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WIP Intro: Faehunter

Genre: Fantasy, adventure with mild horror, romance and LGBTQ+ themes.

POV: Third person limited.

Status: Undergoing Content and Line edits, ~70,000 words.

Themes: Living forests and ancient powers, reluctant-allies-to-enthusiastic-lovers, mountains, beginning to find a family but not quite there yet, reincarnation, monsters and folklore, guilt, friendship is magic, small rural towns, old magic, the power of love, old gods, unquestioned authority corrupts, balancing the old and the new, the Otherworld. 

Characters:

Lai, the Feyling:

Light-hearted and free-spirited, Lai spends her days befriending the animals of the forest and chasing bandits away from hapless travelers. Though she only came to this world on midwinters eve, she feels like she’s lived here forever. With little memory of the otherworld, Lai is content to marvel at the beauty of the forest, brew beer in her meadow and find lost children in exchange for companionship and the occasional slice of honeycomb.

Vier, The Beasthunter

Orphaned at a young age in a monster attack, Vier was taken to the beasthunter academy and reared in the care of the Church. Wielding a sharp sword and a sharper tongue, she has made herself a family among the hunters. But her mind is cursed with curiosity, questions and doubts as to certain doctrines. Meeting Lai only makes her wonder more, for the beast lives in harmony and balance with the local community.

Synopsis:

The beasthunter Vier finds herself in the mountains, tasked with slaying a feyling. Lai walks the living wood with a crown of flowers and a sword of amber, unafraid and beloved of the local villages. But the nature of the beast is irrelevant. Creatures such as this corrupt and devour mortal souls. They must be destroyed.

A greater problem looms: a Gauntwolf, a monstrous manifestation of hunger and rot. Neither of them can kill the beast alone. Though it goes against everything Vier was ever taught, they strike a deal to hunt the monster together.

But the longer Vier stays, the more complicated the situation becomes. Lai’s very existence challenges much of what she thought to be true. To kill her seems wrong. Images of her adorn every local shrine. She can resist the rot of the gauntwolf. What exactly is she? And how can a monster and a hunter ever trust one another?

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[creatingblackcharacters]

"When you can't keep women out anymore, and you can't force them all to become secretaries or teachers because modern social politics demand that you at least pretend to support gender equality in the workplace, what can you do to keep women out of powerful positions in business? You can set them up to fail- or, to be more accurate, you set them up to fall.

It's called the glass cliff, and it's a phrase that was first coined in 2005 by University of Exeter researchers Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam. The research was inspired by an article in the Times (of London, not New York) that suggested women leaders have a negative impact on stock performance. Perhaps Ryan and Haslam smelled the whiff of bullshit coming from the page. They wondered if it was actually true that women brought doom and gloom to the businesses they led, or if there was some other reason why women were more likely to be found in leadership positions at troubled businesses.

They found that women were indeed more likely than men to be in leadership positions at distressed companies, but they also found that the problems were not the women's fault... These firms had shown months of decline and seemed at risk of failure prior to adding women to their boards.

When Allison Cook and Christy Glass at Utah State University followed up on this research by looking at US companies, they also discovered disturbing patterns impacting women and people of color in business: women and people of color were most likely to be placed at the head of a company when it was already at risk of failure; white men were less likely to accept leadership positions when companies were at risk of failure; and when women or people of color fail to quickly turn around the struggling company, they were most likely replaced with white men.

Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains."

Chapter 5- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[oysters-aint-for-me]

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

[oysters-aint-for-me]

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

[fudamnshi]

”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me

[coolskeleton66]

[a-big-chicken-nerd]

its so windy my poor poor chickens are being blown around like dry leafs they look like this

[lamaenthel]

op isn't exaggerating btw

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[animentality]

[f4g4um]

hey you kind of set off my prey drive. wanna get out of here ? you first

[spatscolombo-deactivated2022030]

How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?

[tehri]

#where's the fic where bilbo returns with thorin in tow and no one bats an eye#like#'he married a dwarf did he? well he always was an odd fellow'#'good day to you master dwarf how's your husband?'#and thorin is just ?????#'how do they know i'm courting him? did he show them the mithril shirt?'#just give me all the hilarious culture clashes ok

@finegoddamnit​ how dare you hide this in the tags

[nevertheless-moving]

so that whole time merry, pippin, sam, and frodo are gone the whole shire is losing their minds arguing over who married who.

[stringcage]

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

[jvlianbashir]

my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing

[weaselle]

when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces

[yadelah]

This kinda required my brain a bit

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[stephexmachina]

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

[vibrantstarfire]

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

[scarletbirbs]

Friendly reminder since it's this week:

We boycottinggggg 🫡

[for some background if u want it]

[spiribia]

it doesn't matter to cats what kind of bad week you're going through, they'll come into your room and start doing repeated bulldozer attacks on you

[dogpuppy]

[absurdlyinaccurate]

me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea