#clean steampunk books

[erawls-themaskedstoryteller]

Cover Reveal for author Jenelle Leanne Schmidt!

#Coverreveal for author #jenelleschmidt her new #steampunkfantasy book releasing in June! #bookslikeNarnia #adventurebooks #airships #pirates #newfantasybooks #cleanreads

This week is a special one, as it’s the cover reveal for the first book in a series that my dear friend and fellow author has been working on for a lonnng time! In total it will be a 5 book series, and the other books are all close to being ready for publishing! Which means you won’t have to wait too long to find out what happens next in the story–you know, avoiding those dreaded “cliffhanger”…

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[fromthedust]

AVIAN READER: STEAMPUNK BIRDHOUSE (revised post tenants, 2023)

wood, copper, brass, bronze, steel, glass, plastic, found objects, limestone, wren’s egg - 11"x 9¾"x 10¼"

This piece been outside my studio for several years, and a couple of years ago was used by a pair of Carolina Wrens which come every year and have nested in my ladder hanging on the outside of the studio several times. I could not use the ladder for several years each Spring, so I had decided to make a couple of wren-sized birdhouses which I placed near the studio so they would have another housing option other than my ladder. The birdhouse roof was damaged after a fallen tree limb fell on it knocking it onto the ground. I repaired the birdhouse roof (see the copper ‘stitched’ detail image above). After the repair the birdhouse was used by wrens a couple of years ago, and — as I have an offer to purchase this piece — I finally took it down and opened it up so I could clean it out for the new (human) owner. I discovered an intact unhatched egg in the nest. I carefully removed the nest and the egg and cleaned the house out, making a new base for displaying the house the new home (a log cabin in the mountains of North Georgia).  The wren’s egg became a part of the new sculpture, resting atop the bookshelf inside. The new owner will have the nest which I saved. All the books on the shelf represent significant books on my bookshelves, though they are not accurate facsimiles . . . 

#art by me #sculpture #birdhouse #wren's nest #my artowrk #books #egg #functional sculpture #Don Dougan #reworked

[aetherhollowarchive]

The Aetherhollow Archive is a steampunk romance soaked in a gallon of magic. It is set in Summersmead, the fictional empire from the book you are sucked into. 

Four hundred years after the Chosen One failed to save their world, you find yourself in the shoes of the presumed, and freshly murdered, villain of the story - ostentatiously called Sovereign. You embark on a journey to unfold the mysteries of this new world and find a way home. But with your killer lurking in the shadows, who can you trust?

Genre: Steampunk, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery. Warnings: This story will be rated 18+ for depictions of death, violence, strong language, sexual themes, alcohol consumption, blood, etc. DEMO - Chapter 1, 23 October 2023

Fully customizable MC.

Uncover Sovereign’s murderer.

Help the Chief of Police save the citizens from a mysterious drug.

Deal with the air pirates and their insufferable leader!

Fight an automaton army!

While you might be going slightly mad, too.

Fix (or destroy) the world. No pressure.

Six romance options (1 NB male, 2F and 3M - one straight).

Romance Options

Elian “Eli” Cabello -  the Hero [NB, he/they] ???

The new dashing hero of the story. As the younger sibling of the late Chosen One, Eli has the best motive to have killed Sovereign. Leader of the rebellion and with a knack of putting themselves in danger, will they come to finish the job?

Face claim: Miguel Angel Silvestre

Keyon Dalgliesh - the Advisor [M] ???

Sovereign’s trusted advisor and confidant. Keyon is an all-knowing (if not all-wise) polymath, well-versed in history, science and several languages. He can come off as a bit of a snob, but he might just be the only person who had Sovereign’s back. But will he consider you an impostor? 

Face claim: Tom Hiddlestione’s Loki

Rae Fairburne - the Mercenary [F] 25

The scruffy mercenary Sovereign signed a contract with right before dying. Cold-hearted and opportunist, Rae is top on the list of enemies, but she does not seem to care much for neither the politics nor the city. Could she have a better offer for your head?

Face claim: Cara Gee’s Camina Drummer

Blythe Haywarde - the Inventor [F] 27

The brilliant Inventor Sovereign was sponsoring. She spends most of her time in the workshop tower, tinkering and creating all sorts of devices, and obsessively cleaning her tools. As gentle a soul as you can find, Blythe seems to care more about the strays she saves than the world outside. Could a killer hide underneath the doe-like eyes?

Face claim: Anna Diop

Thane Winthrope - the Guard [M, straight] 34

The new head of the Guard. Stoic and built like a brick wall, Thane is a man of few words. He has recently been promoted following the death of many palace soldiers. You feel his eyes follow you everywhere, but that’s just his duty as your newly appointed bodyguard. Right? 

