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Exciting news! My wonderful cover artist, Rachel George, is now sharing my Patreon page with me!! That's right. My stories and fanfics will have art now from @rachelgeorge!
Please check out our Patreon page for details. Get ready for plenty of fanfic, fanart, original stories, monster girlfriends, NSFW art, and more! All of the sapphic variety, of course. 😉 [If you can't toss us a few bucks, we understand. Rae's fanfics will be posted on AO3 one month after Patreon and will remain free there!]
Hi Rae! Long time reader who’s jumping back into your works after a bit of a fanfic/ ff original fic hiatus. I’ve been thinking about your old fic ‘Therum’ a bit… whatever happened to it?
It should still be up on fanfic.net somewhere, on a joint account with me and psychotic-cat... and the original kink meme. But as for AO3, I don't feel comfortable posting it there. Some of the audience on AO3 doesn't handle that kink so well.
Weird D&D Question that just occurred to me: Why are Drow and Duergar's skin turn Darker from living underground? Wouldn't that lean them more towards Albanism?
Lol, that's a good point! The Forgotten Realms have never made sense. Then again, maybe svirfneblin, drow, and duergar developed darker pigment in their skin to hide from all the big, bad Underdark predators? I mean, it would explain why duergar can turn invisible... (although they were also mindflayer slaves, so maybe that's where they got it).
Thank you for replying to my ask about Maia! I will try to cook something out with your info and will post once they are done. It will be not great art but at least I will try my best.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
That’s amazing!!! I can’t wait to see what you come up with. 💕
You know what time of year it is, y'all! SAPPHIC BOOK BINGO!!! I'm included in the SpecFic category, so go buy and read some awesome wlw fiction in the future and amongst the stars! You're bound to love the books on this list.
Hey! It's been a minute since I read any of your books I own (fur and fangs, the horizons trilogy) so im picking up the gay alien trilogy again because I forgot how amazing your writing was >:3
Wow, thanks!!! I'm always super excited when people give my books a reread. Let me know what you think! And if you've got a minute, I'd love a review on Goodreads.
The blood Bride would be nice a sequel or a new couple using the same world
Awesome! I'd have a lot of fun writing about them in a more serious relationship and all the cuteness and growing pains that come from that. ^^
I realllyyyy want to draw fanarts for Dark Horizon... but I am still trying to figure out Maia's crest and my brain keeps overlapping with Asari. I been carrying your book cover of first book on my phone (also have them as physical and e book) but my brain is not coping to design better. You think you can give me more detail of Maia???? Thank you.
P.S. I love all your work!!! Thank you again. 🤗🤗🤗
So, the inspiration for Maia's crest (since the story started out as fanfic) eventually became aquatic creatures for the ikthians! Specifically, dolphins/sharks. But I like to imagine they're somewhat diverse, and who knows? If I rewrote it today, I might make them resemble all kinds of marine creatures, like lionfish!
Also, this is a beautiful idea, and I feel so flattered!!! I'd love to see it if you draw something!!!
In the newest hotfix they fixed the issue with Minthara breaking up with a redeemed durge!! Apparently it was legacy dialogue that got accidentally reenabled when they did the many other Minthara bug fixes in the last hotfix
Yeah, I was so happy to see this!!!
you have to make it homoerotic and weird
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I posted similar thoughts on another thread, but I'm absolutely gutted by Larian's choice to have Minthara break up with you if you reject Bhaal. Minthara loves power, but the one price she won't pay for it is her own free will. I'd argue that extends to Durge, her lover, the person who saved her "from [being lost to] madness and blood", the person who rescued her from Moonrise when "I didn't think anyone would come for me".
When Durge inquires whether Minthara empathizes with Ketheric, she says, "It is a sharp mind that empathizes with others, not a soft heart". She and the Narrator outright state that Minthara is fiercely loyal and genuinely loves Durge. She wouldn't want her lover, the person who was there for her when no one else was, literally the only person she trusts now that she's abandoned (and been abandoned!!!) by Lolth and the Absolute, to become the puppet of a chaotic evil murder god.
