So hi! Iâm Locke!
âş Iâm a 21 y/o rising senior in college, majoring in psychology
âş Iâve been writing for nearly eight years now, and after all that time, I actually have some idea of what I want to do with my work
âş When Iâm not writing, I draw, play video games, read, cross stitch, bullet journal, and dabble in photography during my free time
âş Some of my favorite games are Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Coral Island, Guild Wars 2, Spiritfarer, and The Evil Within
â worlds are burning, my child.
gods alone cannot suffocate the flames.
My Writing
âş My work probably fits quite loosely under fantasy, but I often dip into all sorts of genres, including but not limited to poetry, steampunk, dystopian, science fiction, supernatural, and more
âş Iâm polyamorous. My characters are polyamorous. Relationship webs are complicated and I love them dearly.
âş I have quite a few WIPs on the backburner due to my rather chaotic writing style, with only one being a finished first draft. I adore them all and I canât yet bear to part with any of them, so youâll probably see some ânewâ wip snippet pop up occasionally
âş Lore and worldbuilding makes up most of my word count and takes up most of my time; itâs the most consistent thing I do!
âş That said, itâs also my current focus, so expect a lot more of it!
 my works // world anvil // north haven discord // pinterest
WIP // Fable
âşÂ My tale is an old one. That much should be quite clear. It is not, however, as it has been told... For in a memory as old as mine, there is a truth worth seeking; a light worth following. Perhaps in the candor of my tale, others will find the necessary inspiration to continue on toward their own light.
Summary
A fairytale retelling in the form of a journal come to life. Written by Myhren, or âMerlinâ as they may be better known, Fable contains lifetimes of experiences and the truth behind the fairytales we all know and love.
Fable mainly focuses on the stories of King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, and associated characters. It is written from Myhrenâs point of view, with some discrepancies due to the nature of their immortal life and their experience within a time loop. Entries are not all seemingly in order. Instead, the writings follow Myhrenâs stream of consciousness.
Status
This is an ongoing, very long term WIP of mine. Iâve written some pieces, and brainstormed others. Iâll be releasing new entries as I complete them.
Phase: Itâs complicated.
wip page / cast page / character introÂ
WIP // The Minutemage Compendium
âş The MinuteMage Compendium is a browser-based RPG concept presented in an old-school rpg field guide format. Explore the world of Iane and discover its secrets!
Summary
A clock is ticking in the mist and fog; people have begun to vanish right off the streets, and dark knowledge is kept from the common folk. Thrust into an unknown world, it is up to you to bring corruption to light and save the clockwork city of Iane. Can you find the Minutemage Coin and open the doors before it's too late?
Status
Phase: Brainstorming. Iâll be designing items, NPCs, locations, creatures, enemies, and more. Eventually, I plan on making it into a physical guide and an RPG!
WIP // A Ghost, a Quill, and a Mockingbird
âş Something in her remembers her past; a part of her that stands tall in the face of another's rage. Mountainous strength, hidden within a mouse. Confidence born of past instinct, of power, of creation and abandonment; Yet her conscious betrays none of it. Her spite does nothing to reveal what she had been so desperate to forget; what her rage continues to remember, impressively extreme for such tame, conscious memory.
Summary
Ghost has lived her entire life in an underground bunker on the planet Serus. The last of her kind after a swarm of vitians invaded her world and slaughtered her people, she spends her days in blissful spite where the vitians are unable to reach her.
It's not in any way peaceful, of course, to hear the screaming from outside the bunker, but as long as she has her music and drink to keep her company, she figures she'll be able to live a nice, conflict free life.
That is, until her simple day-to-day life becomes a bit more interesting; a little more chaotic. Her god has returned, and he's not at all what she expected, nor does he seem all that keen on leaving her alone.
Status
Iâm proud to say that GQM, while my eighth existing wip, is the first to have a completed first draft!