Face claim: Sebastian Stan

Alder - Pirate king [M] 38 Flirty and boisterous, the king of the air pirates seems like a ray of sunshine on a first glance. You really don’t want to get on his bad side, the man is positively unhinged. Face claim: Tom Hardy

Other notable characters:

Angelica Cabello - The Chosen One [F] 32, deceased

Eli’s sister and former Chosen One. She had been sent on a journey to save their dying planet by an ancient prophecy. Angelica was betrayed and murdered at the end of the expedition by one of her companions who named themself Sovereign and took the promised power.

Face claim: Frankie Adams

Carling Powlett - Chief of police [F] 50

Madam Powlett is the long standing chief of Summersmead Police Department. She cares less for the nobility, but keeps an extra eye out for the less fortunate. She never hid her distaste for Sovereign. 

Face claim:  Shohreh Aghdashloo

Gytha - The Maid [F] 2

The clockwork maid Sovereign commissioned some two years prior. She’s soft spoken and delicate for an automaton, with an amazingly realistic porcelain face. She also makes incredible good tea.

DEMO  :  TBA  |  CHARACTER SHEET  |  LORE TBA  |  MUSIC  |

#intro post #The Aetherhollow Archive #interactive fiction #romance #steampunk #but with a little magic #twine if #twine wip #no demo #The Aetherhollow Archive IF #IF game #IF wip #steampunk if

[cowboymantis]

(reading your tags on the house design post) that is a very understandable mood. Sometimes I look at new home renovation stuff and it just looks... dull? I think you picked the right word with ''lifeless''; it feels like those homes are not actually being lived in.

Right!!! Like I love all types of "eras" of houses, both real and "imagined" (like steampunk for example) and there's a charm in it from ancient to futuristic!!! For example, I love everything about cyberpunk and the likes, house designs can be cool and colourful and full with fancy things and lights! And then the actual "futuristic" trend people follow is just... nothing in the house.

And it's so weird bc I feel like mostly rich people follow those trends, where the more empty and white/beige the house is = the better... Imagine having so much money and a boring empty house!!!!

When there isn't anything in the house, it really just feels like an empty shell, like it's been cleaned to perfection before it's sold, not like someone is living in it???

Especially I love to have the things I like visible out in the open, whether it's books, albums, merch etc, it also must be so boring to live in a house like that.

I mean that's just me, so to each their own, but man I feel sorry for the babies of that "beige mom" epidemic I've seen people talk about on Youtube 😭 Like if having a baby room look like a baby room is "ruining your aesthetic" then yeah maybe just don't have any kids ever it's the best for everyone

[steamcrew]

WIP Intro; "Steamcrew" [PART 1]

Short summary:

When his somewhat-sibling Hope needs a job, Melanthe joins xem in signing up for a position as a nightsweeper, the city of Primobius's "keep our city clean" taskforce. Unfortunately for him, he now has to deal with a pair of twins who are hiding from a cryptic past and need to leave the famed city in the clouds. Together, the four of them take their job one step at a time, until the twins finally reveal what dark secrets the city is keeping. Torn between staying safe and staying together, how long do they all have until the Angels figure out just where they're hiding?

Genre: fantasy / steampunk

[Main] characters: Melanthe Munderson, Hope Ryndoll, Cali Ruano Harpeman, Carrie Ruano Harpeman

Notes:

First draft stage

Steamcrew is split into two parts [books] and I will be introducing them separately

The book name for part 1 is Primobius

Primobius has a 3rd person POV of Melanthe and Hope

Found family

Tag: steamcrew, [character] steamcrew

If you'd like more information about steamcrew, always feel free to send an ask in, respond to this post, reblog with questions, etc etc!

+ I've never done a taglist before because I'm pretty new to tumblr's writblr but if anyone would like to be tagged in snippets or smth similar please to ask!

Taglist: @mb-blue-roses ,

divider credit : @animatedglittergraphics-n-more

#steamcrew #wip intro #writblr #writeblr #creative writing #original story #epitaph speaks #story intro #i don't know how writblr works ^_^; so im jsut going to throw this out there rq!

[galactic-pirates]

Fanfic Witing Emoji Ask Game: 🦉, 🚿, 🤷‍♀️, :)

Yay thank you!

🦉Is there another author that helped inspire you to write? Answered here :)

🚿 Where do your best ideas seem to strike? Lol I love that the emoji for this is the shower because that is the classic isn't it? For me it's probably not that. To be honest my best ideas seem to strike when I'm actively hunting them. Sometimes I need to let them percolate a bit and I'll do some cleaning, or build some lego, or go make a hot drink, do other chores etc. (percolating time is important). But otherwise it's when I'm at my desk working. Before I can think of the answers, I need to ask the questions (percolating doesn't work otherwise).

