hello! I've recently had an unexpected break from tumblr, but as I'm finally back, I thought I'd write a new intro post. My name is Micah; I'm 32, non-binary, and my pronouns are they/them. I'm a caffeine addict, a vegetarian, a college student, a gamer, and a writer. I live in the midwest, and I'm neurodivergent and disabled.
I write mostly speculative fiction, and my protagonist are typically queer. At the moment I'm not posting my stories anywhere, but I'm exploring several options to do so eventually. I'm also in the process of writing and coding two interactive stories. You can find out more on my development blog, @morpheusfiction.
I'm always looking for more writeblrs to follow and more new authors to read, so please interact with this post so I can check out your blog!
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— works in progress;
saltmate;
Sadie Nelson's summer is off to an awful start.
Her first year in high school has been a disaster, with failed classes and more detentions than she'd care to admit. With summer school the only thing to look forward to, she doesn't think it can get worse - until her parents sit down and tell her they're getting a divorce. The news comes as a devastating kind of relief. She can't wait for the fighting to come to an end, even if it means split holidays.
So when her parents send her off to her aunt's house in Newfoundland for the rest of the summer, she figures things can't get much worse. Her Aunt Claire is content to leave her alone while she works on her art, and Sadie spends most of her days by the seaside, wandering or drawing boats, and lost in thought.
When she finds a strange girl on an abandoned cove, far from town, Sadie is quick to try and make her first friend in St. Brenden's Bay. But her new friend is stranger than she realizes - and what does her Aunt have to do with her appearance?
empyrean eclipse;
Dr. Hazel Hartley-Pryce is what most people refer to as a genius. The leading cybioengineer in the paradisaical city of New Eden, she’s revolutionizing the very concept of prosthetics. At least, that’s her day job. Most of the time, she’s just Zelle Pryce, awkward and unknown heir of an oil empire trying to make up for her family’s myriad sins.
Lark Donaghue lost their arm and their memory in an accident five years ago — or, at least, they think it was an accident. Ever since, they’ve been doing their best to recover in both mind and body. As one of the recipients of the Hartley-Zimmer prosthesis, they spend most of their time in the labs having their new arm calibrated, or in physical therapy, getting used to having a left arm for the first time.
When they bump into each other in the hospital café, Zelle has no idea that Lark is one of her test subjects. Likewise, Lark doesn’t associate the cute young doctor he meets with Dr. H. Hartley, the mysterious billionaire scientist who invented their prosthesis. Each are determined to keep their past a secret, eager to have something normal in their lives.
But when Zelle is attacked, everything changes. The mystery behind Lark’s amnesia might finally be solved — but at what cost?
wrong witch;
born into a family of witches, morgan has never shown a drop of magical power - no matter how much his mothers insist he has the inherent potential. he’s ready to give up on magic altogether, when, on his seventeenth birthday, he wakes up covered in blood, having sleepwalked into the nearby woods. suddenly, he has more power than he knows what to do with, and all of his dreams are coming true - but at what cost?
and why?
gabriel graves is a warlock, having traded his eternal soul for magic. when his family moves from bustling new york city to a small town in the midwest, he’s taken from his circle of power — his true family — and left alone. the citizens of ashborough, mi, are perfectly normal, and perfectly boring.
except, of course, for the mysterious delacroix family.
morgan and gabriel’s lives collide in the ashborough woods, as morgan seeks to discover the source of his newfound powers, and gabriel searches for a place to call his own.
I don’t want morally or socially acceptable characters!! I don’t want them! I want interesting ones!!! I want them strange and off-putting, I want them bizarre and gross and weird, I want them horny, I want them annoying, I want them making ill-advised and harmful decisions, I want them likeable but morally questionable, and I want them flat out insane. gimme them.
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like we get it, its not about the numbers.. its about doing what we enjoy, creating and having fun. but you know what else it’s about? being part of a fucking community. having interactions. seeing people react to whatever art youre posting. discussing it, talking about it, hell even fighting in the notes
take that away and no one would want to post or be on this hellsite
tumblr’s entire culture (fandom, gifsets, edits, meta, art, etc.) runs on people reacting to each others creations. if the platform removes the creator from that interaction stream, its basically undermining the exact behavior that made tumblr tumblr
creators should be able to see the conversations happening around their own work. and should be appreciated about it.. thats literally the point of posting here
as you get older, you start realizing that you are not always right and there’s a lot of things you could have handled better and many situations where you could have been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.
worry not my lord, allow me to unscrew that jar for you. i would not want for you to strain your hand or break a nail. alright. hmm. HMMMM. HNNNGRGHHHHHH. HNNGGHHHH HRRRRRGHHH. AAAAAARGHHHHHHH fucking. squire fetch me my grippy gloves
in my personal opinion people aren’t weird enough about vampires and their funky habits. We pick random people who won’t last ten years in the public eye and base our entire personalities around them for years and you think vampires would be a normal cross-section of the culture at any given time? Please. Your vampire should have a collection of thirty hats from a random New York designer in 1890 who only used Japanese pearls and pigeon feathers who history forgot existed. Your vampire should be really fucking anal about a specific angle of gorge seams in 1920s Chicago menswear. They should have collections of hundreds of jewelry pieces from entire waves of fashion that not one museum has ever displayed. They should still be arguing the benefits of a specific kind of silk weaving in an industry with no surviving practitioners or historical records. We barely have any surviving records from fandom history as recent as the 80s and 90s, you really think we have any idea what fan culture looked like for some obscure mystery novel series published in 1845 whose last surviving copy was thrown out in 1934? Please. Vampires were attending filk festivals in the 70s and singing songs from the 1200s BC. You are not getting weird enough with this. I expect better.
I seriously love AO3. Like what do you mean that I get extra content of my favorite fandoms for free?? What do you mean that some of the Shakespeare-level writing is what we could only dream to get in canon?? What do you mean I can read all the content tags and warnings so I know what I’m reading and can choose what I enjoy?? What do you mean I can search and filter for specific troupes and emotions instead of vague genres?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ADS AND ONCE AGAIN IT’S ALL FREE?? Ack I’ll never get over this website lol <333
