The Barbarian's Tale

[the-barbarians-tale]

I made art of my OCs to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of my novel.

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Their names are (from top to bottom, left to right) Zott, Sebi, and Iova. They are all love interests in my harem BL novel: The Barbarian's Tale.

Zott is an assassin who originally tried to kill the MC but has since developed a soft spot for him (and stolen a kiss or two).

Sebi is a healer who has taken care of the MC when he's been sick or injured. He's very reserved, and the MC isn't aware of his feelings yet.

Iova is the newest character. He's a prince from a foreign country who escaped an assassination attempt and is hiding out with the MC. He is very bubbly and loves drama. He's the one who will bring the more reserved love interests out of their shells.

[the-barbarians-tale]

It's been one year, and my web novel The Barbarian's Tale has finally reached 300 subscribers!

If you like BL please take a look. It's a slow-burn with multiple love interests!

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Boys Love ・ Harem ・ Slow burn ・ Historical Setting

Rae's father, the Shak, is dead. As his only son, Rae is the new Shak.

Rae must grapple with newfound power, deep-seated trauma, and a troublesome step-family. All while pursued by a suave nobleman, a ruthless assassin, and an enigmatic healer, and a foreign prince!

(New episodes weekly!!)

[the-barbarians-tale]

Read the novel Nominate here!

If you're free and like mlm romance, please give my original web novel a look. And consider nominating it for the Inkies on Tapas!

Boys Love ・ Harem ・ Slow burn ・ Historical Setting

Rae's father, the Shak, is dead. As his only son, Rae is the new Shak.

Caught amidst a web of political intrigue and personal turmoil, Rae must grapple with newfound power, deep-seated trauma, and a troublesome step-family. All while pursued by a suave nobleman, a ruthless assassin, and an enigmatic healer (and more to come!!).

(New episodes weekly!!)

[animentality]

[megumibex]

Boys Love・Slow-burn・Harem・Historical Setting

Nestled between two medium-sized mountains was a rugged little valley. There was no land to farm, so the people there lived off mountain herbs, wild eggs, and goat’s milk. To the people of the towns that dotted the plains to the southeast, these were the lands of barbarians. If not barbarians, then creatures far worse.

Read The Barbarian's Tale | Tapas Web Community

Read The Barbarian's Tale and more premium Bl Community series now on Tapas!

Rae's father, the Shak, is dead. As his only son, Rae is the new Shak.

Caught amidst a web of political intrigue and personal turmoil, Rae must grapple with newfound power, deep-seated trauma, and a troublesome step-family. All while pursued by a suave nobleman, a ruthless assassin, and an enigmatic healer (and more to come!!).

(New episodes twice a week!!)

[megumibex]

In 2024 I got 154 followers!! Thank you for reading and see you in 2025!

[megumibex]

Boys Love・Slow-burn・Harem・Historical Setting

Nestled between two medium-sized mountains was a rugged little valley. There was no land to farm, so the people there lived off mountain herbs, wild eggs, and goat’s milk. To the people of the towns that dotted the plains to the southeast, these were the lands of barbarians. If not barbarians, then creatures far worse.

Read The Barbarian's Tale | Tapas Web Community

Read The Barbarian's Tale and more premium Bl Community series now on Tapas!

Rae's father, the Shak, is dead. As his only son, Rae is the new Shak.

Caught amidst a web of political intrigue and personal turmoil, Rae must grapple with newfound power, deep-seated trauma, and a troublesome step-family. All while pursued by a suave nobleman, a ruthless assassin, and an enigmatic healer (and more to come!!).

(New episodes twice a week!!)

[megumibex]

In 2024 I got 154 followers!! Thank you for reading and see you in 2025!

