Burnit Write

Ruin dun Burnit. 30+. Gay. Fanfic writer and aspiring author known as Kevin Burnett. Currently posting about: original works (Knitwear Club, Sheer Vale), fanfics, fandom (Death Note, House of Night, Wicked, IWTV, occasionally Dune and other sci-fi), theories, research, craft and anti-AI sentiments. Brit (Irish, Scottish, Yorks et al.). Occasional editor and Word wiz. (burnitwrite.wordpress.com). Come to the 'House of Night Critical' community for more HON rants in one neat place. I block terfs who interact. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[ruindunburnit]

Novel: 'Knitwear Club: The True Story of the La[ ]st Presidential Assassination'

(Original work)

In the run-up to a presidential election, a journalist tells the story of the man who killed the predecessor, and the secret society who twisted his arm.

First Draft Word count: 137,000 [complete]

Stage 2.0 Second Draft

Progress: Writing Ch. 12 (pg. 203)

[Updated: 05.06.2026]

(Started: 07.12.2025)

[CURRENTLY WORKING]

[November 2024: Follow my Write (Finish) A Novel In A Month progress on Bluesky!]

Novel: 'Sheer Vale'

(Original work)

Long ago, a city's destruction was the first blow in a war no one wanted; a miracle then, that no one died, and the citizens rebuilt in the crater left behind. But secrets and lies aren't the only things buried under the foundations, and you must watch your step.

Stage 0.2: Outline Redevelopment

Progress: PAUSED - READING WORK

NoHoper Part I: LightBringer

(Death Note x House of Night fanfiction)

Unstoppable force meets immovable object when a junior researcher hellbent on finding the cure to vampyrism instead finds himself stuck between a vampyre determined to wage war against humanity, and the only group of fledglings who could stop her.

Word count: 279,473 [complete]

NoHoper Part II: WarWager

(Death Note x House of Night fanfiction)

Secrets and lies abound as Neferet doubles-down on her war campaign and the Tulsa House of Night’s most powerful fledglings pay far too little attention to two murderers running loose.

New Development Stage:

[66.67%]

Page count: 490 pgs.

Night and Her Shadow

(House of Night fanfiction)

A "fix-it fic" of P.C. and Kristen Cast's spin-off House of Night novella, 'Kalona's Fall': a lonely goddess is rewarded for keeping her vow, only to find herself put to the test.

Word count: 21,235 [complete]

The Death Note TV Drama Reaction Series (ep. 4-11) Landing Page

Follow My Reading Progress For 2026

KevinBurnett on AO3

NoHoper Series TV Tropes Page

The NoHoper Map of the Tulsa House of Night (Reddit)

The NoHoper Map of the Tulsa House of Night (Tumblr)

In order to write the NoHoper series, I have reconfigured, augmented and in some places ignored the worldbuilding of the House of Night canon. If you would like to find out some of my thoughts and explanations for these, please search the following tags on this blog: #NoHoper, #House of Night, #Theories and Headcanons. I'd also be happy to take questions -- just be respectful!

If you have questions about any of my fanfics, please feel free to ask me! Naturally, please do not inform the canon authors.

If you enjoy my shenanigans, find me on Bluesky as kevin.burnett.bsky.social. You can still find me on Twitter, where I occasionally update on my writing and make it everyone else's problem.

https://kevin.burnett.bsky.social

[ruindunburnit]

I realise I don't talk enough about my current original WIP (originally called 'Knitwear Club', now called 'Knitwear Society'), but apparently while I'm working on the redraft is a good time to start building up a platform for it?

I'm a little limited by what I can do -- with my limited time and resources, I don't think I'll be doing videos for a bit yet -- but if anyone has any advice, or anything they want to see from me, please feel free to let me know!

[brostateexam]

On Reagan's deathaversary I just want to say:

It rules when homophobes die

It rules when conservative icons drop dead

It Will Happen

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Secondary poll based on the comments so far:

You two should reconsider your relationship if you're not able to compromise

You're perfect for each other, never involve anyone else in this situation

Voting ended onJun 23, 2023

Original post

[the-tzimisce]

propose to him with the worst fucking ring you can possibly get your hands on. like not a half-assed, "oh you won't like anything I get anyway," passive-aggression ring, that is not the play, you need to do your research and take some interest in the things that matter to your enemy future husband and really learn about like, the gemstone cuts or whatever, and then you need to get him the most eye-catching ring you can find that would also be completely offensive to his overdeveloped sensibilities. He's putting in all this effort to bribe the cat to bite you, it's the least you could do to step it up in response.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

So that anon came back with an adorable proposal story, but I fucking love this idea and need it to make it into someone's fanfic or something

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

[homophobla]

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

[thornhawthorne]

The thing about writing trans characters is that it is 100% guaranteed that at least a few trans people are going to be unhappy with whatever you write — not necessarily through any fault of your own, though that is certainly a possibility, but because there is such a dearth of trans representation in general.

