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[sio-writes]

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Hello everyone! My name is Sio (they/them) and I enjoy stories, monsters, and stories about monsters. Writing is a huge hobby of mine, as is space and art and everything creative!

My parent blog is @siochaile so if you see likes or follows from there - that's me!

This is where I'm most active and where I post all my work (which is original monster romances) so please feel free to browse, read, and ask anything you can think of. I'm more than happy to talk about my writing, my art, any upcoming content, and I love to share excerpts. Please feel free to tag me in anything :)

My writing features queer characters in slice-of-life scenarios with heavy emphasis on characterization, and obviously it has a lot of supernatural elements!

Any NSFW or potentially triggering content in my work will be labeled in the list below as well as noted at the beginning of the chapter in question, also in the tags of any reblogged content. (My rule of thumb for nsfw tags in general is "word" + "." For example: "nsfw." or "blood." because of tumblr's tag ban)

And that's it! Happy reading <3

Ongoing Series:

Blood and Bourbon (m/m, Vampire x Immortal) 1/?

A Botanist’s Guide (NSFW, f/m Human x Alien) 16/26

Sacrifice (NSFW, m/f Forest God x Human) 11/20

Completed Works (Oldest to Newest):

The Cruise (Male Mothman x Unspecified Reader) 1/1; 1k words

Foodie (Female Vampire x Fem!Reader) 1/1; 2k

A Dragon Prince (Male Dragon x Female Human) 1 Chapter; 1.5k

Best Shot (NB Lizardfolk Alien x NB Human Reader) - 1/1; 6k

Callum the Prince (Male Drider x AFAB Human reader) - Part 1 and Part 2(NSFW)

Monstober (Reader x Shadow) 1/1; 3.6k

A Servant and His Knight (NSFW; Male Human x Male Living Armor) 2/2; 16k

Movie Night (Hero x Villain, gender not-specified) 1k

Witch's Gambit (Female Human x Male Skeleton) 2/- (Discontinued)

Into the Woods (Male Werewolf x nb!Reader) 5/5; 13k

Tidepools and Sunlight (NSFW; AMAB merfolk/Male Human) Oneshot; 2k

[sio-writes]

[eddysonline]

The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

[imifos]

stab scene intimacy coordinator

[ieafy]

I can’t stop drawing mantises I fear

[sunderwight]

Evil wizard tasteful pin-up magazine but it's all photos of like, skinny old goths coyly fingering cursed amulets, long-bearded sorcerers doing the 'oopsie' pose as their corrosive destruction spell destroys enough of their own robes to show some skin, naked desiccated lich king positioning his staff of human skulls just so it leaves something to the imagination, dark knights in full armor just holding their soul-eating blades out in front of their codpieces, orc chieftain who did not understand the assignment and is posing with a monster he killed like one of those guys-with-fish photos. Or maybe he DID understand the assignment. Hmm.

[rahatlin]

@evilwizard are you in that?

[evilwizard]

i should sell this

[queso-blanco]

Always the writer, never the reader.

[murrphius]

if you see this post.. it is a sign...you must...write the damn thing yourself.

i'm sorry.

[the-little-fox-in-the-box]

[angelonxanax]

I see the evil in you and I don't mind

[jeleynai]

I managed to finish this just in time! Almost missed MerMay..

Thank you to the lovely person on Patreon that requested a Mer version of the boys <3 I only did Ghost for now but I had SO much fun <3

As always, early access, WIPs and other goodies are on my Patreon!

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[reinapepiada]

shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics

[rawme-price]

No thoughts just marine biologist!reader working on tagging orca mers...

You've been following this specific pod for some time, pod 141. A group of four bulls, they've cemented themselves as a formidable group in their territory.

"Okay, last tag," you tell your assistant, readying the poll. The 141 have been relatively compliant, familiar with the process as they've been tagged twice before.

"Here, gaz is swimming up," you lean closer over the edge, trying to stretch the pole as far as it will go "we can–"

A large wave rocks the boat, and with a cold splash you are plunged into icy water.

Really. It's poor foresight on your companies part to choose wet suits that resemble orcas.

The 141 pod swim around you curiously, inspecting the strange maybe-calf that fell off the boat. The biggest mer, ghost from the excessive white patterning on his face, reaches out to grab you. All the muscles in your body tighten, some base instinct telling you to curl up and hide.

Only...all ghost does is hold you to his chest before rising to the surface.

You gasp the second air is available, blinking salt water from your eyes to find the boat isn't far away and neither is your crew. The mers gather closer, chirping at you in a distinctive calf? Calf abandoned? Chirp that you've come to recognize from them.

Oh...oh shit.

Ghost passes you off to price, unable to do anything when the mers are so much larger than you. They think you're a calf, and you know this pod has a history of adopting lone mers.

You are so screwed.

[aukkenopsia]

Fantasy!AU Sucra is a Gorgon, though it requires more than passing eye contact for him to turn a person to stone.

[hysteric-boy]

Boys who cry when they cum are so fucking cute. Yeah? It feels so good doesn’t it baby? Sobbing little mess for me.

[byoldervine]

Once again recommending that writers, especially newer writers, start ‘rubber ducking’

When you’re stumped and you don’t know what’s not working for your writing, or you don’t know where to go next, take out a rubber duck (or any equivalent friend/inanimate object, I like to use my dogs) and start explaining every single detail as if the rubber duck knows nothing about writing or about your story. Explain out loud what’s going on, what part you’re up to, why you’re stumped, and what you know you need to get to when you figure out how to get there

Somewhere along the line of putting it into words and externalising the thought process, it’s likely something will slot into place

[sio-writes]

I want to clean this polaroid up but I'm obsessed with the pink sketch that I was supposed to paint over. It captures the vibes much better than I could have

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"

like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"

that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.

y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't