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Can You Hear the Light

@canyouhearthelight / canyouhearthelight.tumblr.com

AReasonToBreathe's side blog for writing and Humans Are Weird posts. NEW: You can now buy me a Ko-fi! http://ko-fi.com/areasontobreathe
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Masterpost-Ception!

Now with more Masterposts!

Now that I’ve started working on projects other than Miys, I am going to start compiling links to each work here so that it’s easy to find and go through the parts if there are any.

Humans Are Space Orcs

Nihilus Rex (Masterpost on @baelpenrose bc he updates it consistently)

Horror

Leather Houses    <Part 1>    <Part 2>    <Part 3>   <Part 4>

Cyberpunk

Machine is Perfect, but Flesh is Free

Miscellaneous Fairy Tales

It Runs in the Family (Very Heavy TWs for this One)

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baelpenrose

Project Praetorian 26: Vulnerability

Molly's first testing session, followed by group therapy! Yay! Shiloh talks about anxiety, and there is discussion about healthy shit about the way labor gets divided in this little found family! Molly and Echo talk about their feelings! So does Mark! So does everyone! It's NICE! The testing isn't but did you expect anything else! Beta-read by @canyouhearthelight and @writing-with-olive

I forgot how hard the therapy chapter hits, but it definitely still feels needed. These kids are so messed up by all this, not to mention the things that happened before Imperator.

Hugs to them all (Jonathan, don't squish me please).

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Chapter 18: Social Engineering

Lights, Camera, Action! Lash and Nils go public and dare people to call their bluff. The interview goes slightly off the rails, with good reason.

@baelpenrose, as co-author and beta reader for this chapter, did a great job making sure the reporters were as 'paparazzi' as possible.

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It Runs in the Family

Hello!

This is another of my short fics I promised. It's been done for nearly a year and change - longer if you recognize it from part of "The Miys" (It was one of the stories told during a camping trip).

Short explanation is that this is the story of Red Riding Hood's grandmother, somewhat modernized.

Long explanation is that there are a LOT of trigger warnings on this one. A lot. I avoid getting graphic for the vast majority of the ones I am about to list, but I am still going to say to take these at face value. With the exception of the last one, none of these are glorified, excused, or otherwise without consequences. The person who does them gets what they deserve (spoiler, but a needed one).

  • Grooming
  • Domestic violence
  • Financial abuse
  • Parental kidnapping
  • SA
  • Murder

I promise the next story has no trigger warnings whatsoever, however. None. Not one.

Credit for this goes to @baelpenrose for being patient in waiting for this to be dropped, and for the author Tanith Lee, who's story "Wolfland" is a very clear and blatant inspiration.

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baelpenrose

Project Praetorian 25: Team Dinner

Everyone sits down for massive heaps of food in the mess, and the team enjoys a night of each other's company. Some pleasant conversations before the next day's testing. Beta-read by @canyouhearthelight and @writing-with-olive.

Poor Molly... I know there is a lot going on, but poor Molly.

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baelpenrose

Nihilus Rex 17: Embers

Nils and Lash deal with the aftermath of the firebombing, and Lash talks to her sister. Nils deals with his father, and both of them begin planning how they're going to pay for the victims' medical treatment. Cowritten by @canyouhearthelight.

Tragedy and plans aside, I think one thing this chapter really highlights is how different Lash and Nils are when it comes to family and community. Yes, Lash argues with her parents, but at the end of the day she cares incredibly deeply for them. And she knows just off the top of her head all the comings and goings of her community, their stories, all of it.

And then you see Nils interacting with his father, as opposed to how he interacted with even just Lash's parents. His father is an obstacle, not an ally, and definitely not family.

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baelpenrose

Project Praetorian 24: Reflection

Echo deals with some feelings about her ongoing role in the team, because yes, I did notice that she was slowly being sidelined and I thought I'd make it textual. Thanks to @canyouhearthelight for pointing it out and challenging me to do something with it in text rather than just course correcting without comment. She, as always, did an awesome job beta-reading.

I am hesitant to admit I have a favorite character, but if I do it is a tie between Echo and Shiloh. Pretty sure that any time Bael asks for my opinion on a POV for a chapter, he is literally taking bets with himself which one I will ask for. If not both.

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Nihilus Rex, Ch. 16: "...and Tragedy"

Pretty sure that title says it all, so I apologize in advance. Please don't kill me!

Co-written and beta-read by @baelpenrose, so he's partially to blame. But he did pick out the song lyrics!

Warnings for racism, hate crimes, off screen deaths of minor characters.

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Masterpost-Ception!

Now with more Masterposts!

Now that I’ve started working on projects other than Miys, I am going to start compiling links to each work here so that it’s easy to find and go through the parts if there are any.

Humans Are Space Orcs

Nihilus Rex (Masterpost on @baelpenrose bc he updates it consistently)

Horror

Leather Houses    <Part 1>    <Part 2>    <Part 3>   <Part 4>

Cyberpunk

Machine is Perfect, but Flesh is Free

Updated to include a link to the Masterpost for Nihilus Rex, since Bael actually updates his masterpost consistently.

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baelpenrose

Project Praetorian 23: New Kid

Hey did you wonder what Molly was up to? Wondered how she's been doing after her horrible introduction to all of this? Don't worry, we have you covered! Vergil is gonna give her a nice tour of the place while everyone else gets a handle on the new equipment and the new reality. Beta-read by @canyouhearthelight and @writing-with-olive. I forgot to do this two chapters ago when Molly was first introduced, somehow, so I do want to take the chance now and shout out that Molly's character concept was originally dreamt up by @learntolive-again.

Hearing the sheer weirdness of Imperator seen through poor Molly's eyes is... Refreshing, to be honest.

But I still hate what she is going through.

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baelpenrose

Nihilus Rex 15: Stage for Comedy...

Lash and Nils have a date, and then...certain people show up. This is actually one of the fluffiest chapters we've written with this, with Lash and Nils playing off each other, both in the lies and the way the truth comes out. Enjoy it because this is the last fluff you get for a while. Cowritten by @canyouhearthelight. This is very much more her speed than mine, as you all know.

The speed with which their interaction goes from chitchat to Nils' terrible attempt to be flamboyantly gay to the Most Awkward Meeting the Parents is... It was fun.

Which is good.

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baelpenrose

Project Praetorian 22: Assessing the Enemy

Curtis and Mark do an after action report together, and attempt to figure out next steps. Beta-read primarily by @canyouhearthelight, with heavy reminders to stop putting in jargon without finding sideways paths to explaining it.

The amount to which I have read this FOUR TIMES and still think "Poor Molly"...

You aren't alone, if you thought that.

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