Phase: Paused. While I take a step back and move onto other things before revising, adding, and rewriting!
wip page / wip intro
OTHER WIPS // The Back-burner
âş A list of WIPs I love very much and that have been set aside
It is worth noting that I tend to write a lot of standalone vignettes that donât pertain to specific stories, as well as a lot of poetry that I like to call my âspout of bullshitâ
Arcane // world anvil // tag
Alchemist //Â floating idea // tag
The Demonâs Eyes // world anvil // tag
Encounters of the Primal Sort // world anvil // tag
Faefinder // brainstorming phase // tag
Twisted Tales of Myth
⺠Ellyse of Wonderspire // world anvil // tag
âş Servant to Dragon and King //Â floating idea // tag
Wane of the Lunar Human //Â floating idea // tag
I'm apparently so consistently aroace that a friend of mine uses me as a measurement for whether or not something counts as "romantic," based on when I stop understanding what he's talking about.
Shortcuts to determine if an integer is divisible by:
This is a given.
If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.
If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.
Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.
If it ends in 5 or 0.
If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.
No shortcut. Alas.
Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)
Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.
#THIS POST IS WRONG 7 DOES HAVE A RULE FOR HOW TO TELL IF THE NUMBER IS DIVISIBLE#it's just. not a short cut#you're better off dividing it and seeing if you get a whole number than doing the method
Okay, so, basically, you remove the least important digit of the number (which is the first digit from the right), you double it, and then subtract it from the remaining number. If the number you get is still large, you do it again.
I simply dont think Black people owe you forgiveness or grace for your "racist phase". Cool you changed and apologized. You still didn't see me as a person for years, and you have the audacity to expect me to be nice and forgiving to you? Go give a Black tgirl your money.
Having a âracist phaseâ isnât fucking normal and generally people like that always backslide to that âphaseâ when they run into Black people who arenât impressed with how much of an âallyâ they are.
Also, being antiracist as a white person is something that requires constant vigilance because while you may be patting yourself on the back for how you didnât call a Black person a slur, society is still largely antiblack and racist and you as a white person are expected to uphold that ideology and system in countless ways. And you DO, knowingly or not.
So no, we donât owe you shit for having had a âphaseâ where you were simply doing as society at large conditioned you to do.
If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isnât reachable or accessible AT ALL.
The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.
Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!
Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head guide to making the simplest website it's possible to create:
Read all of these before starting.
Create your website in LibreOffice Writer. Keep it to one page to make it simple for yourself. You can use as many pictures as you want, but keep in mind that each picture will make your website more expensive.
Export your website page as HTML. This should be under the "File" menu on Windows and Linux, I'm not sure where it is on Mac but that has a handy menus search last I knew.
Sign up for NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Make sure you read all their rules about signing up. This will be the second hardest part for most people, I'm sorry, but you do need to read and follow all their rules to use them.
Create a NearlyFreeSpeech.net account for your website. Yes this is different from signing up. About half their FAQs are about the difference. (A lot of the other half are "don't do anything that is literally illegal".)
Upload the website HTML and all your pictures to the NearlyFreeSpeech.net account for your website. Name your page "index.html" so it can be found automatically. This will be the hardest part for most people, I'm sorry; but I chose this process because it's not only the most basic but also the cheapest process I could think of.
Optional but recommended: get a "domain name" for your website through NearlyFreeSpeech.net. This is a "short" name for your website that's relatively easy for people to remember and type and search for, like "tumblr.com" or "nearlyfreespeech.net".
I priced this out recently (c. June 2026) for something unrelated, and this whole setup should cost you less than $50 a year for the foreseeable future. That's including a bunch of pictures and $15 a year for a domain name. The fewer pictures you use, the less money it will cost.
It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"
Poly folks x aro folks in the sense that "alloromantic heterosexual monogamous people view love and sex as an entirely different entity than me, and that makes life kinda strange"
the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people donât like doing that
every time i see this post i think of that person who posted on reddit that they wanted to go to subway for the first time but they were scared they would say the wrong thing so someone gave them step by step instructions for the entire process and what all the choices would be and when they would ask what question and i just think
someone will
someone out there will see you and say "yes. the world is scary. but let me hold your hand and show you how to do it anyways"
everyone needs that someone, and everyone can be that someone
The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.
Hi, these bees are babies! Theyâre not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human
Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.
From left to right: 1795 MichaĹ Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter ElĹźbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough
(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)
oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.
in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:
The left is âthe busy fatherâ by Theodore Weber, the right one is âAt the china repairerâs â by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.
