Writing things in progress
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bladesparkHere's what I have in-progress and at least semi-actively being worked on right now. (I have way more uncompleted stories, but a lot of them are things I'm not sure if I'll come back to or not, and a few are definitely abandoned.)
Star Tiger, Moon Girl. A My Little Pony Sci-fi AU with a "how would Celestia and Luna's conflicts from the show's history play out if they were about the space race?" main plot and a "the customer's self insert bangs Luna" B plot. I dunno, maybe those are the other way around, the banging is more at the forefront at the beginning. But whatever. It's way fun, and what I should be working on right now.
Ember's: Dream a Little Dream. Also pony, also about Luna, also something I'm being paid to do, and also kinda going slowly. A chapter in my ongoing changeling-brothel/presenting-sex-positivity-and-realistic-sex-scenes-and-not-dumb-porn-tropes story Ember's. I mean, I'm sure it has some dumb porn stuff, I'm not perfect, but still. Also something I should have open, but it's not.
Lord Librarian. Needs a better title. Was pony, but got un-ponified and dropped into my "things that used to be fanfic go here" setting, The Eternal Kingdom. Cute, flustered librarian boy is romanced by (and then romances) big, strong, immortal, inhuman prince. (It was Twilight/Luna in the original.) Lots of yaoi-ish fluff, totally predictable tropes, etc. So much fun. What I currently have open and am writing on right this minute. I'll probably send this one to JMS to be an e-book when it's done.
Blood and Fire. A long, long time ago "Blood and Fire" was my first novel. It was...eh. I mean, it had good bits, but a lot of it sucks. Also it was straight! Heteronormativity, gasp! So I'm doing a complete re-write with different characters still based on the originals, but with a plot that actually makes sense and also it's gay now. Probably also going to end up at JMS when finished, but it's long enough to be put in actual physical print. :3 Nowhere near done.
The Caged Dove. Part three of a probably-quartet of short stories based on a very obscure fairy tale. The original story had a "giant" who fell so in love with a human prince's beauty that he kidnapped him. And the "love" seems to be presented as platonic in the original version, but, well... The giant (who I've turned into an elf, he's obviously something of the Fair Folk in the original, he's very magic) says that the prince can have everything he owns, which turns out to include one of the giant's wives, and the story turns into a swan maiden story at that point. My version ends up as a bisexual threesome thing. This one'll go up on Amazon under the Rhiannon pen name eventually.
Servant: The Triune Heir. A further entry in my Legend of Zelda Servant series. The Link/Vaati/Sheik threesome end up in a probably very silly but oh well mpreg storyline when King Vaati starts getting hounded about not having an heir. I've also been working on turning the whole Servant series into an original, The Eternal Kingdom's world has a "totally not Hyrule" in it to go with its "Totally not Equestria." That version of it will be out as an e-book and/or maybe paperback eventually.
Crimson Thread. A probably very dumb thing about a man who's destined to fall in love with Dracula. Who does turn out to be bi. I dunno, I wanted to write it, so I'm writing it. It's very stuck, though. Getting the setup and the initial meeting was easy, but wrangling the slow shifting of feelings as they interact is more difficult. Dunno what I'll do with this one. It's...pretty weird.
A House Divided. A minor exploration of multiplicity, but mostly just kinda an excuse to use an unusual premise I thought of. What if you thought you were falling for a pair of twins...but you never see them together and they turn out to be the same person, just with totally different personalities at different times? I posted a chunk of this one on Fetlife, I should probably share it a few other places too.
I post a lot on Fet, the writer's group I go to is specifically aimed at kink/erotica writing and is hosted there, so all my local writey friends are there. Posted that one to the patrons on patreon too. (Gotta do the plug, I guess.)
Beloved, Betrothed. Another bi threesome story. What I have right now is a little weird, as it's a virginal prince asking his more experienced servant to tell him how to make love, and then the prince basically uses all the advice on the servant instead? I like it, but it's very different. Eventually the betrothed princess will turn up, and find she likes the beloved servant just as much as the prince, and it'll all be happy, but there's some angst first.
The Clockwork Cat. A steampunk, furry, gay romance retelling of Puss in Boots, in which the cat is a constructed human/feline hybrid abomination of science who has fallen in love with his owner, but is trying to set the young man up with the princess for his happily ever after. Not bi, though, the princess is going to be shown the door eventually, poor girl.
The Only Chance Inn. A sci-fi cowboy romance, where a rough-edged guy running the only inn left along a blasted and occasionally radioactive stretch of road meets a too-handsome-to-be-true guest who turns out to be an inhuman nanotech creature.
I really like human/non-human pairings, okay?
Slave Kitten. Utterly shameless, non-con/dub-con, catboy vampire porn. <3 I am so very, very, very mean to my main character in this thing. Though he does get a happy ending eventually. I'm writing it just for me, and will probably post this on AO3 and tumblr and such, as it's very much unpublishable in any mainstream way.
Edit! I almost forgot One Plus One Equals Infinity, which is a sequel to Less Than and also an assignment from my therapist. :3 Link deals with learning to accept the fact that he can't just accept the way things are and give up on saving the world. Issues, man.
There are many, many more, but I think here's where I draw the line between "working on" and "kinda on hold."
Did I mention I write a LOT? None of these are years-old projects, they're all things I've started within the last 12 months, though some of them are reworkings or continuations of older things.
