Okay I have inspiration for a whole new project!! It’s going to be my take on a dystopian world, everything will be my own. All the characters, the plot, everything will be mine!! I’m super excited to get started on thisssss

On deck: Rodolfo “Rudy” Parra x Reader/You

Plotting:
- 4 part drabble/one shot collection of 141 x friend’s OC
- Horangi smut
- Back down the character list/round 2 of Rhi’s smut chronicles…?

The hunt plan:

we lure lord x out with the promise of a game

woke kolossos fights him first, walks away missing an arm and with an X carved into his chest

dunno when, but at some point rewrite gets his body cleaved in two and a hole through his head

and thats all we have so far

its a work in progress

today in the studio: March 13th, 2025

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I need to figure out what to do with Draven now, he mostly got his happy ending so I haven’t really been posting much on his blog

Maybe I can put him through The Horrors (school) and have him learn how to be a kid again?

the prom vision

suit? tailored. crisp. matching black pants, vest, and jacket.

tie? purple. possibly a bolo tie.

shoes? shiny. doc martens.

hair? blown out. styled.

makeup? dark. glittery. slutty.

mustache? purple.

oh you guys aren’t ready.

Flower, flower, flower

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Munday: Feel free to spam my inbox

hi sorry but you know that guy i’ve been yapping about.. he admitted to liking me !! he also has been asking to meet up ( which i obviously say yes) !!

STATE OF THE NOVEL: February update

so! it’s March! how did February go?

well. first off: we have a bingo!

more musing, plans, and a summary of the plot so far:

how it’s going

it’s been a fuck of a month, lads. and there’s still a month more to go (or probably slightly less than a month, since I’m now nearly at 50k and the word count for submissions is 70-75k. I’m going to write more than 75k, but I reckon if I go over 85k I’ve gone too far, so I think I should start wrapping things up reasonably soon)

despite a whole shitton of issues in my own life, and the fact that this is the first week in 2026 where i haven’t been some kind of acutely ill, i have kept on top of the project. there was one day where I didn’t write anything, and one day where I was four words short of the target. (there was also a day where i only wrote 1000 words instead of 1500, but it was the day i’d set aside as a non-writing day)

ultimately I’ve averaged slightly over 1750 words per day all through February. which, if I may be frank, is pretty damn good.

i have regrets

at every stage i have thought of things i wish i had done differently. i am not changing them because that’s the principle of the project, but i’m gonna list some of my regrets right now so i can exorcise them:

• i regret not putting “thief” on the list of unpleasant jobs tabby could have
• i regret putting this story in a rural setting. it’s a victorian romance novel why am i writing this thomas hardy shit instead of gaslight romance?
• i regret developing a plot which means the romantic leads are usually a mile apart from each other and only see one another when she sneaks out in the middle of the night
• i regret the really convoluted logic that led to them fucking, which i’m gonna need to iron out later
• i regret that i’m 50,000 words in and i still haven’t worked barratry into the plot

what comes next

There’s a lot that I’m not happy with in this draft, as one might expect. There are plot elements and themes I’d like to insert earlier (like Kitty’s poetic talents, or some more stuff to inform Tabitha’s character, or more pining/yearning, or introducing Kitty’s girlfriend properly and establishing that Tabitha thinks she hates them), as well as a lot of digressions and guff to take out. I think that when I finish the story, I will take a few days’ break, then come back and do a first-pass edit before I pass it on for beta reading.

but that’s still a long way down the road.

March looks a lot like February, I think. I have a lot more time when I won’t be writing - I’m away for three days weekend after next, and I have a reflective learning assignment due for my course on the 25th, so I’ve put aside the week leading up to that deadline to focus on non-fiction writing. I may also end up slowing down later in the month, as I take on a bunch more reading for my essay in April. In general, though, I’m going to keep chugging away until I get there.

I was thinking about it earlier today, and I reckon once I get to 65k, I need to consciously focus on wrapping plotlines up and getting to the end. I know myself, and I am a wordy bitch (my first novel started out at 135k words and it’s taken over a decade and three full edits to cut it down to 90k), so at a certain point I need to lean on self-discipline.

immediately next, I wrote 500 words earlier today, but I just realised I have two job applications open with deadlines tomorrow, so I might not get to count tonight too well, lol.

anyway if you want to know what’s actually happening in the book at the moment…

the story so far

Tabitha Gilbert, housemaid, rides through a summer storm to find a doctor for her sister, who is sick with a terrible fever. She finds the new town doctor, Tristan Marshall, who insists on her staying in his house to get dry while he rides off into the storm to treat Kitty. When Tabitha returns, having borrowed some dry clothes from Tristan’s housekeeper, she finds that he is already gone. Not only that: the master of the house, Lord Knox, drove him out of the house with a horsewhip and a lot of apparently very personal anger.

