I have been here for a long time now, but I’ve been very inconsistent through the panini, but especially this year. My studies have been very demanding and my mental health has been not great, which is why I’ve been writing barely at all during this year. But the uni semester is basically over and I finally got ADHD medication (yey!!!), so I feel like I can handle more things at a time now!

All that said, hello, hi, I’m Karkki (she/her)!

I write queer fantasy in different forms for adult audiences. I like to write dark, a little twisted and bittersweet stories with historical and mythological inspirations. I love doing meticulous worldbuilding and genre combinations. Outside of writing I do art (more on my art side blog), sew, obsess over dress history (more on my other side blog) and study architecture and architectural history. I miss doing tag games, it was so much fun, and I’m very happy to be tagged to them (do people still do them?) though as a warning I’ve always been bad at answering them in timely manner (I blame ADHD). My blog (and art blog too) is in dire need of some updating. Only WIP page I have up is for BCC and it’s very out of date.

I know a lot of other writeblrs became inactive or less active during the panini, so I would love to hear who of my mutuals are still here or here again posting about writing, and find other active writeblrs too! So please let me know if you post about your writing, even if not very actively, and show me your WIPs! I want to check them out!

I’ve acquired some new WIPs even if I haven’t been writing really so here’s a quick little intro to my ongoing WIPs some of which I have talked about here before, some of which I haven’t. I also have WIPs that are currently shelved but I might get to back to at some point.

In The Name Of Violence

status: outlining, on hiatus

Living in the poor side of the great port city Mearemin isn’t ever easy, but more so, if you are an ex-assassin hunted by your former comrades of the crime organization you once called family, hiding in a forgotten and very sentient library, which doesn’t want to let you go, working as a private detective to survive and watching by as the dead body of your father figure turns into something very monstrous while terrorizing the city. So Ainur isn’t doing great. Things change though, and not necessary for the better, as a noble knight comes for their help to figure out who murdered her husband, son of the most notorious crime leaders of Maeremin, their former boss.

Dark fantasy | Gaslamp fantasy | Gothic fantasy world | Crime | Murder mystery | Cosmic horror | Body horror | Illusion magic

Bear Castle Chronicles

status: drafting, re-outlining

Masterpost | Maps

Thirteen years after a civil war the four surviving children of the disposed duke are living in hiding. Valeri and Fiolev, the two youngest, live have finally gotten out of poverty to a middle class life under a pseudonym, thanks to Valeri’s military career. But that same military career separates them as the empire is heading into a continental war. Cassia, the second oldest, acts as an opera singer and courtesan to spy for the enemy of the empire. Faerathos, the oldest, is hostage in the imperial court trying to uncover the secrets behind the civil war while dipping into politics as much has he is allowed under the empress’ watchful eye. Industrialization and war on horizon means big changes and maybe a possibility for revenge or justice.

Dark fantasy | Industrial fantasy world | Political intrigue | Mystery | Horror elements | Dragons | Sentient magic | Vengeful spirits

Golden Maiden, Silver Bride (working title)

status: development

A mechanical maiden forged from silver and gold, Miävi, travels the foreign northern lands with her human protector, Tiera. She is on the run from a veere (demigod race) ruled empire, after her creator tried to dispose of her, when she didn’t live up to his vision of a perfect bride. A curse that will slowly crumble Tiera’s body starts spreading and the only thing that can stop it is releasing a god imprisoned in the imperial palace. To save Tiera in return, Miävi will have to face her creator again.

Dark fantasy | Loose retelling of The Forging of the Golden Maiden myth | Medieval Finnish fantasy world | Music based magic | Finnish mythology elves | Apocalyptic | Body horror | Environmentalist horror

Be All My Sins

status: research and development

Comic Sans Prensentation

Mary falls into depression following her friend’s untimely death. She’s institutionalized for a short while after she thinks she sees her friend alive and has a mental breakdown. Her friend’s family then invites her to their country manor in Scotland’s cost to recover and share their grief. There she’s drawn to a mysterious group of Spiritists, who believe her friend was a victim of vampires.

Aune is a young peasant living in late 16th century Swedish Finland, where military dictatorship is rousing a spirit of rebellion among the desperate peasantry. She meets a fascinating foreigner, who teaches her how to read and write and many other things in exchange for her blood. Knowledge is power, but as the tensions explode, it’s still not enough to prevent the bloodbath.

Gothic horror | Gothic romance | Psychological horror | Mystery | Historical fantasy | Victorian Britain as main setting | Vampires

madmonksandmaenads:

thecadaver:

presiding:

madmonksandmaenads:

People love to talk about the immortality of the machine, but I’m a mechanical engineer, so I know they delude themselves. Most machines are far more mortal than flesh.

