Chloé

She/Her | 20 | Cottagecore bisexual | I write about women falling in love whilst taking revenge on the men who wronged them

[writemeforgotten]

WIP Intro: Below These Wicked Waves

A sapphic retelling of The Little Mermaid

“What the fuck is that?” demands Khris.

“A tsunami?” suggests Tephen.

“A storm?” inquires Stewart.

Worse, I think, grinning. It’s her.

Category/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Romance (15+)

Status: Outlining (*This is a side WIP; most of my writing time is going towards my main project*)

Project Type: Stand alone

Writing style: First person, present tense (Dual POV)

Tropes: Arranged marriage, "touch-her-and-I'll-kill-you", mermaids, HEA (Sorry, Hans Christian Andersen), villain pov, slow burn romance, morally grey characters

Synopsis: Echo, the youngest daughter of King Aquarius has been betrothed to the Sea Witch: a terrifying necromancer with tentacles in place of a mermaid tail. As an engagement gift, Echo is offered the opportunity to dance on land — temporarily exchanging her tail for legs to fulfil her childhood dream.

Yet all spells come at a cost; on land, mermaids cannot speak and must return to the sea before the next moon phase, unless they wish to forget their merfolk lives forever.

After an argument with her fiancée, Echo uses the spell alone and ends up trapped on land, having forgotten the reversal spell. Now in the hands of a freak-show owner, a man who believes Echo is the key to his dying company's future, she must fight to find her way home or risk losing more than her memories.

Taglist (Just putting this here so I don't forget): @quilloftheclouds @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @ashen-crest

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[quillwritten]

[happyheidi]

[madeleinefunn]

“I hate obvious symbolism” bro shut up sun and moon couples are a pillar of our society

[happyheidi]

𝖲𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗌 ❄️

𝗑 - 𝗑 / 𝗑 - 𝗑 / 𝗑 - 𝗑

[writing-prompt-s]

A young villain tried to mug you, but upon seeing your face, he fled in terror. Upon further investigation, you discover that your high school sweetheart is now the most powerful villain in the world and has you on a list titled “hurt them, and I’ll kill you.”

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[coiled-dragon]

Im just feeling a certain way rn

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[writing-prompt-s]

“You can run, but you can’t hideeeeee!” The monster chasing you calls out. But the monster doesn’t know that you are a marathon runner and so you just keep on running.

[downwithpeople]

I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it

Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck.

[theplantqueer]

...the media’s coverage of these new kinds of prosthetics is so focused on the initial joy or incredulity — on the idea that “lives are changed” — that they forget to ask if these hands are actually useful and what happens in the weeks and months after the unboxing.

The media narrative, says James Young — husband of Ashley and a cyborg himself — is designed to be reassuring to people: If you happen to, God forbid, lose your arm, “they” can replace it. “People want to make sure that the technology is out there that can remake you as you are right now,” he says.

For Alexis Hillard, the creator of the YouTube channel “Stump Kitchen,” the obsession with cyborgs is “continuing to drive that wedge between disenfranchised disabled people and those with money and power, creating a new ‘desirable disabled person.’”

[writingwithcolor]

A good read for our followers writing amputee characters in contemporary or speculative fiction settings.

As always, take this not as a message to "stop writing cyborgs/advanced prosthetics ever," but rather to read and center disabled perspectives, understand your motivations, and trace your logic.

- Writing With Color

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it's a lot of stuff...

[greelin]

save me gay people in my phone

[circumpolarvampire]

When the death toll for Gaza goes up from disease, Israel will claim deniability, that those deaths were not deliberate and calculated. You see it with how settlers will talk about the genocide of Natives, that most of us "just died from disease then colonizers 'accidentally spread'". It is NEVER an accident. Famines and Diseases and always used as tool for genocide by colonizers

[third-nature]

Right-wingers: "Capitalism is all about innovation and consumer choice and opposing stagnant uniformity!

90% of inhabited capitalist America: