once a prince, now I've lost my crown

too old (30) / they / accidentally a wriblr

[keeningvoid]

I guess I should have a WIPs post if I'm going to be tagging things

Or an intro or whatever idk, so.

I'm [unpronouncable sounds that equivocate in English to "Keening Void"], I'm a 30 yo crazy person who works at Coffee Shop Chain in the US. I came back to tungle dot hell just as a way to get away from my other social media presences but I slipped into writeblr territory and I'm gonna stay here, y'all are lovely.

Anywho I [think very hard about] writing things. Here are some of the things:

Original Works

Laughing Into the Darkness is an urban fantasy / supernatural romance about a biroace goth not-quite-boy (Adrian) who falls in love with the prince of Hell (Karavox aka Kenney).

Encroaching Lacuna is a (technically furry) space fantasy / light sci-fi superpowers drama about twins, Taliander and Orian, who get kidnapped from their home planet by an imperial war machine.

Urasdia is an epic high fantasy drama that can't figure out if it wants to be a revenge story or a revolution story. Prince Damian of Vemba, his ex Trinh, and his brothers Viktor and Adrien are major characters.

Salvation is a queer cyberpunk story about unexpected allies. Chaz, a nonbinary cyborg sex worker, has saved up enough to get a bigger apartment - with a stranger for a roommate. But Kevin's pretty quiet, and not a bad roommate... He might be a corpo contract killer, though.

Skyward Force is a video game idea I'm tossing around. It's a Shining Force like turn based tactical RPG about time and immortality.

I have a nameless collection of drabbles and concepts surrounding a fursona of mine, Tara; she's a catgirl sex worker & bartender who lives with her werewolf friend Cormac, who she's in love with. Pretty much anything NSFW I write is probably gonna be in Tara's world, and pretty much anything I write in Tara's world is gonna be NSFW.

I also think about drabbling stuff about my tabletop rpg characters: Mitchell, the tiefling warlock; Djarra, the halfling werebear druid; and Torra, the heretic Mechanicus enginseer.

Fanfiction

I don't have a published fanfic presence but I am working on a few things in the Netflix Castlevania, Magnus Archives, and Warhammer 40k fandoms, so I might talk about those from time to time. If I ever actually work on them. You know.

Other Fandoms

These are stuff I'm into but don't necessarily have planned works for.

Books:

Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives (I'm not okay, please write quickly Mister Brandon)

Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim series

Rodger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber (fun fact: Urasdia started out as an Amber fanvessel eons ago)

Tolkien's works, of course

Stephen King's Dark Tower books

probably more! I got bad brains

Movies & TV:

Our Flag Means Death

What We Do in the Shadows (both)

Vikings

JJBA

Archer

Cobra Kai

definitely more but again, the bad brains

Other Media Types:

I'm pretty into Magic the Gathering and goth & metal music and sometimes that stuff has story pieces to play with so :) maybe one day.

Probably going to update this later with appropriate tags and anything else that changes. <3

Socializing with my weird ass:

I'm not very good at socializing beyond either pleasantries or infodumping tbh (it's the autismos) but I do like people and I do like what you're working on!

I'm explicitly avoiding Reality here so please don't try to talk to me about politics, current events, etc. - they upset me too much and I have other avenues for dealing with all that. This space, for me, is just about fiction! (I have already broken this for myself but shh we'll just move on.)

Please avoid asking me how I'm doing, if you can. The answer, though impolite, is "bad, but there's nothing much anybody can do about it, so let's not talk about it". I don't want to make anyone feel bad for me, but I also don't want to lie. Better to just avoid the situation altogether.

I'm not great at responding to tag games or the like; on top of the autism, I got them anxiety and overthinkin' problems, ya dig? I also don't have a lot of words actually drafted for any of my WIPs yet [or, don't have a lot that I still have saved, for some] so games like word finds or last lines etc. are really hard haha. I might be better about this in the future.

[definite-human]

Contrary to popular belief, abandoned WIPs are crucial to the writer ecosystem, as they become the fertile soil from which completed works grow. Without them, the landscape would be sterile and barren

[keeningvoid]

forget your intended audience, tell me your unintended audience. who's the motherfucker who couldn't possibly understand your writing or why you'd choose to write about that character in that manner

[scoobeedoo]

Hello world

[halcionic]

i know this is a hot take for writeblr but you should be able to start, pause, discontinue, and abandon WIPs without feeling guilty.

