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[ladiesoftheknight]

LADIES OF THE KNIGHT IS OUT TODAY!

The print book is available now in the US (and a little later elsewhere)

The final 16 pages have been added to the webcomic <3 Some of my favourite pages are here at the end. 222 pages of knights for you to enjoy in web or print.

ladiesoftheknightcomic.com

To get sappy, this book would not exist without everyone who began following it here on tumblr. Thank you for all your support over the years. Enjoy the adventure.

[turing-tested]

why didnt you call the cops or cps?

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.

dont you ever blame an abuse victim for not going to the authorities.

[turing-tested]

yes this okay to reblog!

[autisticharrywells]

Also, a lot of abused children don’t realize that they’re being abused or the extent of the abuse. It’s their normal. Their minds are formed by their experiences and if all they’ve known is one existence it can be difficult to recognize that it’s wrong

[labelleizzy]

It can be difficult to realize that “better” even exists. This is part of why fiction can be life-saving. If you can read stories about happy families, loving families, sometimes you can hang on long enough to find or build a loving family for yourself.

[promptcalender]

How I ethically use genAI for my writing:

ChatGPT in particular has been so incredibly helpful in my writing process! It works perfectly in fueling my undying hatred for the slop plagiarism machine. Spite has been my singular motivator as I spend every day loathing the amount of AI covers and slop books flooding the market. AI has done what no motivational video on YouTube has managed to do: it has motivated me to sit my ass down and fucking write because I am a writer and'll be damned before I let some second hand thinker get the last laugh

[Prompt Calender: July 16th, Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day]

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[tc-doherty]

August Art Poll

The theme for August is Silverwood because Ithea's creation date is in July and Anthem's is in September, so what better month could there be for them?

In order for it not to be completely overwhelming (because it's Silverwood lol), I am limiting this to generation 1 only!

The winning three options will get art and also information about the characters and their relationship, whatever form that relationship takes~

The options cover a range of romantic, platonic, familial, and antagonistic.

Not every possible combo or character from gen1 is being explored, just the most important ones

Who should I focus on for Silverwood month?

Anthem & Ithea

Anthem & Aidian

Ithea & Ithian

Anthem & Ithian

Anthem & Aya

Ithea & Sonya

Sonya & Aya

Tris & Bird

Remaining time: 6 days 14 hours

Chibi cheat sheet for those who haven't been listening to me talk about this since 2004:

Art poll tag list: @bloodlessheirbyjacques @tryan-a-bex @hakbot @Kaket123

Don't forget, my big survey is still open so you have the ability to influence the content and themes of future art polls!

[goodluckclove]

I have zero interest in the discourse over audiobooks versus physically reading books on paper. Both have their merits. Engaging with either is a far more beneficial thing than starting pointless fights on the internet.

[dyrewrites]

People seem to have forgotten how stories began, or that we still have oral tales taught throughout the world. Writing things down is fairly new, people used to hold epics in their skull and recite them with gravitas to crowds or in hushed and dramatic whispers to children.

The idea that listening isn't reading is insane to me.

My memory doesn't work well with spoken words if I'm even a little distracted. I need to see the words to retain the information, or I have to make the audio my sole focus, which means if I'm going to listen to a story (audiobook, podcast, video, doesn't matter) I have to focus entirely on it. It's the same as sitting down to read a book for me.

Which is where I think the issue lies?

Here's one reader who takes time out of their day to sit and read, it is an event, it is special.

Here's another who listens to their book while doing chores or running errands, it is not an event on its own it is mulitasking.

Both are retaining the story, both enjoying the story.

One of them is jealous.

I know I am, but it's not their fault so I'm not rampaging about it.

[tc-doherty]

Quick pic to celebrate Marion getting his name. After the tiebreaker, it was quite a landslide victory ^__^

And Eugene too! 

As stated previously, I do think they get along better with each other than with some of their other siblings but, you know, adventure and romance often go hand-in-hand. 

I'm sure I'll draw them again haha

Art tag list: @crimsonshadetress @hakbot @bloodlessheirbyjacques

[sunset-a-story]

Sunset Vol 3. Issue 23 is up for free readers!