[divorcedwife]

i can promise that if i ever create a commercial published project that leads to a fandom and arguments, i will not be going on my official accounts to use my authority to say who is right or wrong. i will be making an anonymous account to partake and make it worse

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I usually fucking loathe anyone who references 1984 on social media but I do feel like actually Microsoft deciding to underline every use of an intensifier as an error is some Newspeak bullshit. no you can't replace "very nervous" with "nervous" to make a sentence "more concise" actually, because the word "very" has an actual fuckdamn meaning that I am deliberately conveying, you soulless corporate horseshit shovelling cartoon paperclip ass motherfucker

[the-barbarians-tale]

I know this is super out of date but the craziest thing about the nanowrimo ai debacle is Nano's stance on cheating (not writing the 50,000 but claiming you did) for years was, "eh you can cheat, but why would you? That's kinda cringe," Which certainly could have been their take on AI and I think most users wouldn't have minded. After all, it's never been part of Nano's mission to actually enforce their rules.

But they were so busy sucking a sponsor's dick that they alienated their entire user base.

[khaostic01]

“Only since meeting you have I rediscovered how simple it is to be happy.”

this is one of my absolute favorite pieces of dialogue from the book, i swear. it’s just so terribly sweet!! gosh i love hualian so much..

[the-barbarians-tale]

This line makes me want to cry

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!

makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.

Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.

0 products also works great

because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all

I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you

I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter

no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.

makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.

this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that

the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha

Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion

okay

where did we lose you

why are people like this

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#nobody survived this post

[darklight-owl]

I can't be the only one who thought Bigwig and Campion had something extremely gay going on in the book please God tell me I'm not crazy

[the-barbarians-tale]

You are right OP, but I'd like to raise you, despite having barely interacted with him, Hazel seems to quite like Campion too... Like he's actually trying to kill them and Hazel's like "he seems like a reasonable fellow"

[ineffectualdemon]

People who haven't read SVSSS: it has necrophilia and pedophilia!

The fans: *tired* no. That is not correct. I see why you would get that impression but you are wrong. That didn't happen

People on the SVSSS canon who don't know LBH or SQQ well: Luo Binghe disgraced his master's corpse and his master preyed on his student!

Shang Qinghua: *tired* no. That is not correct. I see why you would get that impression but you are wrong. That didn't happen.

[allpiesforourown]

I think the "Binghe disgraced his shizun’s corpse" thing always sets me off the most because Binghe canonically has sexual trauma (the Old Palace Master tried to groom him/he was under the influence at Maigu Ridge and forced to dual cultivate) and Binghe has made it clear he takes consent very seriously

It's so sad watching Binghe explicitly say and show he would never force himself on shen yuan and people just go "this won't stop me because I can't read!"

[megumibex]

Boys Love・Slow-burn・Harem・Historical Setting

Nestled between two medium-sized mountains was a rugged little valley. There was no land to farm, so the people there lived off mountain herbs, wild eggs, and goat’s milk. To the people of the towns that dotted the plains to the southeast, these were the lands of barbarians. If not barbarians, then creatures far worse.

Read The Barbarian's Tale | Tapas Web Community

Read The Barbarian's Tale and more premium Bl Community series now on Tapas!

Rae's father, the Shak, is dead. As his only son, Rae is the new Shak.

Caught amidst a web of political intrigue and personal turmoil, Rae must grapple with newfound power, deep-seated trauma, and a troublesome step-family. All while pursued by a suave nobleman, a ruthless assassin, and an enigmatic healer (and more to come!!).

(New episodes twice a week!!)

[ender-voidron]

Since the booping has returned, reblog if it's okay to spam you with boops!

I wanna be polite and not spam random people without permission , ,

[candaru]

no no. you don't get it. the reason I injure my blorbos until they can't walk is because that's the only way they'll ever let someone else carry them. the reason I curse them to be sick and feverish is so that they'll finally open up about their emotions while delirious. the reason I force them to overexert themselves to the point of exhaustion is so that when they pass out they can finally rest.

I'm doing this for their own good.

[biscuitsandspices]

Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.