[image: a single human eye with an orange Iris looking out from behind a cloud of monarch butterflies]
Twins were born to Kimimi Lancaster. She took only one of them home. Since then, Kimimi has risen from an indigent single mother to one of the wealthiest fashion conglomerates in the nation. Her daughter Crystal is set to inherit the company, if she doesn’t repeat her mother’s mistakes first. But what happens when the twin who was left behind is out for revenge for trapping her in a malicious government program?
Elements of interest:
- A combination of real and created CIA documents related to MKULTRA (AKA project monarch, real) and Project Mantis (fictionalized)
- lesbians and betrayal
- twins
- an Ace government agent
- Good vs. Evil
- trying to protect your family (and sometimes failing)
- betrayal and forgiveness
- mind control and conspiracies
Elements of somewhat less interest:
- token straight white boy (for diversity)
- naive to pissed character arc
- tea
- blatant self inserts
- an unfortunate and deadly marriage
FAQS
What is MKULTRA and why are there antis for it?
Please see the tag “the ship that never sailed ”
How do you know so much about mind control?
A combination of research and other stuff.
Why are you a smart ass with hate anons?
Because they are hate anons. Maybe it’s an automatic defense response. Maybe if they knew more about me they wouldn’t be saying such things. Maybe it’s Maybelline.
Anyway, I’m here to tell you about my project for Camp NaNoWrimo! For the people who were interested in my previous WIP, The Rise of The Dragon Queen, I hope this makes you happy. I recently reworked the story and am planning on writing the first few chapters of it throughout the month of April! Here’s a quick summary of the portion that I will be working on:
Ketsuna and her wife Vixia are both highly-efficient dragon slayers— which is exactly why the queen’s dragon defense guild hates them. But how will they manage when they are forced into joining the guild in exchange for Ketsuna’s ability to gain citizenship?
Continue below the cut for the temporary cover, brief descriptions of the main characters, and tag list information!
Hey, yall, it’s been a good minute since I’ve done one of these, but I have an important threefold announcement!
Number one: for camp nano, I’ll be working on the second book in the gifted series, so keep an eye out for that intro!
Number two: next semester is my senior year at college (woohoo!) and, to get my creative writing degree I’ll be taking a manuscript workshop. I’ve chosen to submit gifted for that, so in the fall there will probably be either an influx of new content and fun things, or a lot of complaining lmao
Number three: gifted is undergoing a minor revamp.And by minor I mean major, but not really. This is a really roundabout way to say that after a lot of thought, consideration, and debate with my roommates, I have to decided to change the setting from a high school to a college. In the grand scheme of things, this actually doesn’t change a lot. We’re going from young adult to new adult, the timeline is being shifted and changed a little bit, and the characters will be older. I honestly believe this will ultimately make the novel stronger, and I hope you agree!
Going to taglist this, since all of these are about gifted and I don’t want anyone to miss the updates :) Please let me know if yall have any questions!
I haven’t really done anything with this poor story in nearly a year, but I’ve finally poked it a little, re-worked it a little, and fallen in love with it again, so I figured I’d give it a bit of a fresh coat of paint on my blog as well!
Genre: contemporary wlw romance, inspired by a fairytale (snow white).
Featuring: love (obviously), found family, betrayal (oh, no), age difference, enemies to lovers, annoyances to friends to lovers, on-stage and off-stage dramatics, women finding their place in the world, idiots (affectionate), one big dog, and seven small kittens.
POV: multiple, third person, past tense.
Status: about 1/3 of the way into the first draft.
Synopsis:
Rhiannon Braeburn used to be the undisputed queen of both stage and screen until she hit that awkward age where actresses are too old (don’t say that word where she can hear you) to play the main character, and too young to play the main character’s mother. She was considering simply staying away from the limelight until she was well into her golden years and could make a distinguished comeback, until she received a call offering her a role in an upcoming Broadway play.
Charlie Prince, Hollywood’s newest sweetheart, is playing one of the show’s lead roles and hoping to make a name for herself as a serious actress and not just that girl in the biggest superhero franchise in the world. And that suits Rhiannon just fine: she’s worked with Charlie before, and she’s been hit on by Charlie before. Rhiannon may not like women (please, of course she doesn’t) but she’s not above a bit of showmance if it helps put her back in the spotlight.
Except.
