List 5 Things That Make You Happy, Then Put This In The Askbox For The Last 10 People Who Liked Or Reblogged

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers ❤️

Thank you so much for the ask, @elsie-writes!

Writing and developing my story ideas. I've just had two new story ideas - one that could potentially be a neat standalone dark fantasy fairytale book and another that is more of an urban fantasy/teen horror sitcom style series. Plus I'm just so excited about my current main WIP, Of Starlight and Beasts! I can't wait to share more about it!

Watching good movies, listening to music and drawing!

Playing DnD with my friends, watching DnD related content including Critical Role

My two adorable cats and my three doggos 💕

Spending quality time with my loved ones and feeling generally happy with life again (:

Two Truths and One Lie!

Thanks for the tag @willtheweaver (here)!

Please leave your guesses in reblogs or in the replies!💕

I'll go with Leora Tallin from Of Starlight and Beasts for this one!

Tagging (gently): @moonluringfrost @crowandmoonwriting @doublegoblin, @inky-duchess, @steh-lar-uh-nuhs, @sarahlizziewrites, @diabolical-blue, @memento-morri-writes, @rickie-the-storyteller, @smol-feralgremlin, @littleladymab, @little-peril-stories, @cowboybrunch, @aalinaaaaaa, @forthesanityofstorytellers, @clairelsonao3, @starlit-hopes-and-dreams, @oh-no-another-idea, @rickie-the-storyteller, @jay-avian, @jasperygrace, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @illarian-rambling, @conkers-thecosy, @gummybugg, @anyablackwood, @mk-writes-stuff @thepeculiarbird and OPEN TAG!

𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐂 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒

⭐ - What do people assume about your OC? Do they question the quality of their character? 

🌟 - What is your OC’s drive to action, their call to adventure? 

🌠 - What is your OC’s greatest desire and how far are they willing to go to obtain it? 

💫 - Does your OC prefer to travel or stay at home? Where do they like to travel to? Why? If not, what do they do while they stay at home?

✨ - What makes your OCs heart race? Is it fear or love or something deeper? 

☄️ - From your OC’s perspective, write a short paragraph about their average day. 

☀️ - How well does your OC deal with isolation? 

🌕 - Describe what your OC would wear to a costume party. 

🌙 - If given the chance, what is one thing about their life your OC would change permanently? 

🌖 - What is your OC’s favorite scent? Is it nostalgic? 

🌗 - How much does your OC care for their appearance? Are they vain? Are they well-dressed or strictly utilitarian?  

🌘 - Write a flowery description about an aspect of your OC: appearance, personality, past experiences, etc. 

🌑 - Hint at your OC’s darkest secret. 

🌒 - Under what circumstances is your OC their most genuine self? 

🌓 - What would your OC’s funeral be like? Would they prefer a tomb, cremation, or to be given back to the earth? 

🌔 - Does your OC take well to intimacy or are they pricklier than a cactus? 

Song of Thorns - WIP Intro/WIP Wednesday

Jumping on the OPEN TAG by @little-peril-stories (here), and @kaylinalexanderbooks tag (here) because I was really inspired and wanted to give it a try! I tried to give my twist on the same format, because it was really cool!

(Also, I had been wanting an excuse to do an actual intro for this WIP for a while now, even though it's not my main one and is a much smaller side project lol)

By the way, if you like this, please reblog, it helps a lot 💕

Rules: Pick a WIP. Post something about it. On a Wednesday. Or whenever! It can be literally anything! (:

WIP INTRO - SONG OF THORNS

Title: Song of Thorns

Genre: High Fantasy/Dark Fairytale

Tags: #wip song of thorns #song of thorns

Synopsis/What Is It About?

Roselyn, a teenage girl from a backwater fishing village on the edge of the continent, moves to the kingdom's floating capital with her siblings - Jasen, her older brother and a brilliant aspiring sorcerer, and their 12-year-old younger sister, Portia - after Jasen gets a prestigious apprenticeship in the mystical city.

However, after a while, it becomes apparent that something is not what it seems in the city of legend. In fact, something is very wrong. When Jasen mysteriously disappears without a trace, trying to find out what happened reveals the true facet of the up-til-then-welcoming nobility, and gets her falsely accused of treason.

Sentenced to death for reasons she cannot understand, Roselyn finds her second chance when the royal family's youngest prince, the nephew of the King, sets her free in the middle of the night with a proposal - helping him stop the full extent of his family's schemes and save the city before it is too late.

With the help of the now-exiled prince and a couple other outcasts, Roselyn will expose the city's corruption and save her brother before it is too late. All the while she starts falling in love with the charming though lonely thief (Renn) who has stolen her heart. But with strange forces being tampered with and magic swiftly changing, time is slipping away disturbingly fast.

Tropes and Nice Stuff! (Or, a.k.a. What you can expect in this book!)

Friends to Lovers! (Renn x Roselyn, Prince Alaric x Jasen)

Eldritch horror, dark fantasy, and blood magic. The royals are basically fantasy mad scientists and it gets complicated...

The perfect city has some really fucked up secrets that nobody was supposed to find out. Ever.

Epic heists (or as I like to call it: these fools doing absolutely everything wrong but failing successfully)

Fantasy creatures, enchanted forests, a derpy giant talking cat. You name it! There are loads of peaceful sea monsters too, and some very dangerous creatures I've invented as well!

Sad, absolutely heartbreaking scenes and some goofy, silly scenes!

Goth thief who is actually very nerdy and not at all brooding.

An aro/ace druid's apprentice! A bit unhinged and admittedly clueless about the world outside, but the sweetest character ever"

An actually Good Stepmother! (Subversion of the Wicked Stepmother trope)

Enemies to Friends (that's a spoiler!)

A villain who may act childish but is actually not stupid at all and is the most threatening MF you'll ever meet

Whump! (Potentially)

Medieval/Renaissance period with a touch of Fantasy Science

A soft magic system

Siblings, family bonds, and intrigue!

Sometimes the villains kinda win and it is scary (but don't worry the heroes find a way to fight another day so it's not all doom and gloom, almost, but not.)

And more!💕

Meet The Main Cast! (The good guys)

Roselyn Lethia

A curious and opinionated teenager, Roselyn finds herself dragged into a net of intrigue, lies, and bloodied secrets after her beloved older brother suddenly goes missing without a trace, and the kingdom tries to convince her he never existed. She is kind, brave, and determined, though she can sometimes take on more than she can realistically handle, and needs to rely solely on her book-earned wits and sparse fighting skills to get through her fears. Her greatest motive is keeping her loved ones safe, but she also, deep down, yearns for some adventuring.

Prince Alaric of the Hyghsummit

Naive and slightly arrogant without realizing it, Alaric is the youngest prince of the reigning royal family. He is the nephew of the King and was largely raised by his stepmother Catallinah, a motherly but no-nonsense woman trapped in an arranged marriage to his uncle after the death of her husband, Alaric's father. Most of his other relatives from his large family consider him a weak link and most don't even bother with him at all - but Alaric is much more than the capital's "failed prince". He is a brilliant and well-read young man who has spent most of his time honing his abilities to bring down the lies of his corrupted family. He falls in love with Jasen, who became his friend after the latter started working as an apprentice to the court's High Sorcerer.

Renn Atrius

A foreign noble from beyond the royal lands, he was forced into the lifestyle of a thief from a young age, after being orphaned when his father was murdered for refusing to obey their neighboring kingdom's crown. Learning the art of disappearing into the night and taking valuables from the land that took everything from him and colonized his nation, Renn quickly became quite the nuisance for the King. But thankfully to his connection to raw blood magic, his slight vampiric abilities ensure no human soldier ever proves a real threat to him. He starts to fall in love with Roselyn, having become friends with her after trying to steal her coin purse (having mistaken her for a tourist from the capital).

Jasen Lethia

Roselyn's older brother, Jasen is a brilliant and highly ambitious student of the arcane arts. Their home village never provided much chances for his studies, but he kept practicing until he was good enough to earn a highly prestigious apprenticeship at the capital's Evocation Order. He is pragmatic, soft-spoken, and painstakingly patient, and though his studies are important to him, raising his sisters has been his top priority since their parents were killed in a bandit raid to their village when he was twelve, especially because their grandmother was too frail to really do much to raise them when she was alive. Jasen becomes close friends with Prince Alaric, who is around his age, though Jasen dismisses his own personal romantic feelings, believing that he would never be deemed worthy to love a noble and saying anything would only ruin their friendship, when in fact Alaric feels the same. Jasen went missing after discovering the truth about the King by accident.

