Writing, Whining, Inspiration, and Rambles

Kaer or K, libra-season, est. 1985. Fandom old, bourbon-aunt, cis female. This blog is for writing, inspiration, personal thoughts, and fandoms I am writing about or thinking about writing about. For other stuff my sideblog is VeggieNeko.

[kaerwrites]

I have a Patreon!

I am now working on an original novel project. Realm of Sorcerers: Fates' Champion is a New Adult fantasy with an eventual enemies-to-lovers subplot. It features a light vs dark magic system, a magic school, and a main character I absolutely adore.

I share unedited draft scenes on my Patreon, for anyone who wants to follow and support me on this journey. Anything the Patreon pulls in will go toward advertising when it's time to self publish next fall.

The beautiful banner you see here is by Comics by Cass!

[hamrikaa]

[kaerwrites]

Chapters: 17/? Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Riko Moriyama, Jean Moreau Additional Tags: Work In Progress, Tags to be added, another Raven fic, Slow Burn, backstory exploration, Character Analysis, canon-appropriate warnings apply, Underage Smoking, Underage Drinking, Reference to off-screen CSA, We are in for a Journey friends, Raven!Neil, Raven!Andrew Summary:

Wesninski was standing at the Home court door, impatient and annoyed. His weird blue eyes were the same as the boy's, but they looked every bit as merciless and dead as Riko's father's could be. Another shark, Riko realized, even if his runt of a son was nothing but a dog.

Or-

Mary fails to save her son. Nathaniel grows up in the Nest.

Another attempt to explore the story that could have happened. Tags to be added and adjusted as needed.

[kaerwrites]

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Riko Moriyama, Jean Moreau Additional Tags: Work In Progress, Tags to be added, another Raven fic, Slow Burn, backstory exploration, Character Analysis, canon-appropriate warnings apply, Underage Smoking, Underage Drinking, Reference to off-screen CSA, We are in for a Journey friends, Raven!Neil, Raven!Andrew Summary:

Wesninski was standing at the Home court door, impatient and annoyed. His weird blue eyes were the same as the boy's, but they looked every bit as merciless and dead as Riko's father's could be. Another shark, Riko realized, even if his runt of a son was nothing but a dog.

Or-

Mary fails to save her son. Nathaniel grows up in the Nest.

Another attempt to explore the story that could have happened. Tags to be added and adjusted as needed.

[kaerwrites]

Chapters: 22/? Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince) Characters: Nikandros, Aimeric, Erasmus, Kallias, Ancel, Auguste Additional Tags: Additional Tags to Come, part of a series, Arranged Marriage, Auguste Lives (Captive Prince), Slavery, Abusive Relationships, ALL Canon-compliant warnings apply, Slow Burn, political manipulation, tw Uncle Series: Part 3 of Obligation, Duty, Honor Summary:

To peacefully end the war with Akielos, King Auguste of Vere sold his brother in marriage. To some, that was his first mistake.

As Laurent thrived in Akielos, his brother's rule suffered without him. Now the King of Vere has taken a prolonged Retreat from his duties, leaving the country in the hands of his chosen Regent, his uncle, Richard. In the south, Akielos is at war with her own people, a simple rebellion that should have been quashed in months stretching into years, as if their enemies somehow know their every move before they make it.

[kaerwrites]

I DNF aftg, but honestly hearing it's NOT happening in the current-day modern times is surprising. Wdym the timeline is 20 years before I thought it was? I was 100% convinced it happened during like, 2015-2020 or something.

Yep everyone in the book are 80s babies like me. I think that’s part of what I enjoy about it.

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And I’m picky as shit when it comes to what I consider good writing.

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Yes, I’m no fun.

[kaerwrites]

As an Old Person, timeline errors in aftg fics really bother me. I was born in 85 and was in college the same time the boys were in college. I remember what life was like then. I also live in the south. Seeing someone mention a book or movie or musical or technology that we didn’t have yet really throws me out of it. The books take place fall and winter of 06- winter and spring of 07?

- the first gay athlete who was still actively playing a major sport (not retired) didn’t come out until 2013? The stigma around gay athletes was a HUGE deal.

- gay marriage was legalized in 2015.

- like, people being accepting and cool of lgbtq people in the south in 06-07 was not the norm. You saw more Seths and Aarons than not. (It’s still not a hugely queer friendly place but people aren’t as openly vocal with their bigotry in school or professional spaces as they used to be. The slurs we see in aftg were very normal to casually throw around.)

- the first iPhone was summer of 07. Razr or blackberry were the popular choices prior to that. Getting on the internet on older phones was a pain in the ass and a lot of plans charged an arm and a leg for it so a lot of people I knew didn’t bother. When the iPhone came out a lot of people I knew, myself included, thought they were excessive and dumb. I have a computer at home why would I have one in my pocket? Sour grapes maybe because damn I could not afford that anyway. I didn’t get my first until Christmas 2010.

- pictures on older phones were not great and you would upload them to your computer if you remembered to and then upload them to Facebook or whatever. Most people still had a separate camera.

- Internet says laptop sales overtook desktop in 2005 but in my experience most people still had the one big family computer everyone shared rather than personal laptops. I remember being so annoyed at classes wanting me to check my email because it was inconvenient. iPad didn’t come out until 2010.

- Twitter did start in 06 and it had a character limit. It started to become more popular in spring of 07 but wasn’t really huge until 09 when celebrities started using it. MySpace was still one of the most popular social media platforms in 06 and Facebook was only for students until 2006. Instagram didn’t come around until 2010.

- as much as we know Kevin would lose his mind, Hamilton didn’t open until 2015

- actually google says there WERE boba tea shops in California during this time. Surprised me, too.

[yearningendlessly]

y’all have got to stop recommending aftg to heated rivalry enjoyers unprompted 😭 this is like recommending cocaine to someone who has eaten a pot brownie once

[missescara-23]

New goal - draw a Neil so c*nty he ends up in all of the TikTok edits . Feel like this one got pretty close😈😘

[gonzos-humansona]

my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information

[sinkingescapist]

Neil Josten if he knew about Shakira

[hamrikaa]

PSU Foxes 🥍

[kaerwrites]

I have friggin writers’ block. So why in the fuck do I yearn to write Andrew Minyard in a rock band???

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Asphodel looks tired. Compared to the other two character profiles we’ve seen so far it looks like he’s been through some shit already

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[kaerwrites]

The plan for right now is to get Honor finished. Once that's done I will go back to trying to juggle Paper Crowns and my original project. I hate how behind on everything I've become. (But Cass did force me to write at the beach!)

Anyway, I am not dead, I am sorry for being so inconsistent this year, and I am doing my best to get my ass back in gear. <3

[kaerwrites]

I have had a terrible time keeping up with my writing this year, and my Patreon posts have super slowed down because I feel guilty every time I post to it and not AO3.

Nevertheless, here's a little thing I've been hanging on to for a while:

See the post for free on my Patreon.