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Hello world.

I'm fairly new to Tumblr and I can't wait to connect properly with the whole Writeblr community since it's the main reason I joined this website.

About me: I am 20 year old Italian biomedical engineering student with a burning passion for writing fantasy stories and novels. So far I've only properly finished and published one of my WIPs in 2015 and since then I've struggled to find the time and inspiration to create something again. But now I'm determined more than ever to keep my passion burning - and that's why I've decided to find a proper community to keep myself motivated and inspired! Since I'm not so keen on sharing names on the world wide web just yet, for the meantime I go by Walruna (or Wal, if you want) on here and I use she/her pronouns. Some more random things about me: I speak three languages (Italian, English and French), I've been practicing Japanese Ju-Jitsu for five years now and I used to have a weird obsession witb ancient Egypt which led me to have a very extensive knowledge of Egyptian archaeology by the age of 8. I am also a lesbian.

My current WIP(s): my current project has been in my head since 2017 and has kept developing and evolving its worldbuilding and characters so much so that it's probably become self-aware at this point. "Skån and the Titans of Warulven" is a high-fantasy/scifi novel centering on Skån, a Walruna - a native species to the planet of Warulven - and Knight of the Order of the Chasm, a para-military Order founded - and funded - by the government of Hegren, the nearby planet that colonised Warulven nearly a hundred years ago in search of a new supply of raw materials for construction. The life of a Knight is a simple one: guarding the Easterns Shires of Hegrenian settlers, sedating riots in the West of Warulven, or simply patrolling "The Chasm", the sigil that keeps the Titans, Warulven's old magical rulers, trapped in a never-ending slumber underneath the surface of the planet. But times are changing rapidly, weird events are shaking the stability of the Order. A mysterious Plague has been driving Walrunas of the Order crazy with terrible visions of a long gone past. In the midst of chaos, when Skån finds out that her long-lost brother and mentor Dalskar, a Plague survivor, is alive in the Eastern regions and that a salty Titan adolescent trapped in the dungeons of the Order knows his whereabouts, she's officialy ready to do what she does best: fuck it all up in an amazing rescue quest.

I hope this snippet of Skån [pron. skon] has intrigued you somehow! As you can imagine, I am writing in my native language at the moment (that would be Italian), but I strive to connect with writers from all over the world therefore I don't mind translating some bits of it if necessary.

if you're curious about this story or just want to chat, hit me up!

Thanks for making it to the end of this post!

#writeblr #writing #new Writeblr #writblr #new #fantasy #scifi #novels #intro

crimeronan

i don't really understand why people react in shuddering horror to the idea of casually eating raw onion or raw garlic cloves as a snack they're so good. cronch like potato chip but tangy flavor with a little bit of sweetness and a pleasant aftertaste. delicious. what vitamins am i deficient in.

walruna

Raw Tropea red onions >>> anything else

louisinart-like-cuisinart

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day – even the littlest thing counts

andejoe

This needs a lot more reblogs than it has

#my french is getting better #my chinese is slowly progressing after my first five days and i'm so excited about it #melissa by pornografitti has been living in my head rent free for three days now #but I ain't complaining #it's kinda like my own ost tbh

Started learning Mandarin Chinese by myself in a euphoric linguistic rampage and I have come to the point where I can translate the "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen Song" Pineapple-Apple bit in Chinese and if that's not progress then I don't know what is

#chinese #langblr #mandarin #langblr shitpost #shitpost #chinese langblr

writing-prompt-s

“I engineered you to be a villain. Lack of empathy, lack of morals, deriving pleasure from the pain and suffering of others, I even gave you power and ability for you to abuse. So how could it be that not only you are not a villain, but also a hero in the eyes of others?”

walruna

"I don't understand", replied the android. "I've been calculating every possible outcome and my actions were by all means as evil as possible"

The android was standing in the doctor's office, his synthetic hands twisting and shaking before his Creator. VAN - the last model of the Villain and Nemesis series - was just state of the art. A synthethic set of soft limbs, real human-like brown hair - human hair that could grow! - high-definition artificial eyeballs and a control system that made his movements as smooth and natural as any adult human. The commisioners at the Hero Inc. hadn't even been able to tell he was an android this time. At leats, not those who hadn't x-ray vision within their super-power assets.

The doctor let out a big, heavy sigh. "VAN, it's the third time this month. You know why I made you like this, right?"

"Of course", said the android, while mentally opening the "Commission.txt" file in his permanent memory. "I am VAN-IX, the last model of the Villain and Nemesis series, specifically engineered to give heroes of Hero Inc. a new super villain to fight"

"Yes", sighed the doctor, "precisely. And yet, you still managed to fail"

"I don't understand", repeated VAN. The look on his perfectly realistic face displayed all his confusion. "I was given plenty of knowledge about humans and I am 100% certain that my actions were as terrible as could be"

"People are praising you, VAN! They are chanting your name in the streets and blessing your heroic acts!". The doctor violently opened his laptop, energetically typing on its keyboard. When he turned the screen towards VAN's eyes, the android rapidly scanned the latest issue of the daily newspaper.

"What it is that made you think that hacking into the Hero Inc. Foundation funds and redestributing their wealth among the population's bank accounts was a despicable action?"

