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Books I Read In September
45. The Oleander Sword, by Tasha Suri
Pre-ordered this, and I’m entirely happy with what I got. I mean it’s got intrigue and angst and the literal and metaphorical selling of souls and lesbians and eldritch horrors and war crimes, what’s not to love?
But really, I’m pretty sure I already made the joke, but SFF lesbians and weird power dynamics around fealty and martyrdom sure are a pair, huh? (Or maybe that’s just a random bit of selection bias in the books I read/see talked about, but eh. I should catch up on Montress.)
Anyway, Malini is a joy to read, and the Yaksha are absolutely gorgeous and come across as rather believably alien, though I really do wish they weren’t quite so straightforwardly malevolent, and the temple/palace intrigues with whatever the asshole emperor’s name was and his priests was great. Can’t wait for book 3.
46. None the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
My other pre-ordered book of the year. And look, I am largely outsourcing my opinions on this book to the ongoing 24/7 symposium digging into every bit of symbolism and possible reference in these things going on here in the tag. But, like, book good.
Also Pal and Cam, my beloveds. And Nona is adorable.
I need to go scream in the wilderness a bit again.
47. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
This month’s attempt to acquire some Culture, via what was apparently the most influential book of 2007 (literally recommended to me because a coworker’s book club is doing it).
But no, this was good! Very much of it’s time, though less in a ‘dated in a bad way’ way, and more in a ‘future generations of college students will get assigned this and told to write an essay about the cultural fallout of the War On Terror.’
It really, really committed to the whole ‘life story told in a conversation over dinner’ framing device, to a degree that books basically never do - the prose of the whole thing still felt conversational and like it could actually be said by one person to another. The constant asides to the cuisine being served and the order of the courses and everything did eventually start to grate, though.
The big central twist is, well, barely a twist - except that the title gives you a very definite idea of where the protagonist’s arc is going to end up that you bring with you into the book. Still, really well done.
I’m surprised you don’t see the janissarya analogy made more often in modern polemic. Shoe doesn’t exactly fit, but close enough that you’d think it’d get some use.
48. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
I really do adore Murderbot stories. They’re just perfectly sized for a lazy afternoon or two of reading, they’ve got the plot structure of a tightly edited 40-minute tv episode, and they’re just great fun comfort reads. Perfect book pringles. (Also Murderbot is one of the greatest protagonists of all time).
This one in particular would have honestly worked pretty well as a finale to the series? Or, since it clearly isn’t, I guess ‘works as a season finale’ is the better way to put it? It resolves the central underlying plot thread that’s been running through the books so far quite nicely, anyway.
I totally admit that aside from Murderbot only, like, four characters have made a sufficient impression that I can reliably identify them by just their names, though.
49. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Hey, I finally finished the last Hugo nominee! Now to start feeling properly guilty about failing to answer that ask about my ranking/opinions from a month ago.
But no, this was good. The only Tchaikovsky I’d read before was Children of Time/Ruin, so this was definitely a change of pace (obvious similarities in setting aside). The whole central conceit of ‘fantasy setting is actually the result of an apocalypse destroying a technologically advanced civilization and the descendents of the survivors viewing the remnants as magical relics and sorcery’ is so thoroughly cliche I think people just stopped writing it for a couple decades, but the execution is really well done.
Nyr and Lynette are both fun POVs, anyway, and I absolutely adore anything that has multiple POVs seeing/taking part in the same events and interpreting them wildly differently. The one chapter that had two columns with Nyr providing exposition on one side and what Lynette&co actually understood him as saying on the other was great.
Tchaikovsky also did a really excellent job of capturing the whole horror and grief and ennui of being the Last Of Your Kind better than I usually see, and also saying Fuck the Prime Directive, which is always appreciated.
Also incredibly endearing that Nyr’s whole transhuman civilization gave themselves giant badass horns and then collectively decided to pretend it was for pragmatic utilitarian reasons.
50. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Because it’s 2 murder 2 bot month, I guess (but no all my holds on these really did just come in at once).
So apparently this was actually written after the novel, which I only found out after finishing it, but chronologically it seems to have taken place before? Which conveniently means I didn’t accidentally ruin any big twists for myself.
