Overlord Bethany Goes Off Record

Fiction side blog of Bethany-sensei

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As it is my birthday, I am once again inviting everyone to take a look at some of my extremely queer original fiction:

Chronicle of the Spheres

Series. Fantasy, starts with a novel-length story about a fugitive angel finding a place to call home. Goes on to include short- and long-form fiction. The latest ongoing story is basically a terrible dnd fetch quest. Nobody is straight unless I explicitly say so.

The King’s Rabble

Poly romance with a nonbinary narrator. The king needs a Second Spouse. Daff didn’t mean to get caught up in the selection process, but at least the queen is hot.

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fic ask game!

★ what was the scene you most wanted to write in [fic]? what was the hardest scene to write?

✿ did anything major change when you started writing [fic] to when you finished?

☉ what do you do when you get stuck writing?

✄ what’s your editing process?

✦ what was your easiest fic to write & your hardest?

✎ how do you think readers would guess a fic was yours if you posted anonymously?

ϟ tell me what moment/scene in [fic] made you sicko in the window.jpg to read and i’ll tell you which scene made me feel that way to write

⊞ send a prediction for a fic i’ll write in the future

♡ pick a fic and I’ll pick a comment that made me really happy

▵ pick a fic and I’ll tell you my favorite line

❖ pick 2 fics and I’ll combine them somehow

↻ pick a fic and a different ship and I’ll tell you how I’d rewrite it

☰ send a fic and an unrelated trope and I’ll remix it

♫ send a fic and i’ll make a 3-5 song playlist for you

✹ wildcard - ask any other question you have!

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Ragheiyont scrambled over rooftops and flitted between trees, more of a shadow than he had ever been. The blood hummed in him, warming him, giving him a strength he had never known. Was this how healthy dragons felt all the time? That seemed wildly unfair. Good for Tarali, but still unfair.

Rahi experiences the well-documented emotion of being properly medicated for the first time and getting mad.

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I just know y’all would love Baleirithys if you gave him a chance. He’s a prince. He’s a dragon. He’s a blood drinker. He wants to be the prettiest thing in any room. He sometimes goes a little bit feral. He’s a cunning ruler. He’s a little obsessive about following the laws of his kingdom. He doesn’t know what his gender is. His best friend is a professional assassin. He collects stray dragonfolk like they’re Pokémon. His psyche is held together with duct tape and expensive jewelry. He accidentally makes an heir.

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Gonna get a little bit rambly about one of my characters here. Let’s talk about Akieryon.

He’s an angel, he was raised by multiple foster families, and he trained as a Demonslayer. He’s braver than he thinks he is, and his compassion is one of his greatest strengths.

In Balances:

He escapes a centuries-long imprisonment, crashes into a human country with roughly Renaissance-level technology, and he immediate gets attached to the first person he meets. He meddles. He meets a famous demon who is of particular interest to him. He figures out who he is and where he belongs.

In The Shadow Prince:

He follows his unspouse to a Hell Sphere because the world feels wrong. He sees the person who imprisoned him. He has anxiety.

In The Sacred Tree:

He goes with the rescue party into a place made of broken bits of worlds, he makes a new friend, he fights a plant. Just a little bit, he has to face some of his trauma.

In The Sword of Heaven:

He faces a lot of his trauma. This time he’s leading the rescue effort, for the sake of someone who caused him a lot of suffering. Gotta get that closure, I guess. The world still feels wrong. What’s that about?

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Well, friends, I have finished posting the third Chronicle of the Spheres book. That makes three full-length weird queer fantasy novels! Plus side stories! I will again summarize them badly:

Balances

A fugitive angel finds himself suddenly in the Mortal Realm, where he immediately gets friendship-claimed by the least human of all humans. Now he has to navigate life among humans while worrying that Heaven will drag him back to prison.

The Shadow Prince

Something’s wrong with reality, and it looks like everything is going to come to a head in the Fourth Sphere of Hell. The cat demon is convinced the regent is going to turn evil and start destroying worlds. The Demonslayer wants to stop the cat doing something stupid. The assassin is here for a good time. The thieves just want to get paid.

The Sacred Tree

Nine a*holes journey into a world that shouldn’t exist to rescue a magical smith. This is definitely a bad idea.

I will begin posting the next book, The Sword of Heaven, next week.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈PRIDE THEMED OC ASK GAME🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Bc I wanted one and didn't find it so. Here

[Send ask aimed at a specific character]

1. What's your oc's gender identity? What's their relationship to their gender?

2. What's your oc's orientation? (Romantic/sexual/platonic alterous ect) Do they have opinions about it?

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

4. Is your oc's environment supportive about their identity? How does this impact them?

5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?

6. How does your oc feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?

7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?

