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Hi, are you still writing fanfics?
No, sorry! But I am still writing a lot. I do a lot of original hero x villain stuff @the-modern-typewriter on tumblr and on Patreon if you want more of my writing and like the antagonist/protagonist vibes of my fanfics.
Hi, I used to read your fanfics all the time! What are you up to nowadays? You're really a talented writer!
Thanks :) I still do a ton of writing! See @the-modern-typewriter
Day 27: Beast
It would have been easier, in a way, if there was nothing where the organ was supposed to be. That could be expected, anticipated.
Instead, there was a red rose where the heart should have been, the stem of it taking the place of the sternum. The thorns, however, were grotesquely elongated, wrapping and twining around the rib cage and disappearing into the skin.
There was only a thin, translucent layer of skin, pale as glass, atop the ribs. Easily seen through.
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From chapter 6 of @paper-ramblings’s Kisses Cursed
Could you maybe do something about a villain whose magic/power only allows them to amplify others, maybe resenting their seemingly universe-given duty to be a helper or just using it in manipulative ways? A hero with a power they also resent and wouldn't want to be amplified, making playing off it a low blow, perhaps? Idk, the plot dust bunny came to mind and made me think of you. Thanks!
Given Isaac's power in my novel The God Key is amplification, and his whole thing is being terrified of what he might amplify...I couldn't not think of an evil Isaac The God Key AU. Sorry, not sorry. You don't have to have read the book to understand the following snippet. I just couldn't not. I'm only human. I am weak.
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"Stay back." Gabriel's telepathy shot through the room like daggers, but his voice cracked. It turned the words into a plea.
Isaac stopped. He put his hands, still mercifully gloved, in the air in a show of no-threat.
As if Isaac was ever not a threat.
"I missed you, you know," Isaac said. "You let me think you were dead."
Gabriel swallowed hard at the words. His gaze roamed, treacherously, over Isaac's familiar face. The way that his lips curled in so lovely, so gentle, a smile.
"I think you missed me too," Isaac continued. "I don't have to be a telepath to read the look on your face when I first walked in. The need."
"I don't need you." It was an absolute, hideous lie. It always had been. Sure, he needed Isaac. But could he have him? No. Not when every touch, every kiss, sent his telepathy spiralling out of his control to control everyone else instead. Whenever he was with Isaac, people always got hurt. Isaac always ended up getting his way, because Gabriel loved him, and he didn't think until after that maybe he shouldn't have done that.
He'd never wanted to be a controlling thing.
He'd ran.
Isaac's smile grew a little more, even as it gained a pitying edge at so pitiful an attempt at subterfuge.
Gabriel squeezed his eyes closed, but it didn't stop him seeing that smile in head. It didn't stop the fish hooks of Isaac's emotions from capturing his every nerve ending, dragging him along, sweeping him up. He staggered a step forward, aching to touch, to feel that rush of power, before clutching hold of a wall to steady himself.
No. No.
Memories flashed through his head. First kisses. First meetings. The tentative webs of manipulation, that had felt, at first, like being wanted. Wanted despite what he was. Wanted despite what he could do. He hadn't wanted to see. It had been so nice not to see.
"Tell me you missed me too, Gabriel," Isaac said. His smile was nothing like the shy thing it had been when they first met now. "Didn't you once tell me that people lie too much?"
"I missed you." The confession ripped out of him, as if Isaac were the telepath, as if he wasn't just the boy who could set the world on fire with a touch of his hand.
Isaac laughed. Delighted. Just a little mocking.
This was why Gabriel stayed away from people. It was safer. He knew who he was, what he thought, without them when they weren't there.
He knew who he was without Isaac. Didn't he? Everything he'd ever dreamed of wasn't just Isaac's dream, Isaac's desperation and plans, swallowing him up.