There’s this… girl. Wide-eyed, bushy-tailed ingenue Ivy Whitely, fresh off the train from Ohio (Ohio, of all places), waltzing into Rhiannon’s life to ask for an autograph and somehow stealing everyone’s attention away from her.
Charlie may have fallen in love (or lust, knowing her) at first sight, and even Rhiannon’s best friend-slash-agent Miranda may be smitten with Ohio’s blandest ear of corn, but Rhiannon can see right through her act: Ivy Whitely is hiding something, and Rhiannon is sending her private investigator (don’t act surprised, every woman needs one of those) Hana Forrest hunting for the truth. And for Ivy’s head.
Tag list: [ I’m using the one I had from before so please let me know if you’re no longer interested and I’ll remove you! ]
The second day of school is much like the first, and so is the third and the fourth and the fifth, and then, finally the weekend comes after making you wait for far too long. Everything is very much the same: everyone still stares at and whispers about you, Vince has thrown himself into his writing, and Jacy hasn’t said anything to anyone you know since Monday so Micah agonizes over whether or not he was just screwing around. But Audrey booked an appointment with a therapist for next Wednesday, which is when the art club usually is, so when she doesn’t come home right away there won’t be any suspicion about where she’s been. You’ll drive her, you say, because the first appointment is one of the hardest and she probably won’t want to have to take the bus home alone.
“Okay,” she says. “But I don’t expect you to do this every time, okay?”
“I know. But I will if you need me to.”
She smiles, and when she curls her hands around your jaw and you rest your hands on her hips and she kisses you, it’s a little different, a little surer. Like she’s not afraid she’ll break you anymore.
You haven’t actually told me about any of your trauma, if you have any. I’m not a therapist so I stand by my advice to block unhealthy content for you, but if you do want to talk privately to anyone you’ll have to come off Anon.
TBT to when I earned the title ‘Cryptic Asshole’ from my Enemies to Lovers anon. I’m considering a legal name change.
With the recent completion of my third draft for WTSA, I am tentatively opening up beta reads for this draft. It’s going to be a little stricter than the other ones I’ve hosted and I’ll be looking to start from 16 January - 16 March 2021 (I am willing to negotiate extensions, don’t be afraid to ask!). If you’d be interested in participating then please fill out this google form.
Some information about WTSA below…
Genre | high fantasy, romance (m/f)
Audience | 18+
POV/tense | omniscient narrator, past tense
Length | 116k words
Motifs | toxic family dynamics, matriarchy, women in power, tradition vs change, light vs dark, clashes between two worlds, courtly intrigue, gothic horror
TW | explicit sexual content, parental abuse, gore, cannibalism
One sentence pitch | An immortal star princess embarks on a voyage to a cursed isle and discovers a hidden race of demons.
[ID: Screenshot of three paragraphs of text. Text reads:
He’s tried, of course—tried to keep them talking, tried to make them stay. But the patrons, as he learned quickly, are rarely the talkative sort.
Zola. The eyes. He looks away the moment he sees them.
“Bee-eaters aren’t easy birds to photograph,” the Librarian tells him. “They’re small birds; they scare off easily. Go a little slower next time, and offer a little seed too. You won’t be lonely much longer if you’re patient.” /ID]
ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID | update #2
Someday, I’ll have an actual graphic for this WIP, but today is not that day.
Anyway, I’ve been putting off actually writing for a week for … reasons. Most of which are probably evident if you realize I’m American, this had been my first week back after a very long break, and my partner hadn’t stayed with me this week.
It was just a teeny tiny depressive spell, in other words.
But I’m fine and back onto writing, but I’m weirdly not really up for writing comedy (The Arcadia) or sci-fi (Anima) like I was hoping. So what happened this week was I spent almost every single day working and/or scrolling through Twitter and Tumblr, then went, “Oh crap,” and wrote something these past few days. Much of the excerpt below was actually written yesterday, with the skeleton concept popping up on Friday and all the italicized bits happening today. I’d written the non-italicized parts first because … I just needed a crapton of names, as a previous post said, and I knew myself well enough to realize that was going to be one hell of a rabbit hole.
Also! I’m trying out present tense for this scene. I’m still not 100% sure if I’ll stick with it, so I’m 100% open to comments if it doesn’t quite work.
Otherwise, please enjoy a depressed Librarian discussing his job. And doors. And teeth.
