Tried this once here and none of that is strictly wrong, but I just wrote a killer blurb so we’re going again.
How would you fare if you became omnipotent on your fourteenth birthday? I imagine you might be able to figure something out given some time to get a handle on your newfound powers, but Hera Elizabeth Rider’s deicidal brother accidentally transporting her out of the universe while trying to turn her into a weapon is not giving her that luxury. It takes her a deal with the devil, unwitting service to a vampire hunter, the creation of several gods, and one eccentric genius before she’s able to do anything with her powers on purpose, and by then it’s really not clear what the right thing to do even is.
Relevant tags (searchable on my blog)
Forever project: all tag games, short stories, random thoughts, and if I ever do them character intros for this work are tagged with this tag. It’s the one to block if you are mainly here for Twilight content.
Elise Godslayer: This is the tag for the MC, Hera Elizabeth Rider. She goes by Elise because there’s too many Hera’s in her family (in her world Mary goes by her syncretized Greek name, and so most European historical figures that in our world are named Mary are named Hera there) and Elizabeth is too long for her tastes. The godslayer part is arguably a spoiler, but it happens in chapter three so I’m not too worried. Elise is a fairly normal fourteen-year old, outside of her godlike powers. She likes music (she can play violin and fiddle), was just starting to figure out she might like some girls as more than friends, is wary of responsibility, and has a crushing need to be liked.
Davriel Godslayer: This is Elise’s twin brother, though he was born human. Because he was human, he wasn’t seen as a threat like Elise was, and so while his sister was sent to live among humans with her powers locked away, Davriel was raised by their godly parents and named himself David after the king when he realized he was trans. Mount Olympus is not a great place to raise a kid, and rants by his uncle Ares left him with a certainty that he could do better. Hence his plans to kill all of the gods and become ruler. This is not to say that he wouldn’t make a terrifyingly competent and entirely benevolent god-king, it is simply that his understanding of what he’s working with (the world) is a scoche incomplete. As for why I and his tag call him Davriel and not David, well that is a smidge more of a spoiler, though I’m sure it’s decipherable from my writings in his tag.
Eric Melior: This is the blurb’s vampire hunter! What the blurb does not mention is that he is also a vampire (and a wraith) and was born in 1892. Since making the tag I’ve Polanized his name to Eryk, though future me and his pro-Tzarist parents might have something to say about that. He is a very dutiful son, which means odd things for a Nihil whose mother has been drawn into a cult promising protection from (read extinction of) the vampires that are beginning to spread through the Russian Empire.
Sorceress: Here we have our eccentric genius. The only person (selkie, dragon, centaur or siren) to discover how to use magic on a sentient creature! She used this power to give herself a pair of legs and a sealskin, having been born a siren but being too curious about the world to confine herself to the water. Even though Elise created her world, Sorceress is likely its most consequential figure.
Mlle Nefara: The most recent character to get a tag, Mlle Nefara is just trying to get rich. Unfortunately, honest means are not particularly available to her as a black woman in 1890s Europe, and so she has chosen the slightly easier route of lying to a bunch of rich people, telling them all about the supernatural threats only she can teach them how to defend themselves against. Her charisma and talent are serving her well in this endeavor until 1897, when a plague of monsters begins to creep through the land. They’re similar enough to the ones she’d made up for her sect to become increasingly popular, but she can’t be so lucky that the techniques she made up would actually defeat them.
Siren’s meet nada: Nada is the word for city among the most magically reckless group of humans on Globe, Sorceress’s world. They call the city that has built up around Sorceress’s first home on land Siren’s Meet, not because they really ever meet Sorceress (and very few know she was ever a siren regardless), but because the estuary has collected extremists and eccentrics from human and siren communities. While it was Sorceress’s presence (and her geologic engineering) that drew the first few citizens to the place, it continued to thrive long after she went to Nadalitas. I use this tag mainly for short stories and worldbuilding facts that take place in the city.
