To pull off the riff from Spiderverse, alright folks let’s do this one more time.
About Me
I’m Hope! She/They/He, Canadian and in my 20’s
My main is @hopeeternia so I’ll be liking and following from there
I have been writing on and off for over a decade, have I actually finished anything? Next question!
I’ve been loosely active here for about 4 years or so.
I like Magical Girls, JRPG’s, reading (fantasy and urban fantasy and a bit of sci-fi is my comfort zones), listening to art videos and making plenty of playlists only to stop listening to them after a while and never deleting them.
I finished a library technician course! It was a fun course and I’m excited to get into the field… let’s hope the job market and lady luck all works out in my favour.
Don’t ask me about my tbr, I have so much on that list it’s not even funny anymore. I’ll maybe shove a link here to a list I’ll make in the future.
I’m also an artist! I’ll probably present some of my art related to my wips here from time to time.
Genres I write in tend to lean fantasy, be it urban or high or second world, with some sci-fi elements. Supernatural beings are also included and expect the influences of what I like to be present. Queer elements are a feature and will be present in some way.
I'm up for some tag games, just don't expect me to respond to them right away.
I’ll mostly be reblogging stuff here, I do have some wips and will be properly presenting them in the future, here’s some sneak peaks under the cut!
Works In Progress
Departure of Blood
With the passing of her mother, Rosalie Mills travels to Duskbell Port to be with her siblings and drag them back home to properly mourn their parents. But when she arrives, the city is soon engulfed in serial murders and her siblings are too occupied to give her the time of day. To get their attention, she decides to independently solve this mystery, only to gain the attention of other individuals with either similar or much different goals. Be careful where one looks, it might come back to bite you, literally.
Last year, I wrote this drabble about Rosalie leaving her hometown on a train. This year, I'm expanding it to hopefully try to write a novel? I have too many projects but I'm determined to at least write 10000 words of this one in November 2024. Family Drama, Drama in the City, Relationship Drama, Murder Mystery, vaguely turn of the 1900's inspired and Vampires. The tag is #wip: Departure of Blood or #wip: DoB
To Pierce the Sun’s Veil
Junie’s life has changed since her mother went missing, and it’s about to change again. Her search for her mother has gone nowhere and on the day she gets caught up in an incursion from across the Veil, a new path emerges. A deal with a fae called Iris allows her to transform into the Veiled Hero, Violet Sun. The problem? The fae are the ones behind the incursions. Now she has to work with a team while keeping her deal secret as she tries to accomplish both sides of the deal.
This started out as an idea of retelling Rapunzel but as magical girls, it has evolved since then but the initial inspiration is still somewhat there. The name may change at some point though. Name shenanigans are abound, as there are True Names and Public Names, as well as Veiled Names (this last one is specifically for Veiled Heroes). Urban Fantasy that holds inspiration from the magical girl shows I’ve watched growing up, featuring 18 to 20 somethings figuring out adjusting to adulthood on top of the magical fights. This is a story that has the potential to branch off into other stories for sure. It’s tag is #wip: To Pierce the Sun’s Veil or #wip: TPtSV
The World of Astral Rezellia
Adva Helio only wishes to find those she cares about and get away from the conflict that’s slowly enveloping the nations of Astral Rezellia. Yet as she finds one, she loses another and is forced to flee to find new allies and is forced into the very conflict she would rather not get that involved in.
Previous names include, The Nameless Constellation, Academy of Stars and Astral Sanctuary Academy. A fantasy story very much initially started out of spite towards Fate The Winx Saga’s choices and very much transformed into its own thing inspired more by a general love for the kinds of adventures found in JRPG’s. It’s on the back burner though as I go through yet another rework of things. It’s tag is #wip: Astral Rezellia or #wip: TWoAR
I also write fanfics, but I won’t be sharing them all that much except for some pieces of writing that I’m really proud of. They will be tagged #fanfic wip: [title of story] or #fanfic
And any of my older wips that I’m not working on will be tagged in a fashion like #old wip: [title of story] or #old story
If you enjoy fantasy or horror or superheroes or romance or thriller or dark romance or comedy or erotica or vampires or pirates or sci-fi or post-apocalypses or literary fiction...
...there will be something for you.
Only four books are published so far, a fifth coming soon, all of which some flavour of fantasy, but 2027 opens with romance and horror and thriller and more.