Anyway, this was a fun detective story sort of thing. Murderbot being continuously annoyed at how much harder the lack of a dystopian panopticon made their job was a great running gag.
51. The Thousand Eyes by A. K. Larkwood
Because it’s magical lesbians month, I guess.
But no, this was a fun read. The whole setting and tone were very, hmm, D&D? Like a real mixture of super fantastical elements and generic fantasy things given different names (there are elves, and orcs, and for some reason specifically yuan-ti) and then the vision of society and the economics and the mindset and vocabulary of everyone who hasn’t been asleep in a ditch for ten thousand years is just incredibly modern. Not a complaint, it’s just very much a thing.
My actual complaint is that this was like four different discrete stories stacked on top of each other and put into a compactor until they all fit in one book. There were a lot of times where I was kind of left feeling that Larkwood was relying on me knowing how a given story/character arc goes so she could just skip through the high points and then resolve it without necessarily building it up beforehand.
(I also have a perpetual dislike for the plot beat of ‘oh no, the abusive cult who raised you was just doing their religion wrong. We’ve got a direct line to your/their god and he’s actually a great guy!’)
Interesting how minor a character Csorwe is in this one compared to Unspoken Name, really, but Shuthmili and Tal are both incredibly fun POVs so can’t say I really mind. Tsundere dragon goddess of betrayal and destruction was also a great time.
#book review#monthly tally#analysis/review#the thousand eyes#a.k. larkwood#murderbot#fugitive telemetry#exit strategy#martha wells#elder race#adrian tchaikovsky#the reluctant fundamentalist#moshin hamid#nona the ninth#tamsyn muir#the locked tomb#the oleander sword#the burning kingdoms#tasha suri
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It's OC Ref time!
Phemus(she/her) is a psychopomp who wanders the fields of Hades and guides lost souls home! She doesn't talk much of her past, but she's cheery, chatty, capricious, ever the connoisseur of a good yarn, and especially prone to lending a sympathetic ear and bending the bureaucratic tape of the Underworld a bit more often than she probably should (it's for a good cause she swears)(it's Funny)
#kirby oc#She's the type of character who's really easy to chat with#asks about your day#your friends and your dog#Really curious and fun!#but Never chats about herself#The fields of hades aren't a particularly interesting place outside of the occasional wayward shade though#so it makes sense that she doesn't particularly have anything interesting to share herself hahaha#'hmmm yes. I saw One (1) weird beast today. Add that to the monthly tally.' Not that exciting at all asdkfjn#Probably slacks a bit more at work than she probably should but it's ok she can't get in trouble she has tenure#Phemus#aseukiart#Also Thank You Humming-Fly My Beloved Bestie for Designing her scythe it rips as all hell
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maybe i just have too much faith in people, but i'm legitimately baffled anyone would expect fujimoto to write nayuta as makima 2.0. he's given no reason to have his writing doubted like that lmao.
#the signs are already there in how nayuta is distinct from makima#makima would not have a monthly fart tally chart with denji#nayuta is clearly different while still having Devil Brain (tm)#era.txt#chainsaw man spoilers ///
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okay i’m done i can’t linger in my shadowpeach tag without devolving into a shaking sobbing mess
#idk how i’m gonna handle s5 yall i think the only option will be to lock myself in a room for a week#not even just for shadowpeach reasons bc i don’t think they’re gonna play a big role#just in general i havent thought abt lmk in a bit and whenever i do it’s like a shock to my brain and i remember how much i#love this cartoon#anyway that’s your monthly dose of tals on here 💞#tally talks
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Just imagine a crossover au where steve (stranger things) and leon (merlin) meet up to drink wine and talk shit about there children
Steve: I bet my shits were bigger idiots then yours today
Leon: *drinks straight from the wine bottle* oh you are so on.
