant will finally die.”

[ach-sss-no]

writing lessons i learned from tolkien that go against conventional wisdom

- you can make up as much lore as you want

- characters can have like five different names if you darn well please Just finished the silmarillion. it’s not five names it’s more like fifty names

- characters can sit around at home not starting the story for as long as you want

- you can spend huge blocks of text describing events that happened in the past without dialog and can in fact write a whole book like that

- you can make viewpoint characters just not be there for giant important events and hear about it later and go ‘oh’

- after setting a standard for everything having an in-depth lore explanation, sometimes a giant spider or a weird dude in the woods can just kind of show up and you don’t have to explain it

- i can do whatever i want

[supermarketcrush]

what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

[myceliumbutch]

Got a terf in my sideblog and the reply is not worth deigning with a response but the pinned post?

This? This is a trap. This is concern baiting. Be very sure that shit like this is not in your best interest and does not care about you. The goal of rhetoric like this is conversion.

You’ll be welcomed and asked to ignore transphobia. You will be asked to side with transphobes at the expense of trans women. Eventually, you’ll be asked to see that, hey, maybe you transitioned to escape how terrible it is to be a woman?

This may seem obviously a trap but I see people every day buy into this. People like this do not care about you! They want to “rescue” you and don’t let them convince you otherwise.

[myceliumbutch]

Hey this one got the terfs pissy so like. To say again. Clearly if they’re mad about this, this post hit on something. Maybe reblog it?

[vault-heck]

We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"