So I have... a few things I need to do for Stars of the Sky. A lot of which is stuff that happens in the background in a story over the story itself. So I am choosing to seek outside motivation because my brain hasn't given me the appropriate motivation otherwise.
So this is a notes game/challenge thing.
You can spam as much as you want to. I won't limit any one person to a certain number of notes. But for that reason, I will be starting this at a bit higher number so one person doesn't just zoom me through all the things. (Though I won't complain about that either-)
30 notes - Work on information for Family Lines
45 notes - Work on information for Mating Bonds
60 notes - Work on information for Mating Bands
75 notes - Draw Hades' parents mating bands
90 notes - Work on Hades' Character Information
105 notes - Draw Hades' parents family line rings
120 notes - Work on information for the Magic System
140 notes - Work on information for the Ancient Gods
160 notes - Work on information for Settings
180 notes - Work on the History
200 notes - Work on the Lore
220 notes - Work on information for Other Characters
240 notes - Work on Naming Conventions
260 notes - Work on Family Information
280 notes - Work on Foods
300 notes - Work on Clothing
320 notes - Work on Animals
340 notes - Draw Hades for her Intro
360 notes - Outline Stars of the Sky
Also reblogs will count as ten notes (because I don't want this to be painful-)
Comments will equate to five notes
Likes are one note
I've never done this before so I don't know if this will ever get to be considered finished-
I've been around consistently since April, and I think It's about time I updated my intro post!
I'm Nightmaricwriter, though I usually use Nightwriter to refer to myself. Others have called my Nightmare and Night, and I don't mind being called such. Sometimes I try to play into my Nightmare name, but that's rare. I'm twenty years old and I attend a university, where I'm working to get a Creative Writing Major. You can find me on AO3!
My previous intro post claimed that my writing journey began with original fiction, which... I think is a half truth. I began writing around third grade and it started original but eventually became Warrior Cat fanfiction. Don't ask how that happened. However, I didn't truly love writing until a sixth grade assignment in which I had to write a story on a single notebook paper... which turned into a thirty-three notebook paper long story complete with a brief intermission talking about the characters in the middle, I believe. I don't think I have that story anymore. I've been reading obsessively since third grade as well, and you can guess the book series that got me hooked.
I'm a writer. That's what I am and will always be. With that statement, I have to introduce my writing, don't I?
Writing
I write fantasy stories. I like the escape that fantasy can bring, and so that is what I write. However, to practice writing, I write fanfiction. I explore character ideas, magic system ideas, even backstory ideas, within fanfiction if I don't create a character specifically for fanfiction.
Stars of the Sky
My original story, which is my current focus! It is my spin of the idea of names holding power, fantasy, with a magic system my older brother claims is backwards, and a female protagonist who may or may not be a bit too strong at the moment. Hades leaves her Clan to learn more ways to fight as a way to better protect her Clan, which takes her all over Reaki either on missions or to thwart a reversal of an ancient event.
Tags I use for Stars of the Sky
-sots: stars of the sky, which is my tag for official Stars of the Sky posts that are relatively canon.
-sots: world building, which is my tag for posts regarding the general world in Stars of the Sky, such as the naming conventions.
-sots: character information, which is the tag for character information and what I use for ask/tag game responses that have canon or canon compliant information.
-sots: lore, which is the tag for the lore and history of the world in Stars of the Sky.
-sots: setting, which will be used in posts regarding locations in Stars of the Sky.
-sots: shenanigans, which is for when I write something random within the real of Stars of the Sky and wish to share it.
-stars of the sky, which I use for every post regarding Stars of the Sky. My general use tag. The oldest posts of Stars of the Sky have this tag, while the previously mentioned tags are newer implementations.
I have a side blog specifically for Stars of the Sky information! @stars-of-the-sky-nightwriter
I have a Naming Conventions series for this going out!
There's a collection of Soft Moments in the lives of SotS characters!
A Court of Death and Ruination
This is ACOTAR fanfiction in which I threw Hades, the protagonist of Stars of the Sky into ACOTAR. I explore her abilities, actually writing her, the magic system that is present in Stars of the Sky, and a few other things. Updates every Monday! The master list for this is here!
The main tag for this is
nightwriter: a court of death and ruination, though I also use
nightwriter a court of death and ruination for this. These tags appear on every chapter release as well as posts with information more specific to this, though older posts of this category belong to the tag below.
nightwriter fanfiction is also used for this, but this is my general use tag for fanfiction.
Random Writing Thing
This is me writing a story, but not in the way I normally do it. Each post I put in this is not a full part. It's just a scene that feels important to the story, but lacks connective tissue between other parts, unless I write the next scene immediately. The posts are, so far, written chronologically, but that may change.
