shit that i wrote

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[stufftsuwrote]

me being insecure about my writing for a very strange reason:

whenever I read something I feel as though I've managed to copy it, even if it's the first time I read it, and the stuff I've written has actually existed for months or even years before the book was published.

for example, I've just read the cruel prince and I'm 3/4 of the way through the wicked king. and I was listening to my playlist that i made for Greywolf as I was reading. and I was like, oh man this song would be good for this book. oh man this song too. boy and this song is gr9 for Jude. until I'm left with the realization that the reason why all the songs work is because Greywolf is pretty much Jude. stolen from her family as a child to be raised by fae, now grown up and cold-hearted and distant and a killer, serving the king of faerie and I'm just.....

we're done! throw out Sage and Greywolf, it's all going in the garbage!! someone just let holly black know right now so she can sue me preemptively so I don't even have a chance of publishing this plagarized pile of piss!!

[stufftsuwrote]

something about Levi that I don't think I conveyed very well is that, like, he looks like he's got no business hanging out with Jordan and Mona. He's always very well put together, distinguished, and well-dressed. The way Ryan describes him is the best succinct description of him- a pretty, kinda-fem guy who looks like a 1920s movie star.

But Jordan and Mona are like... early millennial/late gen-x disasters. Jordan looks like he has never worn anything considered stylish in his entire life. Mona alternates wildly back and forth between her punk-goth aesthetic of black and lace, and her idgaf aesthetic of sweatpants and oversized tshirts; there is no in between.

Levi looks like he should be their baby sitter or defense attorney, not their friend.

[tag-your-oc]

Tag your OCs that are together, except one of them is tiny and one of them is huge.

You know the ones.

[tag-your-oc]

Tag your oc who takes calculated risks, but is really bad at math. 

You know the one. 

[stufftsuwrote]

gdi I wrote this bit in my nanowrimo where there's just a random, unnamed troll in sage's unseelie court, and honestly he was just supposed to be a one-time thing. and now I'm like thinking I need to develop all this lore about non-sidhe type faeries in the court and stuff, and who was this random troll at the orgy anyway.

I also need to develop Levi's backstory more because he's my new favorite and I love him

[uglyloki]

sir that’s my emotional support bastard

[stufftsuwrote]

so in aubrey’s backstory, she stops this guy from summoning these things called armanau. and tbh when i wrote that bit, they were just a kind of generic evil force to be stopped.  i think i’ve kind of decided that the armanau are a sort of nobility, or super powerful types of demons from the void. and william (who i came up with for this year’s nano)  is actually one of these, but he doesn’t even know it.

there’s gonna end up being a point where val and aubrey come in contact with william and things might not go so well then.

[stufftsuwrote]

i had 6 semi-interconnected short stories planned to do for nano, but instead i’ve started 3, one of those absorbed the 4th into itself, another one spawned a 7th one, i haven’t got a conclusion to any of them, and 2 of the original ones will probably be scrapped entirely because they don’t quite fit in with the rest. 

[stufftsuwrote]

Would never stab anyone: Becky, Cass, Billy, Aubrey

Would stab someone in retaliation:  Laura, Jonas, Gretchen, Val, James

Yells “I won’t hesitate bitch,” first: Addie, Abby, Sage

Would stab without warning: Ryan, Mona, Levi

Would stab as a warning: Greywolf, Faust, Jordan, William

[stufftsuwrote]

when this month is over, i’m going to re-read maggie stiefvater’s faerie books and then skip right to fuckin raven cycle for inspiration because goddamn her writing style evolves SO MUCH between them and it’s almost eerie how much of an improvement it is.

[stufftsuwrote]

i posted this on my main blog but i wanna say it here too, i wrote over 7000 words today!

this is the most i’ve ever written in one day during nanowrimo, and i’ve been doing this for 15 years lol

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

nb people are members of the fae

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

reblog if you’re nb, a member of the fae, or support nb fae people

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

people who want to be kidnapped by the fae can also reblog 

[chubby-aphrodite]

I’m NB and my name is literally Fae what do I get

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

free license to abduct humans

[tredlocity]

Bridge the generation gap by combining old and new slang into one

[tredlocity]

Mood to the max!