[headspace-hotel]

I know people emphasize Finishing The Book No Matter What a lot but sometimes a book is hard to finish because you don’t care about it, or because it’s not the right time, or because there’s a really fundamental problem with it that you haven’t noticed yet. Laying a WIP aside can be and often is a part of the process

[momobosi]

[generalized-incompetence]

spent an hour making these instead of writing

[das-a-kirby-blog]

I think they stayed with him

[zeroblogshere]

me in planning stages of writing: this fucks. this is gonna be so fun.

me the minute i sit down to write: language is an unwieldy cudgel we use to beat the human experience to death in an attempt at ever communicating fully with another being. i wish intelligent life had never evolved. i want to go back to the cell stage like in spore

[keeningvoid]

i know it's not a healthy impulse at all but (we'll say, especially in a fictional context) there's something very appealing in the idea of like.

"i don't want to fix him, i just want to be the only person he's not horrible to."

cause like. how special is that.

[zeroblogshere]

me in planning stages of writing: this fucks. this is gonna be so fun.

me the minute i sit down to write: language is an unwieldy cudgel we use to beat the human experience to death in an attempt at ever communicating fully with another being. i wish intelligent life had never evolved. i want to go back to the cell stage like in spore

[starpeace]

god this scene i haven’t written would be so emotional if it came with 50k words of context i also haven’t written

[generalized-incompetence]

spent an hour making these instead of writing

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[keeningvoid]

opposite but similar to people who were able to pay off their student loans but still don't think anyone else should have to

[aschlindartroom]

A new writeblr intro to celebrate me ACTUALLY creating WIP intro posts...

A Little About Me...

31 years old | academic interest in esotericism, magic, true crime, and all things strange and unusual | writer of horror, sci-fi, and urban fantasy | anime weeb | should probably read more

Some of My Favorite Books:

Dark Tower Series (Drawing of Three and Wastelands specifically) | Hope by Glen Duncan | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Some of My Favorite Shows:

NBC's Hannibal | Arcane | Evangelion | Haunting of Hill House | Mind Hunter | Fullmetal Alchemist | The Big O | Haruhi Suzumiya

Current Works in Progress

Genre: Dystopian Urban Fantasy | Cosmic Horror Comp Titles: Arcane (searching for others) Featuring: post-apocalyptic rebuild • awakening cosmic horrors • powers beyond human comprehension • psychic abilities • genetically enhanced humans • weird science • tech magic • political power struggles • morally grey characters • Lovecraftian madness FULL WIP INTRO HERE

Genre: Cosmic Horror | Psychological Horror Comp Titles: Featuring: climate change • worldwide pandemic • dying world • weird science • deep ocean exploration • claustrophobic horror • psychic abilities • awakening cosmic horrors • shady for-profit organizations • top-secret government contracts • the turning of some cosmic screw FULL WIP INTRO HERE

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Original Content and Lists

Tag Games

Ask/Tag Game List | Science Fiction Trope Tag |

Inspiration & Writing Resources

Science Fiction

Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warnings |

[keeningvoid]

one thing i will definitely say about LitD is that it is more than anything else a romance story

it is about a romance

it is about these two weird dudes loving each other so much

it is not gonna be everyone's cup of tea but if you come into it expecting something other than a very blatant and very obvious romance story, that's not on me. i'm very clear about what the point of it is.

now it's not gonna be a sexual story, at all - both because i just don't feel like writing that kind of thing at the moment and because the main character is an asexual who doesn't like having sex & the point of the story is him being loved and respected so nobody is going to challenge this 'on-screen' - so it's not going to be in any way an erotic story. but it is a romance. if you don't like romance, and you don't want to read a story about people being in love, you shouldn't read this story when i'm done with it. it's not for you.

(it's for me; they're both self-inserts and i'm gay as hell for myself.)

[kodigriffinofficial20]

Me trying to remind myself that I’m not going to be a terrible writer forever.