i want more magic systems that rely on food. give me witches that taste citrus when they channel spirits. wizards that smell plums or apples when they start to cast. i want broth brewed with a calming spell that tastes like your favorite memory and healing wards shaped like coils from a peeled orange, scenting the user like hot summer days. i want a burst of earthy olive at the utterance of a ward. love spells baked into pastries. lettuce for salads grown in soil spelled to rid the eater of cavities. food !! magic !!

Pink winter/Christmas aesthetic I made for @grumpybluefairy.

If anyone has advice for how to make aesthetic WIP intros, I'm all ears.

(I want to redo the fallen fairies one)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but that project you're working on? The world needs it! You're doing incredible, even if it doesn't feel like it, and am so proud of you for the effort you've put in so far and the progress you've made! Keep going! You've got this!

If this ain't something Sabrina would say once the Reaping starts, exact level of sarcasm too. I had to share.

Bonus:

*when she's about done with it*

(name has been switched for full effect)

Audio: "I haven't had a meal in a week. I haven't slept in twice as long. It's about 100 degrees out here, so... I think I'm doing pretty well."

"Peace is an illusion.

And no matter how tranquil the world seems peace doesn't last long.Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.

The instinct of violence curls inside us like a parasite, waiting for a chance to feed on our rage and multiply until it bursts out of us.

War is the only thing we really understand."

— Altered Carbon S1.2 ~ Takashi Kovacs

Babe, there's something tragic about you, Something so magic about you, don't you agree? Babe, there's something lonesome about you, something so wholesome about you, Get closer to me.

Did I just add this to the Hockey Bros playlist? Yes, yes, I did.

Does it fit the vibes of the story, at all? Not so much, but it makes sense TO ME.

i think it's really cool when fantasy writers incorporate real world stuff into their wips. i'm not talking about a random microwave or a car. i'm talking about baking mitts sewn with cooling magic and herbal rememdies that remind me of my favorite tea or coffee order. i'm talking about characters playing sports and board games or commenting on gossip they read in a column from their favorite journalist. i'm talking about makeup made of dried berries and perfume sourced from rare flowers. designer cloaks and characters having pets and different culture practices like dancing. i love to see our world lovingly presented in a new way.

Death has long white hair and I braid it and put little flowers in it. We're besties

Women chess champions

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

Also, for the wip ask game: please pick one you really want to answer!

12. What inspired this wip?

A Vow from the Winter Lord: I've wanted to write a Faerie romance story based in a Winter Court for a long time. A lot of Fae Romance is Dark Court or Spring Court. Winter is my favorite season and when I was a kid I got a chunk of my winters in one of the most beautiful winter areas, Alaska. There's just something magical about the quiet world in a snowy winter. It takes the littlest amount of light and makes the world glitter. I had bits and pieces to a story but not enough. It wasn't until I read Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik that I started to piece more together. I liked the book but it wasn't really what I was looking for. So I was finally able to put together what I wanted from a Winter Faerie romance. 

The Dot Duology: This one started as a DnD side thing for myself. Almost a decade ago, I started playing DnD. My first character was a Halfling Wild Magic Sorcerer named Beth. She liked to cook. My best friend and I would rp a story with her and an oc my friend made that was set in our own world. This actually got me back into seriously writing on my own again (long story). Few years later, a module for DnD came out called Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. I played a revamped version of Beth that I renamed Dorothy Lynn Pippetwhistle (the last name was from an Asmr video by Goodnight Moon Asmr) or Dot. Her whole backstory was she wanted to open a tavern then expand into an Inn. The DM indulged this completely. We'd do quests then in the downtime when others were doing stuff for their factions, I was building business for my tavern. It was the most fun I've ever had playing DnD. I started to write about Dot on my own to relax at night after a hard day. Nothing serious. But then I was talking to someone about it and they got super excited about the idea. See, I didn't think there was a market for something like this. Low and behold, there is! So I started to develop it into a serious wip.

A Princess Guide to Love and Necromancy: This one is gonna reveal something about myself I hope you're ready for. For a very long time, I've loved the idea of a Princess in a tower falling in love with the Dragon guarding it. I also really like this little scene I have in my head where a knight comes to rescue the princess but she fights him off because she's happy in the tower with the dragon. And the dragon comes running, clearly worried and she's all annoyed because this is the second time this week that she's been attacked in her home by a jackass in a can. I matched this with the aesthetic of a DnD character idea I had for either a Necromancer Wizard or Shadow Sorcerer. Picture Lottie from Princess and the Frog but medieval and wielding scarier forms of magic. I like the contrast. I love all of my stories but some of them feel like I'm writing more for the reader. This one is the one I write for myself. Idk if anyone would ever want to read it but I do. It's the one I also feel the most guilty for writing. It feels like a waste of time because it's the least likely to sell. I have this enormous sense of...duty (?) about my writing being something that'll make our lives easier and any time I'm using to work on something that won't sell is time wasted and I'm a failure. Just to be clear, this is all me. My husband encourages me to write what makes me happy and tells me that he thinks it'll sell really well (I don't believe him). I work full time, so does he. Our bills are paid and everything is fine. My brain just hates me.

and i’m ill with all that i know, cause it shows what little i know

Taste me, drink my soul Show me all the things that I shouldn't know When there's a blue moon on the rise