Nihil hunters: A nihil is the most dangerous of the monsters that have begun to infect Eryk and Mlle Nefara’s world. They are at once vampire and wraith, and so lose many of the vulnerabilities of both. The tag is nihil hunters for their whole world, because vampire hunters, what they call themselves, is simply too generic.
Southern dragons: These are mostly a world building project, as their interaction with the magic system and spatial/temporal laws I’ve built for this project is generally quite illustrative. While they originated in the southern continent of Sorceress’s world, hence their name, they have since spread to other worlds, moving through space and reality with a degree of mysterious ease I think is suitable for dragons.
Spacewhaling: It may not be correct to include this tag with this project; in fact, it started as an independent concept. If it does intersect with Elise’s story, it would only be in the third or maybe even fourth book.
idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms
Your teacher is randomly assigning a group project. It's going to be major part of your grade. For the purposes of this question, assume this class is some sort of elective that has a mix of juniors and seniors.
Hello. Since I've seen people submit finished wheels, I thought I'd submit a wheel I came up with. In this case, it's a wheel to tell you something that you can't do for a week.
Still don't understand what SM was going for with the idea that Rosalie and Edward go to medical school to 'keep Carlisle current.' Continuing medical education is a thing. Surely he's reading medical journals, he's going to conferences, he's actively practicing medicine; I don't understand how someone else going to medical school is better than that??
How is it supposed to work?? They go to class and then come home and use perfect vampire memory to just repeat verbatim what they learned that day? How is that not a tremendous waste of everyone's time. Very silly.
I think the REAL reason Edward and Rosalie went to medical school is that Edward hero worships Carlisle and wants to be like him. And Rosalie was just sick of hearing Edward talking about his 'advanced degrees in medicine" and was like "What, like it's hard?" and went herself to prove she could do it and that Edward's not special.
Hi y’all! I’m writing a story and one of my characters is a teenage Inuvialuit girl living in Inuvik. I’m not Native Canadian or Inuit, so I’m doing my own research, but if anyone has any information about this culture they’d like to give I would love to listen!
I wondering about:
1. Where is a good source for traditional Inuvialuit names? And any information on how naming traditions work.
2. What would it be like to live in Inuvik? I know that it would be very cold in the winter and isolated. What would life be like as a teen girl specifically? And what is the terrain like, specifically trees and bodies of water?
3. What are the differences between different subgroups of the Inuvialuit group? Ex: The Sallirmuit people
4. What is fishing and hunting like up there?
5. Are there any rituals or traditions that would be good to include?
6. How do cultural traditions blend with modern technology?
I don’t expect anyone to respond if they don’t want to, but if you’re interested in talking about this topic lmk!
My source here is a group of speed skaters that came down for a summer camp from Iqualuit, and my grandfather’s experience in the Yukon, so not totally representative.
2. They were playing it up (one girl claimed to have thought a tree was a decorated lamppost upon arriving), but Iqualuit at least is above the tree line. The most impactful thing for people from further south (like my grampa) is the length of the days. The skaters downplayed it as something they were simply used to, but that far north you do get 24 hour daylight/night a couple weeks out of the year, and very long days/nights for many months. It is also cold in the summer, and terribly bright. If you have never been out in full sun when the world is white with snow lemme tell you. There’s a reason inuit independently invented sunglasses. (Look them up they’re cool). The kids were very close despite being more divergent in age than that kind of friendship could bridge in our larger community.
4. Many fewer people support themselves with hunting than did previously, because the nomadic lifestyle that best supports it is less common now. What hunting is done I know ends up being very snowmobile forward, that being the easiest way to get around a lot of places. Because of the reduced nomadism, most communities rely on food and other goods being flown in, usually monthly (barring bad weather) at great expense.
6. All three were fluent in both Inuktitut and English (no notable accent in English). They were perfectly familiar with standard childhood cultural figures from television/the internet.
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂
