Honestly the pipeline of “reading the-modern-typewriter snippets at midnight on the floor of my bathroom at age eleven so I wouldn’t get caught” to “being a tumblr writer myself” is a wild one.

Hi!! I've been following you for so long now and I finally finished The God Key yesterday after having it on my shelf for so long and it was absolutely marvellous. I don't remember when I was last so intrigued by two characters and their relationship as I was with Isaac and Gabriel, they're so messed up but so incredibly lovely all the same. Literally had the time of my life annotating their scenes together, lol.

Anyway, I'm really really excited for all your future projects & I just wanted to tell you I loved it

Thank you! :) I'm so glad you liked it!

Messed up but incredibly incredibly lovely :D I want that on a t-shirt.

Evil never gathered dust. It spread, it festered, and it consistently put in the work. Bad people kept doing bad things, long after the good people called the state of affairs good enough.

The God Key

How did that green key save your life?

When I say it saved the lives of "me and mine" I am being facetious. The green key belongs to the "God Gun" that is used along with the U.S. Army multiple integrated laser engagement system, or MILES gear. The God Gun can either kill or revive people and equipment.

With the MILES harness there is a key slot that will accept one of two keys, the green God Key and the yellow key that comes with your firearms laser transmitter. Green stops the beep and revives you the yellow just stops the beep.

When a Soldier wearing MILES gear gets hit by the opposing combatants (Or fratricide, intentional or unintentional.) laser it sets off an alarm on your harness. That beep can break your brain if it's not turned off in short order so you will use the yellow key in your laser transmitter to stop it until an "Observer" can rekey you with a God Key. Below is one of the greatest examples I can think of.

Every now and again a member of the E-4 Mafia will get their hands on a green God key and hold on to it like its Isildur's Bane. ("My Precious! O my Precious!") They use it in total secrecy and only pass it's blessed usefulness on when they ETS. I did not get mine until I was and E-5, I was tasked to be the Training Support NCO for our Battalion. I was the schlub that had to draw things like MILES hear, graphic training aids, and just about anything not bought and stored at Battalion and Company level. When you turned in MILES gear they accounted for every single key, yellow and green. At one point the Training Support Center on Fort Riley had an "open house", if you were on the signature card you could come get all kinds of cool stuff for free. They were moving and were not moving all the stuff inside the building. The best part for commanders is none of the items were going on their property books. I picked up two complete UXO (Unexploded ordnances kits.), two full Moulage Kits (Casualty Simulation Kits), a dozen "rubber duck" AK47's, RPG-7's, RPK's and M16's and boxes of graphic training aids. When I was back at Battalion sorting through all the stuff I found the God Key in a moulage kit. That green key kept people and vehicles alive in the field, at NTC and JRTC for the next 15 years.

[In regards to Gabriel and Isaac]

Dahlia:...I cannot approve of this...

Sanna: Wow, Lia. I thought you were an ally.

Dahlia: THAT’S NOT WHAT I'M HAVING AN ISSUE WITH, AND YOU KNOW IT.

Me before the Rememberance Ball scene: Oh, I definitely think Dahlia's my favorite character, especially with her going against Gabriel and trying to keep her anger.

Me after the Remeberance Ball scene:

SANNA FUCKING NIEMINEN

Hiya!

I stayed up way too late on a work night to finish The God Key because it was wonderful, and I needed to know what happened.

I loved how each characters’ motivation was understandable, but their flaws were laid out so that as a reader I was unsure at times who I should be rooting for.

I saw a post floating around about making a character’s strength also their weakness/fatal flaw. It was really fascinating how Archangel was the physical embodiment of this for Gabriel.

I really loved The God Key and will definitely be reading it again in the future.

Thank you!! <3 I'm glad you had a good time! And that you needed to know what happened. That means I did something write haha.

I'm super curious now who (if anyone) you ended up rooting for!

Good days ahead!

I got all the books at once! It’s going to be a glorious November.

@the-modern-typewriter

@avoliot

The God Key (Review)

The God Key by Simone King was an enjoyable read.

The characters are well developed, and the set ups have the pay-offs you expect. The story itself is very character driven, and while not the kind of narrative I usually read but the world created within the book was so immersive that I managed to binge the entire book over an afternoon.

The shift from the first part of the to the second did have quite a shift in tone, but the characters were alive enough for the different perspective to be interesting and enjoyable.

4/5

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

The threat of sleep lounged like a fourth member of their party on the backseat; panther-dark and predatory, as heavy and disquieting as a hand on the back on his neck that Gabriel just couldn’t shake. Sleep was patient. Sleep, like death, knew that all things came to her eventually.

The God Key

Save me french yuri... Save me

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

If anyone came into my home and went through my brain and memories, especially an ex, I would kill them on sight. Rip to love, but I'm different.

-draws human battering ram König like its my next hit of crack-