#xakara

[wotah-art]

Boreth the Mountain, Andrew West

Character design sketches and final design for Boreth, a large Xakara from the mountains who assists the hero on their quest. This characte

Did some Character Design Work Recently for a book currently in development, was asked to do some concepts for a upcoming book and possible tie-in game

[theleakypen]

Write 10 facts about yourself and/or your writing, then send this to 10 of your lovely followers

So I was scrolling through my oldest asks just as a way to remember what things were like back then and so on and I ran across this and it's an ask I can actually answer!

So uh. Exactly a decade later here we are. Ten facts about my writing:

I've written poetry in English, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish, even though I'm only really fluent in two of those.

I've translated a bunch of poetry in my life, and I'm currently making my first foray into translating a prose work from English to Russian.

I've written more prose in the last three years than I have in the rest of my life (all 3 decades of it) combined.

I've successfully completed NaPoWriMo thrice.

I've only successfully completed NaNoWriMo once and the resulting work is unusable. It's literally just 50k of backstory LOLSOB

I used to do a lot of collaborative storytelling/text roleplay, starting from when I was 12 or so. I started out in a Dark Hunters roleplay yahoogroup wherein I was definitely the youngest member, having never read a single Sherrilyn Kenyon book, because I make fantastic choices. I wasn't super active but it was a fun community to be part of. (I've since read one Sherrilyn Kenyon book XD)

So that was twenty years ago. Ten years ago I was doing a bunch of roleplaying on Omegle and on a Kushiel's Legacy php board and right here on tumblr as @puckishsprite.

Speaking of roleplays, one piece of writing that I'm slowly plugging away at is a Lasers & Feelings hack based on the Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells.

I've published two original short stories! Both with Duck Prints Press.

I've learned to be kind to myself about having an inconsistent pace when it comes to my writing. It makes sense that I got a lot of writing done in the early days of lockdown when I barely had any tasks to do for work because there was very little that could be done WFH and the library hadn't yet brought us back to start processing books for holds to go. Now we're back to full time in person work and I have a different and more brain-intensive job and there's all sorts of life maintenance stuff and the union work. It makes sense that the writing will fall by the wayside a little bit. It doesn't mean the creativity isn't happening, it's just happening a bit slower. And that's all right.

[boazpriestly]

xakara replied to your post “Very annoyed at my friend right now. I brought him his needles that he...”

Exactly. You were thoughtful and went out of your way yet in return he didn’t think about you or what you did as a friend. He took you for granted and that’s wrong.

Thank you for validating my feelings. I really appreciate it. (I’m being genuine and not sarcastic at all, I swear)

[dangercupcakemurdericing]

xakara replied to your post: “someothermonstra replied to your post: my older...”:

Have you talked to your mother about it? The drive and expectation sound like a lot on her physically and emotionally but if she's already turned down money it might be more practical to talk to your brother about other ways to compensate her.

I have talked to her, and she doesn't feel like she can say no without being a bad mother. You have to understand this woman apologizes to me for us having "small Christmases" by which I mean the dining room turn playroom not being covered in presents and I am in my late 20s.I have repeatedly tried to get her only buy me one particular thing she thinks I would really like, but no.

For some background my mother's mother was abusive, I don't have the full story as to what extent, but I think she has some ideas about expressing love and making up for that.

[dangercupcakemurdericing]

xakara replied to your post: there is little that annoys me as much as...

What? People do that?

yes, a disturbing number of them. Although to be fair it's probably less annoying it's country of origin

[l1av]

You can talk to me about supercap! I'm all about it.

Expect me to suddenly burst through your messaging at any given time. I’m dr o wn ing. I need shipmates!

[afro-elf]

My cause of death is going to be choking from laughter reading your blog. Kinkgate and the aftermath had me dyin'.

i’m literally suffering, what have i unleashed????

[sophygurl]

xakara replied to your post “BTW, just assume I’m behind on whatever for awhile. The post about the...”

Wish I could have been there!

I wish you could have been there too! :(