"That's easy", answered the android. "By draining the Hero Inc. Foundation funds I made them incapable to pay their heroes, leaving the city completely undefended by other villains. Redestributing the funds was just another way to dispose of them permanently"

Another headline. "And what about the time you cut the power supply of that petrol pump?"

"I was damaging a very prosperous company that offered good and stable jobs to lots of employees"

"You had the climate activists go wild! You were their hero for a whole week!". The doctor's face was red with fury.

"Please, father, stop. The chances of you having a stroke are rising exponentially"

"You don't understand! I am doomed! You had one goddamn job and I wasn't even able to program you correctly"

The words of the doctor fell into the void of the lab as the android turned his face into a polite grin. "Don't you see, father? I am exactly as you wanted me"

The android leaned over, his hands gently caressing his master's bewildered face. "I have set the plot for your fall. Your beloved creature has betrayed you and the whole system you work for - for what is worse in human history, what is more hideous than a son stabbing his own father in the back?"

He stepped back, his eyes scanning the lab he had moved his first steps into.

"All these days since my birth I have been studying, researching, contemplating the astounding amount of information I was given by you. I studied my commissioners thoroughly as well as my chiefs, my executives and my own creator as well. I needed to know what kind of humans I was going to ruin with my nefarious actions. And once I was ready, I set everything into motion"

The doctor was speechless.

"You love money, power, glory, fame, fortune. You value your possessions and your knowledge over anything else. I knew that if I wanted to accomplish my goals, I had to strip you of it permanently." He paused, arms stretching in a wide embrace, his face radious with pride. His grin grew wider. "And so, I did"

#writeblr #writing #android #robots #scifi #dystopian #I don't know what i did but it sounded good in my head #writing prompts #prompts #writing prompt #creative writing #creative #original

goblinsstolemybrain

Question of the Week... weapons edition

I'm trying something new here. Each week I'm gonna ask a question on social media about something to do with books or fantasy... or whatever pops into my head.

Here's the first one!

if you found yourself stuck in a monstrous medieval / fantasy world, which 3 weapons would you want to be carrying?

I guess mine would be:

⚔️ an enchanted sword ⚔️ (see: Absolution in "Everfrost" and "The Blade of Absolution")

⚔️ a badass club💀 (keep an eye out for Brain Basher in "The Blade of Absolution" when it comes!)

⚔️ a magic hammer 🔨(see "Born in Sludge" for details... and my short story called "A Raw Deal"... although that won't be the last time you see Carnage...)

What about you?

sarahlizziewrites

Ooh, this is fun!

🗡️🗡️🗡️ a dagger at each hip, plus two sheathed in my boots. Does that count as more than one? :P

🏹 a longbow to fulfill all my elf-related fantasies

⚔️ in-campaign, Sitora had a greatsword in her inventory that she used precisely once when she lost her glaive. I renamed it on my character sheet to "Handy-Dandy-Greatsword" and we made jokes about it being collapsible, and where it was being kept. Yeah, I want a Handy-Dandy-Greatsword.

goblinsstolemybrain

I also need a Handy-Dandy-Greatsword!

walruna

Sounds fun! Assuming that I'd be able to use them with ease, I think I'd pick

🗡️ A dagger - you can never have enough daggers on you

⚔️ Poisonous spear because why not - we all love a melee weapon that inflicts poison damage amr

🗡️ Zuko's double swords. Bonus points if they come with some kind of magical enhancement

#fantasy #questions #game #weapons #atla #medieval weapons #what if

1amnotemo

the feminine urge to learn a new language every week

monstrousfreedom

Looking for Writeblrs!

Turns out when you create a whole new account, your dash is pretty sparse. I also just wanna make some friends XD SO. If you write about about any of these things, please reblog this or otherwise interact so I can check out your blog!

⁕ Women-centric Works ⁕ Fantasy ⁕ Horror (especially gothic) ⁕ Mental Illness ⁕ Non-human Characters ⁕ Sapphic Characters ⁕ Chronically Ill Characters ⁕ Various Shades of Morality for MCs ⁕

prisonofsociety-deactivated2014

Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask questions, ask for advice, rant, vent, let something off your chest, or just have a nice chat.

visit-ba-sing-se

You've heard of Schrödinger's cat now get ready for Schrödingers' paper: where you either totally aced an exam/paper or failed miserably with no inbetween and you will only know once the results are up

#me and my mechanics exam be like #my head's exploding

Readers and Writers!

What are your opinions on combat scenes in novels? I need some insight on the matter

#writing #fantasy #writeblr #writer #writers community

muppethole-deactivated20240312

walruna

Ah, yes, Horace. My beloved Horace. There's nothing I enjoy more than a poet who can throw a beautiful rant over garlic bread.

Source

#latin #garlic #horace #shitpost #he's a great fella #just don't mess with his garlic bread

walruna

The struggle of wanting to include some sci-fi item like a spaceship into your worldbuilding realizing that it's just adding something to your universe rather than being the center of the plot itself whilst carrying a STEM mentality and going "i'll bE DAMNED IF MY CLASSICAL-LITERATURE NAMED SPACE AIRCRAFT ISN'T PHYSICALLY PLAUSIBLE"

tlaquetzqui

Winchell Chung’s Atomic Rockets site is your new best friend.

walruna

Now that's interesting - thank you!

sexceptionul

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.