Trans people are hungry and we’ve mostly been getting by on crumbs. I’m not saying that there are NO media with trans characters, but you have to admit that there are not a lot of really good things to read/watch/consume that have trans characters (and this is without getting into the question of whether or not those characters or the media they’re presented in cater to your particular tastes!)

^ This is usually the real problem. Certain genres and mediums have it worse, too! Think about how expensive it is to make movies or TV shows and how many people you have to get approval from and how many people need to be hired and paid to make one that makes it to cable, streaming services, or theaters, as an example.

Books and comics give us more to choose from in part because the barrier to pushing one out into the world is lower, though still not as much as I would like.

Personally, I want to make a TV show, but I can’t. So, I’m making the story into a comic that could maybe get adapted someday. This brings us close to my point:

Two of the protagonists (and many more of the side characters) in my current project are canonically trans. To some people, these two will be refreshing / the representation that they have been waiting to see for AGES. Those people will feel like they are being presented with a feast. To others, it will feel like being handed an empty plate and told to eat up. Those people are not wrong and I will not take it personally. The way that my writing makes them feel will be extremely real and undeniably valid.

What I want fellow writers to understand is that these feelings are not always going to be the fault of the individual author of the individual project that inspired these feelings (with the caveat that it does kind of suck when a new fictional trans person turns out to be exactly like all the other crumbs we’ve been forced to call a feast.) The people you make angry by breaking away from the norm could simply be mad because they’re used to feeling seen rather than because you've done something terrible.

People will be angry if a trans character is conventionally attractive or if they aren’t. They’ll be angry if you make the character pre-everything, non-op, HRT only, 10 years into a “do everything” transition, fat, thin, tall, short, etc. They’ll be angry if you make the character gay, straight, bi, pan, aro, ace -- I could keep going, but I won’t.

My point is that while you should definitely take the reasoning behind the anger your work may inspire into consideration and you should ABSOLUTELY remain critical of your own work if you want it to be the best it could possibly be...

You also have to be aware that you CANNOT please everyone, especially not with a single trans character in isolation, and you should not work yourself half to death trying to meet some imaginary guidelines of what “good” representation is, because it doesn’t exist.

"Good representation" means something different to everyone.

Also, someone already made basically what I was trying to express in this post but better and also in a single image:

[ruindunburnit]

In the midst of my latest Dune kick, I found out that there were two miniseries made of the first three books:

Frank Herbert's Dune (2000), adapting the first book, and

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003), adapting Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.

Now, I could be impressed with the cast (the sequel miniseries had Susan Sarandon and James McAvoy) but that's not what impresses--nay, baffles me mosts.

This piece of the article on Wikipedia does:

"The music [from the series' soundtrack] has been reused in several theatrical trailers, including:

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (2003)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005)

Cinderella Man (2005)

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

The Golden Compass (2007)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Star Trek (2009)"

It never ceases to amaze me when I find out just how deep a rabbit hole goes! One day, I'll find the 36-track series score and these theatrical trailers, to confirm it with my own ears.

[thisusernameisunique]

The score is on youtube and it is quite epic

I know Down with the Enterprise is based on War Begins

Here's the Master and Commander trailer

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crysal Skull

[ruindunburnit]

You can especially hear it in Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, especially at the parts showcasing the Battle for Narnia.

Which, if I recall, is taking from this track: Summon the Worms

[jessaerys]

oh to be raised as a sacrificial lamb !! to never have had a chance at becoming !! to be an unsubtle visual metaphor for a blank slate ! to be no one from nowhere belonging to nothing !! to not even survive past the end of your story but to have existed all along simply to prolong someone else’s myth !! to never have known anything else but this !! to be oblivious to your own desperate emptiness !!!! fate worse than death !!!! fate worse than death !!!! is anyone seeing this ???? hello ??? hello ????? you are a child sacrifice with a man inside you sacrificing a child. you are your own executioner

[joseopher-deactivated20260418]

(about a problematic ship) actually i think the power dynamics should get more unbalanced and they should have less respect for each other's autonomy and they should violate more boundaries and commucate worse and fuse together in a tangled mass of tragedy until the lines between them blur and vanish and they are one single unified embodiment of unending worship

[skopostheorie]

How it feels to call it "this piece" instead of "that one fanart/fanfic"

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[fkclou]

anonymously make an assumption about me and i'll confirm/deny it

[clementine-kesh]

so embarrassing when you finally get around to watching or reading some landmark piece of media well known for having a massive slash fandom and finding yourself completely drawn in by the homoeroticism as well like oh my god has anyone else heard of these kirk and spock guys? sam and frodo? sherlock and watson? anyone else seeing this?

[nikomedes]