that's weird. I'll take three

Greer W. Hollow for those looking - queer indie writer - Replotting and crying over a queer romantasy, jotting down ideas for murder mysteries and nebulous sci-fi projects

[theitcharchives]

Hello, call me Hollow.

I'm an aroace, genderqueer INTP, inconstant plotter, I like dragons, magpies and blueberries. I'm average at a lot of things except cooking, I'm really bad with that.

I like murder mysteries, heists, high and low fantasy and sci-fi.

I follow the whims and orders of the writing tingles. I do my best to have discipline and sit down and write but I am beholden to The Itch that grips me every now and then. Hence the blog name.

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Writing

Taste of Copper series - under rearrangements

Queer romantasy with an asexual protagonist, planned as standalone and become trilogy (for now).

I started working on it in June 2022 and thought I was done July 2024. I wasn't.

Short stories

I host all my short stories on Ao3 (for registered users) and Wattpad. I do daydream fanfiction but I cannibalise it for original stories.

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I use hearts as bookmarks and read-laters, I reblog things that provide enrichment to what I'm trying to keep as a writer blog.

I also have just realised it'd be better if I tag things here. Working on it.

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Link map

Ao3 and Wattpad - hosting all my short stories on these two (for Ao3, only shown to registered users);

616 Loki reading list - when the hyperfixation resurges I remember about this.

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Tag list, mainly for my own reference:

Worldbuilding, language, resources, craftsmanship, writfunnies, funnies

(list to be updated, all and any posts also to be updated)

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@geehollow is the personal sideblog

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Cheers,

Hollow

[imapuppetqueer]

Gotta catch em all

[theitcharchives]

I got a rainbow and this one right after it :D

[socialistexan]

Babe wake up, new all time great image just dropped

[theconcealedweapon]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[witchacoocoo]

me dumping ideas, pieces of dialogues, unfinished descriptions

me editing, putting everything in the right order, searching synonyms, spelling errors, checking tense consistency, pov slip for hours

[luna-azzurra]

Things to consider when Writing about Schools/Academies!!

⊹ What is this school actually for. training mages? knights? spies? just normal education? because "prestigious academy" means nothing if you don't know what they're prestigious at

⊹ Who gets in and how. is it merit based, do you have to be rich, legacy admissions, secret tests, random selection, born with the right abilities. what happens to kids who don't make the cut

⊹ What's the age range. are these literal children or young adults or mixed ages. because a school with 11 year olds has very different problems than one with 18 year olds

⊹ How strict is it. prison vibes with tons of rules? pretty chill? different rules for different student groups (which is unfair and causes drama)?

⊹ What are the social hierarchies. obviously there are cliques but what are they based on. wealth? power level? what year you're in? family name? talent?

⊹ What happens if you fail or get expelled. are you just sent home in shame or is it worse. do people sometimes not survive the training. how often do students drop out or disappear

⊹ Who are the teachers and why are they teaching. washed up former heroes? people who never left? actually passionate educators? suspicious people using it as a cover? mix of all of them probably

⊹ What's forbidden. certain magic, certain areas of campus, relationships between students, leaving grounds, specific books/knowledge. and obviously your protagonist will break these rules

⊹ How do students get sorted/grouped. houses? teams? specializations? randomly? and do these groups have rivalries because they should

⊹ What's the curriculum actually like. is it actually useful or are they learning weird outdated stuff. are there classes that are just covers for something else. what are the hardest classes

⊹ Where is this school located. isolated castle? middle of a city? pocket dimension? floating island? does it move? can students leave or are they stuck there

⊹ What traditions does the school have. tournaments, festivals, hazing rituals (the dark kind), graduation ceremonies, weird old customs nobody questions

⊹ Is there corruption in the faculty/administration. favoritism, taking bribes, secret agendas, covering up student deaths, embezzling, working for the villain

⊹ What's the diversity situation. is it segregated somehow (by class, species, magic type)? integrated but with tension? do some groups face discrimination from staff or other students?

⊹ What happens outside of classes. clubs? underground fight rings? secret societies? banned parties? students sneaking out? romantic drama?

⊹ Why is your protagonist specifically there. chosen one nonsense? hiding from something? forced to attend? actually wants to learn? found out they have powers and got dragged there confused?

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[fudamnshi]

”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me

[genderfluid-offical]

"explain your answer" no. i used a calculator, and i do not care about this class

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Me, every time I'm writing : I don't know where I'm going but I'm going there!

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know