Oriana Whisperleaf

A quirky and extremely talkative druid's apprentice, Oriana was neglected by her birth parents, who did not care for her. When she was five, she wandered into a local meadow and into the woods - no one came looking for her. She got really lost, but thankfully, she met the mysterious druidic witch who lived deep in the enchanted woods of the realm, a beautiful woman who took her in and raised her as her daughter and apprentice.

Portia Lethia

Roselyn and Jasen's youngest sister, Portia is a very quiet and often sensitive 12-year-old kid, who prefers to spend her time in the company of animals rather than people and wants to become an animal healer when she comes of age. She is smart, perceptive, and polite/well-behaved for her age, though sometimes she has a prankster streak!

Plot Points .... or not🙃 (so far, because this WIP is still early in creation)

"Peace and Quiet and All Things Nice - wait what tf is that in the water? Eh. Probably just a sea monster, it's likely nothing."

"You're saying we're going to the capital - a city literally built in the mountains floating in the sky?! Count me IN dude I am hyped!"

"Traveling. And traveling. And traveling some more. Gods, does this goddamn road ever end -? Oh, and we're there."

"Two unsupervised teenage girls explore an unknown city and shenanigans ensue. Also, meet this suspicious royal High Sorcerer dude who will mentor their older brother and is totally not gonna betray him at all. Trust me."

"Things are looking great! I'm having fun, this is nice!"

"OBLIGATORY ONE-YEAR TIME SKIP"

"I have the feeling some sus bullshit is afoot but I don't know why. And I don't know if I wanna know. Everything's fine! Right?... right?"

"BREAKING NEWS: Watch how an entire kingdom tries to gaslight a teenager!"

"...Why are there bloodstains in the castle? What are those gooey-looking branches? Oh, hell to the nah~"

"So apparently I've been arrested. That's new. They have yet to read me my rights."

"So either I'm gonna be executed or have my mind erased. That's new. How about neither? No? This is not how I saw my weekend going."

"Breaking out with the prince. I don't know which of us is more confused. We're totally not gonna die in like two days at this rate."

"Getting lost in a very cursed-looking forest and finding out that the kingdom is slowly dying. At least that druid looks friendly - if she doesn't try to kill us. Yet again."

"Meet this 100-year-old lady who looks 30. She's nice. A bit crazy though, I think, but nice? Real talk, I'm not sure if this is tea or poison, or if she knows, but I'm too concerned to ask."

"So your insane family has sent assassins to kill us? Neat. And you didn't think that was a priority to mention, why exactly..? OF COURSE IT WAS A PRIORITY YOU GILDED DIMWIT!"

"This goth mercenary guy did just try to rob me, but he did save my life, so. Plus he does look handsome in this light, ngl. Why does he look so cute, tf is wrong with me?"

"🎶And I'm never gonna sleep again, sleep again, lalala, what the eldritch hell did I just see -🎶

"Rival civilization! Finally! Pls tell me there's not an insane guild of blood sorcerers in this town my dude. I need a break desperately and I'm not sure if my sanity can handle any more - Oh thank goodness. It's just horrifying monsters beyond my wildest dreams then. I'd take that any day. How much does an inn cost here?"

"Group of dumbasses tries to pull off complicated plan. Proceeds to forget said plan halfway through and ends up improvising an entire heist. Also, that's a talking cat. Why is there a talking cat."

"Finding out your prince best friend has been in love with your older brother since they met. Pt 1"

"Not-so-Evil (actually the nicest) Stepmother jumpscares teenagers and feels bad about it. She has cookies though so that's okay though."

"The King throws a massive hissy fit, Special Edition (:"

"So. This is bad. This is bad. Thisissobad. I'm traumatized. I regret all my life choices and I think I'm going to throw up. This is so bad."

"We need a plan. A better one to be exact."

"Absolutely not! We are not breaking into that place, oh Hells no! No. Absolutely not-" (shift scenes, deadpan tone) "We broke into that place and I regret everything."

