Sep 4, 2025
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Would you consider tagging your books when you talk about them, or at least pinning a glossary of their titles or something? I have no idea what any of your books are called because 99% of the time you just refer to them by acronyms, and also I therefore have no way to remember which is which or what any of them are about or anything.
lmfao i literally just unpinned (last week) the giant writing catalogue post because it was a pain to scroll past when i wanted to look at my blog (and i didn't think anyone was getting any value out of it). i can repin it if people want it back (?)
I do actually pretty religiously tag my writing posts by project
fanfiction (primarily wheel inside a wheel) lives in #natalie writes convoluted fanfiction
in the shadow of heaven and related live in #natalie writes a web serial
whale novel lives in #natalie writes a whale novel
arcadis park lives in #natalie writes a web serial...2!
you may peruse [or blacklist] the tags at your leisure lol
it's kinda funny to compare Arcadis Park and Tomorrow Ye Will Get Your Pay. They are spiritually very similar
not science fiction
standalone novel
written in a short time period
got whales in it
"about" labor
also: the tourism industry
have an unusual and claustrophobic setting
they've got kinda a biblical theme going on, though AP is book of jonah and whale novel is genesis
secondary character has a B__y___ name lmfao (Bayleigh and Bryanne respectively)
whale novel really is AP's spiritual sequel. But it's funny like. whale novel is significantly better than AP. i guess that's what almost 5 years more of writing experience does for you (AP was my third? novel and whale novel is like my 13th or something, i don't really count).
it's not like AP is bad-- in many ways it represented a huge leap forward for me in terms of storytelling ability. i wrote it to prove to myself that i had fixed the absolutely nightmarish problems i had been having with pacing, and that I could write in a different genre than I had been, and i did prove those things! AP is-- if it's anything-- tightly written, and the mystery novel elements work alright I think. and i think the setting in AP is very real and vivid, and it's got some fun moments. but if you compare them side by side, you can immediately tell that whale novel was written by a much more mature writer in terms of ability. or at least i can. but maybe that's just b/c everybody in 2024 winces at their 2019 self a little bit lol
wettest protagonist
Yan (In the Shadow of Heaven)
Yang (Wheel Inside a Wheel)
Jonah (Arcadis Park)
Marcus and/or Amos (Tomorrow Ye Will Get Your Pay [whale novel])
a secret fifth option?
for the record: i am pretty reliable about tagging all my writing posts b/c i know that this is not something the vast majority of people care about. you should blacklist these tags ⬇
and the funny thing is that i LITERALLY ALREADY HAVE written a novel about
whales (sorta?)
your shitty tourism industry job absolutely killing you forever
it was called Arcadis Park and i wrote it in 2019 and it was a Teen Murder Mystery Novel lmfao. it was good for what it was (a novel written in a month) though it could use a second draft. but anyway that fact is making me feel like i'm doing a bit of weird idea recycling lol
it's funny-- i have given so many different characters tiny sprinklings of "noodle's home life growing up" but probably the place that gets closest to a physical description is in arcadis park, of all places lmao. jonah wylan the most self insert of all time
Noodle Cinematic Universe Masterpost
Relevant links: [discord] [personal website] [ao3] [art tag]
works in blue are projects that are in progress. all* others are complete.
MAJOR SERIES
A Wheel Inside a Wheel
Two refugees on opposite sides of a centuries long galactic war must find ways to survive in their adopted homelands, and eventually shape the universe in their own image.
"A Funeral Shroud for Laertes - A Preface to the Third Edition of A Wheel Inside a Wheel" - 1k
Speaking In Tongues - 70k
Talking Without Speaking - 77k
Life Out of Balance - 129k
"The World In Its Circular Way" - 11k
Servants of the Pharaoh - 173k
Whatever It Takes to Keep the Body Warm - 23k
Keep the Home Fires (Burning) - 32k
Lighting Out for the Territories - 147k
"Will the Real Mr. Bronner Please Stand Up?" - 2k
"First as Farce" - 1k
Serpent's Mouth, Serpent's Teeth- 331k
"And the Big Wheel Keep on Turning (Neon Burning Up Above)"
"Those Few Who've Slipped the Surly Bonds"
Every Link Was Freedom's Name
[Forthcoming] Lightless Labyrinth
[Forthcoming] Silent Spiral
Also available in Chinese! [Translation by ChiefAccelerator] [Translation by WTR]
Also available in Korean! [Translation by Zebi]
[tag where i post about it]
In the Shadow of Heaven
In a galaxy-spanning theocracy ruled by a select group of people with God-given telepathic abilities, even learning what is necessary to wield power comes at a great cost.
Standalone Prequel: Every Hateful Instrument
Book One: New Creatures With New Hearts (rewritten version) - 129k
Book Two: In the Realms of the Unreal (original version) - 329k
Book Three: The Eyes That See the Glory* (original version) - 278k
[tag where i post about it]
Standalone Novels
Arcadis Park - Contemporary YA Mystery - 67k
Struggling with unwanted responsibilities at her terrible summer job lifeguarding at a rundown amusement park, Jonah's life is only made worse when she pulls a severed head out of the pipes that feed the waterslides.