"I can make it go quiet for you. I can make the whole world shut up. Don't you want that?" Isaac's voice was still so unbearably gentle. "Don't you want to make the voices, the clamouring, just shut up? Don't you want someone else to be in control for once?"
"How did you even find me?"
"Found someone who was good at finding people. Touched them." Isaac shrugged, carelessly. "Ding, ding, ding goes the treasure map."
This close, the sound of Isaac - of everything - was deafening. A tidal wave of memories. Of Isaac's want, of Isaac's need, flooding through his every nerve ending. It was Isaac's, wasn't it? Gabriel thought it was. He hoped it was.
God, he had no idea. Who could possibly know, with a thousand voices in their head, which one was theirs?
All he knew was that, whoever the emotions had once belonged to, he wanted. He ached.
When he opened his eyes, Isaac was right in front of him and it felt dizzyingly right and dizzylingly wrong.
Gabriel jumped.
"Don't say a word," Isaac warned. His attention bore into Gabriel, luminous, blinding all common sense. He wrapped his fingers, oh so slowly, around Gabriel's wrist, dragging him closer. "You're not going to make me take my gloves off, are you? Think of all those people out there. You'd destroy them."
"Not me. You'd-"
"Gabriel." Isaac smiled again. "It's not my telepathy, is it? I may have to amplify," his smile gained livid teeth, "but it's still you."
Gabriel exhaled a shaky breath, a whimper caught somewhere in his throat.
Isaac's gaze roamed over his mouth, over his lips, like he wanted to devour up the sound.
"Don't," Gabriel said. "I'll do whatever you want - just - don't - please don't touch me. I don't want to hurt anyone."
It would be worse than mind control. It would be minds melting, cracking open. So many screams. No time to even think.
Isaac pouted. His eyes gleamed, at terrible odds with the expression. They hadn't always been like that. Had they? It hadn't always been...
"Whatever I want?" Isaac echoed. He leaned down, to speak terrifyingly close to Gabriel's ear. Gabriel froze. "Now you're getting it. Such a good ex fucking boyfriend, aren't you?"
Gabriel shivered.
Isaac pulled back, but didn't let go.
"Come."
Sharing this again, in honour of six months since The God Key was published :D I have to admit, I do rather like "villain Isaac".
For more context, if you like, you can read the first chapter of The God Key for free here. Same scenario. Roles switched ;)
There are a variety of links to get the book here.
Goodreads reviews are here.
So, it's been two months since The God Key came out!! Wow!
With Christmas just around the corner, if you haven't yet grabbed your copy to partake in gay angst and superpowers, as of MONDAY 12 DECEMBER 2022 you can do so for only £0.99 at the Google Store. The ebook will stay £0.99 until 26 December 2022.
You can also read a fair bit of the book there in terms of sampling, if you're not sure.
The God Key - Ebook written by Simone King. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offlin
You can read some reviews here, if you like (or leave some reviews yourself!)
If you're not sure what The God Key is...keep reading under the link.
Hi there! I've been an avid reader of your ff works for years and for the first time today I luckily checked your ao3 profile, found this tumblr and that you've just published you our novel!? I've read the free online first chapter and I absolutely love it! I'll try to buy the paperback book soon, it left me competly hooked! Keep on chasing your dreams and I'm so happy you managed to publish this story!
Thank you! <3 And thank for you for your continued support! I hope you enjoy TGK as much as the fanfics. I feel like my style has evolved, but it's still quintessentially me in the focus on dysfunctional and intense character dynamics.
And yes, for context for anyone else, The God Key came out in October 2022 :)
(The Goodreads link is below if anyone uses Goodreads and wants to add it to their to-read list).
You have the power to make everyone in the world a good person. All it costs is the love of your life. Which do you choose? At universi...
Happy birthday to me, and happy birthday to The God Key! 🥳
Thank you all so much more for your support, encouragement and feedback on my writing over the last seven years (bloody hell) I've been writing on here <3 It has meant a lot. I really hope you enjoy this one too.
