#wip: charlieverse

[dirtsaint]

— ✦ the low guard ;; wip introduction

— details ;;

genre. urban fantasy, horror pov. third person limited status. outlining length. duology, part i content warnings. death, body horror, necromancy, suicidal ideation, discussions of religion (real & fictional), graphic depictions of violence this work is for nanowrimo 2022.

— synopsis ;;

After years of rejected applications, Damaris North is ecstatic to finally be joining the Low Guard; a coven of witches dedicated to protecting Los Angeles and the surrounding realms. When she's apprenticed to Charlie Sanchez- a reviled necromancer and cursemarked witch -she thinks her career is ending before it begins. However, when a strand of killings tear through the city, Damaris finds herself following Charlie deeper and deeper into LA's magical underworld. As the killers circle ever-closer, she finds herself having to choose who she is- who she wants to be.

— characters ;;

damaris north — human & fae, witch, she/her, twenty-one charlie sanchez — human, necromancer, she/they, twenty-nine nate bishop — fae, mortician, he/him, ??? mercy alnwick — vampire, witch, they/them, ??? parker ivanov — werewolf, clan head, they/them, thirty-two ian abraham — human, witch, she/her, thirty, vivian — djinn, she/her, ???

— vibes ;;

this is a crime novel, but urban fantasy- i've affectionately been calling the genre 'necronoir' ever since i had the idea. be prepared for death, gore, and a whole gamut of horror tropes. there'll be themes of feeling disconnected from your heritage, cultural identity in the face of oppression and violence, mental health issues, and 'good' not always being good. these characters are very near and dear to my heart, and i hope those of you who are with me on this ride will love them just as much as i do.

— more information ;;

work in progress tag nanowrimo page spotify playlist

— taglist ;;

ask/reply to be added or removed! @cactusmotif @linaswritingcorner @thearchangelwrites

#wip introduction #writeblr #wip intro #writeblr community #nanowrimo #nano2022 #wip: charlieverse

[grasslandgirl]

pain and suffering i am surrounded by wips and have no words to give to any of them. they are chickens pecking at my feet and i am a poor farmer with no feed to sprinkle on the ground for them. ach

#hello i feel insane. i should eat food so i can be normal again. #i have. so many wips and i want to write and finish all of them and also i have zero attention span rn #binxhera cinderella and nottinghill figayda and malkolina letters and noble pining and domestic figgorgug and concert figayda and #my cinderella retelling wip and the beast that is charlieverse and so many more i havent looked at in even longer #please bully me into eating real food gang. would love to normalize

[bringinghometherain]

Hi! This is for the wip ask game… I humbly request literally anything from the charlieverse… loved the series and I am starving for more!!

Hey friend! I'm gonna go 'head and give you this 700ish word thing I wrote for a Whumpuary 2023 prompt "failed escape / nightmares." I like it but I've never really found a spot for it within the larger story, so it's been sitting in my google drive for a while. CW for blood/gore.

If you're interested in looking at my WIP list and asking about it for the game, original post is here!

She was running, running through her family's home, and she could swear the back door was this way, but the hallways just kept going. She kept popping out into the main hall, and every time she did more people were looking at her, reaching for her. The third time she sprinted through the main hall a couple people grabbed at her, but the blood covering her bare arms made her slippery, so she wrenched herself free and kept searching desperately for an exit.

She turned a corner and found herself in the pantry, how on earth did she get to the pantry, and her father's pale corpse slumped crooked against the shelf, blood still oozing slowly from his neck. His pale eyes gazed out, empty and yet somehow still full of rage. Charlie tried to back out of the pantry without turning her back on the corpse, but several, no dozens, no hundreds of hands were on her, crushing her arms, her legs, her stomach, her throat. She tried to scream but couldn't take a breath in. She thrashed against the hands that were digging bruises into her flesh. Someone was calling her name.

The scene changed and she was standing on the deck of the Revenge, a uniformed firing squad taking aim at her chest. "For the crime of murder," a voice came from somewhere above, "You, Charlotte Walker, are sentenced to death." Charlie strained helplessly against the ties binding her wrists. 

Someone was shaking her. Someone was calling her name. She pushed and punched against whatever was in front of her. 

"Fuck's sake Charlie, wake up!" Charlie opened her eyes to a blur of grey beard and pale, scarred skin. In that same instant she gained control of her body and brought one knee up to connect with whatever it was that was shaking her. There was a grunt of pain and Izzy Hands stopped shaking her to curl around his gut, where her knee had just connected quite soundly. 

