N.A. Soleil | Metacosm Chronicles

Author and artist of a science fantasy original universe. 30+. White. She/he/they. Http://metacosmchronicles.com

[nasoleil]

Hello!

I'm N, my partner A and I make up N.A. Soleil. We write progressive scifi/fantasy which has video game/comic/TTRPG influences. I also draw/design our characters (all the art and designs you see here are mine unless stated otherwise!).

We have two books out: Everdark and The Fractured Balance.

We also have pins based off of the characters from our novels on preorder!

[nasoleil]

Doodle of the stinkiest, Zev, to try to make myself feel better. Didn't work, but, oh well. His hair continues to be A Problem to draw, and what even is that chest angle.

I've been struggling with feeling very inadequate lately, a situation that has been absolutely not been helped at all by all the bullshit real life stuff happening.

At least Zev's face is cute.

[vermilionzines]

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[the9mm]

Wrote a short story about the roomba that accidentally saw outside. It's up for free on Itch now.

[the9mm]

I have an audiobook version now for free too. :D

[nasoleil]

Metacosm Chronicles State of Affairs 5/25

Sigh. Welp.

The good news is I put 10k+ on the Project:Freqs visual novel script this month. It's now over 50k (iirc around 56k). Which is awesome, and I'm quite pleased at how these last few scenes have gone. I'm aiming for/probably going to get to about 200k easily, since we're this far in and I have so much more story to tell.

The bad news is the entire main book series.

I won't get into too many details since things aren't super finalized at the moment but we ran into a huge snag with Book3 (which was, gods willing, supposed to be published this year) that essentially ground the entire process to a halt for a couple months.

We finally worked out most of the tangles and the bottom line seems to be that we'll need to completely tear Book3 apart.

We shifted some plans around and decided to to an Everdark audiobook in Book3's place, but even that is causing its own drama. 🫠

So now although my brain is hyperfixated on my stinky boys I have to instead work on this other thing with a deadline and pressure and ugh.

Thankfully I am very doubtful this will affect TFB in any way, and I can see the merit in changing our methods now while we only have two loosely-connected books out and not a whole bunch. But change is always hard, and I'm both indecisive and have low self-confidence, so this'll be fun lol.

[nasoleil]

Project:Freqs snippet May 2025

[ADO] nods once in farewell, then brusquely leaves. Firbolg – and I am certain he knows my intent this time – finally peels himself from his protective spot as a social turret over my shoulder and settles into the seat [ADO] just vacated. A slight smile tugs at the corners of his mouth-bar.

F: “Well. Go ahead.”

The rebellious urge to not ask now that I’ve been specifically challenged to do so rises in me, but I push it aside. I really do need to know.

Y: “I thought you were just coming to be my counsel.”

F: “Hm. I don’t recall specifying. (genuinely) Would you rather I didn’t?”

Y: “... it’s not that. I just don’t want to get in the way of your research.”

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Canon: Yuri is a brat.

(Actually he's not, he's the type to beg so wholeheartedly and sweetly that you want to give him the world ...... wait what was I saying?)

I will name these side characters when you pry my brackets from my cold dead fingers.

[nasoleil]

Forms of Bad Neurospicy Days I personally suffer from:

Fuck All The Way Off debuff

Task? What's that never heard of her

I am a barely-sentient pile of sludge do not perceive me

The Predator Is Near

Central Nervous System Malfunction Detected

*Gavin Rossdale voice* Adrenaliiiinnneeeee

No energy, only fear

what scared of? yes

Toddler Brain

don't wanna do it

shirt is wrong color

food is texture and texture is Bad

quick engage self-soothing protocol before the tear ducts get involved

Untethered

do i exist

floating

never trust the autopilot

I Exist Only For The Glory Of the Great Lord [Current Hyperfixation]

no thoughts only Hyperfixation

v i b r a t i n g

gods help me I'm so tired make it stop

[dduane]

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

[wilwheaton]

My heart goes out to Diane.

May his memory be a blessing.

[nasoleil]

Ranger rec-suit

The basic bodysuit all Rangers wear underneath their armor and uniform. More than just a piece of clothing, the rec-suit is additionally reinforced and enhanced with imperium (the purple lines), with multiple ports to facilitate easy connection to more specialized or protective armor.

Various types exist depending on the individual's needs and physiology; pictured is the unmodified hominin design.

[nasoleil]

Spiffed up an old(er) sketch of Zev (he/they). Gotta say, there's something about Big Muscles and Magical Girl Iconography.

[jamscandraw]

do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like

[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]

[nasoleil]

I do this with writing. I am often to be heard cackling to myself while writing a scene and saying, "I'm having too much fun, it must be illegal."

[ad-wills]

[nasoleil]

"Hooked."

Art gift of @the9mm's disaster sadboi Azra (who I lub).

[nasoleil]

Some thumbnailing for Yuri drawings. I kinda want to draw all of these ngl lol

I'm not obsessed 👀

[the9mm]

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[nasoleil]

Painting wip (and its initial sketch) of my character Yuri trying all the new techniques and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet

[nasoleil]

I managed to finally pull myself out of the protracted existential crisis that ate up the first half of March.

Ngl I did have the terrified thought -- multiple times, but quickly dismissed -- that I'd never come out of it, since it lasted so long and was so severe. As I said in my last post about this, I'm constantly afraid my EDS will take this from me too, like it's taken everything else.

Somehow, I managed to write over 11k this last week split between Project:Freqs and a fanfic I will not disclose anything about lol.

I'm gearing up to tackle Book3 very soon -- early April, probably. I need to remind my betas that if they're going to try to get through it they should do so soon. It's gonna take us ... a lot of effort to fix it. But it's not unfixable.

I did get through the hardest part of the planning, though. There was briefly a discussion between me and A about trashing it entirely, and we eventually decided not to. Honestly, a good chunk of my crisis was centered around mulling over that question. Now that it has an answer, I feel much lighter.

Bruh nobody warned me writing was so emotional lol (not like I'm spilling my guts on the page at all times or anything)

I have done 0 drawing recently and I really really want to so hopefully the writing hyperfixation will let me be soon and I can get some art done.