Please let me/the interwebs know what you think. Rate. Review. Share. All that jazz!
I also promised I would share a masterlist of links on the day so...here we go :)
Print options
Amazon (UK) (US) (Canada) (France) (Spain) (Italy) (Germany) (India) (Japan) (Australia) - basically, anywhere you get Amazon!
Barnes & Noble
Blackwells
The Book Depository
Ebook options:
Kobo: (UK) (US) (Canada) (Australia) (India) (Worldwide store) - you can pick your country!
Google Play
Amazon: (UK) (US) (Canada) (France) (Spain) (Italy) (Germany) (Japan) (Australia) - again, anywhere you can get Amazon!
Barnes & Noble Nook
Ebooks.com
You should also be able to talk to your local library or bookshop to request it!
Read the first chapter here FREE.
Click here for The God Key on Goodreads
will you write something vampire themed for spooky season?
The coffin was luxurious, as far as coffins went. The protagonist had half-expected just a plain wood box, scratchy and full of splinters. They supposed, if they had to die, they could at least do so in style.
It didn't really make them feel better.
And it didn't make the coffin fit two people any better either.
"Stop squirming," the secret love of their life snapped. "You're just going to get us more stuck."
"I don't think it's possible to get more stuck." Their voice was only a little, reasonably, hysterically. "We're buried alive in a bloody coffin!"
The secret love of their life looked awful beneath them. Pallid, even in the crowded gloom of their shared grave. They felt clammy and cold beneath the protagonist's limbs.
The protagonist swallowed. They tried to stop squirming. There were no comfortable positions.
The love of their life hissed between their teeth with irritation, and if the protagonist could see properly, they were sure that a terrifying and wrathful and gorgeous glare would be pointed in their direction.
"I'm sorry," the protagonist said. For the squirming, sure, but mostly for everything else. For somehow getting them into this mess. For being the last idiot that the love of their short life would ever see. For not knowing how to save either of them.
"You should stop talking and conserve your air."
"You should stop talking and conserve your air," the protagonist mumbled. They closed their eyes. They tried not to panic. The panic closed in on them on every side, just like the two close suffocating padded walls, and the steady weight of six or so feet of packed soil crushing them on all sides.
"Someone's going to rescue us," the love of their life said. "Your friends - someone - will figure out where we are."
"Coffin. My first guess, too."
"They'll get us out." The growl in their friend's voice was almost inhuman. Quite impressive.
The protagonist bit down hard on their lip, and the rather unhelpful response of 'before or after we die from the lack of oxygen? Because, you know, I read that people can survive five hours locked in a coffin. Tops. If they're not hyperventilating. But who's hyperventilating! I'm not hyperventilating! Are you?'
Their friend drew a sharp breath. Then they squirmed, hypocritically, before managing to place cool hands on either side of the protagonist's whirling brain.
"Easy," they murmured, abruptly far more gentle. "You're okay. You're going to be okay. I'm not - I won't let anything bad happen to you."
The protagonist felt tears prick the corners of their eyes. Absurd.
One of their friends thumbs grazed over their lip, wiping away the bead of blood there.
"Match your breathings to mine," their friend murmured, voice a little hoarse and trying-to-keep-it-together. "Concentrate on me."
The protagonist did their best. Their friend breathed very slowly, admirably calm really, given the circumstances.
"I won't hurt you," their friend said. "I love you. I won't."
"It's not you I'm worried about. Wait - you love me?"
It was impossible to see the love of their life's face, and really, a coffin was the worst place for a confession. Because the protagonist would very much have liked to have seen their face. At least if they were hanging over a lava pit, the protagonist would have been able to see their face, and make a judgment on if they meant that platonically or romantically.
God. They hated their brain.
Their friend didn't say anything, and the silence was surely almost as agonising as dying. Almost. They brushed the tear away from the protagonist's cheek, feather-light.