How long does a machine last? A car is a very solid machine, expensive, precision designed, and you’re lucky if you get more than three decades out of them.

Your enemy is not the flesh. It’s entropy. It’s the death knell of the energy imbalance. If you want to live as a complex machine you will, by necessity, generate a great deal of entropy until your machine breaks irrevocably.

You want to be immortal? Then don’t worship the machine, worship the stone, the forest. Seek that which is either simple enough to never know death or diffused enough to accept every death.

Your enemy is not the flesh. It’s entropy.

Is it too much to ask for the flesh to generate a little less entropy

Sorry buddy that’s the cost of being a complex being, comes with the territory.

hunter-rodrigez:

ranfanblog:

warriorofdune:

diaryofandnwoman:

May his memory be a blessing.

Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.

Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.

Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:

“Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”

From Wikipedia

He was also a pretty great artist

fuckyeahgoodomens:

goodomensonprime:

We’ve entered our Ineffably High Renaissance Era with this amazing Season 2 art from Rory Kurtz.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING POSTER! :)❤❤❤

genzforbettergenerations:

ALT

Happy Disability Pride Month!

prismatic-bell:

mythopoeticlicense:

prismatic-bell:

mistergandalf:

mistergandalf:

Okay, I was chatting with friends on discord and I’m realizing that my grade school education may not have been the norm?? I live in the United States and I thought everyone was taught in grade school like. IN DEPTH about their local native population. I think I was taught more about the Haudenosaunee than I was about US history until I was in 4th grade tbh.

So now I’m curious, on a global scale, how much people are taught about the history of where they live and the indigenous peoples there, especially in colonized regions.

I’ve tried to word this to be as globally inclusive as possible, considering colonized nations other than the US (ex. India, South Africa, Wales), as well as nations who have never been colonized (ex. England, Ethiopia, Japan). Let me know if the choices don’t allow you to choose accurately or I’ve used a non-inclusive term and I can remake the poll! I did my best 😵‍💫

As a child, were you taught IN DEPTH about the history and traditions of your local indigenous people?

Yes - I live(d) in a colonized region and I am NOT indigenous

No - I live(d) in a colonized region and I am NOT indigenous

Yes - I live(d) in a colonized region and I AM indigenous

No - I live(d) in a colonized region and I AM indigenous

Yes - I live(d) in a non-colonized region and I am NOT indigenous

No - I live(d) in a non-colonized region and I am NOT indigenous

Yes - I live(d) in a non-colonized region and I AM indigenous

No - I live(d) in a non-colonized region and I AM indigenous

pls reblog for sample size etc etc etc thank you!!

MINE MISREGISTERED

No, I grew up in a colonized region, and I am not indigenous. Tumblr decided I wanted yes/yes/yes. 🤦🏼

Also I was in high school before I found out that not only did I grow up in a place that had previously been inhabited by Natives (which they never told us—I learned about this while doing research for a class paper), but our town was named for them after they’d been destroyed by colonization. There is nobody left from that tribe. Kind of a big thing to leave out.

Uh, England has absolutely been colonised before? We had a period of 1000 years of being invaded and colonised by different people?

The Romans (for about 450 years), then the the Saxons, assorted Vikings and, most of all, the Normans (1066 and onwards). The word ‘England’ is itself a result of being colonised (drom the Saxon Angli invaders). Before that, the entire island was Britain, and everyone on it was a Briton (but more likely whatever their tribal origin was).

If you think it doesn’t count because it was 1000 years ago, then please remember that the current Monarchy, the majority of the Aristocracy, and much of the class system exist and derive most of their wealth and power as a result of the Norman Conquest.

It was also the Normans that created a single nation known as England, before that it was multiple nations created from Saxon and Danish rule, and before that the island of Britannia (as far as Hadrian’s/the Antonine walls) was a single Roman province.

Successive wave of colonisation are also the reason English is such a bastardised hybrid of romance and germanic languages.

You can still literally see on a map the dividing line between different areas ruled by different colonisers

You want to know what 1000 years post colonisation looks like? This is it.

You know, this is a very good point.

faelanvance:

very-serious-writing-blog:

Do you have patterns when it comes to OCs? For example, always making them tall or dark eyed

ocprompts:

are any of your ocs queer?

bscully:

Youre a video game writer. You want to make a story about greek mythology, you kinda have the badass/hot character archetype for the protag in mind who’s also smooth and funny asf, a combination most people will love. And then as you flesh out the story, you decide to make him the most polite and wholesome baby boi in the whole damn game with considerable social smarts: enough to end up mending all broken relationships around him, including his own. Also the game is literally set in hell

newvegascowboy:

Nobody is required to look respectfully at any of my ocs ever. Disrespect them. Ceaseless watcher cast your gaze upon this wretched thing etc etc etc