Not story line, but a line in a description: "A Paladin’s power is that of a promise so deep, so thoroughly, truly meant, that to break it leaves them lacking something that has no real name, but creates an ache in a person’s very soul should it be lost." The severity of this just feels perfect!

I'm feeling pretty chill today, so I figured why not try something new? 1 like = 1 world building fact about my frog people! I've been meaning to talk about them for a while!

I don't know how everyone else's night is going, but I just spent a few hours talking writing with my partner and I've walked away from it with some very lovely frog people for one of my WIPs.

In my fantasy WIP, probably the grandest thing in existence is The Library of Souls. It's the domain of the God of Fate and holds every book They've ever penned, each the story of a mortal that has lived, and it contains a book for every single mortal ever. It's never been seen so art of it varies.

I'm Cryptic, and I'll probably be working on lots of different worlds throughout this year because of my attention span. Right now though, I'm focused on two: The fantasy world of a WIP I've been poking at for a few years, and a modern mixed with magic world for a new WIP.

Between figuring out why I was stuck on world building on an old WIP a few days ago (trying to do way too much in too small a space) and last night having a fully formed opening scene pop into my head while I was trying to sleep, I realized what I've been looking for this whole time (1/?)

Decided to share the beautiful hat I got at Teslacon that I'm planning to build a character off of for the con next year. Everyone thank @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social for making me think to even post it!

The little thing making me happy today is the animatic I've been imagining in my head of my No Wrong Heroes characters set to Epic's God Games. Listening to it made me realize how I wanted to handle a certain part of No Wrong Heroes, specifically Thor having to actually earn Hercules' resurrection.

So, gonna be completely real. I know I said I was gonna do nice little WIP moodboards and introduce all my WIPs properly and what not. But life keeps smacking me around. I'll have a good day or two and then the next will gut punch me. So instead I'm going to post whatever makes me happy that day.

I know this is my writing space and all but guess who just scheduled their first therapy appointment today~

Me: Hm, I think I'm starting to calm down from all the hectic life things! Life: Hey, what if you forgot that space heater has a history of overloading the electrical and it overloaded the are you have your computer plugged in? Me: What?

Demons are pretty consistent, but I do have a couple WIPs where they're not prevalent. Fucked up little guys who think they're irredeemable monsters also have a high tendency in my works.

Guess who's got a new desk~ It's me and I love it SO MUCH! Doors, drawers, shelves. It is PERFECT!

So, I've been thinking about my D&D inspired WIP again (Thank you @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social for enabling me to ramble about my Elves), and I do want to get back to it. But as I'm thinking about it, I'm realizing that what I really want is to figure out sharing info about all of my WIPs here. (1/?)

My partner's streaming again! Specifically Hollow Knight randomizer to celebrate the release date for Silksong! Come enjoy with us! www.twitch.tv/crowshoardga...

THE INFINITE SADNESS, CHAPTER 2 (What's Up?) Eleanor de Lepaute has a sneaking suspicion her best friend is hiding something. Now available FOR FREE if you're subscribed to my Beehiiv: jaxwolffwrites.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini... #writesky #writingcommunity

Happy #Saturdark y'all!! comin in at the end of the day because I actually have something ti share this time!! This is a snippet from DESECRATE (a.k.a. my next novel a.k.a. Grief and Loss: the novel)

When luckless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, it's to keep her safe. But after a mishap turns him into a dragon and plants the ghost of a god in his head, Mick must go from sidekick to champion before his existence triggers a divine war. #PosterPit #W #NA #F #R

FREE, FOR BEEHIIV SUBSCRIBERS: The Infinite Sadness, Chapter One 🌕90s urban (spiceless) romantasy 🌖Bffs-to-lovers 🌗Ace/bi rep 🌘Coming-to-age when you're 23 and aimless 🌑Cosmic/body horror 🔥Demon summoning at your local mall Links and summary in the replies! #writingcommunity #writesky 📚💙

Back at it TONIGHT in just two and a half hours! Join us for chill beats and word sprints!

So, just to be clear, if you have anything that treats AI as a positive on your profile and interact with my stuff, I will block you. I don't care if I sound like "Old Man Yells at Cloud" or whatever. I want nothing to do with it, I'm tired of hearing about it, and I'm going to use the block button.

youtube.com/shorts/HtebX... *Literally* Mick Martin. Bonus: It keeps happening, and he doesn't know how to make it stop. There are bees and dragons everywhere, and they're *pissed off* at the government now. His god is pleased. Eleanor is like, "And this is why I hang out with you."

