Handmaiden

@everyone sorry I haven’t been as active recently!  I think we have so many characters in here that it’s getting hard to establish any new character dynamics besides the relationships we already have.  Also, I have a friend who’s going to be joining Story Embers soon, and I don’t want to just drop her right in the middle of this unbridled chaos l…[Read more]

Okay I’m gonna post this here too! I’m starting a monthly newsletter that’s going to include… writing stuff, writing updates, and some snippets from my projects!

Here’s the link for anyone…[Read more]

@everyone where do I even begin lol

I’m going to go ahead and pretend Basil and Saskia are up to date with the events lol.  Also, I’m officially removing Sasha.  He’s so annoying and toxic and emotionally exhausting to write that I actually removed him from the story altogether.  I’m pretty sure he won’t be missed lol

Also, Basil and Saskia ha…[Read more]

@mamaauthoress

Don’t worry about it! Happens to all of us XD

Okay, there was quite a long quiet period, then @rusted-knight came up with the current idea.

Klein fell into a crack and then the whole floor crumbled and all the characters ended up in a lower room. It’s like a big hall, and at the end there’s a big room with a dragon.

The catch is…[Read more]

@mamaauthoress I can see you!

ALSO @rose-colored-fancy @inkhorn @rusted-knight @emily-waldorf @mamaauthoress @anyoneelse

Look at Klein, Ruan and Basil just  t o w e r i n g  above everyone else 😂

@mamaauthoress ooh nice!  He looks a lot softer and sweeter than i first imagined him!  But he still looks very unapproachable (in the best way possible)

Is the girl his betrothed?

Also, @rose-colored-fancy discovered something very interesting about Basil that could be important for his interactions with Ruan!  Apparently Basil has autism.  I s…[Read more]

@mamaauthoress

Okay … this is the 5th time I’ve tried to post an image …

OH WOW!!! That looks amazing! That’s just how I pictured Rúan! The lighting is stunning! I love it!

@roe-colored-fancy

We are indeed terrible authors

that spider-man one, though! 🙂

@mamaauthoress, you draw well! (who are they, again?)

@calidris Yeah, Quin is somewhere around 5’4″, and Qatar is about 6′, maybe 6’2″.

@calidris

oh gosh I love these!

I might have to get in on this character castle meme bandwagon too lol

Thank you! Absolutely do it I wanna see!!

@inkhorn

 They’re perfect especially the one with the kings/queens/knights.

Thank you XD I thought that was a particularly apt format XD

@mamaauthoress

HAHAHAHHA THOSE ARE AMAZING — I HATH SAVED BOTH…

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@mamaauthoress alright!

Ngl I might just have to make a character castle meme board if this keeps up!

@mamaauthoress

THAT’S THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!!! I literally laughed out loud that’s hysterical! We need character castle memes, so much memeable stuff happens here XD

@calidris

that was actually completely unintentional!  I wasn’t even thinking about that when I wrote it, but oh my gosh it actually makes sense

You’re still responsible for breaking my heart 😭😭

Huh.  When I was first thinking about it, I thought he and Skia would both feel awful about it, because they’re no longer “useful.”  But that’s act…

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@inkhorn

Okay so something really funny happened XD I was naming a minor side character (He’s just there to fill a background role, he’s barely a character XD) and I was running through a list of names and picked Khalon because it sounded cool.

I had the faint idea that it sounded familiar but didn’t remember about your character until a while…[Read more]

@mamaauthoress growth is growth, even if it occurs at the rate of a redwood tree lol

Aww man!  Well if SE ever lets you, I would love to see some!

Idk Ruan, are you sure about that?

Ruan’s quite physically intimidating, right?  At least, that’s the impression I have!  Something tells me he’s kind of oblivious though…

Really?  I’m gla…[Read more]

Basil:

“I … come from a den of thieves,” the man mumbled, eyes downcast. “I was raised in a village full of immorality and crime, the son of a single mother.”

I narrow my eyes up at him.  He sounds embarrassed, no, ashamed.  But of what?  I thought all areas of human habitation are full of immorality and crime.  And isn’t it normal to be the chi…[Read more]

So I was not initially planning on writing this, but it’s interesting.  This is not at all how Basil talks normally – it’s 100% the propaganda speaking.  He’s out of the labs, but there’s still a little part of that fanatically loyal soldier in him still, and I honestly had no idea until I wrote this!

Also @mamaauthoress Basil is being i…[Read more]