[tumblr tag]
The Children of This World Marry & Are Given In Marriage - Legend of the Galactic Heroes fic - 42k words
When Reinhard grows weaker, the duty to bear an heir to continue his dynasty falls to his sister. E26 canon divergence.
Last Gasp at Calama - a Downton Abbey / Legend of the Galactic Heroes crossover fic - 80k words
During the last court season before the outbreak of civil war, the boundaries between social classes are bent and broken.
Pictures of Decency - Legend of the Galactic Heroes fic - 45k words
When Yang returns from El Facil an overnight hero, he finds fame difficult to bear. As his personal life begins to fall apart, the distance between 'The Hero of El Facil' and 'Yang Wenli' becomes too great to cross.
Tomorrow Ye Will Get Your Pay** - Historical/Speculative Literary fiction - 91k words
In 2056, as the hottest summer ever recorded crushes New Bedford, a historical interpreter working on a museum ship becomes dangerously obsessed with the diary of a long-dead whaleman.
[tag]
Short Works
Original Short Fiction
"Vampires of the Sun or: Sudden Oak Death" - sf/horror - 3k
"A Thousand Lifetimes Away" - contemporary - 2k
"The Intestine of the Basilisk" - sf/horror - 4k
"MOLON LABE; Or, Come and Take Them" - contemporary - 5k
"The Trouble With Desire; Or, Protect Me From What I Want"- sf - 3k
Legend of the Galactic Heroes fic
"a friend is a friend (and we both know how this will end)" - 1k
"There Will Be No Divorce" - 4k
"Towards the Tail-End of an Age That's Almost Finished" - 9k
"Untouchable and Golden" - 4k
"Flashes and Phosphenes" - 4k
"A House Made Out of Beds" - 7k
"Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?" - 6k
"Point / Counterpoint" - 4k
"A White and Soundless Place" - 8k
"Untroubled by Comings and Goings of Men" - 8k
"Morituri Te Salutant" - 4k
"To Love That Well Which Thou Must Leave Ere Long" - 6k
"I've Seen the Future (I Will Never Be Repatriated)" - 3k
"Repairing the Ravages Made by Generosity Added to Love (Or: As In a Mirror, Dimly)" - 3k
"The Destruction of the Second Temple; or, We Accuse Genocide" - 8k
"That Which Remains In the Absence of a Confession" - 7k
"A War From Which There Is No Discharge" - 5k
"The Words, Graven In the Wall With a Nail, Were Still Legible in 1848" - 3k
"And This Is How You Can Be Walking and Falling at the Same Time" - 4k
"Unstable Mass of Blood and Foam" - 4k
"In That Rich Earth a Richer Dust Concealed" - 5k
"An Antidote for Strychnine" - 5k
"Attempting to Do Away With It Entirely, But Through Its Absence, Referring to It Indirectly" - 7k
"A Cathedral (In a Dream (of the Future))" - 11k
"The Other Side of the Looking Glass" - 4k
"You Who Come Demanding Proof: Let Your God Rebuild This Roof" - 9k
Other fanfic
[Les Mis] "One Might Almost Say: There Will Be No More Events" - 0.5k
[The Young Pope] "A City With No Children In It" - 1k
[Downton Abbey] "A Somewhat Larger Death, Indeed" - 3k
[Young Wizards] "Can You See That Young Star Overhead? That's the One That Designed My Undoing" - 6k
[2001: A Space Odyssey] "The Body Without Organs" - 2k
[Downton Abbey] "The Difference Between Grasping and Holding" - 2k
[Nightfall] "To Love the Stars More Fondly (And Not Be Fearful of the Night)" - 3k
[A Little Princess] "That Which Resembles the Grave-- But Isn't" - 1k
[Anne of Green Gables] "When I Was a Child, I Talked Like a Child, I Thought Like a Child, I Reasoned Like a Child." - 3k
[The Left Hand of Darkness] "Where Did the Future Go? Parts Unknown" - 7k
[Thoroughbreds (2017)] "The Difference Between Giving and Taking" - 9k
[The Irony of Fate (1975)] "The Train Sets Off; The Platform Remains Behind" - 1k
[I, Claudius (TV)] "The Anachronism of the Marmoset" - 2k
Nonfiction / Meta
How to Typeset a Book In Indesign
Blood, Water, and Alcohol: An Episode-by-Episode Analysis of Legend of the Galactic Heroes
So, You Want to Write Original Fiction and Post It Online? Here's What to Expect
Basic K40 Laser Process for Cutting and Engraving Wood
Simple guide to punctuating dialogue
*The Eyes That See the Glory is incomplete, and will not be finished until the rewritten version
**Tomorrow Ye Will Get Your Pay is done, but only the first two chapters are posted publicly. I wrote it for a fellowship, it's kinda a whole Thing.