“Oh fuck,” Charlie croaked through tears, reaching now for him with open hands instead of the fist she had been aiming in his direction. “Shit, shit, I’m sorry –”

He stopped her with a firm hand to the center of her chest, holding her at bay while he breathed deeply and held his stomach. Charlie watched him with wide eyes and tried to remember where she was and why she was waking up next to the first mate. The events of the afternoon came back to her in a rush. The quiet lunch, his hand brushing against hers on the table, her thigh pressing against his under the table. Going up to his rented room – oh that’s where she was, okay, she knew where she was. Over Izzy’s bare shoulder, the window showed the last red rays of sunset.

Now that the man was uncurling and breathing normally, Charlie placed her hand over his where it pressed against her breastbone. “I’m so sorry, I don’t usually have nightmares like that, I thought you were attacking me –”

“It’s fine,” Izzy sighed, opening his eyes to speak. The golden-brown color of them was mesmerizing in the light of dusk that came in through the window. “And yes, you do have nightmares like that, quite frequently in fact.” 

She wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her shirt – Izzy’s shirt? Whatever shirt she was wearing. “What are you talking about?” 

“At least as long as I’ve been on the Revenge, you have two or three a week. With the screaming, anyway.” He shrugged.

“What – why doesn’t anyone ever wake me up?” Charlie demanded. 

“I was told the first and only time someone tried that, Frenchie got socked in the nose,” Izzy said, “After that they decided to let you sleep through them.” He absentmindedly brushed his fingers through her hair, sending tingles down Charlie’s spine. It stopped all thought for a moment, until his words sunk in.

“I punched Frenchie? Oh my god,” she rolled onto her back, away from Izzy’s touch, and covered her face with her hands. “No wonder they all treat me like their little sister, I’m having nightmares in the group sleeping area.” 

“Oh, you love being the little sister,” Izzy drawled. She removed her hands from her face to glare over at him. 

"I take back my apology for hitting you," she sniffed. He rolled his eyes.

#WIP ask game #true confessions of charlotte walker #izzy hands x female OC

[dirtsaint]

Happy STS! 🥳💕 Question of the week is: An OC of your choice (or multiple OCs) empties their pockets and/or bag. What are they carrying? - Mae (@touchingmadness)

thank you so much for the ask!!

i'm going to go with charlie- on account of her pockets being very important to her character design and general way of being. she has maybe fifty pockets on her current jacket; most of which have spacial enchantments on them so they can carry more. so, on your average day, here's what you'll find!

several full skeletons, of human and nonhuman varieties (the largest(?) being a tiger, the smallest being a field mouse)

her sword, sorrowseethe

a variety of potions and empty potion vials

her handgun (a 1927 colt detective special)

her mother's pocketwatch

three different phones

a tarot deck, salt, candles, and other equipment for an on-the-go séance and various witchy tasks

two vials of her own blood, labeled at the dates they were drawn

at least eight knives, at any given time

#wip: charlieverse #ch: charlie #asks #storyteller saturday

[dirtsaint]

warm coat and apple :)

OCTOBER ASKS thank you for asking! <3

🧥 warm coat: share a happy or fuzzy scene from your wip!

Sleeping with Nate isn’t something that Charlie really meant to do. 

Well, that’s not true- there was intent when she dragged him into her apartment, and then into her shower, both of them still wearing half their clothes and covered in demon blood. There was intent when she licked into his mouth, fingers tangling in his hair, magic singing in between them.

The fact that it happened more than once wasn’t something she was intending, is all. 

She supposes she really should have seen it coming: fey are known for dragging humans to addiction, from their food to their revelries to their wine. Charlie watches Nate drag himself out of her bed and pace towards the bathroom, wings unbound by glamour and shimmering in the early morning light that seeps through her windows, and she thinks to herself that addiction might be the right word for the gnawing pit of want that builds in her core. Her shower sputters to life, and Charlie can feel the wards singing under her skin at his presence as steam billows out into the rest of the apartment. 

She had drawn the wards in her own blood, two weeks after she died for the first time. Dead man’s blood is a powerful thing, even more so when it’s protecting a member of its own lineage, let alone the person it came from. It’s a paradox that’s rare enough that most people consider it wildly dangerous, but Charlie’s wards are a part of her. They know her wants, her fears, have an instinct to them that regular wards lack. And now, with Nate comfortably within her walls, they are telling her something she doesn’t want to be told. A symphony of want need want love need need need that’s so strong she wants to tear her hair out. 

🍎 apple: let’s talk about friendship in your wip. do you have any favorite friend/platonic dynamics? any friendships gone sour?

oh, this is such a good question. i think as far as platonic dynamics go, nothing is ever going to be quite as good as charlie & damaris- the "neither of us want to be here" to begrudging friends to ride-or-die is a pipeline i love to watch characters go down.

also, charlie & ian. social outcasts have to stick together, y'all!

