Ahoy nerds (affectionate), I'm Steph, she/they lesbian from the wettest climate in Canada, legal adult for longer than I'd like to admit, and procrastinator extraordinaire. I've been writing for 87% of my life, and my genre of choice is some unholy combination of fantasy and sci-fi, and please know that anything I write is gonna be about women!
AND GAY!
I'm always open for tag games (if you want on or off my tag list for that, it's over here), and I absolutely do not mind if anyone decides not to participate! Tag games are supposed to be for funsies, so DO NOT feel pressured to respond to them in a timely manner, or at all!
Aside from all that, the WIPs I rotate around in my mind the most are the following:
The Silent Island of Crow
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Pulled together by a force in another reality, a bunch of strangers are drawn to a secluded island, where they will be faced with enemies from both their pasts and their futures. Started life as an RP forum between me and ten other people.
The Island of Crows
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A reboot of the Silent Island that my best friend and I are working on, only with a little more thought and care put into it than the original.
The Starcrossed Cycle
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Two strangers who never should have met journey together across a dangerous land, and discover that their connection runs deeper than even they realize.
Abyssal Scrutiny
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Like something out of a super sentai, a group of people are granted powers from a mysterious source, which they use to fight the eldritch abominations that have suddenly begun appearing.
Fragment 48
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A college student spots and immediately loses sight of a beautiful woman at a party, and very quickly finds herself obsessing over learning who this woman is.
We Are But Smoke and Shadow
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A vigilante is tasked with infiltrating the royal palace to see if the twin heirs to the throne are as corrupt as their father, or if they will be suitable puppets for the anti-monarchy rebellion.
We Stand Between the Shackle and the Noose
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A woman stolen from her colony world is thrown into a mecha combat tournament, where an enigmatic stranger encourages her to fight for the top spot.
My posting is... sporadic at best (lol whoops), and IRL bullshit has been known to force me into unplanned hiatuses now and again, so I can make no promises in regards to consistency. If any of the above sounds like your cup of tea, feel free to give me a follow!
because my friends are the best and there is a heatwave coming up that will prevent me from gaming right when i was gifted a game, I will now dedicate all weekend to editing and hopefully be done next week to resubmit my debut novel to the publisher. Gosh.
Many thanks to @akiwitch and the besties @lurakha and @pheita for their continued emotional support as my brain pingpongs between 'AM I MAKING IT WORSE' and 'HURT THE CHARACTERS MORE YESSS'
I will make a proper author side blog public and share it here when the time comes, i'm pretty confident in how it's going atm!
So I absolutely dropped off the face of the earth. Let's list why:
College finals
College Move out
Oklahoma trip
New internship
Dog died
Grandma-sitting
Cousin-sitting
Another trip
And now that all of that is done, I guess I'm back? I'm going to try and reblog as much as I can. I'm bound to forget a few things but I'll try to get everything I was tagged in. As of right now, I will only be doing the tag games I'm truly interested in! So if you tag me in a game don't be sad if I don't participate!
To my beloved mutuals and followers: my writeblr intro will receive an update in the coming weeks, where I'll add some new WIPs I've been working on, archive older projects for future continuation and talk about the future of this blog + shoutout about my art comissions opening!
[image description: on a background of large, green leaves, a white serif font reads “dairy whiskey – update 05” / end id]
feels so weird to say this, but this is the last update for dairy whiskey – the litfic novel for messed up people (aka me and my pals)
the stats, the facts:
i finished writing this book on 28/06/2023 around 4:00 am
the first draft rests at 76,684 words
this book has ten chapters and ten vignettes
i am deeply sorry to dinah for all the pain i’ve caused her
i miss this book so much already that i cannot sit a minute without thinking about it
i am officially a wreck. a proud one regardless.
i also have a few goodies for y’all!
the dairy whiskey playlist
redeemed by ransom – the dairy whiskey chapbook
unsplash collection
if you think i’m obsessed with my book, yes, i am. i very much am i most likely will be for a long time (if not the rest of my life).
fun fact: i finished writing it a day before my twentieth birthday, so it’s officially the book i wrote through my late teens. gonna be super emo and say, “i grew up with this book!”
so, again, welcome to the final update for dairy whiskey, covering the last three chapters and vignettes.
excerpts and taglist under the cut.
disclaimer: this is an original work of fiction. plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated.
TWs:
chapter eight – mahalath leannoth
i’ve got two excerpts to share from this chapter. they’re super no-context, you know the drill.
The door to the room had been open, so I stumbled in, rosary in hand. Safety pins were scattered on the bed, some of them bent from pressure. The windowpane and the tiles next to it were covered in talcum powder. On the dressing table were two glasses of black coffee, its dry stain in rings on the bottom of it. It smelled of sweat and American body mist. One of the two pillow covers had been burned with an iron box, leaving an eye-shaped hole in the middle. Curly hair patterned the floor. Among those, like the promised silver lining in a dark cloud, I found it – a white strand of hair, thin, wavy, and membraned in cobwebs.
welcome back, grandma. bye again.
the next excerpt is another one of the thousand melodramatic emotional experiences that dinah goes through.