8. Have they had struggles with their identity, be it due to internal or external reasons?

9. Are there cultural or lore specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?

10. Does your oc celebrate Pride? How?

11. Is your oc open about their identity? Are they more lowkey or more blunt about it? Why or why not?

12. Does/did your oc ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling? (this can be about internalized homo/transphobia)

13. Would your oc be open to a poly relationship? Why or why not?

[Not aimed at a specific character] / [Aimed at creator]

14. Do you have ocs on the aro or ace spectrum?

15. Do any of your ocs use neopronouns? Which ones?

16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?

17. Do you share identity with any of your ocs? Which ones?

18. Do you prefer to give your ocs specific labels, or keep it unspecified? Why? If applicable, do you change their labels depending on circumstance?

19. Do you have preferences about depicting homo/transphobia in your stories? What, and why? Does it vary by story?

20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?

21. Free ramble card wee

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Happy Pride! Should I rush posting chapters of The Sacred Tree to get to the part where Seikhiel comes out (poll)?

Yes!

No, don’t bombard people with update notifications

It’s your story, do what you want

Sorry, he WHAT?

HEY, NO SPOILERS!!!

Voting ended onJun 9, 2023

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🏚️🎻 for the genre ask game

Thriller: is there anything about writing that makes you scared?

Uhhhhhh not connecting with an audience. Leaving things unfinished. Querying.

Classics: a scene so timeless you have kept it in your drafts in some way shape or form

Weirdly, I’m not 100% sure how to interpret this one. If it means preserving/repeating a specific scene then no, I can’t think of anything. If we’re speaking in a broader, more thematic sense, then my characters keep healing a finding where they belong.

Thank you so much for the ask! 💖

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Writeblr Book Genre Ask Game

Not sure if this has been done before but here is a book genre ask game. I didn't have much direction with the questions I just kept it writing/writer based.

Fantasy ✨: what is something in your wip/s that is unique to your world?

Contemporary 🏙️: how are you currently going in writing?

Thriller 🏚️: is there anything about writing that makes you scared?

Classics 🎻: a scene that is so timeless you have kept it in your latest drafts in some way shape or form

Romance 👩‍❤️‍👩: a relationship dynamic in your wip/s that you want to talk about

Sci-fi 🧪: What future do you want for you and your wip/s?

Mystery 🔎: something in your wip/s that you haven't figured out yet

Memoir 📝: what would your author bio say if you got the chance to publish?

Non-fiction 📔: something in your wip/s that are a part of real life events? (Doesn't have to be historical events, maybe something that happened in your life that you've added to your story)

Self-help 💭: writing advice that has greatly helped your writing

Children's lit 🧒: would you ever see your book being taught at a school or university lit class? If so, what would the topic be on?

Poetry 🖋️: give us a taste of your writing with a literary technique (rhyme, descriptive language, alliteration etc).

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Happy Pride, I am once again inviting all of you to take a look at my queerest story yet (and they’re all pretty queer, tbh)!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Bi king who is actually a king needs a Second Spouse. Nonbinary narrator gets caught up in his ADHD shenanigans. At least the queen is hot.

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WIP (Work In Progress) It Good

Reblog and let your followers ask!

🗣️Talk about your favourite WIP

❌What WIP do you find the most challenging? Why?

📄What’s a WIP you never finished that you would like to go back and revisit?

🤬Is there a WIP that you hate?

❔Choose a random WIP and talk about it.

📝Share a snippet of an unposted WIP, with or without context.

🔍Give a clue (a picture, emoji, a word, etc) and let your followers guess what a WIP is about.

💗Is there a scene you can’t wait to write for a WIP?

👻Is there a scene that you find intimidating that you have yet to write?

🤔Do you have an WIPs where you wish you had chosen a different fandom/character?

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Akieryon’s personality is best described by Beartooth’s latest single Sunshine. No I cannot elaborate at this time.

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No-context dialogue I just wrote:

“You’re sure this will work?”

“About eighty percent.”

“Oh, good.”

“You used to love eighty percent.”

“That’s because it was up from fifty.”

[frogsforthefrogwar]

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Meet the blorbos: Tempest

Series: Chronicle of the Spheres

First appearance: Balances

Tempest is at once suuuuuper OP and also the living embodiment of a DMV sigh. He is the minimum wage employee’s eternal ennui. He has seen too much and been unimpressed by most of it. He has outsourced his moral compass to his best friend Caspar, and maybe one or two others on occasion. It’s probably safer that way. He has learned too many styles of magic, but he prefers to kill with his hands. If you think his name sounds like something an edgy middle schooler in need of an alias would choose, that’s almost what happened.

idk I just think he’s neat.

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Meet the blorbos*: Ragheiyont

Series: Chronicle of the Spheres

First appearance: The Shadow Prince

Meet Ragheiyont! When he first appears in the series, it’s just him, his cursed dagger, and his chronic illness against the world. A young adult of dragonkind, he is a proficient thief. He annoys people on purpose as a defense mechanism. His coping strategies are not necessarily healthy, but at least he’s clever.

Feel free to ask me anything about him!

*I’ve decided to babble about my characters because 2023 continues to suck