🤷‍♀️What's a fic you didn't expect to be popular, but really took off? Answered here :)

🐎 Would you ever do a medieval or pirate au? For fic? No because I'm not writing fanfic anymore BUT please allow me to ramble for a minute. My current novel is in a lot of ways a portal fantasy and the world they fall into is the typical cliché medieval magical kingdom. I have another novel as a WIP which is a Camelot retelling (so also medieval in a lot of ways). Then we come to pirates - I'm going to say no, not in the traditional sense but I do have a Steampunk WIP which has airships so... maybe something? And I think space pirates will have to be a thing in something at some point. So maybe some kind of AU's with those aesthetics eventually.

🟥How long do you spend in edits? This is a funny question because I'm deep in edits at the moment for my novel. Over 42 hours and counting and I've not even finished my first edit pass yet (I'm thinking there will be 3 passes, plus one final check). I don't think edits have ever taken this long before and I'm thinking maybe that means I'm finally doing them properly?

These are actual edits (so about how I'm saying it, not about what I'm saying). I'm not talking about revision. This book has already been revised and redrafted multiple times. No I'm purely talking edits, so execution not content. I'm starting to be afraid the edits will take as long as the draft did (110 hours for this one), but we'll see I guess.

Back when I was writing fanfic I didn't tend to do much more than a proof read. So the amount of time editing, was really the length of time it took me to re-read it carefully and make a few tweaks. So not that long at all.

#I answer things #sam talks writing

[rubykgrant]

Now that I’ve read and re-read the book City of Ember a few times, I went back to re-watch the movie recently... because even before I read the book, I didn’t enjoy the movie too much, but the book itself was pretty interesting, so I wanted to try and figure out what the “difference” is. I think, in a very general way, the book is written in a way that feels like a slow-paced mystery at first, with the stakes getting higher and higher as the characters figure out the truth regarding their world. The movie kind of just tries to be a little too “extreme” right off the bat, it feels like an action movie all the time, which gets boring/annoying when nothing especially action-packed is happening, and without enough of a connection to the characters, the actual actions scenes feel a little empty. There are other little differences too, but that’s sort of the big vibe through the whole thing (there’s also the issue I have with a lot of movies, and it is admittedly a nit-picky thing that is my own problem, but... certain scenes, sets, and even clothing for the characters look too “stylized” and “clean”. in particular with City of Ember, even with all the broken steampunk looking surroundings, it never felt like an ancient dystopian city. clothing that was supposed to be old and frayed looked too new. other movies that have more modern settings and what not do this too, and it bugs me... but again, that’s just me). Anyway, the book City of Ember, and the other in the series, are worth a read~

#my thoughts #movies #books #city of ember

[ange-de-la-mort]

What are all your fandom tats if you don’t mind me asking

nonny, thank you for asking omg. I just LOVE talking about tattoos - not just about mine but also about tattoos in general. They're just. So cool. And everyone has such an individual taste and style, it's awesome!

(Cut for length and pictures)

My first tattoo is a pink and purple Wayfinder from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep on my wrist (because BBS is my fav Kingdom Hearts game and Xigbar/Braig used to be my fav character until a certain plot twist in KH3 that fucked up 12 years of stanning.) I haven't completely lost hope, but depending on where the games go, I just. Might get it modified or redone or touched-up or expanded. We'll see.

I got it in 2019 during my first burnout to remind myself that I belong to myself and my body is mine and only mine, so I guess it's something between a self-healing and a trans thing. I don't even know anymore. Anyway, I don't regret it, it still looks nice, but since I don't know where I'm going with it, I won't take a pic for now.

I got my second one in 2021. I've been a fan of Resident Evil ever since I was 12 years old (yes, I know, I was too young, but this was before I could piss off people on the internet by sliding into adult spaces as a kid), and while I kind of lost interest in the franchise for a while and while I HATED 7 (yes, I know. Unpopular opinion), 8 dragged me back. I commissioned a friend for the design because while I knew what I wanted - Umbrella, Steampunk, the Heisenberg logo) I'm not an artist.

I will link Vincent here, please go check out his art and buy some cool things from him, okay?

Anyway, this is the finished piece:

Since my tattoo artist fucked up a bunch of things, it's very much faded already and looks like it's like 10 years old instead of 2 already, sigh sigh, and I'll have to get it re-done soon-ish. Once I have the spare cash because this is gonna be expensive as fuck.

The third one was also designed by Vincent (no, for real, go give him money) and it's basically a glorified ship tattoo for The Quarry. I wanted something for the Travislaura working together + Lauramax reunion + Travislaura killing each other achievements, and I told Vincent I wanted it with the base of the broken mirror shards and the flowers being mirrored in them while needle and thread and hold everything loosely together. It's gorgeous, and I love it a lot. I'm very unashamed about wearing it on my chest because literally nobody gets that it's a ship tattoo until I tell them lmao

I got it last November.

Once we clean up the Resident Evil tattoo, my studio and I will also expand the Quarry one and make them look like they belong together. Which means we will make sure to give them both a water colour background blending from my left shoulder (reddish-brown/rust coloured RE tattoo) to my chest (blue and purple hues for the Quarry), we will also add a few more smaller mirror shards to my shoulder.

