they told me i was chosen @magic-is-something-we-create - Tumblr Blog

Hello! You can call me Pax, I use he/him pronouns, I'm 21+, and this is my hybrid writeblr/artblr! I use the name P. K. Finn for writing, and most of my art is marked with an @alittlewarlord tag.

I’m always tag game, ask, and random DM friendly, so long as you’re respectful! I’m particularly fond of worldbuilding, last line tags, and any games that have to do with music.

While I literally won't stop using Tumblr until the servers go down permanently, I also have a Cohost and Pillowfort if/when that eventually happens. In general, if you want to find me anywhere online, my username is alittlewarlord!

- NAVIGATION -

[+ About Page] | [+ FAQ Page] | [+ WIP Page]

(+ About Tag) | (+ Braindumps Tag) | (+ Answered Asks)

(+ My Writing) | (+ My Art) | (+ Weekly(ish) Writing Updates)

Writing liveblogs are tagged as #writing liveblog mm.dd.yy (e.g. #writing liveblog 1.2.23 for January 2nd, 2023). Feel free to block the day’s tag if you aren’t in the mood for my spammed reblog chain the first time you see it, you won’t miss out on future ones if you do like it on occasion.

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Most of the posts on here are queued. The most common navigation tags are below if you ever need to find a post you lost or just want to go exploring.

- HOW TO SUPPORT ME -

If you particularly like my art, I open 8 commission slots at the start of every month over on Ko-Fi! (Closed for the month of June, 2024)

Pricing for those can be found here.

Note: This pinned post will always have the most accurate information outside of the Ko-Fi listings themselves when it comes to remaining slot count.

I also have membership tiers on both Ko-Fi and Patreon! Benefits range from weekly write-in livestreams to early access for shorter projects, and higher tiers even get exclusive commission discounts and complementary monthly art requests!

(+ Ko-Fi) | (+ Patreon)

- WIPS -

All of my writing includes majority-queer casts, often in the “gender is immaterial”, “polyamory and asexuality are more common than you think”, and “family isn’t bound to blood” directions.

Most is meant for adult audiences, as I tend to tackle violence, trauma, horror, and the like with explicit detail that may make some uncomfortable; please keep in mind that the trigger warnings I give to excerpts are always “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” in the sense that everything I tag is going to show up within the post.

My eternal main project is...

- THE MILLENNIUM SAGA -

(Titles link to intro posts, tags link to all content posted thus far.)

Book one: Firebreathers (+ tag) - Book two: Echoseers (+ tag) - Book three: Goddess-Touched (+ tag) - Book four: Fate Weavers (+ tag) - Book five and beyond: Titles Undetermined - Avatar: the Last Airbender x Red Rising x The Search for WondLa - High Fantasy/Steampunk. A socially anxious and PTSD-ridden revolutionary gets dragged into helping the Chosen One who supposedly saved the world 1000 years ago, and with the help of their showy acrobat boyfriend, the son of a banished noble, and their mostly-found family, they might just save it for real this time. Set in the Ehlverse. | (+ Character Intros tag) (+ world tag)

Firebreathers is complete and edited multiple times over at 158k words. I am waiting on querying and further beta reading rounds until I can get further into the series drafting-wise.

Draft one of Echoseers is complete and edited once over at 146k words.

Drafting of Goddess-Touched is on its third attempt as of April, 2024.

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In early 2023, I also returned to...

- WHISPERS -

Formal Intro | Comic Sans Intro (+ tag) - Six of Crows x Carrie x The Magnus Archives - Dark Fantasy/Noir. Three unwilling lackeys of a Sorceress crime lord dealing in life debts and terrorism-friendly morality try to escape, and one woman across the continent searches for answers to her sister's disappearance thirty years after the fact. Set in the Ehlverse, ~11 years after Firebreathers. (+ gen. worldbuilding wednesday tag)

First editing pass is complete at 176k words; it's now with beta readers, and I will begin querying as soon as the critique period is complete in July.