Nothing made noise. Every lone thing that had been alive and blooming in the village had died. Every land was barren, every river was flooding, every beautiful thing had turned to dust. Every face only a blur and every sound, a cry for help. Everything bleak and bleached, everything lost. Everything was gone and yet, the lives of everyone else remained the same; remained unchanged. Every family untouched but mine. All of them fortunate but mine. Everybody in their nests but me, a raven, flying about the village with a song in its head. It had come from nowhere, cutting through my silence, and it would stay forever as a muffled hum. A somber cry.
it actually runs a bit longer but yeah. that will be it for now.
vignette eight – lover’s vengeance
no excerpts from this chapter. enjoy the silence.
chapter nine – womb stain
teeny tiny excerpt from this one because i can never really shut up.
Mist covered the plantation and the road to the house. It rested in like a chiffon skirt.
vignette nine – vortex of wrath
we’re back with austin vignettes and pretty pretty prose for this pretty pretty boy.
Austin has been both abyss and mirrorball, but today, he is reborn in dirt. He is human more than he is boy. More than an accumulation of lessons and silences forced into place. Today, he is free, his wings unclipped, his fire unleashed. Today, he is lover. His ribs are knives sharpened against the metallic ring of revenge. His hands, mapped with fury, make love with sin. Today, he is man more than he is son. He is tide. He beats against the shore. Today, he takes in a sweep.
this goes on for another half an hour (more or less) because austin is everybody’s favourite and he deserves the world.
chapter ten – wine hearts
only one excerpt from this chapter too.
I woke up in the afternoon with pain piercing through my head. I sat up in bed, clutching chunks of hair in my fists. I buried my head in the pillow and groaned, but the pain remained. I got up and went to the bathroom. I turned the shower on and stood under it, the water, cold despite the sun, falling on my skin. My skin melted under it like a glacier, heat escaping every pore that had trapped it in. I lathered shampoo into my hair and soap onto my skin. I washed myself clean, brushed my teeth, and dried my hair with a towel. I wiped my body with another and changed into a fresh pair of clothes – an olive-green T-shirt and a creme long skirt.
also runs longer and talks about more things dinah does that are… ahem… unfortunately relevant to the (no) plot.
vignette ten – the beginning and the end
so, this is a vignette i might actually take out. i like how the story ends without it and kinda feel like this doesn’t fit that well, but we’ll see about that next month when i sit down for edits.
until then, that’s it! that’s my book! big thanks to everyone who supported me throughout the process of writing it. hope y’all get to hold this in your hand real soon!
My blog turns 4 years old today! I didn't even realize its anniversary was coming up, but I'm glad I didn't miss it! A lot has happened in those 4 years that I won't get into but I have NOT given up on my stories. I've been slowly cooking them over the years, sautéing them til they're juuust right. Just you wait.
I want to give a big thank you to all my followers and my mutuals for supporting me these past 4 years. I really appreciate it. (^_^) ❤️ That being said, let me formally reintroduce myself...again.
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Hello everyone! My name is Kianna Arroyo (she/her). I'm a Mexican-American college student studying botany. Welcome to my little corner of the Internet! Here, you'll find lots of writing advice from other people, writing memes, and (of course) some of my own projects!
About my writing:
I write mainly fantasy. My other genres include sci-fi, thriller, mystery, and action/adventure.
Specifically my works revolve around stuff like magical realism, dark fantasy, superheroes and villains, superpowers, non-human POVs, dimension-hopping, mythologies, deities, "minor" fourth-wall breaking, and lots of shenanigans involving my OCs.
Most of my projects are geared toward the middle-grade and young adult audiences, but I have some adult projects as well.
I'm not a fan of romance so the majority of the relationships in my stories are either familial or platonic.
Things I won't be posting about:
Anything NSFW
Anything political or pertaining to current world events
I probably won't be super active on here, but I'll come by every now and then to repost some things and maybe even post some of my own excepts! Tag and ask games are 100% OK! I love any chance I can get to talk about my works. I'll be making updated posts about my projects soon. Thank you for taking the time to read all this. Hope you have a nice day! (^_^)/
Nano update! I’m at 39542 words now. 10458 words to go. And a fun snippet below!
“Why, you-” No. He took a deep breath and let it out. Loki sighed as he released her shoulders. “It doesn’t matter.” If he pushed, he could push her to the breaking point. A pact couldn't work with a broken host after all. A thought popped in. “Let’s test you.”
“Eh?”
Loki chuckled, leaning back. “I’m going to give you a riddle.” Siv rolled her eyes and he tapped her nose. “It’s relaxing.”
“Yeah, for you.”
He would ignore that. Loki leaned forward. “ Okay, smartie-” Siv raised a brow. “I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish.” He turned back to the staircase. “What am I?”
He heard Siv hum. And he fought back a chuckle as he returned to his nail polish.
Hopefully, that would distract her for the time being.
So life is being a pita right now, so I've not had much time to do any writing. Add to that being gifted a copy of Baldur's Gate 3 and.... yeah. Don't worry, I still have the results of that what to write poll and I did start writing stuff. Just don't expect that excerpt to come along before the weekend.
I also really want to play the new FFXIV patch, but since the file is now too big for my laptop's internal harddrive, I need to shelve the game entirely until I can get a new laptop because it just stutters too much from the external harddrive. I can play other games from there without much issue because I don't have to rely on processing speed between machines, but it's no good for an mmo :(.
In any case, I will get back around to writing stuff to post here soon, just as soon as my new BG3 obssession wears off.
