WIP Intro

Title: Devourer of Souls

Genre + tropes: Fantasy, found family, fairytale retelling (Snow White and Rose Red)

Tag: devourer of souls wip

Themes (may be subject to change with the 1st draft): destruction vs creation, inherent contradictions of femininity, anti-war, choosing your own family, freedom from expectation, religious trauma

Status: outlining + first draft

Additional notes: I’m gonna (try to) do this for NaNo!! Wish me luck!!

edit: this is now a duology!

Plot

Seth was supposed to be a healer. That’s what everyone said she would be. She would become a healer and fight in the war for the Goddess of Time. But her healing doesn’t work like it’s supposed to. Instead of giving life, she takes it away. People say she eats souls.

She tries to live a quiet life in the countryside, away from the war, but is rudely interrupted when Theo, a lost demigoddess, wanders into her life. Together, they try to find a place for themselves and their strange magic in this world. But war is never kind, and the Goddess of Time wants her daughter’s power on her side - and she won’t let some pesky healer get in her way.

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Do you guys remember that fic I have been writing for the past year? The one I kept getting surprised was getting as long as it was?

It’s officially classifiable as a novel now

I haven’t even finished it

”i never see you at the club” okay?? and i never see you in the courtyard having a homoerotic sparring session with your friend that you’re madly in love with and wishing you could plunge their blade into your flesh???

”i never see you at the club” okay?? and i never see you in the courtyard having a homoerotic sparring session with your friend that you’re madly in love with and wishing you could plunge their blade into your flesh???

Well, I never see YOU at the ball exchanging yearning homoerotic looks across the room with your friend who you’re madly in love with as you imagine what it would be like to romantically dance with them and hold them in your arms, but are forced to stay apart lest you be overcome with desire to profess your love!!!! So take that

in the hellish alternate universe where tlt is a shitty cishet ya series, the first book is called “a house of bones and blood”. gideon is a cis man and harrow is marketed as a “feminist prince zuko redemption arc”. griddlehark make out during the pool scene but harrow still can’t get over her feelings for palamedes, who explodes later on in the book to save harrow from cytherea. camilla, the Strong Woman Character, breaks down and cries and loses her sense of purpose. in book 2, “a house of spirits and secrets”, cis man ianthe manages to capture harrow’s heart, to the ire of palamedes and gideon’s ghosts, until the end of the book when jod breaks ianthe’s evil spell on harrow. camilla returns to bring harrow to blood of eden, the evil terrorist rebel group that all of jod’s lyctors joined. jodybeth is the only canon queer pairing but it’s not confirmed until after they both die in the final book, “a house of love and loyalty”. harrow escapes blood of eden and fights off the villainous camilla (who hates harrow out of jealousy for palamedes being in love with harrow and not her), who then tries to kill gideon, who has come back to life completely intact for no reason. jod fights off camilla and then dies to save his son gideon, who then becomes emperor and seamlessly unites the nine houses and blood of eden. the series ends with gideon and harrow’s marriage and the birth of their infant son who is set to inherit the entire universe and can already form a perfect kidney. imperialism is never discussed or even recognized by the author. all of the characters are white except judith and camilla. the series is a number one new york times bestseller for three years in a row. it immediately gets greenlit for a netflix series.

in the hellish alternate universe where tlt is a shitty cishet ya series, the first book is called “a house of bones and blood”. gideon is a cis man and harrow is marketed as a “feminist prince zuko redemption arc”. griddlehark make out during the pool scene but harrow still can’t get over her feelings for palamedes, who explodes later on in the book to save harrow from cytherea. camilla, the Strong Woman Character, breaks down and cries and loses her sense of purpose. in book 2, “a house of spirits and secrets”, cis man ianthe manages to capture harrow’s heart, to the ire of palamedes and gideon’s ghosts, until the end of the book when jod breaks ianthe’s evil spell on harrow. camilla returns to bring harrow to blood of eden, the evil terrorist rebel group that all of jod’s lyctors joined. jodybeth is the only canon queer pairing but it’s not confirmed until after they both die in the final book, “a house of love and loyalty”. harrow escapes blood of eden and fights off the villainous camilla (who hates harrow out of jealousy for palamedes being in love with harrow and not her), who then tries to kill gideon, who has come back to life completely intact for no reason. jod fights off camilla and then dies to save his son gideon, who then becomes emperor and seamlessly unites the nine houses and blood of eden. the series ends with gideon and harrow’s marriage and the birth of their infant son who is set to inherit the entire universe and can already form a perfect kidney. imperialism is never discussed or even recognized by the author. all of the characters are white except judith and camilla. the series is a number one new york times bestseller for three years in a row. it immediately gets greenlit for a netflix series.

You leave me no choice

this might be the worst thing that I’ve ever spent an hour and a half unleashing on the world yet

These are gorgeous and hilarious but I feel like they’re covers for a pulpy romance series, when the original post is talking about a Very Serious Angsty YA Series. I’m picturing something more like:

i need a shen qingqiu fan language fanfic RIGHT NEOW

i need a shen qingqiu fan language fanfic RIGHT NEOW

I wrote one, like, last year

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48988435/chapters/123590494

Imo it’s not my best work or anything, but it might interest you?

The more I play the TTRPG campaign me and my friends are doing, the more I realize my character is straight-up just a less depressed Seth. Truly, I cannot escape her

Why does me finding a cool song that matches DoS’s vibes have to coincide with having writer’s block???

PLAY LIMBUS COMPANY SOMEONE PLEASE ANYONE CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

other powerpoints ive made

My UID: E345207387

PLAY LIMBUS COMPANY SOMEONE PLEASE ANYONE CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

other powerpoints ive made

My UID: E345207387

Anyways... dragons

Anyways... dragons

A few pages away from finishing HtN and I hate John Gaius sooooooo much it's actually unreal

I don't even know what he did to the Earth or whatever, his jokes just make me want to scream. "None house, left grief" got me so mad I started ANNOTATING just to complain. Wake's full name?? "Hey, not fucking dead, I'm dad"?????? Unforgivable

If Mercy hadn't killed him, I'd have done that shit myself

A few pages away from finishing HtN and I hate John Gaius sooooooo much it's actually unreal

I don't even know what he did to the Earth or whatever, his jokes just make me want to scream. "None house, left grief" got me so mad I started ANNOTATING just to complain. Wake's full name?? "Hey, not fucking dead, I'm dad"?????? Unforgivable

If Mercy hadn't killed him, I'd have done that shit myself

THIS COCKROACH OF A MAN

A few pages away from finishing HtN and I hate John Gaius sooooooo much it’s actually unreal

I don’t even know what he did to the Earth or whatever, his jokes just make me want to scream. “None house, left grief” got me so mad I started ANNOTATING just to complain. Wake’s full name?? “Hey, not fucking dead, I’m dad”?????? Unforgivable

If Mercy hadn’t killed him, I’d have done that shit myself