"More than anything," their friend said. "Now shut. up. Please. And please, please, stop moving."
The protagonist shut up. Somehow. They rested their head against their friend's chest, letting the knowledge of that confession fill them with warmth, or try to.
At least they were dying in a coffin with someone they loved. Who loved them back. Someone's whose heart was so...
The protagonist stopped. It was a trick. A mistake. Something. But it felt, beneath their ear, like their friend's heart wasn't beating. Actually, when the protagonist really thought about it, now that their breathing was more or less steady, even in the squashed space they couldn't hear their friend's breathing at all. They couldn't feel it against their cheek and...
They didn't think the love of their life had always been so cold.
"Why." The protagonist resisted the urge to shift again. "Why do you think you're going to hurt me? Worst you're going to do is elbow me in the face?"
Their friend was silent a second time.
"Right?" The protagonist pressed.
"Someone will find us. They'll get us out. It's not a problem. It won't be a problem."
"What...what won't be a problem?" But the protagonist, with a dreadful twist in their stomach, knew. It should have been obvious, maybe, in the last twenty four hours.
The stomach bug. The dark glasses. The cringing from the sunlight.
"I won't hurt you." A mantra. Not a reassurance, a mantra, a plea. "I love you. I won't hurt you. You're going to be fine."
Five hours, suddenly, seemed like a lifetime.
The coffin was luxurious, as far as coffins went. Excellent quality. Top notch.
Nothing else, after all, would keep in a newly turned and starving vampire locked up.
"Shit," the protagonist whispered.
And that about summed up their current predicament.
It's TGK week!
It's The God Key launch week (~ 13.10.2022 ~) which means, yes, I'm going to be insufferable!
For anyone interested in the general process, here are the alternative TGK cover mock-ups that were designed but didn't make it as the final cover choice!
(Variety of pre-order links here)
Would you have gone with the cover I did?
1 week to go until The God Key is out!!! (13 Oct 2022)
You might like The God Key if you like:
the-modern-typewriter on tumblr (it me!)
Vicious by V.E Schwab
The TV show Black Mirror
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The thought of a really screwed up version of Marvel
antagonist/protagonist dynamics - deconstruction of superpowers - complex characters - angst - mutual pining - dubious morality/grey morality - hurt/attempted comfort - queerness and LGBTQ characters - high stakes m/m romance - badass women
Pre-order options and links:
Amazon paperback and ebook: (UK) (US) (Canada) (France) (Spain) (Italy) (Germany) (India) (Japan) (Australia)- basically, anywhere you get Amazon! Barnes & Noble paperback and ebook Kobo ebook: (UK) (US) (Canada) (Australia) (India) (Worldwide store) - you can pick your country! Google Play ebook Blackwells paperback Book Depository Abe Books
(Goodreads link - and reviews so far! - is here)
Hey! Firstly I absolutely love your writing, and I was wondering if you could write something along the lines of someone making a deal with a demon/the devil and its the trope where to seal the deal they have to kiss, but the person making the deal has never kissed anyone before, so the demon is teasing about it, but eventually eases them into it? Thank you! 💛
"So to seal the deal..." The demon murmured. " A kiss."
The protagonist froze.
The demon's head tilted, an amused little smile curling their lips. "Oh, come now. I'm not so unattractive a prospect, am I, that kissing me frightens you more than the thought of bargaining away your immortal soul?"
"No!" It was too vehement a response. "No. I -" They didn't know exactly how to finish.
The demon was arresting. Not human, not quite, but strikingly beautiful in the way of things designed to tempt and seduce. They were sitting on the armchair opposite, lazy and at ease, except for their gaze which pierced right through the human and tracked their every moment. They were, regrettably, entirely too much the protagonist's type.
"You...?" The demon repeated, delicate and leading.
"It's nothing," the human snapped. They crossed the room and snatched up the demon's hand, before they could think too hard, and leaned down to press a kiss to the back of their hand.