Because of this, Tabitha hasn’t actually paid him. She also has no money, but since all her family’s woes come from debt and interest, she is very determined to get this settled as quickly as possible and with no possible argument that she owes him anything. She decides to give him the one valuable thing she has: a gilded necklace her mother gave her when the sisters left to take up this position.

That Sunday, she sneaks away after church to return the housekeeper’s clothes and to leave a note with the necklace to ensure that her debt is paid. But Tristan, who has been mildly obsessing over how troubled she seems overall, catches up with the other maids, and Kitty tells him where Tabitha has gone. So he’s able to get home and get Tabitha to come in and talk to him rather than avoiding him entirely.

He point-blank refuses to take the necklace, but - since she insists on paying him - tells her that he’ll take thruppence for the medicine and, in exchange for his labour, she can tell him her story. After a bit of back and forth, she does.

Tabitha and Kitty come from a family of gentry, fallen on hard times as a result of her father’s gambling and failure to economise or sell any of his holdings. Tabitha and her eldest brother, Lionel, had a plan to address their debts once Lionel was in charge of the estate, but unfortunately Lionel died of cholera and the next son, Ralph, ended up inheriting. Ralph is worse than his father, and rather than fixing the issues with the estate, he goes to London to drink and gamble, and ends up bringing his dodgy friends home. One of these friends was Knox, who took an immediate liking to Kitty. Ralph encouraged him, hoping it would end with a marriage that would solve their money woes, but (for reasons I am still kind of clarifying), Knox developed a personal vendetta against Ralph and instead of marrying Kitty, forced her to come and work for him with the clear intention of preying on her. But Tabitha insisted on coming too, and for the past several months, has been inserting herself into the situation, making it impossible for Knox to get Kitty alone. Kitty is also generally unwell, and fatigues easily, so Tabitha takes on a lot of her work as well. It’s a shitty situation, but as Knox also bought out Ralph’s debts and thus has a claim on almost all the family’s assets, they’re well and truly stuck.

So Tabitha tells Tristan all this, and Tristan, deeply moved, swears to help her and Kitty out. But how? He consults with Pill, his secretary and friend, who is like “dude, just hire them? you have money. why are you being stupid”. The answer, of course, is that he is being stupid because he’s extremely attracted to Tabitha, and desperately does not want to pressure her or feel like he’s only doing this to be close to her. But he can’t tell Pill that, and he doesn’t have any actually good arguments, so he sets out for Whincrest Hall to talk to her about it.

While he’s there, there is a commotion. Kitty recovered fine from her fever, but now she’s fainted! Tristan swoops in, sweeps her up in his arms, and carries her to bed, where he diagnoses her with something he doesn’t have a name for but which is recognisably fibromylagia and POTS. he saw a nurse with a similar condition in the Crimea, you see. (this is a very subtle reference, solely for my own amusement, to Florence Nightingale)

Before Tristan and Tabitha can get over the chaos of the moment and talk brass tacks, Carlyle (the steward) arrives at the girls’ door and tells Tristan that Knox wants to talk to him right now. Knox threatens Tristan, specifically with the threat of seeing him hanged for treason, and tells him never to come near the house again.

Later that evening, Carlyle calls Tabitha into his office to tell her, in essence, that she’s on thin fucking ice and if she tries to find another employer, he will make sure she gets sued for breach of contract. He also warns her not to trust Tristan, who is a traitor to Queen and Empire.

So Tabitha does the only obvious thing: she immediately sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night to go and talk to Tristan. She finds him and Pill getting drunk together, although Pill quickly makes his excuses and goes for a walk to leave them alone. Tabitha is angry and upset and a little drunk, and she ends up grabbing Tristan and kissing him, mostly out of a need to be in control of something. He kisses back, but when she starts to cry, he pulls away in concern. When she asks him to kiss her again, he refuses. Angry and embarrassed, she storms out.

Pill catches up with her on the way out of town, and insists on accompanying her back to the Hall. On the way back, they talk about what sort of person Tristan is, and why Pill has left his home state of Madras to follow him to England.

Tristan was from a working-class background, but managed to train himself up through scholarships to be a doctor, and joined the Army to see the world. He served in Crimea, where he ultimately got a knighthood for his courage in battlefield medicine, including saving the life of one General Roland. It was a big media story, and when the Crimean War ended, still wanting to see the world, he took up a position in India, where he met Pill. And…

oh no they’re at the servant’s entrance. Guess the story’s over.

Tabitha does ask Pill why. Why does he trust Tristan so much, why did he move ten thousand miles to help him out? Pill tells her simply “He saved my sister,” and hurries her inside.

The next morning, Tabitha has started to sort through her emotions a little and try to make a plan, when she finds a love poem Kitty has written. There is only one man who recently came into their lives, so she draws an obvious conclusion: Kitty is in love with Tristan Marshall.