And. Well. Now there's the 4 birds. I initially only had a mock-up picture from the internet, but I asked my spouse to trace them off an ingame screenshot. I'm very glad we did that lmao because the mock-up would have looked way worse than what I have now. Like. I was... hoping it would look halfway okay. I had never believed it would look just fucking incredible. It's probably gonna peel in a day or two already, it's healing perfectly!

........................I want more tattoos. I grew up with games. And books. But it's mostly games that made me feel and fall in love with them. So it's gonna be more game tattoos.

(Also hi, I stream video games sometimes because *clenches fists* I just love video games.)

#kingdom hearts #resident evil #the quarry #uncharted #fandom tattoos #HELLO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR TATTOOS I WANNA SEE THEM ALL #anon

[sugar-phoenix]

this or that post

I wasn't tagged but @rownanisntwriting left their tag post open for anyone so I took it <3 you can find it here !!

historical or futuristic

I'm okay with research but I'm scared of estimating something from the past and some historian being like "actually you're wrong" so I would struggle (I already struggle when I write my victorian era fantasy settings {steampunk?} and have to think about things that I don't know about) -- futuristic kind of has that appeal of like we don't know what's going to happen in the future so I tend to write that more than historical.

opening or closing chapter

I LOVE WRITING OPENINGS I LOVE WRITING INTRIGUING OPENINGS -- to be honest I love writing intriguing closings to chapters as well, they both bring me joy but opening chapters bring me more joy. because i love writing a thought from one of the character's pov, and then switching to another character in the next chapter directly opposing that thought hahahaha it gives me so much joy and power and I love it so much~

light+fluffy or dark+gritty

Dark and gritty all the way, give me your angst, your monsters, your dark haired lover in the night. I wanna see pining, I wanna see two lovers on two sides of a war, I wanna see enemies fall in love with each other, I wanna see fights, I wanna see RAW. OPEN. WOUNDS.

animal companion or found family

I love animals and I'm not a huge fan of family (don't mind reading it, have a hard time writing it) so yeah. animal companion on this one. I actually love reading animal companions, especially when they can talk to the character, so yeah, would love to write that too.

horror or romance

Romance. All the way. I do love writing morbid things but honey I pretty much only read/write romance. I love building up the romantic tension, the relationship. I love reading it unfold before my eyes. ugh. romance. 💖

hard magic system or soft magic system

I like a magic system with clear rules on what you can and can't do, and I think that I like soft magic systems but I think I tend to write sort of.. hard-leaning magic systems since my brain wants to find a logical rule for everything. I don't like terrifyingly scientific magic systems that hurt my brain and take a long time to explain, but clear cut rules are nice (i honestly have no clue where the line is between a hard magic system and a soft magic system help)

standalone or series

I like both but to me the idea of writing a standalone is nice. A whole adventure, all the action, romance, and drama bundled up into one clean package. The plot would also be simpler/shorter too so... yeah idk it's just nice for me to think about I think I'd like to write one.

one project at a time or always juggling 2+

yeah uhhh i have a fanfiction, a main wip that I wanted to write but is now ultimately on the backburner due to me being too scared to try to outline it without figuring out the two magic systems which are a hell in themselves, and I might be dreaming up a new wip. so. yeah.

one award winner or one bestseller

Honestly I'd like an award winner but if bestseller gets me more acclaim and chances of my book being turned into a movie/show (which, make no mistake about it I will be watching their every move to ensure they do not butcher my masterpiece) then yeah I would take bestseller. Either is fine, though.

fantasy or sci-fi

yeah I don't hate sci-fi but I write and read fantasy WAY WAY WAY more. like almost only. fantasy. rarely do I read sci-fi nowadays, although it's not a hard thing for me to read/write. I just really like dark princes who rule over a magical kingdom, magical animals in a magical forest, etc. you get the point.

character description or setting description

I like both but I pay way more attention to character description than setting description. I'm sorry but flowery descriptions of characters get me so bad,, it might be because I'm an artist and I like making characters as pretty/quirky as possible so yeah. talk to me about how your ml has "silver blue eyes" or how your fl has "auburn hair."

first draft or final draft

I have not reached a final draft yet but I long for the day where I have and I look at all my work and think about all the work I've been doing over the past months (years??) and go "it's finally over." and then I have a whole manuscript that I can actually try to publish. like, getting to the "i'm ready to publish" stage is such a big goal for me.

love triangle in everything or no romantic arcs

yeah no. I'd rather have a series/book be entirely platonic than have a bunch of love triangles.

constant sandstorm or rainstorm

rainstorm!!!! i love the rain so much. ⛈️⛈️ I also love the ambience of thunder + flashing lighting

#first tag game! #this was really fun #this or that #tag game #tagging game #writeblr #writing community

[uptoolateart]

Sancoeur

New fan fiction series giving Nathalie's back story.