#wip: charlieverse #ch: charlie #ch: ian #ch: nate #ch: damaris #ask games #knight.txt

[grasslandgirl]

savcore to have five million (six) wips open on my computer simultaneously and be working on NONE (three) of them 

#WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS AND THOUGHTS. WOULD LOVE TO FINISH SOMETHING. #rollcall! noble pining (adaine ch18 in wip). figayda concert au. charlieverse. malkolina letters fic. figayda notting hill. samfrodo fic <3 #soooo many thoughts head soooo empty of words alas #also OUGH i wanna write a slasher one year later anniversary fic so bad but head SOOO EMPTY OF WORDS. DOUBLE EMPTY. THE VOID

[bringinghometherain]

WIP Folder Game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by the inimitable @thetragicallynerdy, thanks friend for the tag.

This is what's in my folder "fiction writing," which is mostly fanfics but also includes some original stuff.

evil govt plant science

1000 words of summer 2021

Adventures of Pete and Lucius

edizzy

Paranormal detective story

whumptober 2023

Remington Steele

Under the subfolder "charlieverse:"

charlie universe one-offs

charlie scraps

Whumpuary 2023

Whumpril 2023

comfortember 2022

Charlie notes

whump wheel

True Confessions of Charlotte Walker / OFMD

Under the subfolder "ofmd season 2 stuff:"

post episode 3 izzy whump

stede is trying So Hard to be respectful

fix it #1

do you see any recurring themes

lol I guess I have a lot of works in progress. I am not going to tag 18 people, I am going to cop out and say IF YOU SEE THIS AND YOU WRITE ANYTHING AT ALL PLEASE GO AHEAD AND SHARE WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT <3

#ask game #tag game #writing

[dirtsaint]

— ✦ dirtsaint's writeblr introduction

— hiya! my name is zack knight. i'm 23, i use he/they/it pronouns, and despite having a tumblr account for nearly a decade this is my first foray into writeblr as a community. i am american by birth, irish by heritage, and aotearoan by citizenship.

you can find more about me under the cut!

— ✦ about me

i enjoy writing, reading, and video games! some of my favorite books (at the moment) are Gideon the Ninth (Tasmyn Muir), Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir), and How to Kill Gods and Make Friends (B. Berry). i also am a huge fan of horror, both movies and books! my favorite movie is either Psycho or Bullet Train.

i am also queer, & disabled. i won't get into the specifics, beyond that i am autistic, but these things both have impact on my writing and the way i write things.

what else really is there? i'm an aries, i play a lot of d&d, i was (and honestly still kind of am) a big homestuck fan. that's me! feel free to shoot me an ask or message if you have any questions, or just want to chat!

— ✦ my writing

CHARLIEVERSE — UNNAMED WIP genre. urban fantasy, horror pov. third person limited content warnings. death, body horror, necromancy, suicidal ideation, discussions of religion (real & fictional), graphic depictions of violence

— synopis. after years of rejected applications, Damaris North is ecstatic to finally be joining the Low Guard; a coven of witches dedicated to protecting Los Angeles and the surrounding realms. When she's apprenticed to Charlie Sanchez- a reviled necromancer and cursemarked witch -she thinks her career is ending before it begins.

However, when a strand of killings tear through the city, Damaris finds herself following Charlie deeper and deeper into LA's magical underworld. As the killers circle ever-closer, she finds herself having to choose who she is- who she wants to be.

— more info. work in progress tag, work in progress introduction

DREAMSPACE — ISEKAI ADVENTURE genre. isekai, high fantasy, adventure, lgbt+ romance pov. third person limited content warnings. death, graphic depictions of violence, depictions of mental illness, discussions of fictional religion, suicidal ideation

— synopis. Chess has been living in a video game for the last two years.

She's made her peace with it, for the most part. It took her a while to learn that she couldn't leave, and that no one was coming to rescue her- she was simply part of the game now, like every other NPC. She lives in a routine carefully crafted to keep her sane.

When siblings Pax and Lovelace come crashing into her life, claiming that they're stuck in the same way she is, her routine comes unraveled, and Chess is forced to reckon with her own situation for the first time in years. She pledges to help Pax and Lovelace escape the Dreamspace, only to realize that means she might have to leave it, too.

— more info. work in progress tag, work in progress introduction [coming soon!]

#writeblr intro #writeblr community #writing community #creative writing #writeblr #new writeblr #writer community

[grasslandgirl]

for the fanfic ask thingy! 1, 5 (gimme the list i love lists <33), 11, 15, 23, 46, 55 and 73!

mwaaaahhh moss !!

