Amanda Turek🌲HumbugWriter

#WIPSnips for design.

For context, the character is a bit tone deaf when it comes to preserving culture, kind of like some museums that display historically stolen artifacts.

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Peaches tries on men's clothing for the first time. This is in the phase where they're starting to discover being nonbinary (they haven't settled on they/them pronouns yet, so they're still going by she/her in this scene)

When the crowd finally dispersed, and the murky afterglow of a candle snuffed out too early flickered and died into darkness, she knew that her time, too, had come. She drew a deep sigh. A single, almost defiant sound against the stillness of an empty room. It was his shadow she noticed first, cast across her own figure, stretching toward the propped up coffin in front of her. He was dramatic by design. It almost made her laugh, even now. She let her shoulders fall, and waited, quietly, for him to step up beside her. His shadow quivered, then merged with the darkness, before he slid onto the bench next to her. They sat in silence for a while. Only when she had become aware of her own heartbeat, her breath, and the times between, he shifted, and spoke. “You know why I’m here?” It had been a while. She closed her eyes, leaned her head back, then nodded. Again, silence. “It’s time, isn’t it?” “It is.” “I thought there was more of it.” “You always do.” “Hm”, she made. Then, “How will it… how will they know?” He shook his head. “They will not. You will simply have… disappeared.” She looked at him then, his eyes glowing with colours that did not exist anywhere outside of her own mind, that soft, yet cruel smile, the beauty of his finality. She nodded again, biting back a rush of sadness and grief, maybe for those left behind, maybe for herself. Then a second wave came, one of regret, and fear. He reached out for her shivering hands then, gently brushing her knuckles. “It will be just fine,” he whispered. “But… I’m scared,” she whispered back. He smiled. “You’ve always trusted me. Trust me now.” Another sigh. Such beautiful colours in his eyes. An aurora of souls forgotten. “Ok,” she said, “Ok. Do it.” It was a small consolation, that at least in the end, when his shadow consolidated and wrapped around her, there was no pain… and a bigger consolation yet, that she was one of those rare lucky ones, who did not have to go alone. Lynn Peyo

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Good evening poets, writers and madmen.
Here’s my first entry for this week playing catch-up.

Today in #WIPSnips we tackle the age old question: which is better, Magic Knight or designer handbag? There's only one way to find out...
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I wondered if that was a name she chose! I love wrens.

So is he lmao!

I’ve got a situation like that with a character in the next part of my story. I think it’s OK. I mean, it’s not like he can stop thinking of himself as ‘Lawcket’ (although it might be easier to maintain the alias if he did🥺).

Drisal calls him by that name and when he speaks it that’s a whole other thing! 🥰

That afternoon, I spent time within Foremarch’s forge. His magical runes were present throughout the design. The forge was housed with runes that kept the flame’s temperature consistent at all times, ensuring there was never doubt when heat-treating a piece of metal. A barrel of oil was enchanted to ensure every quench was straight, and Damascus delaminations were sealed as if they had been properly addressed. All of his tools were nearly indestructible, as the runes would slowly repair any damage over time. Copper, tin, and iron, if there was an ore to be found in the mountains of Krale, it could be found in his shop.

#WIPSnips Design. Our hero spends some time admiring a dwarven blacksmith.

Text in the alt.

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from Something Familiar, in which Crystal checks out one of Daniel’s medieval texts.
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Oh, thanks! I hated it at first but it grew on me. 😀

Oh, he knows it. Its root means sorrow. But with the tail of truth (all faithnames have) it takes on a larger meaning & he knows enough of the ancient language to know there’s a boatload of nuance that he’s missing. (Curse, prophecy, history being “wrong” or ) 🤷

Lara means faith.
There is a lot lot lot to this name business. The meaning, the Family or House name, the clan name, how they are used; what the faithname is and how it differs … I don’t want to be going on and on. Funny how some topics I have nothing and others it’s endless. 😛

something horrible, he knows, but not exactly what. This search is part of what drives him.
Drisal- means loves stone.
I done forgot what Cerel means.
Virgil’s got a nickname from the Sheltri, which is Arrowsmith because he’s a great archer for being non-Sheltri! Of course, he’s proud of it. 🧵

#AwesomeCharacters
Love this topic!
Rush’s calling name is Rushak. Means “False Songbird.” Named by his angry aunt b/c he was an awful abrasive-crying infant. It’s just kind of a joke now since he’s got the most beautiful singing voice in the whole Forest.
His faithname (soul name), though, means 🧵

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With Rushak’s help, Drisal tries to impress the emeralds with a specific function. The emeralds resist.

- Brother’s Keeper, first book of my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.

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9. Reproductive stuff: Sheltri fertility and contraception: I’ve a lot to think about here! All I know so far is that premarital sex is so taboo it doesn’t even occur to them, & rape would be the ultimate evil. Regardless of any law, abortion would be sanctioned in that case.

This is one of the more difficult ones. There’s at least one more difficult than this in BK. Some are easier. Every one is different. 😅

#WIPSnips "Design" from FotF #5, Seen or Unseen

AL gets their fortune read in coffee grounds! Fun to get some more of the varying range of views re: the Fates onto the page.

Prophecy is always fun in a story…

(Staind voice) It’s been a while

…since I’ve posted one of these! I really need to be post more often, but God have I been busy

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#WIPSnips from Monah's Bk. 1 -- Monah's POV, after her mom (Bette) died, she explores the house & finds a box in the attic she's never opened before. Just touching the box gives her vivid visions, then she opens it.
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Erik introduced himself, and Niwa realized that he was the man in the tooth mask. His long reddish brown hair and beard contained a smattering of small braids tied with leather. He wore lush furs and hides. The beautiful boots laced up his strong calves were inlaid with mother of pearl, bone, and burned on leaf designs. Dark markings surrounded his eyes, which made them look small, but intense.

#WIPsnips : "design"

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A nightingale
Sings
In the glimmering
Frost
As the emotional
Mesh
Of tomorrow
Brings on
A stonehush
A silent race
With no champion

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The #WIPSnips word for December 9th is "design" - Lord Gendry is in the Summer Isles with the Lady Paramount. Kabelo, a strikingly built man, husband to Issa who is cousin to the prince has befriended the Westerosi lord.

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#WIPSnips 9. "Design"

On the technicalities of building a multispecies retreat (when you don't really want to bother to) and a girl who's most definitely not jealous.

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While walking home, Mem & Light get on the subject of their dead parents, and Mem suddenly feels compelled to get something off her chest... 👀

From #Charagma, my SFF dystopia where all people are marked saved or damned from birth.

How oblivious the Azantium are to the cages of their own design… Selania receiving the histories from her grandmother on the Eve of her coronation. #WIPSnips from KOSAL for “design”

December 9th – design

Fox meets the lord of the manor she has been caught snooping around in.

He has a few questions for her.

#DawnsBlood

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A young Chiyo & Rei observing the arrival of the Siefans, shortly before spotting Eru. 👀

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