Since in modern paganism, deities often send spiders to their followers, regardless of whether they're really associated with spiders or not (most notably Hekate), deities in hoklo do the same to demideities.
Doesn't matter where you look. There are spiders on your ceiling, there are spiders in your closet, there are spiders in your shower, there are spiders in your cupboards, there are spiders in your car.
No one knows if the spiders were even sent by someone they're related to. Heck, no one knows if they were sent at all, maybe they're just drawn to divine energy.
They're not there to spy on the demideities or anything. They're just there. Everywhere.
You know , whenever I picture Alectyron (if he was turned back) I see his hair looking like these roosters' tails
BUT ☝️
I believe that before he got transformed, he was a redhead.
Yesss! Redhead Alectryon supremacy! ^^
However… I kinda imagine his hair to look like a rooster’s comb. 🤔 I mean, it wouldn’t really make sense for him to have his ass on his head, but hey! I’m open to whatever you have in mind! I am interested!
Since this blog is dedicated to my projects, it's about time I properly introduce myself and the books I'm writing/want to write.
About me:
I go by LuViKöe, which is short for my pen name, Lukas Vincent König (I also hope to make this my legal name some day). I'm a crossdressing transmasc from Berlin, Germany and I've been writing since I was about 12/13.
I'm the type of person that has a self-insert for nearly every piece of media they consume. I especially love creating characters and worldbuilding.
I loved reading as a child, but barely opened any books between 15 and 17. I'm 18 now and plan to change that, especially since my passion for writing is back.
I used to be a hellenic polytheist, though umfortunately, majority of my two year practice was religious psychosis. I "converted" to atheism for my own safety, and I do want to start worshipping again, I just don't know if I'm ready/stable enough yet.
My biggest struggle in writing is to actually write. I keep waiting to be "in the mood", which never happens, and I KNOW I should just open my damn ancient laptop and vomit words onto the page, I just don't do it. Task paralysis, I guess.
Now, onto the books:
Homiklothia - Son of Ares/War on the Island of Peace (Series)
Setting: 2060s-2070s
Humans poisoned the earth over centuries. Entire species went extinct, the air is hardly breathable and the ocean is treated as a giant trash can. Soon enough, "Mother Earth" had enough. Various old goddesses, personified as said force, awoke under the burden they had carried.
But humans weren't spiritual enough for deities to act directly. The solution?
Demideities. Melotokhen.
For the first time in thousands of years, deities of various ancient pantheons stepped into the mortal world to create children who could make a change. Children, mortal enough to act, and divine enough to have the abilities humans lacked. So, the Kantokhesie was created. The destiny of demideities to bring an end to capitalism, in any way they will find.
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I haven't really found a way to make a good summary of Homiklothia yet, but since it's my main project at the time, I will probably make an extra post about the worldbuilding, f.e. how human belief affects the divine, the multiverse, planes of existence, global supernatural energy, etc.
Some might be able to tell Homiklothia was inspired by Percy Jackson. If I remember correctly, some random day three years ago I got so upset at Rick Riordans portrayal of deities and minorities, I went down the rabbit hole of his "accidental" bigotry throughout all of his books and spontaneously decided I wanted to write something about demideities, but my way. This sounds egoistical as hell, and I've been called excessively prideful over it, but in my eyes, Hoklo developed from a PJO AU I made out of spite into a full-fledged passion project. I try my best to differentiate between the two and have Hoklo be its unique own thing, though the inspo is still obvious. I'm still not fond of Rick Riordan and some of his writing choices, but I abandon thoughts about him while writing.
Jekyll and Hyde - Legacy
As the name says, J&H Legacy follows the great-great-great-grandson of Dr Henry Jekyll, as he stumbles upon remains of his ancestors experiment to manifest the "evil" side of ones self into its own persona. It wouldn't be Jekyll and Hyde if James Jekyll wasn't a moron who followed 150 year old instructions and drank the potion he got from it, creating Nathan Hyde, an emotionally unstable, potentially homicidal drag queen.
I really want to turn this one into a murder mystery, where there's bodies showing up that aren't Hydes fault, and despite not really believing him, James and his friends (descendants of Utterson and Pools) go on a UK-wide chase to find the actual perpetrator. I'm also a Jekyde shipper, so readers can expect hella messy polyamorous tension. This will probanly be set somewhere between the 2010s and 2024.
GeneVault Delta
SCP-Foundation style monster romance. This one is severely underdeveloped, so there isn't much to say about it right now.
01-BA is a series of experiments, centered around the goal of bioengineering the perfect weapon for the military. Majority of the series failed. Only three living creatures remain; 01-032, 01-033 and 01-034. Unlike its two younger siblings, 01-032 wasn't chosen to assist in warfare. It was deemed "too intelligent" and "too emotional". In tests, it had shown to turn on the side it fought for, if the enemies gave it reason to think it was doing the wrong thing. 032 was locked away in the DeltaVault facility for decades, caretakers coming, going, dying. Due to its immense strength and brutality, scientists treated it as a cautionary tale.
Dr Henri Covali is assigned to be its newest caretaker, and oddly enough, the creature takes a liking to him.
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Other projects I've mostly scrapped but might pick up again:
The Lotus
Two men take "eat the rich" too serious, open a restaurant and accidentally become part of the rich by eating their concurrence.
Apocalypse Survivors
Zombie romance. Obvious, I know. This was the first book I ever considered writing, and while I now think it's kinda whack, I'm still quite fond of the characters. Elijah is a zombie who kept his mind in tact through the transformation and now looks after Lonnie, his transfem neighbour he's had a crush on for a while, but lost his chance to confess because now, anything he'd try could infect her. Later they join a group of survivors and Lonnie has to keep them from annihilating Elijah.
So I don't have the words to explain this, but I will try to make my point somehow here.
Can we talk about how Rick Riordan read about demigods and inmediately chose to call them half-bloods?
First of all, it's not a word that ancient Greeks used: those who were considered "superior to mankind, but inferior to the gods", to say it somehow, were called demigods or heroes. Pretty sure it started being used during the Middle Ages, as... literally, as a term, to call those who were of "mixed race" during the colonization of America. It originated from that, and it many negative connotations: pretty sure it could be considered a slur. And he KNOWS this. At least, I want to think he does. I mean, explain this:
Yeah, Rick, it's good that you wanna point out the discrimination Indigenous and African people suffer, but I think Piper' and Carter's discomfort with that name could be erased by simply not calling them that. It is really unnecessry. Sure, you could add a scene in which someone calls demigods that, be it with ill intentions or just as a misconception, but both ways could serve to show the characters' upsetness before such name.
Don't you think, Rick, I don't know, it comes to my mind... that there are better ways to call the children of gods? I believe that throwing this word around like it's nothing in a children's book is... questionable, to say the least. It minimizes what the word half-blood meant. What it was used and is still used for.
"Oh, but he does call them heroes and demigods!" Oh, so he IS able to not use a racial slur for his literal childrens book, huh? Not to mention, he STILL called it "Half-Blood Camp" and the term that is used the most is still that one.
I've counted just The Lightning Thief, but the word half-blood is said like 60 times, the word hero is said like 50 and the word demigod is said only 6 times.
I really wanna just become an editor in that fuckass book and change all the half-bloods for demigods.
He had the chance to have his characters realize that the term dehumanizes them, reducing them to their blood of all things, and have them start to unlearn calling themselves that. Like a character arc about self-respect as a community.
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.
Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.
It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.
no honestly i’ve severely underestimated how sexualised odysseus is in the odyssey like he’s being naked far more than necessary it almost becomes uncomfortable
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