Meanwhile, in town, Tristan wakes up with a hangover and finds Pill missing. He and his housekeeper are just starting to get worried when Pill comes staggering in, red-eyed and excited, saying he needs to borrow the cab and go to Liverpool for a week, and if he’s right about this, Knox will be dealt with.

Sunday again. After church, Tabitha collars Tristan and tells him he needs to marry Kitty. Obviously blindsided, Tristan tells her no. Tabitha explains her reasoning: if he marries Kitty, then the family will have some protection, and the service contract explicitly allows them to leave service if they marry (since Knox loses interest at that point), so Carlyle can’t come after her for breach of contract. It’s a bad move, but the only one they have. Tristan says seriously, what, no, and Tabitha once again stalks off, determined not to keep relying on him to help them. She will go back to plan A: keep her head down, look after Kitty as best she can, and look for a way out on her own.

Except that just a few days later, things take a turn for the worse. Tabitha, who is in her feelings about everything and honestly very embarrassed, tells Kitty she should go and rest and leave Tabitha to finish the work they’re doing. Woodford, the valet, comes in and sees she’s alone, tells her to clean up a mess in the smoking room, and leaves. Something sits badly with Tabitha about this, and when she realises that the mess in the smoking room looks like it’s been made intentionally and that Knox is nowhere to be seen, she rushes back to the servants’ quarters to check on Kitty - only to find Knox storming down the servants’ stair, sopping wet and furious.

Upstairs, Kitty is in tears, and Mattie, the scullery maid, is sitting with her. Mattie was the one who put a stop to the situation by “accidentally” throwing her mop bucket at the lord of the manor. this will end great for her. Tabitha tries to stay and help, but is wracked by guilt for not being there in time, and Mattie is still standing guard. When it’s clear that Knox isn’t immediately coming back, and when Kitty is asleep, Tabitha once again goes to visit Tristan.

She shows up and essentially says “we’re having sex now”. Tristan, who is confused but kind of into it, and who obviously doesn’t know what’s going on, capitulates, and they do have sex. This is all part of Tabitha’s (incredibly stupid) Master Plan, in which she will seduce Tristan, guilt him into marrying her, and then Kitty will be a noblewoman by association and Knox will have to let her go. Or they can go to the Continent or something. Basically: fuck the hot doctor, marry him ASAP, the situation will not be solved but at least she’ll have access to money and power when it all goes to shit.

unfortunately as soon as the postcoital glow passes, she realises that this is a stupid idea and also she’s abandoned Kitty in her hour of need, and she starts to cry. and Tristan, in the throes of some as yet unexplored trauma, gets more aggressive than either of them wants in trying to stop her walking a mile in the dark while clearly severely upset. they are in the process of patching this up now.

AND THAT’S WHAT YOU MISSED ON GLEE.

hmmm

Subplots in Fiction: How to Use Them to Deepen Your Story

Overview, excerpt from article: “(…) The Goldilocks method of subplotting: not too few, not too many—you have to find a balance that’s just right. And that balance will look different for every book.

In this article, we’ll explore:

• What a subplot is (and isn’t).
• How many subplots a book should have.
• Different types of subplots.
• How to weave subplots into your story.
• Common subplot mistakes.
• Real-world examples that show subplotting done well.”

A decent read that explains and gives examples on types of subplot, as well as a generic checklist to see if one should be added/subtracted out. Do be warned that there are ads on the site (though they are not too obstructing).

This summer I will be so toned and so tanned

Just you fuckers wait, I’m gonna eventually come up with something so asinine and non sequitur that everyone on this platform will regail me with respect, I’ll become the new tumblr king >:).

we will be SELLING them after we EAT THEM. we are going to SCAM people in thinking they bought delicious organs.

Plotting… Plotting… Scheming…

Rhajat is a black eagle, but I’d like a blue lion partner for these prompts!

• [Axe +1] Rhajat does not like menial work. But she would not turn down an opportunity to mess with the system. Taken by fafnir
• [Reason +1] LET ME AT EM LET’S SOLVE THIS

As for the non-mission prompts:

• [Riding +1] Yay illegal activities Taken by julia

I’m open to other threads with or without the prompts, too! Like this post and I’ll put up a starter! Or contact me on discord.

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You’re fine! ( *^-^)ρ(*╯^╰)

I will say, I’m not opposed to that idea. Especially since each book of Apocalypse Gods is narrated by a different… apocalypse god (think horsemen of the apocalypse). So some overlap would/could make sense, especially if certain plot points overlap between stories.

Although, each book does follow Jesse/Claire, so them happening at the exact same time as a previous book wouldn’t make sense.

Beyond that, though, I do just love writing in chronological order! It scratches my brain when writers do that. Also, since I find it confusing when they don’t — although, often it works anyways so…