Here Be Monsters

Lanx | Any Pronouns | 28 | Writeblr blog of @mercurialsmile Currently writing Fantasy, Paranormal, and Romance Icon by @ademariel

[k--havok]

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 About Me

🌙 I'm mostly known as Lanx, but I don’t care what you call me as long as you don’t call me late for dinner.  🌈 I Identify as agender (They/She/He), am proudly bisexual, and in love with all things grotesque and monstrous. ⚕️I'm 21+, from good ole' Texas, and work the graveyard shift in the medical field.

My Writing

I write adult fiction only. My WIPs tend to be scattered, but are usually some flavors of romance/erotica, fantasy, soft sci-fi, paranormal, and a smidgen of contemporary. I also season my works with dark fiction and smut generously as well, so do watch yourself. Within my writing, you will find themes including, but not limited to: LGBT+ Themes | Violence, and how it shapes us | The process of grief | Self-expoloration and finding out who you are | Abuse and the cycle of abuse | Trauma | Exploration of mental illness Political intrigue, world building, found family, magic systems, and the many shapes of love are also my bread and butter. Monsters and original species take center stage in the majority of my WIPs as well. I am partial toward dragons, demons, and angels specifically.

Tag Games and Asks

I enjoy participating in tag games, so feel free to tag me whenever you want. My inbox is always open for you to scream into. I don’t bite (much). I am slow to respond to both at times, mainly due to my work schedule. I tend to be quite forgetful as well, so if you message me and I don't respond for a while, please feel free to poke me again.

2024 WIPS

I tend to jump from WIP to WIP with abandon as it is hard for me to focus on one story at a time. Nevertheless, the below are my WIPs I hope to work on this year. Links will take you to their introductory post. Do note that the majority of my WIPs come with warnings, so make sure you read those before proceeding. Waking into Divinity Soft Touches, Godless Hands Rane & Korzan's Fantastical Adventure The Ghost & The Machine

Other WIPS

These WIPs I tend to work on sporadically when inspiration strikes. You'll sometimes see posts about them. I do not have introductory posts to all of them, so some links will take you to the associated tag instead. Osiris’ Trials | Mirroring Shadows | The Tales of Ozoarth | A Colloquy between Gods | The Cadence of Me and You

Links

AO3 | WattPad | My Writing | NaNo

[writingdose]

writers, instead of asking ai for help, you can always use your childhood trauma and repressed issues to help you with that fic

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[k--havok]

I want to write but rn just not feelin it for any of my stories >.> idk man

[nondelphic]

the feminine urge to abandon the novel and start a newer, hotter, less emotionally demanding novel

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[anxiouswarlock]

Waiting for these idiots to kiss already then remembering that I’m the one writing the story

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[stephexmachina]

tbh in my eyes this kind of thing is inexcusably pathetic like it's not cute it's not funny it's not forgivable it's misogyny plain & simple. if you can't connect with female characters as full people with thoughts & emotions you're a loser & i have no respect for you #notsorry

[redstonedust]

i keep using 'blorbo' to refer to my own OCs to the point i forget its supposed to be a fandom term. yeah i know blorbo from my shows. and those shows? only airing inside my own brain and the dms of a few lucky friends, baby.

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[incognito-insomniac]

Some of the best advice I have ever gotten was from a creative writing professor. She said never apologize for your work. Never critic it before someone else does.

Her reasoning was you are the creator. You made your work from nothing and can see all the flaws and seems and holes. But your audience may not see any of it. Maybe they will; maybe they won't. But if you TELL them about the holes and the mistakes and the problems....they will 100% see them. So don't tell them. Don't sabotage yourself just because you think you're not good enough.

[bauliya]

i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they're allowed to go to extremes. they're allowed to put their love over the greater good. they're allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.

[cake-writes]

[divinesong]

Yea, sure. Until YOU or people you love are among the victims for someone else’s love and the villains won’t care. Would also like to point out that some villians(Kuvira, for example) have been willing to sacrifice/throw away love interests for their own goals.

[bauliya]

idk about you but existing in the real world gives me and my loved ones immunity from the actions of fictional villains. hope you manage to get your family out of star wars.

[brightlotusmoon]

[rkkuna]

everyday struggle i fear

[thegrayelephent]

Me when I write for 30 minutes: 1k words

Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words

Me when I write for 4 hours: -300 words

[luna-azzurra]

Quick Tips for Writing Descriptions

⟢ PICK THREE DETAILS MAXIMUM! your reader doesn't need to know every piece of furniture. Give them the broken clock on the mantle, the smell of cigarettes embedded in the couch, the water stain on the ceiling shaped like Italy. Their brain will fill in the rest. You're not writing an insurance inventory!!!

⟢ Use the senses people forget. Everyone does sight and sound, but what about: the metallic taste of fear, the way humidity makes your clothes stick, the phantom itch of being watched, that gross feeling when you touch something unexpectedly wet. GET WEIRD WITH IT

⟢ MOTION IN YOUR DESCRIPTIONS!! (Please?) don't just tell me the curtains are blue, tell me they're "shuddering in the AC blast" or "hanging limp like they've given up." Static description is a sleep aid. Make things MOVE

⟢ Your narrator's voice should COLOR everything! A depressed character won't describe the sunset as "beautiful mauve and amber streaking across the sky," they'll think "the sun's dying again, doing its whole performance art thing with the clouds"

⟢ Stop with the mirror descriptions! :( "She looked in the mirror and saw her auburn hair and green eyes" NO. Banned. Forbidden. Find literally any other way. Have another character notice. Show through action. Slip details in naturally. The mirror thing is lazy and we all know it

⟢ Similes and metaphors: COMMIT OR DON'T DO IT! "like" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. "Her anger was like a storm" is BORING. "Her anger rolled in with the methodical inevitability of a hurricane, and he was standing in a trailer park in Florida" now we're TALKING

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[nyanakin]

no because this is genuinely what i sound like and nobody outside of sw prequels fandom believes me 😖

[jackhawksmoor]

LISTEN