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When shit hits the fan, are you the coward that runs or the fool that stays?

150 years after our society collapses, life starts anew in Darwin. A country surrounded by the ruins of northern Mexico whose goal is to bring back the world we once knew, no matter the cost. Even creating an army of genetically-modified slaves.

Lyvrea, Othello, and Isador—an opinionated nurse, a half-assed criminal, and a delusional nepo baby entangle with each other when they get drafted into this army at the worst possible time. A coup aiming to liberate the slaves and get revenge on Darwin explodes in the middle of their training and leaves them stranded in the ruins, forcing them to strike an unlikely partnership.

Stumbling from one accident to the next thanks to their stubbornness, Lyvrea, Othello, and Isador must learn to yield if they want to make it back to Darwin in time to warn them before the coup takes innocent lives. As they navigate the perilous road back home, they uncover hard truths about the past and themselves, and come to realize not everyone can afford to be the chosen one.

Some people have something to lose, someone they love.

Featuring:

Gritty worldbuilding with just enough hope to make you cry.

Main trio who argue like idiots but would kill for each other and they secretly want to kiss but are terminally stupid about it.

✨Have you ever tried this one?✨(your wildest fantasy about setting capitalism on fire and succeeding)

Lovable characters including tropes like:

Perpetually exhausted best girl with a lot of pent up rage and eldest daughter syndrome.

Absolute bastard boy ready to risk it all.

Broody babygirl (he is 5"9) who can’t control his temper (yearning) for the life of him.

Pathetic Men™️

In this house we support women's rights and women's wrongs.

Bisexuals realizing everyone has two hands, if you know what I mean.

tl;dr: If you never got over the Hunger Games and your favorite tropes are found family and characters who need therapy (but set everything on fire instead), stick around—Darwin is waiting for you (derogative 💀).

Have a little taste.

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About me and my other works

#the gifted #the gifted novel #writing #ocs #publishing #fiction #novel writing

vampirejuice-deactivated2019112

If your apology involves degrading yourself, calling yourself shit or insulting yourself, its not an apology, try again.

grookeyleaf

Can someone translate this?

vampirejuice-deactivated2019112

Don’t try to guilt people by saying “I’m sorry I fucking suck.” “I’m sorry I’m just the worst and I should die” Because thats not an apology, thats trying to guilt the other person into dropping the subject.

orangebitters

Yup. That’s called Weaponized Remorse. Basically, you’re avoiding accountability by blowing up a big Feelings Bomb at the person you hurt and going “let’s not focus on what I did or what I should do to make amends, let’s focus on how awful I feel about it all, and how you should make me feel better.”

oakandgumtrees

It’s really easy to accidentally learn to apologize like this, especially when you have mental health issues that mean you genuinely feel that way about yourself. You aren’t a bad person if this has become a habit, but you can help other people AND yourself by apologizing differently!

Try to focus on your actions rather than your traits:

E.g. “I’m sorry I keep ghosting you, I’m shit at friendships” –> “I’m sorry I keep ghosting you, I’m really struggling to keep up with my friends right now”

Then, if you can, turn the conversation back to the other person - you’re apologising because their feelings matter to you, so show that.

E.g. “I don’t mean to - our friendship means a lit to me, and I know it must make it seem like I don’t care.”

This gives the other person an opportunity to express their own experience so you can talk it over more if they want to, without skipping ahead to reassuring you that the relationship isn’t broken.

If you read the descriptions above and started feeling guilty, it’s fixable! And if you want, you can even apply your new apology skills to apologising for an old apology style

applefae

This is something abusers can instill in their victims, also. Sometimes an abuser wont let up until they know you feel awful, shitty, stupid, worthless. and it becomes a habit to tell someone “im sorry im such a fucking loser i dont deserve etc, etc” so they know that you have paid the emotional toll for what you said or did.

Here’s the kicker, though- normal people dont want you to beat yourself up like that when you apologize. I know it feels like the line between “im sorry, I screwed up and I feel terrible about how I hurt you” and “i’m such a worthless piece of shit, you dont deserve to be around me” seems nearly invisible, but if someone requires you to verbally self-flagellate in order for a fight to be over, you really need to step back and take a look at the relationship between you two.

some doodles of the blorbos

#the gifted #the gifted novel #othello chegal #lyvrea romano #isador jale #ocs #original characters #novel #novel writing #oc art #scifi #post apocalyptic #sci fi novel

giftedissogood

@thegifted HI I LITERALLY FORGOT WE MADE THESE ACCOUNTS I CANT ANYWAY BABY HOW IS LIFE HOW ARE MY BELOVEDS ARE THEY STILL ALIVE IN CANON AS OF RIGHT NOW!!!

thegifted

HI MY BELOVED @giftedissogood !!

Yes, yes, the trio of besotted bricks is still alive and kicking but I'm holding them hostage, at gunpoint >:)

Well, not completely hostage. I'm also nice to them. I let them kiss and hold hands more often. They got a lot of character development (derogatory) since you last saw them and they went through about five or six horrible painstaking re-writes and editing rounds in the last two years. Sadly, right now they're in the backburner a bit because turns out The Gifted will not be my debut book after all, but another one called The Silence, which I will be putting out with the help of a German publishing house in March 2024 :) BUT. After a bunch of work with betas and editors, it looks like we are finally at the end of the road with The Gifted. Most likely, this first volume and/or edition will be a combination of self-pub and indie-pub but anyway, with a bit of luck, you will get to see the finished and polished version of the blorbos in 2024. So it's all quite exciting :D Also, when life isn't dragging me through the street me with work and just, well, life being life, I still draw them from time to time. They say hi.

#the gifted #the gifted novel #HI MY BELOVED MOO IT HAS BEEN AGES YES #THE BLORBOS ARE STILL ALIVE AND THEY MISS YOU

dandelionrumpancake

IT IS THEM!!!! 💚T💜H💙E💚M💜!💙

the beloved Othello Chegall, Lyvrea Romano and Isador Jale belong to @coccinelle-et-chaton and are from the @thegifted series and: have my whole entire heart. they are my everything. thank you so much for requesting me for @miraculers-for-ukraine again my beloved it means a lot to me, almost as much as these three bricks 💙💜💚

quijotine

danniiiiiiii 🥺🥺 THANK YOU SO MUCH BELOVED I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. I LOVE THE WAY YOU PORTRAY THEM AND HOW YOU CAN SINGLE-HANDEDLY YEET ME INTO ABSOLUTE FERAL BRAINROT. no but danni. DANNI. i love them. i love them so much thank you so much. it’s so wild to even be looking at them being THEM. IT’S THEM. after so many years developing them and like,,, so close to finishing the first book and starting the actual process of like, getting them out there. it’s just. IT’S THE SEROTONIN CONCENTRATE I NEED TO GET THROUGH PUBLISHING OK. no but i love them. i love you. thank you so much danni 🥺🥺 💙💚💜

#the gifted #the gifted novel #i have the power to call this official art #so i'm just going to call it official art #the gifted novel art #dandelionrumpancake art #ot3 #lysathello #lyvrea romano #isador jale #othello chegall

thesquipproject

dave u silly goose u have some explaining 2 do

@thegifted @thegiftednovel

thegifted

isador logic: maybe if i lie and make an entire persona to hide the fact i am the son of the richest family in the country a.k.a. also the owners of the gifted, a.k.a. their owners, but also use this persona to manipulate my teammates into liking me and telling me personal information MAYBE they will let me live but more importantly,,,, maybe we will be friends and sit together at the lunch table?? UwU 🥺👉👈

no isador. it gets you punched in the face, is what that does.

and thank you @thesquipproject for the awesome art 🥺