#untitled 3

[tc-doherty]

IT'S DONE

79,541 words!

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| 26/09/25 | ✨💫 Samskeyti

Sigur Rós orchestral in Paris. Cried my eyes out. Two hours and 15 mins of goosebumps. 10/10

[changecomesinlikealion]

Untitled #3

Am I a monster or is this what it means to be me? Is it both? I fear I have lost myself in the tides of my self illusion. Self grandeur or self deprecation? Oh god it’s both, I am both. I am death. I am infected. I am infected. I am infected. I am and have been trapped in this eternal cycle of losing myself to what I am. Sorry, I mean, to what I think I am. These days it feels like I’m saying sorry too much, sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry don’t be mad at me. Please. I’ll swallow myself to please you. A chronic exaggerator, masterful lier, expert pleaser, I’m a pitiful human existence. It’s always I guess and I guesses and I think and likes with me. I know I’m annoying. I get sentences and words stuck and my mind stuck too often. Sorry that’s a lie. (I am a walking plague). They don’t get stuck, they dominate me, drown me, and then I repeat. And repeat. And repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat repeat repeat repeat  repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat. FUCKKKKK GET ME OUT OF THIS HELL OF MINE THAT IS NEITHER MINE NOR OTHERS / / / / /The "Untitled #x" series is something very dear to me, and also something that I hold with contempt. They're poems written in one short session of intense, often fleeting, emotion. And often after I've written them I sit there with no resolution to this *thing* I've just created that was the cause of so much emotion

They're also poems I'm reluctant to reread and change after the emotion has passed, because I have the urge to hug my past self and modify the poem to give it a more gentle ending, I'm feeling that right now. But the emotion stood strong for a moment there, and while I did write a gentle ending at the time I did choose to not include it and I shall stand by that decision. In other poems I'd pay no mind to modifying them after they're done, but not here, not with this series.

[hudsoncross]

[homeo-stories]

OCeptember Day 9: Design/story regrets

I don’t have much that could be described as a “regret” with my stories (because so little is concrete about anything I do that I just change stuff I don’t like) but there is one fucky thing I did once; I inexplicably gave two unrelated characters the same name, at around the same time. But spelled differently. Why? Not sure.

Two-N’s Quin(n) isn’t really what I’d call an active character though, so this gets to stay. I just have to make sure I don’t misspell one-N Quin.

[anincantationofstories]

Be merciful until you can’t be. Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.   Then use that bullet.

Clementine von Radics, “Untitled 3″ from Mouthful of Forevers

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[tc-doherty]

for the ask game you reblogged from me: 3 for Miracles, 11 for Untitled 3, and 13 for Kingschild, please!!!

~Morri (@memento-morri-writes)

@memento-morri-writes

Thanks! A trifecta, huh? Alright!

(3) pick a branching universe you would enjoy writing from the canon of Miracles — a character makes a different choice, the dice roll a different number, etc. describe what it would look like and/or write 100+ words in this universe.

There are actually relatively few choices in Miracles, and almost everything that could be different leads to a bad ending lmao

If Larkin had just been a little less self-conscious, there is a point in time where he could have either listened to Arishen or asked him for help. Larkin was quite rude to Arishen and so he felt too embarrassed to ask him for help later, but Arishen isn't the kind of person who minds that sort of thing. He would've sent Larkin back to the mortal world which would've been good for Larkin but ultimately would mean that all of the characters were completely stagnant and nothing about Arishen's situation would've changed at all.

Still, everything remaining as is probably is the least bad ending out of the possible bad endings.

(11) is there is anything intangible or inanimate in Untitled 3 which qualifies as a character in its own right? (ex: a specific theme, setting, etc)

I think the closest possible thing is that Anrikas and Kit are under the effects of a geas. This is largely unknown by them for the majority of the story and so is not explicitly pointed out in the narration, but it does have a guiding hand in a lot of their behaviors. But since it's something which is very low-key and mostly manipulating them without being noticed by anyone, I don't know if it actually counts.

There's also certainly a theme about what it means to live under your family's shadow which is present throughout the entire book.

(13) which aspects of worldbuilding in Kingschild are your favorites? (if not applicable: which parts of the setting interest you most?)

I like the Eternal Forest! I always love writing about magic forests and I do it over and over and over again but this one is particularly freaky to me. It's such an alien setting, but so strong that it forcibly shapes you into a form that can exist within it, both physically and spiritually. I dealt with a similar theme in a book that is at least temporarily shelved (Coyote Song) so it was fun to come back to the idea! Creatures always evolve to fit their environments, but with the Eternal Forest you don't have a choice. You will evolve.

In Coyote Song the changes that were happening to the characters reverse as soon as they cross the boundary into their own reality again. In Kingschild it's a much more difficult process to save someone, and it often isn't even possible after more than a few days. A lot of things need to come together if someone is going to be able to cross back into the human world.

But I won't go too much into what that process entails given that it's the entire focus of the book :3c

I'm playing this ask game~