Most of them are standalones.
Anyone can read them.
700 books in total, all written by one autistic woman, are to come.
BEGGING people to realize that when you give critique (ex: beta reads and feedback exchanges), you are supposed to focus on the things you thought were executed well *just as much* as the things you thought needed work. If you just focus on the negative, the person you are critiquing will likely assume nothing they did was good, and in subsequent adjustments to the work may throw out the baby with the bathwater and get rid of all the elements that worked fine. If they don't give up altogether.
Critiquing is its own skillset that we have to hone! It is so important to be able to recognize not just mistakes, but also things the creator pulls off fantastically. This seems like an easy thing to notice, but there are A LOT of pieces to a work that when done right become almost invisible. They don't leap out at you like something that interrupts your immersion. That immersion itself is a sign of solid work, and it can be hard to recognize if you're not used to looking for it.
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A multiverse, based around a set of 49 magics... but more than that...
HIGH FANTASY AND URBAN FANTASY AND SCI-FI AND SUPERHEROES AND HORROR AND MYTHOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE...
This begins with a series of queer fantasy novellas, written by @isabellebissonrouthier, set in the fantasy world of Ungode, each with a unique main character, magic, and story!
I now have a blog where I act as one of the characters from 49, changing character every week, named @i-am-49!
and the published multiverse so far...
VOLUME 01 is a collection of the first three fantasy tales, with more to come...
AVAILABLE NOW: UK & US & MORE
VOLUME 02 is a collection of the second three fantasy tales, with more to come...
AVAILABLE NOW: UK & US & MORE
THE CAPITAL OF UNGODE is a collection of urban-fantasy short-stories in a new world with new characters, exploring the magic system in a whole new setting...
AVAILABLE NOW: UK & US & MORE
LINKTREE | AO3 | DISCORD SERVER
VOLUME 01:
THREE UNIQUE TALES. ONE FANTASY WORLD. A SECRET TO UNCOVER.
Aveline, the princess, wants freedom from her gilded birdcage.
Chrysanthemum, the hero, trusts too many vile villains and beasts.
Lucah, the pirate, will follow his blood-drinking captain until the end.
How will their love destroy them?
VOLUME 02:
Netharia, once a noble hero, now an elderly mother, is haunted by the memories and followers of her villainous ex-wife.
Scylla, a circus ringmaster, commands the minds and the bodies of the dozens of dancers in her troupe.
Magnus, an assassin with a charming smile, will do anything to keep his favourite detective at his heels.
THE CAPITAL OF UNGODE:
An island off the coast of the USA, named Ungode, hidden from the world and filled with a variety of unique magics.
From popstars that drink blood between performances, against the laws of the city, to influencers feeding on lust, to those who fail to reveal magic to the world... the capital of Ungode is filled with wonder.
Enjoy a book of 49 urban-fantasy short stories, each focused on a different magic and a different main character... with a secret connecting them all.
Each tale to be told is unique, but each has something that connects them: a past, a present, a future, a character, a magic...
...or more.
There is more than meets the eye: secrets woven into every page.
So many people who love generative AI don't have a creative bone in their body and can't imagine anyone actually enjoying the time and effort it takes to write something or draw something.
Can you, as a writer, imagine NOT experiencing the joy and terror of having your own characters drag you by the collar of your shirt in the direction THEY choose?
And you’re sitting there like no No NO you little cumquats!! Get back here! GIMME that! to fruitlessly try to wrestle your carefully planned plot back out of their greedy little fingers?
And you sit there as they’re doing their own thing with a small part of your head going goddamnit goddammit while their words and actions flow out of your callous covered fingertips and onto the page?
And suddenly you read it, and your shit ass little muses actually made something amazing that you can sculpt and bend into the very thing you actually meant to write?
I would give up the craft if I couldn’t have those moments.
Some people can't wrap their mind around doing a thing because you enjoy the process, not just so you have something you can use to milk money out of other people.
Stephen King used to talk about how he didn't remember writing Cujo because the cocaine had done most of the work, and to be honest, that was the best anti-drug PSA I ever received. Don't do drugs, kids, or you'll forget doing the thing that makes you happiest in the world world.
the Writer Mood™ when you've got the shadow of a concept of a scene and a couple lines of dialogue bouncing around in your head like a screensaver and you have to be like buddy, come back when you're something coherent. i can't do anything with this.
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