I can come up with a hundred reasons why, but to name a few: One: it's risky. Bhaal is very much Chaotic Evil, and although Minthara is undeniably horny for you when she finds out you're a Bhaalspawn (and thus the ultimate predator), she also states that control is paramount. She doesn't commit violence for violence's sake, she does it "to teach [those who have wronged me] not to anger me again". Violence has purpose. Bhaal's violence rarely does. Two: Dealing with the gods comes with strings attached. She literally saw what being a servant of Myrkul did to Ketheric and views him as a cautionary tale. Sure, Bhaal can provide immense power to his children, but if Durge said, "Hey now, I don't want to be in the position he was in... or the position you were in with the whole Absolute charade, either," I feel like Minthara would take those concerns seriously! Three: Orin. Sure, she's dead now, and Durge killed her -- but she is associated with Bhaal. Are you telling me that Minthara is going to throw a fit over rejecting Daddy's approval after everything Orin did in his name? After all the trauma Minthara endured at Orin's hands? She's much more logical than emotional, but I can't see her completely ignoring the connection between Orin and Bhaal. That association has to fucking hurt. If I were her, I'd want to wipe my hands of the whole fucking family after how they wronged me, you know? Plus, BHAAL WAS BEHIND THE ABSOLUTE, WHICH MIND CONTROLLED HER. So he isn't just this outside player she can change her mind on and suddenly start admiring.
My comment is getting long, but I'm just so, so hurt by this. This is my favorite game of all time, and my favorite way to play it was just ruined. I don't see why our Durge can't remind Minthara of her own stated principles with a persuasion check, at least? She obviously loves them and is loyal to them by that point in the game. Why wouldn't she even give them a chance to share their thoughts?
Part of the reason it hurts so bad is that Larian did an excellent job of portraying Minthara as a whole person. She's evil, sure, depending on how you define evil. But she's not thoughtlessly evil. Her decisions are all logical and, in her mind, beneficial to her. She is often cruel, but usually to protect herself or to gain some advantage, because she fears being hurt by a world she mistrusts entirely. Having her just automatically approve of the "evil" choice (accepting Bhaal's gift) simply because it's "evil" and she is "evil" and "evil" characters should approve of "evil" things completely ignores the fullness and richness of her character up to that point.
they’ve been creepin on me lately
There have been a couple of posts going around about how smut writers have the challenge of keeping a sex scene interesting when there's only a few different actions and a few different body parts to talk about
And yes, funny jokes about writing, but when I see posts like these I want to scream
If you feel like the sex scene you're writing is repetitive, no number of synonyms for "thrust" will help you. Synonyms for "cock" or "cunt" will REALLY not help you.
Sex scenes are character studies as much as they are action scenes. What are the characters' frameworks for what they're doing? Emotions, thoughts, specific physical sensations. If there are metaphors, do the metaphors make sense with the characters' experiences/the story's theme's/the setting? Is the sex scene completing a character arc, even a small one? Is there a character arc within the sex scene itself, even a small one?
A really good sex scene is specific and grounded to the physicality, emotions, and thoughts of the characters involved. Even if it's a PWP!
It's been said that the largest sex organ is the brain, and this is not a joke, especially when we're talking about the medium of the written word!
hi rae just wanna send a message saying we love you and delivering some good vibes !!! hoping for the health and happiness of you and yours always
You are the best, Anon. Interaction has dropped off since I stopped publishing fic as much, so I'm feeling kind of down... Like I'm only worth something if I produce fast, you know? Instead of taking the time to really make what I write the best it can be. So this message came at exactly the right time. You're lovely and I hope you have a lovely day!
Hey nerds, which unfinished fic of mine would you like to see updated first? (Also, which novel of mine would you like a sequel for the most?)
I imagine with how popular you are this may get lost in a sea of other anonymous messages, but it doesn't hurt to send this anyway.
I was wondering if you have any online (free if able) resources you'd recommend to help with writing/fanfic writing?
What I'm looking for are guides for sentence structure, dialogue structure (things like why one would use fullstops or commas at an end etc) and the bane of my existence symbol usage (colons/semi colons, em dashes/dots etc. You know, the devil's work).
Any and all help you can provide would be much appreciated!
If you're willing to read something dense, The Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk & White are the Big Daddies of English grammar for use in fiction. For something much more concise, this (surprisingly short) page will give you some helpful tips. I like this page because it explains active vs. passive voice clearly and concisely.
As for symbol usage... I'll tell you a secret. I regularly go through my prose and delete as many colons, semicolons, em-dashes, and ellipses as possible. Sometimes, the lyricism or clarify of a sentence demands them, but 98% of your sentences should only use periods, commas, and quotation marks, with the sparse question mark or exclamation point sprinkled throughout. I also recommend hemingwayapp and Grammarly for writing! They both have browsers and downloadable versions. Don't take all of their suggestions as gospel, but they'll highlight your most common grammar mistakes.