This story is very much a dystopia. It is set vaguely in the midwest, the world has collapsed, there are these monsters that feed on human emotions, and warriors who use their lack of emotions to fight. Each post adds to the worldbuilding, lore, aspects, and such all while following Reave. This story is ever growing and ever expanding.
You can find the posts for this under my nightwriter random writing thing tag
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Some of my favorite lines that I've written!
Finished Fanfiction
Rayven In Demon Slayer
Honored Mutuals
@bardic-tales has cool world building posts for their (I would use her, but it seems there's multiple people in that system and I don't want to offend) Fantasy Worlds Collide work, and they often reblog cool images and posts regarding self shipping and writing, I believe. There's a lot to be found with them and they are quite the cool mutual to have.
@shepardstales has fun ideas for what she might write, even if she gets writer's block, and her diamond painting progress is cool to see. Also fun to interact with!
@kingragnarok-writes has a series, The Heralds of Blood (which he posts chapters of weekly (on Sundays)), which I might not look at but it is cool to learn about the background of! He also reblogs writing related posts, cool images for inspiration, and positive posts!
@ominous-faechild is a chaotic gremlin, but also writes things! Most of my interaction with them was them being an art anon. They write a series? Story? called Faerie's Dawn! Heck if I know when they update.
@keeping-writing-frosty writes interesting things and is fun to interact with! I might not always read his stuff, but that doesn't mean he writes poorly so check him out.
@of-potions-and-blades-official has a blog dedicated to their wip, Of Potions and Blades. I haven't poked around at their wip itself, but they reblog things related to writing and I think that's cool!
@corinneglass is my favorite ghost mutual and I'm always excited to see her around. She's a ghost only because of Tumblr, but she's a fun ghost!
Mutuals have their own tagging system now! More for organization than anything else.
Mutuals can request to be added to the shout outs here!
Mutuals are free to dump information (about stories or anything) in my messages!
Those are just a few mutuals and more will be added later.
Hobbies
I write as a hobby, sometimes, but writing is slowly becoming more of just what I do. I read for fun, listen to music for fun, sometimes watch a movie, and I watch anime for fun! A few of the anime I have watched are MHA, Demon Slayer, Haikyuu, Black Butler, Jujutsu Kaisen, a bit of Attack on Titan, Ouran High School Host Club, Nanbaka, and a few others. I also draw sometimes!
Fun Facts
-I am biromantic asexual. Screw the sexual parts of relationships, but I'll go for both genders :> Due to this, many of my characters are on the queer spectrum since I write what I want and no one can stop me. I might have a poor romantic history but that means nothing.
-I have a terrible sleep schedule. It gets absurd.
-I am slightly autistic. It's there enough to affect me--screw the sound electricity makes when it is trying and failing to turn something on--but not there enough for me to recognize how it affects me fully.
-There was a Gaza scam. Here are my thoughts from when it was around.
Tags I use
nightwriter, which I use for every post I make. I do not use it for reblogs.
nightwriter writes, which I use for posts regarding my writing.
nightwriter draws, which I use for posts with my drawings in them.
nightwriter wip, which I use for writings in progress.
nightwriter fanfiction, which I mentioned previously.
nightwriter reblogs, for the rare time when I reblog the writing of others. Otherwise, reblogs aren't tagged.
nightwriter asks, which I use for asks I answer.
nightwriter polls, which I use for polls I make.
nightwriter shares, for when I reblog posts of friends.
nightwriter cat time, which I used when visiting home and taking images of the cats.
nightwriter college time, which I use for talking about my experience attending a university.
nightwriter art anon arc?, which I used when there was a wild @ominous-faechild hiding in anon and being chaos.
nightwriter messes around, is self explanatory.
nightwriter music tastes?, when I talk about random music things.
nightwriter out of context, for when I post about things without giving context.
nightwriter ponders, when I wonder things.
nightwriter paper break, which I used for when I was taking a break from writing a paper. Might use again.
nightwriter randomly reblogs, which explains itself.
nightwriter reflects?, when I think about things from the past.
nightwriter rants, when I rant about random things.
nightwriter reads, which I use when I talk about what I'm reading.
nightwriter rambles, which is a the same as the rant tag, but for when I just ramble.
nightwriter sprouts nonsense, which explains itself.
nightwriter struggles, for when I am struggling.
nightwriter tagged, I think I used this when I was tagged?
nightwriter writing pains, when I am hurting due to writing.
nightwriter writing advice, when I've found writing advice.
nightwriter panders to the faechild, for when I try to appease the chaos gremlin that is @ominous-faechild when I like their stuff without reading even though the glimpses of their writing I get is amazing and people should check it out.
nightwriter mutual shenanigans, for when I have shenaniganary with my mutuals.
nightwriter questions herself, which I use when I am pondering writing something but have yet to commit.
