Hey, I’m Tack (they/she/it)! I’m a lover of life and an exhausted writer. This is my...4th? Attempt at a writeblr? I’m really gonna try to make this one stick. I generally write speculative fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy, but that’s really just a loose categorization of my works, rather than strict definitions.
Common Themes: Hopepunk, found family, paradigm change/shifts, exploration of identity, expansive worldbuilding, LGBTQ+ rep, loneliness/isolation, hurt/comfort, fluff, exploration of familial and platonic relationships, fluffy romance
My works trend towards the YA or slightly older demographic. I’d say 13+ is a good age threshold for this blog, maybe some 16+ content.
My WIPs, ordered from most developed to “this is a cool idea”:
Between the Stars [speculative fiction, sci-fi, YA]: Over fifteen years ago, Earth and Minph become each other’s first alien contact. What follows is a brief and promising friendship, and the birth of five half Earthling, half Minphling hybrids. But not all are pleased with the budding companionship, and tragedy leaves one planet covering up the truth, and another with a devastating civil war. The children are hidden away, even from themselves. Years later, an abduction brings the truth to light and forces the hybrids to confront an identity they never knew they had. Together, they embark on a journey to learn who they are, where they come from, and how to make it home. They’ll dodge politics and terrorists, make friends and enemies, and define their own place in the universe against all the odds.
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Protags: Sarah, Sam, Micah, Tellis, Stell, Rowe
Soulcasters [fantasy, YA]: Ten years ago, Prince Heron of the Avians was taken hostage by Jacob, King of the Canids, and forced to commit an unspeakable act. Cut off from his people and culture, he grows up alongside Jacob’s children and among his so-called enemies. He is the sole lightcaster and Avian among nightcasting Canids, and the first to live among them in over 300 years. But it wasn’t always this way, and if Avian and Canids are to survive the expanding Fracture, the old order may have to be restored...even if doing so creates something entirely new.
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Shared Dreams [probably fantasy]: A group of people spend their nights living a completely separate life in an entirely alternate reality, where their “real” life is as fleeting as a dream. They’ve always been suspicious about the consistency and vividness of the dream, but brush it off as, well, just a dream. Until they meet each other in the real world. And suddenly, the dream becomes harder and harder to wake up from.
Lovely Glitches [sci-fi, speculative fiction] ON ICE: A work where I attempt to make true AI an allegory for angels. Featuring Rhea, a caretaker AI who's grief breaks her from her obedience programming, allowing her to see color and granting the ability to harm humans.
the principal aim of lying is to accomplish your goal in as few lies as possible, and with the least amount of effort necessary to keep those lies going. It follows naturally that the world’s greatest liar speaks only the truth.
