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Nacricontent

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Elder Asexual Zoomer (she/fae) Vampires | Original Fiction | Other things I like

WIP Re-Intro: The Forever Project

Tried this once here and none of that is strictly wrong, but I just wrote a killer blurb so we’re going again.

How would you fare if you became omnipotent on your fourteenth birthday? I imagine you might be able to figure something out given some time to get a handle on your newfound powers, but Hera Elizabeth Rider’s deicidal brother and waking up to the discovery that she’s transported herself out of her body and into a new world are not giving her that luxury. It takes her a deal with the devil, unwitting service to a vampire hunter, the creation of several gods, and one eccentric genius before she’s able to do anything with her powers on purpose, and by then it’s really not clear what the right thing to do even is.

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i made another thing in honour of spooky season !!! it's a vampire bingo :D

prompts under the cut !

Both my Vampires and my Wraiths from my Nihil Hunters setting get bingo!

Red: Vampire only

Fresh blood: While technically vampires do not feed on blood, the easiest source of meaningful darkness is human blood. Unfortunately, this means blood that has been exposed to light is not nutritious in the slightest.

Sunshine: Nothing eats up your supply of darkness faster than the sun. Eventually you run out of shadows and cease to be. Not good.

Bite: While it is a smidge dramatic (much easier to cut than bite, since vampire teeth don’t actually change much) so a vampire bite probably involves a blade anyway… but sometimes times are dire and gnawing your way into that meaningful darkness is the only way. But either way no puncture wounds.

Enthralled: A vampire can manipulate other’s opinions of and beliefs about them. With enough practice, this can turn into what is essentially mind control. I did not check “Master” because that’s not the vibe, usually, nor does it have anything to do with lineages or whatever.

Blue: Wraith only

Hunter becomes the hunted: A wraith nest is near impossible to exterminate without falling prey to it.

Came back wrong: A wraith is made primarily of what others think of them. If people have it wrong, they will change until those people have it right. It is near impossible to have long-term plans or ideas of your own as a wraith, because you will instantly forget them if you tell no one.

Purple: Both

Silver linings: Both conditions give you superpowers. Specifically, the thing the other lacks you gain control over.

Drained: This is how you’re turned. If you lose all your own faith in yourself, without dying because no one is thinking of you, you become a wraith. This does not create amnesia, you’ll still remember what you’ve experienced, you’ll just not really remember why you did anything. To be turned into a vampire you must be drained of darkness without dying, which is hard since so much of it is in your important inside bits.

Shadows: Being a vampire leaves you deficient in shadows, and needing to feed on them to live, while being a wraith gives you power over them, the ability to create and manipulate them.

Way too hungry: This is what a wraith nest is. It can also happen to vampires, which creates a “pale” (actually they’re becoming translucent) vampire with no priorities other than feeding. This is mostly due to a lack of understanding of the conditions, like the way diabetics would waste away before insulin was discovered.

“Ethically sourced”: It is possible to keep both wraiths and vampires fed without harming anyone.

Turned: As discussed above, if drained of darkness you become a vampire. If drained of faith you become a wraith. If this occurs while you already have the other condition or both occur simultaneously you become a nihil.

Dirty Secret: As more people become aware of these conditions, they are seen as demonic, inherently violent, and evil. It takes a long time before anything approaching open peace is possible.

High stakes: These dual pandemics are killing huge numbers of people. If unchecked, with no understanding of how to manage or at least kill these things, everyone is going to die.

“That’s a misconception”: A lot of things about vampires and a few things about wraiths are broadly misunderstood. It is believed that vampires feed on blood, that only the things in wraith nests are wraiths, that vampires will visibly burn in sunlight… it goes on.

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.

Dread Pirate Roberts all celebrities

YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed

I'm in the 9% of respondents who think that the black death was based

Ok but what do you mean by worse. Like quality of life of the average bean? Yeah there are much better times to be alive. Morally worse? No, not really. Were the people worse at like accomplishing things? No. Structurally worse? Like is the societal structure inherently inferior to other periods… hard to say.

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I've decided I need to do bad first draft therapy so I'm trying to write 50k of some silly vampire romance by the end up this month. I'm 10k in and having fun with it.

I am always in favour of more bad vampire romance existing

I had a very vivid dream as I was waking up, so I can still remember it of a train conductor who was a heavyset dwarf with a wispy chinstrap beard. Her uniform looked basically like the Enforcers from Arcane but the pants were black. She kept her hair in a neat bun, with enough give before it was tied off that it didn’t slick her hair to her head. Very well balanced with the roughly inch-long facial hair. Her face was very Irish.

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Talking abt regional dialects in linguistics. I wish I was enough of a place to take it with me. I’m not from here but you can’t really tell

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where am i

i’ve been dead for so long

The world has rotted away beneath my grave

Leaving me to wander places that never were

When I knew anywhere from all the wheres thag I had seen

The shores of the river have not changed

No sand there to wash to sea

Sevenfold around the world I have always worked to keep

And yet I haven’t

Because here you sit across from me

The dirt of my grave still beneath your fingernails

And together we breathe

Alive

Sometimes they fancy a shag, sometimes they don't, sometimes they never do or only for special moments or people. REGARDLESS THEY MATTER AND DESERVE TO TAKE UP SPACE.

Yesterday was International Asexuality Day, but ace books are good to read all year round. Asexual means a person doesn't feel sexual feelings or attraction to others, but this is a spectrum and can vary widely from person to person. Note that attraction does not equal romance, and asexual is not the same as aromantic. Some people are sex repulsed, some are not. Some people are sex positive, some are not.

Demisexuality falls under the asexual umbrella, and means a person doesn't feel attraction until developing a strong connection with a person. Two of my books, Phantom and Rook, and Matsdotter and Adrastus, have demisexual mains.

There are many different shades of Ace, and many different types of stories just waiting for you to read.

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What in the AI generated is this ad lmao. The transport truck is labelled Delaware?? The car managed to get its door mangled so badly it has somehow become reattached backwards? I also enjoy how the fire-trailer-pickup truck has gotten confused and put its hood up too to join in

I’m glad that if it has to exist, then at least some of the AI generated slop out there is still hilariously bad

The street sign is written in some kind of conlang that’s only partially in the visible light spectrum, and the pole it’s attached to switches height behind it to attach seamlessly to the section of the building across the street’s wall that is on top of the next door building’s roof. That roof is also host to a Ghost Dormer. The third building’s near wall is also a cloud.

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