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The Heartwood Inside

@theheartwoodinside

Queer Irish historical fantasy trilogy, book 1 currently being written. Current word count milestone: 110k ○☆°• Find me at my personal tumblr @kaiscove
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Hello! This is a blog for my historical fantasy romance trilogy work in progress. I post writing excerpts, lore, character sketches, and reblog story-aesthetic photography and art, writing memes tagged with character stuff, and archeological, historical, Gaeilge/Irish language and cultural references. Check out my featured tags to find excerpts and stuff organized by character!

The world is first century BCE, Iron Age Ireland. Fey both live together and apart from humans, such as the elusive sidhe (pron. "shee") of the forests and wild places of Inis Fáil (pron. "inish fall"), or the sii at the helm of the sprawling Solarii Empire.

Four souls are on a collision course that will split the foundations of their worlds. The unlikely ties between them bend and break everything they thought they knew. Reviving an ancient resonance with the ancestors from the distant dawn of civilization illuminates a path towards a new future. A better one, when their worlds need it most.

The story explores our links both tenuous and unbreakable to our past and our land. Curiosity and bravery in the face of fear and the unknown are powerful, double-edged tools. Authenticity to yourself is radical and powerful, and the characters explore what it means to be themselves with either your whole world supporting you, or your whole world ripping you apart to remold into something not-You. Gender and attraction - the architecture of the heart, and what it wants - don't always fit the Solarii binary, but has room to be explored in sidhe culture.

Currently +110k into book 1 of 3. All books are outlined and I'm so pumped to keep writing! I won't be publishing whole chapters of the story online, but I do post excerpts. I'm also open to interested betareaders through BetaBooks.

Message my main blog at @kaiscove or submit asks here! Always ready to infodump on lore and characters so don't be shy ♡

#historical fantasy#fantasy#historical fiction#queer stories#queer writing#lgbtq stories#writing#writing wip#sapphic#achillean#writblr#writeblr
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Reblogged memories-of-ancients
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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

#it IS the coolest shit!!! mannnn
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Reblogged oldhollywoodpangurban
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Source: hauntedthief
#guys if i told you i really did not think id ever reblog narnia to this writing blog. would u believe me#yet here we are#because the Aurelius vibes are so fUCKiNg stronk It Must Be Here#look this man is petrified 100% of the time and has to function and pass in elite roman-esque society#but though it is trauma he uses that endurance to pain to suffering in the end for the only thing he can. u can guess who#they should be afraid that all of that didnt break him. not in the way they wanted#Aurelius thoughts#Aurelius and Lugh
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Reblogged cognitiveinequality
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why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

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Reblogged ms-demeanor
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ok it kinda looks like shit tho

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youd look like shit if you were left forgotten in a beer can for 8 years too. dont be fucking rude

#holy fuuuckkkkkk GGUYYYSSSSS#TECHNOLOGY IS WILD WE COULD NEVER SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES AN 8 YEAR DANCE OF STARS IN THE SKY#EVERYONE SAY THANK U ABANDONNED BEER CAN PINHOLE CAMERA 👏👏👏#pics neolithic nerds wouldve killed for 5000 years ago#its me im the neolithic nerd 5000 years ago id have done it to see this
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Reblogged tearlessrain
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I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me

#Pax and Aoife#versus#Úna and Aoife#lololol yeaahhh
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