#stranger things#bbc merlin#steve is a mom#leon is a mom#leon the long suffering#just imagine the two counting each tohers grey hairs#they keep tallys#and bet who gets the most by the end of the week#leon is gives steve weekly lessons on how to disconnect from reality#they do monthly spa treatments together#steve: gasp *takes a cucumber off one eye* they did nOT#someone pls write this because im too lazy
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im not really into tally hall anymore but god 2018-2020 me would be so fucking jealous of right now because like. they got the vinyl and cd represses and apparently theyre also being turned into Marketable Plushies now. happy that people who are into them now arent in the trenches for content anymore tho
#like i remember when cds and vinyls would go on ebay for 300+ and the only merch we got was sporadic releases from JH. man.#their spotify still boggles my mind. this might sound pretentious but i remember when their most streamed song had 2 million which was#hidden in the sand and they had like. 100 thousand monthly streams#like whadda hella man. also shoutout to my mutuals from my tally hall days that r still here. u know who u are. hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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november 2022 writing tally = ish
Soundly(ish) settled now. I have a gazillion plants now that I have East Coast sunshine, I've got my multi-monitor setup, the TV and things, a working oven, and am cold-free. I even pulled out my knitting needles after three years of staring at my damn unfinished Outlander shawl... Plus, finally... the mental bandwidth to start writing again. Starting slow but steady, increasing wordcount every week until I get back to my 500 a day. Currently in the middle of the 250 words per day round. (Which I fell off of for a week during my family Thanksgiving holiday...) 23/30 days isn't bad though! My last hiatus was about 7 years...
Random current projects: a short story, a novella, and the beginnings of a novel. Three different genres and time periods, though all sticking with the theme of supernatural sexytimes. Trying to find something that sticks.
On the fic side of things, I started trying to edit the 28.5K beast that comes after "You May Never See." I've already axed massive sections of the beginning and stuffed them in other places, which is good. Let's me know I've had time space away to really start the brutal tearing apart of it all. I need to get more of that under my belt though. The one good thing about my hiatus was that it did finally gave me the distance to even think about trying to tackle this edit (and to remember how to edit) so I'm taking that as a win.
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My April Reading Summary
Overall Mood: preoccupied. With a lot of house stuff happening this month and a few out of house things too I haven’t had the peaceful space to read. It’s not that tragic though because my reading bug was feeling a little sleepy still and I didn’t want to force myself to get a few more titles down just for the sake of making up numbers – something I do not want to focus on this year so I think…
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Monthly Reading Summary – February 2024
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#2024#Agatha Christie#bookbloggerish#clare pooley#david mitchell#February#february 2024#holly jackson#kate mccaffrey#Monthly Reading Summary#Monthly Summary#nicola tallis#owen emmerson#parini shroff#rachel lucas#Reading Summary#rebecca wilson
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i know literally everybody is posting about this right now but i need to display how insane i am somehow and this is the perfect way to do it
#there was also a little video message from zubin sedghi from tally hall and i'm going crazy i feel so awesome#“if we get like 30-40 million monthly listeners we'll be back” ok zubin that's a little bit far away from the current monthly listeners#<- (currently they have almost 5 million monthly listeners) but hearing that there's hope for more tally hall eventually makes me so happy#don't worry we'll get you your 30 million listeners i know we will RIGHT GUYS... right? (i'm desperate)#anyways horrors aside spotify wrapped guys :)#not normal if you couldn't tell somehow :)#spotify#spotify wrapped#jack stauber#tally hall#roar#spellcasting#toby fox
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my room mate broke my scissors in the most bizarre way posible: they’re glued together. they wont open. they wont even budge. HOW
#Im going to put their price in the monthly tally of All The Shit I Buy For This Apartment#(Yes i keep an excel file and sometimes put inflated prices for labour purposes)
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Books I Read In July
31. India In The Persianate Age by Richard M. Eaton
So this has been on my list for, like, 2 years(?),since I asked for recs on Indian history after finishing After Tamerlane and someone mentioned it. Having finished it - good recommendation! Shockingly readable, and if absolutely nothing else has given me a basic understanding of the broad strokes of medieval Indian history. (Now just to read up on the Congo basin and points south, and South-East Asia, and I’ll have something like an extraordinarily cursory understanding of the political history of the entire world).
But no it really was interesting. Beaton’s central thesis - that it’s more useful to think of medieval India as a period of conflict and syncretization between Persianiate and Sanskrit cultural spheres, not a period of holy war and strict us-them divides - seems a bit overstated, but it’s definitely worth taking seriously (and certainly a useful corrective to the political narratives that have dominated since). The Mughal’s in particular seemed to have been a really syncretic empire, legitimized by islamic clergy but with Rajputs and other hindu aristocrats playing keys roles in just about all realms of the state, and the symbolism and rhetoric of the state definitely seemed to be pretty thoroughly syncretized by the eighteenth century.
Also, like, to the extent there even is a popular memory of the Mughals in the west, it’s definitely of the ‘ancient, decadent empire’ sort, so useful to remember that they’re almost quintessentially early modern.
It’s mostly an aside in the book, but one thing that really did strike me (largely because it agreed with what I remember of Darwin’s take in After Tamerlane) is that the colonization of India was in large part only possible because India was so much like Europe - The collapse of the Mughals sort of rhymes with general anarchy of the Early Modern in terms of giving opportunities for state formation, and more specifically there had been something like an Indian Military Revolution leaving large populations of trained professional mercenaries very skilled at their craft and without much loyalty beyond their next paychecks, and (probably more importantly, especially in Bengal) fairly sophisticated credit markets that could be tapped to provide capital for military adventures. If the Brits hadn’t been able to tap into both the military and credit markets and exploit them to the hilt, there’s simply no way they would have been able to exploit the opportunities they did and dominate the subcontinent.
Which definitely does lead one to wonder how much of a delay you’d need to allow proper Indian fiscal-military states to consolidate on their own and resist complete European domination/jump into the empire-building game themselves, and what that would have looked like. From my (again, very vague) understanding of it, the Sikh Empire and Sultanate of Mysore managed to get pretty close to fighting the Brits on even ground even historically.
32. The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Hugo novel nominee 6 out of 6! We did it! Confetti and sparklers!
Okay it’s not really hate-reading but I’ve literally read all but one thing Chambers has ever published at this point, I think. Please don’t let the sequel to Hymn to the Wild Build get nominated for a Hugo next year.
But no honestly I didn’t even hate this one. Extremely readable - would have been great for a train ride or day stuck in an airport - and it even has a bit of interpersonal conflict! Little, little bit, argument lasts for three pages before they agree to disagree, and I get the feeling I’m supposed to find one side much more obviously correct than I do, but still!
I’ve said it before, but I really do want to like the Wayfarers universe. And, well, in large part that assuredly just because I can’t think of any other proper space opera settings that have even slightly taken off that are newer than Mass Effect, and also it’s the blessedly rare setting where the entire universe isn’t warped around the sheer magnetic Specialness of humanity, but still, it’s a fun, well-thought out setting! Would love to read a story with a plot set in it some day!
Though the whole Aeluon demographics thing is still bothering me - a population can’t recover from a bottleneck when the average number of kids per potential mother is less than two! Especially when they’ve got the whole galactic military superpower thing going on. They should still be slowly limping to extinction! (and really, if you actually want to dig into the drama of a huge cultural expectation to have kids, that seems like a way richer vein to tap anyway.)
33. Six-Gun Snow White Catherynne Valente
So on account of really loving The Past Is Red, and still having lines from The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland stuck in my head on occasion, and having gone feral over L’Esprit de L’Escalier when it came out last year, I just kind of decided to put holds on every Valente book my library had (there were a lot). Of the three I’ve read so far, this was easily the weakest
I mean the conceit is good - I still adore retelling fairytales and classics in new settings (fuck you I will defend 10 Things I Hate About You and She’s The Man to my dying breath), I love mixing up any post-medieval time period with mythic/fantasy elements, and the prose and imagery is still mostly very good.
But after the first act the whole thing just felt very confused and meandering and not sure what to do with itself, honestly. And maybe I’m just not cultured enough to get it, but the ending really fell a bit flat imo.
34. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed The World by Adam Tooze
Since he’s the public intellectual of the moment, and also because my god I knew less about the history of the Great Finacial Crisis than I thought I did.
