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gian ciceli if he had even the smallest teeny tiniest ounce of swag

so this is roughly the setting of the hands of god.........i think i want to put mizzene in that strait above perusia because the idea of being hemmed in by non-byzantine territory on either side works VERY well thematically 👁️ i should check how hilly it is there tho

#mizzene #pip squeaks #posting this for archiving purposes or whatever. i need to Remember

wip intro post!

so i'm currently actively working on a few main books (but i have a lot more that are just milling about in my head so expect this list to grow)

The Hands of God: Set in a vaguely Byzantine Italian town named Mizzene, this story is narrated by Gian, the son of the ruling family of the area. As various characters, passing by, stop in Mizzene, he and his older sister deal with private desire and despair. Then a devastating disease sweeps the town and Gian is forced to watch tragedy after tragedy unfold, unable to stop any of it. I have elsewhere explained this WIP as "desire + large numbers of people coming and going + nothingness Outside = a lack of disease so stark that it becomes disease in and of itself" and I think that sums up the themes of the story pretty well. tag: #mizzene Merlin Motors (working name): Set in an alternate London in the 1920s in which a fanatical cult competes with an immortality-obsessed airship magnate to be the first to awaken the ancient, powerful gods lying dormant beneath a mysterious monolith in the centre of Westminster. tag: #fitzgerald Honourable Dishonour (working name): An epistolatory novel in which two powerful politicians and advisors to the king fall in love and conspire to end the brutal monarchy together with the Crown Prince, the King’s favourite concubine and a kitchen maid. tag: #honour, #cyrelius Favour Fire (working name): A story inspired by the X-Files 1x12 (Fire) which centers around a butch lesbian named Kit, her twin brother Jasper and their elusive, beautiful mother, Elsie. 50% light-hearted bildungsroman, in which Kit and Jasper each have their own silly romance story and their new neighbour, a man recently fired from the police force, falls for their mother, and 50% ghost story, in which the image (and, eventually, the heat) of a young man who, long ago, burned himself alive in Elsie's front garden, having been rejected by her, starts to haunt both Elsie and her children, the story explores themes of tradition/social rules and structure, destruction, love, gender and queerness. tag: #favour fire De Oblito Oratore: A story set in the Late Roman Republic centred around a young man named Marcus Fabius Florus. Florus is obsessed with the ideal of the Roman military and, by extension, is infatuated with one soldier named Quintus Rufius Albinus, who is the other main narrator of the story. The plot follows Florus who, seeking to improve his terrible oratorical skills, stumbles upon a mysterious teacher and becomes a vessel for powers neither he nor anyone around him can quite comprehend but which burn holes in his life, in the city and even in his own speeches. tag: #orastory Other tags: #dwightgar (important wip i just can’t explain it) #anya's diner (beautiful short story from a weird ass dream lala had) #running water (new wip!!!! will give this a summary soon) #poetry (self-explanatory) #creative writing (for projects that aren't linked to my main wips) #my ocs (for general oc stuff) #roland hall, #the sherringtons (a wip thats on hold rn but which i might still take back up) #sst, #odikleos (abandoned wips)

im gonna add all the tags to this post for ease of navigation so just click on one if youre curious!! theyre usually a mixture of posts that remind me of the wip, me talking about the wip and, on occasion, snippets of my writing

#honour #cyrelius #fitzgerald #roland hall #the sherringtons #favour fire #mizzene #dwightgar #sst #odikleos #orastory #running water #anya's diner #poetry #creative writing #my writing #my ocs

alsoooooooooo... ik this would take a long while to do but. for your ocs whose names do have meanings... pray tell. divulge them upon me PLEASE

MOST of them arent significant at all im afraid 💔 however the surname of the main family of my mizzene wip is 'ciceli' which i pulled out of my ass (it doesnt exist) but ive decided it comes from the latin surname 'caecilius' which comes from the adjective 'caecus' which means 'blind.' which is SO fitting oh my god.

#pip squeaks #my ocs #mizzene

thinling about incorporating some kind of christian/pagan clash in the hands of god. its rhe theme of the Outside again but this time its spiritual or divine 👁️👁️

#thinking about marcels fervent knight errant era #pip squeaks #mizzene

also like. to be clear i call him silly while very aware hes in a deeply fucked up situation. its all about being trapped etc etc etc

#and in his case hes the 'disease bearer' hes the sacrifice victim to save the town!!! and its not even his fault!!!! its not even his fault.#something something THERE WAS NO ROT!!!!!!!!!!!!#pip squeaks #mizzene

leandra is sooo silly to me because like. yes hes a teenage boy stuck in a messed up relationship with this old man whos also the patron of the troupe hes a member of etc etc. but hes also a freak entirely separate to that

#and deeply gay of course. i do love him dearly i need to explore his character more.........especially how he feels about gian. i think he #wants gian to help him escape and he knows gian is drawn to him but beyond that......does he fall in love too or what???? hm #pip squeaks #mizzene