#relevy

[the-knights-who-say-book]

I was like: who's this lurking and adding all my books on Wattpad... Oh! (Twas thou 👀)

yeah lol i want to read them when i finally return to my wattpad reads!

[alastaircarstairsdefenselawyer]

Read to Roll!

last august, bibliophilicwitch and relevy ran a challenge called Read to Roll that i thought was pretty fun! I decided that I wanted to do the challenge again, just for lulz. there’s no time restraints, just whenever I finish the books. look for me participating in any other dnd-themed reading challenges they do in the future, too! a description of my dnd character (shitty sims rendition of them included) along with the books I’ll be reading are under the cut, but go to those links for full details of the challenge!

here’s mal! their skin is a bit more gray, but sims doesn’t have very good grey skin tones. They’re a half-drow shadow sorcerer with a charlatan background. They wear a cloak and when they’re not casting spells they use a dagger! They were raised primarily by their drow mom after their human father was killed in retribution for their mom leaving her drow house, and they spent a lot of time on the run before their mom was inevitably killed as well. they’re a compulsive liar and kind of walk around with a cloud over their head, which is a fun dynamic when they’re running around with the chaotic-good-aligned bard and druid in their party or retiring for the night with the family that has more or less adopted them, the Abra family (on whom the Addams family is based).

here’s the books I’ll be reading!:

RACE: half-drow - book with a black cover

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

CLASS: sorcerer - something magical on the cover

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore

those are actually swans on the cover! (took me a while to figure it out lol)

BACKGROUND: charlatan - a book about criminals

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

WEAPONS: dagger - a book featuring assassins/rogues

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

ACCESSORIES: cloak - soft cover

Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau

Be on the lookout for my thoughts on all of these! I can’t wait to read them :)

[scouthearted]

HOLY SHIT YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON ALIVE I HAVE EVER MET (?) WHO KNOWS ABOUT HOLLOW KINGDOM.

AAAAAH RIGHT??? THE FANDOM IS SO SMALL AND I AM SO SAD ABOUT IT...

It’s my absolute favorite series of all time and I do a reread of all the books and all the short stories at least once a year. I really wish there were more people who knew about the series! I’ve tried to make my friends read them but have had very little luck with it hahaha!

Do you have a favorite book or short story?? Who’s your favorite character?? (I have to ask because I have literally never been able to talk about this with anyone before and I am VERY excited right now)

[raevenlywrites]

Happy STS! Do your characters celebrate birthdays or have any birthday rituals? If yes what and if no why not?

Birthdays are of extreme importance in the House of Stars and Moonlight, because of astrological birth charts. Heavenly alignments are etched lovingly into decorative glasses like mortal humans keep height and weight details framed in a baby book, but of course, these are much more useful. Knowing the signs and planets in their placements gives a lot of insight to a person. These charts are guarded as jealously as a True Name.

But also Tybee really loves cake and ice cream, and those funny party hats shaped like cones.

[mayvinwrites]

STS! What's something in your worldbuilding/setting that your character/s struggle with/against in their daily lives?

Thank you for the ask 💗

Thule is a military Island which is attacked quite often, so they are often forced to fight intruders. Thule is also in the arctic circle, so its dark most of the time at winter, making seeing their assailants harder.

And that’s really it for the main area they are in, as the earth/nature on the island is controlled by my protagonists sister.

This is definitely something to think about, maybe I could add more for extra conflict (I’ll decide after the first draft is written).

Thank you so much for the ask 😄 

[readingrobin]

Read to Roll Update!

Well that certainly was a quick one! I've been meaning to reread The Slow Regard of Silent Things and this readathon gave me the perfect opportunity. Auri is probably one of the most mysterious people in this series!

I heavily recommend the Kingkiller Chronicle to everyone I meet. It completely changed my understanding of stories and how they are told. There's definitely a cinematic quality to these books and its lends itself so easily to imagination.

This novella though? It breaks so many rules of storytelling, but in such an amazing way. Even the author warns in the introduction that this story would be a bit difficult to comprehend. But, to me, I saw so much of myself in this book. Hell, it even made me care about the well-being of a gear!

If you're still on the fence or unaware of these books, check them out if you have the chance!

(Also, a little Hogwarts House plug because my character, Rubio, is a MAJOR Slytherin. Ambitious little goat man, he is.)

[howdywrites]

STS! What's something in your worldbuilding/setting that your character/s struggle with/against in their daily lives?

Thank you for the STS ask! ❤️

I don’t have a lot of world building to do because all of my WIPs take place in our world with made up town names. However, I don’t know about back in 1874 but Texas has some wicked summer heat and my western takes place right in the middle of it! So that’s unfortunate for my characters lol

[aschenink]

8 people I’d like to know better tag

I was tagged by @theguildedtypewriter and @ramblingsofabourbondrinker, thank you both so much! 💖

ONE /  name / alias: I generally go by as Veronica, my real name, or Asch, my alias. I’ll answer to anything, though--people tend to mix up V names (ie. Victoria/Vanessa/Veronica--I’ve met a number of Veronicas who’ve had the same struggle) and it’s made me truly indifferent to what I’m called lol

TWO  /  birthday: January 25th

THREE  /  zodiac sign: Aquarius sun, Taurus moon, Aries rising 😘

FOUR / height: 5′4.5″

FIVE / hobbies: Writing, for sure, although at this point that’s also partially an ideal career and an obsession. But also reading, video games, and eating cooking!

SIX / favorite colors: Purples, teals/cyans/green-blues, and grays.

SEVEN / favourite books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is my all-time favorite, and Nabokov’s The Defense is also one of my dear favorites, as are the First Law Trilogy & The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B McCormick and Susan Fischer-Hoch, and pretty much any other epidemiological book I’ve ever touched are also faves that I can never get enough of. 

EIGHT /  last song listened to: Funny Little Creatures by Nothing More

NINE / last film watched: I honestly don’t watch many movies, but the last one I watched beginning to end was Night School lmao

TEN / inspiration for muse: Everything. Absolutely everything. Nature / weather / mythology / music / other characters / real people / etc., I’m constantly refilling my well of inspiration.

ELEVEN / dream job: Full time author who can afford her mortgage? Yes. But I’m also very, very enthusiastic about the idea of working in the field of biodefense/biosecurity. 

TWELVE / meaning behind your URL: Asch is my pen-name, and I’ve always been--admittedly arbitrarily--drawn to including ink in my usernames, so I settled with aschenink sort of as a play on asch/ash. In hindsight I wish I’d just gone basic with aschwrites or something, but I’m way too deep into this to bother changing my url now, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tagging (feel free to ignore): @relevy @maxsigmon @vviciously @roselinproductions @owlsofstarlight @junglewrites @toboldlywrite @emilymustwrite