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lyssa | she/her | writing sideblog, main is @lyssq | credit to flynnbug.arts on ig for the pfp

[lyssa-ink]

Because it’s been a while and I need to refresh this thing

Hi! Call me Lyssa, I’m a writer of mainly fantasy stuff and I am absolutely down to make new writer friends here! Feel free to send asks or tag me in stuff even if I can’t promise I’ll respond within a reasonable time because I procrastinate like that

wips

current main focus:

wardens’ shadow (urban/portal fantasy)

Actor Nathan Lee’s life has been going downhill following an accident that he’s still desperately trying to convince himself was not supernatural. But then he’s attacked by demons that this time he cannot deny, right before being arrested by people calling themselves ‘wardens’, who believe he summoned those demons. Turns out there’s another world that sees his as a prison, and someone has come here determined to free the prisoners.

other stuff (i promise i will get back to them. at some point):

eternal empire

Lar Sorin, son of the immortal emperor, spends his days hunting the deadly monsters that stalk the land’s borders as a way of escaping the court politics and constant pressure that defined his childhood. But when the seemingly impossible news of his father’s death reaches him, Lar is dragged back to the capital for a throne he doesn’t want as an ancient conspiracy begins to unfold…

irontongue

Raised a changeling in the human world, Prince Auryn of the Winter Court cannot feel at home amongst the fae he’s meant to one day rule. Both an attempt to prove himself a true faerie and to find comfort in something familiar, he steals a mortal girl and brings her into the court. Except Mira isn’t mortal – not fully, at least. The half-fae princess of the Summer Court seeks through Auryn a path to the power she cannot grasp back home, but may find something else instead as tensions between the Courts grow.

[reneesbooks]

febuwhump main victim character

so for a few of the prompts i've already got plans/have written something but for some of the ones that i'm stuck on i have an idea. i'm going to make a random picker wheel with the names of the characters in the cycle and spin it and then i have to write a scene with that character for whatever prompt i'm feeling stuck on. i've done something like this before but i have also decided to spice things up and get y'all involved! vote for who you think should be the main victim of my febuwhump pieces below, and i'll make a picker wheel out of the results. # of votes = # of extra times their name is on the wheel. let's have a little fun with this. please reblog for more chaos <3

who the hell are these people?

who should be the most tormented blorbo of febuwhump 2025?

birdie

maura

keelan

jack

arthur

emilia

fabin

Voting ended onJan 24, 2025

raedoran cycle taglist: @k--havok @oh-no-another-idea @space-writes @lyssa-ink

picker wheel i use

[reneesbooks]

a shitty comic sans intro to the raedoran cycle for the new year. click for higher quality

ask to be added to the taglist if you're interested in some found family shenanigans with magic moons and monsterfuckers :)

taglist: @oh-no-another-idea @k--havok @theharpywrites

[ocexchange]

Introducing Original Character Exchange 2025!

Do you love rotating your own characters in your head, and really wish someone would make content about them for you? Is someone rambling about their characters to you some of the most fun you can have in DMs? Do you love participating in exchanges that break the Ao3 sign-up form over their knee? Then have we got the perfect event for you! OC Exchange is an Ao3-based gift exchange for the Blorbos In Your Brain!

Ao3 Collection: here Tagset: here Discord: here

Schedule: Tagset Nominations/Discord Opens: December 22nd Nominations Close: January 12th Sign-Ups: January 19th - February 2nd Assignments: February 7th Final Deadline: March 30th Extension/Pinch Hitter Deadline: April 13th Collection Reveal: April 20th Author Reveals: May 4th

More info on its way! Follow us on Tumblr, Dreamwidth, or Bluesky to stay tuned.

[annabelle--cane]

the author's barely disguised favorite lame joke that they will move heaven and earth before allowing their editor to take out

[uhhsnail]

I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

[rachaellawrites]

Amber Martel just wants to get through her Master’s degree. Or at least make an attempt at it. She’s early into her first semester and is feeling the weight of self-doubt and heartbreak as she tries to organize her thesis and deal with living on her own for the first time. It’s more than enough stress in her 23-year-old life. A research trip to a natural history museum throws her life into new chaos, however, when she touches a piece of quartz and unleashes an explosion that is destructive, powerful – and magical. Now Amber finds herself in the care of two women who claim to have connections to the origins of magic. They tell Amber that she is special, that magic outside their family is unprecedented, and that she needs to help them. Amber wants nothing more than to go home, but it soon becomes clear that might not be safe. Strangers attack them with magic they shouldn’t possess, local police are pointing to them as terrorism suspects, and an enemy from the early days of magic has returned – even though he should be long dead.

[A New Age of Magic | Amazon Author Page]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

sexual knifeplay is indicative of weak character. I could never get aroused from being stabbed because that would mean that I failed to parry it

[lyssa-ink]

seven sentence tag

Tagged by @rachaellawrites! Here’s a snippet from uhhh yet another new wip. Unfortunately.

She inspected her reflection closely. Sclera and pupil maintain their natural colouration. Glow is faint, but visible. Matches descriptions of those of Third Light. It was a sight she’d only read of before. Until this morning’s introduction to her new ‘father’, Cato had only ever seen regular people, and occasionally from a distance an official of First Light.

Except for the night her family had been arrested.

Leaving this an open tag!