Summary:

Before Nathalie Sancoeur became PA to Gabriel Agreste, she was an Adventuress Extraordinaire - the original badass, living for danger, searching for that one thing that would cure the terminal boredom.

This is Nathalie's backstory. This first installment has her 25 years old, in search of the legendary Chintamani Stone, purported to grant wishes and guarded by the guardian of a sacred lake in Tibet.

In further installments, we'll watch her grow up, and even look back at when she was younger - eventually meeting Gabriel and falling in love for the first time....

Illustrations pending...!

Work Text:

The two men who accompanied her did not trust her to lead them to what they desired. Had not trusted her to be strong enough to manage the difficult terrain or extreme elevation. Or to have a brain. They had been instructed by another man, bigger than them in status if not build, to listen to her, to do everything she said. But they did not know why.

She could see all of this in their dark shallow eyes every time they stared at her. That, and their lust for her, the sole woman on this expedition a million miles from life. And she could feel it in the thin air they breathed her way each time they opened their mouths to say things that were not truly what they meant.

Nathalie let this drift over her like the swift breeze that shot down from the desolate mountain peaks that surrounded her. Because she was everything they did not believe she was. And that meant she didn’t have time for these men and their doubts – or their names.

It was the men who’d struggled with this journey, first with the nearly ten-hour flight from Paris to Kathmandu, where they’d stayed two nights. Drunk with jetlag, the men had gone out to see what night life the city had to offer, demonstrating how little they’d researched the area. There had been a not-so-subtle invitation for her to join them, perhaps crash with one of them in his dank little hotel room.

Nathalie had treated them both to one of her special smiles reserved for crushing hope, not just of being with her but of anything at all. Then she’d shut her own hotel room door in their faces and spent the evening scouring over maps, re-reading her books, scribbling down hurried notes, and cleaning the pitifully small selection of blades she’d had transported in the cargo hold of their plane with special clearance given by the man who’d commissioned her.

The flight to Lhasa had been relatively short, at under two hours, and then there had been further modes of transport, including yak. Finally, they’d left the yaks at a respite point and made the last leg of this journey on foot, over the rocky terrain and towards Siling, the highest altitude lake in the world, at 4,530 metres. It was also the biggest in the Tibetan region, stretching across the arid landscape for 720 square miles. Being a saltwater lake, the air had that tang to it, like being at the beach, which was surreal when some of the clouds hung right around Nathalie’s head.

Even in July, the temperature had begun the day at 9 degrees centigrade and now hit a grand high of 16. Still, the journey was far from easy. Her beloved coat – an ankle-length steampunk number in black, which corseted down the front and flared open at the waist – had been left with the yaks. Too heavy, hot and impractical in this terrain. Even in her black cargo trousers and equally dark sleeveless tunic, she was sweating hard under the relentless sun.

She’d take it, though, over some of the places her lifestyle took her.

The guidebooks told that Siling was a monster who once lived west of Lhasa. It ate up the population without discrimination – animals, humans, all were fair game. Until legendary Buddhist Padmasambhava battled with the monster, sending it fleeing into the lake that later took its name. Padmasambhava commanded that Siling should remain in the lake for eternity, living out its karma as a guardian of the waters. Evil was vanquished by good – not just good but compassion.

Nathalie smiled to herself. I would have killed the bastard.

Keep reading at Ao3

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous fandom #chat noir #cat noir #mlb #miraculous cat noir #mlb fandom #ml fandom #marichat #ml season 5 #mlb season 5 spoilers #mlb spoilers #mlb s5 #mlb fanfic #ml fanfic #ml fanworks #miraculous fanfic #miraculous fanworks #miraculous spoilers #miraculous season 5 #nathalie sancoeur #miraculous nathalie #gabriel agreste #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #ladybug and chat noir #ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir

[shotdownbutstillalive]

◈ TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER!

favourite colour(s): Warm oranges or fall yellows

favourite flavour(s): Caramelized onion, cornbread in chicken soup, and brown sugar bubble tea

favourite genre(s): SciFi, existential horror, steampunk, incredibly niche non-fiction subjects

favourite music: nerdcore/anime music & rap, stuff with nice harmonies, pieces I played in wind ensemble like the second Holst suite in F, Jazz, select country songs that were either made pre-9/11 or against the patriotism as religion modern truck country, western music, film scores and steampunk

favourite movie(s): Detroit Evolution by Octopunk media, Muppet's Treasure Island, Bahuubali pt 1 and 2

favourite series: Demon Slayer, Way of the Househusband, Static Shock the animated series, trinity blood (manga version)

last song: Oh No - Steam Powered Giraffe

last series: WandaVision

last movie: Star Trek (2009)

currently reading: AO3 fics, the USBC rule book (I’ve been learning a lot about bowling trying to get my average score up by understanding the physics and history of the game)

currently watching: a bunch of airplane accident vids on yt, bowling vids on yt, and I should probably get back to One Piece soon (sunken cost fallacy got me bad)

currently working on: finding a job, making paintings to post for sale, and posting clothes for sale to clean out my closet