Royal Road   |   AO3   |   Patreon

In which Reeve reaches a breaking point with Hannah's concern, and Freddie thinks someone else in Neptune has noticed there's something off about LAHQ.

“You’re making yourself sick,” she told Reeve. “Let me help you taper down. Just a little.” 

Why? So I can have the pleasure of burying someone else I love?

He slammed the door shut behind her, loud enough that she flinched. He took a breath and went on, keeping his tone low. “You have no idea how exhausting this conversation is for me. It’s done now.”

Thanks for reading!

Sunset updates tag list. I try to keep it to release updates, long excerpts, and character profiles. Please comment/dm for +/- or to switch to the All Things tag list

@words-after-midnight @chayscribbles @elizaellwrites @theimperiumchronicles @clairelsonao3 @stuffaboutwriting @cee-grice @covenscribe @sejedensekh @void-botanist @oc-writing-corner @rewritingrosie @ashirisu @novel-emma

All Things Sunset tag list

@winterandwords @willtheweaver @thatndginger @albatris @revenantlore @real-fragments @scribe-of-stories @jacqueswriteblrlibrary @asher-writes @eyes-talks-ocs @jkit45 Please comment/dm for +/-

[mythrilpencil]

First snippet of writing for a new WIP about my Neon Odyssey OCs, the Saffron crew!

Word count: 821

CW: guilt

Fandom: Neon Odyssey (D&D)

Hacked

———

Aeza’s blood ran cold as the decrypted message typed itself across the console’s hologram screen. 

[The program. I know you have it. Bring it to the attached coordinates.

Or will you have yet another’s blood on your hands?

PHAZE]

Aeza could only stare at the tagline.

“Who…” Jay fussed with the console screen, urgently tabbing back and forth through menus as he echoed, “‘The program.’ They know about Coda. Who—how did they find out?”

<Tracker bug?> Jet suggested with a twitch of his antenna. 

Coda’s pale blue hardlight dimmed and gained a tint of a fearful, Somber lavender hue as she looked back and forth between Jay, Jet, and the console. “I can run a scan on the Saffron’s systems—”

“No!” Jay shoved a hand between Coda and the console. “Kid, if there’s a tracker bug, if you connect with the system you might get detected. We can’t risk that.”

“But if they already know about me—”

Jet gently pulled Coda away from the console and stepped around her, propping himself up on his tiptoes to reach buttons on the console. <I got it.>

Aeza’s breath quickened the longer she stared at the message on the screen, now surrounded by other windows as Jay and Jet pulled up status report upon status report of the Saffron’s computer network.

Phaze.

Her breath escaped her with a muttered, “No…”

She knew that name.

She knew that name. 

Jay started to turn around and ask, “Aez, why would the message have come to—”

But Aeza barely heard his voice as she pivoted and ran. 

She all but flew down the stairs from the bridge, dashing through the lobby. Her hand caught the handrail to the main stairs, and her momentum spun her into the stairway. 

A chorus of footsteps behind her rang dully on Aeza’s ears beneath the racing of her own heart and breath. At the base of the stairs she flung herself forward, dashing down the corridor to her quarters.

The automatic doors couldn’t slide open fast enough. She shoved herself through them before they even parted fully. 

There had to be something here. 

Something had been bugged. Aeza threw her covers aside, her drawers open, and all but her most fragile belongings out across the floor. Her more fragile belongings she lifted and inspected more gently but no less frantically before setting them aside as well.

I must have missed something. What could she have bugged?

She threw herself at another set of drawers, holding nothing but a handful of spare pairs of socks and an old photograph she usually kept hidden.

Normally she pulled it out for comfort and nostalgia. Now she frantically turned it over and over. Searched it for anything amiss, anything she must have overlooked that could possibly be a tracker.

Nothing. 

I need to look again.

The doors to her quarters slid open again as she dashed to her closet for another round of searching. 

“Aez! What’re you doing!?” Jay demanded, his pale eyes darting around the rapidly increasing mess of Aeza’s room before fixing on her. 

Aeza ignored him, instead darting again to the desk.

But his firm hands stopped her, grabbing her on the shoulders and spinning her to face him. “Aeza! What’s going on? What’s gotten into you?!”

