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i actually do write tragedies.🦋
Nico | 30s | writer of dark contemporary fiction | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | first person present defender | author blog @nicholsroy / bluesky @after-midnight
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Writing for the first time in days and already, it looks like being locked away in a gaming cave has done something to my brain because the words are coming out like a river, and there's this one line I really like:
He is the last thing animals see before winter is just a dream.
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i don't know man, i just wish that we could [suddenly realising i'm coming dangerously close to expressing a real and earnest thought instead of filtering everything through several layers of intangible running bits] blow up the entire world. or something.
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From Unknown, 1943.
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Built in 1939, people would have had to sail to the cliff and scale it to reach the top. Þrídrangar lighthouse, Iceland is possibly the most isolated lighthouse in the world.
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"Là, sous mes yeux, apparaissait une ville détruite"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Ruined City
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
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snippet of the day
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✨ WIP intro
🔖 tag list: @winterandwords // @revenantlore // @space-writes // @indecentpause // comment to be added or removed!
📝 all posts from WIP: gay crime bdsm story
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Thank you! 🥺
WIP intro: Life in Black and White 🌙
Image sources (from left to right): A B C D E F G H I J K L
Updated: 03-03-2024
Current status: Line edit/restructuring, preparing to query.
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[THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS (Nemerever) x GIRL ON THE TRAIN]
“You know that expression where it’s like, a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan can create a tornado in Texas?”
At seventeen, all Gabriel wanted was to escape – from his controlling father, his traumatic past, the general stagnation of his life – but everything changed when he reluctantly befriended the alluring Jeff. Now 22 and admitted to a psychiatric hospital, navigating the troubled waters of his twisted relationship with Jeff and the aftermath of the senseless crime that led to their estrangement, all he wants is the impossible – to go back to the way things were.
But things never were as he’s tried to make himself believe. Over the next several years, Gabriel finds himself trapped in a vicious cycle, perpetually wavering between working to free himself from the clutches of his past and allowing his growing obsession with Jeff and their unfinished business to consume him. Just as he begins to come to terms with his reality, an unexpected event brings the past back to haunt him – literally. With his growth and recovery put to the ultimate test, Gabriel is finally forced to choose between letting go of Jeff once and for all, or risking it all to save him – including his own life.
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Originally written: June 7, 2008 to February 12, 2011
Category: Adult contemporary
Genres: Psychological thriller/Crime
Major themes: Importance of nuance, domestic abuse/violence, control, choice, obsession, mental illness and recovery, stigma, inevitability, grief, trauma, the butterfly effect, the perfect storm.
Features:
Unreliable (and often unsympathetic) narrator;
Protagonist is obsessed/“in love” with the antagonist;
Heavy symbolism;
Fast-paced;
Aughts period piece;
Very intimate, introspective narrative;
Queer lit, but make it dark and gritty.
Pinterest board | Playlist | Excerpt 1 | Excerpt 2 | Excerpt 3
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I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.
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Everything is better when there is sun. When there is no sun I draw it.
Reality is not enough.
For life.
© da-da-sk
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ok but re: that "i have been in this gay ass room for ten thousand years" post being jeffcore, here's an actual line from a companion short in jeff's pov where he's getting a (~1 hour long) ✨psychological assessment✨ done:
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lil snippet of the fifth chapter while I prep it for consistency read. 🍂
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Wrote today's 500 words! Huzzah!
An excerpt from Project Maneater:
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i love you betrayals between people who still love each other i love you devotion to the point of destruction i love you selfish choices made in the name of love i love you devastating consequences of those choices
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Two truths and a lie (bonus edition)
Alright, upon request, here's the version of this poll with Jeff @ Gabriel lines. Here's the Gabriel @ Jeff lines version icymi.
Tagging friends who I think might get a kick out of this: @sunset-a-story, @touloserlautrec, @catchingbigfish , @fortunatetragedy, @bluberimufim, @squarebracket-trickster, @joeys-piano, @mrbexwrites, @cwritesfiction, @randomstupidchaos
+ consider this an open tag if you want an excuse to make one of these (pls tag me if you do)!
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FINALLY finished re-drafting that one chapter (a previously deleted chapter that is so heavily modified in this version I basically redrafted 90% of it) that was taking me ten centuries. Now trying to finish another partially completed one near the end of the act. Yes, I'm avoiding my ✨difficult scenes✨ like the plague, why do you ask?
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