#asylumverse

[raevenlywrites]

Happy STS! What would happen if your OCs got stuck in a gladiator type battle? Who would win? Who would survive?

oooh interesting question...

my knee jerk is Faolan is most likely to come out the victor of the current bunch of ocs im actively working with

If we open it up to the expanded asylumverse, Rook cheats by being a trickster god. It would be like throwing Bugs Bunny into the arena XD

[raevenlywrites]

NaNo 2021 Day 1

Nov is for writing, Dec is for sharing

Probably should have been sharing these during November but better late than never, right? Tybee looked at the garden before him, and back at the tattoo parlor behind him. They did not match in any way. The vampires at the B&B had assured him that although the be-muraled brick building didn’t seem like much, it was the closest thing Riverside had to a fey house, since most traveling folks were…

View On WordPress

[raevenlywrites]

Foxes and Fate - Untitled Part 1 (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/mPAkTxDpt1 What happens when Lady Luck gets tired of being pushed around? She takes things into her own hands. Lia is looking for adventure. Tybee is looking for fun. Gil is looking for a way to bring Tybee home. And Fate? Fate is looking for a way to make them all dance on her strings. Set in Asylumverse, Shapeshifters, faeries, magic, LGTBQ , Polyamoury, sometimes NSFW (usually off screen)

[raevenlywrites]

Foxes and Fate - Gil/Gil (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/raPDbsieF1 What happens when Lady Luck gets tired of being pushed around? She takes things into her own hands. Lia is looking for adventure. Tybee is looking for fun. Gil is looking for a way to bring Tybee home. And Fate? Fate is looking for a way to make them all dance on her strings. Set in Asylumverse, Shapeshifters, faeries, magic, LGTBQ , Polyamoury, sometimes NSFW (usually off screen)

[raevenlywrites]

Happy STS!!! Tell me about one of your favourite scenes you've written recently and one that is a bit old!

Im in the middle of writing a scene with an ancient oak dryad who accepted Limnalia's offer to transplant him, so Im learning a lot about how dryads work.

An older one Im proud of is the Dreams of Desert interludes from my webserial, In Search of Asylum. Its full of evocative imagry and was just plain fun to write!

[raevenlywrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! In Search of Asylum... I hear there are vampires and werewolves there, what else?

vampire werewolves and faeries oh my!

Asylumverse started with a nest of dancers, single-form shapeshifter of all kinds from wolves to foxes to hawks and cobras. The villain of that tale was a demon, which introduced me to the larger world beyond the mortal sphere. Demons, dragons, enforces of divine will, and chimera of all kinds. This larger backdrop became a fertile ground for pretty much anything that might tickle my fancy: merfolk, faeries, dullahans, hobs, dryads, zombie pirates, and so much more :P

[raevenlywrites]

Foxes and Fate - Lia (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/cLGdY9S6c6 What happens when Lady Luck gets tired of being pushed around? She takes things into her own hands. Lia is looking for adventure. Tybee is looking for fun. Gil is looking for a way to bring Tybee home. And Fate? Fate is looking for a way to make them all dance on her strings. Set in Asylumverse, Shapeshifters, faeries, magic, LGTBQ , Polyamoury, sometimes NSFW (usually off screen)

Chapter 3 is up!

[raevenlywrites]

How Quartz became the new Eye of Newt

I feel like babbling, writeblr, so strap in for some Asylumverse witch lore.

So, once upon a time, travel was much harder than it is today. If you were lucky, everyone in your community had complementary skill sets, so you could ask Bessie for help with your herb enchantments and you could pay her back with some charged metals or whatever. If no one nearby did any fire work, youd just have to wait til a wandering traveler happened to come by with what you needed and hoped you could afford it--OR, you could brew a potion.

Not all potions were meant to be consumed internally, in fact, many weren't consumable at all. A large pot left out in the storm with jars in it was a potion for bottled lightning. A broom of certain herbs tied together and spun a certain way was a potion for wind magic. Some certainly were "brew this with that and drink or rub it here", but a potion was just the common vernacular for an affinity recipe, a way to harness a power not otherwise available to you.

Enter the modern era, and things from far away are easy to obtain--including people. Potions were still popular for a time (if nothing else because witch culture is loathe to depart from tradition) as new and more exotic ingredients could be more readily had. One of those ingredients was the crystal.

Suddenly, gems of various type, shape, and size were popping everywhere. Along with the new "witch shops" came the crystal craze. Especially quartzes. Easily programmable, available in a wide range of colors and sympathies, small and highly transportable, the crystal became the new catch all for power containment. You could leave a crystal out to catch lightning and not have to leave your cookpot out all night. You could condense your ingredient cabinet to a few trays of cleverly arranged (and aesthetically pleasing) gems. You could even *gasp* not keep a stockpile lying around, and just go buy things as needed.

The modern young witch uses crystals for everything. Potions have become the 1950's casseroles of the witching world. Young witches might use them out of nostalgia, or some weirdly ironic/hipster logic, but for the most part, potions are out, crystals are in.