Didn't expect a description practice scene to be the first writing thing I shared, but I'm really happy with this! And would love to know what people think these creatures look like!

Trying to write a fitting horror description for the first time in my life and showing it to people feels very "Please don't be too grosssed out, but also please tell me this creature sounds disgusting!"

I know everyone followed me for my writing and all, but my partner is doing their first stream! It's a Pokemon Diamond randomizer! It'd mean a lot to both of us if anyone interested even a little would join us! www.twitch.tv/crowshoardga...

Heck yeah, go fuzzy pollinators, go! Also, thank you for enabling this. 😂 Have a bumblebee doodle.

So, with my shiny new toy, I'm finding that I'd like some horror games to play. If anyone's got recommendations, let me know! And also expect me to potentially be leaning into horror when I get back to writing.

Somehow got hidden in the replies, so here we go.

My birthday present to myself has arrived. The Steam Deck is gorgeous and best of all has a headphone jack. I'm only kind of joking about that being the best part btw.

Also from this chapter: Miryam: "I presume you're Josiah Martin's descendant. You have his violin. Not to mention . . ." Mick: "His eyes? Face? Something else?" Miryam: "His insufferable tenacity."

I am so glad that there's now a feature to be notified when certain people post. I've been so exhausted with life stuff that I haven't been on here much and felt bad about it. Immediately ran and turned it on for a couple people already.

Finally wrote something again for the first time in what feels like forever. Somehow making this post is giving me deja vu

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Trope I never get sick of: when a robot/doll/puppet character gains sapience and wants to learn how to interact with real humans. Bonus points if it has a moment of evil. Yes, if you know who I'm describing, I AM making this post about that character. But there are so many good "doll" characters!

Given all of the censorship bullshit going around recently I feel like this should be said so my books don’t get lumped in with people who think smut is bad. I don’t write smut because I’m bad at writing smut and don’t want to subject people to that. I THINK SUMT IN BOOKS IS FINE AND GOOD ACTUALLY.

WIZARD OF OZ x MIRRORMASK For millennia, Alexandria and Tin have loyally served the sentient nexus of all human imagination. But when a lost teen drops into their lives, they'll do anything to keep her from throwing away her freedom—even defying their godlike prison. 📖 #BluePit #W #YA #F #LGBT

GIDEON THE NINTH x FINAL FANTASY XIV When luckless, magicless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend (and crush) Eleanor's adventuring partner, the last thing either of them expects is for him to be cursed with the body of a dragon and a mission to fight the gods. 📖 #BluePit #W #A #F #R #LGBT

even as social media implodes around us, so much pressure is put on authors to have huge platforms, even for fiction. this is, frankly, insane. 50,000 followers on IG or X can’t make up for a lack of marketing. the only thing that can make up for a lack of marketing is bigolas dickolas.

So because SOMEBODY (@crypticcodex.bsky.social) asked, how about a thread on the Eldanan zodiac? Pic is related. Pic is me, because this is technically the fourth worldbuilding thread. Someday, somebody will enable me to make threads about the characters. (NOT AN INVITATION, CRYPTIC.)

Hector would be continuing his standard day to day, not realizing he's depressed Narcissus would just be a friendless college student William would have no funding and be getting laughed at still Emily would be alive

Icarus would be an Elysian Kit would be graduating with a degree in Classics while working towards becoming a professor Kodi would be [redacted][angel trumptets blaring]

Anyway, that's the Eldanan calendar. Basically fancy farming calendar but *extremely* Catholic.

I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I am far worse at dealing with the mortifying ordeal of being known than I ever realized. It feels like everyone else on here either is published or has distinct plans on how to publish and I'm just here going "maybe someday? Hopefully?"

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

It's a crime that I have so many worldbuilding ideas that don't connect with each other. Every day I get a new idea and none of them make sense together but they all sound fun!

I NEED THIS SHOW.

Wait I made the meme

Didn't use Spotify at all this year, so I can't do the Spotify Wrapped thing. Buuuuut, I do have a YouTube recap of 100 songs, so same thing right? Give me a 1-100 and I'll see what kind of little writing sample I can whip up!