[rachaellawrites]

Seven Sentence tag

I was tagged by @stephtuckerauthor uh.... a while ago 😅

Gently tagging @lyssa-ink @ink-flavored @mthollowell-writes and anyone else who wants to join.

From A New Age of Magic, Book 4

“Have you ever been on a ship like this before?” “No. You?” “No—I’ve never travelled anywhere that needed a ferry.” “So we’re even for once.” She laughed, and my heart swelled with an increasingly familiar but no less ridiculous pride in knowing that I had made her laugh. Farida had a nice laugh.

[keyboardwhisperer]

Writing is like, type type type, clackity clack clack- and whoops im on social media now

[so-many-ocs]

i’m like if a writer did not write and did other things instead

[lyssa-ink]

wip romance week! (day 2)

A classic example of their... well it's love on his end at least

[lyssa-ink]

wip romance week!

Prompt: Tell us about your pairing(s)

The brief description: The ends (realising your pattern of toxic behavior including how you treated your now dead boyfriend) justify the means (hooking up with the being from beyond the veil that's possessing said dead boyfriend's corpse, has all his memories and is convinced he is him)

The long one:

Mare is what's called a Saint, someone blessed by the god of life. Her job is to use the power she's been given to help the world, though there's rules – the most relevant being that you can't bring someone back from the dead.

Leander was Mare's Shield, her bodyguard tasked with protecting her – a job he died doing. Mare went fuck it and resurrected him, and soon realised that she'd made a mistake. She could sense that this was not Leander anymore, even if he claimed he was, even if he knew all the memories they'd shared. She killed him again and ran, but this time death didn't stick.

'Leander' does believe himself to be the original and holds on to the thing that drove his old self – protecting Mare. Difficult, considering she hates him now, calls him a monster and keeps trying to kill him.

[runawaymarbles]

There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

[copperbadge]

I need this to be a real game right the hell now

[sprintingowl]

I do not have the energy do do a full layout right now b/c it is kickstarter season and I am under water, but here's a prototype that can be solo-played (you can also have a friend just pick from the lists if you want that pvp feeling.)

Showrunner's Challenge By Runawaymarbles (also sorta by sprintingowl)

Begin writing a fanfic. It is a feature length television program being watched every week by thousands. There is no plan. The industry is in shambles. The writer's room is barely hanging on.

At the end of each chapter, roll a d12.

1 Everything at once. Roll twice, use both. If you get this again, keep rolling. Your only way out is to stop getting 1s. 2 Product placement! The next chapter must center (and subtly promote the features of) a product belonging to the most recent brand you've seen. 3 Fan favorite. Your most recently mentioned character (or named object) is now beloved by the audience. You must give it a bigger part in the story, a special destiny, or an important new romance or friendship. If you get this twice for the same character or object, the adoration cools and you must go back to treating the character or object normally. 4 Executive meddling. You must change to a different genre. You cannot go back to a genre until you have changed genres three times since then. 5 Audiences are craving more coziness. The next chapter must be completely low stakes and set you at ease. 6 Audiences are craving more suspense. The next chapter must take place entirely in a single location, ideally just a single room, and build tension with every exchange of dialog. 7 Audiences are craving more action. The next chapter needs to involve at least one extended fight scene, and the weapons must be the last three objects mentioned. 8 Audiences are craving more romance. The next chapter needs to involve a deep, sappy confession of either love or admiration between two characters that have not previously been romantically involved. 9 Go to the most recent line in your fic that references a brand. Due to ongoing legal action, that brand cannot be mentioned again, but you score 1 audience point every time you allude to it in a way that paints it in a negative light. 10 The two most recently mentioned characters' actors have, IRL, gone through a VERY messy divorce or friend breakup. You cannot put them in the same scene, but they must both remain relevant parts of the show. If you get this with the same two characters again, they reconcile. 11 The most recent negative event (stabbing, poisoning, banishment to jupiter) is now the center of a very real IRL news story. You must immediately pivot away from all plotlines involving it and, if possible, also find away to apologize for even thinking to include it without breaking character. 12 The most recently mentioned character's actor has decided to leave the show. You must write them out in the next chapter. If you are brave, also roll a d12. 1--6, they were well loved and their sendoff must be as flowery as possible. 7--12, they were despised by the cast and crew. Mulch them.

You win if you can complete the fic in a state of relative coherency.

Alternate Game Mode: TV Digest Version

Don't write full chapters, just summaries of what happens in each chapter.

Alternate Game Mode: Realism Edition

Start your fanfic with your own telling of the first episode of an existing show, then proceed from there.

[oc-loving]

which oc has killed someone they love? why did they do it?

[writeblrfantasy]

💖community writeblr event alert...

💖 WIP ROMANCE WEEK IS SEPTEMBER 23-30 💖

the rules, as stated above, are to make a post a day about your chosen oc pairing that coincides with the day's prompt! i will be participating in this myself, and reblogging all the posts i find in the tag. i encourage participants to reblog others' posts, to encourage the sense of community i hope to build.

tag your posts with #lilasromanceweek24 !

THE PROMPTS:

tell us about your pairing(s) classic example of their love how they show affection (love languages welcome!) the lengths they'll go to for each other what outsiders/friends think a visual rep of your pairing

even if you're not participating, boosts are welcome!

GENERAL TAGLIST: @worldbuildng @muddshadow @nikkywrites @47crayons @directionoftime

@chayscribbles @magic-is-something-we-create @rodentwrites @notwritinganyflufftoday @rustywritessometimes