That's it so far! I'm still workshopping the ending from here (:

Playlist

Runaway - AURORA

Only Teardrops - Emmelie De Forest

Shadow - Livingston

Elan - Nightwish

Bad Feeling - Jaguar Twain

Tagging (gently, no pressure!) @kaylinalexanderbooks @littleladymab @cabbojage @lassiesandiego @little-peril-stories @oh-no-another-idea @thepeculiarbird @rickie-the-storyteller @crowandmoonwriting @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @gummybugg @forthesanityofstorytellers @doublegoblin @aalinaaaaaa @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @elshells @illarian-rambling @clairelsonao3 @conkers-thecosy @anyablackwood @diabolical-blue @cowboybrunch and OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants to do their own spin in this challenge!

Roast your OCs tag

Cheers @diabolical-blue for the tag. Looks like a fun one

The goal in a nutshell: Reduce my OCs to the most basic, mundane, stereotypical/archetypical tendentious of themselves and making it Fit into a Title!

Time to roast the main cast of A Feather in the Forest

• Protagonist bearing a Secret Identity reluctantly thrown into the role of Child Hero

• Parent who dies between the Prologue and the Main Story for the sake of causing angst and sorrow for the Protagonist

•Absent because trauma and grief overcame them Father

• Seer and Wise Elder who’s cryptic words hold truths other characters only find out about after thinking them over

• Tomboy companion of the Protagonist who gives up their dreams so that the Lead can pursue theirs

• Mentor and Drill Sergeant who cares about those they are tutoring

• Side Characters that are there to act as Sidekicks, Friendly Rivals, Less Than Friendly Adversaries, Foils, and Comic Relief

• Villain who can be interpreted as a symbol of Imperialism and is more of presence than an actual Adversary

Tagging @illarian-rambling @kaylinalexanderbooks @poethill @theeccentricraven @splashinkling @jakkon-and-rose-topic @little-peril-stories @talesofsorrowandofruin @mysticstarlightduck @winterandwords @eccaiia @leahnardo-da-veggie and open tag

oc questionnaire tag - thanks @willtheweaver!

let me just very politely consult with my characters for a volunteer, drum roll if you please (insert drumming on my keyboard) - let's go with Fenley from Ruin's Reprisal!

Are you named after anyone?

"I was named after a legend, an inferior one if you ask me, goes by the name of Fenrir - I know I'm dramatic, but that guy? I won't help the world end, the world will end because of me."

When was the last time you cried?

"Tears are for the weak. I haven't cried since I was a boy."

Do you have kids?

"What would I want one of those for? I can't do anything with it except pin it to a target and practise throwing knives - even then, they'd be an inconvenience."

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

"No, really, how could you tell? Well- Does the sun set every morning? Does my heart beat inside my chest - actually, you'd have to check that one, but you get my point."

What is the first thing you notice about people?

"How likely they are to kill me. What's the point of noticing anything else?"

What's your eye colour?

"Some say storms live in my eyes, I prefer to think of it as the colour of darkness waging war on my soul."

Scary movies or happy endings?

"Paintings that move... How interesting. Hm, now my curiosity is torn but happy endings are ever so dull, I need a challenge, I need a reason for my life... I'm not so certain I've found it yet. So, I'll take the strange paintings, or movies, as you call them."

Any special talents?

"I can kill a man at forty paces with a twitch of my finger, my shadows take care of the work. If you think I'm impressive with a knife, you should see me with my bare hands."

Where were you born?

"In this cesspit of a country known as Aliria. You have no need to know anything else."

Do you have any pets?

"Pets? Why would I demean an animal in such a way? Utter nonsense. I have partners and I have friends, the species is irrelevant."

What sports do you play?

"A lovely game called chase - you run, I find you, and you won't like what happens when I do."

How tall are you?

"Tall. I have no need to measure myself, that's just a silly insecurity."

What was your favourite subject in school?

"Weapons handling. I can accomplish many things with a knife, and you wouldn't realise it until I was done."

What is your dream job?

"I do not have a job, I have a duty, one that rewards me very nicely - who knew death paid so well?"

this was super fun, haven't done a tag game in a while, now to pass this lovely questionnaire on to some other fantastic people! @the-ellia-west @corinneglass @drchenquill @thewritingautisticat @mysticstarlightduck @aestheic-writer18 and of course open tag, I'd love to get to know everyone's oc's!