Tagged by: @silver-blooded-synthetics

Tagging: @change-on-the-rise, @lieutenantgivesnoshits, @bleedingviolet

I think everyone else I would want to tag has been tagged already and I don’t want to make people feel overwhelmed by being tagged repeatedly

#dash games #OOC #might be back soon will need to see how the next few months shake out

[georgi-girl]

Babes and the Beast Tropes Page

I made a tv tropes page for my GF fan-story. Later this month, I’ll be reposting edited chapters.

Adult Fear - Two small children are repeatedly thrown into danger, much to the horror of their grown-up guardians. 

Angry Mob - Somewhat justified. Gideon galvanizes the townspeople into thinking Stan kidnapped and brainwashed the kids.

Baleful Polymorph - Everyone in the castle has been transformed against their will. 

Benevolent Boss - Stan is this to the castle staff; gruff and scary, but also kind and protective.

Big Brother Instinct - Obviously, Dipper and Mabel as well as Stan and Ford have this for each other. 

Big Ball - The Hanukah party in Chapter Nine. 

Cool Big Sister - Wendy is this to Dipper and Mabel. 

Creepy Good - Stan is this to a T. Also applies to Robbie. 

Curse Escape Clause - The curse that transforms everyone at the castle can be broken by Stan loving and being loved by someone who sees his inner beauty. He learn this not from the one who cursed him, but from a good witch in the forest. 

Dead Parents Are the Best - Dipper and Mabel’s parents are missed not just by their children but by the whole town.

Divine Intervention - More like fairy intervention. In the eleventh hour, Jheslbraum the oracle uses her magic to restart Stans’ heart and bring him back to life. Justified in-story by her own inner monologue. 

Dream Visions - Mabel and Dipper have these when they sleep. They’re implied to be sent by Jheslbraum herself.  

Enchanted Forest - Downplayed since most of the forest’s magical aspects are hibernating. 

Fair Folk - All magical creatures either featured or mentioned can be considered Fai beings. 

Filler Episode - Chapter 7, Which is made from scenes I couldn’t fit into other chapters.

Found Family - Dipper and Mabel find this with Stan and the castle staff.

Gaslamp Fantasy - I added some steampunk elements to the story, such as MkGuckets’ inventions and the castle boiler. 

Haunted Castle - The Falls Family castle comes off as this. 

He Cleans Up Nice - Applies to Stan when he bathes and puts on nice clothes. 

Honorary Uncles - Dipper and Mabel refer to Old Man McGucket as “Uncle Fiddle”. They also start calling Stan and Ford Uncle. (I’m intentionally vague as to whether or not they’re actually related.)

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Ford is a sentient book who can’t speak, move, feel, or even see without someone holding him.

Knight Templar Big Brother - Stan is this for Ford, justified since Ford is helpless and delicate.

Light is Not Good - Monster King Bill Cipher appears as a glowing yellow triangle. Also, Gideon wears white and blue, colors normally associated with heroes. 

Loon with a Heart of Gold- Old Man MkGucket.

Lost Heirs - Stan and Ford are part of the noble Falls family, making them the landlords of Gravity Falls

Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold - Stan is this. So is MkGucket.

Nice Jewish Boy - Dipper Pines is this. My version of the Pines family is more in tune with their Hebrew roots. 

Papa Wolf - Stan is a very protective parental figure. 

Power of Love - Family love specifically. 

Protect this House - In Chapter Ten, the castle staff fights off the angry mob, 

Protective Kids - Dipper and Mabel are this; first to MkGucket, then to Stan and Ford.

Rags to Riches - At the end of the story, Dipper and Mabel are made heirs to Stan and Fords’ castle and the Falls family fortune. 

Shipper on Deck - Mabel tries to set Stan up with Lazy Susan. It doesn’t work out. 

Tearjerker - Stans’ death scene.

Villainous Crush - Gideon has one for Mabel. 

X Meets Y - This story is literally a fairy tale mixed with a cryptidcore cartoon. And it works surprisingly well! 

 I might add to the list in the future. 

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Shadow & Bone 2.1: Live review/reaction

Remember when I did these first season? I did it again because I can't help it.

In this episode: We're finally at the bottom of the Barrel where we belong, Nikolai's boat looks stupid, and "there was only one bed."

-Haha Kaz forged them papers to get into Novyi Zem, of course he did.

-Wait where are Alina's neck antlers? I can't see them. Hiding under clothes?

