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idiosyncraticofficial · 4 months

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Idiosyncratic tells the dark story of Calixte Stanhope, a rather callous and bleak but…ordinary enough young man who awoke in this dystopian nightmare after having been pushed in front of an ongoing train while escorting his love home, a faceless and nameless woman he remembers only by her mere existence in this vivid memory.

Rather than opening his eyes to either the pearly gates of heaven or the fiery depths of hell, Calixte found himself in the grand presence of the ominous town of Baltimore where everything from the largest bank to the tiniest coin is made entirely of cardboard and plastic, like the set for a play—mimicking the real thing while not actually being it. One can say, a rip off of everything in our world.

The pompous citizens too, while very friendly and obliging, are just as enigmatic. Soon enough, as Calixte tries to get to the bottom of this bizarre situation, all illusions wear and Calixte is thrown into the deep end of this nightmarish society where it’s horrifically revealed to him after he got into an altercation with a few of the locals that these people just adore violence and brutality, lusting for it so much to the point where its watched on television, discussed fanatically in literature, and any horrid death calls for a grand celebration. In fact, the more irredeemable and atrocious something is, the more the twisted residents of Baltimore revere it like sacred scripture, and the man who proudly encourages and orchestrates this madness is none other than the eccentric mayor, referred to as just “Sedgwick.”

Actors, who are the very unfortunate few like Calixte who wound up in Baltimore, have to routinely partake in abhorrent acts for the public’s sick entertainment otherwise more than just their dignity, humanity, and pride will be torn from them. It’s a horrifying ordeal to most, but a paradise to some of humanity’s greatest degenerates, and that small minority is powerful. Thus leading Calixte to meet people he never would’ve otherwise and creating a fragile alliance that will either make or break this band of not so good lowlifes, all depraved in their own ways but alike in their hunger for freedom and above all, answers.

His thinking, which was initially very practical quickly becomes quixotic as Calixte realizes his dangerous willingness to do anything he must in order to escape the clutches of the Hegemony and Craze and to reunite with the one woman so dear to him.

The man never would’ve thought the madness of this world would stretch far, far beyond just fanaticism for the macabre and glamorization of depravity

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lilyharvord · 2 years

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Congrats on the manuscript! Not only have you thought an idea but you executed it to the end, that alone is waaaay more than a lot of people have done.

Have you told us what is it about?

Hope everything goes well with the editors, that their critics are constructive but critics or not never forgett that your work is already a 10/10 doesn't matter what others say

thank you love! It's certainly been a long journey. I actually haven't shared what it is about with you guys since I was worried about legal things given that this story did seem to be one that was 100% something I was pursuing for publishing. I can give you a quick little premise I suppose... just the very first sentence of it for my query letter... nothing to fancy:

Fans of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, Sabaa Tahir's Ember in the Ashes, and Sarah J Maas's Throne of Glass will enjoy a Young Adult fantasy filled with twists, turns, and an unwilling heroine thrust into a battle between higher powers, and those with too much power.

I super appreciate your well wishes with the editing process!!! The editor is not really the one I'm scared of since I've gotten very used to feedback as a writer.😅 It's the agents, who guard the gate my book must past through that really scare me. XD

#(*ask lily*)#(*shut up lily*)#my writing #my book series #It hasn't hit me yet #hopefully it happens #there is still a long way to go

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harmonyverendez · 1 month

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Lucas Patterson

#Lucas Patterson #harmonyverendez #my post #Nocturnal series #my book series #my book #aesthetic #original male character

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bananacatmeow · 2 months

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ah yes, even at 12 percy still messes with frank in spirit.

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wtaffy · 1 month

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PERSEUS-

#Idk if it's actually meant to be funny but I CACKLED #percy jackson #persassy #pjo #greek mythology #percy jackon and the olympians #cabin 11 #books #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #pjo fandom #annabeth chase #grover underwood #heroes of olympus #My cousin Percy does not give one f two fs red fs blue fs #Titans curse

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owilder · 2 months

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As I foray into editing the final five chapters of Book the First, here is an excerpt from my most recently finished chapter tentatively titled The Earthquake:

Instinctively, Alanis placed her hand on the younger child’s back and rubbed with small circular motions, just as she often did for her little brother when he felt sick or scared. Something like a grainy video began to play in her mind: from a seated position on an orange shag rug, she could see sliding glass doors rattling in their frame, the frenzied convulsions of a windchime, a potted plant falling, smashing against the tile floor of a small veranda into a mound of ceramic chunks and dirt, roof tiles slipping down, crashing somewhere out of sight below. Tomás shuddered; the vision ended.

