Many of you know me as an ACOTAR writer, but my first fics were for different fandoms in 2016. I went on a long writing hiatus because life happened, but in 2023 I read "The Song of Achilles" and it inspired me to write again. This was my first fic back after that hiatus, and I've finally finished the last chapter.
My style has changed a lot since I started this fic, and I've grown as a writer immensely. It's exciting and humbling to see where I started back in 2016, where I restarted in 2023, and where I'm at now in 2024.
"A Place Eternal" follows Patroclus and Achilles as the reunite in the underworld with the help of Hades and Persephone. If you're interested and would like to start reading it for the first time, you can start at the beginning with Chapter 1: Arrival. If you've been waiting for the final installment, here is a link to Chapter 7: Reunited.
I've posted a small snippet from the first chapter below. Thank you all for being a part of my journey.
When he finally arrived underground, Patroclus was breathless. Literally of course, but figuratively as well for what he saw before him was unlike anything he had ever expected. The underworld was dark, yes, but he didn’t know that it could also be beautiful.
A river was flowing next to him, so unlike the rivers he’d spent the past ten years next to in Troy. For even in death, the souls that swam within it were brimming with the stories of their lives. So many stories. Ones of passion and pain like his own, but also ones of simple pleasure. Stolen moments of the world above forever remembered as they flowed through this dark chasm, lighting the walls all around with their vibrancy.
He gasped slightly, his jaw falling slack as for one moment his mind was distracted from his purpose. In awe of the motion he realized that he had form again, had the ability to articulate and move with purpose. Not just that, he felt the motion of his body. It was disconcerting after the time he spent a mere wisp waiting for his name to be recorded so he could pass on to this next world. Watching the river he heard a deep male voice from behind him,
“We’ve been expecting you.”
Turning frantically hoping to see his love, but knowing the voice was not his, Patroclus was shocked to see Hades and Persephone watching.
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I feel like most of you lovelies probably followed me for the Bayonetta art, but I draw a myriad of other things too! For instance this lovely siren lady that i designed awhile back for a YouTube video.
PS-Before sirens became the mermaid-esque creatures we know today, they were depicted to be more like harpies, woman with the beards and bird bodies that sang their eerie songs to trick sailors into their talons. :3
So I gave her flying fish fins as well as albatross wings, kind of mixing the two versions of the lore together.