-So I expected that the Crows would return to find Pekka Rollins had taken over the Crow Club, but I didn't expect him to turn it into the Kaelish Prince. How dare. This is all getting very Six of Crows-y very fast.

-No one arrests Kaz Brekker so easily, excuse me.

-He's sitting SO CLOSE to people he is gonna start to FREAK OUT and I am here for it. But also, where have we seen a situation like this before with Kaz being sandwiched between people in a prison wagon, hmmm? So I guess we'll have to expect to be in the same situation in Fjerda.

-Stop touching him stop touching himmmmmm

-One of my season 2 wishes was for Kaz to have contact moments like this with no explanation given and this scene just gave me that. Thanks.

-At first I was like UGH, the Stadwatch aren't wearing purple, but like many other shows in recent time, we're just getting darkness as a directorial choice here and I couldn't tell that they actually are wearing purple. Good.

-Is that Nikolai, whuuuut? His accent is very... something. It's strong.

-“And there was only one bed” Alina and Mal moment.

-“We are not vultures, we are crows.” Favorite line so far.

-So we're getting Kaz seeing through a guy as Sturmhond only for him to see through Sturmhond as someone else during the auction scene in CK? Nah. They blew another plot hole in the duology.

-(This was, she would soon realize, a common theme of SoC scene stealing as the show progresses.)

-We're getting Jesper being a fabrikator this early? Sure makes the Ice Court reveal less fun. But Kaz keeps people's secrets. So. Maybe no one else will know.

-ZOWI!! Man the Zemeni have a much better way at looking at things than the Ravkans do.

-How is Mal's old general randomly here? Why would he get the reward for finding Alina, like he can suddenly abandon his own post and go off bounty hunting. He's as much a deserter as Mal then, it makes no sense for him to be here.

-They're in the bottom of the Barrel? Finally. Right where they belong.

-Wahhhhh Kaz trying to protect Inej by sending her away already. And she says she's not leaving him, ouch my heart.

-The way Rollins says “Brekker” reminds me of Snape saying “Pottah” hahaha

-Omg Wylan playing flute on the street, I SCREAMED. What is this Ian Anderson way of playing the flute, I ask you?!?!? You're not supposed to make sounds like that on the flute. I played flute for 12 years and never have I made those kind of noises, Wylan, that is only a Jethro Tull kind of thing and any flute teacher will scoff at you if you even bring it up.

-There you go everyone, it WAS Wylan's bomb that saved Kaz from the Darkling.

-Was that Nina stopping everyone's hearts? It WAS! I knew it. She called Kaz “Angry Hat” ahaha that is amazing, I can't wait to see her have banter with him.

-Oh shit, they're tattooing murderer on him?! Brutal. My tattoo artist roommate would have something to say about the hygiene involved here. Or, lack thereof.

-I'm sorry, I hate the design of Nikolai's ship. It's clearly something “other” because it's not wood like the rest of them, but it just looks so flat and boring. It looks like bad CG, even the parts of it that aren't CG. It also looks empty and unlived in. It's too clean.

-Hahah Nikolai's steampunk crew. I forgot how steampunk-y book 3 gets. I've only read it once so uhhh I don't remember most of it.

-KAZ SAID THE LINE.

-Are we going to see the Slat? Are we going to see something become the Slat and all the gritty bottom of the Barrelness that I want?

-“The Barrel belongs to bastards.” You're damn right it does, get em!!

-Welp, I'm happy at the amount of Crow content we're getting. So what I'm seeing here is that... we're setting up how we get to the point where we start at Six of Crows. Sort of. So Kaz will come out of it with his gang back but living in a shithole. But Rollins still needs to be around for that, thus, we can't beat him properly this season. So.

Ok. NEXT.

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Alkemia Sample Set Review - Curious Oddities

I originally posted this on reddit awhile back but I’m reposting it here because I’m trying to find mutuals and other blogs to follow on here surrounding the indie perfume community :^) So without further ado, here’s my first impression reviews of Alkemia’s Curious Oddities Sample Set. 

Memoriam: "Heirloom roses, memories wrapped in woodsmoke, a scattering of ashes" I wanted to like this so much, but honestly right now it's just this awful, acrid smell like something burning that reminds me of barbeque. I catch whiffs of rose and as it dries down it isn't as intense, but even then, I don't think it's something I'll wear. I might let it rest longer and give it a second chance someday. 3/10

Deus ex Machina: "fire hardened steel, rusted iron, warm motor oil, wet cement, burnt copper wires, and grey amber" Okay, I had no idea what to expect going into this one but I am pleasantly suprised! I'm definitely getting metallic and concrete, and what I'm assuming is the grey amber is tying all together very nicely. This one brings to mind an image of a steampunk laboratory for me. Overall it seems very wearable, and I'll definitely at least use up the sample. 8/10

St. Louis Cemetery: "Spanish Moss, crumbling stone, old cement, red clay brick, and graveyard dirt" In the bottle, this is QUITE chemical smelling, guessing that's the concrete. On the skin the moss takes over and gives it a very green scent with that chemical bite lingering in the background. As it dries it begins to have a much more manageable scent with the dirt starting to come through. Closing my eyes and smelling it I can imagine walking through a cemetery after a rain storm, it captures the smell of wet moss and stone and dirt quite well. It's almost uncanny. Not sure how often I'll wear this but it's so damn unique and well blended that it's a solid 7.5/10 in my book.