1.Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?

usually if i have a concrete idea- especially a clear vision for a scene!- i'll jump into writing, but if it's less clear i'll write down the vibe somewhere (gdoc. discord, in an email to myself, etc) and let it percolate until i do have a clear scene to jump into

5. How many wips do you have?  What fandoms/pairings are they for?

(these are just unposted wips i have actively written for this year, not including wips from past years that i haven't returned to in 2023, bc there are too many to go back through and recount)

dimension 20: 10 wips

- noble pining (+ B sides) - slasherverse domestic - figayda concert - samzelda figgorgug - figgorgug right person wrong time - figayda cuddle pile - figayda notting hill - bad kids spiderverse - eftbk markland

ted lasso: 1 wip

- charlieverse

stranger things: 1 wip

- buzzcut ch2

original fiction: 4 wips

lockwood and co: 3 wips

- george kisses luce beat - lucy sick beat - lucy winter beat

now you see me: 1 wip

- fifth horseman

11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

in order, almost always. motivation is a beast i always have to try and wrangle and making myself write chronologically in order helps force me to finish writing the scenes i have to get to by dangling the scene i want to write as bait over my own head-- essentially: if i finish scenes a, b, and c; then i can write scene d that im REALLY excited about!

15. What’s your favorite time to write?

night time lmao!! im a night owl and i tend not to get as distracted later at night when the rest of my family has gone to bed/ we're all doing our own separate things!! but i do write throughout the day when i'm hit w inspo <3

23. Is writing the beginning, middle, or end of the story easiest? Hardest?

the end of the story is always always the hardest. almost every time i finish smth and send it to one of my lovely friends for editing/beta reading i ask "is the ending good?? does it make sense?? is it fulfilling??" etc <3

46. If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?

uhhhhhh get togethers, probably ?? modern/no magic get together aus are a good majority of what i write anyway so like yeah skjfvnksjfb

55. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics?  Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

ummmm i focus on the visual impact of light a lot in my writing <3 also @precalamity called me out a while back in an ask saying a big throughline in a lot of my work is the idea of like. people not feeling like they are loved enough/worthy of love/deserving of love/love too much and that it speaks to my own insecurities skfjvnskfjbnskfb and they were right then and right now !!!!

73. What do you tend to get complimented on the most about your writing?

idk???? that its like. soft and affectionate and warm i guess?? the general vibe<3

send me fic asks from this list!!!!

#asks #mwaaaahhhhh

[grasslandgirl]

savcore to have five wip tabs open on my computer (noble pining, cot3, samzelda figgrogug, charlieverse, mal oretsev letters) and NOT be working on any of them in favor of watching make some noise and playing acnh

#i should SHOWER but i am NOT #anyway i have many thoughts xox

[grasslandgirl]

docs & characters for the writing ask?

MWAH BEV <33

docs ; what's the longest story you have ever written (pages or word count)?

the longest thing i've posted to date is my fic from last year's d20bb, as long as you're here by my side, which is a little over 22k

but the longest story i've ever written is my infamous wip noble pining, which is currently clocking in at around 87k words, and i haven't finished it yet skjvnskfjbnsb it's the longest thing i've ever written or tried to write, i've been working on it slowly but surely for over two years now and it makes me entirely insane and crazy skfjnvskfjbn <3

(honorable mention, casey @aberfaeth and my charlieverse ted lasso au wip is also clocking in at around 24k itself, and so while i've only written about half of it myself i do still think it deserves a little spotlight of it's own <3)

characters ; is there something you always incorporate into your characters? if so, what is it? (If N/A, then what is your favorite character trait?)

i try to keep my characters as close to canon as possible within the context of the story i'm trying to tell, having a character be or feel or sound ooc is kind of a fear of mine, lmao, so i don't tend to personally inject character traits/attributes/etc into characters that doesn't have a root in the character as a whole

that said, for me at least, writing is something really personal and i always write characters from a place of connection in myself, whatever that place may be, so i guess in that sense i incorporate myself into all of my characters skfjvnskfbn

send me writing asks from this list!!

#asks #<333 !!!

[grasslandgirl]

ooh 1, 12, and 19?

ty bea!!! <3

1. favorite fic you wrote this year

answered this one here already, but honorable mention/ runner up is probably casey @aberfaeth and my charlieverse Ted Lasso fic we haven't posted yet <3 its so good and maybe someday people will get to read it

12. favorite character to write about this year

fig! but runner up either leah or charlie, who are characters no one knows about but me and casey for the most part <3

19. any new fics to start next year

bestie i have SO many wips and fic ideas im bouncing around between but who KNOWS when ill post any of them kajnvsfkvjs we will SEE....

send me end of the year fic asks from this list!!

#asks #xoxoxoxox love uuu