“I—” Aeza pulled herself out of his grip and turned. Every nerve she had pled at her to search her room again, but she froze when she finally registered the mess. Everything she owned now lay across the cold floor, seeming to join with the industrial walls in mocking her failure. She could only run her hands through her hair and mutter, “It’s all my fault.”

“What?”

“It’s all my fault,” she repeated, voice soft even to her own ears. “I—she found me. She must have. She found Coda because of me.”

Jay frowned and spun Aeza around with a firm but gentle hand to her shoulder again. “What are you talking about? ‘She’ who?”

“Phaze!” Aeza insisted, meeting his eyes before glancing down and finally noticing Jet and Coda standing in the doorway behind him. Guilt shot a dart of frost through her heart as she met Coda’s eyes, still tinted lavender instead of innocent blue. She had to pry her eyes away, else she feel Coda scanning her soul and finding her guilt as she forced out, “I…I know who Phaze is. Or…I used to. I used to know her. But I…I thought she was dead. But now she—she’s found Coda. Because of me.” Her voice weakened as she groaned again, “It’s all my fault. Again.”

“Aez, listen to me,” Jay said, stepping forward to put himself in her field of vision again while Jet waddled into the room and looked around. “I don’t know what you’re on about, but we’ll figure this out, ok? Doesn’t matter whose fault it is; we’re not gonna let her get Coda.”

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For this week’s prompt courtesy of @flashfictionfridayofficial!

Tagging: @jacqueswriteblrlibrary

[suninks-moved]

YOUR WRITING IS GREAT

your writing is great

your writing is great

YOUR WRITING IS GREAT

your writing is great

YOUR WRITING IS GREAT

YOUR WRITING IS GREAT

and don’t you forget it

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[depsidase]

[dandelionsresilience]

Just gonna drop these here as a starting point :)

How to identify, and then deal with, your emotions

Emotional regulation skills

Conflict resolution skills

Creating and enforcing boundaries

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills

Emotional intelligence ideals to aim for

Axes of self-care/wellbeing

Self-care self-evaluation (find out where you’re starting)

How to make a self-care checklist

How to start a self-care habit

Reparenting resources

Crash Course Psychology

KhanAcademy: Understanding the Self and Society (some units more relevant than others)

Emotional education activities for children and teens

Social-Emotional Learning activities for kids (information can be adapted for adults)

[radak1985]

I'm reblogging to actually use this

[a-pocket-0f-scarecrows]

Reblogging so I can read all of this; I think I do need to do better with my emotional maturity so this will come in handy.

[tc-doherty]

New Guy From the Bottom of the Primordial Sea has dropped!

(no name yet)

Like Eugene, he's excitable and a terrible meddler in human affairs, and often gets himself into shenanigans. He's less of a braggart than Eugene, but is an incorrigible gossip. While Eugene's wheelhouse of interest is adventure, his is romance.

He really wants a true love romance for himself. Unfortunately, this has not once worked out to date. Fortunately, he's difficult to discourage. Next time, right? 加油！

As a general rule I think the guys (and gals) from the bottom of the primordial sea don't necessarily vibe with one another. However, I think that there are siblings that he gets along with worse than Eugene. I have a feeling that they are among the younger ranks of Guys From the Bottom of the Primordial Sea.

There's no story here (yet?), these guys are just dollies for me so I may make up some more whenever the mood strikes me!

Art taglist: @crimsonshadetress @hakbot @bloodlessheirbyjacques

[tc-doherty]

What should I name him?

Marion

Rene

Leon

Clair

(suggestion in comments)

Voting ended onJul 17

These are the current forerunners, but I'm still open to suggestions!

[tc-doherty]

Tiebreaker! What's his name?

Marion

Clair

Voting ended onJul 18

[flashfictionfridayofficial]

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[#FFF365 Blood on Your Hands]

This prompt has been brought to you by @itsmoonpeaches; thank you very much! Is this a crime scene? Who died and why? Is this even a murder or more a metaphorical exclamation? Either way, we want to know all about it! Tell us who is guilty, what they've done and what the consequences will be. Go and write, write, write!

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[wtf-is-hockey]

God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.

[pseudospaceship]

"what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins" is honestly the thing I needed to hear today

[chronicallyhomoerotic]

this is a poem. To me.