WoozyMrSloop

I'm an amateur writer currently working on my first book I do a lot of worldbuilding and character creation My current book focuses on Hell and is very sacrilegious If that interests you then follow along, I guess I'll probably post updates as well as some short stories I make on the fly Enjoy!

[woozymrsloop]

Godless

I guess I should start by explaining the story if I'm going to be posting about it... Godless follows a character named Alex as they travel through Hell to help their family who recently died and were wrongly condemned. Along the way they face horrors both physical and physiological as they navigate deeper into Hell as well as some more angelic challenges. not all horrors are the same, some scream and claw and others are much more subtle, and their nature depends on the layer they're in. Alex isn't exactly a good guy, or even a good person depending on how you see them, and they're left fairly vague throughout the story. you get some insight as to how they think but most of their motives are left up to whoever's reading. The story follows as they're antagonised by demons and condemned souls as they do their best to find their family. The story's main antagonist is God, who becomes more and more frustrated with Alex as they progress through Hell but, also views them as a source of entertainment for the most part. He doesn't directly interfere with Alex until the very end where he stands in the way of Alex and their family in Hell.

I don't really know how long the story will be. It's about 1 chapter per layer of Hell and there's 9 layers, so around 9 chapters + Prologue and ending, so maybe around 30,000-40,000 words. I'll try to balance worldbuilding and character development with everything else, but it'll probably lean into worldbuilding for the most part. I personally very much enjoy the idea and premise, to my knowledge it's not been done in this fashion before. It has some obvious similarities to things like Dante’s Inferno but is more than original enough to be separate. Also draws inspiration from a few other things, Supernatural being a main one. Anyway, that's it. That's the story for the most part. It's still very early, but it's looking fairly alright.

[woozymrsloop]

My brain did its thing last night and smashed 2 braincells together like a particle accelerator while I was sleeping And, well, I've got a new side project now;

Chapter 1: How it starts

The Stargates are strange things. Nobody really knows how they work, how they connect two points across space instantly, how they don’t seem to have any adverse effects. They’re human constructions, but the engineers are working blind, like building an engine while blindfolded, trying to find where you dropped the 10mm by sound alone. It doesn’t matter if nobody knows, though. They work, and they work well. They connect two points like a doorway, even over tens of lightyears, letting people, animals, ships, anything, pass through like they’re walking into another room. One’s never failed before, so why bother worrying when billions of people use them every day?

Tedaki station is a frontier outpost. It’s beyond the edge of what humanity would consider civilised space. It’s isolated, quiet, like a rural town in the middle of nowhere, and when you have Stargates connecting every point in space, that’s really saying something. its only purpose is to be a waypoint, or a stopover for frontier colony development. It’s small, tiny compared to the stations in the Core, mostly cargo space, it’s like a fancy and expensive storage box. It’s operated by a skeleton crew, maybe 15 people at most, minimal living space, not much to do. Not exactly a retirement plan. Contact with Tedaki station was lost months ago, probably just an equipment failure, it happens all the time around there. It’s not an issue, just send a crew through the Stargate to fix it. Only Tedaki, like all frontier stations and colonies, doesn’t have a normal Stargate.

Stargates on stations that far out are different from the ones back in the Core systems. Stargates are extremely intensive to operate, they need constant cooling, power, adjustment, they need to be watched 24/7, and they’re very, very expensive. When you have a crew so small, you can’t do that, so they cheap out on them. Stargates on stations like Tedaki are timed, not on demand. Every few months, for a few hours, the gate will open. This is the only window where crews can be rotated and maintenance done. The gate cannot be opened any other time, at least not from Tedaki’s side. It’s just cheaper that way.

Stargates vary in size, but the commercial ones, the ones used for transport between stations, are huge. Squares five hundred meters wide that transport cargo, people, ships, automatons, just about everything. When inactive the opening is covered with a strange fabric-like material. It’s not placed there by people, it’s made by the Stargate itself. An odd, impenetrable, moss coloured sheet that folds in on itself and disappears when the Stargate is activated, only to return when inactive. The events that happen when a gate is activated are hard to comprehend, so it’s normally advised to look away before activation and only look back when it’s stable to avoid something called Stargate sickness.

The communications loss with Tedaki station was unusual, but not something unfixable. Assuming that the crew were simply incapable of repairing the damage, the Core decided to send a maintenance team through the next transport window. The Gate is open for multiple hours at a time, so it should be easy to fix whatever is wrong and return before the cutoff, as well as rotate the crew and resupply.

[canislatrans-var]

i need snake advice - yucca has gone from 31 g to 28 g since the last time he ate, a few weeks ago

things i have tried:

- braining the mouse

- scenting with tuna water

- braining the mouse then scenting with tuna water

- putting it under his nose

- dropping it and leaving him alone (but the beetles and isopods destroy it pretty fast)

- wiggling the food

- feeding in a smaller enclosure

- room temperature frog

- warm frog

- raised the temp on the warm side from 82 to 85

is there anything i haven't tried that could get him to eat?

he's about to shed, should i wait until after he's done shedding to make a vet appointment? he might be acting a little lethargic but it's equally likely i'm overthinking.