So beyond an understanding of just how long the crsis lasted and how comparatively hypercompetent the Chinese government was compared to anyone else, I have mostly been left with an incredible disdain for the European elite in general and Germany’s political class in particular. Just, totally fucked everything up and made everything worse for everyone, for almost no reason whatsoever. France comes out smelling of roses and seeming well-governed, by comparison. France!
Beyond that, it really just was a decade where the West’s most salient political divide was between well-heeled technocrats trying to keep global capitalism running relatively smoothly and the inarticulate nationalist screaming, huh? Truly depressing era for the left. (tbf so are most of them).
Relatedly but wow has spending the last section on Ukraine made this book age amazingly. More topical now than four years ago, somehow.
35. Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne Valente
So this one I liked a fair bit better than Snow White, though honestly it really could have been a short story instead of a novella. The bits of the HOA agreement for the magical-realist-suburb the story takes place in before each chapter were clever and nicely dystopian/faerie-ish.
The whole conceit of the Garden of Eden as this stifling hyper-manicured stepford wives gated community was generally really well done, but as previously mentioned I’m an extremely easy sell for that sortof thing. It really did take me altogether too long to realize that all the other people had animal names, so it seemed clever to me when that was pointed out anyway.
Beyond that it was all a bit confused, really. Blasphemous in a 1990s feminist fantasy sort of way? Adam is also Bluebeard, a giant and a brute who murders his wives when they realize what he is after finding the mementos he keeps, or otherwise displease him and then demanding his Father make him a new one, Eve eventually convincing him to eat the Apple is something like an analogy to poisoning an abusive husband. That sort of thing.
36. Deathless by Catherynne Valente
Now this one, this one was good, IMO. But then like I said, I’m an easy sell for twentieth century fairy tales, and even moreso Soviet ones. And Valente really leaned into the fairy tale-ness with this one, all the rich description and obscure metaphors and triptychs upon trptychs upon triptychs. Also the little domestic/family spirits who’d gotten cooped together in communal housing like everyone else and formed a housing committee to start making the place bigger on the inside (and realized that they can cause far more trouble for people by being informants than just spoiling milk) and the kazakh dragon whose horde is oil and wheat were both great.
The plot was, honestly, still rather meandering. But hey, when it’s a novel length fairy tale that kind of comes with the territory. And being in Marya’s head was always enjoyable.
…really don’t have too much to say about this one except that it was good, honestly.
37. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
And Hugo Novella Nominee number five!
So I absolutely adored Ten Thousand Doors of January, which was also the only thing by Harrow I’d previously read. So it’s possible I went in with overinflated expectations. But still, this was honestly a pretty big dissapointment.
And okay, part of it is, just like songs about how sexy being a musician is or dense essays about how criticism and Studying Theory are moral imperatives, stories about how ~important~ stories are have to be really good to not leave me rolling my eyes. And that goes double and triple for stuff that just leans into many worlds theory to justify itself about why there are all these convenient parallel worlds where fairy tales are real exactly as you imagine them, and triple for stuff that tries to get all cute and meta about all the cliches but then still expect you to take it seriously.
So I mean, even going in, this probably wasn’t the book for me. But still, it was just so…impressed with itself? Or no, that’s unfair, more that the reviews and marketing copy on the book jacket were impressed with it. And I just..didn’t see it? If it wasn’t gay the entire plot seems like it could have been a made-for-tv movie I watched as a kid. Certainly not exactly ‘subversive’ or ‘groundbreaking’ or whatever.
Also I was kind of surprised how how fucked up the original Sleeping Beauty story was (Princeess didn’t wake up with true love’s kiss, she woke up when the prince rapes her while she sleeps, she gets pregnant, and her newborn baby suckles the splinter out of her finger) was treated as this, like, shocking revelation. I mean I was absolutely a miserable child who sought these things out but still, pretty sure I’d heard that by the time I was 14. Like Cinderella’s stepsisters slicing chunks of their feet off to fit in the slipper, y’know?
