whaley

@whalekeeper

Probably both? Like, I want to have a better idea of how it all works (and why it’s magic, if that makes sense. Like Wingfeather has the Stones at the heart of the world.)

But I also do want to have it kinda randomly fantastic. It all started with my twin and I sitting with our feet in a hot tub and deciding the water was heated by…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

I could fangirl all day over Secret of the Wings

My childhood 🩷🩵💚 I was completely obsessed with fairies as a kid. Those movies formed a big part of my imagination back then.

@whalekeeper aaaa nooo I wasn’t taking about the dark evil death moodboard! I just type slow so my posts are always delayed : (

I choked on my own breathing 🤣😭

And I wasn’t even trying to make you laugh this time lol

@godlyfantasy12

She seems like a fun character! I love fairytale retellings. I’ve had an alice in wonderland wip brewing in the…[Read more]

@loopylin definitely! @whalekeeper WHAT?! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME!

@whalekeeper

Hmm. I do have a series with a magic system, but as it’s a series I haven’t started writing yet (just outlining and world building *shudders*) the system isn’t all figured out.

But it’s like Wingfeather or Ella Enchanted (the book) style magic where it’s more a part of the way the world works than the regular book magic (not sure if…[Read more]

@whalekeeper guuurrllll it has for a while XD I love Hook XD

@whalekeeper yup! So it’s a steampunk fantasy actually! I LOVE steampunk so yea lol! There’s definitely a LOT different in this retelling ROFL.

@whalekeeper yup!!! OH!!! I AM NOW GOING TO GO POST OLD AESTHETICS ON THE AESTHETICS FORUM! SOOOO *runs over to that forum* MEET ME THEEEEEREEE *Echoes into the distances*

@whalekeeper yaaay Whaley you’re here!! And thx for the encouragement!

Also…yall…not me literally looking back and this old WIP and remember/really realizing…

I WROTE 50,000 words for this book….

This is the first (and maybe only) book I wrote 50,000 words for…

That’s…an accomplishment.

And at the point I was at when I did…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon

And the fact that A_____’s captor is a bit of an infidel because he has spurned most of the religion for a form of stoicism. His wife is devout though, and it’s sad.

*Is sad with you*

@whalekeeper

XD

I suppose they are. *Nods sagely*

The evil/weird religious system in my WIP so far only has moon worship and possibly vag…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

*Sniffles* It’s okay. I think.

I may need boundaries.

XD

@whalekeeper

EXACTLY. XD I even started a language simply so I could have it on signs in the illustrations. Like, no one speaks it in the story, but it’s there??? It did help me figure out the social hierarchy though, since I had all these neat names and no names to put them to.

HOWEVER. I am rather proud of the Dorwain’s pagan religion, as dark…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

*Whimpers*

Maps? I tried. I really did.

*Screaming intensifies*

Yeah, I probably need to find some natural boundaries I can stick in. I’m not trying to be Tolkien. I just don’t know where to make it stop.

Not that I don’t love it at the same time…..

@whalekeeper

Ahhhhhhhhhhh yesss…… It never ends …..

I actually really need to flesh out some of my cultures on these lines, but then there’s the cultures inside bigger cultures, and the random pockets of society, and this is just one tribe?!

*Screams into pillow in a mixture of pure joy and pain*

@whalekeeper

I agree that he is a sorrowful sack of mope, but it does not bother me at all. XD I actually kind of understand Kaladin. It’s a little silly to say, especially because I’m not an ex-general ex-slaved turned-general-again with a pile of trauma and white knight syndrome. But the way he struggles going into RoW is pretty rel…

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Oops, I forgot to respond to this.

@whalekeeper @highscribeofaetherium

You have good points. I was mainly worried about him because he was my favorite and my favorites always die. XD

My brother says Kaladin is a sorrowful sack of mope. HE IS NOT.😭Please people, back me up on this! I need allies!

@whalekeeper

FELLOW TEXTBOOK WRITER!!!

I mean…

The textbook format has been appreciated by several writers. According to a survey performed by a certain Stepheroni and Cheese, two out of two young writing enthusiasts used this world-building tool regularly.

@whalekeeper

I’ll get back to you on that. I don’t have too much time right now, and I want some time to type up all my thoughts. It’ll probably be Monday morning, because I don’t generally use my computer on Sundays.

@whalekeeper

Yes, lol

@whalekeeper

Yes