Industrial sabotage: "burnt wires, twisted melted steel, shattered machinery, and gunpowder" Another one that I'm not entirely sure what to expect at first. And once again, WOW oh my god. Smelling it in the bottle it's such a surprisingly addicting metallic scent. As it dries down it doesn't change all too much but the gunpowder becomes more prominent as well. I don't know how to describe it in a way that does it justice. Imagine being in a chemistry lab, or outside at a gas station, or in a factory, and there's those scents wafting around that are unmistakably manmade and industrial in nature but also a bit intoxicating in a way that makes you want to keep inhaling. Dare I say... 10/10? I might have to full size this one.

Center of the universe: "Welded metal, gunpowder, burnt almond cookies, ozone, raspberries, rum" Such an odd combination of notes! But somehow works pretty well? I don't know if I really like it but it's definitely fine to smell. I almost feel like I get a whiff of a different note every time I smell this, alternating between those metal and gunpowder notes and those sweet foodie ones. Interestingly it sort of makes me think of being in a bakery or kitchen that's been freshly cleaned with chemicals, surrounded by all the metal utensils and food ingredients. A solid 5/10, I like it but not enough to FS and wouldn't be my go to sample choice either. Also it seems to start smelling like fruit scented cleaning products as it sits longer on my skin.

Supernatural: "Iso-E, ambrox, cruelty free tonkin musk, and intricate spirals of aroma molecules" So I have no experience with any of these notes so I cannot speak to if it smells like one would expect, but I can say that whatever it is, it's realllllly nice. I can't place it at all, and from what I've read about iso-e I guess it's pretty individual skin dependent anyways. I can't decide if this smells like something I've smelled in chemistry class before or at a spice shop or in the woods. There's definitely something sweet about it but not in a food way like with center of the universe. I think it reminds me of pine trees or maybe vanilla. Argh I just wish I could place the smell! I'll go with a 8/10 because it doesn't absolutely knock my socks off but it is incredibly intriguing and I'll probably use up the sample.

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Tangent: i'm sorry did you say street magic prompt

Over the weekend, my partner and I started a session of "i'm sorry did you say street magic." She was in the mood for more roleplay than world building, but saw me reading the book and wanted to give it a shot.

The book is only 54 pages and I recommend reading it once through and try to explain it to yourself before teaching others because I found myself flipping back and forth between pages to make sure I was explaining concepts right.

That said, here's where we start our session and approximately how far we got before my cat threw up on the notecards.

Tmi? Sorry.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the adjectives we picked for this session, but for tone and themes, we played with the idea of a mix of steampunk and a space station. Clunky technology keeping people alive in space. Automatons, ghosts, and a little bit of magic.

Let's start with The Spokes. Do you want to find a way somewhere else? Go to the Spokes. An interconnected highway of walkways leading to hundreds of sections elsewhere in the space station. Ships unload their cargo and passengers here and anyone with anything can find a way out.

Of course, you wouldn't know if you were in the spokes without its landmarks. Particularly The Font. The domed water station that supplies everything around. A complex filtration system keeps it clean and the sight of how it all works reminds everyone they're all here because of it. It's very much a "in sight, in mind" type of design which generates its own tricks of the light when starlight hits it.

Since the worlds come here to trade and prepare for journeys beyond, it makes sense people and things would fall through the cracks. If you're not careful, you'll end up wandering down a tight corridor into a black market or nest of undulating roaches. If you're careful and lucky, maybe you'll find a quiet space to meditate and listen to the station's hum. Sometimes things fall through the cracks because they're neglected, sometimes it's on purpose, and sometimes someone needs to send a message without any witnesses.

Then there is the Market and another place called the Antiquities Graveyard. One collects the new, the other deals with the past. Needless to say, it's almost better not describing either as they're mirrors of the same coin with their own rhythms, which some would say, "Keeps the station spinning."

As far as residents are concerned, aside from unmentioned ones, the strangest is Tom1. An automaton that generates a preferred frequency for energy beings who pass through the ship occasionally. Once they discover there's an inhabitant they can experience the station through as well as communicate with, they find themselves sticking around. Since it was first observed 30 cycles ago, Tom1 has been inhabited by energetic beings at least once or twice a cycle for varying amounts of time. It spends most of its time at the A-Fac, the Automaton Facility where others like it are repaired, tweaked or repurposed to suit station needs.

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