See here for the introduction to the Naming Conventions
Section Written by: Draconi Writer, Obsi-di'an
It is an ancient practice to name a child after the Ancient Gods. Most believe—my apprentice included—that this act does nothing more than give the child a God's Name, but there's more to it than just a name. This ultimate form of worship, as Clans believe doing this to be, affects the child in ways that are hard to record. This writing that you read is not all that is known about these children who are named after the Ancient Gods, or God-Named, as is right to call them. This is the information deemed acceptable for the public to know. We'll refer to the God-Named as Named as needed.
Firstly, God-Named possess particular traits that are visible to everyone. Their eyes are a solid color, the color dependent on the God they are Named after. Then is the race specific traits that are different. Named humans have slightly pointed ears, while Named Fae have rounded ears—as though these races cut the tips of their ears and exchange them. The Fae ears are still long, but are rounded. Named Centaurs have odd patterns, such as stripes, instead of the patches of color on their horse halves. Named Draconi have horns that curve instead of the usual straight horns. Named Werewolves have their gendered sizes swap in their transformed state, with males being smaller and females being larger. Werefelines, whose gendered forms are opposites of werewolves, have their females being smaller and their males being larger.
Secondly, God-Named are physically stronger than their Unnamed counterparts. Not only in strength and endurance, but also in aspects like healing speed and poison resistance. The differences vary depending on what their Name is, but are notable. They also appear to be more durable in some cases. Not in the way that Draconi compared to humans are, but in the sense that Named shrug injuries off that Unnamed—those not named after the Ancient Gods— of their race don't usually.
Thirdly, Named live much longer than their Unnamed counterparts. They live at least one-hundred and fifty years, with only four Gods granting their Named lifespans over three hundred years.
The highest concentration of Named happen within Clans. This is because they are the ones who worship the Ancient Gods the most. They Name once every ten or so years, and the Name they choose is usually determined by the month. Their farmers will always Name their children after Demeter, no matter what Naming Cycle it is.
As previously mentioned, God-Named have unique eye colors. These colors are highly determined by their Gods. Below is the God, the Eye Color, and their lifespan noted for humans.
Aphrodite, Violet eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred fifty-three years.
Apollo, Dark Purple Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred eighty-five years.
Ares, Metallic Gray Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred seventy-seven years.
Artemis, Midnight Blue Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred fifty years.
Athena, Olive Green Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred seventy-seven years.
Demeter, Bread Crust Brown Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred fifty-five years.
Dionysus, Wine Red Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred eighty years.
Eros, Red Rose Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred sixty-nine years.
Hades, Black Obsidian Eyes, Lifespan of at least five hundred years*.
Hephaestus, Bright Orange Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred sixty years.
Hera, Periwinkle Eyes, Lifespan of two-hundred and four years.
Hermes, Strawberry Red Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred ninety-two years.
Hestia, Lilac Purple Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred fifty-one years.
Nike, Gold Eyes, Lifespan of one-hundred seventy-eight years.
Nyx, Starry Eyes, Lifespan of two-hundred and thirteen years.
Persephone, Light Pink Eyes, Lifespan of three hundred years.
Poseidon, Sea Green Eyes, Lifespan of three-hundred and two years.
Zeus, White Eyes, Lifespan of three-hundred and sixteen years.
*The oldest I've seen a Hades-Named human live was five hundred years. However, he died to a genocidal event and therefore there is no record of how old a Hades-Named's natural lifespan is.
The lifespans are based on my own observation mixed with the observations of other Draconi tribes and the collective records of all of Reaki's Draconi Tribes. The eye colors are true of every instance of Named, down to the exact shade. There are no other Gods who influence physical features the way the Ancient Gods do. There are no other Gods whose names do anything similar.
The physical abilities of Named are influenced by the Gods which they are Named after, however this difference is fairly consistent and hard to claim that one God grants more strength than the others. Named are just physically superior than the Unnamed, and that is that. It is suspected that this is related to why the Named have lengthened lifespans, but there's no correlation between their lifespans and the strength they present.
If you wish to learn more about the God-Named, you must be willing to climb the highest mountains of Reaki for direct answers. No further information will be written about them, not to be spread in books, following the mass genocide of God-Named over five hundred years ago. Such an event erased the world's information on the Named, and I—and the other Draconi—believe it is for the best that the world lost that information.