[tredlocity]

Tubular af

[memeitism]

groovy, i hate it

[eiffel-69]

dank, Old Sport

[hobgoblinhero]

Make like a tree and leaf, thot

[haunted-catboy]

Do you bite your thumb at me edgelord

[stufftsuwrote]

also I keep calling William and Faust demons because that's originally what they were imagined as, but like.... they aren't strictly demons, they're just void creatures. and demon is gonna have to be my word for that until I find something that fits better

[stufftsuwrote]

James reunited with his fae heritage in the 1960s and had been hesitant to do so for so long because, well, he's married to a demon and demons really aren't perceived well amongst the fae. any that he ever encountered out in the world always said they could smell the stink of iron and void on him.

but when William needed a place to hibernate, he was running out of options. his last asleep was interrupted when a nearby coal mining venture got close to his resting spot. so james returned to his home, hoping the fae lady would allow his husband to rest under her courts protection. and of course, being fae, a heavy debt came as a result of this favor. William would be able to safely hibernate whenever needed, for as long as the lady remained in power, but James was bound as a servant to the lady whenever William slept. he sacrificed this and did some real shitty things in the lady's name. (he's also got a far name that he goes by during this time? which I'll have to think of one.)

the lady that James made the arrangement with was sage's mother, and they only cashed in on the bargain twice. upon returning in the 90s to try to do it again, they found that the lady was dead and the court was in the midst of a power struggle between the lady's heir and a usurper. William and James backed sage, which was risky. sage wasn't as powerful, didn't have connections, but they were more accepting to having a demon as company. and it was this willingness to work with nontraditional allies that won sage the throne. as gratitude for the help, sage continued to honor the contract that their mother had arranged decades before. and now when William sleeps, James doesn't have to get his hands nearly as dirty since sage is a lot more chill than their mom was. (he probably worked with Greywolf a few times.)

but it's why when Abby is like "dang, sage, my uncle's demon husband is doing a weird thing where he keeps falling asleep for several days at a time and every time he wakes up he looks five years older, what is happening to him" that sage is able to be like, "have you tried letting him just sleep for a couple months? demons need to do a butterfly thing every couple decades to refresh their human shell" and Faust is like "....that's fucking dumb" until he meets William who is like "no man, I totally have to do that like every couple years." so Faust, looking like 60, curls up in a cocoon in the back room for like the entire summer and wakes up looking 20, and his husband, who is 40, is left feeling confused and old.

[stufftsuwrote]

so the other demon guy, i’ll probably name him william, was sent to america on the whole penal colony thing, but he escaped out to the wilderness and lived there for a couple months. then he found a way to kind of masquerade as a holy man and acted like he was hunting witches and got treated really well by people in villages because of that. he did that for a year or two and then ended up doing the thing where he fell asleep out in the forest one day and that’s when the fae boy came across him and was like “oh interesting.” fae boy wasn’t able to tell his name (because of fae reasons) so william was like, well i have to call you something so he ended up being named james.

this was about 400 years ago... and even after william discovered that he was a demon, he kept doing his witch-hunting scheme. actually learning to control his demon abilities made it even easier to make it look like witches were at work. the one thing he was really good at doing was summoning these shadow tentacle things that looked really scary but were ineffective at actually doing anything.

[claroquequiza]

Maybe I’m an old man but goddamn, these vampires with blood dripping down their chins–that’s your food!! THAT’S YOUR FOOD!! Close!! Your!! Mouth!! You think some asshole slobbering chicken noodle soup or yogurt or clam chowder all down themselves would be sexy??? What makes you any different, you sticky-stained slackjawed screwball??? Close your mouth!! Use a napkin!! And for godssakes stop looking so smug, like, “Oooo, I’m a creature of the night look at what sustains me” yeah uh huh a fucking lack of basic hygiene is what I’m seeing and it is not impressive!! At all!! My nephews are three years old and they drool less than you do!! You’re how many centuries old?!?! ACT LIKE IT