As Alanis’s hand traced soothing circles against his back, Tomás closed his eyes, recalling once when he was very little – before Elena had even been born and long before Abuelita had moved in – feeling the same way he did now. The whole world had seemed to tremble beneath his feet, every cell of his body trembling along with it. His stomach had churned then too. Had he thrown up? He strained to remember. All he could remember with clarity was crying into Miguel’s striped t-shirt until it was over and his mother in her aqua-blue flower maternity dress lamenting a broken planter while she rehung a fallen windchime. How could the dress his mother was wearing be so fresh in his memory when the cause of his terror eluded him?

- Part the Second, Chapter the Seventeenth, The Earthquake (C.R. Book the First: A New World)

(These sentences and all work related to it are copyright O. Wilder and are timestamped to prove ownership. Do not repost.)

#Writing #Books #My writing #My books #My book series #New chapter #Science fiction #Fantasy #Young adult books #YA science fiction #YA fantasy #Chapter the Seventeenth #The Earthquake #Writer's life #AmWriting

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mo-mode · 4 months

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The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

#it’s not that they don’t have the other two it’s that they all had their smarts privileges revoked #Annabeth lost her street smarts and common sense privileges when she tried to buy all that candy with only $200 #Percy lost his common sense and book smarts privileges when he couldn’t figure out he was a son of Poseidon after using literal water powers #grover lost his book smarts and street smarts privileges after trying to reason with Medusa and a cop respectively #they’re all my children tho #don’t worry they’ll get their privileges back #eventually #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series #annabeth chase #grover underwood

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haliaiii · 3 months

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Juno’s champion

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thatrandomblogsays · 4 months

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RIP Annabeth, I just know Percy sacrificing himself for you, after knowing you for a week, after telling you that you’ve done more for him this week than his father ever has, is permanently altering the brain chemistry of your avoidant attachment self

#epitome of the quote: there is something really healing about being loved #which is from a book I CANT REMEMBER SO I CANT LOOK IT UP PROPERLY #let me know if you guys know what I’m talking about #i just know Percy’s actions had her on her knees #what is this? unconditional love?#is this why people make friends?#i am lovable?#this is amazing #oh shit my new friend is about to die #I’m so normal about them (I’m lying)#pjo #pjo spoilers #pjo tv show spoilers #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackson #annabeth chase #Percy and Annabeth #mine

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counting-stars-gayly · 3 months

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Book: "I don't know what my mom will do. I just know I'll fight next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain."

Show: "You've done more for me in the past few days than my dad's done for me in my entire life. If I have to stick with someone, I—" "Careful. I think you were about to call me your friend."

#AAAAAAAAAAH #I don't have the words for an essay rn because life is life-ing but I hope you guys Get It #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #rick riordan #pjo books #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo disney+#pjo adaptation #pjo ep 4 #pjo 1x04 #we take a zebra to vegas #I plunge to my death

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medievalatkinson · 3 months

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shut up seaweed brain jst hold me for a while ☹❤

poor frank when he found them 😭😭

this is the other version w more light HEHE

#this was a CHALLENGE #i did a cool clr pallete at first and oh my days 😭😭#im jst gom stick w a warm pallete #YIPE #percy jackson #pjo #rick riordan #books #illustration #heroes of olympus #annabeth chase #percy series #percabeth #mark of athena

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idiosyncraticofficial · 4 months

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Dagny and her lovely family

Her and Conrad’s relationship is indeed rather complicated and although outwardly they appear as two very enamored and equally deranged maniacs who complete each other, they pretty much get along as far as it benefits them

The book will further elaborate this dynamic…

#booklr #my books #my writing #my art stuff #my characters #my art <3 #my book series #my artwork #my work #my art #aspiring artist #aspiring author #aspiring writer #writers on tumblr #female writers #female artists #my character

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sunnylemonss · 4 months

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it should be illegal for netflix to print their little "now a netflix series!" circles DIRECTLY on the cover of books that inspired shows they've cancelled

#saw these on some s&b and soc books in target yesterday #i was like bffr #netflix i'm in ur walls #shadow and bone #six of crows #netflix #also applicable to the half bad series by sally green #lockwood and co #too i'm so sorry my brethren we r in the trenches fr

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iphigeniacomplex · 5 months

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it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks!#sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in ->#<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this.#its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!!#cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of ->#<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children.#rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations.#fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

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southsideofchicago · 1 month

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bro basically said "oh you sweet summer child, we're both very fucked."

#this book series is my new hyperfixation #my fight or flight was on max while reading the last chapter-#neil josten #jean moreau #the raven king #aftg #all for the game

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purplehalnw · 4 months

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Okay so I just realized that The Lightning Thief was published in 2005. You tie that into the whole "cell phones attract monsters" thing and now this detail is just fucking hilarious to me. Like imagine if Percy got attacked by a monster just because he tried using one of these things:

#wtf out of all my posts on here why is this the one to blow up so quickly 🤣#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief #pjo series #pjo fandom #pjo hoo toa #pjo #rick riordan #pjo percy #tlt #tlt series #Percy #pjo books #percy pjo

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