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- THE LOST - @thelost-comic -

INTRO - (+ tag) The Hunger Games x Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey x Iron Widow - Space Opera/Dystopia. Webcomic. In this corner of the universe, the term "Media Empire" is extremely literal; the Watchers control the entire galactic filament with their broadcasts of coliseum fights, mindless attention fodder, and propaganda. But when something goes horribly, horribly wrong during the latest fight, they lose their Champion, their opponent, and one of their most prized war criminals in the chaos of the moment. And everyone knows the Champion was champion for a reason.

Read it for free now! [X]

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I also have a couple side projects, but their updates are few and far-between right now. The only one previously introduced here is an Urban Fantasy road trip, so take a peek behind the cut for the blurb and a link to the intro if that intrigues you!

#nav #for those where the tag links dont work (aka if youre on mobile)#i tend to shorten everything besides wip tags and the occasional personal post so:#my content tags are:#snip #my.art #braindumps.txt #a&a #and for reblogs we have:#misc #others #prompt #mot #res #ref #pub #adv #<- need to rearrange those to correspond to links but im on mobile at the time of editing so </3

currently editing and proudly continuing the italicized "refrigerator" bit for nimbus' pov. as a Treat.

#braindumps.txt #im literally planning on going back through and removing italicization for ''foreign'' words EXCEPT in this case #because its funny as fuck

planet4546b

im currently completely losing it about the great stalacpipe organ. are you fucking kidding me they made an organ out of a CAVE???? IT TAKES UP THREE ACRES??? i legit am about to lose it

planet4546b

this is a comment left on a recording of moonlight sonata played on an organ that is literally made out of a cave and its making me so emotional its not even funny

[image id: a youtube comment that reads ‘wonderful…and the moon has never shone there…’ end id.]

marlynnofmany

All that and no pictures??

According to Wikipedia, it works by hidden rubber mallets on the naturally-musical stalactites that tourguides have been knocking on for over a century. The guy who made the organ may have gotten the idea when his son whacked his head on a stalactite.

Here’s a video. It is hauntingly beautiful.

spirit-pyrite

In case anyone is looking, here’s the link to the video op mentions.

https://youtu.be/HsKUUn29tSs

#reb #inspo #q

thestuffedalligator

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

#brilliant.#reb #others #q

zazrichor

#THIS IS COOL AS FUCK OP #IT TOOK ME A SECOND TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON BUT ONCE I DID??? HOLY FUCK #AWESOME #FANTASTIC WORK #reb #others #q

digitalkiddo

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

#reb #res #q

cheaphalloweencostume

also we have GOT to collectively come to terms with the fact that me or any other stranger online disliking or even making fun of something you like is not saying “no fun allowed” “no one can ever enjoy this” you have simply got to grow a spine and be able to like the shit you like. you don’t even have to defend it! like 90% of the media i really enjoy is divisive and half my friends actively hate it. i really don’t give a fuck though because i like it. you can write whatever you want! you’re allowed! even if it’s MY least favorite genre or style of writing and i have active distaste for it!

#EXACTLY #reb #misc #q

thecollectibles

Layered cliffs under clear sky by qing ying

#oh.....#reb #others #q

redstonedust

i keep using 'blorbo' to refer to my own OCs to the point i forget its supposed to be a fandom term. yeah i know blorbo from my shows. and those shows? only airing inside my own brain and the dms of a few lucky friends, baby.

#reb #misc #q

miss-mossball

30 days of your OC Challenge!

I wanted to make a set of OC prompts that's a bit unique, so I came up with 30 loose ideas and compositions to draw/get drawn of your OC! :D

It doesn't have to take 30 days, in fact you could easily use this as an ask game prompt if you want, or even ideas to take to your favorite local commissions artist to do for you :> Just 30 little ideas to appreciate an OC of yours!

~If you like my art, please consider supporting me on Kofi~

and please try not to repost, I have it up on Blusky too

#reb #prompt #q

formerlyluckymanticore

Writing may be hard, but the JOY of getting to expand the characters and worlds that you come up with can never be replaced. Keep going, even when it gets hard.

#reb #misc #q