#monthly tally#analysis/review#a spindle splintered#alix e. harrow#deathless#Six Gun Snow White#comfort me with apples#Catherynne Valente#crashed#Adam Tooze#the galaxy and the ground within#becky chambers#India in the Persianate Age#Richard M. Eaton
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music of 01/23
sure thing - miguel
it was a good day - ice cube
i’d rather die than be famous - pierce the veil
currents convulsive - pierce the veil
the watcher - dr. dre
still dre - dr. dre (ft. snoop dog)
big ego’s - dr. dre (ft. hittman)
what’s the difference - dr. dre (ft. eminem and xzibit)
forgot about dre - dr. dre (ft. eminem)
greener - tally hall
welcome to tally hall - tally hall
banana man- tally hall
two wuv - tally hall
& - tally hall
never meant to know - tally hall
cannibal - tally hall
turn the lights off - tally hall
out in the twilight - tally hall
i don’t care - fall out boy
she’s my winona - fall out boy
27 - fall out boy
tiffany blews - fall out boy
w.a.m.s. - fall out boy
west coast smoker - fall out boy
let’s get high - dr. dre (ft. hittman, ms. roq, and kurupt)
length: 1 hr, 31 mins
idk what to even say about this month of music. the genre is kinda everywhere. mostly hip hop and rock. great music to ring in the new year :)
#kinta’s music#music#music of the month#kinta’s monthly music#fall out boy#tally hall#dr. dre#pierce the veil#miguel#ice cube
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Happy New Year, everyone! I thought it would be fun to do a little retrospective on the game's progress over the last year... Shepherds of Haven has grown so much from the little demo I posted in January 2018, and it continues to steadily build and flourish in so many different and exciting ways! Here's a look at just some of the things we accomplished in 2023!
I added 143,151 words to the game (2.5 main chapters, 8 new character interludes) in 2023: the equivalent of writing the longest Lord of the Rings book in one year! We also broke our huge 1 million word milestone—without including code—meaning Shepherds of Haven is now officially twice as long as War and Peace, and almost as long as the entire 7-book Harry Potter series... and all in a single game!
A lot goes into game creation behind the scenes, including the coordination and creation of visual assets for the game—like character cards, codex entries, maps, portraits, and backgrounds—fun stuff for the fans (like the MC info template we created), and songs for the official soundtrack. As the game creeps slowly and determinedly towards its initial completion, that also means learning new things as a solo developer to prepare for the future, like learning to build an official website, researching business and tax practices, and beginning to think about how to conduct testing, publishing, and marketing down the road. Much of what I enumerate here hasn't been made public yet and will continue to cook in the background for a while, but I'm very proud of the work I've gotten done this year and will be excited to unveil more in the future!
And of course, for even more Shepherds of Haven content, I've added and completed even more stories for our little library on Patreon (which also has sizable word count at this point): The Bridge of Bones (a Trouble and Riel murder mystery), O Happy Dagger (a dark adventure featuring Briony, Chase, and Red), and The Hunt (a wild tale involving Tallys, Halek, Shery, and new kinds of spirits, fey magic, and Elves) were all serial stories completed in 2023, while Some Kind of Virus is a cyberpunk zombie apocalypse AU that will continue to be updated with new chapters monthly.
A full list of the Shepherd short stories and serial novellas (with links) can be viewed here!
I hope you enjoyed this session of Shepherds of Haven Wrapped! Honestly, this doesn't actually cover everything I've been working on, but some things can't be packaged and listed out neatly, or otherwise won't seem very interesting to anyone else but me! 😂 As we inch through Chapter 9 and get more interludes done (only a few more main chapters to go), I'm hopeful that I'll also be able to find time to work on my next novel, but we'll see if the Shepherds schedule ends up ramping up or settling down as we work steadily towards finishing the main story!
One important thing before wrapping up is to acknowledge your guys' role in this wonderful, wild journey. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your invaluable contributions to the development of Shepherds of Haven. Whether you took the time to share links to the game, supported its growth on Discord or Patreon, left encouraging messages or asked interesting questions, reported bugs, or showcased your remarkable works of fanfiction or fanart, I am sincerely thankful for the unwavering support from this amazing community! Your collective efforts have played a pivotal role in shaping the world of the game into what it is today. Words cannot adequately convey my gratitude for your support, and I am truly blessed to have such a passionate community surrounding this project.
