The Results Are In!!!!! I'll Be Introducing My Sci-fi Child Supersoldiers In Wonderland Soon

The results are in!!!!! I'll be introducing my sci-fi child supersoldiers in Wonderland soon <3

Badly Summarized WIPs

I was tagged by both @athenswrites and @amaiguri, so thanks to them for the tag! I've cut them down to the ones I don't really talk about, since I have way too many to fit the polls and I don't want to overuse some of them lol. I might do another one with the rest of my WIPs later, though!

Let me know what you think! I have a LOT of WIPs, more than I have room on polls, and I love talking about them lol.

(Gently) tagging: @theunboundwriter, @da-na-hae, @nemaliwrites, and anyone else who's interested!

OC vs Cockroach

Belated thanks to @athenswrites for the tag! Finally going through my mentions and catching up after my disappearance, lol. Love a new ask game!

Gonna bring it back to Asteria Heights with this one, lol.

Rate your OCs on how well they’d fare against a cockroach

Meg: 3/10. Would scream first before setting it on fire, probably after missing and hitting other stuff a few times. Wouldn't have been so freaked out if not for the fact that her house has insect-repelling spells all over it, and therefore has no fucking clue how it got inside

Aven: 0/10 would shit himself and run screaming for the nearest person. Would suddenly forget that he literally knows magic and has spent half of his life traipsing through forests rife with insects. He can handle spiders, but ROACHES?

Nina: 10/10. Does not give a shit. She's seen worse. If it's in the house, she'll either kill it with a newspaper roll or capture it with her bare hands and let it out. If anywhere else, she'll leave it be unless asked to do something about it. As long as it stays off of her and her things (and Antheia doesn't notice it), it'll be like it's not even there.

Antheia: ????/10. Would be 10/10 if she wasn't so fucking weird about it. If left to her own devices, would capture the roach with her bare hands, shove it in a glass jar, and rattle it, giggling the whole time. Aven is more scared of her than he is of the roach. No one would see that roach again, and no one would want to know what happened. Rest in peace, roach.

Seraphina: 7/10 would do nothing. Her butler will handle it. If not, her ringneck snake will handle it. A Lady (TM) doesn't bother with insects.

Luella: 9/10 would fight the roach. Being barely taller than it, they'll see each other as a threat. If her assistant isn't there to handle it, and she finds herself unable to either ignore it or fight it with magic, she'll whip out her sewing needle sword and go to war.

Michael: 10/10 would eat the roach. No questions asked.

Thanks again for the tag! (Gently) tagging: @amaiguri, @anoelleart, @mysticstarlightduck, @paintedbutton

In honor of Worldbuilding Wednesday... How do you present your worldbuilding to your audience without overwhelming or boring them? What techniques do you use?

Thanks for the ask! To be honest, it's not really a hard and fast rule that I work with. It's sorta just a vibe? But essentially "explain as I go". I don't reveal anything that isn't relevant until it is. For example, if the story is about a trek in a fantasy land, I don't need to mention the currency/bartering system until they're actively making purchases or bartering. And even so, I try to refrain from full-on explanations.

So instead of a scene like:

She pulled out a dalc- a round gold coin about 10 centimeters in radius with the previous queen's face stamped into it- and made the purchase. A dalc was the highest form of physical currency in their country, and the previous queen, Queen Annie XIII, was so renowned for her economic advancements that she'd usurped King John IV for the honor of her face on the coin. Cassie won this coin by yada yada yada

I'd instead do something more like:

She presented him with a round gold coin. "Would a dalc suffice, or is that still not enough for His Royal Stingy-ness?" It'd better fucking suffice. She doubted even Jack had a dalc to spare.

And just leave it at that. Frankly, none of the other bits of information means shit to a reader, at least not in that moment. So if it REALLY becomes important at some point, I'll just wait until that point to explain the rest of it. It helps to keep in mind that, while this is a book, and the reader is new to the world, no one else in the story is (unless you made a character just for that). While you still need to explain things to the reader, it's just as jarring for them if the characters act as if they're in an educational show for elementary school students.

If you made a character just for this express purpose of having someone else who also needs the world explained to them, I think a good measure to keep in mind is the kinds of questions you (or someone you know whose personality is similar to your character) would actually ask in this situation. Would someone drop-kicked into fae-land ACTUALLY give a shit about whose face is on that coin? Would they care enough to ask? Would it ever actually occur to them to ask how their irrigation system works, or how the monarchy was established, while they're on a cross-country journey to save the princess?

Yeah so that's it, lol. Long-winded, but the TLDR is "context only as context is needed." Thanks again for the ask!

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Smash or Pass OC Tag

SO SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE! Belated thanks to @athenswrites for the tag! I used picrew for the first time just to give you guys a reference. It's not 100% the way I envision her but it's close enough!

Rules: "Include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. The “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (You're not attracted to people of that gender expression, you're not attracted to people at all, etc.)

Princess Adrasteia (previously Kairi)

She/her, cis female (allegedly), early 20s, usually femme-presenting too (but not always)

Asexual, romantic orientation up for negotiation

One of the most powerful mages alive

Was previously a college girl before she got hit by the Isekai truck and woke up in the world of a novel she didn't finish reading

In the body of (as you might guess) the book's main antagonist

the youngest (and only) princess in a royal family of mages who must fight to the death to earn the title of heir

went from average modern citizen to dark fantasy YA antagonist overnight and isn't coping AT ALL

Constant identity crisis (esp after gaining OG Adrasteia's memories)

master of gatekeeping, gaslighting, and girlbossing - both to stay in-character and also to survive this new life

syncretizes surprisingly well with the canon antagonist's personality actually

has taken lives and would do it again

homesick 🥺

her homesickness manifests in obsession and taking over the empire

technically engaged, but for political reasons. Is neither interested in her fiance as a person nor in keeping him around for longer than necessary to get what she wants (ergo: open relationship in a "this isn't a real marriage anyway" way)

just a sad lil baby 🥺 (who is also mentally unstable, extremely volatile, and prone to violence & cruelty beyond measure)

cold & calculating, partially to bury her aching desire to go home

very charismatic when she wants to be, aka around people she thinks she can get things out of

very conventionally attractive (and uses it to her advantage)

Eager to see where this goes! (gently) tagging: @theunboundwriter, @amaiguri, @paintedbutton, and anyone else who wants in!

Not a villain song tag game

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the not a villain song tag game! (Does this exist already? If yes, then excuse my ignorance) (Am i allowed to make a tag game when my blog is 2 days old? Hopefully!)

Rules: Pick a song for the antagonist/ villain of your WIP, but the twist is that it can't be obvious that it is a song for the villain. As in: if someone listened to the song and didn't know it was about the villain, they couldn't guess!

I'll start:

For Odette: Cost of the Crown by Mercedes Lackey

Ah, yes, Odette!

"A friend, a love, a child--- it matters not, I know indeed 

That I must sacrifice them all if there should be the need 

They know and they forgive me--- doing more than I require, 

With willing minds and loving hearts go straight to grasp the fire."

I'll tag some people who said they wanted to be tagged in @athenswrites tag game masterpost (but only if you want to do it):

@overdecorated-furniture @willtheweaver @pandoras-comment-box @anyablackwood

And I know I didn't see you in that post, but just in case: @illarian-rambling

And obviously, anyone who sees this is free to play!