[aahnimals]

Very pretty DeKay’s brownsnake I found one Easter :3

[aroacedragongirl]

Noodle gaming

[honeyxrot]

We love a gamer boy

[woozymrsloop]

HE'S GAMING LOOK AT HIM HE'S WINNING

[woozymrsloop]

For the King of Hell, he's awfully adorable Look at his lil face

[dinodaydreams]

This is so trash

[woozymrsloop]

The man came out early He looks so snug and cozy He pretended he didn't exist for a whole week before this and apparently forgot that he's nocturnal. You know, happens to the best of us

[itsdetachable]

A sweet little prince of darkness 😈 🧡🐍

[branches-n-burrows]

Despite all the money spent on nice fancy hides, my snakes always seem to choose the mason jars I give them… here’s Steven, sitting in the lap of luxury and looking adorable

(It’s very difficult to mist the moss when he’s so insistent on guarding it like a dragon to gold)

[woozymrsloop]

Preach

[woozymrsloop]

To anyone wondering Currently, Raz's favourite thing in the damn universe is the camera I spend so much money making this enclosure nice and being like "Oh, look at all these things. He'll love them." all for him to be like "mmmm... camwa." Chances are that when I look through the camera to see what he's up to; it's just his ass, right up against the lens.

Still love him more than anything tho Even if the King of Hell is a little asshole sometimes

[woozymrsloop]

The king gives kisses You've been chosen and you've been blessed He wishes you a good day So go have one or he'll be real upset

[woozymrsloop]

Taken a small, little, tiny, 5-month break from writing recently And... you know... one thing led to another and suddenly I got a snake. One moment you're writing about Hell and then the next you've spent god knows how much money on an enclosure and lights and shit and then you're a parent to a little noodle man. He's a little dumb but he's adorable and I love him and he's got a cute face. His name is Rhaziel, after the King of Hell from Godless lore. He sleeps all day and climbs all night (He's ok, he got right back up there after falling, I promise. He literally learnt nothing.)

[woozymrsloop]

Well, it's been a little while and I remembered Tumblr exists probably time to post again, right? Here's a little story that never came to be. I have an extra part or two (Definitely traumatised people with the second one that I will absolutely post here to traumatise all the internet ants too!) Story goes something like: something something, guy gets lost in the forest, something something, has to fight to survive and utterly sucks at it, leading to some gruesome situations. this one is tame, I promise. The next one? Not so much.

As the night creeps ever closer Jake's body temperature drops and he starts to shiver. His wet clothes and the stiff dusk breeze rips the heat from his body as he walks through the darkening forest. He tries to remember anything he learnt about survival in the wilderness, thinking about how he could get warm. He drops to the moist floor and scrounges around for two sticks, the search for which is harder than he expected. The sticks either being too wet or thin, some have decayed too much on the forest floor and others are inhabited by a plethora of insects and arachnids. Jake crawls on his hands and knees desperately looking for two sticks in the middle of a forest, the cruel irony of his situation beginning to take its toll. After many minutes of crawling, after the sun has well and truly set, Jake blindly snatches up any sticks he can find and starts rubbing them together. “How hard can it be? What does it matter if they’re a little wet?” He thought as he could already feel the sticks heat up but as the minutes passed nothing seemed to change. He rubbed the sticks faster, changed his technique, prayed to a god he didn’t believe in but nothing happened. No smell of smoke, no simmering embers, just some slightly warm pieces of wood. Jake trembles from the cold and cries out in frustration as he throws the sticks as hard as he can into the inky blackness of the woods, they clatter against a nearby tree causing a previously unknown animal to sprint away. As the animal's hoof beats disappear into the distance Jake starts to realize just how alone he truly is. Jake curls up around his would-be fire, imagining the warmth it would've provided him gives him some sense of comfort. He closes his eyes, feeling the soft mud of the ground beneath him sink softly under his weight. Crickets chirp and the soft rustling of wind moving through the trees soothes him momentarily until his stomach groans. He’s hungry. He doesn’t simply have a want for sustenance, he has a lust for it, he didn’t realize how hungry he was. He opens his eyes to look around but it’s much too dark to see. Jake lets out a deep sigh knowing that he’ll have to wait until morning to eat, his failed attempt at building a simple fire weighs on him and falters his confidence in being able to catch or forage any form of nutrition.

[obsidianpegasus-deactivated2025]

Say it with me:

I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine. I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine. I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine.

It’s okay if I don’t have time to write. It’s okay if a chapter is delayed. It’s okay if my words come out messy. It’s okay if I need to take a break. It’s okay if I don’t update every week, every month, or even every year.

My value as a writer is not measured by how fast I post. My worth is not defined by kudos, bookmarks, or comments.

I am allowed to be slow. I am allowed to rest. I am allowed to write for joy, not for an algorithm.

I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine.

And if anyone thinks otherwise, they can wait.

[woozymrsloop]

More Q&A!

Addition to my last one since there were so many questions

Psychological & Thematic Questions:

4. What does Hell want?

Hell wants to be free. Even though it's out of the influence of God, it knows it's still under his thumb. Hell also knows that if God really wanted to destroy it, He probably could with the help of the remaining three Archangels (Michael, Raphael and Gabriel) and all of Heaven's garrisons. The only reason God keeps Hell around, even with what it's done to one of his Archangels, is because it keeps the evil contained.

5. How does Hell feel about Alex?

Hell actually doesn't view Alex with the same contempt it does with most of its inhabitants. Hell is using Alex but it views him as more of an equal than anything else. Hell even speaks to Alex. It may only happen once but it's the first time Hell has spoken to anyone, not the demons, not the Archangels, not even God himself, but a single, naive human named Alex.

6. Does Hell hate God?

Hell doesn't hate God, but it does view him as an adversary. Hell knows that God is the only one able to destroy it and it doesn't like the thought.

7. What’s Hell’s relationship with the concepts of sin and punishment?

You might think that Hell is the father of sin and punishment but it's not. Rhaziel made the sins and most of the demons after watching Lucifer make his first demon. The punishments take place in Hell's layers and while Hell did modify them, most of them were made by God when he first created Hell. The only layer that was really made by Hell is the new Limbo, where Hell made its own punishment using the Archangel's power to degrade souls slowly. Hell was really given a hand and told to play it, it didn't get much of a choice in anything in the early years.