The demon chuckled, velvet and rumbling, and caught the human's chin in one swift movement before they could straighten. The demon's hold was impossible to break or pull away from. It kept them half bowed over the creature, looking up at them through their eyelashes.
The protagonist's breath caught in their throat.
"That doesn't count." The demon's nail scraped gently along the human's lower lip. "It has to be on the mouth."
"That's a stupid rule. There's no hierarchy of kisses." It came out a little rough. Hoarse.
"You've never kissed anyone before, have you."
The demon didn't quite say it like a question, though the devil knew how they had figured it out. Maybe it was blazingly obvious. Maybe the demon really could see right through them with their strange magic.
The human tugged at their head, taking a step back. Their head didn't move in the demon's hand. They flushed, bracing their hands on either side of the demon's chair to steady themselves.
When the demon simply continued to stare at them, gaze moving hungrily over their face, seemingly delighted, the protagonist looked away.
"I'm flattered," the demon said, "to be your first. First kisses are so sweet. So full of potential. Kneel before you strain your neck."
The human dropped, stupidly, before the demon. Their fingers tightened on the arms of the chair. They wondered if there was any point lying, denying it...
"You don't count," the human managed. "It's not a proper first kiss, anyway. You're a demon."
"Fair enough." The demon's eyes gleamed. "Do you want to practice then. For your first proper kiss? I've kissed a lot of people. I can teach you if you're worried."
"I'm not worried!" They may have been a little worried that their kissing technique was awful. It was ridiculous to worry that a demon would judge them, but...the human bit their lip, and hesitated. "Does it have to be with tongue, to count, or...?"
The demon laughed softly again.
"No," the demon said. "But it must be on the mouth, and you must initiate the kiss for each to count. May I?"
"We could just get this over with."
"What a terrible attitude to have for your first time." The demon clicked their tongue, but their voice was honeyed and teasing. "I want to make this good for you."
The human swallowed, attention flitting up to the demon's face again.
The demon leaned in towards them and pressed a kiss, first, to the protagonist's temple, then their cheek, then the very corner of their mouth.
The protagonist turned their head, to catch the demon's mouth fully in their own, and the demon swayed back just out of reach.
The protagonist glared at them.
The demon leaned in again, and kissed them on the mouth. The protagonist might have expected an intense, claiming, devouring sort of kiss - but the kiss was gentle and slow. Teaching. It eased the protagonist into it like slipping into the embrace of a hot sensuous bath.
When the demon pulled back a second time, the protagonist was breathless.
"Very good," the demon said.
The protagonist shivered. They found, deal or not, that they wanted to lean in, to press their lips to the demon's, to take and feel.
It felt like an eternity of kisses later, when the demon pulled the protagonist up into their lap, drawing them close. Everything about them seemed to simmer and the protagonist - the protagonist felt strung with want, and heady desire, and sensation.
"Go on." The demon let go of them. "Show me what you've learned."
The protagonist leaned in, kissing a path to the demon's lips, and then claimed them.
They were always complimented on their kissing skills after that.
With two weeks to go until my LGBTQ superpower fantasy novel The God Key (13.10.2022 baby!) comes out, I decided to be self-indulgent and share my The God Key playlist for the vibes!
(AKA. The music I wrote the book to.)
So.
This is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco
Someone Like You - Adele
Electrified - Beth Crowley
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Poison - Rita Ora
Whataya Want From Me - Adam Lambert
Saviour - Beth Crowley
Meet Me On The Battlefield - SVRCINA
Dreams - The Cranberries
War of Hearts - Ruelle
Can't Help Falling in Love - Boyce Avenue
Liability - Lorde
Gravity - Sara Bareilles
Liability - Tape Machines
Carry You - Ruelle
Level Up - Vienna Teng
And my personal ultimate The God Key song...
17. Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I don’t believe in an interventionist God // But I know, darling, that you do // But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him // Not to intervene when it came to you // Not to touch a hair on your head // To leave you as you are // And if He felt He had to direct you // Then direct you into my arms
(There will be a whole bunch more links of different places where you can buy the ebook or the paperback on 13.10.2022 - but this is the Amazon ebook pre-order and the Kobo ebook pre-order)
So, some of you lovely people may know I have a tradition of posting something new on my birthday each year. I am delighted to officially confirm that this year it will in fact be my book ^^
THE GOD KEY will be out on the 13.10.2022.
I can't write 'I am so excited!' without feeling like a cliche but...!!!
Amazon UK pre-order link for ebook here
Amazon US pre-order link for ebook here
It will be available on all the Amazons, I just don't want to spam.
Sorry, not sorry that I will be sending more links your way when the print is 100% finalised too, because it will be available in paperback. I can't believe this is happening. It's actually happening guys!
You have the power to make everyone in the world a good person. All it costs is the love of your life. Which do you choose?
At university they were best friends and boyfriends – Gabriel, a charming telepath obsessed with saving the world; Isaac, a lonely magnifier who quadruples the superpowers of anyone he touches.
It’s happily ever after until Isaac fakes his death.
Five years later, a villain is bringing everyone’s worst nightmares to life and Gabriel learns that Isaac is still alive. Isaac, who he never stopped loving. Isaac, with his secrets and strange connection with their dreamweaver enemy. Isaac, who might yet be the key to everything that Gabriel ever wanted…
Whether he wants to be or not.
So excited to share the cover for THE GOD KEY, my lgbtq superpowered fantasy novel!
You have the power to make everyone in the world a good person. All it costs is the love of your life. Which do you choose?
At university they were best friends and boyfriends – Gabriel, a charming telepath obsessed with saving the world; Isaac, a lonely magnifier who quadruples the superpowers of anyone he touches.
It’s happily ever after until Isaac fakes his death.
Five years later, a villain is bringing everyone’s worst nightmares to life and Gabriel learns that Isaac is still alive. Isaac, who he never stopped loving. Isaac, with his secrets and strange connection with their dreamweaver enemy. Isaac, who might yet be the key to everything that Gabriel ever wanted…
Whether he wants to be or not.
Read the first chapter here
It's been ages since I've posted here...and that's for many reasons, one of which I've been working on a novel (guess which one, haha)!
It will be out in Autumn, if any of you are interested. Should contain the typical Fictionist brand of angst, emotional intensity and morally ambiguous protagonists!
Hi! I was curious if you’re planning on seeing the new fantastic beasts movie? If you’ve already seen it, go any reviews/comments? Curious about your takes on the grindeldore content
I want to see it now, but I promised a friend I'd go see it with her so no spoilers until the 16th April!!!
Grindelore fascinates me a ship. I'm just not sure I trust them to do it justice.
hey i just wondered if you currently have any projects you're working on? i've been obsessed with the summary for Double Exposure on your coming soon page, plus i loooooove your fanfics. just hoping you're doing well and all is okay, mostly ❤️
Thanks! :)
Well, I run this tumblr blog and the associated patreon these days which keeps me very busy on the writing front:
https://the-modern-typewriter.tumblr.com/
I have recently finished another novel called The God Key, and need to figure out what to do with it now.
Double Exposure is technically complete, but I wrote it several years ago so it may need some editing work still for me to be happy with it again.
The next novels I'm working on are Say Yes (an asexual romance novel) and Moonlight Drowning (a fantasy novel with fairy/fey style elements).
Too many projects, too little time! <3
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Characters: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Phantom of the Opera Fusion, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera References, Possessive Behavior, Singing Summary:
A song, an opera house, and a ghost with two faces. When the past comes back to haunt Harry Potter it does not want to let him go so easily.
Phantom of the Opera AU.
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I did a thing, somehow. Cue *I’m alive! Aliiiveee! I tell you”