Feel free to share what you're working on in the comments. :3 Or share if you have any thoughts about any of these.
Star Tiger, Moon Girl. A My Little Pony Sci-fi AU with a "how would Celestia and Luna's conflicts from the show's history play out if they were about the space race?" main plot and a "the customer's self insert bangs Luna" B plot. I dunno, maybe those are the other way around, the banging is more at the forefront at the beginning. But whatever. It's way fun, and what I should be working on right now.
Ember's: Dream a Little Dream. Also pony, also about Luna, also something I'm being paid to do, and also kinda going slowly. A chapter in my ongoing changeling-brothel/presenting-sex-positivity-and-realistic-sex-scenes-and-not-dumb-porn-tropes story Ember's. I mean, I'm sure it has some dumb porn stuff, I'm not perfect, but still. Also something I should have open, but it's not.
Lord Librarian. Needs a better title. Was pony, but got un-ponified and dropped into my "things that used to be fanfic go here" setting, The Eternal Kingdom. Cute, flustered librarian boy is romanced by (and then romances) big, strong, immortal, inhuman prince. (It was Twilight/Luna in the original.) Lots of yaoi-ish fluff, totally predictable tropes, etc. So much fun. What I currently have open and am writing on right this minute. I'll probably send this one to JMS to be an e-book when it's done.
Blood and Fire. A long, long time ago "Blood and Fire" was my first novel. It was...eh. I mean, it had good bits, but a lot of it sucks. Also it was straight! Heteronormativity, gasp! So I'm doing a complete re-write with different characters still based on the originals, but with a plot that actually makes sense and also it's gay now. Probably also going to end up at JMS when finished, but it's long enough to be put in actual physical print. :3 Nowhere near done.
The Caged Dove. Part three of a probably-quartet of short stories based on a very obscure fairy tale. The original story had a "giant" who fell so in love with a human prince's beauty that he kidnapped him. And the "love" seems to be presented as platonic in the original version, but, well... The giant (who I've turned into an elf, he's obviously something of the Fair Folk in the original, he's very magic) says that the prince can have everything he owns, which turns out to include one of the giant's wives, and the story turns into a swan maiden story at that point. My version ends up as a bisexual threesome thing. This one'll go up on Amazon under the Rhiannon pen name eventually.
Servant: The Triune Heir. A further entry in my Legend of Zelda Servant series. The Link/Vaati/Sheik threesome end up in a probably very silly but oh well mpreg storyline when King Vaati starts getting hounded about not having an heir. I've also been working on turning the whole Servant series into an original, The Eternal Kingdom's world has a "totally not Hyrule" in it to go with its "Totally not Equestria." That version of it will be out as an e-book and/or maybe paperback eventually.
Crimson Thread. A probably very dumb thing about a man who's destined to fall in love with Dracula. Who does turn out to be bi. I dunno, I wanted to write it, so I'm writing it. It's very stuck, though. Getting the setup and the initial meeting was easy, but wrangling the slow shifting of feelings as they interact is more difficult. Dunno what I'll do with this one. It's...pretty weird.
A House Divided. A minor exploration of multiplicity, but mostly just kinda an excuse to use an unusual premise I thought of. What if you thought you were falling for a pair of twins...but you never see them together and they turn out to be the same person, just with totally different personalities at different times? I posted a chunk of this one on Fetlife, I should probably share it a few other places too.
I post a lot on Fet, the writer's group I go to is specifically aimed at kink/erotica writing and is hosted there, so all my local writey friends are there. Posted that one to the patrons on patreon too. (Gotta do the plug, I guess.)
Beloved, Betrothed. Another bi threesome story. What I have right now is a little weird, as it's a virginal prince asking his more experienced servant to tell him how to make love, and then the prince basically uses all the advice on the servant instead? I like it, but it's very different. Eventually the betrothed princess will turn up, and find she likes the beloved servant just as much as the prince, and it'll all be happy, but there's some angst first.
The Clockwork Cat. A steampunk, furry, gay romance retelling of Puss in Boots, in which the cat is a constructed human/feline hybrid abomination of science who has fallen in love with his owner, but is trying to set the young man up with the princess for his happily ever after. Not bi, though, the princess is going to be shown the door eventually, poor girl.
The Only Chance Inn. A sci-fi cowboy romance, where a rough-edged guy running the only inn left along a blasted and occasionally radioactive stretch of road meets a too-handsome-to-be-true guest who turns out to be an inhuman nanotech creature.
I really like human/non-human pairings, okay?
Slave Kitten. Utterly shameless, non-con/dub-con, catboy vampire porn. <3 I am so very, very, very mean to my main character in this thing. Though he does get a happy ending eventually. I'm writing it just for me, and will probably post this on AO3 and tumblr and such, as it's very much unpublishable in any mainstream way.
Edit! I almost forgot One Plus One Equals Infinity, which is a sequel to Less Than and also an assignment from my therapist. :3 Link deals with learning to accept the fact that he can't just accept the way things are and give up on saving the world. Issues, man.
There are many, many more, but I think here's where I draw the line between "working on" and "kinda on hold."
Did I mention I write a LOT? None of these are years-old projects, they're all things I've started within the last 12 months, though some of them are reworkings or continuations of older things.
Feel free to share what you're working on in the comments. :3 Or share if you have any thoughts about any of these.