As we step into 2024, I am filled with anticipation for the developments awaiting Shepherds of Haven. Big things are on the horizon, and I am so excited to share these experiences with you! Thank you for being an integral part of this journey, and here's to the continued growth of our shared little world. Cheers to 2024—may it be a year filled with creativity, adventure, and joy! 🎊
#Shepherds of Haven#milestone#update#short story#short stories#Patreon#alpha build#alpha preview#year in review#wrapped#recap#2023#master post#master list#happy new year#long#long post
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TALLY HALL'S RETURN?!
Zubin of Tally Hall announced on spotify wrapped (If you had Tally Hall as a top artist) that if they reach 30-40 Million monthly listeners, they will come back! So, I've made a Tally Hall playlist on spotify, LISTEN IN WITH ME!! I will be doing this crazy challenge where I listen to only Tally Hall until they return! (Imagine they don't come back ;-;) So please, at least save it and join the tag #Project: BRING BACK THE HALL!
God I've editted this post like 7 times. One last thing, please try to use the tag I made so it can get seen by Tally Hall fans. I really would love to see them come back!! :)
#Project: BRING BACK THE HALL#Tally hall#hall#tally#tally hall#tallytober2023#spotify wrapped#miracle musical#joe hawley#ross federman#rob cantor#zubin sedghi#andrew horowitz#chonnys charming chaos compendium#cj#chonny#cccc#chonny jash
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⚡️ Welcome! ⚡️
{May prompt: 'top' + 510 words}
May AO3 collection:
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what is this?
steddiemicrofic is a new monthly drabble challenge started in July. Each month will have a one-word prompt and a randomly-generated word count challenge between 300-600 words.
For example, a prompt might look like: ‘breakfast,’ 522 words.
how do I play?
We’ll announce the new prompt on the first of the month, and then you’ll have until the end of the month to fill the prompt. Your story should be a third person standalone fic with Steve and Eddie as the primary characters (or topic of discussion if doing outsider POV.) If you want us to share your story, you can tag us @steddiemicrofic and use that month’s hashtag.
Please note: word counts are strict. That’s the whole fun of the challenge, so please don’t tag us if your drabble turns into a 2k story.
We’ll use wordcounter.net to check the final word count before reblogging. (Note: your word processor might tally words differently, so be sure to run your draft through wordcounter.net specifically before posting.) WC limits only apply to the body of the story, so titles, descriptions, etc. won’t count against you.
sequel policy, updated 5.7.24
we are officially saying no sequels for microfic challenge submissions. what this means:
going forward, we won’t reblog sequel posts, whether they’re posted in the same month or across multiple months. if your story has “part 2,3, etc” in the title, or links to a previous installment, or mentions that you need prior context to understand the story, we will not reblog it
you may still fill each month’s prompt within a consistent au universe, but again, each submission must work as a standalone story (so don’t link previous installments in your submission post)
as always, feel free to do whatever you want with these prompts on your own blog! write parts 1-20 if you feel inspired, just please don’t tag us beyond part 1
is there a prize for playing?
No, but you can have a head pat and this cool rock I found outside.
are there any other rules?
Please be sure to rate your drabble using AO3 rating system [G=general, T=teen, M=mature, or E=explicit) and warn for any triggers/squicks at the top of the post so we can tag for those when we reblog. You can format your posts something like:
Title
written for ‘prompt’ wc: # | rated: __ | cw: __
can I suggest prompts?
Absolutely! Can’t guarantee we’ll get to all of them, but feel free to send prompts to the inbox and we can maybe run some bonus rounds in addition to the main monthly prompt.
can I participate anonymously?
You sure can, bestie.* To submit anonymously, please DM the mods first (so we can get in touch with you if we need you to update WC/tags or if we have any questions), then you can submit your fic as an anonymous ask to our blog. Anon asks still need to include a header with the title, rating, and content warnings, and WCs will be checked before publishing.
*For now. Not that we expect it to happen, but if for some reason our inbox gets flooded with anon hate/spam then we’ll have to update this rule.
who do I talk to if I have questions?
Send us an ask here or you can message Wynn at @wynnyfryd or Mickala @steddieas-shegoes
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